Tonight, family, friends and the cycling community are grieving the immeasurable loss of young Ariel Rosado. The twenty-eight year old was killed in a terrible traffic accident just before midnight on Saturday. It happened at the roundabout near SMART when Rosado and his cycling friend Marlon Castillo were heading into the City. Rosado, a National […]
There was another traffic fatality involving a Toyota Tacoma pickup over the weekend. This time tragedy struck on the Hummingbird Highway, between miles forty-two and forty-three. On Sunday, Balmore Hernandez was driving from Armenia Village to Belmopan and was accompanied by nineteen year old Suzette Mossiah at around nine p.m. Hernandez lost control of the […]
A day before the traffic fatality involving Ariel Rosado, there was another loss of life. Dwight Warrior was executed while he was in a van along with two friends. One bullet caught him in the head. His family and friends are at a loss as to who would want the young man dead. News Five’s […]
Kenroy Young was once the UN Youth Ambassador, but he is also distinguishing himself as a career criminal. Since 2008, he has been in court on several theft related charges and currently has a case of forgery pending in the Supreme Court. Today, the twenty-two year old added one more offense to his growing rap […]
There are reports coming out of Cayo of a stabbing incident involving Nelson Pinelo. Police have not reported it in the daily blotter, but Pinelo is said to have been at a party when an uninvited guest crashed the gathering on the Bullet Tree Road. The party crasher left, but returned and allegedly stabbed Pinelo […]
Police Constable David Griffith, he’s the officer who was in the middle of a controversy following the death of Teddy Murillo a little over a year ago. Well on Friday night he was shot in the leg in Punta Gorda Town where he’s been stationed since the Murrillo killing. But tonight police say that investigations […]
The convention season is in full swing and on Sunday, five P.U.P. hopefuls brought out their supporters in the Cayo Central division. With four hundred and ninety-one votes, Collet Montejo was named the new P.U.P. Standard Bearer when the voting ended. It is his first foray into electoral politics and if you’re not from the […]
We’ve reported so far in this newscast on numerous crime-related incidents, but there’s one positive story tonight involving the state of food and nutrition in Belize. A Western School walked away today with ADM Belize Mills Secondary School Nutrition Quiz. Eight schools took part and today’s first, second and third place schools will now form […]
A forty-seven million dollar agreement was signed between the government and CISCO Construction Limited on February twenty-eighth for the paving of twenty-three miles of the Southern Highway, leading to the Guatemalan border. Funds for that project are expected to be provided through a loan from the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development, the OPEC Fund […]
Petén is immediately across the western border with Guatemala and many Belizeans frequently travel by road through the area either for business or vacation. Still yet, tourists to the Jewel, head across the border as part of their tour of the region’s Mayan archaeological sites. But there’s a worrisome report tonight which cautions travelers when […]
As we reported last week, though produced locally, sugar has become a scarce commodity on grocery store shelves across the country. However, the two weeks shortage cannot be attributed to a lack of production by Belize Sugar Industries Limited. Instead, the Tower Hill factory has stepped up production considerably, churning out an additional thousand tons […]
International Public Service Day will be observed on June twenty-third, but in anticipation, government departments mounted all day exhibitions at the Charles Bartlett Hyde compound in the City today. The target audience was made up of students who were eager to take in as much as possible on what public officers and departments are all […]
Good Evening, I am James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The 22nd Annual Women’s Cross Country Cycle Classic will be remembered for a very long time because it proved to be the most competitive female race in recent memory. At the heart of this story is Shalini Zabaneh who came in as defending champion […]
