Long holiday weekends in Belize are no strangers to deadly violence and the one we just experienced was no exception. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports on a double homicide in Belize City that police are still trying to sort out. G. Michael Reid, Police Press Officer ?There is concern; in particular it seems that people […]
It is not being classified as a murder, but what do you call it when a man gets drunk, steals a car, knocks down a pedestrian and drives away, leaving his victim to die. That’s pretty much what happened on Saturday night in Orange Walk. The dead man is seventy year old Dionicio Villar, of […]
Late Friday night shots rang out in Belize City and unlike Sunday morning’s victims, these two men are still among us, the difference between life and death being only a few inches. One of the wounded was philosophical about his brush with death. Alex Myers, Shooting Victim ?It no make no sense to talk about […]
A pre-Tenth outing at a Hattieville night spot has left a twenty one year old villager hospitalized with gunshot wounds to his leg. And the off duty Belize Defence Force soldier says the irresponsible behaviour of the police is responsible for his injury. Arthur Danderson Junior says he was playing pool on Thursday night when […]
And while there may be independent witnesses who will be able to shed light on Thursday night’s incident in Hattieville, in Cayo, investigators of another alleged case of police brutality will have a more difficult time. Twenty-three year old Fernando Crawford, an escaped inmate of the Hattiveille Correctional Facility, was shot in both legs last […]
Today’s newscast, like many Monday editions, is heavy on weekend crime. But the phenomenon of what appears to be an increasingly violent society is felt in many ways. This morning News 5’s Patrick Jones got a preview of a new study that seeks to get behind the grim headlines. Patrick Jones, Reporting Every time there […]
There are close to fifty young residents at the Dorothy Menzies Child Care Centre, double the number the home was originally built to hold. Throughout the year a number of donations help the centre to meet its commitments and this morning’s handing over was no exception. The British Army Training Support Unit, BATSUB, recently held […]
It may not have been the biggest carnival road march…and the rain did put a damper on things at the end…but carnival 2004 was still a hit with the participants and thousands of spectators. Here are some highlights of Saturday’s happenings, as broadcast right here on Channel 5. Scenes from Carnival Southside Masqueraders took top […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley with yet another fresh dish of Sports Monday. For the past five years, we?ve observed the Lionman Triathlons evolve from a worthy recreational experiment into a major sporting event, second only to the cross country cycling classic in Belize. In the fifth edition of the event, number eighteen Wolly Wolger, […]
