Tyson Rodriguez was killed in Placencia on the twenty-second of November. At the onset, police issued a dubious bulletin saying that Rodriguez’s body was found floating in the water. This is after he had been handcuffed and placed in the pan of a police vehicle. Tonight, a high ranking police officer has been charged and […]
There is also a development in the case of another resident who was killed by the cops. Last Wednesday, a Ladyville resident was shot at about four o’clock in the afternoon. Police took twenty-four hours to confirm they had fired the deadly shot on Travis McKay. Police also claimed that McKay was shot following a […]
Audrey Matura-Shepherd is also representing the family of twelve year old Sabrina Almendarez. She is the young girl who died mysteriously. Her family told News Five on Monday that they were suspicious of her death because following a tetanus injection administered at her school in Independence, Sabrina became gravely ill and on the twenty-ninth of […]
On September seventh, Belmopan Police were called to a nightmarish scene in the village of Teakettle. In the trunk of a taxicab which had been parked on a deserted stretch of road, they found the charred remains of a human body. The taxi belonged to Daniel Aguirre, one of KTV Latino’s most memorable champions. A […]
The 2013 Corruption Perception Index is an annual measure of the apparent levels of public sector dishonesty in a hundred and seventy-seven countries and territories. The list scores each country on a scale from zero to a hundred, the former being highly corrupt and the latter very clean. Not surprisingly, two-thirds of all countries scored […]
We reported last week that single mother of two children, Sharie Muschamp, is back at her desk at International Business Companies Registry. Muschamp was on sick leave that ran into maternity leave when the registry was taken over by the government and she was not rehired. But when Muschamp returned to work, she was notified […]
World AIDS Day is celebrated on December first every year. That fell on a Sunday, so the US Embassy in Belize planned an internal event to commemorate it today. Staff members were treated to a display and education campaign within the Embassy, carried out by the Pan-American Social Marketing Organization, PASMO. It’s an important occasion […]
Tonight there are many more questions than answers in the tragic death of a student from Independence in southern Belize. Twelve year old Sabrina Almendarez was discovered by her father in her bedroom at around four-thirty Friday morning, foaming from the mouth and bleeding from the nose. She was rushed to the Southern Regional Hospital […]
This morning, an unidentified male person called in a bomb threat to the Belize Biltmore Plaza just before midday. Normally that wouldn’t make the top of the news because they happen relatively frequently and are never real. But it is headline material today because when the call came in, Prime Minister Dean Barrow was in […]
December fifteenth, 2013 has been set as the deadline for the start of the 2013-2014 crop season. After that point there is a very real risk that the season would be cut very short by rains in June 2014, and that means serious losses for all stakeholders. But with only two weeks to go, the […]
To avoid real, dire repercussions, the 2013-2014 crop season will need to get underway by December fifteenth. The primary obstacle is of course the impasse between the BSCFA and B.S.I., but even if the relationship was all happiness and smiles, farmers would still be stuck. That’s because many of the sugar roads in the north […]
Tonight News Five takes to the visa trail again as we continue to assemble the pieces in a massive visa scheme. Our investigation so far has revealed the involvement of various senior U.D.P. ministers who facilitated the procurement of Belizean visas for Chinese nationals on a weekly basis. This scandal broke in September with the […]
A heated land dispute between the Young family and the Prime Minister’s law partner, Attorney Rodwell Williams, over a small plot on Cemetery Lane, has landed in the courts. In late October, the two families became embroiled in a bitter argument when Williams consented to have a food shack placed on the parcel of land. […]
According to Matura-Shepherd, it came as a complete surprise to her clients that Williams also had title to the property. Furthermore, it wasn’t until 2007 that he had applied for ownership of the land, unbeknownst to the Young family. Audrey Matura-Shepherd, Attorney for Yearwood Family “Interestingly, in 1998 Mr. Rodwell Williams Senior, the father, […]
A total of seven persons were injured in a traffic accident on Thursday evening. An SUV, heading toward Belize City, collided with a government vehicle en route to Belmopan. Three passengers travelling in the SUV sustained minor injuries and have been released from the hospital; three others remain hospitalized. But a government employee with the […]
A lawsuit brought against Belize Water Services Limited by five former employees, who contend that they were unlawfully terminated by the company earlier this year, will proceed in the Supreme Court. Despite a request by Justice Courtney Abel for both parties to settle the matter outside of court by the end of the month, BWSL […]
On Wednesday afternoon, Ladyville resident Travis McKay was shot and killed by the police. His brother states he witnessed the police use unnecessary force when an officer pushed the face of Travis in the mud after he had been shot and laid dying. There has been serious concern on the police actions while in some […]
Minister of State turned political and public pariah Elvin Penner has gone M.I.A. Penner was castigated for his role in procuring nationality status and a Belizean passport for South Korean, Wonhong Kim. But while being declared persona non grata seems to be the extent of Penner’s reprimand, there remains a public perception that he should […]
The debate on the thirteenth senator has been resurrected in recent weeks. It’s a concept which was passed into law by the U.D.P., but it never materialized. While the two matters are separate, the need for a thirteenth senator owes its resurrection to the ongoing immigration scandal. Recently, the Senate was deadlocked on a vote […]
The deadline for submission of names for persons wanting to offer themselves for candidacy in upcoming conventions to be held by the United Democratic Party is today. While a list of prospective runners has not been divulged to the media, News Five understands that there are at least three new faces that have come forward […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow has announced a multi-million dollar infrastructure program to repair streets and roads across the nation. The outlay is in response to damage caused by incessant rains in recent weeks. But months before those rains, commuters, forced to use the San Estevan Road, were crying out for help. The stretch between Orange […]
There is breaking news tonight. At about five-thirty this evening, a government vehicle collided into an SUV near the entrance to the hector Silva Airstrip in Belmopan. What we have been able to ascertain is that the SUV swerved to avoid a pothole on the George Price Highway and ran head-on into the government vehicle. […]
On October fifth the People’s United Party launched a campaign to collect signatures on a petition to recall Elvin Penner. The move came just weeks after news broke of the U.D.P. Cayo Northeast Representative’s involvement in a passport scandal in which a South Korean criminal got a passport while imprisoned in Taiwan. The P.U.P. move […]
At a press conference on Wednesday, Prime Minister Dean Barrow scoffed at the evidence proving that Minister of State Edmond Castro is engaged in the large-scale procuring of visas for Chinese nationals. News Five first showed you the documents on Tuesday – documents which prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that Edmond Castro and […]
On Wednesday, Prime Minister Dean Barrow spoke on a variety of issues at a press conference in Belize City, and today P.U.P. leader, Francis Fonseca, did the same. Fonseca touched on infrastructure, immigration and everything in between. While the issues are the same, it’s no great surprise that the interpretations and positions are markedly different. […]
