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Police are also seeking Honduran national Christon Roches for charges in connection with a stabbing incident involving his common-law wife Vanessa Reyes. The incident took place in Placencia Village last weekend during a domestic dispute. In the wake of that ordeal, Reyes has taken to her social media account to detail her experiences with domestic […]
Written on April 25, 2022 | Posted in
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Last Friday, we reported on the murder of Tracy Thompson, a vicious act allegedly perpetrated by her common-law-husband. That was preceded by a similar incident over the Easter weekend. In Placencia Vanessa Reyes was attacked and stabbed, allegedly by a man she had had a relationship with in the past. These are incidents that are […]
Written on April 25, 2022 | Posted in
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Across the world, today is being celebrated as World Earth Day; and in Belize City, the Ministry of Blue Economy staged a replanting exercise with its partners in Buttonwood Bay, across from its offices in front of the Belize sign. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. Duane Moody, Reporting Digging holes and getting their hands […]
Written on April 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Pathlight Belize, in collaboration with Belize Audubon Society, the Belmopan City Council, the Scouts Belmopan Chapter and the Department of Environment, implemented this year’s World Earth Day Initiative. Working together, they planted forty-five mahogany trees at the Maya Mopan Park in Toledo. According to a release from Pathlight, the trees are an expression of patriotism […]
Written on April 22, 2022 | Posted in
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The Prime Minister has issued an Earth Day Message. The printed text, circulated by the Press Office, says that as the world celebrated Earth Day under the theme “Invest in Our Planet,” which calls for a shift towards investment in sustainable practices, Belize delivers on its two milestones under the Blue Bonds Agreement. PM Briceño notes […]
Written on April 22, 2022 | Posted in
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The case of seven Cubans who are charged with immigration offences has been adjourned until next Tuesday. This is to give the Human Rights attorneys who have filed a case on their behalf to file proper affidavits and to serve the state by Monday afternoon. The Human Rights Commission had brought a suit against the […]
Written on April 22, 2022 | Posted in
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The case of the Cubans detained in Belize has attracted the interest of the Miami Dade Human Rights Office, who has dispatched a representative to follow the progress of the case. News Five also spoke with that individual, Eddie Sierra, who is the vice president of the Human Rights Commission in Miami, Florida. We asked […]
Written on April 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Eddie Sierra believes that the conditions of imprisonment are just too harsh for the infraction the Cubans have committed, and he is here to follow their plight. Eddie Sierra, Vice President, Human Rights Commission, Miami Dade County “I’m here to advocate on behalf of the detainees that are being held in the Belize Central […]
Written on April 22, 2022 | Posted in
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We start tonight’s newscast with a murder out west in Roaring Creek. It happened on Wednesday night in the Another World area of the village and claimed the life of a man who residents say is not known to have enemies. But just around eight o’clock, Michael Clark was gunned down in front of his […]
Written on April 21, 2022 | Posted in
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A pair of men on bicycles blindsided a group of persons as they stood on Plues Street on Wednesday night. Twenty-nine-year-old Tamara Cornejo, thirty-year-old Henry Cornejo, twenty-six-year-old Alexander Smith, and fifty-four-year-old Steven Jones were injured when gunfire erupted while they were socializing. According to police, the gunmen rode in the direction of Plues Street from […]
Written on April 21, 2022 | Posted in
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He was flung off his motorcycle two Sundays ago when he and his friend crashed into a guardrail along the Cristo Rey road. Reports are that Daniel Morales was driving a motorcycle that had no light and lost control and ran into the guardrail. He suffered several broken bones in his arms and legs and […]
Written on April 21, 2022 | Posted in
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Habet told us that while Morales had suffered a slight head injury, they were hopeful because he had suffered mainly broken bones in his arms and legs. Morales’s sister, Vanessa Pinelo explained what caused the accident. Voice of: Vanessa Pinelo, Sister of deceased “He mi di come wid wa group ah people and his […]
Written on April 21, 2022 | Posted in
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A thirty-three-year-old teacher from Santa Familia Village lost her life under mysterious circumstances on Wednesday night. Reports are Nassly Calix was at home taking a bath when she became unresponsive. Sometime before nine o’clock, her husband, thirty-nine-year-old Walter Calix, went to check on her and found his wife motionless in the shower. Nassly Calix was […]
Written on April 21, 2022 | Posted in
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The UNCAF Championships is being hosted in Belize from April twenty-fourth through to the thirtieth at the F.F.B. and the Isidoro Beaton Stadiums in Belmopan. Seven Central American countries and Puerto Rico will converge in Belize to face-off in matches in two groups. Belize’s national U-20 team is in group ‘A’ along with El Salvador, […]
Written on April 21, 2022 | Posted in
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The Belize National Rugby Team left the country today for Nassau, Bahamas to participate in the biggest rugby tournament this year. The team will be competing in the Rugby Americas North Commonwealth and Olympic Games Qualifiers tournament for the first time. Twenty-three countries including Canada, Mexico, Jamaica, and many others from the Caribbean and North […]
Written on April 21, 2022 | Posted in
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He holds the position of co-agent for Belize when we present our memorial to the I.C.J. in response to Guatemala, but today, a dark cloud looms over the future of Ambassador Alexis Rosado. The senior diplomat was escorted before Belmopan Magistrate, Janeli Villanueva-Pennil this afternoon where he was read a slew of charges, including seven […]
Written on April 20, 2022 | Posted in
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This just in, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued a statement on the situation with Ambassador Alexis Rosado. The release reads: “Alexis Rosado was charged with serious offences of a sexual nature in the Belmopan Magistrate Court. At the direction of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Immigration, Ambassador Rosado has relinquished […]
Written on April 20, 2022 | Posted in
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The United States earlier this week published a record of the human rights situation in Belize. Tonight, News Five takes a deep dive into Belize’s 2021 Human Rights Report and shares some of its main findings. Some of the information is well known to the public, while other details have perhaps gotten less attention. Here […]
Written on April 20, 2022 | Posted in
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The Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry, as a social partner, has polled its membership to get a pulse on their position on marijuana legalization. The results of the questionnaire were made official last Thursday but the report flew under the radar during the Easter weekend, with the primary focus being placed on the churches’ […]
Written on April 20, 2022 | Posted in
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Last Thursday, we reported on a vessel that was leaking soot into the Caribbean Sea near Placencia. It was the second time in as many months that the vessel had been found to have caused the leak and needed repair. The Port Authority imposed a prohibition to sail order upon the vessel until adequate repairs […]
Written on April 20, 2022 | Posted in
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The owner/operator of the vessel will be given an opportunity to settle the matter out of court if they so choose. But when we contacted the owner, Albert Loewen this afternoon, he explained that he never violated the prohibition to sail order because he didn’t know about the order and two, the vessel never sailed. […]
Written on April 20, 2022 | Posted in
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So tonight the Belize Coast Guard is keeping watch over the vessel to ensure it is not moved again as Lieutenant Kenrick Thomas informed us. Lt. Kenrick Thomas, Operations Officer, National Coast Guard “We continue to have a surface asset assigned to this duty to ensure that there is no operation from this craft […]
Written on April 20, 2022 | Posted in
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There were three separate murders, in three districts, over the long Easter weekend. We begin in Northern Belize, in Guinea Grass village, where an alleged killer is on the run from the law. Nelson De Jesus Segovia allegedly shot and killed Jose Cedillos on Good Friday in front of Cedillos’ family. The alleged killer reportedly […]
Written on April 19, 2022 | Posted in
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A man was shot dead on Monday night in Belize City. The incident happened on Rivero Street in the Port Loyola area and has left a family asking questions and the Police following leads. Here’s News Five’s Marion Ali with the story. Marion Ali, Reporting It’s an all too familiar story – a man […]
Written on April 19, 2022 | Posted in
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A trio of young men, including a sixteen-year-old minor, is in police custody after being charged for the murder of a watchman that took place on Holy Thursday in Armenia Village. The lifeless body of Oscar Chiac was discovered by a colleague inside a classroom at Armenia Government School on Good Friday. It is reported […]
Written on April 19, 2022 | Posted in
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