Police are also reporting tonight on a drowning at the compound of the Hattieville Prison. The lifeless body of an inmate remains at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital for a post mortem examination to determine the cause of death. Sometime around two-thirty p.m. this past Friday, June fourth, nineteen year old Eustaqueio Patt, who was […]
In the south, a fifteen year old minor of Independence Village was viciously beaten by another minor after nine o clock on Friday night. According to reports, up to six teens attacked the youth, but only one of them carried out the brutal beating with a baseball bat behind Rosas restaurant. According to his mother, […]
While fifteen year old Shaquille Bennett was murdered, a road traffic mishap in the Orange Walk District over the weekend claimed the life of fifty year old Daniel Cowo. On Sunday Cowo, a resident of San Antonio Village, was riding in a grey Mitsubishi pickup traveling along the Guinea Grass Road in the direction of […]
Several environmental groups are demanding a moratorium on oil concessions. So far APAMO, BELPO, COLA and Oceana have formed a super environmental coalition to protect the ocean, the reef and land from the devastating effects of a possible oil spill. The group which is now called the Belize Coalition to Save our National Heritage has […]
According to Matura Shepherd, in addition to the B.T.I.A., the Belize Tour Guide Association is also coming out strong against oil drilling and exploration. Shepherd said that the Tour Guide Association’s Chapter in Orange Walk is fuming over a current development near the heart of a sensitive protected area. As we’ve pointed out before, the […]
The lifelong friend and law firm partner of Prime Minister Dean Barrow, Rodwell Williams, was shot last Monday night in an execution style attack by two unknown assailants. Williams was flown to Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami for treatment where tonight Williams is still in critical condition. Doctors remain vigilant at his side due to […]
A child was tragically killed on the Northern Highway this afternoon when he was knocked down just after leaving school. The ten year old student died when he was being rushed to the hospital. The vehicle, a white Hyundai van, was heading to Belize City when the student ran across the highway in Sand Hill […]
There’s a storm brewing at the University of Belize over reports that at least eight lecturers will not be returning to the classrooms upon reaching the retirement age of fifty-five. This has stirred commotion among faculty members who claim that the UB management will not be renewing the contracts of these lecturers once they reach […]
According to Tun, UB lecturers are finding themselves in a catch twenty-two where they are not necessarily being forced to retire but that the management is not renewing their individual contracts. Dr. Isabel Tun, Associate Professor, UB “We do not want for the university to lose people who are highly trained and at this stage […]
On Thursday we asked: Do you believe Restore Belize will be effective in ensuring safer neighborhoods? The persons who polled had mixed views about the effectiveness of the initiative to reign in crime. Fifty-seven percent of those persons who took part thought that Restore Belize will not be effective and forty-three percent voted in favour. […]
Steven Buckley, the Belize City man who was brutally shot back in April will finally have his day in court. His near fatal shooting made headlines amidst public outcry over what is widely believed to be a case of police brutality. On the night of Wednesday April twenty-eighth Buckley, along with three other companions, was […]
Inspector Dennis Lopez was charged for Buckley’s shooting, more than a month after that fateful night in April. The thirty-seven year old construction worker was comatose for a week before he finally regained consciousness. The Police Department accepted that one of its own was responsible and offered to help with Buckley’s medical bills, household expenses […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow left the country this morning on an American Airline’s flight bound for Miami, Florida. He didn’t go on official business, but he is there to attend to a serious and personal matter. His lifelong friend, the soul and back bone of his law firm Barrow and Williams, Rodwell Williams lies in […]
Restore Belize, a government initiative to deal with the pervasive crime and violence that is now spilling from Belize City into the rest of the country, was launched this past Wednesday. It is a multi-faceted approach with numerous components, committees and ministerial representation spearheaded by the Prime Minister himself. The commitment is that it will […]
Other than Belize Natural Energy, no other company has struck oil in commercial quantities. There is a veritable chase similar to that of the California Gold Rush and prospectors have bought chunks of concessions hoping to one day see the slick of sweet black crude oil. But the environmental community has been focusing on the […]
Freedom for nineteen year old Emerson Eaghan, was short lived for a murder that happened last year. He was on remand accused in the shooting death of Dennis Nembhard in June 2009. Eagan twice made appearances in court this week and tonight he is behind bars. When he first appeared on Tuesday in the courtroom […]
Attorney Rodwell Williams is clinging to life at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Florida but his condition has been stabilized. That’s the latest word coming out of Florida. On Tuesday’s newscast we gave the details of his tragic shooting of the Prime’s Minister’s law partner. The incident took place around eight on Monday night as Williams […]
The shooting of Rodwell Williams sent shockwaves throughout the community. PM Dean Barrow’s friendship with Williams goes back to decades and at least for the last twenty years they have been law partners. The P.M. announced this morning before his press conference that he will be going to the United States to visit his friend […]
A detailed and bureaucratic plan layered with numerous committees and subcommittees was unveiled this morning as Restore Belize, the government’s strategy to address violence and social ills plaguing the country. It is to be chaired by the prime minister, financed by the financial institutions and will involve a wide gamut of organizations, schools, churches, and […]
The first full reshuffle of the Barrow administration was announced on Tuesday. According to the Prime Minister, it was necessary to tackle the crippling crime situation that admittedly has reached crisis proportions. Fresh off the announcement we asked: Do you think the cabinet changes will be effective in restoring law and order? Seventy-eight percent of […]
Senator and newly appointed Police Minister, Doug Singh, faced the press for the first time today as he stepped up to the podium at the Prime Minister’s press conference. It’s Singh’s first day on the job to tackle the biggest crisis facing the government, but is he up to Restore Belize? News Five asked Singh […]
The law partner of Prime Minister Dean Barrow was shot on Monday night as he left his law firm on Albert Street. The news of the shooting spread like wild fire across the city because it involved Rodwell Williams whose law firm was shot at as recent as April fifteenth. Indications are that the shooting […]
As we said earlier, Williams was flown out today for further medical treatment. News Five’s Jose Sanchez was at the Philip Goldson International Airport when he was transported by air ambulance to the United States. Jose Sanchez, Reporting The Air ambulance, a Learjet thirty-five arrived about five minutes to two. It was greeted by Rudy […]
In Belmopan in the early afternoon Prime Minister Dean Barrow updated the media on the medical status of Williams. This latest incident of gun violence coincidentally occurred on the eve of the Prime Minister’s anticipated plan to reestablish a sense of normalcy to the streets of the old capital. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “The doctors […]
As we said earlier, Williams was rushed to the Belize Health Care Partners Limited for medical attention and a team of doctors from the City’s three hospitals worked on him throughout the night during to stop massive internal bleeding and to repair serious damage to his small intestine. Specialist at the Belize Health Care Partners, […]
