The family of Jason Sutherland is still coming to terms with his murder which occurred last week Thursday. A gunman discharged as many as nine shots killing the twenty-nine-year-old Belize City resident instantly in a city neighbourhood that has become a hotbed for gangs. News Five’s Isani Cayetano reports. Voice of: Sister of Deceased […]
The question everybody is asking now is, what’s driving all these violent crimes, and what can police in Belize City do to contain it? A few weeks ago, the headlines concentrated on the rivalry between Mayflower Street “Ghost Town” and the ‘Back-A-Town’/P.I.V. gangs in Lake Independence. That area has now calmed down some, but further […]
Gun violence in Belize City appears to be on the rise once again, particularly in Port Loyola where two separate shooting incidents have been recorded within a twenty-four-hour period. On Thursday night, a killer stalked Jason Sutherland outside of his home and waited for an opportunity to open fire on him. When the moment presented […]
Twenty-one-year-old Kevaughan “Bigga” Staine remains on remand after he was convicted on a charge of attempted murder for trying to kill his own cousin, nineteen-year-old Taisha Staine. The near fatal-incident happened back in 2013 in Saint Martin De Porres area on December thirteenth, 2013. Taisha was walking to a nearby shop when she reportedly saw […]
A common theme of our reporting over the years on the Primary School Examination is that English, Social Studies and Science have all been less challenging to exam-takers than Mathematics, and specifically the Paper Two, problem-solving section. This year, that narrative has changed, if only slightly. Students speaking to News Five at the examination centers […]
In sporting news, the planned game one of the Premier League of Belize Championship Finals for this weekend has been postponed. General Secretary to the Premier League of Belize, Wilhelm Miguel, this afternoon confirmed to News Five that the game scheduled between Verdes Football Club and Belmopan Bandits Football Club is on hold, pending the […]
The Primary School Examinations are already half-marked – a computer scanner does the job for the multiple-choice English and Science papers, while selected teachers come in to mark the composition section. In past years, eyebrows have been raised over the content of the students’ work, from text message language to mature themes in writing. But […]
We have previously covered how students with “special needs” – the visually and hearing impaired; the handicapped; those with autism and developmental learning disabilities – have taken part in the Primary School Examination. There are more of those students this year than ever before, prompting the Ministry of Education to take special measures. Also noteworthy […]
What really are the importance and significance of the P.S.E. results? There is an annual debate about whether the teaching content gets through to the youths, and the majority of secondary schools place less emphasis on the scores than they do the regular Standard Five and Standard Six grades. But the P.S.E. as a mark […]
News of a shooting incident on Faber’s Road spread quickly across Belize City on Wednesday night, when it was discovered that three men had been injured while standing in front of a Chinese grocery store. Footage of the brazen attempt on the lives of Sylvester Bahadur, Michael and Emerson Requena and Tricia Benguche mushroomed even […]
Just a few minutes before the daring assault on a group of men at Win Kee Saloon, Belize City police were busy securing a crime scene on Cemetery Road. A preliminary investigation has revealed that Hugh Thomas was driving a vehicle in the area of Pregnant Alley when he was ambushed. A shooter reportedly emerged […]
The rash of shootings overnight was not limited to the Old Capital, as gun violence also found its way to Burrell Boom Village. This time, however, the intended target was a police officer who came under fire when a masked gunman struck the police station. PC Chris Staine narrowly avoided injury after being shot at […]
A criminal investigation into the Labour Day murder of Owen McFoy, in the Windmill community of Hattieville, continues tonight, despite police not being able to make an arrest. The thirty-year-old was in the company of family and friends, socializing and watching a basketball game on television outside in his neighbor’s yard when gunfire erupted. The […]
Thirty-five-year-old Ricardo Mendoza remains in police custody, following the vicious stabbing of his father-in-law in San Pedro on Monday afternoon. The pair had been known to have a troubled relationship as in-laws. Both men, along with a third, unnamed individual who left moments earlier, were socializing at the family home in the San Mateo community […]
Jason Williams, a resident of Dangriga, was lucky to have escaped with his life on Tuesday night when a gunman let loose a hail of bullets at him. He did not get away unscathed, but his injury is not considered life-threatening. Williams, according to police, was with two other men when they were attacked. During […]
It is now official: the People’s United Party is continuing with businessman Gilroy Usher, Senior, as standard bearer in the Port Loyola division. Usher had been facing a challenge from first-time Belize City Councilor Candice Pitts. But News Five has received a letter sent by the party’s secretary-general, Linsford Castillo, to Usher informing that the […]
A San Pedro resident remains in police custody tonight, pending charges for the murder of his father-in-law in the San Mateo area of the island town. Gaspar Vargas was ran though with a knife and disemboweled on Monday afternoon inside his house. He was rushed to the San Pedro Polyclinic but died shortly after, while […]
Shortly after nine p.m. on Tuesday, a succession of gunshots rang out in the Windmill neighborhood of Hattieville. When the shooting subsided, Owen McFoy would lay mortally wounded inside a yard where he was socializing with relatives. He was injured multiple times to the body during the attack. Despite an attempt to rush him to […]
There was also a non-fatal shooting on Labour Day in Dangriga. Around seven-thirty p.m., police responded to a report of gun violence on Isla Road and found thirty-two-year-old Jason Williams suffering from a gunshot wound to the left shoulder. The investigation has since revealed that Williams was socializing with some friends inside a yard when […]
Sixty-five-year-old Aurelio Gonzalez, known to all as ‘Lelo,’ remains in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital with injuries sustained in a late-night traffic accident on the Old Northern Highway between Maskall and his residence in St. Ann’s. While he is out of imminent danger, his family is tonight asking for the culprit to step forward and […]
As expected, Belize’s announcement on Monday of the date for our referendum on the taking of the unfounded Guatemalan claim to the International Court of Justice was good news for our western neighbors Guatemala. According to Prensa Libre, within a few minutes of the announcement, Guatemalan president Jimmy Morales had tweeted, “I appreciate the decision […]
But don’t expect Citizens Organized for Liberty through Action (COLA) to pop any champagne. It issued a strong blast at both sides via press release this morning, pointing out that the government has practiced appeasement all along, in respect of the Guatemala claim, instead of standing up for Belize. It argues that there is apparently […]
COLA also noted in its press release that of those Guatemalans interviewed by Belizean reporters, including our News Five team which covered the recent referendum, the majority only want their government to recognize the borders, as they did in 1991, and avoid conflict. So what does COLA propose? Brackett told us Belize needs to lean […]
Late this evening, the Government of Belize announced that it has set the date for Belize’s decision on taking the dispute arising from Guatemala’s claim to Belize’s land and insular territories, and to the maritime areas pertaining to them, to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for final settlement. That date is Wednesday, April tenth, […]
Former Belize City Mayor Darrell Bradley came out swinging today, after remaining quiet in the face of questionable city council spending that have since been exposed by his successor. Last Thursday, Mayor Bernard Wagner made public the results of an audit exercise conducted at City Hall via a transition report. That presentation outlines the expenditure […]
