Two men have been arrested and charged for the killing of Bruce Cocom on Saturday night in Belize City. Seventeen year old Alfred Tillett and twenty year old Albert Allen appeared this afternoon before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers where they were formally arraigned and remanded to prison until February fifteenth. Cocom was shot twice as he […]
It was a killing of remarkable savagery, but instead of dangling at the end of a rope, the man who strangled his girlfriend to death will spend the next fifteen years in jail. Eliezer Dominguez was sentenced today after copping a plea in the court of Justice Michelle Arana under which he pled guilty to […]
In other court news, twenty-four year old Honduran Lauriano Ramirez was sentenced to twelve years in prison for rape and another ten for aggravated burglary. On February twenty-sixth, 2004 Ramirez attacked his ex-girlfriend in her home. After raping her, he stabbed her a number of times with an ice pick. Ramirez’s sentences will run concurrently, […]
This afternoon charges were dropped against a man arrested in connection with an attack against a well-known businessman. Twenty-seven year old Giovanni Lauriano appeared today before Magistrate Sharon Fraser where two counts of attempted murder, one count of conspiracy to commit aggravated burglary and one count of aggravated burglary were all withdrawn against him. Other […]
It’s Tourism Week and whether we like it or not, one of the biggest problems for the nation’s major industry is crime. The latest incident occurred on January seventh when a group of four visitors from Wisconsin were robbed while walking through Guanacaste Park near Belmopan. According to Sonia Slemrod, she, her husband, and another […]
His discovery in Belize by a number of alert viewers, subsequent arrest by local police, and expulsion into the arms of U.S. law enforcement authorities was amply chronicled on this station last year. Now, fugitive sexual predator Niles Scott has been convicted. He was tried in Cleveland, Ohio and found guilty on four counts of […]
And in news just in, police report that they have found a body near mile thirty-eight on the Northern Highway. The unidentified corpse, believed to be an adult male, was discovered in a shallow grave some distance from the road. We’ll have more on this story in tomorrow’s newscast.
This morning local environmentalists, government representatives and members of Belize’s tourism industry gathered in the old capital for the official presentation of the National Protected Areas Policy and System Plan. The document was initially launched in April 2004 and since then a task force has worked to achieve consensus on how to balance economic development […]
For a while it seemed like the contest that would never end, but with a fully loaded DELL computer on the line, there was a reason for the cutthroat competition. The event was the Belize Tourism Board’s second annual Social Studies Quiz…which for the first time included the participation of students from around the country. […]
With tourism leading Belize’s economic charge and the prospect of oil riches on the minds of many Belizeans, we often lose sight of the fact that agriculture is still the nation’s most important economic activity. Today government’s main agricultural research facility held an open day and News Five’s Jacqueline Woods put on her overalls. Jacqueline […]
