Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke is in New York facing charges of Conspiracy to Distribute Cocaine and Marijuana and Conspiracy to Illegally Traffic in Firearms. He was first arraigned last Friday and made a second court appearance on Monday. But the Jamaican strongman is having problems getting legal representation in the US. At the close of his […]
We reported on Monday that Prime Minister Dean Barrow’s first official visit to Miami was interrupted by a murder at the Miami Beach Resort Hotel where he was attending a dinner dance. It has now been confirmed that the man who was killed was a Russian tourist who, along with a friend, hired two prostitutes […]
The first storm for this hurricane season, Alex, swept across Belize in a matter of six hours this past Saturday. Many headed to the supermarkets for last minute supplies, the winds were in the range of forty miles per hour, the rains poured down the heaviest after six o’clock, and while some areas are impassable, […]
Alex has gained back strength and is again a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico. Locally, the highest amount of rain was registered in the south at Barton Creek. But on Saturday News Five’s Jose Sanchez and cameraman, Alex Ellis took to the streets of the City to find out how the residents were […]
News Five got an update this afternoon from the Chief Executive Officer in the Ministry of Works, Cadet Henderson, who says there are still some sections of the country that are impassable due to flooding. Via Phone: Cadet Henderson, CEO, Min. of Works “There was some flooding particularly in the Cayo and the Belize Districts […]
A News Five team was in the south on assignment when the weather system shifted. Throughout the day, authorities monitored the Kendal Bridge but for the most part, residents in the Peninsula were prepared for the storm and continued with the Lobster Fest. Flights to the area were cancelled early in the afternoon and resumed […]
It is a historic day for the Maya communities whose representatives packed the courtroom this morning. The long anticipated ruling of a case involving property rights but that extended to other rights was delivered by Chief Justice Conteh among his last judgments before he vacates the seat as Chief Justice. The case was brought against […]
News Five’s Isani Cayetano and cameraman Chris Mangar are now in Indian Creek where well over a thousand members of the Maya communities, including the Alcaldes from the thirty-eight communities that brought the law suit against the government are celebrating today’s victory. The mood in the south is certainly festive and Greg Ch’oc of SATIIM, […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow has traveled through Miami numerous times, but over the weekend his stop there was his first on official business. The PM was the guest in Miami for a four day trade show that included a dinner dance on Saturday night. The event took place at the Miami Beach Resort and was […]
While the trade show went well, Saturday night’s dinner dance was aborted because of a murder that occurred at the South beach hotel. All the guests were evacuated and according to Minister Martinez and Honorary Consul Sylvestre Vega, everyone at the reception, while disappointed, were safe and sound. Anthony “Boots” Martinez, Minister of Works “While […]
The National Basket Ball Team has one week to prepare before it takes on Trinidad and Tobago and other top notch teams in an international competition. One of the veteran and star players touched down at the Philip Goldson International Airport this afternoon. Former NBA player, Milton Palacio, arrived on American Airlines; he is the […]
In the north, a Mexican national died on Sunday after jumping off the international bridge that connects Belize to Mexico. Corozal Police do not have much information on the deceased, Miguel Angel Galindo, but they have confirmed he was crossing the bridge along with his brother Rene Veliz Galindo at around four p.m. In his […]
There were no major crimes reported in the city over the weekend as tropical storm Alex breezed through Belize. But there was a mid morning shooting today that has left one man hospitalized in critical condition. It was a quarter to ten when thirty-five year old Ernesto Perez was approached by two gunmen while he […]
This morning at the Belize City Magistrate’s Court, a former ex-prison officer changed his not guilty plea to guilty and was slapped with the maximum fine of ten thousand dollars for drug related offences. This goes back to a bust last November at the Hattieville Prison, when Prison Officer, Miguel Choc was found with seventeen […]
Tropical Storm Alex swept across parts of Belize last Saturday. Organizers were called off many activities in anticipation of tropical storm Alex, but in Placencia, the annual lobster fest was staged as planned. News Five’s Isani Cayetano was in the peninsula and found out that despite the celebration of one of our main seafood exports, […]
Good Evening I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Despite the threat of Tropical Storm Alex, the Interoffice Basketball League launched the 2010 season inside the Civic Center Friday night. The opening match found last year’s runner-up Atlantic Bank facing First Caribbean Bank/ Quan trading, a team they had eliminated to arrive at the […]
The first weather system for the 2010 Atlantic Hurricane season formed into a Tropical Depression this afternoon. What’s worse, it’s heading our way this weekend and the amount of rainfall it could dump over flood-prone areas can create flash-flood conditions for people living in those areas. The National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO) has put into […]
Because Tropical Depression number one is eerily close to Belize, it has prompted the National Emergency Management Organization to spring into action. Many residents are already stocking up for any eventuality and the depression has altered major plans that were in store for this weekend on the islands. News Five spoke late this evening with […]
Dionicio Salazar, the twenty five year old man, who had been named in the brutal murder of Marlon Rivera and shooting of Dean Dougal, has been captured. Police caught up with Salazar on Thursday afternoon in Belize City following a tip to Crime Stoppers. The shooting occurred on June thirteenth in San Ignacio near the […]
In respect of another murder, a red Volkswagen Jetta remains impounded at the Queen Street Police Station pending the outcome of an investigation into the murder of a former Pallotti student. The day before Neisa Pipersburgh’s disappearance last Wednesday, her mother, Alice Williams, recalled seeing a heavily tinted car driving slowly past her residence on […]
In Thursday’s newscast we posed the question: “Do you think that the independence of the Judiciary is at risk?” Votes to our e-poll showed a total of eight-two percent of viewers expressing strong concern about the threat to the judiciary. One viewer wrote saying “politicians and civil servants need to leave the courts alone, we […]
Kenneth Garcia was convicted of manslaughter on June sixteenth in the death of his uncle, Sergio Garcia. He had originally been charged with murder but a jury of four men and eight women instead found him guilty of manslaughter. Sentencing was scheduled for this afternoon, but his attorney Dickie Bradley, asked for more time to […]
Twenty-one year old Michael Foreman, who is currently on remand at the Hattieville Prison for murder, was today sentenced to five years for the crime of attempted robbery. The incident dates back to April eleventh of last year when Angela Thompson reported to Belize City police that whilst walking along Newtown Barracks she was accosted […]
Former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt once said that he would “Speak softly and carry a big stick.” That idea of negotiating peacefully has been one adopted by the Coalition to Save our Natural Heritage in its bid to ban offshore oil drilling. The National Trade Union Congress of Belize is the most recent body to […]
The Social Security Board’s Ride Across Belize had a record breaking year. Today they handed over a cheque for sixty-six thousand three hundred and eighty-three dollars to the recipient, the Rotary Club’s Gift of Life Program. The theme this year was “Every mile can save a child. Ride for a cause. Ride for health. Give […]
