The community is still reeling from the senseless murder of the popular teacher and sportsman, Aubrey Lopez. Today in Belmopan, a demonstration against violence attracted family, friends, and many others. Their messages were both emotional and powerful in the face of a climate of fear and violence that is consuming the community. News Five’s Jose […]
Earlier we told you about the community mourning the murder of Aubrey Lopez who leaves behind a wife and their eight year old son Jayden. His loss is not only being felt by family and friends but also by the sports enthusiasts. Yvette Price, the president of Belmopan’s Volleyball Association said that in his youth, […]
The murder of Aubrey Lopez has sent shockwaves in Belize City and in the Capital. Lopez has made many friends over the years, some of whom consider him a brother. He is also a well known basketball player and was the captain and team leader of the Belmopan Bandits, which is the leader in the […]
On Wednesday night Belize City Councillor, Kevin Singh, revealed that there were no accounting of monies which vendors at the Queen Square Market had been paying into City Hall’s Finance Department towards their arrears for stalls. Singh explained that the Finance Department at City Hall could give him no satisfactory account about the monies the […]
There are enough complaints about the behavior of rogue cops. Well, there is one more the Commissioner of Police, Crispin Jefferies, has to deal with. His driver is accused of attacking a fifteen year old student on May tenth. The minor is enrolled at the Tubal Training School in Ladyville, but has been on job […]
It’s been a little over two weeks since Jamaican fishermen Anthony Hibberd and Jason Noble safely returned to their homeland after being lost at sea for over a month before being rescued near Mexico by a freighter en route to Belize. While their ordeal at sea ended miraculously one Belizean family is tonight praying for […]
We have checked our records but cannot find an internal document as explosive as the one written to the commissioner of police from within the department. It is dated March twenty-second but copies have just become available. The Police Association and Senior Superintendent Chester Williams have written a letter entitled “A Call for Justice” to […]
Belize City Councillor Kevin Singh dropped a bombshell when he disclosed to News Five today that he can’t account for monies collected from market vendors at Queen Square. The money is for arrears for rental of market stalls, but while the vendors have receipts, there are no records of their payments at City Hall. Councilor […]
While the councillor does not know where the money is, vendors at the Queen’s Square market have been battling with the dilapidated conditions of the market and are now facing a rent increase since the Hutchandani Holdings which rents the Pound Yard Complex to City Hall, is upping the rental value. News Five’s Isani Cayetano […]
For the past two months San Pedro Town has been having significant water problems. While the crisis was pronounced in the week leading into the Easter break and over that long weekend, it has been somewhat alleviated but not resolved. In fact, while the company in charge of supplying tap water to the island is […]
The international news has been replete with the horrors of the massive oil spill off the Gulf of Mexico. Eighty-five thousand barrels have spilled so far since the well exploded on April twentieth. Oil exploration is a relatively new industry for Belize and while the operations on land have so far experienced no major accidental […]
The all too familiar problem of land has reached the remote village of Sarteneja in the Corozal District. Unlike other villages that are growing exponentially, the availability of land is not the problem in Sarteneja. There is enough of it, but over a hundred villagers have had titles to their land cancelled. News Five’s Isani […]
In our newscast on Wednesday we reported that four Belizeans were possibly murdered as they headed back to Belize through Mexico. The horrific news was prematurely confirmed by a representative from a generally accurate Ministry, and today families sighed with relief today as the speculation turned out to be a terrible rumor. The report was […]
But while the story ends well for the Mariano’s, Martin Rodriguez, and friends, two weeks ago it was a scary situation for one car dealer and his wife who were actually held up and robbed at gunpoint on a Mexican expressway. Ian Whitaker recounted his horrifying experience to News Five. Ian Whitaker, Robbed and Assaulted […]
On the home front, a couple in Dangriga lost their home in a fire on April seventeenth. While the house was burnt to ashes, an even greater loss was the death of their children, seven year old Alexander and four year old Archangel Higinio. Both parents, Marie Castillo and Irisi Higinio were attending a wake […]
On Tuesday night’s newscast Commissioner of Police, Crispin Jeffries told News Five that the Police Department has long known that wanted man, Jermaine Fuentes, is alive because he had been taken into custody several times in the US. The Commissioner also said that Belizean law enforcement officers are coordinating with their US counterparts to see […]
This Wednesday will mark one week since thirty seven-year old Stephen Buckley was critically shot by a police officer as he sat with his boss inside a green Dodge Ram at the Cesar Ridge intersection in Belize City. Buckley, a contractor by profession, was hit in the head by bullets from a pump action shotgun […]
Stephen Buckley’s shooting has stirred outrage in the community. Police maintain that the shooting was accidental, but persons who witnessed the shooting attest that the trigger was pulled by the police officer. Buckley was injured on the face, was left paralyzed and continues receiving treatment at the K.H.M.H. News Five Delahnie Bain spoke to family […]
There’s more talk against crime, this time it’s coming from the Belize City Council that is holding a Violence Prevention Summit to bring all sectors of the community together to take an active stance against the increasing violent crimes. CitCo has activated the City Emergency Management Organization (CEMO) to spearhead the initiative which will feature […]
The proposal dubbed ‘park to parking lot’ has been vehemently condemned both by residents and central government, so now the folks at City Hall are saying that the plan has been shelved. The idea was to use the front of the B.T.L. Park to provide parking for the new casino being built across the street […]
By any stretch, John McAfee is a name to reckon in the computer world. He is the founder of McAfee, the largest computer anti-virus company in the world. For the past two and a half years, he has been living in Belize; more specifically in San Pedro Ambergris Caye. The fact that he had moved […]
The Thurstons, Byron and Armead, owners of Baker’s Ranch, a sprawling homestead in Sand Hill Village are today in jeopardy of losing two hundred acres of real estate to village expansion. They have been fighting the takeover of their land since last year and it appears that this will soon come to be. The Thurstons […]
This past Wednesday, Lorna Bainton Alarcon was hit in the legs by stray pellets when Ladyville police opened fire on a fleeing suspect. That same night a trio of Belize City men who were riding in a Dodge Ram pickup also came under fire from police officers when they were pulled over on Caesar Ridge […]
No area of Belize is spared of crime, and in La Isla Bonita, youths joined other residents to rally against the crime wave. They came out this morning in large numbers under the scorching sun and took their message through the streets of San Pedro as they lashed out at the growing problem in that […]
Last month we reported on the water crisis that residents of San Pedro Town were experiencing. The problem started just before Easter and the Belize Water Services laid blame at the feet of its water supplier on the island, Consolidated Water Limited. Consolidated Water in turn claimed that many of its membranes were suddenly being […]
