Today police arrested and charged a third officer in connection with the sex scandal involving a fifteen year old girl. Twenty-three year old Detective Police Constable Jeremiah Usher was this evening arraigned in Magistrate’s Court for carnal knowledge. In a statement to police, the minor, who is now three months pregnant, referred to Jeremiah UsherCbetter […]
More heavy duty firepower has been found on a northern caye. Police say an operation on Thursday at an island about a mile north of Deer Caye resulted in the discovery of an AK47, an AR15 rifle, an UZI machine gun, assorted ammunition, as well as fuel and a radio antennae. It is believed that […]
Police are seeking a man known only as “Old Bomb” following a stabbing on Thursday night in Belize City. The victim, forty year old Francis Simon, told police he got into a quarrel over the purchase of a pair of sandals and that Old Bomb stabbed him in the neck with a knife. The weapon […]
A man given away by his dentures and his own testimony in court has been sentenced to ten years behind bars for robbery. Today Gary White appeared before Magistrate Harry Hulett undefended and gave details of the September 2005, Highway Grocery hold-up that only the actual robber would have know. The owner of the shop […]
It took a while for the Belize Tourism Board to get its stats together but the B.T.B. is reporting a record year for 2005. Tourist arrivals at the Philip Goldson International Airport reached almost one hundred seventy-five thousand, a seven point four percent increase over 2004. The P.G.I.A. handles around three quarters of the nation’s […]
Football, most commonly referred to as the World’s Sport is now Belize’s sport, with all eyes set on our Under 21 National Football Team ready to take on Panama this Sunday in the last match of the Central American Games. This tournament serves as prequalification for the Central American and Caribbean Football Championship to be […]
Since winning the CariCom Championship in 1998 Belize’s stature in international basketball has been on a downhill slide. That situation will hopefully be reversed when a newly selected national team will take to the City Centre court on May second and third against Mexico. The four game home and away series is prequalifier for what […]
Devastating hurricanes were probably the farthest thing from most Belizeans minds as they enjoyed the beautiful weather over the Easter holidays. But in just a few weeks the season will be on us again. However, regional and local preparations are already underway as News Five found out today at the National Emergency Management Organization headquarters […]
It’s not a summer camp, but Easter vacation is just as good a time to get young people out in the sun and having fun. News Five’s Kendra Griffith was in Orange Walk for one activity designed to give kids a sense of belonging. Kendra Griffith, Reporting This week, approximately three hundred and fifty children […]
