Rhaburn’s mother, who also asked not to appear on camera, makes some very bold claims against members of the police department. Likewise, Shari Lopez accuses the owners of the pawnshop of having the G.S.U. officers on their payroll in an attempt to shakedown borrowers who are either delinquent or have defaulted on their debt. She […]
Deputy Commissioner of Police Chester Williams, who has viewed amateur footage of the incident, tells an entirely different story of what transpired. He goes as far as stating that the G.S.U. officers used necessary force since Rhaburn clearly was resisting arrest. The family contends that he is being harassed and profiled. DCP Williams, on the […]
Eighteen-year-old Rudolph Welcome has been remanded to the Belize Central Prison after being arraigned for the near-fatal shooting of Eugene Henderson Junior over the weekend. On Saturday night, the twenty-three-year-old Burrell Boom resident was shot to the right side of the face whilst sleeping on a sofa at a relative’s house in Roaring Creek. It […]
She was not in court today, but twenty-three-year-old Aracely Cahueque could find herself back in front of a Belizean court, if the Court of Appeal finds that she must face another trial for abetment to murder. Cahueque was the alleged mastermind behind the evil plot to behead the nineteen-year-old Raylene Dyer and abduct her newborn […]
A pair of Belize City teenagers has been remanded to the Central Prison in connection with the armed robbery of Moon Grocery Store on Coney Drive, located up the street from Channel Five. Eighteen-year-old Rikish Rhaburn of Amara Avenue and nineteen-year-old Kentroy McKoy, of Cleghorn Street, were read three counts of robbery before Magistrate Khadeen […]
A homeless man caught stealing inside a clothing store on Albert Street avoided jail today. But forty-four-year-old Denroy Ingram is not out of danger yet as he must find two hundred dollars to pay the Magistrate’s Court by the end of August. On Monday, owner of Juanita’s Outlet, Joseph Hoy, was alerted by his wife […]
Minister Anthony ‘Boots’ Martinez is going into retirement and right about now he is observing the persons who are interested in replacing him for the U.D.P. in the Port Loyola Division. Over the past couple months, a number of names have been thrown around, including former City Councillor Dean Samuels and former Lake-I U.D.P. standard […]
There has been at least two fish kill in San Pedro, Ambergris Caye. Back in May, hundreds of dead fish including permit and bonefish surfaced on the Boca Del Rio Beach. And about a week ago, dead fish surfaced on the lagoon in San Pedro Town, including snappers and barracudas. Local authorities on the island […]
June is fisherfolk month and a number of activities are being held across the country to engage fishers on the state of the industry. Today, the Second Annual Women in Fisheries Forum was held in Belize City, under the theme “Working Towards Zero Hunger with Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries.” The purpose of the forum is to […]
Earlier today, forty participants, including clients of SBDC Belize and Export Belize, both units of BELTRAIDE, attended a workshop to strengthen the capacities of policy makers, business development organizations and business owners in developing and promoting business continuity planning. It is a key strategic mitigation measure in the event of a disaster. News Five’s Isani […]
Over the past century, around four hundred languages have gone extinct and most linguists estimate that more than fifty percent of the world’s remaining six thousand five hundred languages will be gone by the end of this century. And while languages are dying, many others are endangered or threatened, most being in the Americas. Back in 2003, […]
A Hattieville man was executed at his house in the village over the weekend. Before eight o’clock on Saturday morning, twenty-six-year-old Philmore King was shot to the back of his head by a person he was chatting with on the verandah of his house. But is his murder related to a recent drug bust in […]
A most troubling report came out of the quiet village of Gales Point Manatee this weekend when it was discovered that a newborn had been injured in the lower back after being shot with a pellet gun. Four-month-old Dashawn Dwehene was accidentally wounded by his father on Saturday when he reportedly discharged the air rifle […]
A third shooting on Saturday involved twenty-three-year-old Eugene Henderson Junior who has been transferred to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The Burrell Boom resident was in Roaring Creek with family members preparing for a service for a missing relative. Henderson Junior was sleeping on a sofa when a gunman entered the lower flat of the […]
There has been a surge in dangerous daylight robberies of various stores in the downtown area of the City. In the past two weeks, Hofius, Nacho World, and M and L Collections were hit by armed thieves who remain on the loose. Police have put more on boots on the ground in the downtown area […]
Brenae Timmons, now five years old, was crushed by a heavy iron gate on the compound of the Pickstock Development Association, steps away from the Lake Independence Public Library where her father Bernard Timmons works as a librarian. On January twenty-ninth, 2016, she had been playing outside with another child when the gate fell. She […]
But it will not be as easy to collect the funds, as according to Musa, the Association, led by executive director Barbara Elrington, and Espat have made no overtures of assistance to the family before being taken to court. Brenae Timmons’ family has had to pay for all her medical and rehabilitation costs at the […]
The Court of Appeal kicked off its June session this morning with the long-awaited appeal of Belize Telemedia Limited against Curtis Swasey. It concerns Swasey’s charge, made in 2015, that his original idea of using texting to conduct the established lottery draw was co-opted by B.T.L. and his information used to propel the “Mek Mi […]
B.T.L.’s attorney Magalie Perdomo tried to persuade the Court of Appeal panel, as they had failed to do in the lower court, that Swasey’s idea was never truly his own. It had been in the public domain, she argued, since 2004, and that B.T.L. had entertained proposals from at least two other entities. Officially, the […]
Tonight we have news from both major political. The race to represent Orange Walk East in 2020 was a hotly contested campaign between P.U.P. Mayor Kevin Bernard and Councilor Josue Carballo. For weeks, the town hall colleagues had been working tirelessly, canvassing the constituency. Their presence on the ground, as well as in the social […]
Within the United Democratic Party, there is news that Corozal North’s Hugo Patt is offering himself for leadership of the party, but Patt says he has made no decision. While, it may be about a year or more before candidates formalize their interests, we know that there is jostling for power with Patrick Faber and […]
Long-time U.D.P. area rep for Port Loyola Anthony ‘Boots’ Martinez thinks the P.U.P. made a mistake in endorsing Gilroy Usher for the Port. Martinez is retiring from electoral politics, but says he will remain active within the U.D.P. and will have a big say in his replacement. Usher came within seventy-three votes of beating Martinez […]
A police officer was shot while off-duty on Saturday night in the Victoria Street neighborhood. Sergeant Shawn Walton was seated inside his vehicle when multiple shots were fired within proximity of him. Despite a trio of checkpoints in the vicinity, Walton’s attackers were able to flee the scene successfully by heading in the direction of […]
Twenty-seven-year-old Nimrod Fitzgibbon is recovering from a gunshot wound to the leg after coming under attack by a lone gunman on Sunday morning. He was returning home on bicycle after purchasing food near the intersection of Dolphin and Armadillo streets. Upon passing Queen’s Square Primary School, Fitzgibbon noticed someone standing in the schoolyard. The unidentified […]
A freak accident in the Corozal District has resulted in a teacher losing his life on Saturday morning. Thirty-eight-year-old Isaac Nicholi, a Mennonite educator of New Land Community, was killed when a horse and buggy that was transporting him and another individual, overturned in a nearby drain. Nicholi was pinned beneath the cart and was […]
