Construction got underway earlier today to repair a tomb that was destroyed over the Easter weekend at the Lord’s Ridge Cemetery. While no one was seriously injured when a vehicle collided into the grave, the burial chamber on the edge of the George Price Highway was completely destroyed. It is not the first time that […]
A farmer in Armenia lost his life when he was struck by lightning last Friday. Thirty-nine-year-old Carlos Alvarado was tending to some crops along with his brother when a storm suddenly appeared. Carlos and his brother ran for cover under some cohune palms, but the bolt of lightning struck and killed him almost immediately. Reporter […]
The morgue at the Southern Regional Hospital has been closed down and it will remain that way for possibly another week or two. It comes on the heels of another complaint about the nonfunctional morgue. In the most recent incident, Evan Andrewin reported that his wife died last week and he wasn’t able to store […]
A new date of May eighth, 2019 has been set for the I.C.J. referendum to be held. It succeeds the signing into law of the Belize Territorial Dispute Referendum Act earlier this week, following the introduction and passage of that piece of legislation in the House of Representatives last Friday. A writ of referendum dated […]
A Belize City man is hospitalized after he was stabbed in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Police say that forty-one-year-old Delbert Quilter was socializing when he got into an argument with another man. It was during that misunderstanding that Quilter was stabbed in the chest. Cops say they don’t know much about what led […]
A Corozal businessman is in a critical condition after he was badly beaten inside his home. Police say that they don’t have much details about what happened but cops in Corozal responded to the scene sometime around eight this morning. It was there that they found the owner of Maya World Guest House suffering from […]
There was a shooting on Wednesday night in Belize City. Police say that sometime after ten a man was shot inside his yard – that shot, according to police, was fired by someone the victim is familiar with. Police say they are now looking for one suspect. Here’s more from Inspector Wilfredo Ferrufino. Insp. […]
Police say a man was shot and robbed over a money dispute on Tuesday evening in Ladyville. Twenty-six-year-old Harry Montero was shot in the leg after he tried to repay some money that he owed to a man identified as Aaron Flowers. Montero reported that this led to a dispute during which Flowers shot him […]
Earlier this week, we told you about Oswald Warrior who succumbed to gunshot injuries a week after he was shot. Warrior was walking along Sarstoon Street in Belize City when a man shot him the face. Since that shooting, the Corozal resident had been in the hospital in a critical condition until he passed away […]
Three separate businesses in the Cayo District were robbed this week. On Monday night sometime around eight, cops responded to an armed robbery in Valley of Peace Village where three armed men held up a grocery store owner. The men assaulted the owner and got away with cash and a licensed pistol. Police say that […]
Two wooden houses were totally destroyed by a raging fire on Tuesday night. Seven persons were displaced and today they are picking up the pieces to rebuild. The fire started at about ten-thirty inside a three-bedroom structure which housed five family members, including a baby of the Cadle family of Rose Lane, Belize City. It […]
The Rose Lane fire brings into sharp focus the electrical risks that homeowners take when they provide an ‘illegal drop’ of electricity to adjacent properties. For some time now, the National Fire Service, as well as Belize Electricity Limited, has been warning residents of the hazards of illegal wirings at their homes. This fire, although […]
Station Officer Smith also provided safety tips as Belizeans prepare for the extended Easter weekend. But these can be practiced anytime whenever a person leaves his or her house unattended. Smith says that there are basic precautionary measures that can be undertaken to avoid disasters. Orin Smith, Station Officer, National Fire Service “A number […]
But how ready is the National Fire Service to respond to fires should they erupt over the holidays? Smith says that given the limited resources they have, they are as ready as they can be. Orin Smith, Station Officer, National Fire Service “We are always staffed and I believe we know fully well the […]
Robbers were on the loose on Tuesday in Cayo targeting business establishments. Just before closing on Tuesday night, the Lighthouse Restaurant on Border Road was hit by a duo of thieves. The proprietor of the restaurant, thirty-eight-year-old Yinghua Zheng told police that two men carrying what he believes to be a firearm, went inside his […]
There are separate shooting incidents to report on from the Stann Creek District tonight. Around five p.m. on Tuesday evening, a Belizean fisherman of Hope Creek Village was shot in the right leg by an individual whom he owed money. According to twenty-one-year-old Harry Stanley Montero, he handed over an amount of cash to Aaron […]
The plight of Jerrylyn Bruce, registering officer at the Elections and Boundaries Department, was brought up in the Senate on Monday. A string of emails details the back and forth between the registering officer and Chief Elections Officer Josephine Tamai. Tamai has denied all allegations of partisan politics involved on the case of the Bradley […]
Senior custom officer Elmer Torres is in hot water tonight and under investigation after a video released on social media earlier today went viral. The recording, which News Five understands was done over a year ago, purports to show the ill-treatment of an American expatriate at the hands of the customs official in Punta Gorda. […]
So how did a customs officer get involved in an issue that appears to be an immigration offense? Those details will be made clear following a pending investigation. Similarly, why would a customs officer threaten to expel anyone for illegal entry? Isn’t that the jurisdiction of the Immigration and Nationality Department? News Five also contacted […]
The Supreme Court was the scene of a mid-morning execution back in June 2010 when well-known gang boss Andre Trapp was executed as he left the courthouse. Since then, there has been a twenty-four presence of security personnel stationed at the adjacent buildings. But on Monday evening, another daring incident took place in plain view […]
The proprietor of a grocery store in Valley of Peace, Cayo was left traumatized after he came under attack from three armed robbers. At around four o’clock on Monday evening, while Tan Jian Pan, was at Pan Store, a trio of robbers burst into the grocery store and in the blink of an eye, stole […]
Twenty-two-year-old Oswald Warrior of Carmelita Village has succumbed to gunshot injuries eleven days after he was shot in Belize City. Police reported that Warrior died just after one this afternoon. We reported that the Orange Walk man was walking on Sarstoon Street in Belize City on April fifth sometime after seven o’clock when he was […]
Fuel prices will go up for a second time in one week. Today, the Ministry of Finance announced that at midnight, the pump price for premium gasoline will increase by forty cents taking the cost up to a whopping eleven dollars and thirty cents per gallon. Government repeats the reason for the increase as a […]
Government is inching closer and closer to setting a new date for a referendum. At news time, there is word that having been passed in the House of Representative and Senate, the Belize Territorial Dispute Referendum Bill 2019 has landed on the desk of the Governor General and has received his assent. The Prime Minister […]
At around ten-thirty this morning, tensions were running high as members of the Guatemalan Armed Forces attempted to block the path of members of the Belize Coast Guard. Video footage of the event captured by Wil Maheia of the Belize Territorial Volunteers clearly shows three Guatemalan gunboats in Belizean waters. Late this evening, the Ministry […]
