A woman from St. Matthew’s Village was killed in a traffic accident on the Western Highway. Maria Irena Magana Lopez was riding her bike between miles 37 and 38 on Sunday evening, when she was struck by a pick-up truck. Karl Petzold told police he saw Lopez riding in the same direction, but as he […]
Police are still looking for information on a hit and run accident at mile 44 on the Northern Highway Sunday night. Area residents found the body of 34 year old Romel Rodney of Guinea Grass, by the side of the road around 7:00pm. The body was taken to the KHMH. Anyone who was in the […]
A visit to Chetumal turned tragic over the weekend for one Belize City man. According to police, 42 year old Albert Dougal went to Calderitas and decided to go swimming. Unfortunately, Dougal jumped headfirst into shallow water, apparently misjudging the depth. When he did not appear, bystanders jumped in and pulled him out of the […]
Reports of crimes against children, especially young defenseless infants, are becoming disturbingly common in Belize. Over the weekend, a 39-year-old man was charged with Dangerous Harm after he injured a 2-year-old child. According to police, just after 1:00 on Saturday afternoon, Eugene Neal of Roaring Creek Village reportedly became upset because 2-year-old Adrian Smith was […]
After last Friday’s bloody bout at the Hattieville Correctional Facility, reports of another incident on Sunday raised serious concerns. However, details from inside the prison today are that radio announcements were simply part of the prison’s precautionary measures. Reports are that around 10:00am on Sunday, a prisoner from the maximum-security section refused to go back […]
A teenaged girl who ran away last week and then told police she had been abducted has issued a public apology. In a press release today, 14-year-old Karen Williams explained why she left home, told where she was during her four-day disappearance and why she felt she had to lie about being kidnapped. Williams says […]
Belize’s Ombudsman, Paul Rodriguez, has been accepted as a full member of the Council of Central American Ombudsmen. Rodriguez was invited to join the council by Guatemala’s Ombudsman, Julio Arango Escobar, during the 12th annual meeting of the region’s Ombudsmen held last week in Guatemala. Rodriguez says one of the most important declarations made by […]
Ombudsman Rodriguez says here at home most of the complaints he hears center on land issues and allegations of police brutality. Rodriguez is calling for transparency in the Police Department. Paul Rodriguez, Ombudsman “I think that our military and our police enforcement agencies are going to have take the idea of transparent seriously. Just and […]
The photographs of Richard Holder are being featured at the House of Culture beginning this Wednesday. Holder’s subject matter is the nude female form. Neither the show, nor the individual photos have any titles, to cover them, just as his models aren’t wearing any clothes. Holder says the show is completely nude so the viewer […]
The House of Culture is also sponsoring another clinic for musicians this week. Trumpet player and teacher Luciano Rosado is back in Belize to continue the work he started at last year’s session, but he has company and more instruments will be included this time around. News Five spoke with Music Coordinator Jason Guerrero. Jason […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderly and welcome to this edition of Sports Monday. Three Central American nations gathered at the Rogers Stadium over the weekend, for an international invitational presented by the Belize Softball Federation, in celebration of the induction of Charles Solis and Pat Bennett into the International Hall of Fame. And here, flying […]
Late this morning News Five received a report that there was a riot at the Hattieville prison and that both the police and BDF had been dispatched to the institution. We also received reports that a number of inmates had been rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. When News Five got to the prison […]
While the staff at the prison tried today to get the situation under control, on Thursday the police were able to capture two escaped prisoners. Andrew Kelly, 24 and Terry Reyes, 19, were captured in a police raid that afternoon. Kelly was found near his home on Pelican Street Extension, while Reyes was found around […]
News of the riot, or protest, at the Hattieville Prison, stole some of the thunder today from the afternoon session of the budget debate in the House of Representatives. But radio news flashes and even comments in the House by the Representative from Mesopotamia Michael Finnegan didn’t interrupt the proceedings. At newstime, the presentations were […]
A Belize City man has been charged in the shooting death of his wife. 39 year old Ellis Tillett has been charged with causing death by careless conduct. Tillett told police that around 3:30 yesterday afternoon, he, his common law wife, 32 year old Marie Fuller, and a friend were going fishing in the Salt […]
A man from Bladden, Toledo has been charged with murder in connection with the death of a co-worker. 26 year old Roberto Bol Contreras has been arrested and charged with the murder of Julian Zelaya Lopez. Lopez’s body was discovered in a shallow grave covered with cohune leaves on March 13th in the banana fields […]
With parents all over Belize living in fear that their girls could at anytime be abducted, assaulted or worse, it is shocking to discover that once again a teenaged girl has runaway and then claimed she was kidnapped. The runaway, who was found today, first lied to her family and then the entire community when […]
There are open days and there are open days. Today was the day Saint John’s College’s students did their best to impress their teachers, parents and potential future students. Presentation subjects ranged from biology to business to a bike that rides on water. The students say being teachers for a day made them a little […]
They say that nobody is indispensable, but that saying does not seem to apply to Bernard Adolphus. The man who was relieved of his duties as head of the Hattieville Prison less than a year ago is back. His new title is Prison Governor, but the man the media came to know simply as “The […]
Her daughter has left home before, but this time Dorla Matura is really worried, not only because of the length of time, but because of the recent abductions and murders of girls Karen Williams’ age. Today Matura told News Five why she thinks her daughter ran away and appealed to the girl to come home, […]
Details are still sketchy at newstime, but police are reporting that a woman was shot to death in Ladyville this afternoon. 32 year old Marie Fuller died of a bullet wound to the head around 3:30 at her home at mile 13. Her common law husband Ellis Tillett reported that the gun went off accidentally. […]
Police have detained one man for questioning after an infant left in his care died on Wednesday morning. The man told police he left his daughter, six month old Jayleen Jones, sleeping on the bed at their home in Belize City, but when he returned about five minutes later she was lying on the floor […]
A Salvadoran farmer from the Valley of Peace was gunned down at his home on Wednesday night. 63 year old Theodoro Lopez, died from a bullet wound to the chest, after three masked men approached the house armed with shotguns. His wife told police they demanded that she get her husband and when he came […]
Police have arrested one of their own following a series of rapes at his home. Police Constable, Michael Wills of Guinea Grass, has been charged with two counts of Rape and one count of Indecent Assault. A domestic worker of San Antonio, Toledo, who worked for Wills in Guinea Grass, told police he entered her […]
On Saturday, 19 year old Clifford Clare was gunned down at his home on Mahogany Street Extension and two teens standing nearby received gunshot wounds. A youth has now been charged with that murder as well as Wounding and use of Deadly Means of Harm. 20 year old Marlon Hyde was charged in Magistrate Court […]
