Police made a sensational announcement today with the arrest of a nineteen year old Belize City man ten days after a hand grenade was hurled at a crowd during the last leg of the Carnival Road March on Princess Margaret Drive on September sixth. Richard Flores, of Buttonwood Bay, appeared in court twice today but […]
And tonight there is more bad news resulting from the escalating street violence involving gangs that has caught the attention of the foreign press and is landing Belize a black eye. An investigative documentary is circulating on the internet that portrays Belize as one of the world’s most dangerous countries where gangs rule. The piece, […]
Also in Magistrates’ Court, charges against Mark Vernon, a nineteen year old stevedore, were struck out today. Vernon was charged with Attempted Murder, Dangerous Harm and Use of Deadly Means of Harm in connection with a shooting between nine-thirty and ten o’clock on the night of July tenth. Vernon was freed of the charges because […]
Police have two persons in custody and are looking for three others in connection with an alleged kidnapping. According to thirty-nine year old taxi driver, Marcos Alvarez Campos, around five Monday morning a young lady and a man stopped him on Queen Victoria Avenue in Orange Walk Town and asked to be taken to Asuncion […]
We have reported various cases of rape in the same neighborhood in Belize City in the past few weeks and tonight there is a new case to add to the growing list. A twenty-six year old woman reports that at two-thirty this morning while she was at the corner of Iguana and Pelican Street Extension […]
In a positive effort to occupy the youths and keep them away from crime, the Conscious Youth Development Programme and the Community Policing Unit teamed up with the Yabra Community Policing Centre to hold the first in a series of youth sessions. Today’s event had the participation of teenage girls and primary school boys from […]
With the spiraling cost of living in basic food items, there is some good news for consumers countrywide as today government announced that the price of butane gas has been reduced by three dollars. The new approved maximum retail price for a hundred pound cylinder in Corozal and Belize is one hundred and twenty-four dollars, […]
Zee Edgell is one of Belize’s most successful writers, having gained international recognition with her first novel Beka Lamb. And this October, Edgell’s third book, the Festival of San Joaquin will be re-launched. The book was first published eleven years ago and tells the story of a Belizean woman convicted of manslaughter. According to Edgell, […]
Cubola productions is known for a long list of local publications and today the publishing company released a new series of books for social studies and literature, targeting primary and high school students. The new books released are volumes one and two of ‘The Alchemy of Words: An Anthology of Belizean Literature for Secondary Schools […]
Meet Eileen Agusta of Belize City, the newest centenarian on the block. And in News’ Five’s tradition we stopped in at her home on Haynes Street in Belize City to catch up with her as she enters a century plus of life … her one hundred and first birthday. Eileen was flanked by her favorite […]
