Officially, he is a resident of Melchor de Mencos, Guatemala, but fifty-year-old Belizean Edgar Catalan had family ties on both sides of the border. But no matter where he resided, tonight he is dead, the victim of murder. On Saturday morning, just after midnight police came across his taxicab parked suspiciously at the side of […]
Two Belizeans have died in separate traffic accidents over the weekend. On Saturday afternoon, thirty-five year old Ramon Pacheco lost his life when the driver of the car in which he was riding lost control of the vehicle and it flipped over on the approach to the Guatemalan border. Pacheco died on the spot of […]
It did not appear on the original weekend police blotter, maybe because there were no serious injuries, but a spectacular accident on the Northern Highway caused quite a commotion in Belize City Saturday night. According to police, this Suzuki Side Kick sitting on top of a Mazda pickup originally collided into the side of a […]
As expected, more charges have been filed against an alleged European con artist. Thirty-five year old Robertino Oprescu, a citizen of Romania, has been charged with theft along with nine counts each of possession of forged documents. The charges arise out of a scam in which Oprescu is accused of stealing over two hundred thousand […]
Some idle residents of Belize’s coastal communities will spend a lifetime of beach combing without ever encountering that highly prized specie known as “Square Grouper.? Well on Sunday, it was the police who were blessed with fisherman’s luck. A maritime patrol operating some ten miles south of Belize City spied a suspicious package floating in […]
Prime Minister Said Musa has returned home following his attendance over the weekend at the summit between European, Latin American, and Caribbean leaders in Guadalajara, Mexico. According to a government release, Musa addressed the meeting, calling for increased investment in education, health, and housing along with the concessionary international financing to implement such programmes. The […]
It has been rumoured for weeks and today it was made official. Director of Immigration Colonel Peter Parchue has served his last day in that post and on Tuesday begins a new career as the number two man at NEMO. Parchue took over the Immigration Department almost two years ago following a twenty-year stint in […]
He was among a group of four lucky Courts customers selected to compete in the monthly Gold Rush Show on Saturday. And while the other three semi-finalists walked away with household appliances, Glenford Archer of Punta Gorda got the chance to spin for five thousand dollars. And when the Gold Rush wheel stopped turning, the […]
On Tuesday night at seven, all eyes will be on the Miss Universe pageant, where Belize’s representative, Leilah Pandy, will take to the stage in Quito, Ecuador. Leilah is generally thought to be one of Belize’s strongest entries in a number of years and has reportedly been received very well by officials, media, and fellow […]
It has been conclusively proven in numerous studies that smoking a cigarette causes everything from cancer to heart disease to impotence. In the face of that kind of information you’d think that anyone who still chose to light up must either be suicidal or stupid. Well…on the occasion of World No Tobacco Day News 5’s […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley, this is Sports Monday. The struggle to make the four-team cut in the Regent?s Insurance Cup playoffs intensified into week thirteen, especially with one more round of play remaining at this juncture. In week thirteen, the San Pedro Seahawks took their post season hopes south to Dangriga where they face […]
