Tyson Rodriguez was killed in Placencia on the twenty-second of November. At the onset, police issued a dubious bulletin saying that Rodriguez’s body was found floating in the water. This is after he had been handcuffed and placed in the pan of a police vehicle. Tonight, a high ranking police officer has been charged and […]
There is also a development in the case of another resident who was killed by the cops. Last Wednesday, a Ladyville resident was shot at about four o’clock in the afternoon. Police took twenty-four hours to confirm they had fired the deadly shot on Travis McKay. Police also claimed that McKay was shot following a […]
Audrey Matura-Shepherd is also representing the family of twelve year old Sabrina Almendarez. She is the young girl who died mysteriously. Her family told News Five on Monday that they were suspicious of her death because following a tetanus injection administered at her school in Independence, Sabrina became gravely ill and on the twenty-ninth of […]
On September seventh, Belmopan Police were called to a nightmarish scene in the village of Teakettle. In the trunk of a taxicab which had been parked on a deserted stretch of road, they found the charred remains of a human body. The taxi belonged to Daniel Aguirre, one of KTV Latino’s most memorable champions. A […]
The 2013 Corruption Perception Index is an annual measure of the apparent levels of public sector dishonesty in a hundred and seventy-seven countries and territories. The list scores each country on a scale from zero to a hundred, the former being highly corrupt and the latter very clean. Not surprisingly, two-thirds of all countries scored […]
We reported last week that single mother of two children, Sharie Muschamp, is back at her desk at International Business Companies Registry. Muschamp was on sick leave that ran into maternity leave when the registry was taken over by the government and she was not rehired. But when Muschamp returned to work, she was notified […]
World AIDS Day is celebrated on December first every year. That fell on a Sunday, so the US Embassy in Belize planned an internal event to commemorate it today. Staff members were treated to a display and education campaign within the Embassy, carried out by the Pan-American Social Marketing Organization, PASMO. It’s an important occasion […]
Dolphin Street resident, Alwin Gabb, who has been on remand for the past six years, was on trial for more than a week for murder. Today, he learned his fate in the Belize City Supreme Court of Justice Troadio John Gonzalez. Just after one o’clock, a jury of twelve stepped into the deliberating room to decide […]
Children with diverse abilities, as they are called, got a special tour of the Belize Zoo today. Even though they cannot see or hear, they captured the sounds of nature of the Zoo. The outing was held as part of the activities of World Disabilities Day. News Five’s Isani Cayetano was hand for the event. […]
Acclaimed Belizean novelist Zee Edgell, author of the perennial classic Beka Lamb, is back in the Jewel for the holidays. Her Christmas vacation, however, is not all rest and relaxation. The former professor in English will be participating in an upcoming event called Meet the Author, where book collectors and fans of Edgell’s literary works […]
Edgar Hill, like Richard Parker in the Life of Pi, is a problem cat. Prior to being held captive at the Belize Zoo, the jaguar roamed freely in the forest near Pine Hill, a Mennonite community in Toledo. What drove the big wildcat to terrorize its residents can be attributed to any number of reasons, […]
