It was a move spoken about in closed door discussions and secret meetings for weeks now but this afternoon, Prime Minister Said Musa confirmed the rumours. Four ministers have been removed from his cabinet. In a press release issued at four thirty this afternoon, the Office of the Prime Minister stated, “The cabinet will be […]
He was the second police officer killed in two months. And tonight the man who police believe shot Nedi Reymundo in the head is behind bars. News 5’s Patrick Jones has the dramatic details. Patrick Jones Reporting Twenty-three year old Charick DeBride was arrested at his home on Sunday and marched to Magistrate?s Court this […]
Cops in the Cayo District were also caught in the line of fire this weekend as a mobile patrol was attacked by armed bandits near Bullet Tree village. According to the authorities shortly after midnight on Christmas day, villagers reported that mixed in with the celebratory gunshots, suspicious men were in the area also firing […]
A Canadian man arrested after more than a thousand photographs of nude Belizean women were found in his home has been charged in Cayo’s Magistrate?s Court. Police tell News 5 fifty-one year old Arthur Wager pled guilty to possession of obscene objects and was fined eight hundred dollars. We understand that his computer has been […]
A fire in the Commercial Free Zone early Monday morning has left Corozal business owners short of some three hundred thousand dollars of merchandize. Fire officials tell News 5 that at twelve twenty three am Corozal firefighters were informed that smoke was coming from a two storey cement building in the zone. The building, still […]
The driver involved in last Thursday’s fatal traffic accident on the Southern Highway has been charged. Twenty-one year old Clifford Calam from Placencia village has been charged with manslaughter by negligence, causing death by careless conduct, and driving without due care and attention. At the scene Calam told police that he was driving south on […]
Around twelve forty five this afternoon several gunshots rang out on Newtown Barrack just in front of the Princess Hotel and Casino as armed men tried to hijack the casino cash pan. Belize City police say two unidentified suspects tried to steal the money shortly after the establishment’s security courier service left the compound with […]
To date it is the deadliest, costliest natural disaster of the twenty-first century. More than fifty thousand dead and counting. Thousands more missing. Still thousands more homeless. In just a few hours, eleven countries in the Indian Ocean and as far away as the Eastern coast of Africa hit with devastating ferocity after a 9.0 […]
James Adderley Reporting Good evening, I?m James Adderley and you?ve just logged on to the show we call Sports Monday. The Kolbe Foundation in alliance with the Belize Amateur Boxing Federation presented a fight card at the Civic Centre yesterday but they might have been operating in a vacuum as far as fan attendance went. […]
