Two murders occurred over the weekend, one in Belize City by gunshot and the other in the rural Stann Creek District by machete. To say they are examples of senseless violence is to state the obvious. Not so obvious is how to stop the bloodshed. Jacqueline Godwin Twenty-seven year old Simon Alexander Montes, better known […]
Police in the Stann Creek District are on the lookout for a Honduran national who not only killed one man but left another to die. According to authorities, around six-thirty on Friday evening, the suspect, who remains unidentified, was in Middlesex Village when he reportedly got into an argument concerning a woman with another Honduran, […]
But while police continue to look for their murder suspect, they have made progress in another stabbing incident that also occurred last Friday in the Stann Creek Valley village of Pomona. Twenty six-year old Julian Polanco of the Hummingbird Community has been arrested and charged with Attempted Murder, Dangerous Harm and Use of Deadly Means […]
This morning, thirty three year old Lionel Castillo, the investigator at the Ombudsman’s Office, appeared in Belize City Magistrates’ Court where he was arraigned on the charge of Extortion following a sting operation by police. Authorities say Castillo received an initial payment of five thousand dollars after he purportedly helped an inmate serving time at […]
While most of us were sleeping this morning a burglar or burglars were working hard to break into the Ladyville branch of Atlantic Bank. According to the manager, sometime between four and six a.m. the steel shutters at the back of the building on the Northern Highway were broken and the building entered. Unfortunately for […]
Prime Minister Said Musa and his delegation have returned from a weekend summit and ministerial meetings in Venezuela. The talks in Caracas, hosted by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez, brought together the fourteen countries participating in the Petro Caribe initiative, a programme in which oil rich Venezuela is providing petroleum products […]
The vehicle crashed into the light pole near the bridge foot on Friday night and on Saturday morning it was still there. Reports reaching News Five indicate that the vehicle was being driven at the time by Belize City traffic officer Mark Banner, along with two passengers. Banner has yet to be charged and police […]
It’s a subject that figures prominently in the historical observations of many Caribbean nations but in Belize the issue of slavery is often glossed over by Belizeans of all races. That failure to confront our past, however, may be changing … as News Five’s Marion Ali reports from the Belize City House of Culture. Marion […]
James Adderley, Reporting Good evening, I’m James Adderley and here’s this week’s issue of Sports Monday. The Maxi Basketball Tournament at Big Bird’s Isle kicked off its playoff round Friday night with two big ballgames. We’re at the end of the first quarter in the opener between M&M Christian Ambassadors and Tuff e Nuff when […]
