Earlier today a two-day workshop got underway relating to the global problem of trafficking in persons. While a number of initiatives have dealt with enforcing laws to what is known as the hidden crime, at the ongoing workshop, healthcare representatives are getting training on how to provide appropriate treatment to victims. The International Organization on […]
The headlines in April have been dominated by walls and bodies packed with slugs from illegal guns and ammunition. Well, one Belize City musician has taken all the trials he has seen over the past five years and has translated them into music. M.I.K. is a member of the group Instruments of Love and he […]
The final round of competition on KTV Latino takes place at the Bliss at nine o’clock tonight. The season is about to conclude and one worthy performer will take home the grand prize of ten thousand dollars. KTV Latino started with fourteen hopefuls and as the season winds down, only four have survived the grueling […]
Belize City police have increased their presence on the deadly streets of the Old Capital in the wake of last weekend’s bloodbath. But the boost in manpower has proven insufficient in thwarting criminals from taking aim at three Belize City men, two who were murdered within three hours. We begin tonight’s newscast by reporting on […]
Belisle rented the taxi on Saturday morning and had already planned on making runs from a local nightspot. It is believed that his attacker trained his weapon on the men who came to his assistance and that Belisle was simply at the wrong place. Kenny Gladden, Friend of Deceased “He’s a quiet man, you know. […]
The murder of Enrique Trapp, which preceded that of Kirk Gladden on Saturday, is widely believed to be an act of retaliation for a previous shooting incident which occurred earlier that day. Trapp, a resident of Taylor’s Alley, was shot multiple times less than a stone‘s throw away from his home. Police reports are that […]
It appears that, as originally suspected, the robbery of a bank in Orange Walk Town was an inside job. Police say they now have enough evidence against the manager of Heritage Bank and four others for last Tuesday’s heist. Samantha Carlos, the manager who is also a former beauty queen, along with an unlikely ally, […]
Police also have the three suspects for the brazen attack on Police constable Nigel White, who was ambushed, shot and robbed of his point thirty-eight service revolver. White was the sole officer stationed at the Belama Police Sub-station when he was overpowered by the three men at around twenty minutes after twelve on the morning […]
His slogan going into the P.U.P. Caribbean Shores Convention was “A new day for the Shores,” and when the votes were counted around six on Sunday evening at the Trinity Methodist School, Anthony Mahler handily defeated Joe Coye who had been the P.U.P.’s standard bearer for over twenty years and is a former minister of […]
It’s one of the most nerve racking days for standard six students in every corner of the country because today almost seven thousand took the first half of the Primary School Examinations. It is not a mandatory requirement but the P.S.E. is one of the factors that high schools consider when reviewing applications to determine […]
As we said earlier, this year had almost seven thousand registered candidates; that’s an increase of more than a hundred students compared to 2010. But according to Yvonne Davis, the Principal Education Officer responsible for Examinations, for the first time, the Belize District was the only area that had a decrease in the number of […]
In the Dangriga Supreme Court today Justice Troadio Gonzalez handed down two hefty sentences in cases of sexual assault where the perpetrators were the fathers of the victims. The first was a fifty-three year old man, who was found guilty on April first of raping his daughter ten times. He was sentenced to eight years […]
A thirty-seven year old mechanic of Ladyville claims he was badly beaten by four persons, three who are minors. According to Pedro Sanchez on April sixth as he left the wake of a relative near Marage Road, he was approached by four men who told him that they were tampering with his car because it […]
While two fathers have been sentenced for raping their daughters, there is another report of sexual abuse coming out from the south. On Friday, a twelve year old student of Dangriga complained to the police that she was forced to an abandoned area and sexually violated. The young girl claims that as she stepped out […]
The senseless murders of three Chinese nationals caught the nation’s attention. A student, Hui Sheng Chen was shot in March and died as he underwent surgery in Merida. Two female grocers, Yan Ying Chen and Fei Lan Wu, also were killed inside their stores by gunmen who apparently wanted to send a message to the […]
A traveling exhibition opened this morning at the House of Culture; the budding artists are students who sat the CSEC Exams. On display are the works that were submitted for the visual arts component of the regional exams over the past years. News Five’s Delahnie Bain had a look at the paintings, drawings and other […]
Book Week 2011 is currently underway and this year the emphasis is being placed on intellectual property rights. On Friday, the Belize Copyright Licensing Agency was formally introduced and in keeping with the series of events scheduled for the celebration, a public presentation was held this morning. Guest speaker at the forum was Mary Ann […]
Good evening I’m James Adderly and this is Sport’s Monday. Week 7 of the Belize Bank Super League Tournament saw Hattieville Monarchs play host to the red hot and still undefeated Raymond Gentle City Boys United as the league leader looked to keep its clean sheet intact against a team that seems to be struggling […]
It’s almost nine years since the June 2002 robbery at Bowen and Bowen Limited that escalated into a bloodbath when two security guards and two unsuspecting city residents were shot to death. Leslie Pipersburgh and Patrick Robateau, both former employees of the soft drink company, were first tried for the quadruple murder in 2004, found […]
Both defense attorneys made no case submissions on behalf of their clients during a two day voir dire, which was held before they were called to present arguments in trial. Oswald Twist submitted that there was not sufficient evidence against his client, Patrick Robateau, who denied that he was involved in the robbery that ended […]
After the men were found guilty, there was a confrontation inside the courtroom and at least four armed officers had to rush in to keep the situation under control. News Five has learned that it was because Pipersburgh and Robateau resisted the use of shackles instead of the usual handcuffs. Pipersburgh is said to have […]
This Sunday in Belize City, the Chinese community is expected to turn out in full force at St. John’s Cathedral for a memorial service for three of their own: a sixteen year old Chinese student and two female grocers, all killed in the uncontrollable crime wave. The murders have hit hard the Asian community and […]
Do you think a foreign commissioner of police will reduce crime? That’s question we posed to viewers after it became public this week that the government has decided a contract a foreign top cop. The polling has been neck to neck all day and at the time of writing, there’s a virtual tie. Of the […]
Police are closing in on suspected robbers in the heist at the Heritage Bank in Orange Walk Town earlier this week. A portion of the two hundred thousand dollars stolen has been recovered and police are questioning a number of suspects. The heist bore no similarities to last year’s robbery at the Scotiabank Spanish Lookout […]
On March twenty-seventh, a lone policeman on duty at the Belama Police Sub-Station was ambushed by three men who stole his point thirty eight service revolver and then turned it on him. For days the constable, twenty-three year old Nigel White, was hospitalized in critical condition. On Thursday, police got a break and detained one […]
