Downtown Belize City ground to a halt this morning as the country’s legal community gathered for the official opening ceremonies of the Supreme Court. The annual event is often dominated by pageantry but as News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports, this year’s function belonged to the new faces that will guide the course of justice in […]
Last Wednesday, the Belize City Council made public its intention to lobby the Musa administration for one U.S. dollar of the seven dollar head tax collected from arriving cruise ship passengers. Since then the council has launched a city wide advertising campaign to publicise the issue and according to Mayor Zenaida Moya, are soliciting the […]
Belize City police have arrested and charged one man following Friday’s fire on the Western Highway. According to police, thirty five year old Honduran Jose Alfredo Reyes, was living in the building without the owner’s permission and intentionally set fire to the structure. As a result, Reyes was today charged with arson. When he appeared […]
Police have charged two men believed to be the perpetrators of two separate robberies in Orange Walk. According to fifty four year old Druid Rosado, around eight on Friday night he was inside his store on Belize Corozal Road when two men armed with a gun walked in and demanded money. The bandits took three […]
A fugitive from justice is back behinds bars tonight, more than a hundred miles from where he escaped police custody. Twenty seven year old Ernest Hinds was captured in the Havana area of Dangriga during a predawn raid this morning. He was immediately transported to Belize City and brought before Chief Magistrate Margaret Gabb. He […]
A Belize district family is tonight asking for your help in locating their missing loved one. According to relatives, seventy four year old Raymond Simon left his home in Vista del Mar around seven on Friday morning and has not been seen or heard from since. Florence Martinez says she is concerned for her husband’s […]
We’re not sure if anyone was locked up in the Belama Police Station’s holding cell over the weekend, but by the time News Five’s Kendra Griffith showed up this morning, all she found was a single occupant with a big toothy grin. Kendra Griffith, Reporting Since Saturday, this eight-foot crocodile has been detained in a […]
Today Belize’s first Prime Minister and only National Hero George Price celebrated his birthday with a special party in the nation’s capital. This morning, I travelled to Belmopan to join in the festivities. George Price, Celebrating 88th birthday
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