The first four months of 2015 have been particularly violent with the number of murders exceeding the 2014 homicides. So far, there are fifteen more murders than last year according to our records. Gun violence has hit the city particularly hard with gang warfare responsible for a large number of murders. Tonight, Isani Cayetano revisits […]
In August of 2014 then workers of Belize Maintenance Limited (BML) caused great disturbance outside of City Hall on North Front Street. They were protesting against Mayor Darrell Bradley and the Belize City Council for falling behind on their payments to the company, which in turn caused the company to consider firing fifty employees and […]
The family of six year old Travis Polanco from Pomona Valley, Stann Creek District, is tonight grieving his death, five days after he was shot to the head by another primary school student. At three minutes past twelve this afternoon, the young boy who had been unresponsive for some days, was taken off the ventilator […]
The shooting of Travis occurred last Thursday and it was until this afternoon that police sent out a release on what transpired. Contrary to the family’s report that the two boys were playing in the yard, the police say that their initial investigations reveal that while Travis was coming from school, he started hurling rocks […]
As the family of Travis Polanco grieves his death, the family of twenty-seven-year-old Denfield Bowen Junior fears the worst. Bowen Junior, known to family and friends simply as LL, has been missing since Thursday of last week when he was last seen leaving his Plues Street address in his vehicle. It has been five days […]
The stevedore was last seen wearing a white tee shirt with R.I.P. Kareem Lopez emblazoned on the front and Robbery on the back. Bowen was also clad in a pair of yellow three-quarter shorts and a pair of green Nike slippers. Isani Cayetano “Describe the vehicle in which he was driving?” Voice of: […]
Tonight San Pedro Police have released three of the five persons detained for the murder of taxi-man Donicio Trujillo on Sunday. Trujillo was found early that morning on the side of the road with his throat cut and stab wounds to the body. Preliminary investigations resulted in the immediate detention of five persons of interest […]
A second suspect has been detained by police in connection with the murder at the National Agricultural and Trade Show Grounds. Shariff Anderson Andrewin of Cotton Tree was taken into custody at the Belmopan Police Station today. His arrest comes on the heels of the detention of Kimal Dawson hours after a Hattieville resident was […]
In April, 2013, the Vital Statistics Department was relocated from Gabourel Lane to the corner of Hyde’s Lane and New Road in Belize City. The official rationale for the move was that service would improve tremendously, and so would efficiency and the convenience to the public. Well that certainly hasn’t happened…but what has, is that […]
The People’s United Party has finally, though not yet officially, established some sort of concrete position on going to the International Court of Justice to settle the unfounded territorial dispute by Guatemala. It’s been months in coming, but P.U.P. Leader Francis Fonseca told News Five that after consultation in all constituencies, there is consensus – […]
Last week, the People’s United Party took to the streets, and this week they’re taking the fight back to the Court. It’s not about Petrocaribe…well, not directly. This time, the P.U.P. is fighting for the long awaited appointment of the thirteenth senator, delayed for about five years. It’s been a campaign promise and was even […]
Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington came under heavy fire some time ago for comments made on Belize’s terrestrial boundaries. His technical definition of the western border with Guatemala, which he described as “artificial” and its apparent porousness rubbed many the wrong way. In a recent presentation in the south, the Foreign Minister offered an informal description […]
A B.D.F. soldier, who was living at Price Barracks, Ladyville, the head quarters of the B.D.F. has been charged for a burglary at his work place based on allegations that he stole a nine millimeter pistol valued at two thousand dollars. Twenty-three year old private, Jamel Webster, was today arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate […]
A well-known street figure of Mayflower Street, Belize City was taken to court this morning for a shooting that occurred on Banak Street two weeks ago. Art Skeet appeared before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith and was read three indictable offenses including Attempted Murder, Use of Deadly Means of Harm and Wounding eighteen year old […]
A regional project inclusive of CARICOM member states seeks to strengthen fisheries food safety regulations. The purpose is for the Caribbean to be able to access the international markets for fishery products such as conch, fish, lobster and shrimp. Along with the Belize Agricultural Health Authority and the Fisheries Department, the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism […]
Motivational speaker Bert Oliva is back in Belize. Today, he started a tour in Belize City meeting with primary school students where, through words and activities, he demonstrated the power of the mind in achieving goals. At the Bliss Center for the Performing Arts, eager students learned that confidence can make them do daring things. […]
Belizean born athlete Rakeem Nunez-Roches has been drafted to the National Football League as a sixth round pick and defensive line for the Kansas City Chiefs. He is the first Belizean to enter the professional league of American football. While the twenty-eight ranked Chiefs didn’t enter the 2015 NFL draft with a variety of needs, […]
In July 2014 NICH received around seventeen thousand US dollars for the start of the Primary School Art Skills Training Project. Seventy-eight students from standard two through six participated in the programme. Today, the project was awarded additional funds by the Taiwanese Embassy to boost the art program in the participating schools. News Five was […]
There is a disturbing incident to report tonight of a shooting involving two young children in the south. A six year old boy is clinging to life after he was shot to the head by another minor with a sixteen-gauge shotgun. At news time, the family says that the chances of survival for Travis Polanco […]
911 was immediately called by Thomas Polanco, who thought of nothing else, but to get his son to the Southern Regional Hospital to save his life. But there was no response and the family had to rush six year old Travis to the hospital in a private vehicle. But with the clock ticking and a […]
According to Travis’ father, Thomas Polanco, the sixteen-gauge shotgun used in the shooting by the year old, is the weapon utilized by the minor’s family for hunting. Police have since questioned the parents of the boy who pulled the trigger and they have been released. Now, the nine year old is under the age of […]
The San Pedro Police Department is investigating a second brutal murder in less than a week. On Sunday morning, well-known taxi-driver forty-two year old Donicio Trujillo was found stabbed to death on a remote road outside of town; his van was parked nearby. Trujillo’s apparently senseless killing comes just five days after the execution of […]
The national agricultural and trade show was held over the holiday weekend in the Capital….thousands turned out for the event; that story is coming later in the newscast. But on Saturday night at the show grounds, a Hattieville youth was stabbed to death. Twenty-four year old Dernel Brown was socializing with a group of friends […]
Retired Major Lloyd Jones is the new People’s United Party standard bearer for Belize Rural North. The former Ports Commissioner succeeds attorney Arthur Saldivar and was formally introduced as the party’s candidate of choice during a press conference today at Independence Hall. Jones’ spirited introduction was led by Lake Independence Standard Bearer Cordel Hyde. His […]
As we mentioned earlier, Jones is assuming the reins for the P.U.P. campaign in Belize Rural North from former standard bearer Arthur Saldivar. His candidacy was rescinded in 2014, amid a series of scandals involving his profession as an attorney. While Jones admits that canvassing all twenty-seven villages within the constituency will be painstaking, he […]
