Brothers Dennis and Norman Trapp along with an Asian businessman, Lee Quan, known as Tommy, were involved in a crazy shooting incident at about midnight on February twenty-eighth down south in Punta Gorda. Twenty-six expended shells were retrieved from the scene and two police officers, who are also brothers, stand accused in the mayhem which […]
The two murders over the weekend in the old capital were followed by a shooting on Tuesday. The brief reprieve from gang warfare was broken when twenty two-year old Gilroy Garnett Junior, from an area known as PIV was shot once at close range. Garnett was reportedly walking with a female friend on Partridge Street […]
Police were on the scene within minutes, but by then, the gunman, who pulled the trigger with what appeared to be a sawed off shotgun, had long run through a churchyard and headed into one of the back streets that lead to the Western Highway. Police, according to the Department’s Press Officer, Sergeant Fitzroy Yearwood, […]
Fifty-three year old naturalized Belizean, Bing Chang Zhao, was stabbed to death inside his business, Ming Ming Shop at the corner of Vernon Street and Magazine Road over the weekend. His body was discovered by his son, who was detained and then released pending further investigations. But on Tuesday night, a member of the Chinese […]
Police also gave their version in respect of the murder of twenty-seven year old Jason Pott which occurred at the corner of Cleghorn Street and Slaughterhouse Road on Saturday evening. The victim’s sister alleged that a police mobile knocked down her brother and a friend, who were heading to the hospital on a bicycle, because […]
Should government continue to grant licenses for oil exploration in protected areas? That’s the question we put to viewers on Tuesday night. Seventy nine percent thought no and according a comment on our blog that’s because: “The purpose of a protected area is to safeguard specific natural and cultural values and to preserve areas.” Twenty-one […]
After weeks of intense competition, the Math Olympiad came down to the wire at the U.B. gymnasium in Belmopan today. Three schools were returning champions while the remaining two got a first shot at the most demanding competition that challenged their math skills with speed and accuracy. News Five’s Delahnie Bain was present when the […]
A two-day oil summit held in Punta Gorda Town by a host of environmental N.G.O.s culminated today. After much debate on the benefits and drawbacks of oil exploration in protected areas of Belize and in particular in the Sarstoon Temash National Park, the summit adopted a position paper. Present were the Sarstoon Temash Institute of […]
Still on the question of oil exploration, we reported on Tuesday night that the environmental community is speaking out against new oil concessions in the north, which includes sections of the Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area. Applications from five companies were discussed in Cabinet today for a production sharing agreement in the northwestern Orange […]
There was fire in the old capital early this morning. Flames gutted the small structure which belonged to Rudolph Anderson, better known as Sir Andie, the happy home builder. No one lived inside the structure at the corner of Waight Street and Faber’s Road. The National Fire Service believes the cause of the fire is […]
A Belize City woman believed that if she and her husband moved as far as they could from the hot zones in the city, they would be safe from violence. So they moved to the peace and quiet of Belama Phase Four, two and a half months ago. And even though she wasn’t confronted by […]
He was convicted in 2010 and sentenced to life imprisonment for the April twenty-fifth, 2008 murder of Mark Young who fell in a pit and was then hit with a cement pillar. The incident occurred in Hope Creek Village in the Stann Creek District. Today, the judges of the court of appeal headed by Justice […]
There were two other convicts who received good news in the Court of Appeals today. Thirty-three year old Marcus Moh was initially charged with Murder and in trial, he pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of Manslaughter. Moh was sentenced to twenty years in prison but appealed because he thought it was too much time […]
An art exhibition showcasing notable Belizeans and their many contributions to Belize was officially launched this morning at the House of Culture to coincide with Baron Bliss Day, now known as Heroes and Benefactors Day. Baron Bliss is among eleven national heroes being celebrated by the Institute of Social and Cultural Research through NICH. According […]
The Bliss Centre came to life on Tuesday night with spectacular performances by Group B of KTV Latino, the hottest television show of local talent. Six contenders sharpened their vocals and belted out a diverse selection of all time favorites as the audience joined in chorus. True to form, the judges gave their evaluation of […]
A spate of deadly violence plagued the three-day weekend. The bloodshed started on Saturday morning and in the next twenty-four hours, three persons had been killed separately in the City and in Roaring Creek. In the City, a grocery store owner and a father of two were murdered. But we start with a stabbing that […]
In Belize City where the number of murders is a record, a Chinese grocery store owner met a horrific death at his business place. On Saturday morning after nine thirty, C.I.B. personnel visited number seventy six Vernon Street which is the home and business place of Bing Chang Zhao. They found the fifty-three year old […]
Later on Saturday, a father of two and former B.D.F. soldier was stabbed to death allegedly by a seventeen year old minor. It is believed that a feud over a stolen bicycle several weeks ago led to a string of altercations between twenty-seven year old Jason Pott and Devaughn Goodger. Pott was among sixty recruits […]
Aside from the murders, there were other fatalities over the weekend. The Mexico Creek Bridge at mile nineteen and a half on the Northern Highway was the scene for a deadly accident; two persons lost their lives when their vehicle ran off the highway. An elderly American couple, eighty-three year old Ronald Moran and his […]
The accident that killed the elderly couple was not the only traffic fatality. An unidentified man was killed in a hit and run incident on the outskirts of Belize City on Friday night. After ten p.m., the cops headed towards miles two and three on the Northern Highway where they found the body of a […]
Tonight’s question is: Should government continue to grant licenses for oil exploration or drilling in any protected area or national park? Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones to 8686 or post your vote on our e-poll at channel5belize.com. You can also send an email with your comments to questions@channel5belize.com.
Over the weekend, OCEANA intensified its campaign towards a referendum on the question of whether or not to drill. Seventeen thousand signatures are required and the results of the petition will be known at a later date. But before that, there is another development that is angering the Association of Protected Areas Management Organization. APAMO […]
OCEANA today took its campaign to the south of the country with an oil summit in Punta Gorda where the community is already fighting with the government over a contract issued to Capital Energy, a U.S. company. They claim the contract was only for seismic testing, but now G.O.B. contends that the courts have provided […]
A man from Bermudian Landing was unfortunate to have car trouble on Kraal Road. Instead of finding helpful residents, he found himself a target for gunmen. According to reports, thirty-three year old Eldon Williams’s explorer got bogged in a drain on Waight Street. Williams went to use a nearby pay phone on foot and on […]
Steven Buckley, a civilian, was shot a little less than a year ago by a police inspector. The shooting angered the community because Buckley was shot even as he complied with a police order. Now, Inspector Dennis Lopez will stand trial for the attempted murder of Buckley. That was the outcome of a preliminary inquiry […]
