Men fleeing check point arrested for drug trafficking

A routine road check by customs officials in Orange Walk ended in a high-speed chase and the arrest of two Belize City men. According to Orange Walk police, around eight Tuesday night, customs officers were conducting checks on the Yo Creek/San Antonio Road when they noticed a brown car coming towards them. The men ordered […]

Government closes Refugee Department

Today the Ministry of National Security and Immigration closed the Refugee Department. According to the Ministry the traditional source of refugees to Belize, Latin America has progressed to democratically elected civilian governments and the last war ended two years ago removing the causes of the refugee problem. Because of this the United Nations High Commissioner […]

Reward offered for information on missing lighthouse keeper

The Belize Port Authority is offering a reward of five thousand dollars for any information which will help in locating Charles Garbutt and his family who disappeared at sea two weeks ago. Garbutt is a lighthouse keeper at English Caye and has been an employee of the Port Authority for over nine years. He and […]

Child returns after tumor surgery

Almost a month ago, on December fourth, four year old Neri Orellano left the country to undergo surgery to remove a tumor that was lodged in his spinal cord. The condition caused the little boy a great deal of pain and he had trouble walking and urinating. Thanks to Friends of Pediatrics and their counterparts […]

“Macho Camacho” welcomed by Belizean fans

It’s Thursday and you know what that means: cruise ship visitors wandering around town seeing the sites and looking for souvenirs. But while most visitors just blend into the hustle and bustle of the city, one man today became an attraction himself when it was discovered he was none other than Puerto Rican boxing star […]

Viewers reflect on best/worst of ’98

Tonight at midnight we will toast the passing of 1998 and the arrival of 1999. For some ’98 was a great year, for others it was one they hope will never come back. News Five asked some people today about what they will remember and what they would like to come their way in ’99. […]

G. Michael Reid looks at the past year

We end our last newscast of 1998 with the Last Word from G. Michael Reid. Tonight, like the rest of us, he looks back on a year that was filled with changes and tries to make some sense of it all. “Well, the stage is set, the welcome mat is laid and we stand ready […]

Friday is holiday, next newscast night of Monday, Jan. 4th.

D.P.P. releases Hummingbird suspects

The May second murder of a B.D.F. volunteer and mass holdup of nearly two hundred Belizeans on the Hummingbird Highway by a band of heavily armed Guatemalans is probably the most audacious crime ever committed on Belizean soil. At the time the police suffered tremendous embarrassment at their inability to apprehend the killers even though […]

Police witnesses can’t make I.D.

It was obvious that Commissioner of Police Ornel Brooks either didn’t believe or didn’t want to believe the witnesses who came forward to support the two suspects’ alibis. He preferred instead to rely on the testimony of witnesses whom he claimed positively identified the men as the killers. At a press conference shortly after the […]

Five year old dies in traffic accident

A five year old little boy Akim Gladden lost his life yesterday afternoon when he came out of a city bus on Raccoon Street and was hit by a jeep. Gladden’s mother Christine Hamilton was accompanying her only child at the time of the accident. She told News Five what she remembered about yesterday’s terrifying […]

U.D.P. says give the media police information

The United Democratic Party is asking the Ministry of National Security to reverse its decision to issue police reports to the media on a twice weekly basis. The U.D.P., led by former Minister of National Security Dean Barrow, characterizes the move as an attempt to manipulate and control what is fed to the public. The […]

Cayo gets new ambulance

The San Ignacio Hospital has received an ambulance from the non-profit organization, Janus. On hand yesterday to accept the donation from Gabrielle Wollensak, Janus President was the area representative Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Daniel Silva. Daniel Silva, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries “On behalf of the people of San Ignacio and Santa Elena, in […]

Prime Minister says 1999 will be the year for work

While people in Barbados are looking forward to their elections, Belizeans are looking back at the changes and challenges of 1998. Today the Prime Minister Said Musa gave his New Year’s message and said the government will spend 1999 making positive changes for the nation. Said Musa, Prime Minister “The pop artist formerly known as […]

Witnesses say police ran down suspect with vehicle

A young man is hospitalized after being hit by a car on Monday night on Plues Street. Police say two officers, Assistant Inspector Eli Salazar and Corporal Fitzroy Yearwood observed four youths on Church Street approach another youth and demand money. When they were refused, one of the men hit the youth, later identified as […]

Man being sought in death of Stann Creek woman

Stann Creek police are looking for a man they believe was involved in the murder of a Guatemalan woman in San Juan Village on Boxing Day. Luis Roches is wanted in connection with the death of Norma Juarez whose body was found on the night of the twenty-sixth just yards from her home with a […]

15 year old arrested for Christmas robberies

Police have made another arrest in connection with the series of robberies that occurred over the Christmas Holiday. According to A.I.P. Simeon Alvarez, Head of C.I.B., fifteen year old Anthony Crawford, a student of C.E.T., will be charged along with Steven Terry for two counts of robbery committed upon Dawn Sampson and Erwin Jones on […]

Belize City youth hospitalized with chop wounds

A youth from the King’s Park area is in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he received several chop wounds to his body. According to police Paul Anthony Jex was walking down Euphrates Avenue around six Monday evening when Anthony Peña and two other men began to pursue him. Jex is reported to have run […]

Guatemalan police meet with Belizean counterparts

Immigration and customs violations are not the only concerns for law enforcement officials at Belize’s borders, nor are they the sole focus of officials on the other side, in neighboring countries. Today the Police Chief from Melchor de Mencos, Guatemala and the Sub-Commissioner for the department of the Peten paid a special visit to Belize. […]

Music group releases CD with environmental theme

A new group of artists are in town… Jade. The six members of the band all hailing from San Ignacio and Benque Viejo have just brought out their first compact disc entitled, “La Tierra Llora” or in English, “The earth cries.” Iliana Moreno told us more about how the group got together and the meaning […]

Mother wants daughter’s killer found

While police decline to report recent incidents of serious crime, except twice a week, at the same time they have little to say regarding a number of unsolved murders. Chief among them is the killing of thirteen year old Sherilee Nicholas. The Belize City girl, missing since September, was found stabbed to death on October […]

New police policy limits access to crime news

It is the Monday after a holiday weekend, a time when viewers like to catch up on three days worth of news, including reports on which of their friends and neighbors may have been robbed, raped, beaten, killed or caught in a traffic accident. The task of providing that kind of information has now been […]

Belize City youth drowns near airstrip

A Sunday outing at the makeshift beach near the Municipal Airstrip has ended in tragedy. According to police, seventeen year old Gilroy Hilton of a Neal Pen Road address, had just arrived at the popular swimming area with three of his friends. Ten minutes later, around three thirty, the young man apparently dove into the […]

TV reporter mugged, suspect caught by police

A well-known journalist has been held up at gunpoint and robbed of her jewelry. Dawn Sampson, a television reporter for Channel Seven, was walking with her sister-in-law and brother down Central American Boulevard on Boxing Day evening when they were approached by twenty year old Steven Terry and a man known only to police as […]

Family feud ends in shooting

All was not quiet on Christmas Day in Sandhill as a long running dispute between family members has left one hospitalized and another arrested. According to police, one Charles Canton and his brother-in-law, Doug Stoyfhich were having a misunderstanding in Canton’s yard when it is alleged Canton shot Stoyfhich in his buttocks. According to police […]