In these times of rampant senseless crime we tend to put murders in neat categories: jealous lovers, drunken brawls, robberies gone wrong and just plain gangbanging. But the brutal killing that took place sometime Friday in Orange Walk Town doesn’t seem to fit so neatly into our criminal stereotypes. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline […]
The only good thing that can be said about this next story is that it could have been worse…much worse. News 5’s Patrick Jones reports on a drive-by shooting in Belize City with enough wounded victims to fill an emergency ward. Patrick Jones, Reporting The bullet marks on the front window of this shop on […]
A Belize City man lies critically wounded at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital following a weekend stabbing. According to police, twenty-seven year old Moises Flores and thirty-three year old Javier Saragosa got into an argument sometime around eleven on Saturday morning in the area of Police Street. The fight ended when Saragosa pulled out a […]
They were taken into custody late last week, and today two men accused of robbing the Belmopan branch of Belize Water Services faced the magistrate in the nation’s capital. Twenty-three year old Jovanni Theus of Belize City and twenty year old Cordel Cayetano of Caye Caulker were charged for the crimes of robbery and harm, […]
It wasn’t included in the Police Department’s daily situation report but there was another shooting in Belize City this morning…and unfortunately it was fatal. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Family and neighbours say the Pit Bull named Pain was only doing his job, protecting his master?s property, when he was shot and killed by law enforcement officers. […]
Getting shows off the ground is no easy task, particularly without a whole lot of resources. But on Saturday night the first Belizean Entertainment Award Show made its debut at the Bliss and, good to the promoter’s word, the red carpet arrivals did not disappoint. As for the awards themselves Heights of Vibes took top […]
And on Friday night three hundred and fifty people jammed the Belize Biltmore Plaza for the fifth annual Tourism Awards ceremony. Twelve honours were bestowed on industry personnel and companies, with the Hotel of the Year prize going to Turtle Inn in Placencia. Fernando’s Seaside Guesthouse was named Small Hotel of the Year while the […]
James Adderley, Reporting Good evening, I?m James Adderley with this brand new serving of Sports Monday. The Central Division Secondary Schools Basketball playoffs got off to a start Friday night at the Civic Centre where two arch rivals: the St. Michaels College and Wesley College battled it out to get into the male finals. It?s […]
