On the August first, 2014 at about three-thirty a.m. Andrew Augustine was shot in the foot on Holy Emmanuel Street in the Lake Independence area of Belize City. The altercation had apparently started earlier that day when Augustine and two other men had a misunderstanding over a bag of mangoes. As trivial as it seems, […]
There is an apparent dissention within the Maya community to report on tonight, following a release from the elected leaders of Conejo, Crique Sarco, Midway and Graham Creek. The group of four, having met to discuss recent statements in the media by representatives of U.S. Capital Energy, says that it flatly rejects the decision and […]
The Forestry Department is currently investigating the killing of a jaguar up north. Two officers of the department are currently in Sarteneja Village, in the Corozal district where the vicious act occurred. Today, on the social media, a picture of the dead animal was posted by a resident of that area. According to that post, […]
As we told you, a seventeen year old Wesley High School graduate has been charged with the murder of sixteen year old Chryslin Gladden. That has sparked a vigil for the fallen youth. This morning, a group of former Wesley College students was also at the Raccoon Street police station. Their purpose was to acquire […]
The date for the national song competition is quickly approaching. The event takes place this Saturday at Memorial Park in Belize City. Aside from the defending champions, the competition will see some new vocalists…all vying to take the top spots in the various categories. Today organizers held a meet and greet with the contenders who […]
Live at the Bliss tonight, another round of fierce competition as performers in this year’s hottest television show, bring their A game to the stage. Having endured several challenging rounds, seven will be moving on; but first they have to bring it before the live audience and viewers at home. When they take the mic […]
The news spread early on Saturday morning that a young woman had been killed at the Lord Ridge Cemetery. She was soon identified as sixteen year old Chryslin Gladden who had left home Friday night to visit a friend. The vivacious and young graduate of Wesley College was brutally stabbed multiple times; the murder weapon, […]
The weekend’s other murder victim is an eighteen year old Corozal resident who was killed execution style early Sunday morning in Orange Walk Town. At around five forty-five Roy Bayliss sat down with a friend to eat tacos at a popular vendor at the Fort Cairns Market Plaza in Orange Walk Town. He didn’t get […]
A twenty-one year old Belize City man has been charged for the gun rampage on Mopan Street which caused the death of two tacos vendors. Fifty-two year old Carlos Mayorga died instantly after he was shot in the back of the neck. Forty-two year old Alida Ascencio was shot twice, and died two days after […]
There is another death to report. Forty-four year old Orange Walk resident Gregorio Medina was pulled out of the New River this afternoon. His decomposed body was spotted floating in the river on Sunday, and was left there under Police guard until a post-mortem examination could be conducted today. The Trial Farm resident was last […]
The U.D.P. held a successful convention on Sunday attracting throngs of voters. That story is coming up, but among those who went out to support Mayor Bradley’s ticket, were employees of the Belize Maintenance Limited. This morning when they presented themselves to work, more than forty employees heard that they had lost their jobs because […]
Outspoken radio personality and well-known P.U.P. stalwart Albert Vaughn was also on North Front Street this morning taking pictures and providing coverage of the BML protest for Vibes Radio when he was arrested and detained by police. Vaughn was following a garbage truck and a BML bus, both of which were being escorted to Precinct […]
Just prior to the firing of the sanitation workers, the U.D.P.’s convention to elect candidates for its city council slate, took place. On Sunday it was not known that the bread and butter of some workers were at risk and by all accounts, the convention was one of the biggest for the U.D.P. News Five’s […]
On Friday, police investigating the disappearance of Hattieville chairman Kevin Carcamo made a mild breakthrough when they swabbed a piece of stick found in the area where he was reported missing two weeks ago. A subsequent test conducted by personnel attached to the Scenes of Crime Unit indicated that traces of human blood were […]
Orange Walk Police and even the National Crimes Investigation Branch have come under scrutiny for what persons say is a stagnating investigation. On July fifth, the body of seventy-one year old Ramon Cervantes Sr. was dug from a shallow grave, one week after he was reported missing. Just days after, the body of forty-six year […]
Twenty-two year old George Street affiliate Andrew Talbert was today sentenced to ten years for an unlicensed firearm and ammunition. Talbert, who lives on Allenby Street, was busted in January 2013 with a mine millimeter Glock pistol and one round of ammunition. Police say Talbert ran from them behind a yard at the corner of […]
Academic success is not confined to the work of teachers and principals; it extends to the hours put in by school counsellors. For the rest of the week, the counsellors will be meeting at the ITVET in a conference billed to unleash their potential. At the opening this morning, their role was recognized as an […]
A San Ignacio resident is tonight in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was attacked on Sunday night by a group of four men. Felix Romero was leaving his mother-in-law’s house when the group pounced on him. The incident happened on Flamingo Street near Kenny’s Store in San Ignacio. Romero was […]
In San Pedro, a fifteen year old is claiming that she was raped by a man she knew. Her account is that on Saturday afternoon at about three thirty she left home on her bicycle to shop at a store in the Boca del Rio area of the island. The fifteen year old girl claims […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderly and this is Sports Monday. We jump immediately into this action in the Presidents Cup currently in session as we caught up with the monster clash at Ladyville where the Belize District took on Roaring Creek. It’s a rapid start for the Belize District this set piece launched forward […]
There are new developments to report on tonight in a mysterious case involving the disappearance of forty-three-year-old Kevin Carcamo. The Hattieville chairman, a linesman employed with Discoverseis, went missing on July twentieth in a densely forested area behind Freetown Sibun. Despite a massive search and rescue effort in the days that followed, no signs of […]
A victim of domestic violence was stabbed at her workplace this morning. Suzette Pavon is an employee of Bowen and Bowen; she was cut at least once to the neck inside the company’s Slaughterhouse Road compound. It happened just before nine this morning when Pavon was talking to Santiago Ricardo Palma, her common-law husband of […]
In June, a twenty-three year old mother of three died in the flames which destroyed Kimmie’s Bar, located on Newtown Barracks in Belize City. Today, the man police believe is responsible for the fire which killed Jackie Arteaga was formally arraigned for her murder. Twenty-three year old Francisco Rodriguez, a Wilson Street resident and […]
The harrowing experience of fighting for dear life in a desperate attempt to ward off a knife-wielding intruder is a memory that will forever remain etched in the consciousness of fifty-one year old Betty Westby and her family. On Wednesday night, someone she knew forcibly entered her Crooked Tree home and attempted to kill her […]
Charlys Nunez, who also goes by the name Ninja, is known for his dancing skills having competed in many of Channel Five’s entertainment shows such as Duets, Superstar and Masters of the Floor. Today, Nunez came to our studio on Coney Drive claiming he was wrongfully detained at the Raccoon Street Police Station for forty-eight […]
