Two Belize City teenagers have been arrested and charged with Attempted Murder in connection to a shooting that occurred last week. According to court reports, twenty year old Ready Call employee Roy Bennett was visiting a friend on Jane Usher Boulevard when a masked man walked into the yard and fired four shots through the […]
He put a gun in a teenager’s face but today the accused tried to convince the court it was only a joke because the weapon wasn’t real. According to the sixteen year old boy, he and a friend were walking on Curl Thompson Street when two men rode up to them on bicycles. According to […]
As I speak, the United Democratic Party is officially launching its 2008-2013 manifesto to a crowd of supporters at the party’s headquarters on Youth for the Future Drive. But as Ann-Marie Williams discovered this week, politics is also taking centre stage in Cayo North. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting There are only twenty-two days left in the […]
As political candidates enter the final lap of their campaigning, incumbents are depending on their performance over the last term to help them keep their seats in the House of Representatives. This morning the People’s United Party Candidate in Albert Mark Espat reflected on his political career. Mark Espat, Area Representative, Albert Division “In 2003 […]
We caught up with Espat as he participated in the official opening of a new building for the city’s oldest high school. News Five’s Marion Ali reports. Marion Ali, Reporting This morning’s ribbon cutting marked yet another milestone for Wesley College as the school officially opened a new building that will be used as classroom […]
After three weeks of peace in the streets, tonight homicide detectives are working on the first murder of the year. And as News Five’s Marion Ali reports, the motive behind the killing may be drug related. Marion Ali, Reporting Just after five this morning, thirty year old Norman Reyes, also known as “Ne Me”, became […]
And while killing in the streets picked up right where it left off, crimes against the country’s children continues unabated. Police reports out of Seine Bight are that a twenty year old man has been arrested and charged for molesting a two year old girl. On Monday, the toddler’s mother says she noticed abrasions and […]
Parchue will stand trial for the offence but on Monday a jury found two other people accused of child molesting guilty as charged. After deliberating for two hours, a nine-member panel convicted thirty-four year old Wilfred Gillett and his common-law wife Beverly Simpson. Gillett was found guilty on five counts of carnal knowledge while Simpson […]
Details remain sketchy but reports are that around four this evening a head on collision on the Southern highway has left one person dead and five others injured. Witnesses tell News Five that it appears a tow head truck was heading towards Dangriga when it collided with a pick-up truck that was exiting the Hopkins […]
Two men accused of murder were free to leave the court today after the Director of Prosecutions withdrew the charges against them. In the first case, eighteen year old Kenroy Humes had been charged with killing twenty nine year old Gilbert Phillips, which occurred almost two years ago. But Crown Counsel Douglas Carr was forced […]
Following their first meeting of the year, tonight the Bakers Association of Belize is advising consumers that dramatic price hikes in flour could mean a rise in the cost of bread in the very near future. According to the release, while the extra cost of the commodity was anticipated, additional increases in the price of […]
As part of our general elections coverage for 2008, News Five will be touring the country introducing candidates to the electorate. Tonight correspondent Ann-Marie Williams takes us to the Cayo Central division. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting With only twenty-three days left before the 2008 general elections, candidates all over the country are on the campaign trail […]
Five more Belizean students have graduated from Anglia Ruskin University in the United Kingdom. Christopher McGann, Elmer Murray, Sergio Acosta, Caryn Ann and Leni Ysaguirre successfully completed their studies in November 2007 but were celebrated at home on Monday in a short ceremony at the Radisson Hotel in Belize City. University Chancellor Lord Michael Ashcroft, […]
Over the last decade the Rotary Gift of Life has helped over three hundred Belizean children receive life saving cardiac care. To assist those patients and countless others with heart conditions, the programme relies on donations from businesses and the general public. In their latest fundraising attempt, Rotary has found a way to give back […]
At the start of every school year, a common complaint among administrators is a lack of space. But this week, one institution took time out to say “thank you” to generous benefactors who helped them better accommodate their student population. News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports from Dangriga. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This morning the students and […]
Details are still hard to come by but reports are that around eight this morning an inmate was fatally shot by a guard at Hattieville Prison. According to a press release issued by the police, officers were called out to the facility where they were informed that thirty year old Freddy Harris, on remand for […]
Security procedures at Hattieville have been publicly scrutinized since the embarrassing arrest of former prison official Oscar Puga, who was charged after police found him heading into Belize City late at night with three prisoners in his vehicle. In the fallout from that incident, the prison’s managers from the Kolbe Foundation enlisted the help of […]
A toddler died this afternoon after he received burns to fifty percent of his body. Thirty year-old Jaime Rivero Senior told police that on Sunday afternoon he was inside the bedroom of his home at mile four and a half on the Northern Highway while his son, Jaime Junior was outside in a bathroom corridor […]
A night at a popular nightspot deteriorated into chaos early Saturday morning and left two people hospitalized. According to police, just after midnight an old argument between two groups of men climaxed when a heated exchange inside the Riverside Tavern escalated to blows and then a free for all. The melee caused substantial damage to […]
The brawl at the Riverside Tavern was not the only one that police had to respond to Saturday morning. Half an hour past midnight, they were out at Kim’s Lounge on Church Street where another fracas was in full swing. This time, according to Williams, the police became targets. While he says the police have […]
Police in San Pedro are investigating a brazen mid-morning robbery which took place today at the St. Francis Xavier Credit Union. Just before ten a.m. three men walked into the financial institution located on Lagoon Street. Once inside the trio beat up the security guard, relieved him of his point thirty-eight handgun, and then went […]
A Belize City cashier was arrested and charged with Theft after her bosses discovered more than twenty thousand dollars missing from the cash pan. According to a report made by the accountant of the Belize Port Authority, between April second and September twentieth, twenty-three thousand nine hundred dollars was paid into the regulatory body for […]
Many people take part in syndicates; they think it’s a good way to save money. But earlier this month one participant visited our studios to complain that somebody ran off with the bank. According to Michaele Johnson, in early 2007 she was living in Maskall when she and other members of the community joined the […]
The Police Department’s crackdown on gang activity has resulted in another member of the MS13 being deported. According to police reports, on December tenth, officers in Belize City arrested Salvadoran Jose Flores and charged him with the crime of Displaying a Gang Insignia. Flores pled guilty to the charge and was fined three hundred dollars. […]
Five months after Hurricane Dean devastated portions of northern Belize, the European Union is offering more than two million dollars in aid to the storm victims. According to a government press release, the EU is providing approximately one point seven million dollars for housing in the Corozal, Orange Walk and Belize Districts. The project will […]
