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The last we heard, vendors in the Fort George Tourism Zone were resistant to the efforts of the Belize City Council to collect a three-hundred dollar trade license for service in the vicinity of Memorial Park. In conjunction with the Belize Tourism Board, there is also effort to regulate traffic around the Zone, out of […]
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The annual symposium organized by the Central Emergency Management Organization, arm of the Belize City Council, begins on Wednesday at the Belize Biltmore Plaza. In addition to discussions about preparation for tackling massive disasters such as fires and hurricanes, an expo will be held featuring information from key stakeholders targeted at a younger audience. CEMO […]
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There has been a murder in the south side of Belize City. Just after six p.m., shots rang out in the Jane Usher Boulevard area, where police over the weekend organized a sporting event in its ongoing community policing efforts. Our News Five cameraman, Kenroy Michael is just back from the scene of the city’s […]
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The sitting Magistrate accused of rape of a Dangriga woman in April can now be named as Norman Rodriguez. Up until today, News Five had restrained from using his name. As early as April twenty-fourth, an online news outlet, Associated Belize Press, had publicly disclosed the name and stated as a matter of fact that […]
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The alleged rape of the Dangriga resident has raised numerous questions on the role of the judiciary in respect of indicting one of its own. While there is a gap in law where sexual offenses are concerned, rape is a crime for which the accused can be granted bail. Senior Counsel Richard ‘Dickie’ Bradley does […]
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The fact that the woman has gone on record in the media to tell her story may very well prejudice her case. Should charges be preferred on the magistrate in the days ahead, it is expected that he will vacate his office. Attorney ‘Dickie’ Bradley explains the process that the Solicitor General’s office will take […]
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Canadian national John DeShaies remains in police lockup following his arraignment on Friday, when he was denied bail in the Independence Magistrate Court. He appeared in court for charges of theft and handling stolen goods of over fifty-seven thousand dollars’ worth of electronics from the Placencia Casino, has obtained legal representation. But instead of being […]
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The Government has been boasting of a rebound in the shrimp industry in the wake of problems in production a few months ago. However, industry insiders report that the Aquaculture Stewardship Council, A.S.C., has suspended certification for four Belizean shrimp farms as of a month ago, on April fourth. The farms have been identified as […]
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This morning, Supreme Court Justice Courtney Abel dropped the case against Hilmar Alamilla, associate of Andre Vega and the former deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega, as it relates to a claim for return of compensation of four hundred thousand Belize dollars to Government. Alamilla was named as the man who originally bought just over an […]
Over the weekend, the Gang Suppression Unit moved against various gangs across the city. There is a truce in place among the rival gangs for about a month now and during that period there have not been any gang-related murders. But is the truce brokered between the gangs and the Eastern Division South commander under […]
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This afternoon, some ten men from the area were to attend a meeting at the Eastern Division South headquarters at Raccoon Street to lodge formal complaints and to seek recourse against the GSU over alleged brutality and ill-treatment at the hands of the officers attached to the unit. Mediator Dianne Finnegan, who has been working […]
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Word to News Five is that the GSU was simply following orders and that the operations in the area were as a result of instructions issued from up top, but by whom? Gang members told the media that in the past two weeks, officers attached to the unit have been conducting searches. They claim it […]
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Dorian Blair, one of two Belize City men recently charged for impersonating a police officer, was today before the Supreme Court for a bail hearing, but the hearing was moved to May twelfth at the request of his attorney, Oscar Selgado. Before Blair left the stand, Justice Antoinette Moore asked him how he was doing […]
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A family dispute between siblings and their mother ended up in court today with the arraignment of Rayford Saldano for wounding his sister Joleen Saldano. She reportedly put him out of their mother’s house while he demanded the return of one hundred and eighty dollars in rent and utility money he had paid to his […]
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He is known countrywide for his work in the creative arts, specifically the National Festival of Arts. Most recently and leading up to his retirement last November, Leroy Green had been working with the Ministry of Education to implement a creative arts curriculum into the formal education system. But tonight, the career teacher of thirty-four […]
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Green says that according to the Retirement Act, it is the responsibility of the ministry to address the issue of his pension and to locate his records. As we said, Green has many years of teaching under his belt dating back to 1975, when he started teaching at age fifteen at the Belmopan Comprehensive High […]
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There is news tonight of a civilian incursion of Belize by Guatemalan farmers seeking greater pastures in the south. The village of Otoxha has been dealing with a takeover of acres of territory. So far, the situation has not come to blows, but it is further evidence of what some have called ‘peaceful conquest’ of […]
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The matter has officially been reported to the Belize Defence Force’s local barracks at Fairweather Camp. Maheia told us that the farmers left a mile-plus-long trail from Guatemala into Belize for easier access to their ‘conquered’ territory. He says it is now up to the Belize Government to accept the status quo or move to […]
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The Red Cross Movement is the world’s largest humanitarian organization; it is also among the first responders in times of emergency and disasters. It has been active for more than a century in Belize and currently has eight branches; two in the Belize and Cayo districts and one in every other district. Today, on the […]
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This past Saturday, the annual event for the Ariel Rosado Education Foundation took place on the George Price Highway. Riders rode from Galen University Campus in Central Farm to Belmopan City, then travelled on to Belize City, ending at the Hour Bar Field. The Ariel Rosado Foundation was established to commemorate the life of Rosado, […]
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend sporting activities…..]
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News Five can confirm tonight that there’s a team of F.B.I. agents in Belize investigating the double murders of one of their own, ex-U.S. marine thirty-six-year-old Drew Thomas DeVoursney and his girlfriend, fifty-two-year-old Canadian national Francesca Matus. The couple was found dead inside a cane field in the outskirts of Chan Chen Village, Corozal District […]
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There was a murder in the Old Capital on Thursday night, leaving many to wonder whether the fragile ceasefire brokered among the various gangs has once again unraveled. The victim recently returned to Belize City after spending his childhood in Dangriga. That homecoming has been short-lived, as a gunman approached Michael Bonilla, who was riding […]
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He said it was accidental, but the magistrate didn’t believe him. As a result, fifty-five-year-old Louis Tucker will remain behind bars for five years. Tucker was convicted of sexual assault of a woman in her twenties. At trial today, the accuser told Chief Magistrate Ann-Marie Smith that she moved out of Tucker’s way as she […]
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Twenty-eight year old Wilhelm Gillette was today acquitted of the murder of twenty-one year old Norval Belisle, stabbed to death in the parking lot of La Cabana Club in the Las Flores area of Belmopan in 2015. Gillette was tried alone by Justice Antoinette Moore in April in Belmopan. In her ruling today, Justice Moore […]
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