The media camped out at the entrance of the Raccoon Police Station where family members of Danalyn Murillo and Belizeans For Justice waited for answers. It was an emotional time for the women, all of whom have lost a family member to gun violence, to see one of their own, a fellow grieving mother, being […]
Police Constable David Griffith, who has been named in the crime, maintains his innocence and also says that it is the Murillo family who is falsely accusing him not only of murder but also of harassment at the PUP Port Loyola convention last Sunday. The Police Department has said that Griffith doesn’t have a personal […]
While Danalyn Murillo ran into trouble with police in Belize City, in the nation’s capital another community activist had his own woes, also with the cops. Nigel Petillo became a household name when he emerged as the leader of the NGO, Belize Grass Roots Youth Empowerment Association (BGYEA) that has been championing the cause of […]
San Ignacio police have made an arrest following Sunday’s early morning murder of sixty-nine year old Julian Lara and burglary of Chuc’s Gas Station. Shajeem Espat was today arraigned in the San Ignacio Magistrate’s Court, but the charge brought against him was not for murder. Espat is charged with Conspiracy to Commit Robbery of the […]
Tonight’s question is: Is government doing enough to bring relief to consumers in respect to the spiraling cost of fuel? 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.
All day today the Belize Coast guard scoured the waters near Caye Caulker in search of three Cuban salt traders. Eight were rescued but Captain Arturo Edrei Garcia, Nelson Perez Ardao and Alexis Gonzalez Cune have not been located since their vessel sunk near the reef just before midnight on Saturday. The vessel, Helga, is […]
Nineteen year old Raylene Dyer went missing last October and while her body was never found, it is believed that she was beheaded and thrown into a river near Roaring Creek. Four residents from the Roaring Creek and Belmopan areas were charged for Dyer’s murder and today they appeared in court in the Capital City. […]
Another case in the courts involves twenty-one year old Michael Neal, who was today arraigned in the Belmopan Magistrate’s Court for Rape. Neal is accused of raping a nineteen year old woman, who went to his house to pick up her child. The woman alleges that Neal told her the baby was asleep and when […]
At age forty-eight, Joseph Bevans Junior has as many as nine convictions on his rap sheet; most of them for crimes of dishonesty. On March eighteenth, he added another crime to his list when he allegedly broke into a house, owned by Kevin Graham, in the Western Paradise area. Bevans was caught as he left […]
Most Belizeans have at some time tasted the juicy HL’s burgers. The local burgers have been around for more than three decades and became a staple of Belizean fast-food. But all that’s coming to an end because the famous burger franchise is closing down; a victim of the economic hard times. Many are being left […]
At the start of the weekend Belizean women in both the visual and performing arts will get an opportunity to discuss their achievements over the past thirty years. While music has seen the rise of Leila Vernon, Tanya Carter and Melonie Gillett and dance has seen the ascension of Althea Sealy women are being continuously […]
The common factor among tonight’s performers in KTV Latino, is the talent they possess. Each of them has unique singing skills that have impressed the judges as well as the live audience at the Bliss and those watching the show from the privacy of their homes. Five will take to the stage tonight; but only […]
It was a particularly bloody weekend, but before we get into the carnage, there’s more bad news that will put a licking on drivers and consumers. So if your tank is empty or half full, you’ll want to fill up before midnight because fuel prices will take a huge jump. At the presentation of the […]
A crime spree swept across the Old Capital and spread to San Ignacio in the west. Four men were killed; three in the City which statistically continues to record the highest number of murders in the country. We start with the homicide of a baker who was last seen on Saturday night. His body was […]
The second murder for the weekend in the Old Capital occurred on Saturday morning. A Cayo youth, twenty-three year old Marlon Jones, was gunned down in the Port Loyola area. Jones, who is from Georgeville, was hanging out with a friend when he was approached by two men. Minutes later he was dead. News Five’s […]
The violence started on Friday night when twenty-two year old Brandon Gibson, a resident of Moya Street in Belize City, was killed shortly after nine o’clock. While residents of the St. Martin’s neighborhood remain tight-lipped about the shooting incident, Belize City police are probing what appears to be a case of self-defense. Gibson was shot […]
While families of murder victims are grieving the weekend’s violence, eight of eleven Cuban nationals are safe and dry tonight. The Belize Coast Guard rescued the eight men on Sunday morning near the reef where their vessel had submerged. The men were in rafts when they were spotted and pulled out of the deep sea. […]
While the search continues for three missing Cubans, a US National was safely pulled out of Belizean waters, also near Caye Caulker. Four men set out on a snorkeling expedition on Saturday. Fifty-five year old American, Jack Burnette, who now resides in San Pedro, took his friends Kenneth Cox, Gary Paumgargmar and Eric Resse, to […]
Earlier we reported on the murders in the Old Capital. The crime wave spread to the west where a watchman was stabbed to death while on duty at a bar. When the body of the elderly Julian Lara was found just past midnight on Sunday, his arms and legs were tied up. The owner of […]
While police are yet to make arrests in the weekend’s homicides, a fisherman was brought to the Belize City Magistrates Court for a crime he allegedly committed in San Pedro Town. Twenty-one year old Jamie Young is accused of raping a thirty-eight year European woman on March seventeenth and he was arraigned “en camera” today […]
When the story made the news last November, it had all the indicators that the child who died, four year-old Hidalia Maldonado, had suffered various forms of cruelty. Five months later, the Director of Public Prosecutions has instructed the police to press charges of Manslaughter against the child’s mother, nineteen year old Yeysi Maldonado and […]
We have been reporting since last week that a consulting firm has concluded that government should not proceed with cruise tourism in the south. And tonight, another round of public consultations are being held with residents of the Placencia Peninsula to discuss the results of the assessment, conducted by Seatone Consultants. In the executive summary […]
News Five also spoke with Rich Wilson, the consultant who led the discussions with both public and private stakeholders prior to formalizing his final report. Wilson used a two prong approach: confidential interviews as well as the public consultations, to make his recommendations. Residents of Placencia shared concerns that the destination, as a port of […]
The opposition held its Port Loyola convention on Sunday afternoon. A little less than eight hundred persons lined up to vote for one of the four aspiring politicians. Additional to the convention goers, was a group led by Anthony “Boots” Martinez, the Minister of Housing and Area Representative. A voter dropped by our studios today […]
The Statutory Instrument regulating the weighing of Liquefied Petroleum Gas takes effect on Tuesday. The Belize Bureau of Standards made the announcement earlier this month, giving butane suppliers time to adequately equip their depots and trucks with approved scales. And following a weeklong visit, German Metrologist, Rolf Weiss, has provided the Belize Bureau of Standards […]
