It’s the eve of an important election and as one hundred fifty-four candidates work late into the night in search of that last handful of votes, we in the media should be hot on their trail. But as often happens, events sometimes intervene, in this case three murders that took place in Belize City, likely […]
He is accused of going on a weekend crime spree in which he shot a police officer, beat his girlfriend, threatened his brother-in-law, almost killed his step-daughter, and then tried to kill himself. And today, thirty-six year old special constable Charles Grant appeared in Magistrate’s Court where he was hit with a whopping eleven charges. […]
And while police have three more murders on their hands, they are nonetheless pleased tonight, having made a breakthrough in another cold case. On Monday, officers arrested twenty-one year old Errol Haynes and charged him with the 2005 murder of Delrick Sankey. This afternoon Haynes appeared before Magistrate Margaret Gabb-McKenzie where he was remanded to […]
A man has pled guilty to charges arising from a double traffic fatality. On Monday, forty-four year old Valentine Ferguson was slated to be tried for two counts of manslaughter by negligence in the courtroom of Justice Adolph Lucas. But before the proceedings formally began, Ferguson opted to plead guilty to the lesser charge of […]
Newspapers, particularly those published by our two major political parties, are known to tell a fib now and then. But even by those loose standards the headline in today’s election eve issue of the Belize Times was something of a shocker. “Barrow Resigns” said the uncharacteristically red banner; while the text went on to describe […]
This week the United States Peace Corps, created by President John F. Kennedy in 1961, is celebrating forty-five years of service. Just one year after its establishment, the organization’s first volunteers arrived in Belize to teach in our schools. As part of their anniversary celebrations, today the more than sixty men and women working in […]
Cancer: it’s a word that can’t help but make us uncomfortable, since the disease leaves its often fatal mark on both young and old of every ethnicity and social strata. Last week Belize’s medical experts met to learn more about cancer … and News Five’s Jacqueline Woods was there. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Three year old […]
In countless ads and only slightly fewer news stories you’ve heard what most of the politicians and candidates involved in Wednesday’s municipal elections have to say. For our last story on election eve we thought it might be nice to hear some voices from the people who, for one day at least, will have the […]
On New Year’s Eve, an eighty-five year old Belize City woman was heartlessly robbed and pushed into a drain on Wilson Street. Tonight there is news of yet another atrocity, only this time the crime is against a young child. Kevin Jose Garcia, Robbed at Gunpoint “I seh thank you God fu what happened and […]
The fate of a man accused of murder is uncertain tonight after the case against him ended with a hung jury. According to court reports, the four women and eight men who heard the trial of twenty-seven year old Jamie Dawson retired to deliberate around three on Friday afternoon. But five hours later, they remained […]
A quarrel over a gun has landed a teenager in the hospital and his fifteen year old brother in police custody. According to authorities, around one on Sunday morning sixteen year old Luis Cardinez and his fifteen year old sibling got into a fight over a firearm. Apparently, the younger boy had stolen the weapon […]
Another tourist has drowned, this time while snorkelling at the Hol Chan Marine Reserve off Ambergris Caye. Police report that around noon on Sunday sixty-five year old Deanne Kennedy was with a group of swimmers when she began having trouble in the water. She was immediately taken to the San Pedro Clinic, but was pronounced […]
A traffic accident in Dangriga has left a family mourning the loss of a young child. Police report that around eight on Friday morning, seven year old Dayron Hernandez was riding his bicycle on St. Vincent Street when he was knocked down by a bus driven by thirty year old Lancia David. Hernandez was rushed […]
Fire officials had a busy weekend as three separate blazes erupted in Belize City, leaving one family homeless and sending thousands of dollars in property up in smoke. According to fire officials, the first call came in around three-thirty on Saturday. When fire trucks responded to this address on Queen Charlotte Street they found these […]
In recent years, there have been several manatee deaths along the Belize City coastline, but this afternoon I visited the scene of what experts say is one of the strangest … and saddest … marine causalities in recent memory. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This has been the pitiful sight along the shore in Buttonwood Bay for […]
The ceremony was brief and attendance was sparse … but for residents of Belmopan, today was a big deal. The occasion was the official opening of the new market, and as News Five?s Jacqueline Woods discovered, what began in controversy has ended in agreement. Francisca Mira, Vegetable Vendor “The space is more open we have […]
Details are still sketchy but police reports to News Five indicate that three Guatemalans have been arrested and charged after they were caught harvesting xate leaves in the Chiquibul Forest Reserve. The detainees have tentatively been identified to us as Freddie Perez, Nery Abdulio Mantar and Humberto Hernandez. All three were arrested and convicted of […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley and we?re here to drop this load of Sports Monday live and in living colour into your living rooms. The RFG Insurance Trophy Tournament, not to be confused with the RFG Insurance Cup Tournament, kicked off over the weekend featuring ten teams in five matches, from two groupings. At the […]
It was a story that never made it into the police press reports … a mid-morning traffic accident on the Guinea Grass road that left a pregnant woman in critical condition. Three weeks later, family members continue a bedside vigil at the private ward in the K.H.M.H., hoping against hope that their loved one will […]
Meanwhile, police investigations into another traffic accident, this time on the Western Highway, continue; but tonight reports are that the victim has been certified as brain dead. Around five on Tuesday evening thirty-two year old Anne Thompson was hit by a Land Rover near her home in Esperanza Village. She was rushed to the Loma […]
In news from the south, police reports are that Dangriga cops have arrested and charged the prime suspect in the death of twenty-six year old Lydia Smith. According to authorities, thirty-one year old Marlon Hyde, a resident of Cotton Tree Village, has been arraigned on a charge of murder. Smith and Hyde had recently separated […]
It was a crime that shocked the country … the brazen 2004 shooting of well-known Belize City businessman Phillip Gallaty as he drove over a speed bump in Ladyville. Tonight the case is back in the news, as during court proceedings today charges against two of the accused were dropped. Reports to News Five indicate […]
Two people accused of ripping off the Treasury Department walked out of court as free citizens after the charges against them were withdrawn. The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has entered a nolle prosequi motion in connection with charges of theft against Jeffrey Reneau and Bernadette Saldivar. The two were arrested by police […]
A Belize City chain snatcher has been sentenced to five years behind bars. Forty-one year old Andy Avilez appeared before Magistrate Sharon Frazer today after the victim, Maria Sabala, testified that she was on New Road on September twenty-fourth when Avilez approached her and asked if she wanted her car cleaned. She declined the offer […]
Gunshots rang out on the Southside of Belize City last night and when it was over, two more young men lay wounded. But most troubling is that one of the victims is an innocent thirteen year old boy. Barbara Foster, Mother of Shooting Victim ?Like he limp ovah like that, you know, and then when […]
