A businessman busted for a firearm offence is tonight claiming he is being victimized. Around six on Friday police on patrol in Belama Phase two stopped and searched thirty-three year old Ernest Raymond Junior, who was sitting in a parked vehicle. During the search police say they found Raymond with a nine millimetre pistol and […]
And while the crime statistics for 2008 are not yet available since the December numbers are still being tallied, we can share the figures for the San Ignacio/Santa Elena Twin Towns from January to November. The chart shows that there were a total of thirteen murders, sixteen attempted murders, six grievous harm, one hundred and […]
NICH President, Diane Haylock, returned to work today and as we reported last week, she found herself in the middle of a war waged with clear battle lines. Haylock’s boss, Minister Marcel Cardona and the NICH Board members want her removed as president and Prime Minister Dean Barrow is standing up in her defense. News […]
There are two appointments in government to report tonight that had become vacant with the change of government. A release from the Office of the Clerk of the National Assembly, states that the Governor General this afternoon took the oath of allegiance from Godwin Arzu and Cynthia Pitts. Arzu will fill the post of Contractor […]
It was déjà vu for the Belize City Council this morning as workers from the Belize Waste Control showed up at their North Front headquarters wielding placards. The issue once again was the council’s outstanding debt to B.W.C. Last week Tuesday the company sent out a press release expressing its frustration at Mayor Zenaida Moya […]
At seven weeks in arrears the City Council owes B.W.C. two hundred and seventeen thousand dollars. Today it was revealed that CitCo also has five weeks of outstanding bills with Belize Maintenance Limited, which at seventy-three thousand per week adds another three hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars to its debts. When News Five tried to […]
Traffic accidents are unfortunate whenever they occur and the story that follows has left a pregnant woman with constant nightmares and unable to walk. The expectant mother and her one year eight month baby were about to cross the street when they were knocked down by a bus. The incident occurred at the corner of […]
A Punta Gorda man found a great way to start the New Year, by going home with a lot of extra cash. Gilroy Selgado was one of seven participants in the Courts Big Cash contest held at its Belize City Branch on Saturday January third. And after a hot dog eating contest, balloon bursting and […]
The topic of this morning’s Open Your Eyes was mental health. Speaking on the issue was recurring Channel Five judge, Jennifer Lovell who has a master’s degree in counseling and mental health; and psychiatric nurse Eleanor Bennett. On the subject of depression, Bennett and Lovell related that it is typical for persons to feel sad […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and in our first delivery of Sports Monday for 2009 we take this opportunity to wish all Belizeans much betterment in the new year. Speaking of betterment, Kraal Road of Belize City reinforced its position as a powerhouse inside the Belize Bank Super League of soccer with a dominating performance […]
Our first news story to begin the year is about a million dollar case of money laundering that has now taken on a new twist. It involves a family of five that had been arrested on New Years Eve for money laundering of over one and a half million dollars. But now several police officers […]
The New Year has started in earnest with more internal problems for the Barrow Administration. Early this afternoon, Minister of Culture Marcel Cardona was summoned by Prime Minister Dean Barrow. The trip to Belmopan has to do with the ongoing saga involving a contract between NICH President, Diane Haylock and David Gegg’s Zip Line Adventures […]
The last day of the year is a day when love rules and old sins are forgiven with the hopes of a fresh start. While that may be the norm, a Rancho Dolores woman had her own twist for the New Year. She wanted to do it alone or at least without her common-law-husband. But […]
And in an update to a story we carried earlier this week, police have made an arrest in the murder of a Valley of Peace resident. On Wednesday, police formally charged thirty-eight year old Edelio Rios for Murder. Rios has been in detention since Tuesday when police discovered the body of thirty-three year old Arturo […]
One of the first deaths recorded in 2009 was the drowning of a San Ignacio teen. On Thursday afternoon, eighteen year old Essner Calderon and nineteen year old Jorge Chuc went swimming in the waters off Calla Creek Village. Calderon reported to police that Chuc suddenly disappeared under water and did not resurface. Calderon searched […]
And in Belize City, a man is tonight recovering from a gunshot wound to the buttocks. Around one-thirty on Thursday morning twenty-seven year old Kent Taylor was riding on Kraal Road. When Taylor reached the junction with Faber’s Road, however, he said he heard six gunshots ring out behind him and realised he had been […]
A couple of fire victims had their problems compounded when they were arrested on firearm charges. On Tuesday, U.S. nationals fifty-three year old Robert Jones and his wife, fifty year old Tammy Lee Jones, both of Arizona, checked into the Diamond Hotel at mile four on the Northern Highway, leaving the trailer house they drove […]
Police moved quickly to arrest a man in connection with another burglary report in Belize City. This morning, Christopher McKoy, also known as Mac, appeared in Magistrate’s Court to answer to charges of Burglary and Handling Stolen Goods. The thirty-six year old was found in possession of several items stolen from the home of eighty […]
There are two home burglaries to report. Leslie Sanchez and Troy Foreman had a stream of bad luck coming their way as before a traffic accident, their home in Los Lagos was burglarized on New Years eve. The burglars gained access through the rear part of their home. Sanchez says that when she and her […]
Fuel prices in Belize have consistently been going down during the past few months, but today the prices at the pump are headed in both directions. So depending on what type of fuel you use, you may want to run out and fill up after this newscast. News Five understands that shortly, premium or super […]
In regional news, as of Thursday, Prime Minister Dean Barrow assumed the Chairmanship of the Caribbean Community. It comes at a most difficult time when the global recession is hurting the economies of the region that are mostly dependent on tourism. In a New Year’s address to be aired locally and on Caribbean media through […]
Two traffic accidents were reported in the city on New Year’s Day. The first incident occurred around six-forty a.m. as a red Toyota Camry was being stolen from the parking lot of the Palm Island Night Club. The jackers were leaving the driveway when a black Rodeo was coming from the north interrupted the theft […]
The other incident occurred about a mile away at the bus-stop near San Cas Plaza. Reports are that a parked airport bus was letting off night-shift workers when it was rear-ended by a car. It is an alleged case of drunk driving and the incident occurred around six-thirty the morning when friends; Jerry Bush, Leonel […]
A Penal judge in Chetumal, Quintana Roo has found enough evidence to arraign Samuel August for the death of Mexican national, Mario Aguilar Chan. The Belizean has now been charged with Manslaughter. In the early morning hours of December eighteenth, August was driving a Blue Bird minibus when upon reaching kilometer two hundred and sixty-five, […]
There is a cycling event to accompany almost every major holiday in Belize… and for New Year’s it’s the Krem Cycling Classic. News Five’s cameras were there on Thursday afternoon when the riders cross the finished line and tonight sportscaster James Adderley has the results. James Adderley, Reporting The nineteenth annual New Years Day Cycling […]
