It is fifth murder to occur in the last five days in the Cayo District. And the latest gruesome murder of a couple involved in the real estate business is sending shock waves paralyzing the communities in the western part of Belize where a gang of marauding gunmen appears to be operating lawlessly. The murder […]
A birthday celebration ended tragically in Punta Gorda with a woman dead and her boyfriend detained. Forty-two year old Jorge Pinzon reported to police that around four-thirty Saturday morning he and his girlfriend Soila Ramclam arrived at his house after celebrating her birthday. According to the Venezuelan businessman, he was cleaning his licensed nine-millimetre pistol […]
An American citizen was found dead on the Isle of San Pedro. Fifty-four year old Harold Wayne Adams came to Belize to retire. According to police, on Saturday Adams, who is described by police as an alcoholic, was believed to be intoxicated from early that morning. His lifeless body was found by Renee Vasquez at […]
It wasn’t only guns that claimed lives over the weekend as separate traffic accidents have left three dead and several injured. Starting in the north, Orange Walk police have detained one person for questioning following a collision between a pickup and a van. Police investigations reveal that around twelve-thirty Sunday morning twenty-eight year old Ernesto […]
Cayo police got a lucky break over the weekend when they intercepted a vehicle and prevented the commission of a robbery. Acting on a tip they received, San Ignacio police stopped a grey four-door Honda occupied by three teens. A search of the young men led to the discovery of two pairs of latex gloves, […]
The theft of Belize’s archaeological treasures is nothing new, but the incident that occurred over the weekend took place not at a Mayan temple, but rather a Toledo museum. On Sunday police visited the Museum at the Lubaantun Archaeology site in San Pedro, Columbia where they found that a burglar bar had been pried open […]
Sometime after eleven p.m. last night on Fort Street, the Belize Audubon Society became the latest victim of a break-in. Reports are that thieves, under the cover of darkness, made their way to the back of the building, where they used a crowbar to ply the paneling from the lower portion of the wall. They […]
A new water taxi service hopes to operate between Belize City and the islands. Jose Sanchez has more details. Jose Sanchez, Reporting Two water taxi companies working in the area have not deterred some entrepreneurs from attempting to set up a third business right next to the Caye Caulker Water Taxi Association. The Belize Water […]
With a solid majority in the House of Representatives, the Government has proposed a series of amendments to the constitution as part of its legislative agenda. And for weeks, the Constitution and Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives has been canvassing the country to hold public consultations on the proposed amendments to the […]
It was the cause of much adverse publicity by the then opposition before the elections; we refer to the textbook programme that was initiated by the past administration. The Ministry of Education today sent out a release on the matter, and to show you how things change and stay the same, the ministry continues to […]
Police across the country had their hands full with the weekend crime, but some of the officers took time out on Sunday to officially launch the seven days of activities known as Police Week. The ceremony, which took place in Belmopan, saw the awarding of members of the police department for long service and the […]
The grenade attack on Mayflower Street in May shook Belize City residents as the level of gang violence spun further out of control. Tonight one survivor told News Five how that incident has changed his life forever. Jose Sanchez, Reporting On May eighteenth, the lives of several persons on Mayflower Street were changed forever, when […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley. Welcome aboard for this weeks flight of Sports Monday. As money time approaches in the Belize Female Football League, the jockeying for post season play has reached fever pitch people. Yesterday inside the M.C.C. Grounds, Millennium Girls hosted the always dangerous Delille Pumas of Dangriga and can you believe fourteen […]
