The nation’s eighty-fourth murder occurred on Wednesday evening in Belize City when a brazen gunman drove a vehicle to a busy construction site and opened fire at the owner. The businessman died on the spot and the slaying has left police clueless. While no one except for police was willing to talk on camera out […]
Police are still investigating the murder of Jason Coombs and now have daylight jacking to solve. Sometime after four this evening, the Belize Marketing Board, which is downstairs of the Education Department and next door to the Conscious Youth Development Program (C.Y.D.P.) was robbed. Police arrived at the scene even before the armored vehicle that […]
If you are running out of butane gas, you have a few hours left before the prices go up well above the hundred dollar mark for the hundred pound cylinder. With effect from Friday, the prices for the cooking gas will go up considerable by seven dollars. At the beginning of the year, consumers were […]
In October of this year, the Board of Trustees of the University of Belize reported that a draft audit of the university’s finances revealed that millions of dollars were not reported in the financial statements. This led to a decision to freeze the salary increments of the faculty and staff and to propose a tuition […]
Two years ago News Five ran the story of Gesenia Cook, a Belizean mother who was pleading for information on the whereabouts of her then five year old daughter Zoe Kathryn. Zoe’s father, U.S. citizen Donald Richard Cook, had taken the girl to the United States without the consent of his wife. Gesenia did not […]
Earlier in the newscast, we reported on the robbery at the Marketing Board. That took place today, but the owners of a fried chicken shop on Mahogany Street were the latest victim of an invasion. After ten-thirty Wednesday night, Thet Niang Hung and his wife, both Burmese nationals, closed the shop known as “Favorite.” While […]
Stackle Monsanto has a long list of court appearances on his charge sheet. And he isn’t a stranger to the police or to jail. Police say Monsanto was wanted since October nineteenth for a robbery. Today, the thirty-two year old unemployed resident of ten Unity Street in the Port Loyola Area was arraigned on three […]
Emotions were running high in the village of Crooked Tree today after a single mother was evicted from her home. That’s only a part of the story because it involves a parcel of land that was purchased back in 1937 by Jossiah Adolphus from Ann Henrietta Gillett. Delahnie Bain headed to Crooked Tree where she […]
On Wednesday, the trial of a city man accused of setting his neighbor’s van on fire started in the Supreme Court before Justice Michelle Arana. Both sides closed their arguments today and will address the jury on Friday. The accused arsonist is Michael Quan, a resident of Bachelor’s Avenue who allegedly set Kingsley Estelle’s 1995 […]
It happens every now and then that police officers are called out to restore law and order when a person with mental challenges is behaving disorderly. But officers have often times been accused of not knowing how to handle these situations. So today, the Belize Police Department and the Ministry of Health conducted training for […]
The police statistics on the crime for October showed lesser reported activity by the criminals compared to the previous month. A small reprieve, as criminals continue on the prowl and the community is gripped by fear. Various youth support organizations including BAPSS, C.Y.D.P., Y.E.S. and Youth For the Future are carrying out events to stop […]
Maintaining a balanced diet is good for your overall health. It is especially good for your teeth. In this edition, Healthy Living looks at how the food that you eat can affect the state of your teeth. Marleni Cuellar, Reporting A nutritional diet is important in keeping our bodies healthy but it’s also important in […]
