February twenty-sixth marked the first anniversary of the tragic plane crash that ended fatally for businessman Sir Barry Bowen. Michael and Jillian Casey as well as their two children, Makayla and Bryce, also perished in the accident. One year later, on Wednesday, a lawsuit was filed against Sir Barry’s son Michael for damages. The case […]
Around the globe, broadcasters celebrated International Children’s Day of Broadcasting to drive home the point that every child has the right to express his or her opinion freely and to be heard. Here at this station, two teens were invited on set to host Open Your Eyes and later in the day, Axia Sanchez, teamed […]
Last week, the Belize Agricultural Health Authority, BAHA, imposed a quarantine on three areas of the Cayo District where cows and a horse had shown signs of a vesicular disease. The authorities were hoping that the culprit was the less severe of two types of diseases and today the results are just back from the […]
A seventeen year old at the peak of her pregnancy was remanded to prison along with twenty-four year old Orin Michael, eighteen year old Erwin Ellis, thirty-seven year old Margaret Harris and twenty-five year old Nasceria Maheia. All five persons were detained at a house on Albert Street where police allegedly found a nine millimeter […]
Two weeks ago, Santiago Castillo Jr. along with Stanley Longsworth Jr. were both dumped from the executive of the Belize Tourism Board. Castillo’s firing as vice chairman was sensational because he is a U.D.P. strongman and financier and the Longsworth family is also aligned with the party. Well tonight, there is word that two senior […]
A brazen home invasion took place this afternoon. A housekeeper was ambushed by three armed men after two p.m. on Gwen Lizarraga Street in the Belama Phase Two area. News Five was there shortly after the incident and according to the homeowner, Zita Coye Small; the thieves ransacked the house and made off with jewelry […]
On Tuesday night, a couple from Independence revealed that they had consented to give up their son for adoption in 1994 because they could not afford his medical attention. They have not heard from him since but now know that he was not the only child that ended up in the hands of a US […]
Funeral services for twenty two year-old Christie Carasco will take place on Thursday in Orange Walk Town. The mother of a two year old daughter was stabbed to death at around eight thirty on Monday night on the street in front of her home at twenty-one San Lorenzo housing area in Orange Walk. Neighbors who […]
The government is investing forty-seven million dollars to upgrade the southern highway up to the border with Guatemala. When you consider the number of incursions already happening in the south, it raises the questions of whether security problems will outweigh the benefits. That’s what we asked our viewers on Tuesday night and the response was […]
In recent times Belize has become a haven for US fugitives. Many have been captured and handed over to the United States; in fact, Belize places second globally among the countries that have sent back the highest number of fugitives. Two celebrated cases are the arrests of Robert Snyder and Derrick Yancey. News Five’s Jose […]
It’s the start of the celebration of Women’s month, but it turned fatal for an alleged victim of domestic abuse. The twenty-two year old vivacious sales representative of Smart on Bishop Street in Belize City was viciously stabbed by her boyfriend on the street in front of her house in Orange Walk Town on Monday […]
Late this evening, police issued a release on a midnight shootout in the downtown Punta Gorda. Two brothers and a Asian businessman, known as Tommy, were injured and twenty six expended shells were recovered from the scene. The police version is that the violence started when Sergeant John Sanchez’s house was fired at from a […]
A family of four lost everything today in a midday blaze. The origin of the fire is still being determined but it is widely believed an electrical failure triggered it. The wooden structure was located on Jane Usher Boulevard and took little time to be consumed by the flames. Onlookers watched, unable to access the […]
A loan of forty-eight million dollars will be spent to upgrade twenty three miles of road in the south that will link the Southern Highway to the Belize/Guatemala border. Tonight’s question is: Do you think the security problems from the upgraded road access will outweigh the economic benefits to the south? Send your comments and […]
The City council met today behind closed doors and when that meeting was over, councilor Dean Samuels was elevated to Deputy Mayor for one year to succeed Councilor Philip Willoughby, whose stint as deputy will be remembered more for what he said than what he did. Samuels, an ally of Mayor Zenaida Moya-Flowers, is expected […]
Mexican soldier Jose Beltran is believed to have crossed the border already after being granted bail by Magistrate Clive Lino. On February twenty-fourth, Beltran was arrested in the Corozal Free Zone and was found in possession of an unlicensed point twenty-five caliber handgun, accompanying rounds and twenty thousand dollars in US currency. But a bank […]
After several trips to the courthouse, a lawsuit filed by ex-police officer, Aldo Ayuso, ended today before Justice Oswell Legall in the Supreme Court. Ayuso sued the Commissioner of Police and the Belize Advisory Board for wrongful dismissal from the Police Department. This morning he was awarded five years of salaries plus interest, all allowances, […]
A fire at the Belize Youth Hostel at mile twenty-one on the Western Highway late Saturday evening totally destroyed the female dorm of the facility. One of the employees, Mary Rivera, told police that she was supervising the group of girls when she smelled smoke. When she checked the building she detected fire coming from […]
Further west, eighteen year old herbalist, Mark Guy, was killed at the start of the past weekend. He did not make it back from the football game he attended because his car slammed into an oncoming bus near Running W Meats on the Western Highway. His family is devastated at his tragic death which is […]
While Mark Guy was killed instantly on Friday night, sixteen year old Ethan Neal, was more fortunate. He made it to the finishing line of a cycling race on Saturday morning, but unfortunately he crashed into a pick-up truck. His family is distraught but the injured cyclist says he will be back on the road […]
We have not been keeping score on the number of suicides because the incidents are personal and extremely sensitive. But a spate of suicides over the past two years in Benque Viejo del Carmen, and more recently the number of attempts in the past month has sparked concern among the community that either something is […]
We told you about the unusual spike in suicides in the western town of Benque Viejo. Well, the last person who attempted to take her own life is eighteen year old Daisy Cerda, a fourth form student. With her throat still in pain and showing the scars of the rope she used less than a […]
Tiffany Fortune, a grief-stricken mother of two, today waived the post mortem examination of six year old Ardel Reneau who died following an epileptic fit over the weekend. According to the twenty-seven year old mother, after doing laundry in the backyard, she went back inside her house around eleven a.m. on Friday and found her […]
A robbery that occurred this afternoon could have turned fatal for the victim. It took place cross from the Belize City Center on Jude Street after three-thirty and when we got behind the gates of the Belize Recycling Company, officers were combing the scene for clues. Apparently only one person, thirty two year old Myra […]
It took a high speed chase on the highway in the north and a barb wire barrier for police and Customs officials to seize two vans containing a massive supply of contraband liquors in the Pine Ridge Area. While the Uncustommed goods were taken into custody, the occupants of the vehicle managed to getaway. But […]
