Around seven-thirty on Tuesday morning, twenty year old Rubita Oroman Hernandez left her house to do laundry at the nearby Roaring Creek. However, when she did not return home, the family became concerned. It was not until five this morning that a relative came upon the young woman’s body lying face up behind some bushes […]
It has been a record year for government confiscations of suspiciously abandoned airplanes, with a couple of Beechcraft King Airs and a well maintained Russian Antonov 26 leading the illicit air show. This week, however, Belmopan’s growing fleet has gone to the next level with the addition of a high performance helicopter. This Bell 206 […]
While some of the Toledo District’s police officers were detailed to Black Creek, another was being arrested for disgraceful conduct. Thirty-five year old constable Cesar Tzib, based in Punta Gorda, has been charged with aggravated assault and discharging a firearm in public. The arrest is the result of an incident on Sunday night in the […]
It looks a lot worse than it was, but that isn’t to say the accident could not have been deadly. This afternoon on the Western Highway this new Suzuki Vitara flipped over near mile thirty-three. The driver, O.A.S. representative in Belize, Kenrick Texel, told News 5 that he lost control of the vehicle as it […]
We can’t blame viewers if they’re a bit confused. Having recently observed Earth Day on April twenty-second, we are now asked to celebrate today, June second, as World Environment Day. Hey, it’s an important subject and we’ll go with the flow…and speaking of flow, this year’s theme focuses on the sea. Patrick Jones reports on […]
And while students were learning about Belize’s marine environment, twenty miles to the west, folks in Bermudian Landing were showing News 5’s Jacqueline Woods the latest developments at one of the country’s most popular inland wildlife attractions. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It took only two weeks for fourteen students and a professor from the United States […]
Leilah Pandy ?Leilah Pandy, twenty-three; Miss Belize.? That was about as much as we got to see of Miss Belize, Leilah Pandy, at last night’s Miss Universe pageant in Quito, Ecuador. Pandy, who by all accounts represented the country splendidly, was passed over by the judging panel for reasons known only to themselves. In all […]
