More breaks in recent homicides were announced today as police escorted to Magistrate’s Court three young men they believe were involved in the killings of Floyd ‘Cinco Seis” Gladden and Kurt Ortega. Twenty two year old Raymond Moralez, a resident of Warrie Street, has been charged with Conspiracy to Commit Murder in connection with the […]
Police today used the arrests as one of the few bright spots in a presentation to the media on their efforts to cool off the situation in the city. Gerald Westby, Police Commissioner “We are using a carrot and stick approach, we’ll lick you hard, the criminals who want to continue wanton violence.” ACP Allen […]
Separate incidents in the Cayo district have resulted in the arrest of four suspected robbers. In the first case, investigators in Benque Viejo tell News Five that just after nine last night a tipster called in to report that three masked and armed men had just held up the Texaco Gas Station. Officers immediately launched […]
Life may be returning to normal for most Belizeans following the close call with Hurricane Felix, but some confusion and even bitterness remains in the often fragile relationship between labour and management. The question involves rights and obligations in the time before and after a natural disaster. News Five’s Marion Ali spoke to Labour Minister […]
It’s a newly formed umbrella organisation that deals with the management of our nation’s protected areas: not the kind of group that immediately comes to mind in wake of a hurricane. But the folks at APAMO today delivered … in a very big way. Janelle Chanona, Reporting While many of the assessments of Hurricane Dean’s […]
Today two new additions to the list of locally produced publications officially hit bookshelves. Treasures of a Century is a collection of twentieth century poetry collected and edited by the Poetry Committee of the Belize National Library Service and Information System and Culture Groups of Belize, written by Lawrence Vernon, is a reference guide on […]
Reports reaching News Five indicate that the two pilots of a British Army helicopter that crashed yesterday are uninjured but will undergo routine tests just to make sure. The Bell 212 went down on a training mission around noon on Wednesday at the Nova Shrimp Farm in Ladyville. It was totally destroyed by fire after […]
In another type of correction, the Belize Carnival Association has reversed field and once again changed the dates of the Carnival Road March that had been postponed due to rains and hurricanes. The new date, contrary to what was reported last night, is Saturday, September twenty-second for the road march with Mas Camps scheduled for […]
During July and August this newscast was chock-a-block with our usual run of summer camp stories, covering activities ranging from art to football. That series of reports usually ends when students return to school in September… but with classes postponed for a week by Hurricane Felix we’re able to squeeze in just one more piece. […]
