As if police did not have enough on their plate to deal with this week, another shooting was reported near downtown Belize City. The officer in charge of the Crimes Investigation Branch for Belize City, Superintendent Alejandro Cowo, shares details. Supt. Alejandro Cowo, O.C., CIB, Belize City “There was a shooting this morning at […]
The body of eighteen-year-old Crevan Cardinez was recovered from the shallow waters in front of the Sir Barry Bowen Municipal Airstrip on Thursday morning. Cardinez, living in Belize City but originally a resident of San Lorenzo area, Orange Walk Town, Orange Walk District, was brutally attacked inside a boat on Wednesday, stabbed multiple times and […]
Police are also chasing leads in at least one other murder reported this week. Around two o’clock on Wednesday afternoon, the body of a man was discovered some three hundred and thirty feet off the road between miles three and four on the George Price Highway. It has since been identified as that of twenty-five-year-old […]
The Belize Chinese Association is not happy with G.O.B. They have had to fork out thousands of dollars after they requested a visa waiver for The Chinese Blind People Performing Arts Troupe. The group was denied a waiver for entry into Belize to do a performance at the Bliss. The inspirational group with different abilities […]
We begin tonight’s newscast with a third murder to report in just over twenty-four hours. Gunmen executed the attack with precision in broad daylight through Lindos Alley late this afternoon around four-thirty. Dead is one Windell Gibson, while Keron Santos continues to fight for his life at news time, at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. […]
A team of divers from the police department, the coastguard and civilians gave up the search for an unidentified body on Wednesday evening, following a report of foul play in the waters just off Princess Margaret Drive. While the incident unfolded in plain view a short distance from the shoreline near St. Anthony’s Trading Company, […]
Meanwhile the body of a man found off the George Price Highway on Wednesday has also been identified as a Belize City resident of a Neal’s Pen Road Extension address. Was twenty-five-year-old Linton Wilshire taken from his house, his throat slit and then his body dumped off the George Price Highway? And is his murder […]
After twenty-four hours on the run, accused murderer Jevon Belizaire has been recaptured by Belize City police. The twenty-four-year-old suspect fled from custody on Wednesday morning while being allowed to use the restroom at the Raccoon Street Police Station. Belizaire is alleged to have shot and killed Ryan ‘Fish’ Thompson on Sunday night on Neal’s […]
A pair of brothers is awaiting arraignment in San Pedro after being charged for one of two recent homicides on the island. Jose Armando Marroquin and Sarbelo Marroquin have been charged for the brazen murder of Scott Charles on the night of August sixteenth. Twenty-four-year-old Charles was inside his house in the Bay Side area […]
Today, former residents of San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, David and Anke Doehm, are charged with child cruelty in the death of thirteen-year-old Faye Lin Cannon almost two months ago. The teenager’s body was found in a condo at a north end hotel on the island, showing signs of physical and sexual abuse, including a large swelling […]
A Belizean-American couple and their visiting friend were read drug charges after a police search of their Caye Caulker cabana on Tuesday afternoon. Twenty-four-year-old Sloane Breaux; his wife, twenty-three-year-old Catherine Martinez; and thirty-five-year-old Christopher Shroyer, were jointly arraigned before Acting Chief Magistrate Sharon Frazer for possession of utensil used for smoking controlled drugs, specifically a […]
Great Belize Television’s Channel Five has once again emerged victorious at the annual Caribbean Broadcasting Awards Competition held on Tuesday night in Nassau, Bahamas. As many as eight coveted prizes were won in fourteen various TV categories, including Climate Change and Renewable Energy, Coverage of Disaster Risk and Best Public Service Spot. The awards were […]
There are two murders to report tonight and in both cases, the identity of the victims has still not been established. Just before two p.m. today, police were called out to an area between miles three and four on the George Price Highway. Some three hundred feet off the pavement in some bushes, they discovered […]
Belize City police are investigating what appears to be a murder at sea. Shortly after one o’clock this afternoon, officers were summoned to an area on Princess Margaret Drive near St. Anthony’s Trading Company where a report was made that an unidentified person was badly beaten and tossed into the murky waters a short distance […]
An accused killer is tonight on the run from the law after escaping from police custody early this morning. Twenty-four-year-old Jevon Belizaire was arrested and charged on Tuesday for the murder of his next door neighbor on Neal’s Pen Road on Sunday night. He was being held at the Raccoon Street Police Station prior to […]
There have been quite a few murders in San Pedro over the past week, including several shootings. Last Wednesday night, Scott Charles was shot multiple times inside his home in the Bay Side area of San Pedro Town, as he responded to a knock at the front door to his house. He died the following […]
Minister Heredia says that the trafficking and sale of drugs are at the heart of criminal activities on the island, but are there contradictory rules in place? At last Friday’s House Meeting, the government tabled a bill to amend the Misuse of Drugs Act that decriminalizes possession of up to ten grams of marijuana. But […]
Recently, further revelations were made about the land-grabbing activities of the Vega family during Gaspar Vega’s tenure as Minister of Natural Resources. Tonight, News Five can share some documents concerning land originally turned over to the Belmopan City Council under Said Musa as Prime Minister, but which ended up in the hands of Ignacio German […]
Businessman John Zabaneh is a well-known entrepreneur in South Stann Creek whose ventures, including Mayan King Limited, Mid-south Investments Limited, Belize Chemicals Limited and Crown Paradise Enterprises were all flagged by the U.S. Treasury back in 2012. Those companies were designated as Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers and were sanctioned based on U.S. foreign policy and […]
P.U.P. Senator Valerie Woods, having heard the prime minister’s response to former Foreign Minister Lisa Shoman’s open letter on Thursday, is also weighing in on the comment made by Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington. While responding to questions asked by the media last Wednesday, the chief diplomat reiterated that Belize’s borders are not internationally recognized and […]
According to Woods, while government at some point will turn to the people for a vote on whether the Belize/Guatemala territorial dispute should be taken to the ICJ for resolution, it should avow that Belize’s borders are indeed internationally recognized. Valerie Woods, Opposition Senator “All that I stated was, one: I commend Ms. Shoman. […]
Former Foreign Affairs Minister Lisa Shoman appears to have stepped on a few toes last week after writing an open letter to Prime Minister Dean Barrow, appealing to him to distance himself from comments made by Wilfred Elrington. Foreign Minister Elrington repeated in a news interview on August sixteenth, as he has said several times […]
Maheia also spoke to News Five about the re-registration campaign as it relates to the referendum to attend the International Court of Justice to resolve the Guatemalan claim. The Belize Progressive Party of which the BTV’s Maheia is deputy leader, recently met the United Nations Advisory mission visiting Belize to discuss the Guatemalan referendum expected […]
A post mortem on the body of thirty-year-old Dwayne Almendarez was conducted this afternoon in Belize City and certified that the Yo Creek resident died as a result of complications related to gunshot injuries. Almendarez was mortally wounded during a shooting incident in the Orange Walk District last week which involved a customs officer on […]
Belize City will host the United Democratic Party’s next convention to select a municipal slate for the 2018 elections due in March this coming Sunday. The headline is the mayoral race, the first since 2011, as incumbent councilors Dion Leslie and Philip Willoughby go head-to-head for votes. But whoever wins will be counting on the […]
