The National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO) says it is actively responding to wildfires affecting San Pedro Columbia and nearby communities in the Toledo District. The Toledo District Emergency Operations Centre was activated last Thursday. According to NEMO, an emergency meeting included representatives from the Fire Department,
Iran’s president and foreign minister have died in a helicopter crash during a period of heightened tensions in the Middle East. President Ebrahim Raisi and the foreign minister were found dead on Monday, hours after their helicopter went down in dense fog, leaving Iran without two
Opposition Leader, Moses "Shyne" Barrow says he vehemently denounces the "repugnant behavior of Sean Diddy Combs captured on the video in which he is seen physically assaulting Mrs Cassie Ventura-Fine." CNN aired security video that showed him beating singer Cassie in a Los Angeles hotel hallway in 2016. Diddy took to social media on Sunday
His name is Kareem Emory Hamilton and he has been charged with kidnapping. This is after a Belize City woman, Shandy Pech, reported to police that her five-year-old daughter was taken by a man. It happened on Thursday. Wrapping herself in a towel, Pech ran up
A woman is happy that she was able to act swiftly to save her child from what would have likely been a traumatic experience on Thursday. Shandy Pech told News Five today that she was just about to take a shower when another child alerted
An educator in the south has been arrested and charged for the rape of a student who attends the same primary school where he teaches. The incident happened in Aguacate Village, Toledo District on two occasions in the same week. The teacher has been arraigned
And while the law will deal with the teacher criminally, the school management of Aguacate R.C Primary School is also expected to take disciplinary action against him. Under the education rules, teachers who engage in any activity that brings the teaching profession into disrepute, whether
Convicted prisoner, fifty-one-year-old Albert Jones Senior is tonight at home with his family after six years on remand for murder. Jones pleaded guilty to manslaughter for the chopping death of Alaine Garcia whose body was never found. Jones suffers from mental illness and alcoholism. Today,
In early March, the High Court found fifty-four-year-old attorney, Oscar Selgado guilty of abetment to commit murder. Today, Selgado was back in court along with his attorney Arthur Saldivar for the continuation of his sentence mitigation hearing. Nine-character witnesses have been called over the last
Attorney Arthur Saldivar is fighting for a non-custodial sentence for his client Oscar Selgado. Over the last two hearings, Selgado’s diabetic condition has been a focal point of the court conversations. Reports are that his health has deteriorated while inside the Belize Central Prison, in
