Most of us are prepared for the thief in the night or the purse snatcher but for several months, local businesses have been schooled by a well-dressed crook with a gift for forging signatures. News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This afternoon twenty-nine year old Lino Herrera was formally charged with three counts […]
And while charges are amounting against the accused con-artist, Belmopan police are also investigating the country’s latest homicide. The victim is thirty-six year old David Santos, a resident of Camalote Village. According to authorities, on Saturday, Santos and another man were working on his farm located off the Prayer Mountain Road in Ontario Village. But […]
Separate accidents over the weekend have resulted in the deaths of three people and the hospitalization of a fourth. At around four-thirty Saturday morning taxi driver Byron Williams of Pomona New Site crashed into the back of a bus at mile eleven and a half on the Stann Creek Valley Road. No one was injured […]
Rounding out the weekend crime are reports that a Bella Vista couple have been charged for Keeping a Prohibited Firearm and Unlicensed Ammunition. On Friday, police say that when they searched a pickup truck at an Independence checkpoint, they found eight rounds of point three-five-seven ammunition hidden under the driver’s seat. Cops immediately arrested the […]
Three high profile cases were heard today in the Supreme Court. Convicted murderer Louis “Louie Ganzie” Gentle was sentenced to life imprisonment by Justice Troadio Gonzalez. Earlier this month, the thirty year old was found guilty of killing the mother of two of his children, Takeisha Sutherland. On January third, Sutherland was stabbed twenty-one times […]
He was jointly charged with Conspiracy, Aggravated Burglary, and Theft in connection with a terrifying home invasion against businessman Derek Nisbet and his son back in July. Late last week, however, on the advice of the Director of Public Prosecutions, all charges were withdrawn against Hilberto Gallego. Gallego told News Five that he never had […]
The local airline industry, already hamstrung by the banning of commercial flights into Guatemala, was facing an internal problem today in the form of unsafe conditions at the Punta Gorda airstrip. The airstrip, which provides an important transport link for the people of the Toledo District, has been deteriorating steadily to the point where Tropic […]
More often than not, in this newscast, police officers are accused of abuse of power or in brutality cases. But today three officers of the Belize Police Department were honoured for excellence in the performance of duties over the last three months. Woman Police Constable Sherla Cocom was the top cop in September, P.C. Anthony […]
The C in Christmas isn’t meant to symbolize capitalism but around this time every year, entrepreneurs and business owners alike come up with creative marketing techniques to separate you from your cash. But according the residents of one Belize City community, their goal is to show the rest of the country how a little innovation […]
James Adderley Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re certainly most welcome to this edition of Sports Monday. With the RFG Cup Tournament currently on hold as a result of National Team activities, we visited the Super League which presented Forever Strong Kraal Road at the M.C.C. Grounds yesterday against Benque D.C. United. The city […]
