The second murder of the weekend happened in Melchor de Mencos, Guatemala. The body of young Benque Viejo resident Edwin Chan was found in a remote area early Saturday morning by Guatemalan Police, who were alerted by residents. Chan had been badly beaten and shot to the head. Benque Police have been forced to rely […]
There was another tragic loss of life two days into the Easter weekend and it involved yet another school-aged child. Sometime after five p.m., five year old Akeela Wade met her untimely death when a scooter she was riding on along with two other family members slammed into the rear wheel of a Progressive Shuttle […]
And now to an unfortunate issue close to home; Channel Five has covered the Holy Saturday Cross Country Classic for twenty-three years, but disappointingly, the tradition was broken this year. We regret that we were not able to bring to our viewers at home as well as regionally and internationally, the energy of the anticipated […]
On March twenty-ninth, Guatemalan Tomas Ramirez was shot and killed inside Belizean territory. Reports are that a joint B.D.F. and Police Patrol came under fire by a group of men. They returned fire and Ramirez was killed. For the purposes of diplomacy and confidence building, the incident occurred at the worst possible time. Facing heat […]
It’s not the first time B.D.F. patrols have come under fire while patrolling our border…and Tomas Ramirez is not the first Guatemalan casualty of such an altercation. High level diplomatic discussions and confidence building measures notwithstanding, incursions continue unabated. And so does the plunder of our timber, xate, gold and other resources. Still, Minister of […]
With Good Friday and the Easter Holidays upon us, the demand for fish has increased and so has vigilance by the Fisheries Department for seafood that is out of season. The Fisheries Department is today reporting a major bust of fishy products which were confiscated during several patrols. From about nine a.m. on Wednesday, the […]
While no one was arrested for the illegal seafood found on the buses, one man, a resident of the Belize River Valley area, was arrested on Wednesday following a patrol of the lagoons and rivers in the Belize District. While he has not been charged, the Fisheries Department claims that he was detained with illegal […]
Sometime either late last night or in the early hours of the morning a teenager from Ladyville was stabbed multiple times. Police are in the middle of their investigations and details are scarce, but we understand that Parrish Copious is currently in critical condition at the K.H.M.H. This morning, News Five visited Copious’ home in […]
A United Nations report recently released has placed Belize as the third most dangerous country in the world and that dubious distinction might be having some effect. So far this year, there have been twenty-eight murders as a crime wave sweeps across the country. To many, Belize is the perfect tourism destination, but the grim […]
Holy Thursday is a busy time for vendors because fish and other types of seafood will traditionally be consumed on Good Friday. At the various fish markets this morning, we found that the demand for fish has driven the price up to an average of eight dollars per pound. News Five’s Isani Cayetano reports. FOR […]
A caretaker of the Gracie Rock area is being accused of eight counts of theft which allegedly occurred at the Everyday Supermarket, located in Hattieville, a well-known grocery store in that community. This morning, twenty-seven year old Sherman Hemmans was arraigned before Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer. Allegations are that between March twentieth and April first, […]
Nineteen year old George McKenzie Junior was escorted to the court this morning in handcuffs in connection with the murder of fifty-seven year old Alfonso Cruz. But about an hour after his arrival, the head of Prosecution Branch explained to Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser that they were seeking to hold off McKenzie’s arraignment. It is […]
It is the kind of crime that is considered utterly shameless and unimaginable… preying on the elderly. But tonight, we report on a barefaced theft that could have very well resulted in a home invasion. Seventy-six year old Loretta Wright, mother of Anglican Bishop Phillip Wright, was at home inside their Southern Foreshore residence on […]
Two men are in police detention for the senseless murder of forty-one year old cyclist Ernest ‘Dangalang’ Thurton. He was killed by a single bullet to the left side of his chest at about four o’clock on Tuesday afternoon. The Weekend Warrior and long time member of Team Santino’s lived on Queen Charlotte Street […]
The Belize Tourism Industry Association which has consistently opposed the Norwegian Cruise Lines port at Harvest Caye is heading to court having exhausted a number of other avenues. It is challenging an environmental appraisal to the fifty million dollar tourism project provided by the National Environmental Appraisal Committee on the grounds that the appraisal did […]
Luke Cox and Saul Garcia are dead while Guinea Grass shop owner Edison Johnson is in jail, charged for two counts of murder. The deadly incident occurred on Friday at a remote family farm in Carmelita owned by Johnson. Cox and Garcia were allegedly there to steal items from the farm when they were shot […]
Around midday on Tuesday, the body of a homeless amputee was carted off to the morgue from the sidewalk at Mule Park in the downtown area of the City. His name may have been unknown to many but he was a constant on Albert Street moving around in his wheelchair. The homeless man passed away […]
Former University of Belize President Dr. Cary Fraser demitted office in mid-November of last year, amid a swirl of controversy as to whether he was indeed granted leave by the Board of Trustees or if he left on his own will. Since his departure six months ago, Dr. Wilma Wright, the university’s provost, was appointed […]
Two firearms were recovered in the past few days by police…one on Rhaburn’s Alley near the residence of fifty-seven year old Alfonso Cruz who was murdered on Saturday night and the other, in a vacant lot in the Jane Usher Boulevard area and reportedly in proximity of the home of Sunday night’s murder victim, eighteen […]
A man was killed late this afternoon in Lake Independence, behind the Complex building off Cumberbatch Street. It is the sixth murder in four days and the seventh for the month of April. Ernest Thurton wasn’t from the neighbourhood, but at around four today, he was shot once by an unknown assailant and died on […]
A homeless man, who was a fixture in the downtown area, died today at around midday, in the height of the rush hour. The unidentified amputee would continuously hang out on his wheel chair on Albert Street at day and at night he would be found among a group of homeless persons who made their […]
And our question for tonight is: Do you think that despite a court ruling government should extend the license to US Capital Energy for drilling in the National Park? Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones to 8686 or post your vote on our e-poll at channel5belize.com. You can also send an email with […]
Government’s hiring of the daughter of Minister Erwin Contreras to a high level post in the Ministry of Health is meeting sustained resistance from the Pharmacists Association of Belize. The association will meet with the National Trade Union Congress of Belize this Wednesday as the situation heats up in respect of Danini Contrerass appointment. The […]
The Pharmacists’ Association currently has approximately one hundred and fifty members. Even as the situation heats up, the association says that under the Essential Services Act, they are prevented from taking industrial action but can carry out a go-slow and can also count on the support of the N.T.U.C.B. and P.S.U. Hortence Humes, President, […]
According to Public Service Regulations, for the appointment of Contreras to be rescinded, the association will have to make a formal request to the Ministry of Labor. In a brief comment to the media today, Hulse said that the application had not reached his desk, but when it does, a tribunal will be enacted to […]
