It has been over three weeks since anyone has been brought to the morgue due to homicide … and that’s about as close to murder free as it gets in Belize these days. The latest incident to shatter the tenuous peace occurred over the weekend in Hattieville. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Family and friends still cannot […]
A post mortem scheduled for Tuesday should tell authorities what caused the death of twenty-nine year old Damian Recinos. Recinos’s motionless body was found lying next to an electric meter situated outside of the compound where he resided in the St. Martin De Porres area of Belize City. Police say based on their preliminary investigation […]
Details remain sketchy tonight but police reports to News Five are that this afternoon a badly decomposing corpse was discovered on a small caye within the Turneffe Atoll. The deceased has since been identified as thirty-eight year old Francis Longsworth of Castle Street in Belize City, employed as a watchman on Hog Island. Cause of […]
A drug deal gone wrong in Dangriga has left one resident suffering from bullet wounds and the gunman on the run. The official version, according to the police, tells a tale of businessman Orlando Habet being lured out of his St. Vincent Street home late Thursday night, taken by car to Gumagarugu Road and then […]
Tonight a Belize City man remains hospitalised following a hit and run incident on Saturday afternoon. According to police, around one Tyrone Teck was riding a bike down Currasow Street when he was knocked down at the intersection of Raccoon Street. The driver didn’t stop and when police showed up, they found the victim bleeding […]
Viewers of this broadcast are no strangers to the controversy swirling around recent elections for the board of the Corozal Free Zone. Ostensibly a fight over the rules governing proxy voting, the battle is in fact part of the growing war for the heart and soul of the People’s United Party. Today Minister Mark Espat […]
A well known personality known as “snake man” is dead. On Sunday, fifty-nine year old Reynaldo Smith lost his battle with AIDS and around ten thirty that morning he died inside the shed in which he lived on North Front Street. According to a close friend, Smith became gravely ill a month ago but refused […]
He’s one of the foremost scientific thinkers to ever emerge from Belize, but Dr. Arlie Petters is determined to replicate his success in others. His latest venture, under the banner of the Petters Research Institute, is to promote excellence in the fields of math and science. But as News Five’s Janelle Chanona discovered this morning […]
We’ve seen them in the streets of Belize City as well as the halls of the Supreme Court. But on Friday members of the Toledo based organisation called SATIIM hosted journalists in their own backyard. News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports. Kendra Griffith, Reporting The Sarstoon-Temash National Park is named after the two rivers that drain […]
Good evening. I?m James Adderley rolling into your living rooms with this delivery of Sports Monday. We take you immediately to sunny San Pedro where Saturday night brought the decisive game five in this year semi-pro basketball title series. As the Tiger Sharks hosted the U.B. Black Jaguars of Belmopan. It is indeed a historic […]
