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Two more guns removed from the streets

The battle to get guns off the streets rages on and tonight police are reporting two more successes. Around seven on Sunday night cops acted on an anonymous tip and visited an empty lot on Iguana Street Extension in Belize City. Hidden in some bushes in the yard was a point thirty-eight Special Taurus revolver. […]

2 boat owners report vessels stolen

Two Belize City boat owners have reported their vessels stolen. Fifty-one year old Galindo Perez told police that on December eighteenth he left his twenty-three foot blue and yellow fiberglass skiff along with a forty horsepower Yamaha engine at Potto Stuck Island located thirteen miles from Belize City. The boat was in the care of […]

Fire at Belcove Hotel quickly contained

After three p.m. this afternoon, alarms went off in downtown Belize City as a fire engine raced down Regent Street, contrary to traffic. And almost as quickly as it reached the end of the street, it turned around and raced back towards the Swing Bridge. It appeared that the source of the alarm was Belcove […]

NEMO gets $27,000 in sleeping accessories

The hurricane season closed a month ago but preparations for the next period are already underway. This morning the U.S Southern Command based in Miami handed over to the National Emergency Management Organization sleeping accessories worth around twenty-seven thousand dollars. The items included more than five hundred cots and over a hundred sleeping bags. U.S […]

Cayo residents to benefit from expanded water services

While NEMO received a sizeable donation today, residents in the Cayo District will benefit from water services come 2009. According to a press release, the expansion will take place in the Bradley’s Bank and the Hill View Area near Santa Elena and will result in approximately two point nine miles of pipe being laid. The […]

City prepares to welcome 2009

It is the countdown to the New Year, and News Five has a peek at the many activities planned around the City to usher in 2009. Whatever your mood is, there is plenty entertainment. The day begins with a huge live concert by Channel Five which will set the tone for the rest of the […]

Supa G to perform at Channel 5’s live New Year concert

We mentioned earlier in this newscast that Channel Five is organizing a live concert for the hit Morning Show; Open Your Eyes, tomorrow morning beginning at six-thirty. The free concert will be aired live from Channel Five studios on Duck Lane. There will be live musical performances by Supa G and plenty other entertainment. What’s […]

NICH president in hot seat over major secret contract

A major controversy has exploded and fireworks are erupting between the President of NICH, Diane Haylock and her immediate boss, the Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Marcel Cardona. Since last week News Five has had in possession a copy of a contract signed between Haylock and businessman David Gegg, giving him exclusive rights to […]

4 murders over the weekend shatter Christmas peace

There were a string of murders, shootings and robberies over the long Christmas weekend as criminals took to the streets. We begin with a fatal shooting early on Boxing Day at the Princess Hotel and Casino parking lot. It happened as twenty-nine year old Jermaine Trapp of Faber’s Road was about to drive out of […]

Homeless man’s body found in gutted building

And while many families were celebrating Christmas, a fourth person was murdered. The man’s body was found in a building that was totaled by fire in downtown Belize City. At first the fire originally appeared to be accidental, but there is now reason to suspect that the building was set on fire to conceal the […]

Fire on Victoria Street leaves two families homeless

In the second fire on Boxing Day, a two storey wooden structure located on Victoria Street in Belize City went up in flames leaving two families without a roof over their heads. News Five’s Duane Moody and cameraman Darrel Moguel were at the scene to find out more. Duane Moody, Reporting When the fire broke […]

Vacationing tourists drown in separate incidents

Two visitors to the Jewel over the Christmas holiday died in separate drowning incidents on Boxing Day. The first fatality occurred at San Pedro, Ambergris Caye when a family of four went scuba diving in the deep waters of the Caribbean Sea about eleven that morning. Thirty-one year old Noah Webster, an American engineer of […]

Christmas day accident on Southern Hwy claims 1 life

While two died from drowning, a traffic accident on Christmas day claimed the life of a woman from Toledo. Fifty-two year old Alberta Elcina Gonzalez, a domestic of Wilson Street, Toledo was knocked down between miles two and three on the Southern Highway. She was hit by a Honda Accord car driven by twenty-six year […]

Man charged with Attempted Robbery of ex-cop

The long arm of the law has finally caught up with Kareem Barona, wanted in connection with an attempted robbery at the Swing Bridge. Police have been looking for Barona since November twenty-eighth after a report by ex-police constable Javier Castellanos. They picked up Barona on Christmas Day while on patrol on Victoria’s Street and […]

Several shootings over holiday weekend

Criminals were undeterred over the holidays and the number of shootings turned the weekend into a Wild West movie. Early Christmas morning in Saint Matthews Village, fifty year-old John Olivera, a laborer of Franks Eddy Village, was shot in his head. Olivera’s son, John Junior told police that the shooting followed a fight in his […]

Police remove 4 guns from the streets; burglars steal 4 more

Police were out in force during the holidays and although they couldn’t stop many crimes, they were able to take several guns off the streets. While on mobile patrol on Boxing Day, cops managed to get their hands on three guns and over twenty bullets. On Sarstoon Street they found nineteen year old Winfield Dennison […]

Tang Supermarket robbed by two gunmen

And a grocery store in the Kings Park area of Belize City has been robbed. On Sunday afternoon just after midday, two men with rags over their faces stormed Tang Supermarket on Third Street and held up eighteen year old Zhen Deng. Zhen said after the assailants opened up the barred entrance to the store, […]

One man stabbed; one chopped in separate incidents

And still on crime, on Boxing Day, police visited the Western Regional Hospital and saw twenty year old Brian Garbutt of Roaring Creek admitted to ward with cut wounds to his face, back of the head, neck, shoulder and hand. Investigations reveal that sometime earlier Garbutt became embroiled in an altercation with Corwin Mendoza, who […]

Woman kidnapped but would be rapist caught

A woman is tonight thanking her lucky stars after she narrowly escaped a kidnapping and probably rape. Thirty-one year old Yettie DeSouza reported to police that just after midnight on Christmas morning she was taking food to her common-law husband. DeSouza says as she neared the junction of Calle al Mar and Baymen Avenue, a […]

Waitress allegedly raped by friend in a nightclub

A nineteen year old waitress from San Ignacio was not as lucky as Desouza. The woman told police that over the weekend she was socializing with a male friend by the name of Amir Eck at Legends Nightclub, but when she went to use the bathroom, Eck followed her, dragged her into a nearby corner […]

$1,000 award offered for capture of Jian Hong

He has been at large ever since he allegedly stole over ninety thousand dollars from his employer. Now a reward of a thousand dollars is being offered for information leading to the arrest of twenty-one year old Asian National, Jian Hong. The management of the North America International Company Limited at the Commercial Free Zone […]

James Adderley has weekend sports

Good evening, I’m James Adderley and here’s this week’s portion of Sports Monday. The Belize Bank Super League of Football took a break over the weekend and indeed so did many other sporting competitions as the nation observed Christmas celebrations. So folks, we take this particular opportunity to highlight the Super League Tournament which is […]

Bou-Nahra family objects to suicide conclusion

There have been many theories to his death this past Sunday morning and as recent as yesterday a police pathologist said it is a case of suicide. But not so quickly says the family of Chayben Bou-Nahra, the businessman who died from single shot to the left side of his head in a hotel room […]

Vehicle plunges into river; housewife drowns

A school principal will spend the holidays in mourning after his wife drowned tragically when the vehicle they were traveling in plunged into the New River. The incident occurred just before three p.m. on Tuesday as Principal of Chunox R.C. School, fifty-one year old Octaviano Mesh and his wife were traveling in a Four Runner […]

Loaded AK-47 rifle found in Corozal

Corozal police have discovered a loaded prohibited firearm. The find, an AK-forty-seven rifle, was found at an abandoned lot off a feeder road in the Dominguez Layout area of Corozal Town. It had a magazine and three live rounds. No one has been arrested and police continue to investigate. They believe the weapon with serial […]