The Police Department is mourning the loss of one of their own. Jealousy is believed to have led to the murder of the well-known police officer attached to the Belmopan Precinct. It happened on Tuesday night in Roaring Creek when Constable Bertchel Ramirez had gone to see his girlfriend; a routine visit that was apparently […]
The following story may be a familiar one, and indeed there are quite a few cases of alleged police brutality or abuse of police authority brought in to our studios. We don’t air them all, for one reason or the other, but this one got our attention because the allegation is outrageous and also because […]
Reynaldo Verde, a senior employee of the General Sales Tax Department, will spend time behind bars after he was remanded to the Belize Central Prison this morning. Verde was charged in the San Pedro Magistrate’s Court with dangerous harm for an incident which occurred at the Holiday Hotel on Easter Sunday. Reports are that the […]
The Belize Central Prison Employees Coalition is a group which was allegedly formed, as its slogan states, to serve the employees of the Belize Central Prison. And they claim that they need to do that because the employees are being abused by the private management of Kolbe which they say is quote, “engaging in rampant […]
Late Tuesday evening while police were on patrol on the Benque Viejo Road, they intercepted a vehicle travelling from Benque Viejo to San Ignacio. The vehicle was driven at the time by forty-one year old Floyd Markwell Anthony of Esperanza Village; there were two passengers, forty year old Francis Kerr and thirty-six year old Marlon […]
One man who is impressed with the direction in which sports has been heading under his watch is Minister of State Herman Longsworth. During his address at the consultations on the National Sports Sector Strategy earlier today, Longsworth acknowledged the work of the Football Federation of Belize under its current administration, as well as the […]
Two weeks ago former Vice President of the Belize Amateur Athletics Association Deon Sutherland expressed concerns about the progress of the Marion Jones Sporting Complex, more specifically the accessibility of the newly built race track to young athletes. With the upcoming CARIFTA Games drawing nearer, runners have been requesting usage of the facility to prepare […]
Wil Maheia and his Belize Territorial Volunteers will be travelling to the border on Saturday and Sunday and say they intend to clear several miles of it. The group intends to start in Dolores, and plan to chop right along the border markers. Today News Five spoke to Maheia who told us that they have […]
Government says that oil has been found by Maranco Energy Belize Limited at their South Canal Bank number one exploration well in the Orange Walk District. Marranco’s concession includes more than three hundred and eighty-seven thousand acres in the Orange Walk District. Program for Belize assures the public that drilling is not taking place within […]
