And a boat valued at fifteen thousand dollars was stolen from Saint George’s Caye. Forty-eight year old David Rowlands said that on Wednesday between two and six a.m. his fiberglass skiff named “Good Enough” disappeared from the dock behind the caye. Luckily, the vessel was found later the same day at the Putostock area nine […]
Art is normally found in a gallery and the lighting is normally manipulated to reflect the best hues on installations and the images on canvas. But art is not always mounted on gallery walls; sometimes they are best on the streets. On the island of San Pedro while on another assignment, News Five’s Jose Sanchez […]
Belize Electricity Limited has been in the news consistently and often in a back and forth exchange with the Public Utilities Commission. Late this evening, the utility company announced May fourteenth as the date for its annual general meeting which will present a report to shareholders on the company’s performance for 2008. In an advance […]
Turning to the courts, a fourth person is in custody for the sensational murder of twenty-eight year old John Paul Saldivar that occurred in January in San Pedro, A.C. Today, twenty-three year old Eric Swan, who was shot during a crossfire with police, appeared in Magistrates’ Court in crutches to answer to charges of Murder […]
Belizean Mark Seawell, who is wanted by U.S. law enforcement agencies since 2007, will get to know his fate next week Friday. That’s when Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie will rule on whether Seawell’s attorney, Elson Kaseke has won the arguments on the preliminary points presented in court. Those centered mainly on an Extradition Treaty with […]
After three year old Omar Aguilar perished in flames last December, his mother, thirty year old Pauline McLean, was charged. But today McLean walked free out of Magistrates’ Court after the Director of Public Prosecutions, Cheryl-Lynn Branker-Taitt, ordered that the charge of Causing Death by Careless Conduct be withdrawn. The D.P.P. sited insufficient evidence as […]
In the other Easter murder, San Ignacio police are still trying to put their hands on a motive and a suspect in the shooting murder of fifty-three year old Felix Cocom. Cocom’s body was discovered on his farm in the Lower Barton Creek area, some five miles off the Western Highway in Blackman Eddy, Cayo […]
On Monday night after ten p.m., thirty-six year old nursing student Uwaoma Nelson Onwunali was murdered inside his taxi cab. The body of the Nigerian national was found inside his red Mazda Protégé between Curl Thompson Street and Jane Usher Boulevard. Doctor Hugh Sanchez conducted a post-mortem examination on Onwunali’s body and classified the cause […]
After years of being in poor condition, Albert and Regent Streets were finally paved in December of last year. But while most of the circular loop is now smooth, drivers still complain about the condition of the seven tributaries that connect to downtown Belize City’s most traveled thoroughfare. The portion of King Street that lies […]
If you plan to buy poultry, hold up because as of Thursday, the price of chicken will go down. And you will be glad to know that it is going down by ten cents per pound. According to a release from the Poultry Association, the new price is two dollars and twenty-eight cents per pound. […]
The family of Marsha Smith in Belize City is having their share of unfortunate events. Smith’s son, Sharife, was recently killed and now her daughter, twenty-two year old Rushelly, is hospitalized following a traffic accident shortly before nine Tuesday night. Rushelly was knocked off her bicycle by a vehicle travelling on Vernon Street. Accompanied by […]
News Five has been following case of Enrique Ricardo Magana, a resident of San Joaquin Village in the Corozal District, who was last seen by his wife on March twenty-eighth. Two days later, officers found his van on Consejo Road with his passport and documents still in tact. He has not been heard from him […]
For a week, the person with the winning ticket for the Lotto jackpot of one hundred and forty-five thousand dollars was silent. But finally today, Burrell Boom resident, Adelina Humes, picked up her well-deserved winnings at the Belize City Lotto office. She is a mother of an eight and a fifteen year old girls, who […]
The government of Venezuela has a growing cooperation programme with Belize including the Petrocaribe Initiative, a housing project and cultural exchanges. Today, another initiative got underway. It is known as Mission Miracle or Operacion Milagros and a large crowd descended at the City Center to receive free eye care treatment. There is already a similar […]
Six thousand eight hundred and fifty-six candidates registered to sit the Primary School Examinations on March twentieth which will determine their placement in the different high schools. And while the grades they obtain are one thing, there is another story that is emerging from the P.S.E. tests. It has to do with the state of […]
The Summit of the Americas in Port of Spain is not only the meeting ground for a thousand plus journalists who hope for a chance to interview United States President Barack Obama. It is also the venue where youths from all over North, Central and South America are converging for the Youth Forum of the […]
And still on the summit, the security arrangements are intricate and elaborate for the thirty-four regional leaders and other luminaries, including Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki Moon, who are expected to attend the event. The region has been providing support to Trinidad and Tobago to ensure that the Summit is safe and […]
A Nigerian national who made his way to Belize looking for greener pastures met his death in a most horrific way. The man was two classes away from completing a nursing programme and had carved out plans for his immediate future, but before the Easter break was over, all that was shattered. Jose Sanchez reports […]
The other murder that occurred over the Easter weekend happened in the ordinarily serene lower Barton Creek area in the Cayo District where police discovered the body of one of its residents. Felix Cocom was viciously murdered, shot multiple times to the abdomen and chest. News Five traveled west to try to find out what […]
In an update to the Holy Thursday gruesome slaying of Honduran national, forty-five year old Rudolfo Villatoro, two male minors from Dangriga have been arrested and charged with Murder. Villatoro’s dismembered body was found in an abandoned outdoor latrine on Samwood Road behind Habet Hardware. He had reportedly been in the company of three persons, […]
And in the north, a three-day camping trip in the area of the Honey Camp Lagoon turned deadly for two persons, including a minor. The group started their well planned vacation on Saturday and on Sunday before they could conclude their holiday, tragedy struck as they headed by canoe to a nearby resort. Duane Moody […]
Tire blowouts have been attributed as the cause of recent traffic fatalities on the Northern Highway. And this past Monday morning eight persons survived what could have otherwise been another tragedy caused by a blowout. The three families were on their way home from an outing in neighbouring Chetumal when they experienced a blowout in […]
Still on the Northern Highway, the Orange Walk Police Department is meticulously trying to monitor the speed of drivers travelling through the area. And when we headed north, today, we detected two checkpoints at Carmelita Village at mile forty-eight and the other near mile forty-four on the highway where in recent days there have been […]
For days the Belize City garbage dump site on the Western Highway has been smoldering and the toxic smoke is affecting residents who live in the vicinity. The City Council with help from the Fire Department hoped it would have all been over by the end of the week, but there was another flare up […]
Moving to the courts, his brother was charged with the Murder of Aaron Brooks last week and today twenty-three year old Everal Gray was in court for threatening to kill Brook’s mother, Carolyn Leslie. Gray pleaded not guilty and is out on bail of two thousand five hundred dollars on the condition that he does […]
