The murder and shooting were followed by an armed hold up on Albert Street. The thieves in downtown Belize City were brazen enough to carry out their deeds just before the busy lunch hour. Doony’s was the target once more. While the three culprits could not put their hands on any cash, they did rob […]
The post mortem examination on the body of a customs officer who died while in police custody in Orange Walk Town has concluded and it doesn’t offer much to the ongoing investigation into his death. Twenty-eight year old Mathias Duran died from a fractured skull due to a blow to the head. He was laid […]
The dust has still not settled over the Foreign Minister’s recent comments about artificial borders in the many twists of Belize’s number one foreign policy and national issue. But this week representatives from both Belize and Guatemala sat down to talk and it is becoming patently clear that the holding of a referendum and going […]
By the time the technocrats get through all the red tape, it’s going to be quite a while before the dispute reaches the ICJ, if it does. But in the meantime, the tension on the ground has not waited for diplomacy to find a way. Though Fred Martinez says that all Guatemalan settlements have been […]
The complaint from Guatemala about militarization of the border came shortly after the post was installed. The political spin by Guatemala was that Belize installed the outpost as a political strategy to demarcate the border long ahead of the ICJ resolution of the case. Martinez says that the response was that Belize has a sovereign […]
Judgment has been reserved in an appeal between the Public Utilities Commission and the Belize Electricity Limited. In October, Court of Appeals’ Justice Denys Barrow was one of three judges who presided over an appeal of a decision by the Supreme Court which went in favour of the Public Utilities Commission. But the opposing party, […]
He tried three times and tonight he is out on bail. That’s thirty two year-old Keon Williams aka Gambis, who made the news last November when he was accused of sodomizing a fourteen year-old primary school student. Twice bail was rejected at the magistrate court and in his third attempt at the Supreme Court; Justice […]
Another man who is out on bail is thirty year old Abisai Canul, the former cashier for the Insurance Corporation of Belize. According to ICB Financial controller, Abel Samos, Canul was fired on Friday, January eleventh and was instructed to hand over the cash he had collected for that day to the accountant. The following […]
A Belize City chef spent five years behind bars for crimes of dishonesty and he was released in February, 2009. But it seems that twenty-six year old Eugene Lanza hasn’t learned his lesson so tonight he is back in Hattieville for Burglary and Handling Stolen Goods. The charges were read to him by Magistrate Kathleen […]
Two entities of the Catholic Diocese clashed on Tuesday evening when Hand in Hand Ministries started breaking down a portion of Saint John Vianney School’s fence. But it wasn’t some random act of vandalism; the fence is on a parcel of land that both the school and Hand in Hand are claiming. The two had […]
It is estimated that as many as thirteen point one percent of Belizeans over twenty years old are affected by diabetes and that puts Belize as the country with the highest diabetes related deaths in the Caribbean. Still, it’s a growing health problem often called the silent killer because many who have it, do not […]
Police were on alert over the past extended weekend but still the criminals ruled the streets. There were two murders, many shootings, one which ended fatally at the hands of the cops and still yet a sudden and bizarre death of a customs officer while in police custody. We start first with a report from […]
While the Duran family claims Matthias died due to police negligence, in Belize City another family is grieving the loss of a loved one who died after he was shot in broad daylight by the cops. The police claim one of their own pulled the trigger in self-defense but the family says Elmore Neal was […]
Turning to the weekend’s homicide’s, Jeffery Martindale Kelly was shot at least seven times on Monday night while he stood at the corner of Prince Street and the canal side near Deng’s store. He lived for the past eleven years at a popular home in the neighborhood known as ‘Wax House’ along with friends who […]
The long weekend also saw more violence erupting in the north where a group of youths allegedly took matters into their own hands in San Lazaro Village, eight miles away from Orange Walk Town. A cane farmer was allegedly hacked to death one day after he was involved in a fight with members of the […]
By now you have heard of the Xate operations that are being undertaken by Eco-Green in the Cayo District. It is a controversial business because primarily Guatemalans cross into the Belizean territory, in forest reserves at that, to harvest the xate that is exported to Europe and the US. So when we reported back in […]
Ruckus erupted in the south side this afternoon when two entities of the catholic Diocese went head to head over and old land dispute. The staff and principal of Saint John Vianney School interrupted their monthly meeting when they were disrupted by a loud bang outside. What they found when they went outside was a […]
Back on February fifteenth, a sixth form student, Carlos Zelaya Junior reported to the police that he had been badly beaten by Dr. John Gough, a prominent cardiologist, and Egbert Nicholson, a sales clerk. We broke that story on February, twenty-fourth and the pictures of Zelaya’s injuries received wide circulation in this newscast and on […]
Twenty-three year old Victor Bah Jr., a resident of San Antonio Village, Toledo District who has been on the run for the past nine months after being accused of raping a nineteen year old resident of the area, is tonight behind bars. Bah was accused of committing the crime on June nineteenth, 2009 and when […]
Earlier in the newscast we reported on the murders and a shooting death at the hands of police in the City. But there were other violent incidents. In one shooting spree, five Belize City residents including a minor were injured on Friday night shortly after eleven o’clock. The victims: twenty-three year old Tony Gamboa, forty […]
In another shooting in Orange Walk, last Friday an enraged villager in Santa Cruz, shot a man in the foot with his licensed firearm. You’d think all would be well for the victim after a few hours of medical treatment right? Wrong. It turns out that life will never be the same again for Alido […]
Thick smoke and flames coming from a house on Lindo’s Alley early this morning alerted the neighborhood to the fire that gutted everything inside the wooden building. The fire service responded and managed to put out the blaze before it could spread to any of the nearby buildings, but they have not yet been able […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and today we’ve got a jammed pack Sports Monday for you. To start, let’s quickly jump into La Ruta Maya River Challenge which blasted off its thirteenth edition Friday inside the Macal River at San Ignacio under the gaze of thousands of fans which gives testimony to its meteoric rise […]
News Five was called out to the scene of a fatal accident in Saint Matthews Village at mile thirty-nine on the Western Highway at around two o’clock this afternoon. When we arrived at the scene three injured persons, believed to be American tourists, were being pulled from the wreckage. They were later transported to the […]
This morning the Ministry of National Security revealed the results of its inquiry into the allegations made against the Belize Police Department in its handling of the Christopher Galvez murder. But that case wasn’t the only issue that the ministry had to address. The circumstances surrounding Teddy Murillo murder are also casting aspersions at members […]
