Each week the police press office issues to the media dozens of reports on crimes committed nationwide. And while media houses know better than to rely too heavily on the often inaccurate details, it is unusual that an entire police account is deemed a fabrication. But that’s exactly what residents of one Belize City neighbourhood […]
The Police Department is also under fire tonight from another Belize City resident. Nineteen year old Jaime Ramirez, an employee of the Riverside Tavern, along with his girlfriend, Claudia Orellano and their attorney, Audrey Matura Shepherd, called a news conference to say what happened yesterday evening and what they plan to do about it. Jaime […]
Acting police press officer, Assistant Superintendent Bart Jones was present to listen to the complaint and offered the police version. Asst. Supt. Bart Jones, Ag. Police Press Officer “Sometime around four-thirty or thereabouts yesterday evening a police mobile was on patrol on the East Canal turning into Orange Street when a citizen informed them that […]
Twenty-seven year old tour guide Angel Dorado is home tonight recovering from a bullet wound he received during an incident that unfolded in his neighbourhood last night. Dorado reported to police that around nine-thirty on Monday night he was riding his girlfriend on the handle of his bicycle on a street in the Mile Eight […]
It’s a decision too many parents are making these days … and young children left home alone can all too often mean big trouble. That’s exactly what happened ten days ago in Independence Village when a two year old boy left unattended died in a house fire. But tonight one of that child’s parents is […]
Seven months ago, two men were charged with the armed robbery of a Belize City courier. But tonight only one of those defendants is behind bars. In court this afternoon, the case against twenty-one year old Herman Elijio and twenty-five year old Richard Russell concluded before Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie. Based on the evidence presented […]
After being lost at sea for almost twelve hours, tonight two Belizeans reported missing on Monday are home safe. Around six-thirty yesterday morning, Kendra Schofield and captain Errol Jacobs left Long Caye at Glover’s Reef for Dangriga in a thirty-eight foot Colombian style skiff with twin two hundred horsepower outboards. But hard rain, rough seas […]
Something approaching stability has settled over the citrus industry following almost a year of upheaval in the governance of the Citrus Growers Association. And while today’s ruling in the Supreme Court is not expected to reopen old wounds, it will change the way business is done in the Stann Creek Valley. The ruling, by Justice […]
Too many students and not enough classrooms. It’s a common compliant in this young and rapidly growing country and today in Dangriga News Five’s Janelle Chanona listened to one school’s plea for help. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Overcrowded classrooms are a reality for many Belizean schools but for the teachers and staff of Sacred Heart Primary […]
In a correction to a story aired on Monday night’s newscast, the fundraising event held on Sunday for the Pallotti Music School was organised by members of the mainland Chinese community, and not Taiwan as we had reported. We sincerely apologise for the error.
With only three hundred and sixty-five days in the year the calendar is increasingly crowded for organisations wanting the public’s attention focussed on their cause. We don’t know how they manage, but with Thursday designated as World Blind Day and Friday being observed as World Food Day, Mental Health Week, which opened last Thursday, is […]
