More than two thousand mourners gathered in Barranco Village on Saturday afternoon to pay their last respects to musician, composer and cultural ambassador Andy Palacio. Tonight News Five’s Rick Romero shares the sights and sounds of that sad day. [Shots of funeral procession: singing and dancing] Bishop O.P. Martin “Andy Palacio loved the natural things […]
After three weeks of relative peace on the streets of Belize City, over the weekend, the fourth and fifth murders of 2008 occurred within hours of each other and less than a mile apart. According to police, the first incident occurred around four on Sunday afternoon on Malcolm Street when twenty-one year old Alfred Tillett, […]
The second murder on Sunday occurred just before eleven that night. According toinvestigators, when they arrived at the corner of North Creek and Central American Boulevard, they saw the body of a man lying under a coconut tree with what appeared to be a gunshot wound to the neck. The badly bleeding man was rushed […]
Two young children are alive tonight because of their brave big brother who entered a burning building to save them. According to fire officials, around eight on Sunday morning, they received reports that the house at number ten Hibiscus Lane in the Lake Independence area was engulfed in flames. The cause of the blaze is […]
Two Belize City men are behind bars at Hattieville Prison tonight after they were arrested and charged with Drug Trafficking. According to investigators, around four in the afternoon last week Wednesday, officers manning a check point outside Belmopan noticed that a green Camry heading towards Belize City made a quick u-turn when they saw the […]
If you or someone you know was robbed of jewelry in December, investigators are asking you to visit the Queen Street police station to view a number of pieces that were recovered following the arrest of a Belize City man. According to police, when twenty year old Dennis McKoy was detained on Saturday, several gold […]
Today Caribbean and Central American weather experts gathered in Belize City in an effort to ensure that climate change is being effectively monitored in the region. Jointly coordinated by the Secretariat of the Global Climate Observation System and the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, over the next three days meteorologists will evaluate existing systems and […]
On Friday night, more than three hundred members of Belize’s tourism industry participated in the eighth annual National Tourism Awards ceremony. During the event, thirteen awards were distributed. The Inn at Robert’s Grove was recognised as Hotel of the Year and Orange Walk’s Orchid Palm took best small hotel. Placencia’s Joy Tours was named Tour […]
In political news, Belpac, the Orange Walk based non partisan civic group, has announced that the debate scheduled for January thirty-first has been cancelled. According to a press release issued this morning, both the P.U.P. and U.D.P. backed out, saying that they would have had inadequate time to prepare. As recently as last week both […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re certainly welcomed to this segment we Sports Monday. Week eighteen in the RFG Cup Tournament should have decided who makes the four team post season but week twelve; a full back match fixture of weekend games has yet to be staged. Nevertheless, we are inside the Norman Broaster […]
