Throughout our years of broadcasting the news, we have had the grim duty to report horrible atrocities committed against Belizean children. But tonight there is an act so perverse, that it has left horrified eyewitnesses deeply disturbed. Witness to Child Sexual Assault ?When the girl came out the water, I don?t know if she cried […]
This morning twenty six year old Taedron Bennett was formally arraigned in Belize City Magistrate Court on thirteen separate counts including murder, attempted murder, dangerous harm, deadly means of harm, and conspiracy to commit murder. He appeared before Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord, who ordered that he be remanded to Hattieville Prison until June sixteenth. Lord […]
A man convicted of killing another person because of a mango seed has been sentenced to six years in jail. In the Supreme Court this morning, Justice Adolph Lucas told eighteen year old Travis Arnold, “Manslaughter is a serious offence. A person can get up to life imprisonment … you are a young man, a […]
A senior citizen from Punta Gorda has been arrested and charged with attempted murder following an incident in the southern town last weekend. Seventy-four year old Cristobal Salam of San Antonio, is the man police say got drunk at a local bar, got into fight, lost, went home for his gun and then ambushed the […]
A police officer has been arrested following an attack against a Chinese businessman in Orange Walk. P.C. Wilfredo Petillo was today charged with wounding, robbery, possession of controlled drugs and damage to property. Reports are that around seven thirty on Thursday night, Petillo walked into the Bai Li Club on Lover’s Lane and proceeded to […]
As the national health care system grapples to deal with the needs of Belizean patients, today the Nurses Association of Belize met to discuss their role in medical care. According to Isabel Bennett, President of the Nurses Association, the CARICOM Single Market and Economy can contribute positively to Belizean society. Isabel Bennett, President of the […]
The show is being billed as the biggest laugh fest to hit centre stage of the Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts. “The Belize Comedy Review” is another chapter in the storied entertainment career of Gerald “Lord” Rhaburn and will include Belizean comedians Kenny Morgan, Dylan Jones, Leonard Mangar, Raphael Martinez as well as international […]
This holiday weekend, it’s off to the races as the Orange Walk Jockey Club is planning an all day event at the People’s Stadium. According to the club’s acting secretary, Melissa Cadle, Orange Walk Day was traditionally celebrated on May twenty-fourth with horse racing. But in recent years that custom has fallen to the wayside. […]
Belize’s hoop dreams of international glory may have crashed and burned against Mexico but this weekend our athletes will get a chance to restore national pride in competition that’s just as intense. News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports from the volleyball courts at Old Belize. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This morning, more than twenty international volleyball players […]
Due to a Public and Bank Holiday and Monday, May twenty-second, there will be no newscast. The next broadcast will be Tuesday, May twenty-third, 2006.
