Details are scarce, but official reports to News Five have confirmed that this evening a police officer fatally shot a man inside a house in the Los Lagos area of Ladyville. The victim appears to have been a burglar who refused to surrender after officers were called to the residence. We’ll have more details on […]
It may not be the revolving door we became used to in years gone by…but now and then prisoners do escape from Hattieville. Early this morning four inmates managed to bust out and tonight two remain on the loose. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Initial investigations reveal that all four inmates […]
It may not seem like much compared to the two and a half ton cocaine bust of two weeks ago, but as they say, one-one full basket. Around seven on Monday night police at the Boom checkpoint on the Northern Highway hit pay-dirt when they stopped a Novelo’s bus heading north. According to police reports, […]
Did you ever wonder what happens to all those stolen cars that disappear off the streets of Belize City? It looks like police have at least discovered the remains of one… along with some folks with some questions to answer. Twenty-three year old Samuel Nicholas, twenty-three year old Egbert Jones, twenty-four year old Andy Hernandez […]
And in another late development, viewers in Belize City are asked to be on the lookout for a white Mercedes which this evening is believed to have knocked down a little girl riding a bicycle. A phone report to News Five indicates that the hit and run occurred at the corner of Mahogany and Mopan […]
Employees of the Belize Port Authority took to North Front Street this morning in protest against the Sagicor Capital Life Insurance Company. According to the demonstrators, for more than a year donors to a pension fund have been locked in negotiations with the company to have the scheme closed and monies collected disbursed to contributors. […]
Her candidacy had been floated weeks ago, but on Wednesday afternoon Zenaida Moya will officially announce her intention to be the United Democratic Party’s candidate for Mayor of Belize City. Moya, the union activist who has recently resigned from her post in the Ministry of National Development, will launch her campaign at Battlefield Park at […]
He may not be running for mayor, but the name Michael Ashcroft is not exactly unknown in these parts. Despite that notoriety, the scholarship fund that bears his name is one of Belize’s best kept secrets. At any given time nine Belizeans are enrolled in the degree programme at the Ashcroft International Business School at […]
A century ago the death of a woman in childbirth was not an unusual occurrence. And while today modern medicine has made great strides in reducing maternal mortality, Belizean officials say we need to do more… and have been meeting this week in Belize City to figure out how. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting One out of […]
As many of us seek to delve deeper into our ethnic and cultural roots, there’s one body of early Belizeans that seems to have been lost in the shuffle. I’m talking about those much-maligned seafarers called pirates. And while it’s doubtful that any modern-day citizen of the Jewel will be agitating for pirate’s rights, one […]
