The Opposition, Peoples’ United Party has reacted to the alarming number of murders in recent days in the west of the country. The P.U.P. is calling on the U.D.P. government to quote “institute more robust and effective measures to combat the surging crime situation, especially in the Cayo District where six murders have been committed […]
Isabel Garbutt is in a class of her own, she has gained wisdom and experience that can only come with good living. Today this centenarian celebrates her hundred and third birthday. News Five dropped by her home on St. Joseph Street in Belize City at her party already in progress. Sharon Polack, Executive Director-Helpage “When […]
There is no shortage of activities to occupy children during the summer months and so organizations have had to get creative in order to capture children’s imagination. One organisation has come up with a new approach to summer camps. News Five’s Jose Sanchez reports. Jose Sanchez, Reporting Kids, exhausted from the classroom, are unleashing their […]
It begins tonight on Channel Five, it is Duets, a new show that will have you singing, dancing and rocking. Jose Sanchez tells you more about it. Jose Sanchez, Reporting When KTV made its debut on Channel Five seven years ago, no one expected it would become one of the most popular shows in local […]
It is fifth murder to occur in the last five days in the Cayo District. And the latest gruesome murder of a couple involved in the real estate business is sending shock waves paralyzing the communities in the western part of Belize where a gang of marauding gunmen appears to be operating lawlessly. The murder […]
A birthday celebration ended tragically in Punta Gorda with a woman dead and her boyfriend detained. Forty-two year old Jorge Pinzon reported to police that around four-thirty Saturday morning he and his girlfriend Soila Ramclam arrived at his house after celebrating her birthday. According to the Venezuelan businessman, he was cleaning his licensed nine-millimetre pistol […]
An American citizen was found dead on the Isle of San Pedro. Fifty-four year old Harold Wayne Adams came to Belize to retire. According to police, on Saturday Adams, who is described by police as an alcoholic, was believed to be intoxicated from early that morning. His lifeless body was found by Renee Vasquez at […]
It wasn’t only guns that claimed lives over the weekend as separate traffic accidents have left three dead and several injured. Starting in the north, Orange Walk police have detained one person for questioning following a collision between a pickup and a van. Police investigations reveal that around twelve-thirty Sunday morning twenty-eight year old Ernesto […]
Cayo police got a lucky break over the weekend when they intercepted a vehicle and prevented the commission of a robbery. Acting on a tip they received, San Ignacio police stopped a grey four-door Honda occupied by three teens. A search of the young men led to the discovery of two pairs of latex gloves, […]
The theft of Belize’s archaeological treasures is nothing new, but the incident that occurred over the weekend took place not at a Mayan temple, but rather a Toledo museum. On Sunday police visited the Museum at the Lubaantun Archaeology site in San Pedro, Columbia where they found that a burglar bar had been pried open […]
Sometime after eleven p.m. last night on Fort Street, the Belize Audubon Society became the latest victim of a break-in. Reports are that thieves, under the cover of darkness, made their way to the back of the building, where they used a crowbar to ply the paneling from the lower portion of the wall. They […]
A new water taxi service hopes to operate between Belize City and the islands. Jose Sanchez has more details. Jose Sanchez, Reporting Two water taxi companies working in the area have not deterred some entrepreneurs from attempting to set up a third business right next to the Caye Caulker Water Taxi Association. The Belize Water […]
With a solid majority in the House of Representatives, the Government has proposed a series of amendments to the constitution as part of its legislative agenda. And for weeks, the Constitution and Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives has been canvassing the country to hold public consultations on the proposed amendments to the […]
It was the cause of much adverse publicity by the then opposition before the elections; we refer to the textbook programme that was initiated by the past administration. The Ministry of Education today sent out a release on the matter, and to show you how things change and stay the same, the ministry continues to […]
Police across the country had their hands full with the weekend crime, but some of the officers took time out on Sunday to officially launch the seven days of activities known as Police Week. The ceremony, which took place in Belmopan, saw the awarding of members of the police department for long service and the […]
The grenade attack on Mayflower Street in May shook Belize City residents as the level of gang violence spun further out of control. Tonight one survivor told News Five how that incident has changed his life forever. Jose Sanchez, Reporting On May eighteenth, the lives of several persons on Mayflower Street were changed forever, when […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley. Welcome aboard for this weeks flight of Sports Monday. As money time approaches in the Belize Female Football League, the jockeying for post season play has reached fever pitch people. Yesterday inside the M.C.C. Grounds, Millennium Girls hosted the always dangerous Delille Pumas of Dangriga and can you believe fourteen […]
The Belize Bank won the first round of the battle over the ten million dollars U.S. from Venezuela that government is attempting to recover. This morning the Chief Justice issued a stay in the matter and to add to the bank’s victory, Chief Justice Conteh, in delivering his twenty-six-page judgment on the matter, ordered the […]
In other legal issues before the Courts, this morning Justice John Muria heard arguments in the case of Christine Perriott versus Telemedia. Last year Perriott brought a claim against Telemedia saying that she was improperly terminated from her job at the company. Telemedia, for its part, is seeking an interim injunction to restrain Senior Counsel […]
Police threw the book at the alleged grenade bomber, Akeen Smith, who already faces the rap for murder, adding six new charges relating to the same incident in May in which sixteen year old Darren Trapp was killed and eleven others injured. When he appeared in Court today, Smith was charged with three counts of […]
As we reported in last night’s newscast, police have apprehended the man that robbed the Centaur Cable Company at gunpoint on Wednesday. And this morning, the lone gunman, twenty five year old Jesse James Garbutt, appeared in court and was charged with Dangerous Harm, Robbery and two counts of Aggravated Assault. Garbutt pleaded not guilty […]
In more news from Magistrates’ Court, twenty-one year old Marlon Hernandez, an officer of the Belize National Coast Guard, was charged with six offences, including forgery, when he appeared in court today. Hernandez was charged with two counts each of Possession of a Forged Document, Claiming upon a Forged Document and Uttering a Forged Document. […]
Just before expiring, he told police that his injuries were the result of an accident. But today, Benque Viejo police have charged a man with the murder of twenty-five year old Jerson Paguada of the San Martin area in Belmopan. The man charged is eighteen year old Estevan Williams of Succotz Village. Police say that […]
A mother of four is murdered by the hands of her common law husband in Santa Elena. An early morning confession and swift arrest by police does little to dull the blow to the family and the community of Esperanza. Jose Sanchez reports from the scene of the crime. Andre Bradley, Son of Murder Victim […]
Meanwhile, News Five caught up with Alfonso Xis, who is the brother of forty-two year old Angel Xis and the uncle of eighteen year old Marcos Xis, who were both victims in a bloody murder yesterday in Calla Creek Village. Police discovered the men’s red and white Toyota pick up with the bullet riddled bodies […]
