A salesman from San Ignacio Town was stabbed to death early Sunday morning in that municipality. Thirty-six year old Ali Orlando Flores was found with thirteen stab wounds to his chest and a cut wound across his throat just one house away from his mother’s residence on Eighth Street. News Five has learned that Flores […]
A jury of eleven women and one man deliberated for almost four hours before it found Leonard “Ghost” Myers not guilty of the murder of fourteen year old Rodney Conorquie. Myers also faced two counts each of Attempted Murder and Aggravated Assault but was found not guilty of all charges. Conorquie was fatally shot on […]
In other crime news, today a Belize City man appeared in Magistrates’ Court to answer to charges of Burglary and Aggravated Assault. Twenty-five year old David Lambey pled not guilty to the offences and after the prosecution objected to bail, was remanded to prison. A nineteen year old woman reported to police that on the […]
Ask any N.G.O. and they will tell you that donations are a necessity for them to carry out their work. Today one organisation was lucky to be on the receiving end of three thousand dollars from Belize Telemedia Limited. The funds were donated to the Alliance Against AIDS and according to Executive Director, Rodel Beltran […]
Today is International Nurses Day and the senior staff at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, in the company of Minister of Health Pablo Marin, held a special luncheon to pay homage to the over one hundred and eighty nurses at the hospital. According to Director of Nursing at the K.H.M.H., Mavis Palacio, the profession sometimes […]
As an opposition member of the House of Representatives, Patrick Faber was known for his outspoken opinions and occasional brushes with authority. Since February’s election the rebel from Collet has become the nation’s Minister of Education … and as News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports, he’s still speaking his mind. Patrick Faber, Minister of Education “There […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and we do welcome you to this segment of Sports Monday. The Female Football League presented a full schedule over the weekend so we caught up with the M.C.C. clash between Hidden Treasures of Pomona and the home team Millennium Girls staged yesterday. The city team uses the home field […]
One week after fuel prices jumped by more than fifty cents at the pump, Belmopan has announced a four dollar increase in the price of butane. The new rates take effect on Saturday with a hundred pound cylinder selling for a hundred and twenty-two dollars in Belize City, one twenty four in Belmopan and San […]
Many motorists are simply waved through a police checkpoint but on Thursday there was something about the three men and a woman travelling in an Isuzu Trooper that made officers stop and take a second look. And it was a good thing they did. According to police, inside the vehicle they found one point nine […]
Meanwhile officers manning the Sand Hill checkpoint had a find of their own as police say inside forty-three year old Edmundo Burke’s vehicle they found twenty-five cartons of uncustomed cigarettes. The DJ brand smokes, valued at twelve thousand five hundred dollars, were immediately seized and Burke was arrested. The accused appeared in Magistrate Court this […]
In an update to the mysterious jacking of a container truck more than a week ago, late this evening Comptroller of Customs Gregory Gibson confirmed to News Five that an internal investigation is ongoing and has resulted in the suspension of one of its officers. According to Gibson, just after the forty-foot container truck left […]
A Belize City musician is singing “Jail House Rock” tonight after cops found an unlicensed gun in his bedroom closet. But as serious as that charge is, twenty-eight year old Ernest Young may have bigger trouble on his hands because police believe the firearm has been used as a murder weapon. Acting on a tip, […]
The assault of security guards for their weapons has become a common crime but tonight a Belize City watchman is alleging that he was kidnapped and beaten by three attackers. According to thirty year old Gregory Stamp, on Wednesday afternoon he was working at Edward P. Yorke High School when a former student attempted to […]
It’s a part of the transition process following General Elections, but this week control of a water board in the Cayo District ended in the detention of two people and allegations of political victimization. According to El Progresso Village Councillor Geraldo Garcia, on Wednesday, Rural Development Officers arrived in the Mountain Pine Ridge community accompanied […]
It’s a favourite fantasy to imagine winning millions of dollars but for one Belizean American and his wife, that dream has come true. On Thursday, seventy-four-year old Carl Bernard Hunter and his wife Diane claimed, wait for it, the ninety-seven million U.S. dollars they won in the Louisiana Powerball jackpot. In January, Hunter stopped at […]
This morning the Belize Defence Force officially accepted five new Mitsubishi pickups, courtesy of the United States Government. As we found out at the handing-over ceremony this morning, the gifts are part of the U.S. Government’s Global Peace-keeping Initiative and will form a part of the B.D.F.’s Light Engineering Company. Leonard Hill, Deputy Chief of […]
They are always one of the first organisations to respond in times of disaster and on Thursday the millions of volunteers that are the backbone of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies celebrated the birthday of their founder Henry Dunant, who established the organisation in 1863. The movement, which has been operating in […]
Organisations like the Red Cross count on volunteers and financial contributions from the business community and the public. But with everyone complaining about the high cost of living these days, resources are stretched thin. But since last September, one Belize City woman has been quietly investing in the children of her neighbourhood. Gospel Minister Suzette […]
She’s one of the hardest working women in show business and this weekend Millie Jackson will star in a special Mother’s Day concert in Belize City. News Five’s Kendra Griffith sat down with the international singer this morning for a preview. Kendra Griffith, Reporting In the over forty years that Millie Jackson has been on […]
For the past four nights, student performers have taken centre stage at the Bliss Centre to showcase their talents in music, drama, dance and poetry. Here are the highlights of those performances. [Montage of Festival of Arts performances] The secondary showcase ends tonight but the primary school performers will take over the stage from May […]
The O.A.S. has already declared the area vacant and our government has supplied photos to prove it. Today the B.D.F., assisted by a British helicopter, took the media to see with its own eyes what was once the settlement called Santa Rosa. Despite its tiny size, the community of Guatemalans on the Belize side of […]
Another youth was shot last night but luckily he survived the attack. Around seven Sixteen year old Jermaine Matura of Arlington Drive was shot twice while inside a yard at sixty-three Central American Boulevard with family and friends. Statements given by those in the area indicate that they heard noises coming from a nearby vacant […]
He’s been on the run since the February fourteenth murder of Shannon “Shaggy” Henderson and police believe that exactly a month later he fatally shot Samuel de Jesus Ortiz, both killings occurring in Placencia. Since then law enforcement authorities have still been unable to determine the whereabouts of thirty year old Gregory Casildo despite well […]
Two ex-police officers whose case was dismissed for want of prosecution have been recharged with the original offence of Trafficking in Persons. Allyson Muslar and Lauren Flowers were initially charged along with Hersel Garcia in February of 2007. This was after they were apprehended between miles seventy-one and seventy-two on the Northern Highway with eight […]
The Crime Control Council held its first meeting since the appointment of the new Minister of National Security, Carlos Perdomo. The body, chaired by attorney Michael Young, has as its main objective a comprehensive approach to fighting crime. Carlos Perdomo, Minister of National Security “They will look at everything, not just criminal activity or criminal […]
