It’s a familiar Belizean crime: gunman enters shop, gunman shoots proprietor, gunman runs away. The latest fatal robbery attempt occurred last night in Ladyville and News Five’s Jacqueline Woods has the tragic story. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Thirty-one year old Weng Ger Zheng, better known as Alex, came to Belize five years ago and started doing […]
Forty-six year old Marvin Nunez, a Honduran national, is recovering at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was shot several times while seated inside a Belize City bar. Nunez, who did not wish to appear on camera, told police that around seven-thirty Tuesday night he was drinking beer inside the River Bottom Lounge on […]
Several thousand Belizeans who have defaulted on small loans with the Development Finance Corporation are being relieved of their debt burden. The initiative, which according to a press release from the Prime Minister’s Office, involves close to six million dollars and one thousand, five hundred and twenty-five borrowers, was approved by Cabinet on Tuesday and […]
In news just in, police report a man is missing at sea. On Friday, sixty-seven year old Raymond Elijio was en route from Placencia to Gladden Caye, some twenty miles away, accompanied by William Faux and Brian Leslie. Faux reported to police that about a mile from the caye the boat ran aground, but the […]
The police officer involved in a traffic accident on New Year’s Eve which left a horse dead and eleven children injured now stands accused of drunk driving. Court reports today indicate that thirty year old Clement Cacho appeared before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers on Tuesday where he was formally arraigned for driving with alcohol concentration above […]
A Belize City fisherman accused of viciously beating another man for his bicycle has been given jail time. Twenty-five year old Eric Martinez was sentenced to a total of six years in prison: five years for robbery and another year for grievous harm. On May tenth, 2005, the victim, Daniel Brooks, reported to police that […]
A Sandhill resident has been arrested and charged with arson following an incident at a local grocery shop. Around three on Monday afternoon, forty year old Barry Rosalez began arguing with Yung Fa He, the proprietor of a store between miles eighteen and nineteen on the Northern Highway. Yung says after the exchange of words, […]
It’s a telephone number mentioned almost every night on this newscast: 0-800-922-TIPS. That’s the home of Crime Stoppers, the programme under which citizens can help police solve crimes by calling in anonymous tips–and receive a reward if the call leads to an arrest. Today, we were visited by Chris Garcia, Crime Stoppers’ local chief operating […]
On Saturday, the Belize Defence Force will invade Belize City for its annual open day. According to organisers, this year the event has been moved from its usual location at Price Barracks to the Marion Jones Sporting Complex to accommodate more residents of the city. This afternoon, Commander of the B.D.F., Brigadier General Lloyd Gillett, […]
At the end of every year the Ministry of Home Affairs issues a press release listing the precise dates of all twelve public holidays to be celebrated in the coming year. 2006 was no different except for one holiday–Baron Bliss Day–which officials can’t seem to pin down. The original schedule had the traditional March ninth […]
If you’ve already received your January electricity bill, you have no doubt felt the pinch of the rate increases granted to Belize Electricity Limited effective the first of the month. The new prices are the result of what’s called TERP, a Threshold Event Review Proceeding. That mechanism kicked into effect late last year when the […]
