The Chan family in San Narciso Village is tonight making final preparations to put to rest two of its most senior members. Married for more than fifty years, on Wednesday afternoon Audomaro and Ramona Chan were killed after a Freightliner truck crashed into them as they were crossing the Philip Goldson Highway in their white […]
Sixty-seven-year-old Frank Arnold is fighting for his life at the K.H.M.H., after he was stabbed multiple times by Ronald Flowers, who is known in the neighbourhood to be suffering from a mental health condition. The elderly man was exiting an unnamed alley off Neal’s Penn Road Extension in Belize City when he was attacked. Today, […]
Also in the courts today, PC Leon Bradley was freed from the charge of harm. This was after his estranged girlfriend twenty-year-old Ashley Pate told the court that she does not want to proceed with legal actions against the twenty-four-year-old police officer. In April, PC Bradley was arraigned before Magistrate Emmerson Banner after he was […]
Who wants Guatemalan national Edin Garcia Perez dead and why, is still up in the air tonight as police officers continue to investigate a shooting incident that occurred on Tuesday night Armenia Village, Cayo. Perez remains hospitalized after he was shot multiple times by a gunman. Around eight-thirty p.m., four persons arrived at Perez’s home […]
Earlier this week, we reported on a shooting incident in Placencia in which Francis Eiley was shot in the leg during an altercation with his neighbour. Initial reports were that the two had a dispute over land and it came to a head on Monday night in the village. Today, police confirmed that Terrence Lopez […]
On Wednesday night, we showed you surveillance footage that captured the armed robbery of a store on Zericote Street, in the Louisiana area of Orange Walk Town. Just after seven p.m. on Tuesday night, a pair of thieves targeted Sun Luck Store and rode off with nine hundred dollars, but not before pistol whipping the […]
Meanwhile, in the south, police have detained one of three persons reportedly involved in an armed robbery. Also on Tuesday, Punta Gorda Police responded to a report of a robbery at the Cattle Landing Palace in Cattle Landing. The thieves, who wielded firearms, stole an undisclosed amount of money before firing a single shot inside […]
The 2019 Atlantic Hurricane Season begins on Saturday and for the next six months the City Emergency Management Organization will remain on standby should a storm head towards the Old Capital. This morning, the Belize City Council officially opened the hurricane season with a press conference during which the public was updated on the existing […]
Is central government playing party politics with a donation of exercise equipment gifted by the Taiwanese Embassy earlier this week? According to Belize City Mayor Bernard Wagner, the mayors of three municipalities controlled by the People’s United Party were intentionally left out of the distribution of the equipment, despite the Mayors Association having signed on […]
The Ministry of Health is warning the public to be cautious of medicines which are not officially recognized and registered by the ministry. Several brands and types of these medicines which are being sold to the public pose a health risk. In a press statement, the ministry says that two recent inspections resulted in the […]
Today, a group of police officers was awarded for bravery during two crimes that occurred in the month of May. The ComPol’s Outstanding Officers Award Ceremony was held at the Queen Street Police Station and focused on the exemplary work of the officers involved in the recent foiled robbery at A&R last Saturday and the […]
Saint John Vianney Catholic School on Faber’s Road was showered with gifts courtesy of the Sunrise Rotary Club of Belize. Today, the students, faculty and staff were officially given the keys to a newly renovated restroom facility for the middle division students as well as fourteen laptops to add to its computer room. News Five’s […]
The Ministry of Education and RESTORE Belize have concluded a series of roundtable discussions to share new ideas and methods in the education response to citizen security. The goal was sensitize stakeholders on the implementation of school-based responses to citizen security using the principles of Quality Child Friendly Schools. It also highlighted successes in the […]
Vice Principal Georgia Griffith, of Maud Williams High School, says that with the introduction of the pilot project there has been vast improvement in the relationship between students and teachers. Georgia Griffith, Vice Principal, Maud Williams High School “One of the things I feel that the benefits have come more to the teachers and […]
Last week, thousands of Belizeans participated in the ten mile cancer walk coordinated by the Belize Cancer Society. The activity had multiple purposes, including spreading awareness about the prevalence of cancer in Belize and encouraging a healthier lifestyle. Reducing the incidences of cancers in Belize also includes getting screened for the more prevalent form of […]
