When they moved to an area called “Fresh Pond,” they didn’t expect to actually live in one every time it rained. But tonight residents of the Burrell Boom neighbourhood say that’s exactly what poor drainage and saturated soils have forced them to endure. Thirty-four year old Dalton Gillett and his four legged friend ?Trouble Rubbles? […]
A Belize City woman is in police custody tonight charged with stealing clothes off another woman’s line. According to Consita Beeks of Tranquil Lane, early Thursday morning she washed a load of clothes and hung it out to dry. Beeks claims that later when she went to pick in the laundry, all the garments had […]
Tonight a Honduran family is appealing to the Belizean community for help in finding a loved one, missing now for more than a decade. According to the Tosta family of Omoa, sixty-two year old Leonel Tosta left home twelve years ago on a fishing trip with friends. However, the boat Tosta and two other men […]
Meanwhile separate incidents of car jackings have resulted in arrests in Dangriga and Orange Walk. According to police, last weekend, Orange Walk resident Eder Urbina reported his white 1990 Grand Marquis missing from its spot in the yard. Several hours later, the vehicle was discovered in Crooked Tree, stripped and abandoned. Subsequent investigations have led […]
A post-mortem examination conducted on the body of twenty year old Sherwin Yarwood has certified cause of death as traumatic shock due to a gunshot injury to the head. Yarwood’s corpse was discovered early Wednesday morning in an abandoned lot near the Southern Foreshore. Police suspect the young man was lured to the area by […]
A suspected burglar was formally arraigned in court today in connection with a home break-in on Woodpecker Street in Ladyville. According to court reports, thirty-eight year old Dennis Quilter pleaded not guilty to the charge of burglary and was granted bail in the sum of six thousand dollars or two sureties of three thousand dollars […]
Following the deaths of too many Belizeans at the hands of drunk drivers, this past October frustrated families and friends of victims formed PADD: Parents Against Drunk Driving. In one of its first official acts as an organisation, on Thursday afternoon the first billboard sign was unveiled on the San Antonio Road in the Orange […]
Reports to News Five are that bus service out of the Dangriga hub has returned to its regularly scheduled runs, but tonight it appears the real chaos in the transport industry might just be getting started. On Thursday, the Development Finance Corporation officially posted notice in local newspapers of its intent to pursue legal recourse […]
With country-wide municipal elections only three months away, political campaigns are already in high gear. And while much of the country will be asked to choose candidates from the two main political parties, this Sunday, residents of Belmopan will be introduced to the men and women of a third entity offering themselves up for election. […]
In December the curtain goes up at the Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts and this Saturday, the Belize School of Music takes centre stage with its annual Christmas concert. But the event is not just for parents and family of the students, the public at large is invited to come out and enjoy the […]
In November, the Protected Areas Co-Management Partners held its annual general meeting in Punta Gorda Town. Twenty-three agencies were represented at the two-day event, which reviewed activities in 2005 and included a presentation from the Forest Department on its five year action plan. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Natural Resources, Johnny Briceño addressed the […]
The show is called Detritus…which can be defined as rubbish, debris or silt. You might think naming an exhibition in such a manner would be an insult, but to artists Cornelius “Magnus” Harreil and Michael Gordon, that title is merely symbolic. News Five’s Karla Heusner reports. Karla Heusner, Reporting Cornelius Harreil, or Magnus as he […]
