The arrest of Maya activist and spokesperson for Maya Leaders Alliance, Cristina Coc and other Maya leaders, is getting further local and international attention. Earlier today no less than the Geneva based United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples made a statement on the pre-dawn arrests as well as the issue of […]
On Monday’s newscast we told you about the changes to the organization structure and the ranks at the Eastern Division in Belize City. Former Officer Commanding the Eastern Division, Assistant Commissioner Dezerie Phillips, is now Divisional North Regional Commander of north side Belize City and the cayes. Her deputy, Senior Superintendent Edward Broaster is now […]
There was a daring robbery in the downtown area on Monday afternoon. A Taiwanese member of staff at the Embassy concluded transactions and had just exited the Belize Bank on Albert Street when he was pounced upon. The driver of the diplomatic mission was accosted by a lone gunman in the parking lot of the […]
Five Belize City men charged, in separate incidents, with weed possession were before the courts today. The first to be arraigned was forty-six year old Michael Wade, who was accused of being in possession of one point three grams of cannabis. He appeared unrepresented and told the court that he smoked weed because it gives […]
The focus of the National AIDS Commission is on men getting them tested and providing them with prevention tools. But according to studies, the youth are also a most vulnerable population. For the rest of the week, the Commission is developing the appropriate national response to control and reduce the number of affected persons. The […]
The Mek Mi Rich Game Show was introduced to the country nine months ago with a jackpot of half a million dollars. The televised game show plays three times weekly and has finally produced a winner. Last Thursday, after several easy to win challenges and promotions of one thousand and five thousand dollars cash prizes, […]
And finally to end the news, there is sad news to report. The Institute of Creative Arts and the country have lost an icon in the creative arts industry. Rosita Balthazar lost her fight to cancer on Monday night at her Los Lagos home in the Belize District. One of the founding members of the […]
All day, today there has been an outpouring of both love and sympathy for media colleague, Kareem Clarke. The tragic news spread quickly this morning that the young and gifted journalist from the Amandala newspaper had been executed at about one this morning in an area which ironically is close to a police checkpoint and […]
The Amandala Newspaper has issued a statement on the senseless murder of Kareem Clarke saying, “We are still in disbelief over the tragic loss of this very promising and ambitious young journalist. On a day like today, Kareem would have been hard at work, juggling several stories for publication in the mid-week edition of the […]
There were three other murders over the weekend. The violence started on Friday night with the homicide of a Belize City welder. David Rivas was shot and died just hours into his twenty-second birthday. But was his murder foretold due to gang warfare in the area? Rivas was shot multiple times to the pelvis, buttocks, […]
The third murder occurred before dawn on Sunday also in the city. Sixty-five year old Emmerson Cain was assaulted by at least three persons behind Village Kitchen Restaurant on North Front Street sometime around four o’clock. He was reportedly attacked with a stone and beaten several times to the face before he was thrown into […]
While the murder rate continues to increase, two men went to court this morning and even before their trial started, they were freed. Twenty-four year old Charles Young Junior along with twenty-seven year old Derrick Kuylen are tonight free from a double murder charge. Trial was to start this morning in the Belize City Supreme […]
The Roman Catholic Church has broken ranks with the Council of Churches. Reverend Noel Leslie, who represents the Council in the Senate, was one of seven parliamentarians to vote in favor of the General Revenue Supplementary Appropriation bills, as well as the Amendments to the Petrocaribe Loans Act last Wednesday. The yes vote on the […]
According to Father Leslie, he is equally obligated to support the position of his bishop, despite having voted in favor of the majority in the council. Rev. Father Noel Leslie, Senator for the Churches “As far as the Catholic Church is concerned the bishop, he’s not in agreement with the law totally and so […]
But is the ecumenical chapel that is to be constructed at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital the sugared pill for the change of heart? Father Leslie said that the topic came up at a past meeting of the Council of Churches and was seen as a good gesture that serves all denominations equally. Isani […]
As we do just before any major election, over the weekend News Five went to the scene of the scheduled bye-election in Dangriga to get a last minute feel from both party candidates on campaign progress, challenges and just basically the atmosphere on the ground. Arrangements were made in advance with both political parties, but […]
Attorney and activist Audrey Matura-Shepherd was called into the chambers of Justice Courtney Abel today. The application for sanction was brought in relation to the G.O.B. versus BGYEA Court ordered mediation, and the claim is that Matura-Shepherd disclosed information to the media during that mediation, when she was specifically prohibited from doing so. The rules […]
As we told you, the contempt application was brought in relation to Court-ordered mediation which has now come to a close. The dispute was over the use of a buffer-zone in the Harmonyville community. BGYEA had been prohibited from planting corn in the buffer zone of the area which covers more than one thousand acres, […]
A domestic dispute has landed forty-six year old taxi man, Mark Anthony Lord Senior at the Belize Central Prison. He is facing two criminal offenses, allegedly committing against his common-law wife, Diane Waight. This morning, Lord Senior appeared before Magistrate, Hettie Mae Stewart and was arraigned for Grievous Harm to Waight as well as for […]
Following a request by all cane farmers associations for an extension of the 2015 crop, B.S.I. stated late last week that it would not consider extending the crop for a number of reasons including the increasing rains. But that position has changed, and this morning farmers got some good news at a hastily called press […]
There are major changes to the top brass of the police department in the City. First, there is no more Eastern Division. That was revealed today at a press briefing this afternoon hosted by Senior Superintendent Chester Williams flanked by his new deputy, Senior Superintendent Alden Dawson. Williams recently returned to the country after acquiring […]
Williams is taken on an area that is spiraling with criminal activity. Over the weekend, there have been three murders in Belize City and in the past two weeks, a total of six persons have been killed by gun violence in the Old capital, particularly south side Belize City. News Five asked Williams about the […]
Earlier in the newscast, we told you about four murders that occurred over the weekend. But there was another act of gun violence in the city, a shooting on Friday night that landed a Belize City youth in the K.H.M.H. in a critical, but stable condition. Jerome Smith of Fourth Street in the Buttonwood Bay […]
The murder of two young students in the past week stunned the country. Fifteen year old Tarique Thompson and sixteen year old Ruben Leslie were mercilessly gunned down in separate incidents and Guidelight Productions wants to remind the public of these senseless killings by holding a vigil in their memory on Tuesday night. News Five […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The Smart 13 and Under Football Tournament presented the semi-final round Saturday at the MCC Grounds. In a closely contested matchup between Collet Strikers and Young Warriors, the decision had to go to penalty kicks after they rallied to a scoreless stalemate. It was […]
