Whether you’re a pedestrian, cyclist, driver or passenger, you’re probably not surprised to hear that traffic accidents is one of the leading causes of death in Belize. But what should frighten you is the reality that fatalities on the nation’s highways have implications beyond the grief for friends and family. News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports […]
In police news, a twenty-nine year old man remains in custody at the Corozal police station tonight following a fatal fight that claimed the life of another man. According to the authorities, around ten on Sunday night thirty-nine year old Nolberto Martinez was out socializing at a bar in San Narcisso Village, when he started […]
Seven weeks after a sixteen year old girl was raped and her throat slashed, police have arrested and charged three persons with the crimes. Twenty-six year old Norman Oliva Peters aka “Ras Moz”, twenty-one year old Leonard Anthony Godoy aka “Ticky” and a fifteen year old minor have all been charged with attempted murder, dangerous […]
Police made a big drug bust over the weekend, confiscating nineteen kilos of cocaine. According to police reports, acting on a tip, officers from the Crimes Investigation Unit, Crimes Investigation Branch and Anti-Drug Unit visited the Novelo’s Bus terminal on West Canal and proceeded to search a bus that had just come in from Orange […]
A shooting in Belize City over the weekend has left one man hospitalized. Eighteen year old Wayne Matthews of a Faber’s Road Extension address remains at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital tonight, suffering from a gunshot wound to the neck. Police reports are that around one on Saturday morning neighbours in the area of Iguana […]
This afternoon the United Democratic Party called a special press conference in Belize City to discuss the Government guaranteed debt of the thirty-three million dollar loan made to Universal Health Services by the Belize Bank. That debt, long in default, must now be paid by Belmopan. But is the guarantee valid? Opposition Leader Dean Barrow, […]
In more political news, as they have been ever since the first village council election results, tonight the two major parties are claiming victory now that the polls have closed. In a press release from the People’s United Party Secretariat, they have the clear majority having won council races in one hundred and three villages. […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re locked into Sports Monday. Week nine of the R.F.G. Insurance Cup Tournament brought the Belmopan Bandits to the M.C.C. Grounds yesterday to face undefeated FC Belize as the capital city gang tries to fight their way into the playoff picture. Folks we’re just five minutes in when this […]
