A machete-wielding suspect was captured on Wednesday evening after it is alleged that he had dealt a fatal blow to the back of his uncle’s head in El Progresso Village, Cayo District. Twenty-five-year-old Bartimeus Tesecum remains in police custody after a deadly attack on forty-two-year-old Israel Tesecum on Tuesday. In the wake of the incident, […]
Great Belize Production’s News Five received multiple awards on Tuesday night during the forty-ninth annual Caribbean Broadcasting Union’s Annual General Meeting which was held in Jamaica. This company earned top honors in nine of twelve television categories. Our station received eleven distinctions for the excellent work by our news and production teams. Stephanie Daniels and […]
A man died last night following a chopping incident on Tuesday morning. The victim has been identified as forty-two-year-old Israel Tesecum of the Seven Miles El Progresso community in the Cayo District. Eyewitnesses told News Five that Tesecum was attacked by his nephew, twenty-four-year-old Bartimeus Tesecum who is now on the run. Israel was chopped […]
Attorney Arthur Saldviar has launched a second lawsuit against the People’s United Party. Saldivar’s application to contest the P.U.P.’s Belmopan Convention was turned down twice. In the first instance, his application was not accepted by the Vetting Committee because he was on a two-year suspension. Saldivar filed an application for an interim injunction to halt […]
The Organization of American States was established in 1948, for the purposes of regional solidarity and cooperation among the thirty-five countries that make up its membership. The international union is commemorating its seventieth anniversary this year and on the local front, hosted a ceremony today in recognition of that achievement. This morning at the Radisson, […]
Throughout the programme there were testimonials of sorts on the O.A.S.’ contribution to the development of Belize, in areas including human development and the justice system. Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin, in his remarks, touched on an initiative to tackle the issue of backsliding in drug addiction. The O.A.S. was crucial to getting that project off […]
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen arrives in Belize on Thursday afternoon on an official visit of the country. The seventh president of the Republic of China is visiting the Jewel for the first time since taking office in May 2016. While in Belize, the president will have a packed itinerary which commences with her arrival at […]
The official visit of the Taiwanese head of state is a brief one during which high-level meetings will be held with senior members of the Barrow administration. But is Belize to expect any new initiatives to come out of bilateral talks with Taiwan? That’s what we asked C.E.O. Pat Andrews this morning. Patrick Andrews, […]
The spirit of the annual September Celebrations has been dampened somewhat with a dismal announcement coming out of City Hall this evening. A press release issued by the Belize City Council informs that the Municipal Fair which succeeds the Citizens’ Parade on the Tenth of September has been canceled. That’s because, according to CitCo, the […]
In speaking with Deputy Prime Minister Patrick Faber this morning, News Five was made to understand that the overall budget for this year’s festivities has taken a hit, Belize City not being the only municipality that will be affected. The cutback, says the Chair of the National Celebrations Commission, is due in part to a […]
A former councilor tells News Five that the yearly subsidy is approximately eighty thousand dollars. Twenty percent less is roughly sixty-four thousand dollars. That individual, along with Deputy Prime Minister Faber, agrees that the sum is still workable, considering the fact that other revenue generating activities can be held on the day that would help […]
There are additional details coming out of an investigation into missing heavy equipment that are the property of the Belize City Council. A bulldozer, as well as a flatbed trailer, has been recovered; however, other pieces of machinery are still unaccounted for. Deputy Mayor Oscar Arnold provided an update on the items earlier today. […]
In an interview last week, former Belize City Mayor Darrell Bradley confirmed to News Five that despite having made repeated requests about the missing equipment, the Caterpillar Bulldozer, the eighteen feet flatbed trailer, and the John Deer tractor were never delivered to the council. But the former councilor responsible for Works says otherwise. Dean Samuels, […]
We are seventeen days away from the culmination of the mass re-registration exercise. As of August eleventh, a total of ninety thousand, eight hundred and seventy-three applications have been received by the Election and Boundaries Department. Last week, nine thousand, three hundred and twenty applications were submitted. This demonstrates another decrease when compared to the […]
A five-year ban has been levied against twenty-seven-year-old football player, Darnel Mossiah for punching referee Yuri Daniels. The National Sports Council has condemned what it describes as a cowardly act committed by Mossiah against Daniels. The council says it condemns any act of violence towards any sports official and even more so, any acts of […]
It was a bloody weekend across the country, with four murders recorded in three districts. Two persons were killed in separate stabbing incidents in Belmopan, a man was bludgeoned to death with a crowbar in Hopkins and a fourth died at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital two months after he was shot in the face. […]
There were two murders in Belmopan on Saturday night. Both victims were stabbed to the neck and later succumbed at the Western Regional Hospital. The first fatal stabbing happened on Rose Garden Street at around seven o’clock. The victim is thirty-two year old Ronnie Daly. He was with some friends when he was approached by […]
A little less than five hours later, nineteen-year-old Franklin Tut became the second victim to be fatally stabbed in Belmopan on Saturday night. It happened sometime before midnight inside Mary’s bar in the Maya Mopan area. Tut ran inside the bar with the intention to flee from a person with whom he was arguing with […]
He was shot two months ago and ever since then, Eugene Henderson Junior has been fighting for his life. Henderson Junior was given a fifty percent chance of survival; he and his family kept that hope for two months, but on Friday, it fizzled out when the twenty-two-year-old died. News Five’s Andrea Polanco spoke with […]
There is an update to the murder of Richard Foster. The seventy-four-year-old British filmmaker, who made Belize his home forty years ago, was taken from his home at the Savannah Guest House off the George Price Highway last Tuesday and twenty-four-hours later, his body was found in the Rivera area of Belmopan. Foster had been […]
A man was knocked down and killed along the Philip Goldson Highway over the weekend. Police say it was a hit and run that claimed the life of Virgilio Mena on Sunday sometime around nine in the night. There are not many details about the deadly traffic accident, but police say they are following several […]
A police constable is facing criminal and disciplinary charges after he was found with a stash of contraband beers. Benque Viejo Police were conducting a vehicular checkpoint around five on Sunday evening when they stopped a vehicle driven by Godfrey Moreira. Inside the pickup, they found the uncustomed beverage. ACP Joseph Myvett told us more: […]
A mother of three from Punta Gorda, who moved to the city a year ago, was senselessly killed on Thursday night. The suspect is her babies’ daddy. Roxanna Pop was at a popular store on Central American Boulevard when she was stabbed three times to the abdomen. The injuries lead to her quick demise at […]
The spate of armed robberies continued this afternoon in the city when two men held up two gas pump attendants at PUMA Gas Station on the Philip Goldson Highway. Security footage shows the duo, one armed with a handgun, approaching the unsuspecting attendants and robbing them of an undisclosed amount of cash. This latest, brazen, […]
There was another robbery of a business house overnight in Corozal Town. Quality Poultry Product and Chicken Express was jacked sometime after five o’clock on Thursday evening when the store closed for business. The manager, Ingrid Vega, went back to work this morning at eight o’clock and discovered that thieves had gained access into the […]
