After almost two days without deadly violence, tonight Corozal police are investigating the thirtieth homicide of 2008. Police reports are that around ten thirty on Tuesday night eighteen-year old San Antonio villager Stanley Matura, twenty-three year old Timothy Sanker and a minor were in front of the San Antonio Government School when two men with […]
One of two men charged with the decapitation murder of a Lord’s Bank woman has been acquitted of the charge. Eighteen year old John Chessman walked out of the Supreme Court a free man after Justice Adolph Lucas ruled that a caution statement given at the time of his arrest and any other statement he […]
A search without a warrant. The tactic has grown more controversial as the police attempt to crack down on increasingly violent crime. News Five’s Janelle Chanona looks at the subject from a legal perspective and finds that just because cops say they’re looking for guns or drugs, it doesn’t mean they can do as they […]
The announcement comes as no surprise but developments this afternoon have confirmed speculation that efforts by the Barrow administration to have the Belize Bank return the ten million U.S. dollars gifted to Belize from Venezuela will be decided in a long legal fight. According to the Prime Minister’s Press Secretary, Delroy Cuthkelvin, on Friday the […]
A second man has died as a result of Friday night’s traffic accident on Coney Drive. Nineteen year old Zhi Heng Deng, known as Dennis, died of his injuries this morning following intensive efforts to save his life. He was the driver of the Lexus which went out of control at high speed and crashed […]
When we last tuned in to the continuing soap opera called the Peoples’ United Party, the losing candidate for the party’s leadership, Francis Fonseca, had written to leader Johnny Briceño declining his offer of a post on the new executive unless Briceño first called a meeting of the current executive. When we checked in with […]
On yesterday’s newscast we looked at conditions in Belize’s poultry industry, noting that producers say it will be difficult to hold down prices in the face of increased costs of feed, fuel, and fertilizer. Tonight, after speaking with people involved in the production of flour and baked goods, it appears that higher prices are also […]
One one coco full basket is a popular proverb in Belize and tonight one social service organisation is glad that a business has made its contribution. On Monday the Belize Chamber of Commerce Western Union handed over two thousand dollars to the Liberty Children’s Home, which provides shelter services to abused, neglected and abandoned children. […]
A school recess went from fun to scary this afternoon after students at Ladyville Evangelical School were attacked by bees. Reports reaching News Five are that someone disturbed a nest of Africanised bees on the compound at mile ten and a quarter on the Northern Highway, causing the insects to go into a frenzy. As […]
In the age of technology and the proliferation of TV, video games, and computers, for many children books are old school. But with a literacy rate of only seventy-five percent the YMCA is concerned and taking action. Starting this Saturday, they are launching a Youth Reading Program to target students in standard two. According to […]
If you have been scouring every Sprite cap you come across looking for letters to form the words, GO NBA, we’ve got some bad news. Before the Bowen and Bowen offices opened on Monday morning Martha Perdomo was already calling to submit her name as the winner of two tickets to see Lebron James and […]
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