The body of a taxi driver was found inside a maroon taxi with license plate B-6419 on Guzman Crescent in the Belama Phase One Area of Belize City. The body had one bullet wound to the back of the head and according to one report from the scene, the vehicle was parked since two o’clock […]
It is five days since the property of La Cabana owner, Mike Menjivar, in Las Flores, Belmopan was raided by the Gang Suppression Unit. Menjivar, his pregnant wife, their children and maid were all in the house when the G.S.U. carried out the pre-dawn attack. The G.S.U. head, Marco Vidal, gave his account of the […]
On Tuesday night we told you about the murder of fifteen year old Albert Valdez of San Ignacio. Valdez was stabbed and cut to the throat on Sunday night between an alley off Eduardo Luna and Blue Bird Streets after he got into an argument with two friends. Valdez was able to make it to […]
When the gang suppression unit was established, it was to deal with the gang related rivalry in the Old Capital. So tonight’s question is: Do you think that the scope of jurisdiction of the Gang Suppression Unit should be extended beyond the gangs and the City limits? Send your comments and responses using your SMART […]
It was announced on Tuesday in London that Lord Michael Ashcroft has been named to a key government appointment. Lord Ashcroft will now serve as the lead adviser to the military review of British troops in Cyrus. According to the report, Liam Fox, the defense secretary said that Lord Ashcroft would serve as the unpaid […]
The Under Seventeen National Basketball team is in Costa Rica for the COCABA Under seventeen Championship Tournament which got underway on Tuesday. In the opening games, Belize walked over Nicaragua by thirty one points and tonight will be going for the win against El Salvador. Today we spoke with Head Coach Fred Garcia via phone […]
We have been reporting on the precarious situation in the bus industry. Last Friday, the Minister of Transport, Melvin Hulse agreed to suspend for twenty-one days, bus routes approved for the north but over the weekend. However, the suspension did not include the changes already made to Western routes and chaos prevailed at the bus […]
The dry spell that has caused forest fires in the Mountain Pine Ridge area in Cayo has also been the source of many fires throughout the country. In the Belize District, a bush fire got out of hand and gutted a building in Ladyville. The structure was a warehouse and no one was injured. But […]
A teacher from the Belmopan Comprehensive School was killed and six others were injured in a traffic accident on the Western Highway last March. One man was charged with Manslaughter and when a preliminary inquiry concluded late Tuesday evening, it was decided that Gordon Brooks will stand trial at the Supreme Court. On March, fifth […]
In Tuesday’s newscast we reported on eighty-one year old Dalton Franklin, a resident of Lord’s Bank, who disappeared underwater when the dory he went fishing in the day before suddenly capsized in the Belize River. Several search efforts were later attempted by local authorities near Burrell Boom Village in the wake of the incident and […]
Earlier this month, Mexican police in Chiapas busted two tractor-trailers crammed with hundreds of men and women, squatting on the floor or grasping ropes to avoid getting crushed. There were seven people for every square yard, a total of five hundred and thirteen migrants in suffocating temperatures of over one hundred and five degrees, marking […]
Aurelio Martinez was featured on Andy Palacio’s Watina Album as a soulful accompaniment. Aurelio and his StoneTree Record Label Producer Ivan Duran recently returned to Belize to hold two shows at the Institute of Creative Arts this weekend. The album and tour called Laru Beya is expected to have the Bliss filled for two nights […]
With temperatures in the nineties, News Five’s Andrea Polanco caught up today with an eager group of children at the annual Y swimming program. During the course, the children acquired valuable like skills and learned how to feel comfortable in the water. The training concluded today with a short and long distance competition and the […]
