The Ministry of Health has confirmed three cases of H1N1 Influenza in the Corozal District. The confirmation was received this afternoon from the Central Medical Lab in Belize City. A release from the Ministry states that the cases include two men and a pregnant woman. The men had recently traveled to Merida in Mexico while […]
Not guilty! That was the verdict delivered late this afternoon in the murder case against Tyrone Meighan, Orel Leslie and Brandon Baptist for the 2012 murder of B.D.F. soldier James Norales. The decision was handed down by Supreme Court Justice Colin Williams in an intermittent trial for the past three years. It is the second […]
A trio of brazen robbers, including two minors, succeeded in robbing Harpy Security on Antelope Street Extension, just after six o’clock on Thursday evening. The security company is located a stone’s throw away from a police checkpoint, but that didn’t prevent the daring robbery. Thirty-four-year-old Dion Gentle had just reported to work when he came […]
Today, Brian Brown was hauled to the Magistrate’s Court in Belize City and arraigned for five charges including damage to property and wounding following a raid at his house on Thursday morning. The forty-four-year-old pleaded not guilty and was offered a six thousand dollar bail plus one surety of the same amount. He is to […]
Thirty-three-year-old Reainard Randey Ferguson is at the Belize Central Prison tonight. He was arraigned before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford today for the murder of forty-three-year-old Samuel Cosme. No plea was taken and bail was not offered. Ferguson will remain in a cell block until his next court date on October third, 2018. Cosme was found […]
Murders and other violent crimes are continuously being committed against innocent children. While the tragic stories fade from the headlines, the pain—emotional and psychological—continues to impact surviving family members and friends. Tonight, News Five’s Duane Moody revisits the murder of three minors and finds out how families are coping with assistance from support groups. […]
Since assuming the pro tem presidency of the Central American Integration System at the end of June, the Government of Belize has taken up a number of responsibilities as it relates to regional economic and trade relations. One area of mutual cooperation among SICA member states is agriculture. Today at the Biltmore, ministers of agriculture […]
According to Hulse, Belize’s agro-productive sector is fully onboard with the SICA initiative. The visiting ministers were also given a tour of facilities in the Spanish Lookout and stopped in for a visit at the plant of the renowned pepper sauces in southern Belize. Isani Cayetano “Does this have buy-in from other members of […]
A countrywide survey is being conducted by the Ministry of Agriculture to gather information on the number of farmers actively partaking in the agro-productive sector, as well as the crops each grower produces. The purpose, says government, is to enter the data into a system where it can be retrieved by end users, as well […]
Some two hundred young children have been enjoying their summer vacation at a sports camp in the city. The camp presented the young athletes with the opportunity to harness their skills in popular sporting activities. To ease parents, the children ages five to fifteen were transported to the Marion Jones Sporting Complex where they engaged […]
The National AIDS Commission partnered with six young artists to each create an original piece of HIV thematic art at the national testing day in June. The art pieces were officially presented to six sponsors of NAC, including the Atlantic Bank, Belize Family Life Association, Ministry of Health and the B.N.E. Charitable Trust, who will […]
The first national testing day was held in Belize on June twenty-ninth. Free HIV tests were offered in public spaces across the country to encourage people to find out their status. Well, the National AIDS Commission is reporting a successful first national testing day. For the past five years, more men than women have been […]
Lightweight World Champion Mikey Garcia will take to the ring in a boxing match on Saturday night to defend his title against fellow unbeaten fighter Robert Easter Junior. Both athletes will fight for Garcia’s WBC lightweight title and Easter’s IBF championship. Garcia, who has thirty-eight wins under his belt, with thirty of them by knockouts, […]
Local philanthropist Dara Robinson is hosting his seventh annual hunger awareness ride this week. Robinson is inviting everyone to come out and give to a worthy cause. If you are not able to join in the ride, there are other ways you can contribute to the feeding programme. Joel ‘Dara’ Robinson, Philanthropist “This Sunday […]
Before noon today, the police raided the gated-house of the notorious Brian Brown off Faber’s Road Extension. It is the third such operation to be carried out at the residence. This morning, the squad of police officers arrived at the scene in four vehicles and in full gears, before calling on backup. In the mayhem […]
As you heard, relatives and friends say that Brown was shot to the abdomen, but Deputy Commissioner of Police, Chester Williams, says that he was never injured by lethal or rubber bullets and was in fact taken to the hospital for treatment for scratches to his hands. Williams, however, confirms that the minor, Rene Ayuso, […]
There has been an explosion of gun violence in the Port Loyola area of late. Ongoing conflict between rival gangs has ended in shootings and two murders, including the horrible slaying of three-year-old Etana Bennett. As tensions grow and the risk to life escalates, the police have moved into the area to suppress further gang […]
The family of Jamie and Anthony Archer continue to grieve the tragic deaths of the two brothers. The siblings were heading to Punta Gorda when their car ran off the road and flipped several times causing their death. Two other persons were travelling in the vehicle; they survived and remain in the Southern Regional Hospital […]
Investigators believe that thirty-three-year-old Reainard Randey Ferguson killed Samuel Cosme. He is accused of fatally stabbing Cosme whose body was found on a dirt road off the Philip Goldson Highway near the Haulover Bridge early on Monday morning. The forty-three-year-old Belize City resident was stabbed to the chest, abdomen, back, and hand. Initially, a woman […]
Businessman Michael Modiri and tour operator Bradley Paumen have been going at it inside and outside the courts. This morning, Modiri won yet another legal round before Supreme Court Justice Shona Griffith. In 2016, the Justice ordered Paumen to pay Modiri a total of three hundred thousand dollars for damages and trespassing. The feud began […]
Businessman Michael Modiri and tour operator Bradley Paumen have been going at it inside and outside the courts. This morning, Modiri won yet another legal round before Supreme Court Justice Shona Griffith. In 2016, the Justice ordered Paumen to pay Modiri a total of three hundred thousand dollars for damages and trespassing. The feud began […]
An application for judicial review filed by Attorney Godwin Haylock for Haylock Bus Service Limited was rejected today by Justice Shona Griffith. Haylock Bus Service claims that the Belize City Council ‘usurped the law’ after it reportedly granted another bus company road service permit to transport people from the Pound Yard Bridge to Belama in […]
A Belizean, believed to have links to the Sinaloa Cartel, was arrested on Wednesday night across the border in Mexico. Online reports say that Dioney Rolando, who goes by the alias ‘El Nene,’ was arrested after a high-speed chase with authorities ended at the Chactemal Bridge around ten o’clock. Rolando was along with four other […]
Twenty-six-year-old Eric Tillett narrowly escaped grave injury on Tuesday night when a gunman pounced on him while heading home on Gill Street. According to police, Tillett and his girlfriend were riding a motorcycle when they were ambushed by a lone gunman. A single shot was fired in their direction, hitting Tillett in the right foot. […]
A chopping incident in downtown Belize City on Tuesday afternoon has resulted in cabdriver Gerald Lewis receiving multiple injuries to the body. The incident, however, was not reported to police immediately. It was not until this afternoon that the victim visited the police station on Queen Street to file a complaint against his attacker. Police […]
