A week ago, after a month long trial, a jury found thirty-six year old Leslie Pipersburgh and thirty-four year old Patrick Robateau guilty of double murder. This morning about six armed police officers arrived with the shackled men at the Supreme Court which had been cordoned off for security purposes. It was their day of […]
There is never a dull moment or even a quiet one in the citrus valley. This Saturday, all is set for another special general meeting which is expected to be as contentious and rambunctious as others in the past. Back in February, the Citrus Growers Committee of Management did not allow forty or so citrus […]
At the crack of dawn on Thursday, the Belize Defence Force and media headed north for the destruction of a clandestine airstrip; in its vicinity illegal logging was also taking place. At first blush, it also appeared that the airstrip was smack in the Shipstern reserve but according to its manager, that’s not so. News […]
The Police Department has made a major find of a high powered weapon used by the US military. Police conducted several searches throughout hot zones and netted several items that they believe were intended to be for criminal activity. The most disturbing was the discovery of an M18-A1 Anti personnel mine with its detonator wires. […]
The murder count is at thirty-seven and it’s only mid-April. Everyone desperately wants something to be done to rein in crime. But how far can the government go with legislative changes? We asked our viewers earlier this week, if they thought that government should first tackle the social ills instead of imposing draconian laws to […]
Next Saturday, the bugle will sound at the starting line of this year’s Cross Country Cycling Classic. It’s the biggest sporting event locally that takes cyclists from Belize City, up the hills in the Cayo District and back into the old capital. Belizeans are feverishly hoping that the prestigious garland will go back in the […]
A family from the west is alleging that police used excessive force on them. It’s not an unusual claim, but it involves an elderly woman, who says that she was dragged through a door and fell four feet to the ground. Another family member had to get medical attention and the incident left the entire […]
Also in the west, nineteen year old Hubert Pandy was shot by police in his home on Eve Street in Santa Elena Town on Tuesday April fifteenth. According to police, around three-thirty that afternoon, they carried out a search warrant for stolen items at Pandy’s house. During the search, they claim Pandy grabbed a machete […]
Further away the Village of Arenal, near the western border with Guatemala, has a history of armed robberies and violent attacks, believed to be carried out by a group of bandits who operate in the area. On Thursday, two nineteen year olds were held at gunpoint and robbed on the Arenal Road within twenty minutes. […]
A Honduran fisherman of Independence Village headed out to the Placencia Lagoon at around eight o’clock on Wednesday morning. Fifty-seven year old Arsenio Reyes did not return home and exactly twenty-four hours later, police received a report that the body of a Hispanic male was floating in the lagoon. The body was later identified as […]
Earlier today, Christopher Bowman departed Belize to the United States. It’s been a difficult eleven years for the young man who has been featured regularly in our newscasts. But despite his medical condition, Bowman has remained optimistic and finally in the next few days, he will be undergoing surgery that will hopefully allow him to […]
With the economic crunch bearing down hard and many businesses folding, chances are that landing a job may be more difficult than ever. Earlier today unemployed and unskilled residents of the Southside completed a training course that will provide them an opportunity to earn an honest living. For the past three days, the Ministry of […]
The century that started the new millennium, is bound to be etched by technology and development. So in an age where games and social settings are being redefined in electronics and cyberspace, the turn of a page, and the ink blotters of pen on paper are slowly fading away. The impact of television is also […]
It’s the countdown for the Easter and this weekend Arielle has a long list of activities to put you in the frame of mind for the upcoming holidays. Across the country, there is an explosion of fairs while in the City a fund raiser for a worthy cause might interest you. But the big number […]
FIFA’s president Joseph Sepp Blatter touched down in Belize for only a few hours on Wednesday; he arrived and left on a private plane heading to Nicaragua. The visit, albeit short, gave him enough time to express his stanch support to Dr. Bertie Chimilio, the president of the Football Federation of Belize which is a […]
Last week, Prime Minister Dean Barrow announced the introduction of tough new anti-crime laws. But the violence and lawlessness continue unabated and criminals roam and kill with relative ease. So today while a peace march was not huge in numbers, the message from the University of Belize students was loud and clear…. they want an […]
While the U.B. students protested the violence, one man was taken to court to face charges for one of the many murders in Belize City. It was a shock to his family and friends when twenty-nine year old Andrew Moses was brutally gunned down on March tenth, 2010. That’s because he was well known in […]
In the fight against drugs, last year News Five joined the Belize Defence Force as they destroyed a marijuana plantation in a field in the Orange Walk District. While those burning buds were for local use, narco-traffickers use Belize as a transshipment point. But the anti-drug war is being fought by security forces on all […]
City councilor Eric Chang is tonight the subject of an investigation by the Customs & Excise Department following a raid on his home on Wednesday night. While Chang was not found in possession of any uncustommed goods, it is suspected that duties have not been paid for his vehicle, a late model Isuzu D-Maxx. The […]
Is it a case of a fox and the sour grapes? According to Joe Coye who lost terribly to Anthony Mahler last Sunday in the Caribbean Shores, it is rather a case of “grapes of rational wrath.” So ends a statement Coye issued today following his defeat as standard bearer in the Caribbean Shores […]
Joe Coye is not the only one at a crossroads in politics. Mayor Zenaida Moya Flowers intended to run for national office but her party put a spanner in the works since her suspension will be lifted after divisional conventions are concluded. Moya Flowers had all but gotten the blessing from Minister Michael Finnegan, her […]
City Hall had a tough day on Wednesday; it landed itself a black eye after B.E.L. pulled the plug bright and early for unpaid bills. The Belize City Mayor, Zenaida Moya Flowers, pulled no punches this morning in expressing how infuriated she is about the disconnection. Moya Flowers says that the council received a twenty-six […]
In the courts, Michael “Crazy” Arnold allegedly went on a weekend rampage in September 2010, terrorizing several Ladyville residents. His crime spree ended with him being badly beaten and facing charges of Burglary, Rape and Aggravated Assault of an Indecent Nature. Today the thirty-five year old career criminal was convicted of the burglary and was […]
The Petters Research Institute, founded by Dr. Arlie Petters, one of Belize’s most famous and brightest sons, partnered today with the Belize High School. The B.H.S. opened its door only last year, but it is miles ahead in using technology as a learning tool in the classrooms. News Five’s Isani Cayetano has a report on […]
Tonight, fifty-nine year old Angel Santos Tillett is a happy camper. Tillett’s bank account has grown by fifty-seven thousand, three hundred and seventy-five dollars after he hit the lotto jackpot, which stood at sixty-seven thousand five hundred dollars before taxes. The Canero of San Lazaro says he’s a regular lotto buyer and bought the winning […]
