The case of missing police constable Morris Martinez has taken what looks like a dramatic turn since our last report from Corozal yesterday. Sources close to the investigation tell News 5 that a second vehicle is now believed to have been involved in Martinez’s disappearance and possible murder. That vehicle, a car with Corozal license […]
Police and fire investigators are taking a fresh look at Friday night’s fatal blaze in San Pedro, following a post mortem conducted on the victim’s corpse. That examination, while determining that Mauricio Rodriguez died of smoke inhalation, also revealed bruises on his body that were not consistent with fire. That finding bolsters claims by family […]
Police are also asking your help to catch another criminal…but this one shouldn’t be hard to find as he sports two cigarette burns on his left cheek. According to police, the unidentified young man tried to jack a tourist Monday afternoon as she walked down Bishop Street near downtown. Lynda VanOmmeren told investigators that she […]
One accused jacker who didn’t get away is twenty-eight year old Michael Usher. Usher, of a Faber’s Road address, has been charged with theft after he was identified by a sixty-two year old man as the guy who snatched a gold chain off his neck. The incident took place on Sunday night in a grocery […]
On last Wednesday’s newscast we reported on the injuries suffered by forty-five year old Hugo Silva who was found beaten and unconscious on Marine Parade on Boxing Day morning. No one was arrested for that crime, which has now been upgraded to murder. Silva succumbed to his injuries on Monday at the KHMH and thus […]
It may not be the kind of news the Tourism Board wants to hear, let alone publicize, but it appears that a well-armed gang is spreading fear along what has always been considered one of Belize’s favourite areas for visitors. New 5’s Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The Stann Creek Valley is one […]
There was bad news for consumers today as the Public Utilities Commission reports that the folks at Belize Water Services are asking for yet another rate increase. The request, which seeks a seven percent price hike, effective April first, comes on top of the seventeen percent increase granted last year that the water company is […]
Today was an unusual one in the field of Belizean philanthropy…for two reasons. The first is that the hardworking staff at the Salvation Army finally got a chance to have some fun. The second is that one of the major players of the tourism industry–that is the cruise lines–have dared to get involved in the […]
