Also trending downward is the number of persons getting vaccinated for COVID-19. There has been a decline in the uptake, according to Doctor Musa. She reminded the general public that persons can still receive pediatric vaccines and booster shots at any public health facility across the country. Dr. Melissa Diaz- Musa, Director of Public […]
Belize remains free of monkeypox. The Director of Public Health Service also gave us an update on what the ministry’s advanced surveillance has uncovered to date. She also spoke with us on what you can do if you have a suspicious rash on your body that may require some medical attention. Dr. Melissa Diaz-Musa, […]
Thirty-four-year-old Alexander Harris, a Belizean fisherman of San Ignacio, has been fined seventeen thousand dollars for possession of undersized conch. Harris and two other fishermen from Dangriga were busted by fisheries personnel onboard a vessel east of the Lighthouse Reef Atoll. It is alleged that on October fourth, the trio, including forty-eight-year-old Juan Carlos Palacio […]
Controversy is brewing in Belmopan over a portion of roadway that was de-reserved and sold back in 2019. The then Belmopan City Council took a decision to have a portion of the Phillip Goldson Boulevard de-reserved. The land was surveyed and divided into parcels that were sold off. Belmopan residents are now experiencing the repercussions […]
Tonight, there are additional details being shared about the deadly chopping incident that claimed the life of seventy-one-year-old Porfiria Morales. The elderly woman was hacked to death by a neighbor on Saturday morning, following a brief exchange of words while Miguel Angel Gomez was reportedly trimming the hedges outside of his home. According to Morales’ […]
Police have arrested and charged a minor with last Monday’s stabbing death of Carl Kevin Lamb, Junior on Antelope Street Extension. The seventeen-year-old is charged with murder in the presence of his mother. Lamb was attacked by a group of young men last week Monday as he walked on an unnamed street in the area. […]
Former Belize Defense Force soldier Albert Moreira was the last person to see his ex-wife alive before she went missing in October 2018. Several days later, the badly decomposed body of Felina James was discovered along the Coastal Road approximately two and a half miles from La Democracia Village. Not far from her corpse was […]
A history of bad blood between a pair of elderly neighbors has ended in murder. In Benque Viejo on Saturday morning, Porfiria Morales was walking over to her son’s house a short distance from where she resides when she was attacked by someone living nearby. She was chopped in the neck during an altercation, one […]
A family man from Hopkins Village was stabbed to death on Friday night in front of his house. The incident happened less than two months after a mass shooting and it has left the family reeling, a neighbour in disbelief, and a community wanting to stomp out crime from their otherwise peaceful village. The incident […]
But while his dad’s stabbing was a clear-cut case of murder for Norton Castillo, Police are still investigating whether the person who inflicted the fatal wounds did so in self defense. So far, they have classified the case as a death investigation. Nonetheless, the Police Department’s Communications Director, Assistant Superintendent Fitzroy Yearwood shared the details […]
There was also a murder in Silver Creek Village in Toledo. A housewife got the worst possible news she could have today when police informed her that her common-law husband who went missing on Saturday after he left home was found murdered in the same village. Here’s what the A.S.P. Fitzroy Yearwood had to say […]
One incident which Police were not hesitant to call a murder was the shooting death last Friday of Jarett Crawford in the Antelope Street Extension area of Belize City. Crawford was at home when he was suspected to have been lured outside where he was gunned down. And Commissioner Chester Williams revealed that there are […]
There was a murder on Thursday night in Belize City. Twenty-seven-year-old Kevin Gillett and forty-two-year-old Glenford Soberanis were with a group of men near the corners of Alrington Drive and McKenzie Lane when a gunman approached them and opened fire. Soberanis was hit on the right ankle, while Gillett received multiple gunshot wounds to the […]
Another man was shot dead shortly before four-thirty this evening in Belize City. He is thirty-six-year-old Jarett Crawford. Crawford was apparently inside his house when someone ambushed him and shot him. Scenes of Crime personnel are processing the scene. This evening, a tearful Shackeria Torres told reporters that the family was trying to call her […]
The 2022 Ocean Heroes Award ceremony was held virtually on Thursday night. And, in its tradition of honoring those who have been serving as champions in marine conservation, advocacy and education, OCEANA Belize welcomes two other heroes to its list of protectors. Those Ocean Hero awardees are doctors Rachel Graham and Leandra Cho-Ricketts. News Five’s […]
Belize Telemedia Limited hosted its sixteenth annual general meeting this morning. The A.G.M., held virtually by means of Microsoft Teams, was used to announce the company’s profits over the past fiscal year. B.T.L. reported a profit of sixteen million dollars after expenses during the financial period 2021/2022. According to Chairman Mark Lizarraga, the telecoms provider […]
Five murders have been reported in the last ten days, a concerning increase for the Belize Police Department and the Ministry of Home Affairs. Today, we caught up with Minister Kareem Musa in Belize City, where we asked him about the recent spike in violent crimes and what the police are doing to mitigate these […]
And with the latest increase in murders, the Opposition continues to demand the removal of Kareem Musa from his position as Minister of Home Affairs. In a Facebook post earlier this week, Leader of the Opposition Shyne Barrow said “ if he can’t do the job of keeping our country safe, he should resign and […]
As we reported, police arrested and charged thirty-three-year-old Nimrod Catzim for the murder of Belize City resident Bernard Timmons on Independence Day. Catzim is no stranger to the law, as he had been to court twice before on separate charges of murder. Yet and still, he was roaming the streets as a free man up […]
The families of three men who lost their lives in a deadly head-on collision on the Philip Goldson Highway on Tuesday morning are still reeling from the tragic road traffic accident. As we reported, a commuter bus traveling in the direction of Orange Walk crashed into a pickup truck driven by fifty-nine-year-old James Dawson. Traveling […]
Tuesday’s triple fatality has brought into sharp focus issues of road safety and driving behaviours. Reports over the past few years would suggest that traffic fatalities are among the leading causes of death worldwide and Belize is no exception. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. Duane Moody, Reporting Almost on a weekly basis, we report […]
The Statistical Institute of Belize today held its third press conference for this year and presented G.D.P. estimates for the second quarter of 2022, as well as the consumer price index and external trade statistics for the first eight months of the year. Also shared were the estimates of the annual gross domestic product for […]
It’s one of four Belize City high schools that have been selected for the Education Upliftment Program dubbed Together We Rise. Students who attend the four institutions: Sadie Vernon, Excelsior, Maud Williams and Gwen Lizarraga high schools are given uniforms, education, lunch and other resources free of cost to them. Today, Excelsior was the first […]
Around eight-thirty this morning, news spread like wildfire of a fatal road traffic accident on the Philip Goldson Highway in the village of Sand Hill. As time passed, reports confirmed that more than one person had perished when a pickup truck travelling in the direction of Belize City crashed head-on with a passenger bus heading […]
The last time News Five spoke with Brandon Gillett was back on August eighteenth, when several areas across the country, including parts of Crooked Tree Village, were under water after two days of rainfall. Several persons had to be evacuated and Gillett was on the ground helping those villagers to shelter at the Crooked Tree […]
