We begin the newscast tonight with a breaking report that Police and Customs officials are investigating another suspect shipment that arrived in Belize last week on Taca Airlines. A trace of the parcel showed that it originated all the way from Dubai, making its way to Guatemala and Belize as its next stop. Two persons […]
There was another shooting in Belize City last night to report. It involved a seventeen year old young man who is clinging to life at the K.H.M.H. after he was shot in the head as he made his way home. While police are trailing the suspect who got away on a bicycle, News Five’s Marion […]
Three young men are behind bars tonight facing charges for unlicensed firearms while an under-aged student is at a rehabilitation facility for the same offence. Twenty year old Stephen Flowers, nineteen-year old Shane Young, nineteen year old Christopher Sosa, and a seventeen year old university student were charged today for Possession of Unlicensed Firearms and […]
And in more news from the courts, a man who was found guilty of the robbery of twenty-four dollars will have to spend five years in prison for the crime. Leon Walford was sentenced this morning in Magistrates’ Court for the incident which occurred on December twenty-seventh, 2007. According to twenty-seven year old Billa Marquina, […]
Police moved quickly and have arrested a man for a burglary at Putt-Putt Bar and Grill. Forty-three year old Jewel Waight appeared in Magistrates’ Court today to answer to the charge, but pled not guilty. On Tuesday afternoon, businessman Orson Elrington told police he was driving pass the Newtown Barracks establishment when he saw that […]
Many businesses are exhibiting signs proclaiming that they do not accept personal cheques … and tonight there is yet another reason to retain the practice. According to forty-eight year old Austin Waight, he received a cheque from Alex Nunez on February eighteenth for thirty-five thousand dollars and another on July thirty-first for five grand. The […]
And the Belize Tourism Board has reported the theft of a company vehicle. According to forty-one year old cashier, Maria Zetina, the 2004 Nissan Frontier went missing from the Benny’s parking lot between eight Monday morning and eight-fifteen a.m. on Tuesday. The vehicle is blue and silver with license plates E1371 and is valued at […]
The private sector is weighing in on the seemingly uncontrollable increase in crime and violence that continue to threaten the security of citizens and the business community. A missive from the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry, released today, calls on the Ministry responsible for National Security to tighten up and arrest crime. According to […]
If you thought it was over, it is not, and today there has been a flurry of activity in the ongoing dispute over television signals. The dispute erupted on August 1, after Robert Reich’s C.B.C. concluded testing along various villages along the Western and the Southern Highways and subsequently discontinued signals in the area. C.B.C. […]
Belizeans who filled their tanks today got sticker shock, but it wasn’t because of an increase in prices. As of midnight on August twelfth the pump prices for fuel reduced an average of one dollar and fifteen cents. The new prices are as follows: premium gasoline is now ten-forty-one, dropping from eleven-forty-nine; regular decreased one […]
You may have heard of JICA, it is the cooperation arm of the Japanese Government and today the agency announced it was awarding thirteen scholarships to Belizeans, four of which were announced today. Present in Belize since the year 2000 with offices in over one hundred countries, JICA prides itself as an organisation that builds […]
The September celebrations are just around the corner, and you will know this from the musical explosion that is coming our way… On Tuesday, Reckless stopped by the studio with his latest offering and tonight, Supa G is back in Belize from a successful tour in Chicago to promote his new CD before heading out […]
