The details of how the abuse occurred are far from settled and likely be dealt with in a court of law. But justice will come too late for a little girl named Delcy White. Delcy, who would have turned three next Monday, died Tuesday morning at the K.H.M.H. after suffering a fractured skull and severe […]
A report by police constable David Griffith that around nine-thirty Wednesday night he was threatened by another officer, twenty-six year old Delmar Moguel, has resulted in the arrest of Moguel. P.C. Moguel was charged with Threat of Death when he appeared today in Magistrates’ Court. The prosecution objected to bail on the grounds that the […]
A Belize City taxi driver has been detained pending charges in the sexual assault of a nine year old girl. The child told police that after seven on Wednesday morning she was leaving through the front gate of the Special Education Center on Freetown Road when a man pulled her into a nearby house and […]
The body of a man who reportedly fell out of a boat and drowned has been recovered. Police report that around eleven-thirty Wednesday morning the corpse of twenty-six year old Gabriel Perez of August Pine Ridge Village was pulled out of the New River Lagoon. He and a friend, Eduardo Murillo, had been riding in […]
A Belize City mechanic apparently bled to death on Wednesday night following an alcohol induced fit of rage. According to his co-workers at Mike’s Motorplex, around three in the afternoon, twenty-nine year old Glenn Urbina showed up at the Cemetery Road compound inebriated and was told to go home. Urbina got upset, picked up a […]
If you watch world news it will come as no surprise, but Belizean consumers should get ready for a rise in the price of rice. Reports to News Five indicate that negotiations now nearing completion between government and producers will push the retail price at least as high as a dollar-fifteen per pound and perhaps […]
It’s an industry that is spread over a wide geographic area, enjoys a constituency of relatively affluent and engaged stakeholders and has more or less been on a roll for the last two decades. So when a standing room only crowd gathered this morning to hear Prime Minister Dean Barrow’s take on tourism, it was […]
Prime Minster Barrow may have been a hit with the tourist crowd but tonight he has some egg on his face. After delivering a blistering lecture to former Prime Minister Said Musa in the House of Representatives yesterday, calling Musa a “fraud or a fool” and saying he “did not have time to take him […]
It’s never over til it’s over and we are really not sure when the by now notorious case of the Fort Street Tourism Village will end. The case did move forward this morning and News Five’s Marion Ali was at the Supreme Court. Marion Ali, Reporting Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh, this morning made a proposal […]
While most of the media focus along the border has been on the now dismantled settlement of Santa Rosa in Toledo, the fact is that in terms of destruction of Belizean resources, most of the problem lies further north. News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports from a familiar forest: the Chiquibul. Kendra Griffith, Reporting When the […]
