Police are looking for a man after he allegedly raped a woman inside her home. The fifty-six year old housewife, who lives at mile forty-four on the Old Northern Highway, told Orange Walk police that she was alone at home around ten on Sunday morning when a man she knows as Sergio Betancourt came to […]
A Benque Viejo resident accused of child molestation has been convicted of the crime. It took the jury less than two hours to find thirty-two year old Raul Rivero guilty of the Carnal Knowledge of a ten year old girl. During trial, the victim, who is now twelve years old, took the stand and told […]
Preliminary sparring continues in what promises to be a no holds barred fight for the leadership of the Peoples’ United Party. While the P.U.P. hierarchy continues to line up behind the candidacy of Freetown representative Francis Fonseca, former G-7 members and area reps John Briceño, Mark Espat and Cordel Hyde are taking their case for […]
A Belize City man riding on the wrong side of the road was killed when he was knocked of his bicycle Sunday night. The mishap occurred in front of B.T.L headquarters on Princess Margaret Drive around six-thirty and claimed the life of sixty-four year old Lionel Leslie. Forty-six year old Ronford Wagner reported to police […]
The captain of a boat that rammed a small skiff, killing one of its occupants, has been arrested and charged with a number of criminal offenses. Forty year old Richard “Bo Peep” Sjogreen has been charged with Manslaughter by Negligence, Causing Death by Careless Conduct, and Negligent Harm in the death of eleven year old […]
The wheels of the judicial system often turn slowly but swift justice has been handed down to two burglars who broke into a Belize City home on Sunday morning. According to court reports, fifty-one year old Eneyda Perera left her house at mile two and a half at about five past nine but fifteen minutes […]
He has been involved with conservation in Belize for over a quarter century and on Saturday the efforts of Philip Balderamos were recognized when he was presented with the James A. Waight Award by the Belize Audubon Society. When he took the podium to accept the award, Balderamos dedicated it to Father Leonard Dieckman, Homer […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and we’re back with another portion of Sports Monday. Stage five of the M&M Tour of Belize roared off at the usual nine a.m. U.C.I. start Saturday from Benque Viejo headed to Dangriga for the hundred fourteen miles of cycling that would finish at the gap on its way back […]
When it comes to fatal violence, the year started out on a hopeful note but in the last week a string of murders from north to south has put a damper on any post election euphoria and reminded Belizeans that partisan politics alone will not solve our most serious social problems. News Five’s Marion Ali […]
Shortly after the smoke cleared in Belize City, police in Placencia had their hands full with a murder in that picturesque village. Around nine p.m. twenty-five year old Shannon “Shaggy” Henderson was found dead in his home, the victim of gunshot wounds to the chest and back. Cops believe that Henderson had engaged in a […]
Meanwhile in the Corozal District police were called to an abandoned cane field where they found the body of fifty year taxi driver Eduardo Samos. Samos, who resides on the Consejo Road had been shot in the face. No suspects have been arrested as police investigations continue. These latest homicides bring the total number of […]
The P.U.P. called him Mr. Quitar in reference to candidate Dean Barrow’s somewhat misinterpreted call for the “taking back” of large tracts of government land virtually given away to alleged P.U.P. insiders. And once elected, Prime Minister Barrow made no apologies. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “We will in a word, and dare I say it, […]
You’ve probably seen the ads advertising an event for this weekend called Y.C. Belize and as I speak, participants are gathering at the City Centre. But if you haven’t decided whether to attend or if you are not sure what it even is, country coordinator, Pastor Jimmy Jones, stopped by our studios with an explanation. […]
When politicians talk about crime they invariably point to the need to get tough on the criminals while at the same time enacting programmes to encourage young people to stay out of trouble. Today News Five’s Kendra Griffith spent time with some people on the front lines of that effort. Glendamae Martinez, Chief Supervisor, Youth […]
Stage four of the M&M Tour left Belize City this morning heading west … and News Five’s James Adderley was right in the thick of it. James Adderley Reporting The Tourist Village here in Belize City was the scene this morning for the start of stage four in the M&M Tour of Belize and the […]
It’s been over a week now since election day and viewers may have noticed that since Friday the length of the ad breaks in this newscast has shrunk from a high of around twenty minutes each to a more manageable four or five. And while the public may not mourn the loss of those endless […]
Last night we visited San Pedro to chronicle an execution style murder. Tonight there’s another hit to report, this time in Orange Walk, which left two men dead and one injured. News Five’s Marion Ali has the story. Emerita Ramos, Mother of Nazim Romero “What he do, he take away a son of one person […]
There was another fatal shooting today, late this evening on Gill Street in Belize City. News Five’s Marion Ali is just in from the hospital where Senior Superintendent Chester Williams gave her some of the details. Sr. Supt. Chester Williams, O.C., Eastern Division “Sometime around five-fifteen there about, the police were called to Gill Street […]
Belize City police are tonight looking for two men in connection with a home invasion which left a housewife injured and fourteen thousand dollars poorer. The victim is thirty year old Fromi Daly, a resident of Dean Street. According to Daly, about a quarter to five on Wednesday morning she was coming out of her […]
The battle over who will succeed Said Musa as leader of the Peoples’ United Party is heating up as the prospective candidates engage in exploratory talks with each other and with key party officials. Early favourite Francis Fonseca enjoys the support of the party hierarchy and can presumably count on whatever post election financial reserves […]
Battlefield Park was converted into an outdoor dining room this afternoon as the City Council teamed up with local business houses to feed the homeless. An estimated two hundred and fifty people sat down to lunch through the efforts of City Hall, FirstCaribbean International Bank and Extra House. According to Belize City Mayor Zenaida Moya, […]
Like every other municipal body in Belize, the Belize City Council is made up of elected representatives of the United Democratic Party. Following the party’s landslide victory in last week’s general elections, today Mayor Moya, who is also President of the Belize Mayors Association, told us that with the U.D.P. in central government, conditions in […]
It’s an accusation that’s been leveled at the Post Office many times: cheques that are sent to Belizeans from abroad mysteriously go missing from the mail, only to eventually turn up cashed at foreign banks. Today one woman who claims to be a victim in the scam had this message for the perpetrators. Radiance Morter, […]
On February sixth the Rotary Club held the first of its semi-annual heart clinics in which over a hundred Belizean children were examined by visiting doctors. The money to send those young patients for medical care abroad is collected through a number of fundraising activities. This morning one such effort climaxed when a winner was […]
On election day and night, radio and TV correspondents for our Channel Five/Love FM joint coverage fanned out nationwide in search of facts and figures. Unfortunately, with thirty-one constituencies reporting in rapid succession, not all the video reports made it to air. Here’s an interesting filing, from Patrick Jones, who took a look at one […]
