While we were unable gather officially from police the motive for this latest homicide, the Officer Commanding Orange Walk Police, Superintendent David Chi acknowledges that the murder of a key witness is an angle that the investigators are looking into. Here’s that back and forth with the media. Supt. David Chi, O.C., Orange Walk […]
Police presence was heavy at major events over the weekend, but that did not avert any violence. Not for Akeem Augustine who was set free of a murder charge on Friday. By Saturday morning, following the popular J’ouvert, Augustine was targeted. He was among the revelers in the area of Cinderella Plaza when a gunman […]
Shortly after ten o’clock on Saturday night, gunshots rang out on Ebony Street, at its intersection with Sibun Street, where passengers inside a vehicle were being targeted by a pair of gunmen. Twenty-six-year-old Darwin Martinez, a resident of Mayflower Street, was riding inside a black Saturn along with his uncle when they came under gunfire. […]
An explosive device was retrieved in Corozal Town over the weekend when police in that jurisdiction were handed a sophisticated bomb, complete with a remote detonator. While an actual charge was not attached to the device, its complexity marks a first for the discovery of such contraptions in Belize. News Five spoke with local bomb […]
A Salvadoran national was killed in the Cayo District over the weekend. He was at a bar when another man took his drink and consumed it. A fight ensued outside of the premises and that is when Jose Sibrian was stabbed and killed. Police say they are now looking for the suspect. Andrea Polanco has […]
San Ignacio Police are on the scene at the moment where a body was found in the Macal River. Sometime after three this afternoon the body of a man was spotted floating face-down in the river. According to reports, the body has not yet been identified and neither is a missing person’s report in San […]
Throughout the many festivities on carnival day, the Belize Police Department was working overtime to keep criminals at bay. Along the parade route officers kept a watchful eye for suspicious activity and were able to intercept an onlooker who came to the event prepared for a brief shootout. Thirty-two-year-old Darren Dawson, a resident of Neal’s […]
Did the police department intentionally turn a blind eye to certain criminal elements and allowed them to carry on with illicit activity in return for keeping the peace in Belize City? It’s an opinion that is shared by some, however, the truth of the matter is that the crackdown on the local marijuana trade seems […]
This morning, Tropic Air and Maya Island Air announced that they will suspend all scheduled flights to Caye Caulker effective October first. That’s because the runway at the airstrip on the island is badly deteriorated and so to avoid safety and operational challenges, the airlines are taking this necessary step. Both airlines say there is […]
Last week News Five shared correspondence from Prime Minister Dean Barrow indicating that after the current allocation runs out in November, the Government would not continue to fund the Senate Special Select Committee. Its reason is that it wants to save funding for the Integrity Commission and implementation of the United Nations Convention against Corruption […]
The 2017 Carnival Road March got off without a hitch. Thirteen bands, seven juniors and six seniors battled in various themes and revelry as they took on that two mile stretch from Caesar Ridge to the Marion Jones along a new route. While there were lapses, the bacchanal was nothing short of a spectacle and […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend sporting activities….]
As Belizeans prepare to start the extended celebration weekend, citizen’s security is a huge concern in light of lethal explosives found in recent days. A number of mass events such as Saturday’s road march as well as concerts and the popular jouvert have the police on high alert. Facing public condemnation for tear gassing Belizeans […]
Are mixed signals being sent by the Ministry of Home Affairs? The Police Department spent upwards of half an hour at its Thursday press conference seeking to justify its treatment of protestors and members of the press, particularly KREM Television’s Marisol Amaya, during Wednesday’s protest turned riot at the Tower Hill Bridge in Orange Walk. […]
The unfortunate incident on Wednesday during which reporter Marisol Amaya was physically assaulted by members of the Special Patrol Unit on the Tower Hill Bridge in Orange Walk, remains a trending topic in the social media realm. The wanton tear-gassing and beat down of journalists during the uproar has seen a number of government officials […]
The news according to Orange Walk North area representative Gaspar Vega that he is considering running for another term put a cat among the pigeons in the United Democratic Party’s plans. The Opposition People’s United Party is salivating at the prospect, but not so fast. While Vega can run even though he is discredited, Elrington […]
The Orange Walk North area representative made his first televised interview in several months during Wednesday’s protests, but was careful to skirt the issue of activities at the Ministry of Natural Resources. As we have reported, he appeared to balance whatever irregularities have been observed in the scads of documents released to the press since […]
A pair of officers attached to Precinct Three in Belize City is out on bail after being arraigned on extortion related charges earlier today. The duo, identified as Sergeant Lenancio Bol and Police Constable Daniel Requena, appeared before Magistrate Aretha Ford after being held in detention since Thursday. It is alleged that on September fifth, […]
A Belizean was reportedly killed in the Champon area of the western border with Guatemala. News Five has learned that San Jose Succotz tour guide Carlos “Botty” Manzanero was at the Larios establishment with his wife when he was shot a total of eight times: once to the right knee, twice to the left hand […]
Pressure from members of the subdivision of Las Flores in Belmopan seems to have turned the Catholic Church around on the issue of two parcels of land located next to the Roman Catholic community school which residents want returned from the purchaser. On Thursday there was a protest at Belmopan City Hall by residents and […]
A set of triplets was delivered at the K.H.M.H.’s Labour and Delivery Unit on Tuesday. Sometime, around ten that morning, the first time mother delivered two boys and one girl. The babies all weighed an average of five pounds. They were admitted for observation over the past couple days and were discharged today. On Wednesday […]
Holiday weekends often carry a greater load of patients for the national referral hospital, the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital in Belize City. This weekend, that load increases because all surgery related cases are being referred there specifically for patients from the Northern Health Region – Corozal and Orange Walk. This is because upgrades are being […]
Before Norwegian Cruise Lines’ Harvest Caye opened last November, Belize had exactly zero docking facilities for visiting cruise ships. With construction set to open on Michael Feinstein’s Stake Bank project in December, and the subjects of this next story, there could be as many as three in the coming years. The Government of Belize and […]
A second phase to the project will add two berthing docks and a five-star three hundred-room hotel and water theme park. The Government, represented at the signing by Minister of Economic Development Erwin Contreras and Minister of Defence John Saldivar, expects that at least seven hundred Belizeans will be employed to build the new facility. […]
After four years and six months on remand for the murder of Ardon Belgrave in March 2013, Akeem Augustine, is freed of murder. Belgrave was shot and executed while on a job site on Caesar Ridge Road, Belize City. His acquittal came this morning before Justice Adolph Lucas where the evidence presented by the crown […]
