The two murders over the weekend in the old capital were followed by a shooting on Tuesday. The brief reprieve from gang warfare was broken when twenty two-year old Gilroy Garnett Junior, from an area known as PIV was shot once at close range. Garnett was reportedly walking with a female friend on Partridge Street […]
Police were on the scene within minutes, but by then, the gunman, who pulled the trigger with what appeared to be a sawed off shotgun, had long run through a churchyard and headed into one of the back streets that lead to the Western Highway. Police, according to the Department’s Press Officer, Sergeant Fitzroy Yearwood, […]
Fifty-three year old naturalized Belizean, Bing Chang Zhao, was stabbed to death inside his business, Ming Ming Shop at the corner of Vernon Street and Magazine Road over the weekend. His body was discovered by his son, who was detained and then released pending further investigations. But on Tuesday night, a member of the Chinese […]
Police also gave their version in respect of the murder of twenty-seven year old Jason Pott which occurred at the corner of Cleghorn Street and Slaughterhouse Road on Saturday evening. The victim’s sister alleged that a police mobile knocked down her brother and a friend, who were heading to the hospital on a bicycle, because […]
Should government continue to grant licenses for oil exploration in protected areas? That’s the question we put to viewers on Tuesday night. Seventy nine percent thought no and according a comment on our blog that’s because: “The purpose of a protected area is to safeguard specific natural and cultural values and to preserve areas.” Twenty-one […]
After weeks of intense competition, the Math Olympiad came down to the wire at the U.B. gymnasium in Belmopan today. Three schools were returning champions while the remaining two got a first shot at the most demanding competition that challenged their math skills with speed and accuracy. News Five’s Delahnie Bain was present when the […]
A spate of deadly violence plagued the three-day weekend. The bloodshed started on Saturday morning and in the next twenty-four hours, three persons had been killed separately in the City and in Roaring Creek. In the City, a grocery store owner and a father of two were murdered. But we start with a stabbing that […]
In Belize City where the number of murders is a record, a Chinese grocery store owner met a horrific death at his business place. On Saturday morning after nine thirty, C.I.B. personnel visited number seventy six Vernon Street which is the home and business place of Bing Chang Zhao. They found the fifty-three year old […]
Later on Saturday, a father of two and former B.D.F. soldier was stabbed to death allegedly by a seventeen year old minor. It is believed that a feud over a stolen bicycle several weeks ago led to a string of altercations between twenty-seven year old Jason Pott and Devaughn Goodger. Pott was among sixty recruits […]
Aside from the murders, there were other fatalities over the weekend. The Mexico Creek Bridge at mile nineteen and a half on the Northern Highway was the scene for a deadly accident; two persons lost their lives when their vehicle ran off the highway. An elderly American couple, eighty-three year old Ronald Moran and his […]
The accident that killed the elderly couple was not the only traffic fatality. An unidentified man was killed in a hit and run incident on the outskirts of Belize City on Friday night. After ten p.m., the cops headed towards miles two and three on the Northern Highway where they found the body of a […]
Tonight’s question is: Should government continue to grant licenses for oil exploration or drilling in any protected area or national park? 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 your comments to questions@channel5belize.com.
Over the weekend, OCEANA intensified its campaign towards a referendum on the question of whether or not to drill. Seventeen thousand signatures are required and the results of the petition will be known at a later date. But before that, there is another development that is angering the Association of Protected Areas Management Organization. APAMO […]
OCEANA today took its campaign to the south of the country with an oil summit in Punta Gorda where the community is already fighting with the government over a contract issued to Capital Energy, a U.S. company. They claim the contract was only for seismic testing, but now G.O.B. contends that the courts have provided […]
While Philip Tysinger looks for his biological parents, families of children adopted by Ruha’mah Stadtlander, a US missionary, have come forward with additional stats about the woman. Despite court appearances in Belize and the U.S., the Williams from Independence Village are only one of several families who have been unsuccessful in getting their child returned […]
Cases of Belizean children who have ended up in the United States under questionable circumstances have been revealed in our newscast in the past two weeks. Tonight, we have the story of one more Belizean who was adopted by American nationals from his Belizean parents. But Philip Tysinger isn’t one of those suspect cases; he […]
An eight year old boy is missing and is widely suspected to be in Guatemala. The child was allegedly taken by his grandmother and handed over to his father who lives across the western border in Guatemala. The story, according to the boy’s mother, twenty six year old Coreen Martinez, is that eight year old […]
Early this morning, the annual La Ruta Maya Belize River Challenge got off from the base of the Hawksworth Bridge in the twin towns of Santa Elena and San Ignacio. Spectators were out in numbers when the horn sounded for the canoe race that will end at the Belcan Bridge in Belize City on Monday […]
On Thursday we reported on the concern of one citizen, John Brackett, on the use of cell phones while driving. Brackett took his protest against texting near Holy Redeemer Primary where his children go to school during the busiest time of the day in terms of traffic – the lunch hour. It is known that […]
An Orange Walk man was convicted of rape in 2009 and sentenced to ten years. But he appealed and a retrial was ordered, which started Tuesday and ended on Thursday. In his second trial, fifty-two year old Manuel Fernandez was freed of the charge, which was brought by his cousin’s wife. Prosecutor Cecil Ramirez intended […]
A Belize Defence Force Private, convicted of Manslaughter, was sentenced to ten years in prison today. Paulino Assi’s jail term is effective as of February seventeenth, when he was found guilty. In mitigation, the Director of Public Prosecutions presented cases of manslaughter, which resulted in sentences of up to eighteen years. But Justice Herbert Lord […]
The story of the Mexican national from Tabasco who was arrested inside the Corozal Free Zone on a gun and ammunition as well as possession of counterfeit currency charge continues to unravel. Jose Luis Robles Beltran was found with a point twenty-five caliber pistol and nine live rounds of ammunition. While detained, he was also […]
Over the past two weeks News Five has reported on a series of cases in which children have been victims of human trafficking and on international adoptions being used to traffic children into the U.S. Antonette and Alfred Williams came to our studios and shared how they were facing a life and death situation with […]
While that case was about adoptions, twenty-three year old Jamelia, a Belizean victim of human trafficking, came forward on February twenty-first in the U.S. media to tell her story of how an American National took her as a slave in Fresno, California. The case quickly picked up traction, bringing attention to the issue of human […]
The Belize Sugar Industry this afternoon announced that the maintenance work on one of its turbines is about to be completed which means that BSI expects to resume operations by Sunday morning. According to BSI, a first broiler or Turbine A was lit last night and is providing steam for testing before cranking up the […]
