The Court of Appeal of the Eastern Caribbean began sitting today in the British Virgin Islands. It did so with a newly appointed judge – Senior Counsel Eamon Courtenay. News Five understands that Senator Courtenay was recruited by Dame Janice Pereira, the Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean, to sit as a temporary Judge on […]
Two Guatemalan carjackers were shot by police over the weekend; one died on the spot in Calla Creek, Cayo. On Saturday, the robbers lay waited Omar Jimenez and his son and strong-armed their vehicle at gunpoint, but Jimenez would alert family and the police. A team of officers from the Special Patrols Unit set chase […]
Police continue to investigate a fatal road traffic accident in Belize City. Thirty-seven-year-old Anthony Humes was driving a Wingle pick-up truck into Belize City from Ladyville on Sunday morning around four-thirty a.m. upon reaching the area in front of Caribbean Tires on the Philip Goldson Highway, around mile three and a half; he hit a […]
A night of socializing at La Cabana Night Club in Belmopan has left three men suffering from varying degrees of injury after gunfire erupted at the establishment. According to Belmopan police, Berthran Bermudez was shot to the left and right upper thigh, while Ismael Trapp was hit to the right index finger and left foot. […]
A Belize City family is out of house and home tonight after their residence on Zacaranda Street was gutted by fire. The twenty-by-twenty-five foot wooden structure was, according to fire personnel, deliberately set on fire and its residents lost all they owned. But the question tonight is, did someone conspire to burn out the Flowers […]
On Friday, we reported that Orange Walk police had arrested and detained a trio of men, including a Mexican national, found in possession of discarded military uniforms and outboard engines that were once the property of the Belize Defense Force. The stock of worn battle dress uniforms, along with mechanical parts from the motors, raised […]
The Belize Defence Force Air Wing was hard at work over the weekend, responding to an emergency situation in the Toledo District. The Ministry of Defence reports that three children between the ages of ten and sixteen went on a fishing expedition and wound up stranded on the far bank of the San Benito Poite […]
Police are reporting less major crimes across Belize in the first half of 2017. Official statistics have the figure tallied at eight hundred and sixty-six in total from January to June compared to one thousand and seventy in the same time period in 2016. The murder count stands at seventy as at the end of […]
For four years, the Image Factory Art Foundation has opened its space to new and established artists during the summer months for what it calls free and open experimentation, where those in the creative field are invited to perform, install or project work in the space for a maximum limit of twenty-four hours. The concept […]
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The community of San Pedro is still reeling and outraged at the death of a thirteen-year-old girl, one of four girls adopted by American parents. Faye Lin Cannon was found dead since Monday; she had signs of physical and sexual abuse. Police are now looking at her parents as suspects in her death. David and […]
Today in Belize City, People’s United Party Leader John Briceño weighed in on the tragic case. In addition to expressing a hope for justice against the perpetrators, he noted the recent comment by Immigration Officer Ady Pacheco during a public hearing of the Senate Special Select Committee. Pacheco claimed that the Cabinet had decided to […]
We’re following the heartbreaking story in San Pedro where a young girl was found dead with physical and sexual injuries, but we’ll start with a developing story of Orange Walk police who are keeping a tight lid on an ongoing criminal investigation. News Five can confirm tonight that authorities in the north have seized an […]
A team of coastguard officers was busy at sea on Thursday evening off the shores of Punta Gorda Town. An operation led by coastguard personnel and TIDE rangers responded to a distress call shortly before six o’clock when they were informed that a boat had overturned somewhere east of town. Fortunately for the four occupants […]
According to Lieutenant Soberanis, the occupants of the fleeing vessel had managed to toss their catch into the sea before being found with gill nets onboard the boat. Lt. Greg Soberanis, Belize National Coast Guard “As it relates to products, once a vessel is found to be engaged in illegal fishing, upon the sight […]
Erwin Santos, briefly the most wanted man in the West after police linked him to two murders in Unitedville and Teakettle villages, was captured earlier this week in Unitedville, Cayo. Today Belmopan police took him to court on a charge of possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition, specifically a point-two-two rifle for which other […]
Today, another bail application was heard on behalf of convicted prisoner, Orlando Vera, who was convicted and sent to prison on June first, 2017 on a single count of abetment to pervert the course of justice. Vera was jailed for two years after he was recorded telling Belmopan businessman Michael Modiri that he could help […]
On Wednesday afternoon, the People’s United Party in a statement strongly condemned what it called the contemptuous and disrespectful behavior displayed by Ministers Anthony “Boots’ Martinez and Edmond Castro during the Senate Special Select Committee earlier in the day. According to the Opposition, their behavior showed a complete lack of respect for the Senate and […]
Ministers Rene Montero and Manuel Heredia Jr. are headed to the inquiry next Wednesday. But will they follow the example set by their fellows this week, and is it possible that following from the disruption of May seventeenth propagated by Alberto August, the U.D.P. Cabinet has decided to show open contempt of the Senate Committee? […]
As to the testimony of the worth of a Minister’s recommendation for a visa application, which is not strictly required, it seems to be a case of taking the word of the various public officers who have testified openly to how Ministers of the current administration behaved against the Ministers’ own denial. Former Ministers of […]
Senior Counsel Michel Chebat, attorney-at-law, is standing in for the incumbent P.U.P. representative on the Senate Special Select Committee, Eamon Courtenay. Wednesday’s attacks on Chebat and Senator for the Business Community Mark Lizarraga by Minister Edmond Castro went even further. Castro openly mocked Chebat’s political pedigree and accused him of wrongdoing concerning use of public […]
Lieutenant Greg Soberanis, an upstanding officer of the Belize Coast Guard, recently completed a one-year program at the United States Naval War College. Soberanis graduated in June, after successfully completing the Naval Staff Course in Newport, Rhode Island. As the first Belizean to attend the extended version of the program, he was elected class president, […]
This week, Senior Superintendent Marco Vidal has taken over the post of Regional Commander for Eastern Division South, replacing Assistant Commissioner Chester Williams. Vidal has publicly committed to continuing the community policing approach adopted by Williams, although he will leave the senior officer to continue mentoring gang members presently under a truce. Meanwhile, murders and […]
Late on Thursday afternoon, Chief Justice, Kenneth A. Benjamin, dismissed a constitutional motion filed by three prisoners convicted of different murders but later saw the charge reduced to manslaughter. The CJ dismissed the motion in a thirty-seven page ruling and affirmed their convictions and sentence. The three convicted prisoners are Kenneth Garcia, along with former […]
Por esto, a Mexican news outlet reports that a Belizean has been arrested and remains behind bars in Isla Mujeres, for robbery. Police detained the individual after he forced himself into a house in the island and stole credit cards which were recovered by the police and returned to its owner. The robbery report was […]
