While the holidays were relatively crime free in the old capital, separate shootings involving police officers in Caye Caulker and in the Cayo district have prompted internal investigations into both incidents. News Five’s Marion Ali has the story from Bullet Tree. Corporal Mateo Carillo, Gunshot Victim “I just have to consider myself lucky and thanks […]
A murder in San Vicente Village in the Toledo District also kept police busy early on Christmas morning. The motive is familiar: the affections of a woman, but in this case a piece of firewood was the deadly weapon of choice. According to investigators, around two o’clock on Christmas morning, fifty-five year old Basilio Calderon […]
In an update to Thursday night’s violent armed robbery in Punta Gorda, police have arrested the suspected gunman. According to authorities, a sixteen year old boy from Belize City is the person who attacked and shot money collector Darwin Pate at the corner of North and Main Streets. The assailant then stole Pate’s knapsack containing […]
Walking home drunk is a better idea than driving home drunk, but a Belize City resident is tonight hospitalised after two attackers took advantage of his inebriation on Boxing Day. According to police, an intoxicated John Loredo was at the corner of Poinsetta and Jasmine streets around eleven-thirty that night when two men jumped him. […]
While two police men were taking flak on the job on Christmas Day, others were hard at work breaking up a robbery ring in Orange Walk Town. According to cops in the north, a series of break-ins had deprived businesses and homeowners of thousands of dollars in property. The most recent incident occurred on December […]
It was never reported to us but News Five has confirmed that customs officials made a major bust in San Pedro earlier this month. Details are still sketchy but information is that approximately two weeks ago a tip led officers to an area in San Pedro Town where they found a container with ninety cartons […]
Tonight broadcasters in Belize are mourning the passing of one of their own as veteran radio personality, Eustace Usher is dead. Usher passed away at his home in Belmopan on Christmas Eve after suffering from a long illness. The late Eustace Usher was the last voice Belizeans heard on the radio when Hurricane Hattie hit […]
Most of us think of Christmas and think of family and food. And while the inmates of Hattieville Prison are deprived of spending quality time with their loved ones every other day of the year, since the Kolbe Foundation took over, administrators have used Christmas Day as a Family Day. According to a press release […]
The presents have been put away and the rumpopo and cake is almost done, but if you bought your turkey late and got stuck with a big one, you may be wondering what to do with all the leftovers. This morning News Five’s Kendra Griffith went in search of some tips from the food experts […]
Earlier in this newscast, the chefs at the Radisson shared tips on what to do with all that leftover food from the holidays. But if you woke up this morning and had to struggle into your clothes, there’s good chance your resolution for the New Year is to lose weight, which is why News Five’s […]
