Police also have the three suspects for the brazen attack on Police constable Nigel White, who was ambushed, shot and robbed of his point thirty-eight service revolver. White was the sole officer stationed at the Belama Police Sub-station when he was overpowered by the three men at around twenty minutes after twelve on the morning […]
His slogan going into the P.U.P. Caribbean Shores Convention was “A new day for the Shores,” and when the votes were counted around six on Sunday evening at the Trinity Methodist School, Anthony Mahler handily defeated Joe Coye who had been the P.U.P.’s standard bearer for over twenty years and is a former minister of […]
It’s one of the most nerve racking days for standard six students in every corner of the country because today almost seven thousand took the first half of the Primary School Examinations. It is not a mandatory requirement but the P.S.E. is one of the factors that high schools consider when reviewing applications to determine […]
It’s almost nine years since the June 2002 robbery at Bowen and Bowen Limited that escalated into a bloodbath when two security guards and two unsuspecting city residents were shot to death. Leslie Pipersburgh and Patrick Robateau, both former employees of the soft drink company, were first tried for the quadruple murder in 2004, found […]
Both defense attorneys made no case submissions on behalf of their clients during a two day voir dire, which was held before they were called to present arguments in trial. Oswald Twist submitted that there was not sufficient evidence against his client, Patrick Robateau, who denied that he was involved in the robbery that ended […]
After the men were found guilty, there was a confrontation inside the courtroom and at least four armed officers had to rush in to keep the situation under control. News Five has learned that it was because Pipersburgh and Robateau resisted the use of shackles instead of the usual handcuffs. Pipersburgh is said to have […]
This Sunday in Belize City, the Chinese community is expected to turn out in full force at St. John’s Cathedral for a memorial service for three of their own: a sixteen year old Chinese student and two female grocers, all killed in the uncontrollable crime wave. The murders have hit hard the Asian community and […]
Do you think a foreign commissioner of police will reduce crime? That’s question we posed to viewers after it became public this week that the government has decided a contract a foreign top cop. The polling has been neck to neck all day and at the time of writing, there’s a virtual tie. Of the […]
Police are closing in on suspected robbers in the heist at the Heritage Bank in Orange Walk Town earlier this week. A portion of the two hundred thousand dollars stolen has been recovered and police are questioning a number of suspects. The heist bore no similarities to last year’s robbery at the Scotiabank Spanish Lookout […]
Less than a week after the fatal shooting of two Chinese grocers in Belize City a third member of the Asian community, a first form student, has succumbed to injuries he received during a robbery in Dangriga. On March twenty-fifth, sixteen year old Hui Sheng Chen was inside his parents’ store on Ecumenical Drive when […]
The Orange Walk branch of Heritage Bank was robbed of over two hundred thousand dollars shortly after midday on Tuesday. The suspicion was that the robbery was an inside job because it was carried out smoothly. Three persons, including one female, have been questioned by police and are expected to be charged shortly. It follows […]
At news time tonight a jury is in deliberation over one of the most violent killing sprees the country has seen. It’s the murder trial against Leslie Pipersburgh and Patrick Robateau and it dates back to June eighteenth 2002, when security guards, Fidel Mai and Kevin Alvarez, were shot to death during a robbery at […]
Belize City Mayor Zenaida Moya Flowers’ expulsion from the United Democratic Party was reduced to a suspension at the start of the year. The Mayor remained steadfast to her party and maintains that her heart is with the U.D.P. In today’s edition of the government’s newspaper, there was a curious publication of a public apology […]
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On Wednesday night we premiered the first part of twelve year old Rowan Garel’s trek to Victoria Peak. Climbing to Victoria Peak is a difficult feat for any healthy adult, but Rowan it appeared might have been hindered by the fact that he can’t see. Blindness, as you will see in the second part of […]
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of El Salvador, Hugo Roger Martinez Bonilla, concluded his official visit to Belize today. While in Belize he met with Minister of Foreign Affairs Wilfred Elrington and Prime Minister Dean Barrow. To end the visit, a memorandum of understanding was signed in which both Belize and El […]
The murder count stands at thirty-three since the beginning of the year. That has put the government in emergency mode. On Monday, Prime Minister Dean Barrow announced tough but controversial measures to deal with the lawlessness in the streets. Preventive Detention is one of the measures that the P.M. took to Cabinet on Tuesday to […]
Commissioner of Police Crispin Jeffries has been in the hot seat since April, 2009. Jeffries was given an extension last year, but his contract is now coming to an end next month. Jeffries’ management style has been described as ineffective by his own minister, Doug Singh. With that kind of criticism, it is no wonder […]
There is fortunately no murder to report in this newscast, but it doesn’t mean, there wasn’t any violence on Tuesday night. In Georgeville, a youth was critically wounded on the head around eight-thirty. The nineteen year old left his home to assist a family member who was under attack. He ended up at the San […]
On Tuesday we reported that armed gunmen held up a local branch of Heritage Bank in Orange Walk Town. While the actual figure the heist netted has not been disclosed, word to News Five is that the thieves got away with an amount in the range of two hundred thousand dollars. Shortly after one o’clock […]
Rhett Fuller will again mount a challenge to the request for his extradition made by the United States of America. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council will be the venue for this latest challenge. In June 2009, the Belize Court of Appeal dismissed Fuller’s appeal and ordered that he be extradited; however, it subsequently […]
With the rise of urban warfare, particularly in Belize City Streets, Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting dealt extensively on crime and security issues. It was agreed that three legislative changes will be introduced at the next sitting of the House of Representatives. But two of those changes are controversial because one allows for preventative detention of persons […]
A daring early afternoon heist inside Heritage Bank Ltd. in the heart of Orange Walk Town has netted armed robbers an undisclosed sum of money. Sometime around one-thirty today a pair of men casually entered the bank located on the Belize/Corozal Road where they proceeded to rob both its customers and employees of what is […]
There were four murders that occurred over the weekend. Two of the victims were women, who were shot at their grocery stores. The Chinese Association has been vocal with a protest staged on Monday in front of the courthouse that marched across the swing bridge to the police station. Their fury and indignation at the […]
But what about the other two murders that occurred over the weekend? Well-known food vendor, Joe Hamilton, and a construction worker Abner Rodriguez were also slain. Police Press Officer Fitzroy Yearwood says many suspects are being questioned. Jose Sanchez “Was there some pressure because of that protest because we don’t hear any arrests for the […]
