Tonight an accused murderer is a free man after the prosecution’s star witness changed his story on the witness stand. According to court reports, up until this morning, Jason Paulino had been charged with the murder of Nicholee Lewis. Lewis was gunned down outside the Bismarck Club in Belize City in February 2004. The day […]
Police tonight may not be any closer to finding the man they believe attempted to molest a nine year girl in Camalote … but at least they now know who they’re looking for. An alert News Five viewer in the United Kingdom told us where to find a photo of Matthew Luce on the internet […]
Dangriga police are tonight hot on the trail of armed bandits who attacked a shop in the Stann Creek Valley on Tuesday night. According to investigating officers, around eight thirty, two customers, Wayne Perriott and a minor were shopping in the Ziaona store in Pomona when two men, one wearing a white handkerchief over his […]
When City Hall was burglarized early Friday morning with no signs of forced entry, it was concluded that the heist had to be an “inside job”. Today thirty-three year old Shirley Arzu, a security guard on duty at the time, was arraigned in Magistrate’s Court for the burglary. According to court reports, Lloydia Flowers, Acting […]
Homeowners indebted to the Development Finance Corporation will soon get a shot at a big break. That’s the word from Cabinet which yesterday approved in principle a plan to allow borrowers of less than fifty thousand dollars to pay off their loans on the cheap. According to a Cabinet release, those with loans in arrears […]
About the only good thing to come out of the upsurge in reports of crimes against children in Belize is the increase in public concern over child abuse. Today News Five’s Janelle Chanona visited a place in the Belize District where some of society’s smallest victims are cared for. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Of the hundreds […]
It’s a changing world and nowhere is that change more evident than in the evolving relations between the former colonial powers and the nations that once served them. Where benefits from north to south were once conferred through large grants and heavy trade subsidies for sugar, bananas and other commodities, we now receive loans, technical […]
The last two finalists in KTV 2006 were selected last night at the Palm Court. Here’s how it went. William Neal, Host, KTV ?The first person moving on is contestant number two, Dejon Tucker.? (Dejon Tucker singing ?I Can?t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)?) William Neal ?The next person moving on for this week […]
