It’s the eve of an important election and as one hundred fifty-four candidates work late into the night in search of that last handful of votes, we in the media should be hot on their trail. But as often happens, events sometimes intervene, in this case three murders that took place in Belize City, likely […]
He is accused of going on a weekend crime spree in which he shot a police officer, beat his girlfriend, threatened his brother-in-law, almost killed his step-daughter, and then tried to kill himself. And today, thirty-six year old special constable Charles Grant appeared in Magistrate’s Court where he was hit with a whopping eleven charges. […]
And while police have three more murders on their hands, they are nonetheless pleased tonight, having made a breakthrough in another cold case. On Monday, officers arrested twenty-one year old Errol Haynes and charged him with the 2005 murder of Delrick Sankey. This afternoon Haynes appeared before Magistrate Margaret Gabb-McKenzie where he was remanded to […]
A man has pled guilty to charges arising from a double traffic fatality. On Monday, forty-four year old Valentine Ferguson was slated to be tried for two counts of manslaughter by negligence in the courtroom of Justice Adolph Lucas. But before the proceedings formally began, Ferguson opted to plead guilty to the lesser charge of […]
Newspapers, particularly those published by our two major political parties, are known to tell a fib now and then. But even by those loose standards the headline in today’s election eve issue of the Belize Times was something of a shocker. “Barrow Resigns” said the uncharacteristically red banner; while the text went on to describe […]
This week the United States Peace Corps, created by President John F. Kennedy in 1961, is celebrating forty-five years of service. Just one year after its establishment, the organization’s first volunteers arrived in Belize to teach in our schools. As part of their anniversary celebrations, today the more than sixty men and women working in […]
Cancer: it’s a word that can’t help but make us uncomfortable, since the disease leaves its often fatal mark on both young and old of every ethnicity and social strata. Last week Belize’s medical experts met to learn more about cancer … and News Five’s Jacqueline Woods was there. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Three year old […]
In countless ads and only slightly fewer news stories you’ve heard what most of the politicians and candidates involved in Wednesday’s municipal elections have to say. For our last story on election eve we thought it might be nice to hear some voices from the people who, for one day at least, will have the […]
