Another defendant yesterday found herself in familiar surroundings; she’s the former cashier at Magistrate’s Court. Deborah Beaton has been arraigned on four separate counts of theft that took place between January and May of this year. It is alleged that on those occasions she dipped into the cash pan for amounts ranging from seventy-five to […]
Assistant Superintendent of Police Edward Broaster is a cop well known as an aggressive crime buster, not to mention budding poet. Well, as of tonight, he wears a third cap: that of philanthropist. Broaster earned that title by returning from Los Angeles, California, with a shipment of fifteen new bikes for the Police Department’s new […]
Global warming, more officially known as climate change: it’s one of those concepts that all of us have heard of, but few of us have any idea what to do about it. The issue, which for Belize could be critical, was today once again the subject of discussion by politicians and academics. News Five’s Jacqueline […]
Officially throwing his hat into the municipal political ring this afternoon was Belize City businessman, Rudolph Anderson, better known as Sir Andie. Sir Andie is one of four early hopefuls seeking the U.D.P. mayoral nomination. Today, the happy homebuilder explained how he plans to renovate Belize City. Rudolph “Sir Andie” Anderson, Seeks U.D.P. Mayoral Nomination […]
This evening a small group of young people from Hattieville Village visited News Five to speak about their ongoing efforts to raise money to help children return to school. According to Brittney Domingo of the Hattieville Baptist Young Adults Group, many parents are finding it difficult to meet education expenses and the youths are looking […]
The fifty-five page verdict began transmitting from the chambers of U.S. District Judge Ursula Ungaro-Benages shortly after one o’clock this afternoon, Miami time. And by the time the fax machine stopped, it was apparent that contrary to her earlier rulings and attitude, the judge had delivered an unequivocal vindication of the actions of the Government […]
Judge Ursula Ungaro-Benages was not the only legal mind making news today. On Bishop Street Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord was making waves of his own when he ruled on an important matter in the extradition hearing of Andrew “Papa” Brown. In his sixth such decision since Brown’s case began on July eighteenth, this morning Lord […]
Almost one month after the murder of fifty year old Antonio Almendarez, a watchman at Fido’s restaurant and bar, seventeen year old Elvis Williams and twenty-three year old Luis Lalin were today formally arraigned in Magistrate’s Court. According to officer in charge of the Criminal Investigation Branch, Assistant Superintendent Chester Williams, he credits the arrest […]
Tonight Belize City police are on the lookout for a trio of thieves who sought to capitalise on registration fees being paid into Saint John’s College Junior College. Reports to news Five indicate that around three this afternoon three men with handguns walked into the Landivar campus. One of the bandits attacked the main office […]
From a pool of more than six thousand applicants from fourteen countries, tonight the University of the West Indies has announced that not one but two Belizean students have been honoured as recipients of open scholarships to study at UWI. They are Saint John’s College Junior College alumni Rensi Franklin and Jose Cawich. The awards […]
In the world of governance, changing official policy is never easy… but with sufficient time and pressure, it can be done. In most cases the real challenge comes in making that new policy effective in the lives of the public. Today that problem was confronted by those trying to influence Belize’s policy towards women. Jacqueline […]
Reading: it’s a skill that forms a base for many of the activities that enrich our lives. And this summer–as News Five’s Jacqueline Woods found out–nobody does it better than the library. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The Interactive Reading Programme targets children like Confidence Austin, who are between the ages of five and fourteen years old. […]
A fatal traffic accident is always a sad event…but the one that occurred on Saturday morning between miles thirty-seven and thirty-eight on the Northern Highway takes on added significance as it involved the death of a police officer. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods has the story. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The lone survivor in the Toyota car, […]
Tonight two brothers have been arrested and charged with murder in connection with the stabbing death of a Placencia man. According to authorities, twenty-two year old Anthony Moody and twenty-three year old Andre Moody stabbed their brother-in-law, twenty-six year old Robert Cabral, a number of times late Friday night after several hours of socializing together. […]
It is one of Belize’s most magnificent tourist destinations, but on Saturday a trip to Caracol proved to be a frightening experience for a dozen visitors to our country after armed bandits attacked them on the Chiquibul road and held them hostage for more than four hours. According to tour guide Everald Tut, he was […]
Extradition proceedings against Andrew and Floyd Brown were delayed today in Belize City Magistrate’s Court as Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord continues to deliberate on requests from the prosecution to seek guidance from the Belize Supreme Court. Lord is now expected to make his ruling tomorrow. In previous proceedings, Lord had deemed tape recorded evidence submitted […]
Details remain sketchy tonight, but police reports to News Five indicate that a stabbing incident at the Princess Hotel and Casino has left one man recovering at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital and another in police custody. The victim has been identified to us as thirty-year-old Ernesto Graham also known as Ernesto Perez. According to […]
In court news, a young man often charged but seldom convicted has finally become the subject of a negative verdict. Today eighteen-year-old Francis Petillo pleaded guilty to one of three outstanding charges of robbery and was fined five thousand dollars or in default five years in jail. Petillo’s victim, Theodora Andrews, told police that he […]
Prosecutors were not so lucky in the case of Darren Banks, who today walked away from a prohibited firearm charge when a police witness failed to show up in court. Banks was accused of carrying a three-five-seven magnum handgun, one of a number of prohibited weapons that rate a mandatory three-year prison sentence. But when […]
The United Democratic Party held two more nominating conventions over the weekend. In Stann Creek West, former area rep and Minister of Works Melvin Hulse came out of political retirement to regain his party’s nomination in impressive fashion. Hulse left no doubt about his popularity, garnering one thousand, one hundred and nineteen votes. His nearest […]
With little fanfare, today American Airlines celebrated its fifteenth anniversary operating in Belize. According to country manager Luis Alpuche, back in 1990, there was only one daily American airlines flight to Miami. Today, there are two round trips to Miami and a third connection through Dallas. This afternoon Alpuche told News Five that the airline […]
It’s a town dependent on tourism that has increasingly seen its image as a tropical paradise overshadowed by a string of violent crimes. Today the Commissioner of Police visited San Pedro to respond to the community’s concerns. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Police Commissioner Gerald Westby is optimistic that a change […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley with this fresh dish of Sports Monday. The Cayo Female Softball Tournament presented week two of the playoffs yesterday at the Joan Garbutt Stadium inside Esperanza where the host team, the Wolverines, and the defending champions Camalote Duurlys Cristal both went in with undefeated records from the double elimination playoff […]
It was one of those marriages that looked doomed from the start… and after four years of acrimony, the Belize government and Belize Water Services Limited have finally called it quits. That’s right, according to a G.O.B. press release, the government will be repurchasing the utility–for the same price at which it was sold. Under […]
They’ve sued the Government of Belize for millions, invoked arbitration clauses in search of millions more, and threatened to use their pull in the U.S. Congress and White House to punish the Musa administration even further. You’d think that by this time U.S. wheeler-dealer and hard pay artist Jeffrey Prosser would take a rest while […]
