The report released for March 2018 is viewed as merely finger-pointing by the United States government which stops short of equally addressing the insatiable demand for drugs in that country. AG Peyrefitte says that more stringent measures should also be taken in the U.S. to stem the greedy appetite for drugs coming from South America. […]
Young persons left scarred and traumatized by gun violence gathered today in the city as police look for new opportunities to keep them away from crime. They are students from a school in the Saint Martin de Porres area which has been one of the city’s hotspots. Today, survivors of gun violence addressed them on […]
The United States Government has dealt another blow to Belize on the heels of a previous decision to rank Belize on tier three of the Human Trafficking Report, which also brought a one-year-suspension for temporary work visas for Belizeans. Earlier today, it listed Belize along with all of its Central American neighbors and Mexico and […]
The P.U.P. has reacted to a statement made by Minister of Foreign Affairs Wilfred Elrington to this station on April fourth. Elrington said that he had been advised that according to Guatemala’s constitution, it must take any result of a case at the International Court of Justice to another referendum. Today, the P.U.P. said it […]
Guatemalan president Jimmy Morales has hit the road in the last lap of his country’s campaign for the I.C.J. before the April fifteenth referendum. On Sunday, he was in Petén, one of two Guatemalan provinces that directly border Belize. Morales had a message for Belizeans: in one breath, he said that Belize has a neighbor […]
As President Morales was touring the Peten area, the Belize Territorial Volunteers attempted to travel to the Sarstoon, where Belizeans now require permission from Guatemala to traverse. This weekend, the BTV hosted members of their allied political party, the Belize Progressive Party, for a strategic meeting in Punta Gorda Town. As part of that meeting, […]
There were no murders recorded this weekend. But in Ladyville, there was an almost fatal stabbing. Douglas Bowen is tonight hospitalized at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital in an induced coma following an incident in the Japan area. Bowen was stabbed on Sunday night after a basketball game. Police say, however, that Bowen does not […]
Just after one on Friday afternoon, police responded to a robbery in progress on Zennia Street in the Cohune Walk area of Belmopan. A cargo truck parked in front of Carrie Four Store was the target of an armed robber, who approached the driver, seventy-year-old Luis Sutherland. The Belize City resident was inside the truck […]
Police quickly got into action and set up a checkpoint between miles thirty and thirty-one on the George Price Highway to intercept the getaway car, identified as a Dodge nitro van. Police set chase after the robbers, who lost control of the vehicle and flipped near the entrance to La Democracia. In the process, the […]
The forty-ninth murder victim since January is a youth from San Pedro. He was killed in the early hours of this morning on the north side of La Isla Bonita. Just after midnight, twenty-two-year-old Leeroy Haylock was slashed to the throat and left for dead in a bushy, empty lot. There is no information about […]
Three-year-old Jase Brown of Belmopan is in a bad way tonight, after suffering a sudden and vicious attack by a Rottweiler. He had gone out walking with his father in the Orchid Garden area on Tuesday and on their way home the canine came out of nowhere and bit the toddler repeatedly until he and […]
There was public outcry this week when Russel Casimiro, a purported tour guide, received what appeared to be a slap on the wrist for beating up his ex-girlfriend and leaving her bruised and injured. The incident happened in San Pedro on Monday and the photos of U.S. bar manager, Carrie Tripodi, incensed family, friends and […]
Like American military officials in Iraq or Afghanistan, Minister of National Security John Saldivar, his C.E.O. and other top brass in the Police Department swooped down on the south side of Belize City on Thursday night. It was done mostly in secret and it was intended to get a first hand view of the current […]
Beginning today and until next week Tuesday, Hugo Patt, the Minister of Local Government, Rural Development, Public Service, Energy and Public Utilities will be acting as Prime Minister. It is the first time that Patt is assuming that role which is reserved for the Deputy Prime Minister, Patrick Faber, who we are told, is out […]
One of Belize’s staunchest friends in Central America since 1981 is formalizing ties in a number of important fields that will be beneficial to both countries. Today, the Ambassador of Panama to Belize and the Foreign Minister penned a cooperation agreement that will open up new opportunities for the public and private sectors. News Five’s […]
As you’ve heard, Foreign Affairs Minister Elrington says Panama has been supporting the territorial integrity of Government of Belize since 1981. Next Saturday, Guatemala will be holding its referendum on taking its territorial claim of Belize to the International Court of Justice. At the signing of today, Elrington noted that Panama is among the Group […]
There is no reprieve for consumers as prices for essential goods keep going up. Fuel went up just before the Easter and your light bill is likely to go up soon enough by as much as seven percent. Tonight, the news is that you will be spending more for the price of Liquefied Petroleum Gas […]
A horrible home invasion took place in Cotton Tree, Cayo District. The victim is an elderly U.S. national who moved to the village more than a decade ago. While Judith Classen survived the ordeal, she is pretty much traumatized. The house of the seventy-one-year-old was broken into and the thieves made away with a number […]
A wanted poster was issued today by the Belize Police Department for twenty-five-year-old Kevin Bodden. According to police, he is the prime suspect in the murder of Ghost Town boss, Kendis Flowers, who was executed almost three weeks ago on March seventeenth at the corner of Sibun and Mahogany Streets. Initially, police had withheld the […]
There have been a number of anti-drug operations around the country. Up north at about nine p.m. on Wednesday, Corozal police were tipped about two vehicles at the border heading to Belize City from Chetumal. In one of the vehicles, a Ford Escape, driven by Blancaneaux Maudel and passenger Michelle Benguche, police found twenty-four parcels […]
All four detainees are residents of Hattieville, Belize District, but police say that they are not known as drug peddlers. In this case, the cannabis is coming from Mexico because it is reportedly of a higher grade. Inspector Ferrufino was also asked to explain this dynamic. Insp. Wilfredo Ferrufino, C.I.B., Belize City “We found […]
There were two house fires in Belize City in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Around two-thirty that morning on Flamboyant Street, a fire broke inside the home of a forty-three-year-maintenance worker and his seventeen-year-old son. The electrical fire consumed the entire house and nothing was saved. News Five’s Andrea Polanco tells us more. […]
The Government’s chief financial officer has confirmed that there is no such thing. So what did General Manager of Belize Infrastructure Limited, Christy Mastry, intend to convey when she said on March nineteenth that the Government is guaranteeing eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year to cover the maintenance costs of the Belize Civic […]
By News Five’s unofficial count, there have been forty-eight murders in the span of three months and a few days, or on average sixteen per month. One of the more sensational murders was the execution of Ghost Town boss Kendis Flowers, murdered two weeks ago at the corner of Sittee and Mahogany Streets in Belize […]
Police have denied involvement. Senior Superintendent Howell Gillett this afternoon reiterated that the critical surveillance footage in their possession vindicates the GSU and that police had intended to show the video to the family. While he could not confirm whether that has taken place, Gillett maintained that the investigators are trying to ensure that they […]
