Early this morning, the body of forty-six year old Harris Gabourel was spotted on the old Northern Highway. Gabourel had been shot many times and the blood stains were still fresh on the road where his body was found. His grieving mother, a diabetic, says he was her caregiver. News Five’s Jose Sanchez reports on […]
The murder of twelve year old Janessa Jones continues to haunt the Ladyville community. The school girl left home after school to run an errand and from all accounts she never made it to the intended destination in the City. Her mother and stepfather have come under close scrutiny and today Arlene Bainton told News’s […]
A student was raped at a high school up north. The fifteen year old student from Corozal Town claims that after classes on Tuesday, eighteen year old Adolfo Manzanilla approached and forced her into the school’s male bathroom and sexually violated her. The young victim was taken to the Corozal Hospital. Manzanilla’s presence on the […]
The last hanging in Belize was back in 1985 when the noose was tightened on Kent Bowers for the murder of Robert Codd. With crime at an all time high many are calling for the return of the death penalty. But what do our viewers think about killing to defend life and property? On our […]
It’s the third anniversary of his death: but Andy Palacio continues to live in the hearts of Belizeans. At the Image Factory, Anthropologist Dr. Joseph Palacio, spoke of Andy, the perfectionist, whose untimely death came at the time when his music reached the pinnacle of success. The promotion and preservation of the Garifuna culture took […]
The Prime Minister’s recent statement on oil exploration in protected areas is causing a firestorm. Last week the PM said that while he had not decided on the future of offshore exploration, he supports drilling by Capital Energy in the Sarstoon Temash National Park. Earlier today, the Belize Coalition to Save Our Natural Heritage issued […]
Thirty-four year old Dennis Robateau, a laborer of San Andres Village in the Corozal District, walked out of the Supreme Court this morning a free man after being acquitted of the charge of Carnal Knowledge. On May sixteenth, 2008 a fourteen year old girl reported to Corozal Police that while visiting Robateau’s home he had […]
Tito “Pleck” Martinez was on the run since an attack on a couple in Punta Gorda on Sunday evening. Darlene Coleman and her common-law-husband, Jesus Bol, were surprised by Martinez, who reportedly stormed into their home, masked and armed with a nine millimeter pistol and a machete. Bol struggled with Martinez and was injured on […]
Hope is slipping away for a Belize City woman, whose son went missing twelve days ago. Violet Jones says her son, Matthew Gonzalez went fishing earlier this month and no one has seen him since then. Gonzalez lived in san Pedro and his neighbor first alerted her that he had not been seen since January […]
Esso New Road Service Station was jacked again on Monday by gun toting robbers. According to nineteen year old Bernardo Coc, a gas attendant, he and fellow co-worker Shane Alarcon were approached by two armed men at seven-thirty p.m. One of the assailants, who was dressed in a camouflage peak cap, a white T-shirt and […]
There’s another development in the two week old tendering dispute. There’s word that Carnival intends to cancel stops in Belize on Thursday and that Royal Caribbean along with Norwegian Cruise Lines are bound to follow suit. As it stands tonight, an agreement on the price to transport tourists from the cruise ships to the Fort […]
The family of William Portillo is safely home tonight. They got the keys to their new house this afternoon and moved in after it was handed over to them by Hand in Hand Ministries and Scotiabank. The house is only one component of the Building for Change project; the intention is to build families, an […]
