It’s a situation that either has a very logical explanation or somebody has a lot of explaining to do. That’s the general feeling in Belmopan tonight as investigations continue into a letter that surfaced late last week from the Venezuelan government asking Belize to give account of twenty million US dollars, not ten as had […]
And while the Barrow administration is calling for an explanation from Said Musa and members of the former Cabinet, the People’s United Party is focusing on internal matters, that is the election of a new party leader. On Friday Francis Fonseca was one of three candidates nominated to succeed Said Musa. Like his opponents, today […]
The Chalillo dam was designed to produce electricity but the project has been a consistent source of legal controversy. In the latest case, a citizens group based in the Cayo district is asking the Chief Justice of Belize to order the Department of Environment to enforce the law. According to the members of the Belize […]
On Friday he was featured in the San Pedro Sun as one the island’s up and coming businessmen but tonight twenty-six year old Rafael Canti is dead. According to investigators, the manager of the newly established Segway of Belize Company was killed by a long, sharp object, quite possibly an ice pick, which penetrated his […]
A security guard is lucky to be alive tonight after he was shot three times in a drive-by shooting. Twenty-four year old Albert Foreman told police that he was riding his bicycle in Buttonwood Bay around four on Saturday morning when he was attacked. According to the victim, a maroon Ford Escort pulled up behind […]
More than a month after a traffic accident claimed the lives of two people, police have arrested and charged one of the drivers involved. Fifty-seven year old Hopkins resident Charles Rubio has been charged with two counts of Manslaughter by Negligence, two counts of Causing Death by Careless Conduct, Drove Motor Vehicle without Due Care […]
A Cayo man who pled guilty to Incest has been sentenced to spend six years behind bars. To protect the victim, the forty year old’s name is being withheld but when the Camalote villager appeared before Justice Herbert Lord he said he turned to drugs and drink when he found out his wife was having […]
Following the discovering of a large quantity of prohibited ammunition at a home in Corozal, one man has been charged while investigators look for two others. Forty-two year old Hector Itzab was the only person at the Flamboyant Street residence when a police search turned up two hundred and seventy rounds of AK47 ammunition and […]
Speed is often a factor of traffic accidents in Belize but one heavy footed driver seems to have defied the laws of physics with his stunt on Saturday. According to eyewitnesses, around ten that night, a Mitsubishi SUV was spotted barreling down Princess Margaret Drive. The driver switched lanes near Baymen Avenue and collided head […]
She’s one of Belize’s oldest citizens and today Viola Myles celebrated her one hundred and fifth birthday. Myles has been a resident of the Sr. Cecilia Home for the Elderly since mid 2007 and today the institution stuck to tradition and held a party for their most famous resident. Myles told us she feels as […]
It’s one of many little Belize City bars but lately Putt-Putt has been the source of big controversy. First it was over the sale of the land it occupies, then it was the shootout that claimed the life of nineteen year old bartender Deandra Zetina. And as News Five’s Marion Ali reports, tonight Putt-Putt is […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley with yet another delivery of Sports Monday. Week two of the B.P.F.L. playoffs brought the two Belize City teams to the M.C.C. Grounds yesterday with both F.C. Belize and the Belize Defence Force coming off wins on the opening schedule of the double round robin format featuring four ballclubs. We […]
