A freak accident at Lighthouse Reef has left one man dead and two others with serious burns. Reports are that around seven on Sunday morning park ranger for the Audubon Society, twenty-three year old Daryl Peo, boat captain Carl Pariente and a sideman identified only as Jose were heading to Blue Hole National Park with […]
An accused kidnapper and rapist is tonight in custody following a disturbing report from the Cayo district. According to a sixteen year old girl, on Sunday she was walking in Benque Viejo when a black taxi drove up alongside her. The driver was someone she knew but the girl says without warning, he jumped out […]
The suspected parents who abandoned their newborn a week ago have both been charged for the crime. Belmopan police say twenty-eight year old Gary Young of Santa Elena, Cayo and twenty year old Lloydia Martinez of Roaring Creek delivered a baby girl last weekend but decided to leave the infant on the veranda of Martinez’s […]
A cocaine bust on Ambergris Caye has put two men behind bars. According to San Pedro police, around six on Saturday morning officers conducted a raid at a residence in the San Marcos area and found seven wrapped parcels of suspected cocaine hidden in the attic. When cops weighed the white powder, it totalled eighteen […]
A shooting incident over the weekend in San Ignacio has left one man injured and his brother accused of the crime. Cops out west tell News Five that around seven on Sunday night, Carmen Vasquez arrived home drunk and apparently he and his brother, thirty-six year old Rafael Vasquez, got into a quarrel. The exchange […]
As a journalist, I’ve often been accused of capitalizing on crime, too eager perhaps to focus on the sensationalism of violence and misfortune. But by any account, the intensity of criminal activity in Belize has descended to new depths. While the causes of the problem can be endlessly debated, a determined band of citizens in […]
Burglars in the village of Sarteneja hit pay dirt this weekend. According to police, sometime Sunday night thieves broke open the steel bars on the front door of the St. Francis Xavier Credit Union Office. Inside, they managed to force the lock on an iron chest and made off with fifty-one thousand dollars in Belize […]
Conventions to elect or endorse P.U.P. standard bearers continued over the weekend in four constituencies across the country. On Sunday in Belize City, incumbent area representative Jose Coye was endorsed by Caribbean Shores voters, while Queen Square residents nominated Anthony Sylvestre Junior to represent them in the next general elections. Up north, more than thirteen […]
On Friday we showed you some of the many Belizeans who rushed to stock up on groceries in anticipation of post G.S.T. price increases. Today, officials from the Central Statistical Office hit the streets of the old capital to conduct spot checks on store shelves and News Five’s Alyssa Noble tagged along. Robert Griffith, Cayo […]
In news from the south, a resolution to remove Denzil Jenkins from the committee of management failed during a special general meeting of the Citrus Growers Association on Friday. According to the official numbers, ninety-five growers wanted to remove Jenkins but one hundred sixty-one voted that he remain in the post. So what happens now? […]
On Sunday morning prison officials celebrated the first graduation from the newly established Michael Ashcroft Rehabilitation Centre. Of the fifty-two people that signed up, forty-nine inmates successfully completed the programme, which had been adapted from a Mexican initiative. According to class valedictorian Miguel Urbina, treating drug addiction is a significant factor in the rehabilitation process. […]
Good evening. I?m James Adderley and we welcome you to another fresh dish of Sports Monday. We take you back immediately people to Thursday at Leslie?s Imports on the Western Highway, where thirty-six riders are all dressed up to begin the five stage M & M Masters Cycle Tour which caters to over twenty-three years […]
