Four persons were charged with drug offenses after the K9 dog, Terry, sniffed out the location of hidden cocaine and crack cocaine at an Orange Walk residence. Officers descended at a residence along Liberty Avenue where Amin Mendez, Jessica Melendez, Amini Mendez, and Henry Nunez. Police say that Terry led them to a small fuse […]
Sixty-one thousand, five hundred and eleven COVID-19 tests have been conducted as of today. Eleven thousand, one hundred and fifty-two cases have been confirmed with two hundred and sixty-seven deaths, this includes the additional seven deaths which were reported today. Five hundred and forty-one cases remain active. The Ministry of Health and Wellness has ramped […]
Former Minister of Works Rene Montero may be facing criminal charges in the days ahead. The three-time U.D.P. Cayo Central Area Representative is the subject of an ongoing investigation being carried out by the Ministry of Infrastructure Development and Housing. It is alleged that under his tenure as head of that government department, equipment, fuel […]
In investigating Montero’s dealings during his term of office, the Ministry of Infrastructure and Development has turned to the Attorney General, the Commissioner of Police, and the Integrity Commission to determine whether any legal action can be taken against him for misconduct. According to Minister Espat, no stone is being left unturned. Julius […]
If that wasn’t bad enough, Montero has found himself in yet another outrage, this one involving a starting gate used in horse racing activities. This morning, personnel from the Ministry of Infrastructure Development, accompanied by a team of police officers, retrieved the gate from a property which was said to be Montero’s farm. In a […]
Tonight, the family of Gregory Bowen is speaking out. Bowen is the thirty-nine-year-old man found dead in a cell block at the Queen Street Police Station on Monday morning. The police allege that Bowen hung himself with his pants, but tonight, his sister says that she doesn’t believe that is what happened. Catherine Bowen tells […]
While the Bowen family is questioning the police’s account of his death, they are angry that the police department denies knowing of his mental state. Catherine Bowen says that her brother has interfaced with the cops on multiple occasions over the years because of his mental condition. She says the cops had responded and provided […]
Police are still investigating Myron Itza’s death, the fourteen-year-old minor from San Jose Succotz who was discovered dead inside a bedroom on New Year’s Day. A post-mortem confirmed that the child died as a result of acute respiratory distress. When we reached out to the family today, they were understandably distraught. They are perplexed by […]
Police are also investigating another suspicious case in the west. In this case, it is the mysterious disappearance of an older man. It has been six days since Miguel Caceros has gone missing. Despite evidence to suggest that he was injured during an altercation with three other persons on his farm, the family is still […]
Belize Water Services Limited is the last of three government-owned utility companies to have named a new board of directors under the new People‘s United Party administration. The appointment of Cornelio Acosta, as chairman, and eight other members succeed the selections of former senator Mark Lizarraga and attorney Andrew Marshalleck as the presiding officers of […]
The COVID-19 outbreak at the Palm View Center has been contained. The Ministry of Health and Wellness confirmed on Tuesday that twenty-one residents and seven staff tested positive for the deadly virus. But according to acting Director of Health Services Doctor Melissa Diaz, the index patient has not been identified. She says that none of […]
Production within the sugar industry has been put on pause. That’s because on Monday stakeholders decided to suspend harvesting and delivery of sugar cane to the B.S.I. factory at Tower Hill. This inevitably pulls the plug on milling for the time being, as the delivery of cane has hit an all-time low due to recent […]
According to Osorio, during the first few days of the crop, minimal amounts of cane deliveries were made. He says that roughly eight thousand tons of cane have been burnt and will be delivered to the factory. Milling resumed at four o’clock and deliveries should be received up to two o’clock on Wednesday afternoon. From […]
The primary factors that have affected the delivery of cane to the factory include the recent weather, deteriorated sugar roads and low cane quality. For the factory to run efficiently farmers would have to deliver at least forty-eight thousand, seven hundred tons of cane. In the past eight days, however, only thirty-four thousand, six hundred […]
The hemp industry is back in the spotlight tonight, following a Cabinet decision on Monday to constitute an inter-ministerial taskforce to carefully go over the Misuse of Drugs Act. That committee will then make recommendations to amend the existing legislation in order to enable the proper development of the hemp industry. It will also establish […]
The House of Representatives meets for the first time this Friday since the inaugural opening of the thirteenth National Assembly on December eleventh. The order of business for the initial session will include the introduction of legislation to authorize the Central Bank of Belize to provide for emergency programs and facilities to assist during unusual […]
A new executive has been named for the Social Security Board, including an Investment Committee led by Chairman Reynaldo Magana. It’s the latest round of appointments to statutory bodies as the Briceño administration continues to take shape. Nine members, including Nigeli Sosa as chairperson, are sitting on S.S.B.’s board of directors. The other members are […]
Today, News Five’s reporter Duane Moody and cameraman Kenroy Michael travelled west to Benque Viejo del Carmen where, as the days go by, the Caceros family is fearing that the worst has happened to sixty-nine-year-old Miguel Caceros. It’s been five days since the elderly man was last seen alive. But was he killed during an […]
The Corea family from the Santiago Juan area of San Ignacio is also looking for its patriarch who has been missing since December twenty-eighth. Oscar Corea Senior left home on that day to socialize with friends and has not returned to work or home since; he didn’t carry a cell phone so there is no […]
He sat in the seat of power in the so-called hotbed of corruption for ten years, as the Commissioner of Lands and Surveys, but tonight Wilbert Vallejos finds himself in the proverbial hot seat. That’s because heavily armed members of the Mobile Interdiction Team descended on Vallejos’ residence in Patchakan Village, Corozal District earlier today. […]
Twenty-five-year-old Shane Flowers was the last murder victim for 2020. The Taylor’s Alley resident was dispatched in a hail of bullets on New Year’s Eve and a female companion with whom he was walking on West Street is hospitalized for gunshot injuries she sustained during the attack. Flowers is no stranger to the law and […]
The first murder for the New Year was recorded on the night of January first in Santa Cruz Village in southern Belize. The body of Placencia resident, Kelvin Lindo was discovered face down in the backyard of Santa Cruz villager, Honduran national Herminio Gutierrez Alvarez. Gutierrez reported to police that he was socializing with a […]
Four other persons lost their lives over the extended weekend. The first includes a fourteen-year-old boy whose body was discovered in a sitting position in a bedroom at the home of Jose Puc on the morning of January first in San Jose Succotz. On December thirty-first, the minor, Myron Shamir Itza complained to his mother […]
An investigation is underway in Belize City where a resident, who was detained by police, was discovered dead inside a holding cell at the precinct. Gregorio Bowen was taken into custody for an incident in which he reportedly wounded another person, but after two o’clock this morning he was found nude and hanging inside the […]
Two persons also died as a result of a collision on the Southern Highway between a motorcycle and a pickup truck around six p.m. on January second. Sixteen-year-old Edwin Marquez was riding a motorcycle on the highway when a Chevy Colorado pickup truck travelling in the opposite direction came into his path. The collision occurred […]
