In the Saint Martin De Porres area of the city on Monday night, the life of Jerson Carballo was snuffed out and police have no motive or suspect. Carballo had left the house of his cousins and was riding home when he was ambushed after midnight by a gunman who followed him. His sister, artist […]
Around seven this morning, a body was found under a tree next to the basketball court and football field in the village of San Narciso in the Corozal District. It has since been identified as that of Ramon Rejon, a resident from the neighboring village of Louisville. Rejon had returned to the village over the […]
Also up north in Corozal, the search continues for a couple who has been missing since Thursday. Thirty-four-year-old Zeidy Orozco and forty-two-year-old Balthazar Lopez were last seen in the vicinity of Corozo Blues, but hours later, Orozco car was found torched in a cane field in the outskirts of Patchakan Village. Search parties have been […]
The Belize Defence Force is under fire tonight. News Five has obtained documents showing invoices for fifty thousand dollars worth of payments of allowances made to members of the team in 2009 when they were Belize Premier Football League champions. But were these men actual soldiers in the Force, or just paid to look like […]
A seven-year-old girl has reportedly been abducted by her grandmother and is believed to have been taken from her hometown in San Pedro across the border to neighboring Guatemala. Hamy Alena Reyes is a student of Ambergris Elementary School, who was over at her babysitter’s home in San Mateo over the weekend. On Sunday morning, […]
In a surprise statement, the Director of Public Prosecutions, Cheryl-Lynn Vidal has made scathing remarks against those who mismanaged the investigation of Dorian Pakeman, the Director of the Government Press Office. In what turned out to be a sensational turn of events, Pakeman walked into a magistrate court on the morning of May twenty-sixth and […]
Students are breathing a sigh of relief tonight, following the release of this year’s P.S.E. results. Seven thousand two hundred and seventy one students registered for the exam that assesses students in the areas of English, Mathematics, Social Studies and Science. English and Math always pose a challenge and this year was no different. We […]
Anxiety is building up in Corozal where a couple has not been heard from since Thursday night. Search parties have been combing the area around the village of Patchakan in the Corozal District where the vehicle belonging to Zeidy Orozco was found torched after she and Balthazar Lopez went missing. Just six weeks ago, another […]
Two persons drown over the weekend in separate incidents in the north and west of the country. Just after nine on Sunday morning, the decomposing body forty-four-year-old Acita Flores was discovered floating about half a mile north of Consejo Village in the Corozal District. The Sarteneja villager was among eight other persons from the village […]
The second drowning over the weekend involved a seventy-nine-year-old man from the Cayo District. On Friday afternoon, Eduardo Landero jumped in the river and didn’t come back up. His decomposing body was found on Sunday morning and was buried immediately. But the family says they believe the drowning was not an accident, but was deliberate […]
Twenty-one years for manslaughter….that’s the sentence handed down today by the Court of Appeal to Osmar Sabido Junior. He was convicted in April 2016 of the murder of his common-law wife, Christie Carrasco of Orange Walk. The stabbing incident occurred at the couple’s home where he stabbed her more than once on February twenty-eight 2011. […]
Justice was swift this morning for a father of three in the lower court. Ernie Zelaya was fined ten thousand dollars and sentenced to three years behind bars for the offense of drug trafficking when he appeared in the court room of Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser. On Friday evening, in Hattieville, police made the […]
Less than two weeks ago, someone set fire to boat moulds owned by Bradley’s Boat Yard, previously located in Belize City. It relocated some time ago to a property off the Burrell Boom-Hattieville Road just outside Burrell Boom village. But the move has raised the ire of villagers, who are already complaining that work being […]
Students have been anxiously awaiting the results of the 2017 Primary School Examination, sat in April and May of this year. According to the Examinations Unit of the Ministry of Education, that wait is almost over, as the results should be released sometime this week. Interestingly, the only man who knows what the results are […]
Assistant Superintendent of Police Rochelle Chan has spoken out, but reluctantly, in response to statements made by acquaintance Alvarine Burgess in Wednesday’s public hearing of the Senate Special Select Committee. News Five tracked him down this morning in Ladyville coming out of a meeting. Calling on his twenty-four years of experience as a police officer, […]
Separate and apart from the allegations made against him by Burgess, reports surfaced that Assistant Superintendent Rochelle Chan had his U.S. visa revoked by authorities. The truth is in somewhat greater detail, according to Chan, and has nothing to do with any Immigration involvement or with this week’s revelations. ASP Rochelle Chan, Denies Involvement […]
The confidential report of the Immigration Department and former acting Director Maria Marin on the David Nanes Schnitzer affair has been obtained by News Five. At the end of this past January, the Mexican-American was captured and deported to Mexico to face fraud charges in the Allen Stanford Ponzi scheme. Nanes had been living in […]
In the Magistrate Court today, Ballistic Examiner, Orlando Vera learned his fate and it was not good news. Vera was found guilty of abetment to pervert the course of justice and sent behind bars pending sentencing. His case was heard last week by Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith, who gave her decision in a seven-page […]
Guatemalan national Lazaro Rafael Zaldivar Lopez has yet to pay a fine of three thousand dollars and remains in prison over the weekend. He changed a plea of not guilty to a single count of possession of a false document to guilty before Magistrate Carlon Mendoza. On May twenty-fourth, Lopez was found with a Social […]
Forty-seven-year-old Florencio Pop who was charged with the February, 2012 chopping murder of Felix Cucul Ich in Bladden Village, in Southern Belize, was sentenced in the Dangriga Supreme court earlier this week. This came after Pop changed his not guilty plea of murder to guilty of manslaughter in the presence of his attorney, Oscar Selgado. By so doing, Pop received a […]
A twelve-year-old boy from a school in the deep south is the national coca cola spelling bee champ. He bested eleven other primary school students to win the title. This is the twenty-third year that Bowen and Bowen is holding the competition and it has become a highlight of the year for many students. The […]
The big day arrived for Senior Counsel Denys Barrow, who this morning became the seventh and final member of the Caribbean Court of Justice and will shortly be off to its seat in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. In addition to many years of practice, most recently as the Government’s chief legal eagle, Barrow served separate […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow broke his silence today in respect of a raft of issues plaguing his administration. First, there is the embarrassing cancellation of Edmond Castro’s diplomatic and tourist visas, despite the reasons given by the Minister of Transport and NEMO to downplay its significance. Castro is on record stating that the revocation of […]
In her testimony before the Senate Special Select Committee on Wednesday, whistleblower Alvarene Burgess attested that the U.S. Embassy is in possession of an audio recording in which Castro can be heard transacting immigration business on behalf of government. Could this be the basis on which his visas were revoked? According to PM Barrow, there […]
Judge Barrow’s departure to the seat of the CCJ leaves behind a vacuum, as not only was the venerable attorney government’s chief legal counsel; he is also recognized as its best. But there are pending government cases, including legal matters involving the Ashcroft Group which has given notice that it will be presenting a bill […]
