There are new developments into the American couple, David and Anke Doehm, who was detained for questioning last week in the wake of the suspicious death of Faye Lin Cannon, their adopted daughter. This morning, the Doehms were whisked by boat to Belize City from San Pedro under police escort. According to the Commissioner of […]
Charges relating to the alleged murder of adopted daughter Faye Lin Cannon are yet to be levied. From what we have learnt, there is not enough evidence as to who murdered the young girl inside the couple’s apartment on the island. According to ComPol Whylie, the police department is awaiting instructions from the Director of […]
As the coverage of this very tragic death continues, a former neighbor of the Doehms provides details on the life of the couple in Hawaii before they moved to San Pedro. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. Duane Moody, Reporting In the face of a dead sexually abused thirteen-year-old Asian American girl, there has been […]
The death of Faye Lin Cannon has sparked response from all corners. On Monday the Human Development issued a lengthy release on the allegations made against the department. Those allegations are that the alleged abuse of Faye Lin and her three sisters were reported but the social worker attached to San Pedro and Caye Caulker […]
The supply of used B.D.F. uniforms and outboard engines and its mysterious appearance in the possession of civilians, particularly a Mexican national and two Belizeans, in Orange Walk, continues to be investigated. While the men have since been released without charges, there is an inquiry into whether there was indeed a breach in protocol within […]
When asked whether the police department is investigating a string of text messages exchanged between the Mexican national and a high-ranking B.D.F. official while in detention, ComPol Whylie said he was unaware of the communication. Furthermore, the police commissioner says that it would be concerning should the worn uniforms be smuggled into Mexico for use […]
News Five has obtained the video purportedly showing multiple communications between a high-level soldier of the Belize Defence Force and one of the persons found on Friday with used battle dress uniforms and discarded outboard engines that had been property of the B.D.F. Among the recovered items are ninety battle dress uniforms; various amounts of […]
The body of thirty-seven-year-old Ervin Rene Huex awaits transfer to Guatemala, following a deadly shootout on Saturday with Belizean law enforcement. Huex was one of two thieves who robbed a pair of men at gunpoint before relieving them of a Toyota Hilux. The incident happened along the Chaa Creek Road and the fatal encounter took […]
The biennial crime statistics for the first half of 2017 were released on Monday, and the report indicates that the number of murders have only reduced marginally when compared to the same period in 2016. From January to June there have been seventy murders, three less than last year. Of that number, thirty-one arrests have […]
A search for a Belize City man continues along the highway as well as on the waters. Mark Pollard was last alive on Monday, July third, when he set out to exercise on the Philip Goldson Highway. His mysterious disappearance is baffling his family as well as friends who are hoping for the best, but […]
A fifty-two-year-old man is accused of having sex with a fifteen-year old inside his vehicle on Sunday on the Phillip Goldson Highway. This afternoon, Jose Lino Ardon, a resident of Lord’s Bank Village, Ladyville was arraigned and remanded into custody at the Belize Central Prison until September twenty-six, 2017 for the crime of unlawful sexual intercourse. […]
‘King Sugar’ is especially sweet this year in the Corozal and Orange Walk Districts. The Tower Hill Factory produced a record-breaking one hundred and forty-four thousand tons of sugar, passing the high mark set in 2015. They did it in slightly more time, but with less cane actually brought to the mill. But prices continue […]
The Corozal Sugar Cane Producers’ Union and Progressive Cane Farmers Association based in Orange Walk have agreed with Belize Sugar Industries and American Sugar Refining to continue with the commercial agreement originally signed three years ago. But the co-architects of that arrangement, the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association, wants some re-negotiation of major points including […]
Tourism Minister Manuel Heredia Junior and his colleague Rene Montero appear on Wednesday before the Senate Special Select Committee on Immigration. The Belize Rural South area representative is expected to be questioned about his role as a recommender for a particular family on Ambergris Caye, the Harmouch family. It is also known that he acted […]
Across the world July eleventh is observed as World Population Day. It is a day used to draw attention on the urgency and importance of population issues. Since the day was first marked on July eleventh 1990 in more than ninety countries, a number of UNFPA country offices and other organizations and institutions commemorate World Population […]
In chess, the title grandmaster is the highest awarded and once achieved, is held for life. It seems an apt description for Belize’s own Leroy Young, though his specialty is in dub poetry. He has released numerous compilations of his work, held a coveted television spot for several years and toured around the world at […]
Michael Blease could be on his way out as General Secretary of the Football Federation of Belize as soon as tomorrow, Wednesday. News Five has been informed that the executive of the Federation, still reeling from an attempt to hold a General Congress that ended up dead on arrival, has moved against Blease, informing him […]
Another round of exciting competition begins shortly at the Bliss Institute. Participants are all primed up to take on this week’s challenge and face each other in the genre of country music. Now, two participants will be exiting the stage following last Tuesday’s competition. Host William Neal will have the results when the show gets […]
The death of thirteen-year-old American national Faye Lin Cannon has sent shockwaves across the country. The teenager was found dead and a post mortem exam determined that she was physically and sexually abused – allegedly at the hands of her adopted parents’ business owners David and Anke Doehm. The couple has been in police custody […]
Another round of protest as held over the weekend in the San Pedro where police have not yet been able to pin murder charges in the case of Faye Lin Cannon. The thirteen-year-old Chinese-American girl was reported dead last Monday by her own adopted parents, a U.S. couple. But there have been inconsistencies in their […]
As the island continues to reel over the death of Faye Lin, the Department of Human Services is coming under fire for a purported inaction in respect of complaint made against David and Anke Doehm. The department confirmed today that reports of what it calls improper supervision and inadequate parenting of the Cannon children of […]
We showed you the protests on the island where San Pedranos are angry over the death of Faye Lin. Residents have taken to the streets to express their regret and anger because they believe the teen’s death could have been prevented since the authorities never properly followed up the reports made about the suspected abuse. […]
Crime in the prime tourism destination has spiked; three murders were recorded in three days. Even as police continue investigating the death of Faye Lin Cannon, on Saturday night, a minor was shot and killed on Sea Grapes Drive. Sixteen-year-old Julian Tun arrived on the island on the same day death came knocking at his […]
The sensational case of forcible abduction, sexual assault and harm against Bert Vasquez, involving a sixteen-year-old minor back in May 2011 came to an end just before news time. At about four-twenty this afternoon, the jury retired to deliberate after more than six hours of summing up of the evidence of the case presented by […]
Police on the island are also investigating the unusual death of a Honduran national. Fifty-six-year-old Plutarco Noralez relocated to Belize from La Ceiba, Honduras years ago – first living in Dangriga before taking up residence in San San Pedro five years ago. But on Wednesday morning he arrived at the polyclinic complaining of chest pains; […]
