They say that luck favours the well prepared…and that adage proved true this morning for law enforcement authorities on mobile patrol. News 5?s Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Belize City police say twenty-seven year old Jason Fitzgibbon acted alone when he used this steel cutter to gain access into a downstairs window and […]
Two bicyclists have lost their lives in separate traffic accidents over the weekend. On Friday afternoon around three thirty, thirty-one year old Jose Domingo Catalan, a resident of La Democracia, was knocked down by a vehicle travelling between miles twenty-eight and twenty-nine on the Western Highway. He suffered numerous head and body injuries and died […]
A Belize City man has been arrested for rape. Police received a report from a twenty-year old woman that on Thursday night forty-four year old Lindon Jeffries invited her into his house where they drank a couple bottles of Guinness. When it was time to leave, however, it is alleged that Jeffries pulled out a […]
They flexed their collective muscles in the House of Representatives on Friday, but today the opposition United Democratic Party indicated that all may not be lost in the fight to have the Caribbean Court of Justice as the final appellate court for Belize. U.D.P. Leader Dean Barrow, in a telephone conversation, told News 5 that […]
Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States, Luigi Enaudi, is this week on a working visit to Belize and Guatemala. Ambassador Enaudi will hold talks with high-ranking government officials from both countries, in an effort to restart the stalled facilitation process, aimed at ending the Guatemalan claim to Belizean territory. The first leg […]
Fans hoping to see Marion Jones defend her three gold and two bronze medals in Athens may have to settle for a single effort in the long jump, as over the weekend the Belizean hero withdrew from the two hundred meter final at the U.S. qualifying meet in Sacramento. Making her decision just two hours […]
The Courts Gold Rush came to B.T.L. Park in Belize City on Sunday and the change of venue proved very lucky for Martha Novelo of Yo Creek in the Orange Walk District as she took home the maximum possible prize. Rafael Martinez, Gold Rush Host ?Give it one big spin. Gold Rush lives your dream! […]
Several weeks ago we reported on the commission of the previously unknown crime of ?attempting to leave Belize with more than the prescribed amount without first having reported the matter to the supervisory authority.? Today we are treated to another instalment in the series ?odd offences?, which comes courtesy of the San Ignacio police. Jacqueline […]
James Adderley, Reporting Good evening, I?m James Adderley and we?re rolling out another blast of Sports Monday. Builders Hardware Bandits of Belmopan faced its moment of truth Saturday night when they hosted Sagitun of Independence in Week 5 of the Regents Cup Playoffs. Only a win could keep Belmopan?s hopes at reaching the Championship round […]
