Jamal Humes is another missing man we’ve been reporting on since December twenty-seventh. Earlier this week, the family said the police was doing enough. ASP Alejandro Cowo said today that the department has been working to help the family find their loved one. ASP Alejandro Cowo, O.C., C.I.B., Belize City “I know that the […]
Twenty-three-year-old Justin Stephens was shot on Monday night and police are now looking for one person to question. Stephens was shot at the corner of Dolphin Street and Cemetery Road shortly before eight. ASP Alejandro Cowo says that Stephens was the target of the shooting and that it may be connected to another shooting that […]
Police say they are looking for one person in connection with the shooting of Damion Cattouse and Carolyn Revers. The couple was shot on Tuesday night while they were on North Front Street. Cattouse remains hospitalized at this time. Here’s what police have to say on the shooting. ASP Alejandro Cowo, O.C., C.I.B., Belize […]
This Friday night at the Belize Elementary School Gymnasium in Belize City, the National Elite Basketball League semi-pro season officially opens with a matchup between Smart Belize Hurricanes and the Verdes Basketball Club, formerly the Cayo Western Ballaz. It’s a home game for the Hurricanes, who say they plan to bring the win back to […]
U.S. news outlets have been reporting a severe flu epidemic that has swept across the United States for over a week of. In comparison to last flu season, the U.S. is seeing more cases of the flu leading to hospitalization and more flu-related deaths. If the adage is true that when the north sneezes we […]
A fire burnt out more than seven families in the early hours of this morning. Sometime after twelve, the fire started in an abandoned building on Glenn Street and the flames spread quickly. The blaze destroyed two other houses and left around twenty-eight persons without a roof over their head. The victims and residents in […]
Residents and fire victims believe that the firemen were not prepared to take on the midnight inferno. They claim that the fire truck arrived thirty minutes after the blaze started and that the trucks didn’t have enough water. Well, Fire Chief says not so. He says they were notified of the blaze around ten minutes […]
The Ministry of Human Development and the City Emergency Management Organization have teamed up to provide much needed immediate relief for the families. Today, Minister Edmond Castro and Philip Willoughby met with the victims at the City Hall to distribute some food and other necessities. CEMO says that majority of the twenty-eight fire victims will […]
Last Friday, the price of LPG went up by seven dollars per hundred pound cylinder. While that increase kept supply of butane going, there is information of an impasse between Liquid Petroleum Gas importers and the Government. Complaints reaching our studios were that importers were selling butane to distributors at a wholesale price of one […]
Twenty-six-year-old Alfredo Cowo was ruthlessly dispatched in the early hours of Tuesday morning, as he sat in a golf cart with his girlfriend in the vicinity of Central Park in San Pedro. But his murder is not going down quietly. The fisherman was shot and killed by an unknown gunman one week after telling News […]
Randell is outraged that the case against Coye and Madril was tossed out because the court prosecutor, himself a police officer, failed to appear before the sitting magistrate in the San Pedro jurisdiction. Likewise, serious concerns are being raised about the officers being reinstated following the dismissal of the matter, particularly in light of their […]
The hourglass that is Andrew Bennett’s freedom is quickly running out of sand, as it is expected that he will soon be arrested and brought before Chief Magistrate Sharon Frazer since all the paperwork has been completed for his court appearance. The well-known attorney is wanted by the U.S. government for his alleged role in […]
Belize City resident forty-nine-year-old Mark Pollard has been missing since July 2017. Tonight, the questions are whether he is dead, and did family members have anything to do with it? This afternoon at a press conference in Belize City, a bombshell was dropped when a recording was released. Jose Luis Espat, who has been consulting […]
A friend of Pollard’s who is familiar with recent events has told News Five that along with the suspected family member, at least two other intimates of the missing man are suspected of involvement as well as a high-ranking police officer. In fact, our sources even claim to know the general location of Mark Pollard’s […]
Twenty-eight year old Jamal Humes has been missing since December twentieth, 2017. The auto mechanic disappeared sometime between socializing with friends and visiting his mother’s house. Searches of the immediate area have turned up nothing, but the family believes it has found a possible motive in the far north, potentially involving a police officer. Humes […]
Fareed Ahmad was killed on December twenty-eighth in his vehicle outside Hattieville. The alleged killer, Woman Police Constable Michelle Brown, is behind bars awaiting indictment and trial. But much about the case is still unsettling. According to police investigators and Minister of Home Affairs Wilfred Elrington, newly released video surveillance places Ahmad as having picked […]
A Belize City couple remains hospitalized at the K.H.M.H. tonight after being attacked by a gunman on Tuesday. Thirty-seven-year-old Carolyn Revers was seated inside a parked vehicle along with her boyfriend when they came under gunfire. Residents in the vicinity of North Front Street, near its intersection with Pickstock Street, told News Five this evening […]
The municipal election season is drawing closer and already most of the major political parties’ candidates are on the campaign trail. Participation from the alternative and independent movements has been less in evidence. But one man who never seems to stop campaigning is Ernesto Torres. The driving instructor is a constant presence on the radio […]
On Tuesday, the Court of Appeal pronounced a verdict in a criminal matter involving thirty-three-year-old Linsbert Bahadur Junior. He was convicted of the murder of his brother-in-law Albert Wade which occurred in April 2006. While affirming his conviction, the appellate court quashed Bahadur’s life sentence. In July 2016, he was found guilty after four previous […]
The Supreme Court has set a March trial date for two men accused of uttering on a forged document and preparation to commit a crime. Forty-three-year-old Marcos Basto of Corozal Town and thirty-one-year-old Mark Antonio Rosalez of San Pedro Town are accused of uttering on an official certificate of registration as a citizen of Belize […]
Police have quickly nabbed a man who they say stole a bicycle belonging to a woman police officer. But he says it was an accident caused by being under the influence of alcohol. Thirty-five-year-old Eugene Lanza pleaded not guilty to the theft of a two hundred and ninety-nine-dollar bicycle belonging to community policing officer WPC […]
Windell Neal, was read a charge of obtaining property by deception in the Magistrate’s Court today. Jennifer Arana, secretary for the Oswald Twist law firm, says she was at home on Lacroix Boulevard on December seventh when a young man arrived claiming he was delivering a glass door from Leslie’s Imports on the George Price […]
On Tuesday News Five showed you firsthand the hopes and dreams of farmers in the San Carlos area of Orange Walk, who are hoping they will be able to get their crops to market without interference in the form of additional import licenses, higher taxes on fuel and poor infrastructure. But there is another issue […]
You heard earlier in the newscast about the fire that totally destroyed the houses of eight families. The fire started in an abandoned building where homeless persons were staying. If you recall some time ago, the City Council in collaboration with the National Fire Service, the Police Department, Human Services and the Ministry of Health […]
The Protected Areas Conservation Trust office in Belmopan will be closed for the next week as the statutory body undergoes transition to a leaner, more efficient institution capable of financing the national protected areas system while containing its administrative costs. But the fourteen member-staff got sent home after meetings on Tuesday. They were told that […]
