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A family in Corozal lost everything to a house fire on Sunday morning. The fire was caused by a malfunctioning fan in one of the bedrooms. Despite the family’s attempts to contain the situation, the flames quickly spread and the house was consumed by fire. Today, Normita Centeno and her family are picking up the […]
Written on December 19, 2023 | Posted in
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Three men have been charged with the murder of forty-five-year-old Hugo Rodriguez. They are nineteen-year-old Osmar Chiac, twenty-one-year-old Twyford Bradford Smith Junior, and twenty-four-year-old Austin Alexander Conorquie. Investigators believe that the men fatally shot Rodriguez on Sunday night in Carmelita Village, Orange Walk District. Rodriguez was at a local store when he got involved in an […]
Written on December 19, 2023 | Posted in
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Today, the trial of attorney, Oscar Selgado was scheduled to go a full day, but halfway through the morning session, it was adjourned until the morning of January twenty-second, 2024. The adjournment followed a concern raised by the defense in reference to whether they would be permitted to address the details that came out of […]
Written on December 19, 2023 | Posted in
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Days before Christmas, a two-months-old baby boy was left without a father following a murder in Carmelita Village, Orange Walk. Forty-five-year-old Hugo Rodriguez was fatally shot while returning home from a local shop on Sunday night. Rodriguez’s murder unfolded after an altercation at the store. Hipolito Novelo reports. Hipolito Novelo, Reporting Baby Justin Daniel […]
Written on December 18, 2023 | Posted in
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A father of three was fatally stabbed to death in San Pedro on Friday night. It happened while he and his common-law wife were leaving their place of work, a resort that is located on the Mahogany Bay compound. Already, police have arrested and charged eighteen-year-old David Lambey for the crime. While police say the […]
Written on December 18, 2023 | Posted in
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Tonight, Belize City police are no closer to catching up with the individual who ruthlessly pursued and gunned down nineteen-year-old Leslie Young Junior in the wee small hours of Friday morning. Young was leaving an establishment on Newtown Barracks when someone began following him. The unnamed gunman then opened fire in Young’s direction. Despite an […]
Written on December 18, 2023 | Posted in
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President-elect Bernardo Arevalo arrived in Belize this morning where he met with Prime Minister John Briceño and Foreign Minister Eamon Courtenay. The incoming Guatemalan head of state is set to assume office on January fourteenth, 2024. He arrived at the Philip Goldson International Airport sometime around 10:30 this morning and was escorted to the Laing […]
Written on December 15, 2023 | Posted in
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Arevalo’s visit also comes a few days after Guatemala applied to the International Court of Justice to join, as interested party, the claim involving Belize and Honduras over sovereignty of the Sapodilla Cayes. Foreign Minister Courtenay reiterated government’s position in the latest development where that matter before the World Court is concerned. Eamon Courtenay, […]
Written on December 15, 2023 | Posted in
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On Thursday, in Argyle, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Guyanese President Irfaan Ali and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro met to discuss the Essequibo, a territory in dispute between the two countries. The discussions were facilitated by Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves, the pre-tempore president of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, CELAC. Coming out […]
Written on December 15, 2023 | Posted in
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Tonight, there is good news for consumers. The price of sixteen-ounce sliced bread will remain at one dollar and fifty cents wholesale and one dollar and seventy-five cents retail. Earlier this month, we reported that the “Collective Bakers” issued a statement in which it said that the price of slice bread would be increased to […]
Written on December 15, 2023 | Posted in
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Nineteen-year-old Leslie Young Junior lost his mother and younger brother a year ago, and just welcomed his first child a few months ago. Tonight, his body is at the morgue at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The teenager was shot and killed on Thursday night near the Mexican Institute here in Belize City. It is […]
Written on December 15, 2023 | Posted in
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We begin our newscast tonight with the ever-pertinent issue of inflation. Massive increases in the cost of goods and services can potentially deflate the economy and consumers across the country are desperately looking for much needed reprieve. Today, the media had a chance to speak with Prime Minister John Briceño on the topic once again. […]
Written on December 14, 2023 | Posted in
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Meanwhile, the Supplies Control Unit in the Ministry of Agriculture is mandated to enforce the provisions of the supplies control prices regulations. This means that they are responsible to ensure that there is compliance in the business community on the goods that the government has put under price control. When we spoke with him, the […]
Written on December 14, 2023 | Posted in
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And while Prime Minister Briceño has addressed the issue of the port acquisition on previous occasions, the issue remains a live matter as many continue to weigh in on government’s latest major decision. PM Briceño said that the government believes that acquiring back the port is the best decision that it could have made because […]
Written on December 14, 2023 | Posted in
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And the question was also put to the Prime Minister about the state of the Belizean economy, in light of what his fiercest critics have been saying. The PM pointed to actions that his government has taken since assuming office back in November 2020. He says that increasing the minimum wage, along with subsidies the […]
Written on December 14, 2023 | Posted in
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On Tuesday morning, here in Belize City, a deadly shooting claimed the life of twenty-nine-year-old Albert Valentine. The victim was no stranger to the law and has a record of involvement in gang activity. Tonight, police are looking for two suspects whom they believe perpetrated the violent act on Valentine as he left from a […]
Written on December 13, 2023 | Posted in
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Eighty-two-year-old William Watson was butchered inside his home near the corners of Zericote and Banak streets on December fifth, before the upper flat of the two-storey residence was set on fire. It’s a heinous crime, one that the police and fire departments missed when they were investigating the incident last week. It has since been […]
Written on December 13, 2023 | Posted in
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An internal feud within the BLC gang in Lake Independence resulted in a residence coming under gunfire on Tuesday night. We understand that as many as six children were inside their home on M&M Street when a pair of men approached the property and let loose a hail of bullets at the structure. Luckily, no […]
Written on December 13, 2023 | Posted in
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According to ComPol Williams, the men who are actively involved in the infighting have been removed from the Leadership Intervention Unit’s program. He also says that the police department is keeping a close eye on developments in that neighborhood. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “We are monitoring it very closely. We are trying to […]
Written on December 13, 2023 | Posted in
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As it stands, the number of homicides accounted for so far in 2023, is eighty. It’s a figure that is well below the murder count in previous years and will go down as a record achievement for the Belize Police Department. Nonetheless, the men and women in uniform aren’t taking a victory lap just yet. […]
Written on December 13, 2023 | Posted in
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We begin tonight’s newscast with the first reported murder for the month of December. The incident happened this morning in the Collet area of Belize City around seven-thirty. Twenty-nine-year-old Albert Valentine was walking on Elston Kerr Street and as he reached the corner with Iguana Street, a gunman shot him. He did not live for […]
Written on December 12, 2023 | Posted in
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Today makes exactly one week since eighteen-year-old Jeremy Westby went missing from his neighbourhood in the Lake Independence area of Belize City. The young man had just gone to a friend’s house to borrow a bicycle and he never returned. Tonight, his mother, Erlett Geban told News Five that her son’s friends were the last […]
Written on December 12, 2023 | Posted in
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Geban pleads with anyone who knows what happened to her son to reach out to her. The mother says that a check on her son’s Facebook page yielded no useful information. She says that while he was mischievous, her children are not affiliated with street gangs. Erlett Geban, Mother of Missing “Yesterday we went […]
Written on December 12, 2023 | Posted in
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When the fire was reported early last Tuesday morning and the body of eighty-two-year-old William Watson was discovered inside, it was a tragedy for the family. But that tragedy has now turned to rage when the post mortem report revealed that Watson did not die in the fire, nor did he die a natural death. […]
Written on December 12, 2023 | Posted in
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A new interim board of directors has been appointed by Prime Minister John Briceño to replace the outgoing executives at the Port of Belize Limited. As part of its takeover of the facility, the Government of Belize has proceeded with the selection of an acting chairman, along with six other board members. In a statement […]
Written on December 11, 2023 | Posted in
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