As the coverage of this very tragic death continues, a former neighbor of the Doehms provides details on the life of the couple in Hawaii before they moved to San Pedro. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. Duane Moody, Reporting In the face of a dead sexually abused thirteen-year-old Asian American girl, there has been […]
The supply of used B.D.F. uniforms and outboard engines and its mysterious appearance in the possession of civilians, particularly a Mexican national and two Belizeans, in Orange Walk, continues to be investigated. While the men have since been released without charges, there is an inquiry into whether there was indeed a breach in protocol within […]
When asked whether the police department is investigating a string of text messages exchanged between the Mexican national and a high-ranking B.D.F. official while in detention, ComPol Whylie said he was unaware of the communication. Furthermore, the police commissioner says that it would be concerning should the worn uniforms be smuggled into Mexico for use […]
News Five has obtained the video purportedly showing multiple communications between a high-level soldier of the Belize Defence Force and one of the persons found on Friday with used battle dress uniforms and discarded outboard engines that had been property of the B.D.F. Among the recovered items are ninety battle dress uniforms; various amounts of […]
The body of thirty-seven-year-old Ervin Rene Huex awaits transfer to Guatemala, following a deadly shootout on Saturday with Belizean law enforcement. Huex was one of two thieves who robbed a pair of men at gunpoint before relieving them of a Toyota Hilux. The incident happened along the Chaa Creek Road and the fatal encounter took […]
The biennial crime statistics for the first half of 2017 were released on Monday, and the report indicates that the number of murders have only reduced marginally when compared to the same period in 2016. From January to June there have been seventy murders, three less than last year. Of that number, thirty-one arrests have […]
A search for a Belize City man continues along the highway as well as on the waters. Mark Pollard was last alive on Monday, July third, when he set out to exercise on the Philip Goldson Highway. His mysterious disappearance is baffling his family as well as friends who are hoping for the best, but […]
Tourism Minister Manuel Heredia Junior and his colleague Rene Montero appear on Wednesday before the Senate Special Select Committee on Immigration. The Belize Rural South area representative is expected to be questioned about his role as a recommender for a particular family on Ambergris Caye, the Harmouch family. It is also known that he acted […]
Across the world July eleventh is observed as World Population Day. It is a day used to draw attention on the urgency and importance of population issues. Since the day was first marked on July eleventh 1990 in more than ninety countries, a number of UNFPA country offices and other organizations and institutions commemorate World Population […]
In chess, the title grandmaster is the highest awarded and once achieved, is held for life. It seems an apt description for Belize’s own Leroy Young, though his specialty is in dub poetry. He has released numerous compilations of his work, held a coveted television spot for several years and toured around the world at […]
Michael Blease could be on his way out as General Secretary of the Football Federation of Belize as soon as tomorrow, Wednesday. News Five has been informed that the executive of the Federation, still reeling from an attempt to hold a General Congress that ended up dead on arrival, has moved against Blease, informing him […]
Another round of protest as held over the weekend in the San Pedro where police have not yet been able to pin murder charges in the case of Faye Lin Cannon. The thirteen-year-old Chinese-American girl was reported dead last Monday by her own adopted parents, a U.S. couple. But there have been inconsistencies in their […]
As the island continues to reel over the death of Faye Lin, the Department of Human Services is coming under fire for a purported inaction in respect of complaint made against David and Anke Doehm. The department confirmed today that reports of what it calls improper supervision and inadequate parenting of the Cannon children of […]
We showed you the protests on the island where San Pedranos are angry over the death of Faye Lin. Residents have taken to the streets to express their regret and anger because they believe the teen’s death could have been prevented since the authorities never properly followed up the reports made about the suspected abuse. […]
The Court of Appeal of the Eastern Caribbean began sitting today in the British Virgin Islands. It did so with a newly appointed judge – Senior Counsel Eamon Courtenay. News Five understands that Senator Courtenay was recruited by Dame Janice Pereira, the Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean, to sit as a temporary Judge on […]
Two Guatemalan carjackers were shot by police over the weekend; one died on the spot in Calla Creek, Cayo. On Saturday, the robbers lay waited Omar Jimenez and his son and strong-armed their vehicle at gunpoint, but Jimenez would alert family and the police. A team of officers from the Special Patrols Unit set chase […]
A Belize City family is out of house and home tonight after their residence on Zacaranda Street was gutted by fire. The twenty-by-twenty-five foot wooden structure was, according to fire personnel, deliberately set on fire and its residents lost all they owned. But the question tonight is, did someone conspire to burn out the Flowers […]
The Belize Defence Force Air Wing was hard at work over the weekend, responding to an emergency situation in the Toledo District. The Ministry of Defence reports that three children between the ages of ten and sixteen went on a fishing expedition and wound up stranded on the far bank of the San Benito Poite […]
For four years, the Image Factory Art Foundation has opened its space to new and established artists during the summer months for what it calls free and open experimentation, where those in the creative field are invited to perform, install or project work in the space for a maximum limit of twenty-four hours. The concept […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of weekend sporting activities….]
According to Lieutenant Soberanis, the occupants of the fleeing vessel had managed to toss their catch into the sea before being found with gill nets onboard the boat. Lt. Greg Soberanis, Belize National Coast Guard “As it relates to products, once a vessel is found to be engaged in illegal fishing, upon the sight […]
On Wednesday afternoon, the People’s United Party in a statement strongly condemned what it called the contemptuous and disrespectful behavior displayed by Ministers Anthony “Boots’ Martinez and Edmond Castro during the Senate Special Select Committee earlier in the day. According to the Opposition, their behavior showed a complete lack of respect for the Senate and […]
Ministers Rene Montero and Manuel Heredia Jr. are headed to the inquiry next Wednesday. But will they follow the example set by their fellows this week, and is it possible that following from the disruption of May seventeenth propagated by Alberto August, the U.D.P. Cabinet has decided to show open contempt of the Senate Committee? […]
As to the testimony of the worth of a Minister’s recommendation for a visa application, which is not strictly required, it seems to be a case of taking the word of the various public officers who have testified openly to how Ministers of the current administration behaved against the Ministers’ own denial. Former Ministers of […]
Senior Counsel Michel Chebat, attorney-at-law, is standing in for the incumbent P.U.P. representative on the Senate Special Select Committee, Eamon Courtenay. Wednesday’s attacks on Chebat and Senator for the Business Community Mark Lizarraga by Minister Edmond Castro went even further. Castro openly mocked Chebat’s political pedigree and accused him of wrongdoing concerning use of public […]
