In the Court of Appeal today, government’s attorney, Senior Counsel Lisa Shoman and the Opposition’s lead lawyer, Senior Counsel Eamon Courtenay were back before the justices. They appeared for a case management session relating to the government’s appeal to the granting of the I.C.J. injunction by Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin. The Opposition has launched a […]
News Five has been informed that on the advice of his attorney, an Asian businessman turned himself over to police for the San Pedro murder of Brandon Humes which occurred on Thursday morning in the island town. Humes was shot multiple times to the body as he sat on a sofa inside an apartment on […]
There were three murders between Wednesday night and Thursday morning of this week. The first occurred in the south, in the village of Steadfast, at mile sixteen on the Hummingbird Highway. Jose Alberto Requeña was stabbed multiple times and died in a drain as he headed to his house in the village. Police were able […]
Earlier in the newscast, we showed students in southern Belize as they walked for miles to get to P.S.E. exam centres. In the city, the picture was very different – parents and family members accompanied the young students to the different high schools designated for the exams. So while the students in Machakilha were hopeful, […]
There were three murders in less than twenty-four hours in Belize City, Stann Creek and San Pedro. The latest murder was on the island, but the victim is from south-side Belize City where police are on alert in the event that the killing may result in retaliation. It is not clear when Brandon Humes went […]
Late this evening, the mother of Brandon Humes, Maria Hamilton, spoke to the media at their Belize City home. Hamilton shared what she knows so far about her son’s murder. According to Hamilton, she received the terrible news via phone. Voice of: Maria Hamilton, Mother of Brandon Humes “I got a call this morning […]
In Belize City, a B.D.F. volunteer came under attack on Wednesday night and investigators are looking for a motive. Twenty-seven-year-old Hamed Guzman left his house on Lopez Street in the Saint Martin de Porres area and soon after he was a dead man. A gunman opened fire on the B.D.F. volunteer hitting him multiple times […]
Another murder during the Labour Day holiday occurred in the south. In this case, police say that they have the murder weapon as well as the suspect in custody at the Dangriga Police station and charges will soon be levied. Assistant Commissioner of Police Joseph Myvett says that officers responded to Stann Creek Valley Road […]
There is a frightening ordeal to report on tonight involving the kidnapping of a pair of women from Belize City. Cinthia ‘Catherine’ Ulloa and Kristie Mejia were hanging out near Mejia’s house at mile one and a half on the George Price Highway when they were ambushed by three men, one wielding a gun. They […]
Six women police officers, one who is a senior member of the Belize Police Department, have been accused of willfully disobeying a lawful command from Commissioner of Police Chester Williams. The women were instructed to remove their dreadlocks hairstyles, which the department says violates Section seven of the Standing Orders. The women: Aleea Wade, Shantel […]
In the letter, Mendez tells Williams that it is widely known that dreadlocks are “deeply symbolic in our region and are often worn as expressions of black identity and solidarity against colonialism and oppression.” In fact, Mendez asserts that for some, the hairstyle is worn in adherence to the Rastafarian faith. According to Mendez, demanding […]
This morning an inmate at the Belize Central Prison was shot after scaling the perimeter fence of the prison in an attempt to escape. Nineteen-year-old Kevin Moore was on remand for aggravated assault and was housed in the Tango six area of the prison. The Punta Gorda resident was known to be suffering from a […]
There was an attempted murder by stabbing of a woman on Sunday night. The victim is twenty-nine-year-old Alba Chavez and the culprit is said to be her ex-common-law husband, Jose Bejerano, who is a Guatemalan national. Chavez was at Maya Star Restaurant and Bar in Belmopan when Bejerano approached her and stabbed her as many […]
The killing of Tyler Savery and his cousin Porshan Pipersburgh numbed the nation. The young primary school child was being taken for a smoothie when he was executed on Daly Street, Belize City on November eleventh 2016. The individual who was charged for the double murder walked on Monday for lack of evidence in trial. […]
There is word tonight that U.D.P. Senator Aldo Salazar is in trouble with U.S. authorities. Last week, Salazar was part of a delegation to Taiwan which included the President of the Senate, Lee Mark Chang. Salazar was returning to Belize via Houston over the weekend when he was pulled aside by U.S. authorities and questioned […]
The Sarstoon remains a hotspot in southern Belize because the Guatemalan Armed Forces has consistently behaved as if the entire island is under their control. Now, today is the anniversary of the 1859 Treaty which is very significant in the resolution of the Guatemalan claim to Belizean territory. The signing of the treaty took place […]
The controversial, but historic I.C.J. referendum is one week away and across the country the gears of the Elections and Boundaries machinery are already in motion with final preparations for the national vote. This evening, Chief Elections Officer Josephine Tamai sat down with the media to discuss a number of public concerns related to the […]
While voting will be take place at voting centres in the thirty-one constituencies, Chief Elections Officer Josephine Tamai reiterates that the results will not reflect votes by electoral district. Instead, the Elections and Boundaries Department will provide information by constituency on the total number of votes cast. Tamai also says that the total number of […]
Three cases relating to the referendum have been unsuccessful for the government, but tonight, the referendum proceeds. The legalities started on April first when the Chief Justice ordered an interim injunction on the then April tenth referendum. That decision was taken to the Court of Appeal by the government, but the court said it did […]
Both parties are expected back before the Chief Justice until the end of June on the substantive matter which is on the legality of the Compromis. As you know, the claimants, the People’s United Party, have maintained that the 2008 Special Agreement is unconstitutional and have filed a cross-appeal in the Court of Appeal which […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow has made it quite clear that the I.C.J. referendum will be held on May eighth. Now, on April twenty-sixth, the Elections and Boundaries Department notified the public that the cut-off date for registration as electors for persons wishing to vote was moved to April tenth, 2019. So if you did not […]
On Friday, the Ministry of National Security rejected claims made by Wil Maheia of the Belize Territorial Volunteers that three Guatemalan gunboats blocked citizens of Belize from entering the Sarstoon and stopped them at the mouth of the river. Maheia claimed the Coastguard and the B.D.F. were not at the Forward Operating Base, but the […]
A total of four persons perished in traffic fatalities over the weekend. In the first incident, three friends tragically lost their lives in the Orange Walk District when they drove off a bridge along the San Antonio Road and plunged into the Rio Hondo. The men had left Belize City on Saturday evening without informing […]
The fourth fatality occurred in Blue Creek Village, Orange Walk. On Sunday morning, just before six o’clock, Henrich Reimer lost control of his vehicle and overturned several times on the road. The Toyota pickup came to a stop with its four wheels in the air inside a canal on the side of the road. The […]
Twenty-seven-year-old Hakeem Arzu, a Belizean who relocated to Mexico with his wife, was one of four men who were tortured and killed in Playa del Carmen over the weekend. Arzu, who is originally from Punta Gorda, reportedly left home on Friday night and was not seen or heard from until the discovery of the bullet […]
