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Two arrested for Ladyville murder

Two men have been arrested and charged for the Tuesday night killing of a Chinese grocer in Ladyville. Twenty-one year old Dwayne Cruz and seventeen year old Akeem Lord were arrested and charged with murder today in Magistrate’s Court. Contrary to earlier reports, the two men who shot Weng Ger Zheng at his shop on […]

City youth charged in Wednesday night shooting

Belize City police say they do not know if twenty-one year old Stephen Yearwood was the intended victim of a shooting incident on Wednesday night, but the young man lies in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital with a bullet wound to the right side of his neck. According to police, they strongly believe this man, […]

Guatemalan arrested at weed plantation

A Guatemalan has been arrested in connection with a number of marijuana plantations discovered on the Old Northern Highway. Twenty-six year old Ostilo Garcia of Trial Farm in Orange Walk has been charged with cultivation of marijuana in Magistrate’s Court after he was found in the area of the illegal farms several miles from Santa […]

Post-mortem in prisoner?s death is inconclusive

In other police updates, a post-mortem on the body of David Gallego has proved inconclusive. Gallego died in his cell at the Ladyville police station early Tuesday morning where he had been detained for handling stolen goods. According to the police press officer, G. Michael Reid, pathologist Dr. Hugh Sanchez found no signs of violence […]

Granny saved from fire by grandson, neighbours

A Belize City granny is lucky to be alive tonight having been saved from her burning house by her grandson and a pair of quick thinking neighbours. At around four this morning, fire broke out in the lower flat of Icitadel Flowers’ house at 156 Neal Pen Road. The four children and two adults living […]

Prosser disputes reports of loan default

Jeffrey Prosser and his many corporate personas have responded to reports carried on this station and Channel 7 claiming that Prosser has defaulted on his multimillion dollar loan with the R.B.T.T. bank. Following a brief email exchange with Rene Henry, Prosser’s former P.R. chief and current special advisor, Henry made the following statement. “The transaction […]

O.A.S. provides G.P.S. equipment for Belize, Guatemala armies

They are called “confidence building measures” but to some observers on both sides of the border relations between the armies of Belize and Guatemala may be getting too confident for comfort. Today the two forces, with help from the O.A.S., took another step toward reducing tensions on the frontier. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Before an audience […]

Chinese grocer shot dead in Ladyville

It’s a familiar Belizean crime: gunman enters shop, gunman shoots proprietor, gunman runs away. The latest fatal robbery attempt occurred last night in Ladyville and News Five’s Jacqueline Woods has the tragic story. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Thirty-one year old Weng Ger Zheng, better known as Alex, came to Belize five years ago and started doing […]

Bar patron wounded in hold-up

Forty-six year old Marvin Nunez, a Honduran national, is recovering at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was shot several times while seated inside a Belize City bar. Nunez, who did not wish to appear on camera, told police that around seven-thirty Tuesday night he was drinking beer inside the River Bottom Lounge on […]

Government will ease small D.F.C. borrowers

Several thousand Belizeans who have defaulted on small loans with the Development Finance Corporation are being relieved of their debt burden. The initiative, which according to a press release from the Prime Minister’s Office, involves close to six million dollars and one thousand, five hundred and twenty-five borrowers, was approved by Cabinet on Tuesday and […]

Placencia man is missing at sea

In news just in, police report a man is missing at sea. On Friday, sixty-seven year old Raymond Elijio was en route from Placencia to Gladden Caye, some twenty miles away, accompanied by William Faux and Brian Leslie. Faux reported to police that about a mile from the caye the boat ran aground, but the […]

Cop who killed horse charged with drunk driving

The police officer involved in a traffic accident on New Year’s Eve which left a horse dead and eleven children injured now stands accused of drunk driving. Court reports today indicate that thirty year old Clement Cacho appeared before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers on Tuesday where he was formally arraigned for driving with alcohol concentration above […]

Robber sentenced to six years in prison

A Belize City fisherman accused of viciously beating another man for his bicycle has been given jail time. Twenty-five year old Eric Martinez was sentenced to a total of six years in prison: five years for robbery and another year for grievous harm. On May tenth, 2005, the victim, Daniel Brooks, reported to police that […]

Angry customer tries to burn down shop

A Sandhill resident has been arrested and charged with arson following an incident at a local grocery shop. Around three on Monday afternoon, forty year old Barry Rosalez began arguing with Yung Fa He, the proprietor of a store between miles eighteen and nineteen on the Northern Highway. Yung says after the exchange of words, […]

Crime Stoppers seeks more public support

It’s a telephone number mentioned almost every night on this newscast: 0-800-922-TIPS. That’s the home of Crime Stoppers, the programme under which citizens can help police solve crimes by calling in anonymous tips–and receive a reward if the call leads to an arrest. Today, we were visited by Chris Garcia, Crime Stoppers’ local chief operating […]

B.D.F. anniversary celebration to be held in city

On Saturday, the Belize Defence Force will invade Belize City for its annual open day. According to organisers, this year the event has been moved from its usual location at Price Barracks to the Marion Jones Sporting Complex to accommodate more residents of the city. This afternoon, Commander of the B.D.F., Brigadier General Lloyd Gillett, […]

Baron Bliss holiday returns to March 6th

At the end of every year the Ministry of Home Affairs issues a press release listing the precise dates of all twelve public holidays to be celebrated in the coming year. 2006 was no different except for one holiday–Baron Bliss Day–which officials can’t seem to pin down. The original schedule had the traditional March ninth […]

P.U.C. defends its decision on electricity rates

If you’ve already received your January electricity bill, you have no doubt felt the pinch of the rate increases granted to Belize Electricity Limited effective the first of the month. The new prices are the result of what’s called TERP, a Threshold Event Review Proceeding. That mechanism kicked into effect late last year when the […]

Flooding cuts off Western Highway…

Weather is often a news maker in Belize, running the gamut from hurricane to drought. Tonight’s big story is flood. Generated by unseasonably heavy rains in the northern half of the country, rising waters cut off the frequently travelled Western Highway between Belize City and Belmopan for much of the day. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods […]

…While Belize City residents suffer a soaking

And while the flooding in the rolling hills of Cayo went down just as fast as it came up, for residents of a city barely above sea level, it was a different story… one that has many people soaking mad. Frank Longsworth, Area resident ?I noh know how I?m gonna recover from this right now. […]

Bizarre shooting/suicide attempt leaves shooter critical

Thirty-five year old Charles Grant, a special constable attached to the Tourism Police Unit, remains in a very critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he tried to kill himself. The suicide attempt followed Grant’s shooting of police constable Ian Geban in the head. Luckily, the bullet lodged just under the skin below […]

Detained prisoner dies in police custody

A suspect has died while in police custody. Forty-five year old David Gallego of Ladyville had been detained on Monday pending charges of handling stolen goods. On Tuesday morning around six-thirty his three cellmates at the Ladyville Police Station alerted an officer that Gallego was not moving. By seven he was declared dead by Dr. […]

Burglars sentenced to seven years in prison

Two men have been found guilty of burglary and sentenced to seven years each in jail. Eighteen year old Shane Bahadur and twenty-one year old Bruce Reneau received their jail time today from Magistrate Sharon Fraser. The crime occurred on the morning of September twenty-seventh, 2004, in Lord’s Bank Village. The duo, having entered the […]

Unconfirmed reports: Prosser will lose B.T.L. shares to bank

Two weeks ago we reported on Jeffrey Prosser’s troubles in a Delaware courtroom; tonight it appears that he’s about to lose one of his major assets to the bank. Reports out of Port of Spain indicate that the U.S. Virgin Islands based communications mogul has failed to repay his loan to the Trinidadian bank R.B.T.T. […]

Mercy nuns sponsor walk and fair

The Sisters of Mercy will be praying for fair weather on Saturday as the convent celebrates more than a century of service in Belize with a five mile walk and fair. According to organiser Sister Carolee Chanona, even though the first seven sisters arrived from New Orleans one hundred and twenty-three years ago, the message […]