The incursions into Belizean territory by Guatemalans have been going on for some time and have continued unabated. Over recent years Guatemalan farmers have been infiltrating not only our borders but have been entering our natural reserves. So last week when there were new discoveries of xate extractions and mass hunting of the Scarlet Macaw […]
Moses Michael Leviy, the rapper better known as Shyne, is working on his first album since his release after nine years of incarceration in a U.S. Federal Prison. The rapper, who was once attached to the BadBoy Label, has signed a multimillion dollar deal with L.A. Reid of Def Jam Records. Shyne is working on […]
The Belize International Film Festival is celebrating its fifth anniversary this year and the calendar of events is filling up. In fact the festival is being extended beyond Belize City and will now include screenings in San Pedro and San Ignacio as well as workshops and seminars countrywide. As for the submissions, final selections have […]
It was a weekend of carnage; a well known cyclist was murdered in Belize City on Sunday night and a laborer was stabbed to death in Dangriga, we’ll have more on this later in the newscast. But on Saturday morning, Neisa Pipersburgh, who had gone missing since last Wednesday was found dead, she had been […]
The Pallotti High School prom was set for Saturday, the same day that Neisa’s body was found. It was a most painful and difficult time for the graduates and families. News’ Five Marion Ali reports on how her murder re-shaped prom night. Marion Ali, reporting Prom night for graduates who received their diplomas last Sunday […]
The old capital’s other murder took place just before midnight on Sunday. A well known cyclist, thirty-eight year old Elbert Pope was shot and killed as he sat on his bicycle behind the City Centre. The motive remains unknown. News Five’s Jose Sanchez has a report on Pope’s senseless murder. Jose Sanchez, reporting Elbert Pope […]
The weekend’s third murder was reported in the south. Dangriga police are in the preliminary stages of investigating the homicide of a resident of the Stann Creek Valley. According to police, the lifeless body of twenty-nine year old Carlos Enrique De La Cruz, a laborer of ten miles community in Stann Creek Valley was discovered […]
A string of fires broke early Sunday morning in Placencia. It started at a well known restaurant, but by the time that fire was contained two more establishments had been set ablaze. Villagers and tourists joined the firemen to put out the blaze at the thatch roofed buildings that were dangerously close to other businesses. […]
Back in the old capital, in addition to the weekend murders, there were several shooting incidents. One of the most senseless occurred at a house on Rivero Street at ten-fifty p.m. The occupants include about a dozen children that would normally be in the yard. Most of them, however, were asleep when a man dressed […]
There were two other shootings. On Sunday, a twenty-one year old Kareem Heusner, a Fisherman of Wagner’s Lane, was walking near his home when several shots were fired in his direction. He received wounds to his upper right leg. Heusner has been treated and released from the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. According to Heusner’s father, […]
Twenty year old Stacey Kerr, a resident of Burrell Boom Village who was paralyzed after falling off the railing of a verandah at her house a few weeks ago, succumbed to her injury over the weekend. On the night of June fifth following a party held at the couple’s home in the village, Stacey and […]
There was a traffic accident on the Western Highway on Saturday afternoon, and it was captured by a News Five crew as it took place. Reporter Marion Ali and cameraman, Jorge Tabora were at the crime scene on a dirt road at mile six on the Western Highway where the body of Neisa Pipersburgh had […]
Hope Creek is located off the Hummingbird Highway near the Coastal Road. It’s not a village that is known for controversy; we last heard about Hope Creek when Tropical Storm Arthur caused havoc to the village. We headed back to the village today and found a number of militant parents at the new site of […]
There’s an update to the ongoing saga involving the retirement Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh. As we have reported, the CJ will be demitting office at the end of September, within days of reaching the retirement age of sixty-five years. Following a meeting with Prime Minister Dean Barrow, on June seventh, Conteh informed the Executive of […]
In other news from the courts, five men had a brief taste of freedom last Tuesday after eight months on remand for the 2009 murder of Randy Coye. They were acquitted because police did not provide a case file after numerous requests and the preliminary inquiry could not start. But less than a week later, […]
A well-known hotelier and basketball enthusiast, Tommy Shaw, was questioned over the weekend in connection with an ongoing investigation in the death of Neisa Pipersburgh. When his Belama Phase two home was searched, police found two unlicensed firearms; a point twelve shotgun and a revolver along ammunition were found at his home. Shaw was taken […]
While Neisa Pipersburgh had an unfortunate end to her life, two other missing females have been located. Twenty-one year old Melanie Conorquie and thirteen year old Rosie Munoz surfaced over the weekend. Conorquie, who suffers from memory lapses, had gone missing on June fourth after dropping off her niece at the Saint Martin De Porres […]
“Good Evening I’m James Adderley, this is Sports Monday. The battle for the lead in the Belize Bank Super league standings rageed at Hattieville yesterday, where Hattieville FC hosted the deadly Placencia Assassin. Folks we must apologize for missing the ninth minute goal scored by Ashley Torres; but right here Torres centres to Mervin Leslie […]
Gun violence flared up in the past twenty-four hours. A murder and two shootings in the City’s took place in the Old Capital in what is believed to be an open war over turf among the gangs. Only last Thursday, the leader of the South Side Gangsters, Andre Trapp, was gunned down mid-morning near the […]
Several hours after the fatal shooting of nineteen year old Joyce Mitchell gunfire once again erupted on the south side of Belize City. Shortly after twelve o’clock this morning, twenty-eight year old Colin Lord and a few of his friends were sitting on a verandah at the family residence on Lavender Street celebrating the outcome […]
The bloodbath across Belize City continued today as another man was fired upon multiple times by gunmen on bicycles. Reports are that shortly after one o’clock this afternoon, Emerson Gill was walking along Banak Street near its intersection with Central American Boulevard when two young men rode up to him and fired as many as […]
The rampant violence on the streets of Belize City has reached crisis proportions. No longer do criminals wait for the cover of darkness to attack. The Prime Minister’s law office, Barrow and Williams, was shot at by an unknown assailant on April fifteenth, a bright Thursday morning. On the night of May thirty-first, the P.M. […]
The views expressed on the e-poll does not necessarily reflect the views of this Station. On Thursday we asked the question: Do you feel that the Chief Justice is being treated fairly by the government? Our e-poll shows that sixty-eight percent of the viewers are of the sentiments that the Chief Justice is being treated […]
Earlier this week, murder charges against five men were dropped because the case file was not provided by the office of the D.P.P. The murder trial of Timroy Neal began earlier this week but also fell apart today when the court was informed of an all too familiar reason—that the main witness cannot be found. […]
Eighty year old Gerald Gentle, a resident of corner of Haynes and Neal Penn Road, was charged for drug trafficking when he was busted with almost sixty-three pounds of weed. At around eleven-thirty this morning, a team of police and B.D.F. soldiers searched two houses, both which Gentle claimed belonged to him. In one […]
