It is murder victim number seventy-two for this year in our records and this latest victim was apparently hacked to death and then set on fire. Police are still trying to piece together the evidence of this grizzly murder in a quiet fishing community on the northern tip of Belize that occurred sometime between last […]
And in other news on violent crimes, there is some development in the slaughter of Wilhelm Braun, Mennonite Contractor that occurred in the afternoon of August twentieth at the Commercial Free Zone. Police told News Five that three Belizean and one Mexican passport were found by a tree located in bushes adjacent to the Mexico/Belize […]
And twenty-three year old Nigeymon Bevans Junior walked out of Magistrates’ Court a free man today after his case was struck out for keeping his ex-common-law wife under lock and key for three days. The reason for that move was because the case file was not available despite several requests for it by the prosecutor. […]
An eighteen year old girl has been fined three hundred dollars for her part in beating a woman and child. On August twelfth, a thirteen year old girl and her guardian, twenty-eight year old Michelle Johnson, reported that they were attacked by Nicole Ortiz, Ortiz’s sisters and her mother. The incident is said to have […]
Police say they will not press any charges against the three Taiwanese employees of North America Company in the Commercial Free Zone. That’s because their boss, Kevin Singh, who is in China, indicated to cops that he has no interest in pursuing the charges. The three employees: Kan Shi Kun, who is the store manager, […]
Robbers struck close to home this afternoon when they hit Price Premier Products just a few yards away from this station. According to reports to News Five, two assailants walked into the store pretending to be customers at around three o’clock today. Two employees, sixty-two year old Gilda Schmidt and fifty-eight year old Robert Simplis […]
The Public Utilities Commission met throughout the day in Belize City over a new development in which Belize Electricity Limited is not connecting new customers to their grid, whether of a residential or business nature. Just before news time the P.U.C. issued a lengthy statement challenging B.E.L. and as it often is in these instances, […]
You would have to be on another planet not to know that the cookie has crumbled fast between the Belize City Mayor Zenaida Moya and the Councillors and that the mess at City Hall is not only political but financial. Last night the CITCO administration was pulled into the fray in the internal power play […]
And in the internal squabbling in the ranks of the U.D.P., latest word to News Five this evening is that Senator and talk show host, Juliet Thimbriel, has resigned her appointment as Senator. The talk show co-host of the U.D.P. morning show called “Fus Ting da Mawnin”, was apparently dressed down by the leadership for […]
Last night we told of an ongoing dispute between Government and the Belize National Teachers Union over the transfer of teachers and the cancellation of various appointments to School Boards. We were unable to reach the Minister of Education Patrick Faber all day yesterday since he was in cabinet where the issue was ventilated. And […]
Since its establishment, the Belize Red Cross has been constant in assisting thousands of residents during times of disasters. But today the organisation launched an initiative in which they are seeking to increase the ability of three northern villages to respond to natural disasters and mitigate the threats. The Community Risk Reduction project is a […]
The September Celebrations officially kicks off this Friday under the theme: “Belizeans learning our past, impacting our present, embracing our future.” One of those events on schedule is the prestigious Queen of the Bay pageant this coming Saturday and this time the contestants will be on stage. Here’s a glimpse of the beauties vying for […]
