An early morning accident on the Western Highway has claimed the life of a young woman from Belmopan. Twenty-seven year old Elizabeth Heusner, an employee of the Belize Bank, was a passenger in a Geo Tracker driven by thirty-two year old Rhondine Twist. The pair were heading east toward Belize City around six-thirty when, between […]
Tonight more details are emerging from a brazen daylight bank robbery that netted the bad guys more than a hundred thousand dollars in cash and left one man recovering from gunshot wounds. According to twenty-six year old Marlon Ramos, an employee of Courts Dangriga branch, just after one p.m. while he was arranging a delivery […]
Mark Anthony Jones, the young man accused of shooting up a Guatemalan Embassy vehicle, was formally arraigned today, having confirmed that he is indeed seventeen years old. That puts his case behind the closed doors of the Family Court, where we are informed that a total of eleven charges were read. These include three counts […]
Shane Espinosa, a twenty-nine year old labourer of Mahogany Street in Belize City is behind bars tonight after allegedly pulling a fast one on popular Albert Street taxi driver Darwin McKenzie. Espinosa appeared before Magistrate Earl Jones, where he pleaded not guilty to robbery and was remanded to custody until August twelfth. McKenzie reported to […]
It was big news two years ago: the alleged gang rape of a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl in the St. Martin’s area of Belize City. Today, the six men accused of that crime are free as the prosecution admitted that the testimony of its witnesses and signed statements were not consistent. Deon Ferguson, Joseph Myers, Joseph Logan, […]
Tonight there is a disturbing allegation of police brutality emerging from the Stann Creek District, which has left one man missing an eye. According to twenty-three year old store clerk Marcelino Chun, on the evening of Saturday July second, he was walking along the Stann Creek Valley Road towards his home in Hope Creek Village […]
It’s a growing trend all over the world: the reclamation, restoration, and preservation of historical sites for the benefit of future generations. But when physical structures are destroyed by natural or man made disasters, local researchers are determined to chronicle the past through literature. This morning during brief ceremonies at the House of Culture, the […]
Terrorism is a subject that seems very remote in out-of-the-way Belize, but with bombs going off from London to Port of Spain, you can never be too sure. Today officials gathered to talk about public safety, not from bombs but from someone tampering with our food supply. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, […]
A CAT scan performed on six-year-old Skylar Sanchez shows that the little girl displays only partial brain activity. Mother Floreth Requeña says she was hoping that the examination would have shown some signs of improvement, but it has only confirmed her worst fears that her daughter, who is suffering from paralysis on the right side […]
