The past weekend was not without its share of violent crime and two more names were added to the growing list of murder victims. This time the incidents happened in the northern districts. Marion Ali took a trip north to get the details. Marion Ali, Reporting The first homicide occurred shortly after six on Saturday […]
Earlier in the newscast, we reported on a murder in Corozal Town, a second murder occurred in Orange Walk Town and this time it was a minor who was the victim. Here again is Marion Ali. Marion Ali, Reporting Seventeen year old Erin Rivero Sutherland was stabbed at around twelve thirty on Sunday morning on […]
There are some new details that our newsroom has uncovered about the suspect drug plane that was discovered south east of Northern Two Caye on Friday April ninth. Photos show the tip of one wing barely above water. Several parts of the plane were recovered including a video digital component box. The origin of the […]
In this week alone there have been four murders, two perpetrators were killed in robbery attempts and at least four persons were injured in shootings; the most recent happened when most people were having lunch. Three men armed with deadly M-sixteen assault rifles, drove up to the home of forty-three year old Cecil Lewis and […]
Marie says Cecil is the third of her children to be injured in shootings for unknown reasons and she thinks the crime situation is escalating because the culprits have life too good when they’re behind bars. Marie Lewis “I think that they should give them more penalty than what they are doing right now because […]
Cops have still been unable to determine if damages caused to the building housing the law firm of the prime minister were the result of gunshots. The damages are believed to have been caused by a projectile on Thursday morning at seven fifty-five a.m. Prime Minister Dean Barrow is a partner in the firm, Barrow […]
Before dawn this morning, B.D.F. soldiers and a News Five crew headed north to an area called Riven Ridge, located south of Joe Goff’s Pine Ridge, at Mile thirty-four. The mission was to find the most accessible drug with the greatest appeal to youths and adults- marijuana. In addition to the police, the Belize Defense […]
Before the groundwork was completed, the operation began with a flyover and reconnaissance by the B.D.F.’s Defender. The man at the helm, Lieutenant Colonel Ganey Dortch, said that it was a team effort by various departments in the B.D.F. that led not only to today’s success but to the one hundred and fifty thousand plants […]
On Thursday we asked the question: Should prisoners incarcerated for major offenses qualify for parole? Eighty-nine percent of our viewers that participated on the e-poll thought they should not. One viewer was emphatic saying “never, since they come out and do the same” while another said “these prisoners should not be given a break because […]
At around eight o’clock this morning, word spread that the law firm of Prime Minister Barrow and his partner, attorney Rodwell Williams, had been targeted in the spate of crime. Belize is not a country known for violence against its leaders so the report was alarming. Employees at the firm were trickling in to begin […]
Accused murderer Carlos Keme is once again on the run from law enforcement authorities. It happened when Keme was at the Supreme Court in Orange Walk Town this morning. He was being escorted to court in handcuffs along with other prisoners, when he mysteriously escaped from custody. Keme was scheduled to be in court for […]
Keme is not the only prisoner on the run; three of five inmates who escaped from the Belize Central Prison remain the targets of a manhunt. We reported on Tuesday that Jose-Luis Cocom, an escaped inmate was recaptured. Well tonight he is joined by another escapee, thirty year old Terry Bainton, a Ladyville resident. Bainton […]
Crime continues to dominate the headlines so our question has to do with the prison terms served by inmates. It is: Should prisoners incarcerated for major offenses qualify for parole? Send your responses using your SMART phones to 8668 or post your vote on our e-poll at channel5belize.com. You can also send an email with […]
She has been in an induced coma since Monday so that doctors could address a swollen brain and fluid in her lungs. But a CT scan conducted this morning on nineteen year old Luisa Carillo yielded promising information for her attending physician and her family. Carillo, as we have been reporting, is the teen who […]
There was a double murder on Faber’s Road in the murder capital, Belize City, last night. One of the victims is the son of Dangriga Magistrate Clive Lino, and the other is the brother of Ryan ‘Fatback’ Young, who was killed a few feet away from where the two men were gunned down after nine […]
On last night’s newscast, News Five broke the story about a suspected drug plane that was found submerged in waters south of Northern Two Caye, in the Lighthouse Reef Atoll. On the same day the plane was discovered, last Friday, a body was floating in the sea. And two days later on Sunday April eleventh, […]
Meanwhile, police have made two arrests in the Sunday morning murder of a sixteen year old from Roaring Creek. Raheem Velasquez was shot several times by members of a group he had an “old beef” with and just this afternoon Belmopan police charged twenty year old Darren Banner and nineteen year old Jaime Gill for […]
Should Government contract private attorneys to prosecute criminal offenders? That’s the question we posed to viewers in light of the low rate of convictions for criminal offenders. The answer to this question this morning has been divided among those who responded on our e-poll. Sixty percent agreed while forty percent were dead set against contracting […]
Notisureste, a Quintano Roo newspaper is reporting that a Belizean national Pervis Perez Mendez killed an entire family, including a two year old boy, in the community of Othon P Blanco in neighbouring Chetumal. According to the report, Perez shot Gabriela Sansores Canche, the sister of his ex-common-law-wife, her father and her two year old […]
At the beginning of the month the increase in the General Sales tax kicked in. It went up to twelve and a half percent taking the cost of living even higher. And if that is putting a licking on consumers, fuel prices jumped another notch higher on Tuesday night with diesel up by twenty four […]
Four of five prisoners are still at large, but this morning there were reports of shots being fired and all hell breaking loose inside the Tango eight, Tango Ten and the remand section at the Belize Central Prison which is run by the Kolbe foundation. Reports of a riot were broadcast over the radio waves. […]
For three days, there have been reports that a plane had crashed in a caye in the Lighthouse atolls. It is believed the incident is drug related and police has remained tight lipped. As far as we can ascertain, the mystery plane is still submerged in the waters. News Five has learnt that a body […]
While the family of slain car dealer Kashif Jeffries makes arrangements to lay him to rest, Belize City police are still looking for his killers. Jeffries was callously gunned down while in his vehicle on Levi Slusher Street on Sunday afternoon just hours before his flight to Houston, Texas. His trip to the United States […]
Thirty two year old Stephen Lopez, a security guard, was killed during the robbery of the Spanish Lookout branch of Scotia bank on March thirty-first. The bank was held up by five armed men and the security guard was gunned down. There was another man who was injured during the incident but his story has […]
The conviction rate in criminal cases is weak so our first question for this week is: Should government contract private attorneys to prosecute criminal offenders? Send your responses using your SMART phones to 8668 or post your vote on our e-poll at channel5belize.com. You can also send an email with your comments to questions@channel5belize.com.
