The following story may be a familiar one, and indeed there are quite a few cases of alleged police brutality or abuse of police authority brought in to our studios. We don’t air them all, for one reason or the other, but this one got our attention because the allegation is outrageous and also because […]
Reynaldo Verde, a senior employee of the General Sales Tax Department, will spend time behind bars after he was remanded to the Belize Central Prison this morning. Verde was charged in the San Pedro Magistrate’s Court with dangerous harm for an incident which occurred at the Holiday Hotel on Easter Sunday. Reports are that the […]
The Belize Central Prison Employees Coalition is a group which was allegedly formed, as its slogan states, to serve the employees of the Belize Central Prison. And they claim that they need to do that because the employees are being abused by the private management of Kolbe which they say is quote, “engaging in rampant […]
Late Tuesday evening while police were on patrol on the Benque Viejo Road, they intercepted a vehicle travelling from Benque Viejo to San Ignacio. The vehicle was driven at the time by forty-one year old Floyd Markwell Anthony of Esperanza Village; there were two passengers, forty year old Francis Kerr and thirty-six year old Marlon […]
One man who is impressed with the direction in which sports has been heading under his watch is Minister of State Herman Longsworth. During his address at the consultations on the National Sports Sector Strategy earlier today, Longsworth acknowledged the work of the Football Federation of Belize under its current administration, as well as the […]
Two weeks ago former Vice President of the Belize Amateur Athletics Association Deon Sutherland expressed concerns about the progress of the Marion Jones Sporting Complex, more specifically the accessibility of the newly built race track to young athletes. With the upcoming CARIFTA Games drawing nearer, runners have been requesting usage of the facility to prepare […]
Wil Maheia and his Belize Territorial Volunteers will be travelling to the border on Saturday and Sunday and say they intend to clear several miles of it. The group intends to start in Dolores, and plan to chop right along the border markers. Today News Five spoke to Maheia who told us that they have […]
Government says that oil has been found by Maranco Energy Belize Limited at their South Canal Bank number one exploration well in the Orange Walk District. Marranco’s concession includes more than three hundred and eighty-seven thousand acres in the Orange Walk District. Program for Belize assures the public that drilling is not taking place within […]
We start tonight’s newscast with an unusual murder in which a Sarteneja woman allegedly took the life of another. The incident happened on Sunday night in the village and it also involved another victim. The two were stabbed multiple times and were rushed for medical treatment but one did not make it to the nearest […]
Violence appeared to have been contained in the City over the Easter weekend, that is, until Monday night. Michael Heusner, a fisherman, was returning to his house from a trip to a nearby grocery store when two gunmen opened fire on him. The father of one was hit on the head; he did not stand […]
A second man has been charged in the kidnapping case up north in Corozal Town. Thirty-six year old Bernabel Pena now joins thirty-two year old Thomas Villanueva who was charged last Thursday in connection with the abduction of two year old Ivy Yang on March twenty-fifth. Several persons were initially detained and released but […]
But there is some positive news to report tonight. That’s because there is official word that Maranco Energy Belize Limited, an onshore drilling company, has struck gold…black gold, that is. A release from the Ministry of Energy, this afternoon states that on March thirtieth the company “discovered an encouraging oil show at their South Canal […]
There is another piece of good news for the government since a ten million US dollar lawsuit against them, by businessman Glenn Godfrey, for an alleged breach of contract was dismissed earlier today by a U.S court for the Southern District of Florida. The case was brought by GDG Acquisitions, a company related to the […]
The Government of Guatemala is including Belize as part of its territory in maps appearing in primary school text books. That decision was taken at the behest of the Ministry of Education but even prior to that the offensive map was protested at the Organization of American States when it was used to illustrate the […]
There was an early afternoon fire in the City. It caused a stir in the neighborhood because the wooden building was located in congested area on Freetown Road. The building was unoccupied but previously housed a grocery story. The Fire Department arrived on the scene and was able to contain the fire from spreading and […]
San Pedro was the scene of much excitement this Easter weekend, and not exactly the good kind. One shooting incident Easter Sunday night has left a San Pedro resident recovering at the K.H.M.H. while the man who shot him is detained pending charges. Reports are that the incident occurred at the popular Holiday Hotel located […]
And while that incident resulted in bloodshed, a group of about forty-five partygoers in San Pedro were treated to an unexpected swim when a wooden deck collapsed under their weight and plunged into the sea. The incident occurred at the Tackle Box Bar and Grill at around one thirty Sunday morning when reports are that […]
A woman was allegedly raped by two men, one of whom she describes as a police officer. A waitress from Belize City reported to Police that on Sunday, March thirty-first she was raped by two men, at least one of whom she believed to be a police officer. According to the report, the twenty year […]
Contraband goods are normally brought into the country through the back doors of Guatemala or Mexico but over the weekend a large amount of contraband was seized near El Ceibo in La Libertad, Petén which is located at the Guatemala -Mexico border. What does this have to do with Belize you may ask? Well the […]
The conch season will be closed from July first to September thirtieth, but three persons have been arrested and fined for fishing undersized conch in southern Belize. The bust was made by the Southern Environmental Association, known as SEA, which co-manages various marine areas. Two persons, who were caught with nine hundred and eleven undersized […]
A Belize City warehouse keeper, who Police caught at the Belize Western border after he allegedly tried to flee with a pregnant minor to neighboring Guatemala, was today slapped with two counts of Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. He is eighteen-year-old Alberto Antonio Barraza of Belize City. This afternoon, Barraza appeared before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie […]
Two men will be spending their first night at the Belize Central Prison after being slapped with charges of Attempted Murder on two police officers. Thirty-year old mechanic Dane Enriquez and twenty-three year old carpenter Alexander Underwood appeared before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith and both were charged jointly with Attempted Murder on PC […]
Senator representing the private sector Mark Lizarraga has been a very vocal proponent for a change in the way things are done in government to allow for greater adherence to those much-used political buzzwords – transparency and accountability. In Thursday’s newscast, Lizarraga spoke about the government’s new brainchild; the special purpose vehicle called BIL, and […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The 85th edition of the Annual Cross Country Cycling Classic will go down as the most excitingly competitive race Belizeans have ever seen on a Holy Saturday. at the start in front of Leslie’s Imports, 87 riders are suited up for blast off […]
