A shooting at a popular nightspot on the Southside of the city has left a teenager dead and his killer on the loose. Witnesses tell News 5 that around one thirty on Saturday morning, during a private party at the Bismark Club, a single shot was fired at sixteen year old Dual Ernest Wagner. The […]
Meanwhile police in Orange Walk have charged one man with murder after a fight with a pair of brothers in the bus terminal led to a fatal stabbing. According to police reports, around eight thirty on Friday night, Oscar and Elmer Pech got onto the last bus bound for Corozal Town. But within minutes, the […]
Investigations continue into a motorcycle accident in Belize City that left a young man dead. Around eleven Monday morning, twenty-two year old Haseef Hassan was driving a GSXR 750 on Seashore Drive when something went very wrong. The bike slammed into this cement fence and stayed there for the entire length of the property. Tracks […]
A traffic accident on the Northern Highway has claimed the life of a fifteen year old hitchhiker. According to police reports, late Saturday night, thirty year old Jerome Goff was heading home from a party when he stopped at the airport junction in Ladyville to pick up a young man whom he knew only as […]
A Belize City family is in mourning tonight after an accident just off the coast claimed the life of a young father. As News 5’s Jacqueline Woods explains, what should have been routine for the fisherman, suddenly turned deadly. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Twenty-seven year old Zenaida Castro had been looking forward to a life with […]
Cops in the Cayo District are tonight appealing to area residents to help them solve a robbery turned murder in the border town that left an elderly man dead. According to the authorities, seventy-two year old Walton Usher had been working as a watchman for a local business on Monday night. But sometime during his […]
The case of Maria Roches, the teacher who took the Roman Catholic Church to court after being dismissed for getting pregnant out of wedlock has moved one step closer to conclusion. The three member Court of Appeal, sitting in Belize City, this afternoon dismissed an appeal brought forward by the Catholic Management. After Roches was […]
It’s one of those words most students like to hear: scholarship. The Michael Ashcroft Foundation is once again accepting applications for Belizeans to study towards a Business degree in the United Kingdom. From the applicant pool, nine students will be selected to attend a three to four year programme at the Anglia Polytechnic University in […]
This afternoon, employees of the National Sports Council staged a protest at the Council’s offices below the Belize City Centre demanding monies they say G.O.B. is refusing to pay. The workers, who are members of the Christian Workers Union used their lunch break to hold up posters calling on government to fulfil a promise made […]
There is good news tonight for persons infected or affected by AIDS in Belize. Thanks to money collected through a telethon held in August, starting this week, the Living with Hope project will begin accepting applications from persons crippled by the financial reality of the disease. Chairman of the National AIDS Commission, Dolores Balderamos Garcia, […]
James Adderley, Reporting Good evening I?m James Adderley with this Tuesday version of Sports Monday. With the highest level of Belizean Football play still in the off season, the focus remains on the Reginald Jex Challenge Cup inside Sandhill where the struggle to get into the big leagues continue. As we look at the pre-game […]
