A prisoner, who is considered to be dangerous, is on the loose after escaping from custody this morning. The Belize Police Department and the Kolbe Foundation are now asking for the public’s assistance to locate thirty-one year old Fabian Bain, who also goes by the name Carlos Escalante. Bain was being escorted from the Belize […]
The search for eighty-one year old Dalton Franklin, a resident of Lord’s Bank, who went missing on Monday afternoon, continued along the Belize River today. Franklin, who was accompanied by four others, went on a short fishing trip upstream when the vessel he was traveling in suddenly capsized near the Burrell Boom area. Franklin was […]
The case against the Attorney General’s Office which is being brought by Caleb Orozco and the United Belize Advocacy Movement (UNIBAM) challenging Section Fifty-Three of the Criminal Code is a little over two months away from being argued in the Supreme Court. Lawyers on both sides of the gay rights argument appeared before Justice Michelle […]
A sea of blue flooded the west and the north of the country was covered in red on Sunday as both major political parties held divisional conventions. In San Ignacio, two People’s United Party candidates made a bid for Cayo Northeast. Orlando Habet topped the polls with nine hundred and eighty-six votes and is the […]
We told you last week that a Belizean cuisine restaurant in Chicago would be featured on the Food Network’s hit show, Diners Drive-ins and Dives. The episode aired on Monday night and it definitely put our local dishes on the map as the host, Guy Fieri, as well as the patrons, had rave reviews about […]
Human Trafficking has become a global problem that rarely ends in convictions because victims are reluctant to go before the courts. Today the Embassy of Mexico hosted “A Day for the Rights of the Child,” in Belize and Corozal Districts to highlight the plight of vulnerable groups such as children who are trafficked. In Belize […]
Good Evening. I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. In week 13 of the Belize Bank Super League Tournament, the red hot Orange Walk United hosted the always dangerous Placencia Assassins Saturday night inside the People’s Stadium as the mad scramble to make the 4 team playoffs intensifies. It’s the visitors with the first […]
A team from the Gang Suppression Unit carried out a surprise raid at the house of Mike Menjivar, the well known owner of La Cabana Bar in Belmopan looking for illegal items. It started before dawn and continued all day. A shoot-out ensued, Menjivar and his wife were held inside their house, but their three […]
As we said, at about six this evening, Menjivar was finally taken to the police station for processing. His attorney, Arthur Saldivar told News Five that the house was completely ransacked and that Menjivar was injured. Arthur Saldivar, Attorney “All rooms, all rooms in a whole has been shot up. There are bullet holes in […]
A high ranking police officer was busted with alleged counterfeit notes on Wednesday while at a bank making a deposit. It’s a major bust because Sergeant Sherwood Wade is the head of the Police Special Branch. This afternoon, dressed in a guaberra, he was escorted to court and was formally arraigned for Possession of Counterfeit […]
But those sixteen notes were just the tip of the iceberg and the cops are now on high alert, following an even bigger bust on Thursday afternoon. Thirty-five year old David Sedacey, who was busted with fifteen thousand US dollars in fake bills, was arraigned this morning for Possession of Counterfeit Notes. Police searched his […]
The official statistics released earlier this week say that crime is down. We asked our viewers if they felt safer even though the heinous crime of murder is up when compared to last year. By a large margin, as high as ninety four percent, viewers said no. One viewer said, “When more than ninety percent […]
Bus operators from the North of the country attended a meeting in the old capital at ten this morning. The meeting was necessary because operators were not happy with the schedules proposed by the Ministry of Transport for the northern and western zones. Some of the operators lost a number a number of runs, which […]
The Orange Walk Technical High School is getting a new name; we caught up with this piece of news on Facebook, were we found that emotions were running high among those not enthused with the change. The Chairlady of the Board of Management circulated a letter to that effect today saying the instructions had come […]
COLA’s President Moses Sulph recently found himself in hot water after his advocacy group staged a sleep out in front of the Prime Minister’s Office in the Capital against oil exploration. Soon after, it became known that he was under investigation and was subsequently fired from his post at the General Registry after alleged irregularities […]
The boom in cruise tourism has opened up plenty of Belize’s natural resources for income generation. But the droves of buses that take tourists to the sites also have an impact on the roads. Taxes are being taken per head of tourist that enter sites such as Caves Branch for cave tubing. But the infrastructure […]
The recently released statistics showed that at the end of April, the number of carnal knowledge cases was down by two when compared to same period in 2010. Well, it appears the culprits are playing catch up because there were two carnal knowledge reports in today’s police blotter. A fourteen year old student told the […]
An accident on the Hummingbird Highway this past Sunday night resulted in the death of nineteen year old Suzette Mossiah and according to police, the driver of the vehicle is facing four charges. Mossiah was travelling from Armenia Village to Belmopan along with Balmore Hernandez. But Hernandez lost control of the Toyota Tacoma pickup and […]
Burglaries of churches are becoming frequent. In the most recent case Pastor Arturo Mendez, of Paraiso Village in the northernmost district, reports that the Penial Presbyterian Church located in the Ramirez Layout Area of Corozal Town was vandalized. The thieves made off with an assortment of furniture and electronic items that are worth over twelve […]
There’s a disturbing report coming from the Corozal District that two women were badly beaten by the cops. According to a relative of the victims, Maity Garcia and Yorhemi Monima, got into an argument near the Police Station and the cops intervened. But instead of breaking up the confrontation, the officers allegedly attacked the women. […]
A report in the Honduran press says that the Crime Investigation Unit of Honduras is investigating the twin engine plane used in the biggest drug bust in Belize. The Beach craft is in the custody of the Belize Defence Force but, as we reported at the time of the raid, it is eerily similar to […]
Vivian Castillo, a police sergeant attached to the Dangriga Formation, is the latest Lotto winner. Castillo, who has been taking a chance on tickets since the inception of the game, struck gold on Wednesday when the slip she purchased prior to the draw contained the winning numbers. At the time she bought the ticket the […]
There are numerous theories as to when judgment day will be upon us, but one religious group is of the belief that it’s closer than you think. Robin Harp, of familyradio.com came to News Five six months ago with a message of repentance and a claim that the world would end on May twenty-first, 2011. […]
A Belizean is in major trouble across the border. Forty-two year old Argimiro Leiva has been arrested along with two Mexican nationals following an armed robbery on Wednesday morning at Aimee jewelry store in downtown Chetumal. The Mexican cops have recovered most of the loot; a whopping three hundred and forty thousand dollars in jewelry […]
You’ve heard about road rage, well there is a conflict on the highways today that has bus operators blistering for fair play and accountability. It seems that the rules of engagement have changed once again for bus operators of the north who feel that they are being hustled out of their routes, which means less […]
