The sugar factory at Tower Hill is shut down tonight as representatives of the Belize Worker’s Union and Belize Sugar Industries Ltd. have failed to come to an agreement on a new contract. In a meeting held this morning, B.S.I. responded to the B.W.U.’s proposal for a four percent one time bonus for all workers […]
Police are tonight on the lookout for the person or persons responsible for the murder a San Pedro man in the Orange Walk District on Wednesday. The body of thirty-one year old Ernest McPherson was found around seven o’clock last night a short distance away from a red pickup truck on a feeder road in […]
He has been on the run for eight days, but tonight thirty-two year old Jose Coyoc, wanted for murder, is in police custody, thanks to his own father who turned him in to authorities. Police would not discuss the circumstances involving the surrender or where Coyoc was hiding out, only that he will be charged […]
In an unusual case out of Cayo District, a mother has been charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault, and harm after she allegedly laid a merciless beating on her twelve-year-old daughter. According to police, the girl, in the company of a social worker, reported that after returning home from school last Thursday her mom, thirty-eight […]
Police in Punta Gorda chalked up a success early this morning when, following a shootout, they foiled a burglary. Around one forty-five this morning police responded to a call from P.G. businessman Victor Hernandez who reported hearing a gunshot and his two daughters screaming. Hernandez exited his bedroom to find two men, armed with his […]
The case of a high powered helicopter found abandoned in the Toledo District has morphed from the mysterious to the contentious as law enforcement agencies from two countries lay claim to the valuable aircraft. Whereas yesterday there was only speculation concerning the Bell 206 LongRanger discovered on the north bank of the Sarstoon River, today […]
Three primary school students are tonight celebrating their achievements in an art competition held by the Department of the Environment. Coordinated to coincide with World Environment Day, students used their time colouring, painting, and stencilling their poster ideas for the theme “Wanted! Seas and Oceans – Dead and Alive?” This morning D.O.E. announced the lucky […]
An intense search stretching from Albert Street all the way to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in the Eastern Caribbean was launched today as FirstCaribbean International Bank is again looking to honour the region’s unsung heroes. After the positive response that initiative received last year when it was piloted in four countries, local manager, Stephen […]
It has been a tumultuous and most likely crippling process, but Belize’s national football team has finally been selected… only a matter of days before its first all important World Cup qualifier against Canada. News 5’s James Adderley headed to Belmopan for a scouting report. James Adderley, Reporting The hopes and dreams of Belizean football […]
