Police have arrested and charged one person and are looking for three others, following an early Tuesday morning burglary in Belize City that netted thieves in the vicinity of thirty thousand dollars. Officer commanding C.I.B., Assistant Superintendent Chester Williams, says investigations indicate that around two on Tuesday morning, eighteen-year-old Sherwin Locke and three other men […]
Justice was swift for three guys who held up a store in Orange Walk on Easter Monday. Twenty-eight-year-old Robert Hill of Cotton Tree, eighteen-year-old Mark Massam of Belize City and a sixteen-year-old minor today pled guilty to robbery and aggravated assault in Orange Walk Magistrate’s Court. The three were captured on Tuesday while walking down […]
He took over command of the department two weeks ago and today Commissioner of Police Gerald Westby made the first of what will be a series of stops at police formations around the country to introduce himself to the rank and file. Flanked by Deputy Commissioner Maureen Leslie and other members of the high command, […]
Fire struck today in Belize City but investigators will not have to work too hard to figure out how it started. I arrived on the scene as the unfortunate family was putting the pieces together. Patrick Jones The mid afternoon fire on Police Street extension has left seven people without a roof over their heads. […]
Around two weeks ago we reported the “soft” opening of Speednet’s new telecommunications service. And while since then a lot of news has been generated by recent battles over ownership of BTL, the folks at Speednet kept plugging away. Last night they held their formal opening, and while Minister of Communications Vildo Marin could not […]
Islanders have been using it for three weeks already, even though the official opening is still a day away and it won?t be fully functional for at least three more months. But after waiting eight years who can blame residents of Ambergris Caye for being anxious to take advantage of the brand new San Pedro […]
While residents of Belize City have been coping with the stench of smoke from the burning municipal garbage dump, those people living the quiet life in the Belizean countryside have not been spared from environmental problem of equal importance. Yesterday News 5’s Jacqueline Woods visited communities along the Sibun River to investigate persistent reports of […]
The judging was close in last night’s KTV first semi-final round, but when the moment of truth arrived, host William Neal did not hesitate to call the numbers of the two winners. William Neal, Host, KTV ?Our two finalists for tonight are contestants number two and number five.? (Lorraine sings ?Respect? and Angelo sings ?You […]
