There was a time when bank robberies were things we watched happen in movies… but today, more than twenty Belizeans watched it happen right in front of their eyes. In broad daylight, a well planned attack was executed at the Belize Bank at mile one and a half on the Northern Highway. And although no […]
In related crime news, police have detained three men in connection with a gas station hold-up on Monday night. Reports are that just after eight-thirty that night, a tinted, four-door maroon van pulled into the Ladyville Shell gas station at the airport junction on the Northern Highway. But instead of gas, the occupants were after […]
A teenager faces charges of murder following an incident at the mile eight on the Western Highway on Monday evening. According to police, around five p.m. nineteen year old Jason Encalada got into a fight with another young man, who also lives at the mile eight community. When the dust cleared, Encalada had been stabbed […]
In an update to the strange death of a young man in Belize City on Friday, post mortem results indicate that twenty-eight year old Fred Petillo died from cerebral oedema aspiration. Through medical research, News 5 understands the condition to be the result of untreated insulin dependent diabetes. Petillo, described as a mental patient, attacked […]
The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Belize and Guatemala are meeting today and tomorrow at the headquarters of the Organization of American States in Washington, D.C. The ministerial meeting between Godfrey Smith and Jorge Briz is focusing on a new set of confidence building measures to replace the ones which expire on Thursday. According to […]
Everyone seems to want name brand clothing, so much so that some unscrupulous manufacturers even fake it, selling items that infringe on the trademark of famous labels. But today, instead of wasting some of these items which made their way into Belize, they were put to good use. Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting This […]
The festival of arts is a countrywide affair, with school children from all over the nation participating. But today, the largest venue, with the largest amount of students got its festival off to a lively start. And after being away from the Bliss for several years, the general consensus was that it was great to […]
