There was no shortage of bad news over the last four days but when future historians recount the happenings of Easter 2006, only one event will be remembered: the heroic ride of Shane Vasquez. In five hours and fifty-eight minutes of superhuman effort the twenty-seven year old from Cayo erased four years of national fustration […]
While thousands of Belizeans took advantage of the weekend?s balmy weather to enjoy recreation in every corner of the country, the last five days were not without tragedy. Three murders were recorded, the most recent occurring this morning in Belize City. News Five?s Kendra Griffith reports that this latest killing was not your average urban […]
The full moon may have lent a magic quality to the night enveloping the hills of Cayo but for one resident of Santa Elena, Thursday’s moonlight foreshadowed only death. This morning I travelled west to unravel the details of a murder that appears to be the result of jealousy. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Police investigations have […]
Uncontrolled jealousy also seems to be the likely motive for a murder that occurred late Sunday night in Benque Viejo del Carmen. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Benque Viejo police say twenty-two year old Israel Geovanni Contreras is the man who killed fifteen year old Anna Aldana. The young girl?s body was found behind this abandoned school […]
Two separate traffic accidents on Monday in the northern part of the country have claimed three lives. The first two fatalities occurred between miles forty-one and forty-two on the Northern Highway. Twenty-six year old Erlin Anderson of Libertad Village reported to police that he was driving from Belize City just after midday when his van […]
Tourists have once again become victims of crime at the Rio Frio Cave in Cayo’s Mountain Pine Ridge. According to police reports shortly before one on Good Friday afternoon a total of seven visitors accompanied by four tour guides were held up by a heavily armed gang of seven men brandishing assault riffles, handguns and […]
He officially became an adult on Sunday, but instead of a celebration, Travis Arnold is facing jail time. A jury of six men and six women deliberated for just under two hours today before finding Arnold not guilty of murder, but guilty of the alternate charge of manslaughter. Justice Adolph Lucas has set May twelfth […]
A postman accused of mail tampering was today fined over twelve thousand dollars in Magistrate’s Court. Thirty-one year old Belize City resident Brian Luna today opted to plead guilty to ten of the twelve charges, telling the court “my family is going through a lot of pressure because of this case. I just need some […]
There have been some minor rearrangements to the cabinet shuffle announced last week, all involving ministers of state. In a government press release issued today, it was announced that Marcial Mes, who was appointed last week as Minister of State in the Ministry of Natural Resources, is now Minister of State in the Ministry of […]
Progress brings problems … and nobody knows that better than the Belize City Council. This morning in an attempt to lessen confusion and improve the flow of traffic in the area surrounding the Queen Square Market, vendors were relocated from the canal side and instead placed on Hicatee Street, which runs along the south side […]
