For the second time this week, detectives in the Cayo District have a murder on their hands. But as News Five’s Jacqueline Godwin reports, while the victim was discovered yesterday, the killing might have taken place as early as Monday night. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Around eight-thirty on Thursday morning, the body of sixty-seven year old […]
And while cops in Camalote are chasing down that lead in the Rivas case, according to San Ignacio police they’ve hit a dead end in the investigation to solve the cold blooded killing of businessman Guo Quiang Su. Six people had been detained by police following the fatal shooting on Wednesday morning, but they were […]
Two weeks ago, an eleven year old girl’s disturbing report that she had been abducted and raped made a lot of parents nervous. Tonight police believe they’ve cracked the case, but the events are different from the victim’s initial account. According to authorities, twenty-five year old Leonard Arnold Junior is the man who walked up […]
In news from the courtroom, this afternoon a Belize City man arrested over the weekend for shooting at police, has been charged. Thirty-two year old Alfred Smith appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Sharon Frazier where he pled not guilty to Keeping an Unlicensed Firearm and Ammunition, Failure to Provide a Blood Specimen, and Causing a […]
Meanwhile, a Belize City driver who pled guilty to Causing Death by Careless Conduct this week has been fined for the offence. Justo Reyes appeared before Justice Adolph Lucas today to learn his fate for killing thirty-nine year Carlos Alamilla last April. But family members of the deceased got up and told the judge they […]
Government’s plan to provide free textbooks to primary school students has met as much criticism as praise. The formal announcement came at the end of June and on Monday the Ministry of Education will be holding a press conference to release the details of its National Textbook Programme. Under the initiative, text books will be […]
Belizean talent has never been in short supply, but according to the experts creativity is usually a challenge. With that in mind, over the next two months local artists are being asked to step outside the box and come up with a photograph, painting, sculpture, video … just about anything that will excite the judges […]
For some people, a birthday is just another day, but even those naysayers can agree that surviving one hundred and two years on earth is cause for celebration. Kendra Griffith, Reporting For more than a decade, every Friday Isabel Garbutt has been coming to the Helpage Centre for religious devotion. But this week’s gathering was […]
Two weeks ago, the Bird’s Isle boasted a capacity crowd of spectators there to watch the Big and Beautiful pageant. Tonight, the organisers of a similar event are hoping for the same success. News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This afternoon, contestants in the first annual Big, Bold, and Fabulous pageant hit the […]
It might seem strange, but for a number of years the United States has been paying Belize, and several other nations in the region, not to cut down trees. The initiative is called the Debt for Nature Swap Programme and was born of an agreement signed between the United States and eleven other countries. For […]
