On New Year’s Eve, an eighty-five year old Belize City woman was heartlessly robbed and pushed into a drain on Wilson Street. Tonight there is news of yet another atrocity, only this time the crime is against a young child. Kevin Jose Garcia, Robbed at Gunpoint “I seh thank you God fu what happened and […]
The fate of a man accused of murder is uncertain tonight after the case against him ended with a hung jury. According to court reports, the four women and eight men who heard the trial of twenty-seven year old Jamie Dawson retired to deliberate around three on Friday afternoon. But five hours later, they remained […]
A quarrel over a gun has landed a teenager in the hospital and his fifteen year old brother in police custody. According to authorities, around one on Sunday morning sixteen year old Luis Cardinez and his fifteen year old sibling got into a fight over a firearm. Apparently, the younger boy had stolen the weapon […]
Another tourist has drowned, this time while snorkelling at the Hol Chan Marine Reserve off Ambergris Caye. Police report that around noon on Sunday sixty-five year old Deanne Kennedy was with a group of swimmers when she began having trouble in the water. She was immediately taken to the San Pedro Clinic, but was pronounced […]
A traffic accident in Dangriga has left a family mourning the loss of a young child. Police report that around eight on Friday morning, seven year old Dayron Hernandez was riding his bicycle on St. Vincent Street when he was knocked down by a bus driven by thirty year old Lancia David. Hernandez was rushed […]
Fire officials had a busy weekend as three separate blazes erupted in Belize City, leaving one family homeless and sending thousands of dollars in property up in smoke. According to fire officials, the first call came in around three-thirty on Saturday. When fire trucks responded to this address on Queen Charlotte Street they found these […]
In recent years, there have been several manatee deaths along the Belize City coastline, but this afternoon I visited the scene of what experts say is one of the strangest … and saddest … marine causalities in recent memory. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This has been the pitiful sight along the shore in Buttonwood Bay for […]
The ceremony was brief and attendance was sparse … but for residents of Belmopan, today was a big deal. The occasion was the official opening of the new market, and as News Five?s Jacqueline Woods discovered, what began in controversy has ended in agreement. Francisca Mira, Vegetable Vendor “The space is more open we have […]
Details are still sketchy but police reports to News Five indicate that three Guatemalans have been arrested and charged after they were caught harvesting xate leaves in the Chiquibul Forest Reserve. The detainees have tentatively been identified to us as Freddie Perez, Nery Abdulio Mantar and Humberto Hernandez. All three were arrested and convicted of […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley and we?re here to drop this load of Sports Monday live and in living colour into your living rooms. The RFG Insurance Trophy Tournament, not to be confused with the RFG Insurance Cup Tournament, kicked off over the weekend featuring ten teams in five matches, from two groupings. At the […]
