A Belize City cab driver was viciously stabbed to death; his body was found early this morning in Ladyville while his rented van was found hours later in Biscayne Village. According to his relatives, Frank Jacobs’ was stabbed about a hundred times. Thirty-four year old Jacobs worked alongside his brother as a cab driver in […]
A jealous forty year old Glenford “Bucket” Bermudez executed his wife on November twenty-second, 2007 and for taking her life, he will now spend the rest of his life behind bars. Glenford, an ex-B.D.F. soldier, was convicted on April twenty-seventh for the murder of Raquel Requeña Bermudez; the life sentence was handed down today by […]
The media was called out today by one of its own members, who along with a well known business personality, say they have received credible reports that their lives are in danger. They claim in fact that a street figure has confirmed that someone has paid for a hit on them. Media colleague, Channel Seven’s […]
As we reported on Tuesday, a delegation from the newly formed organization, Friends of Belize, is on a three-day working visit to Washington D.C. The delegation was led by former U.S. Ambassador Robert Dieter and former British High Commissioner Philip Priestley. In D.C. they met with several high level government officials to discuss ways in […]
A second lawyer has withdrawn legal representation from Mark Seawell this week and his case has been postponed until he is able to secure a new defense team. Since his arrest in February 2007 the infamous Seawell, who is wanted in the United States for drug trafficking and money laundering offences, has made numerous court […]
Dilma Cano is the young mother from Sittee River who was referred to the Western Regional Hospital in Belmopan for emergency care when she began having complications with her pregnancy. Twenty four hours after her admission to the hospital on April twenty-ninth, Cano delivered a stillborn after twenty six weeks of pregnancy. But if that […]
But there is some good news to the health of the nation. And that’s because a U.N.D.P. study finds that the prevalence rate of Aids is a two point three percent and that there is a decrease in new infections in comparison to the 2009 figures when a little over five thousand cases were reported. […]
Drivers across the country have a little over two weeks to remove dark tints from their vehicles. A statutory instrument will come into effect to regulate tinting, a measure taken to deter criminals from hiding behind the tint to conceal their identity. In the following story, News Five’s Isani Cayetano looks at the acceptable level […]
The House meets this Friday in Belmopan. The government will be pushing forward five new bills to address the murderous crime rate which continues to climb with alarming speed. The bills include controversial issues such as the re-introduction of preventative detention, which is bundled in one package that is called the Eight Constitutional Amendment Bill. […]
While Cardona’s seating arrangements in the House is under question, one man who will be sitting at the head of the table is Gulab Sharma. Sharma, a Corozal businessman operating Kunal Enterprises at the Commercial Free Zone and a close ally of the Minister of Health, has been handpicked as the new Chairman of the […]
The notorious figure Darien Banks has been before the courts too many times to mention, but most recently he was charged along with his wife Desiree Barrow Banks. Trial began today against the couple on charges of Drug Trafficking, Kept Prohibited Firearm and Kept Prohibited Ammunition. They were both arrested following a search at their […]
There were nine persons who were shot between Friday night and Monday evening. Two of them were fatally wounded during the bloodshed, spiking the number of murder victims to forty-eight. That’s nine more than last year in the same period. The shooting of a fireman, a security guard, and a youth riding a bicycle all […]
Last Thursday we told you about the murder of nineteen year old Shamir Gonzalez who was killed in a fight on the Louisiana Government School compound in Orange Walk. According to the Orange Walk Police, while investigations are ongoing, they do not anticipate any further arrests in Shamir’s murder as family members of the suspects […]
A stillborn is found in a trash can at the Western Regional Hospital and tonight the Ministry of Health is under fire from the family. On April twenty-ninth, thirty-three year old Dilma Cano, a resident of Sittee River Village was admitted to ward at the facility after complaining of complications during her pregnancy. The expectant […]
Murder trials for minors are usually closed to the public. So tonight we ask should minors who are charged with murder be tried in open court as adults? 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 […]
Friends of Belize, it’s the newly formed organization of high profile personalities, seeking to promote foreign investment between Belize and the United States. A FOB delegation is currently in Washington D.C. where they are meeting with senior staff on Capitol Hill and the US Chamber of Commerce on ways to bolster trade relations in light […]
Fixing the social ills that fester in Belize is only one step on the path to restoring peace on the streets and keeping the youth out of harm’s way. That is why Restore Belize assisted in coordinating parent empowerment training between the Yabra Community Police Center and the Ministry of Human Development. News Five attended […]
A shooting spree has left two persons dead and seven injured in the past three days. It seemed that the madness was over with the end of the weekend, but there was a flare up again in Belize City. At about three-thirty this afternoon twenty-one year old Jerome Jason Wade was gunned down on Vernon […]
The violence started on Friday night around seven-thirty. The first fatality of the weekend was Donavan Bailey. He was killed instantly from among a group of friends hanging out on Black Orchid Street off Mahogany Street. The fatal shot caught Bailey on the right side of his chest and another bullet hit the nearby house […]
About six hours later, following the murder on Black Orchid Street, there was another shooting close to the Vernon Street home of a twenty- two year old security guard. Estevan Fernandez Junior was walking home on Casuarina Street at twenty minutes to two on Saturday morning when he became victim number five for Friday night. […]
And an hour after the senseless shooting of the security guard, another shooting with apparently no known motive occurred. This time an innocent man was shot while he was sleeping inside a fire station. That’s right, the victim was actually lying on the floor in the bunk room of Fire Station number two at the […]
Thousands of acres of forests have been consumed by wild fires, and much more are at risk before the rains come pouring down. Hot weather conditions are the fuel to the fires that are erupting and spreading across the country. Close to thirty thousand acres of forest have been ravaged in Mountain Pine Ridge; a […]
While the forest fires are rampant, in the old capital, a thick cloud of smoke spread from a property near the Haulover Bridge and drifted into parts of the City at the start of the weekend. The fire broke just before eight o’clock on Friday and quickly destroyed the building, which was owned by Liston […]
The second half of the annual Primary School Examinations was sat on various campuses across the country today. A total of six thousand, four hundred and ninety-two students registered to sit both Math and Social Studies exams. Traditionally, problem solving has proven to be an area of great difficulty as a majority of those who […]
Shamir Gonzalez was killed at the compound of the Louisana Government School in Orange Walk on Wednesday afternoon. Tonight, a seventeen year old is charged with his murder while a thirteen year old and twenty-year old Adoni Jah were also arraigned earlier today for abetment to commit murder. According to family members, Shamir went to […]
