A suspected drug plan was attempting to land somewhere in San Estevan Village sometime around two o’clock this morning. Reports are that Orange Walk police disrupted the landing and the aircraft left after hovering between San Estevan and Progresso in northern Belize. Information to News Five is that police learnt about the landing and so […]
U.D.P. Leader Dean Barrow will remain as Prime Minister until the year 2020, which is when the next general elections will be held. PM Barrow had initially announced that he would demit office prior to the elections to allow his successor enough time to rally the party together under a new leadership. This gave aspiring […]
We also asked Minister Godwin Hulse about U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision not to provide non-humanitarian, nontrade-related assistance to the Government of Belize. The determination is based on Belize’s ranking on the U.S. 2018 Trafficking in Persons Report. At Tier Three, it means that the Government is doing little to nothing to address the trafficking […]
On Monday, Isela Cano was charged and arraigned for the manslaughter of her sister, twenty-six-year-old Honduran national Keidi Ramirez. It is believed that Cano and her parents restrained Ramirez during a drunken fit last Wednesday and she died in the process. Cano was not charged with murder and there seems to be a misunderstanding as […]
Two men charged for the brutal murder of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas were today denied bail by Supreme Court Justice Colin Williams. Ashton Vanegas and Terrence Fernandez were among five men who allegedly kidnapped and beheaded Pastor Lucas in 2016. The men, along with Keiron Fernandez, Ernest Henry Castillo, and the man believed to have orchestrated […]
The Supreme Court also dealt with other bail applications. One in particular that stood out was that of Darrell Usher. The thirty-two-year-old was charged and arraigned on Thursday after he ran over five persons with a vehicle on Cemetery Street in Belmopan, two days earlier. A total of twenty-two charges were slapped on him for […]
The man believed to have been found dead along the New River is alive. Forty-two-year-old Nerry Montenegro is at home in August Pine Ridge Village tonight after being missing for some four days. His mother, Hermina Montenegro, reported Nerry missing on Tuesday. She told police that her son went missing on November twenty-fifth. It was […]
Hundreds of students from across the country gathered at the auditorium at Muffles College in Orange Walk Town for the annual national awards ceremony for the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificates. The CXC National Committee of Belize recognized the most outstanding performers in the exams – with over five hundred receiving certificates of excellence and over […]
On April tenth, 2019, Belizeans will be tasked to make one of the most important decisions of Belize’s young history. That decision to take the territorial dispute with Guatemala to the International Court of Justice would be a major milestone in this longstanding issue. But many have found themselves indecisive; as making an informed decision […]
A one week of coverage from The Hague, Netherlands concludes today. News Five’s Marleni Cuellar and eight other media colleagues from seven media houses and the government press office have participated in a week-long immersion trip to increase their knowledge of the functioning of the International Court of Justice. There has been coverage on many […]
One more thing from the local courts….earlier this week, Belmopan resident Elquin Hernandez was remanded to the Central Prison in Hattieville for the murder of Jermain Sanker. Sanker was executed, shot to the face, on Cemetery Street in the Salvapan area as he sat in the driver’s seat of a rented car. Belmopan police believe […]
After a number of fake investors slipped through the net, the Government of Belize says it is working to strengthen the review process for those who seek to establish businesses in the Jewel. That was the response from Minister of State for Economic Development, Tracy Taegar-Panton, during an interview with News Five at BELTRAIDE’s annual […]
Millions of dollars were scammed from persons who invested heavily in securing a prime parcel of land in Sanctuary Bay, by a convict carrying out the operation from behind bars in a U.S. prison. Unsuspecting investors were shown pictures of various developments purportedly occurring within the gated community in southern Belize. So is it a […]
Small and micro business owners converged today in Belize City at the annual entrepreneurship convention. The event provides the sector with information on how to tap into opportunities and grow their businesses. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. Duane Moody, Reporting The fourth annual national entrepreneurship convention 2018 was held at the Biltmore Plaza in […]
Cabinet has approved a national trade policy that will be officially launched in January. While some entrepreneurs have been able to sell their products to the region and elsewhere, many have not been able to access international markets with ease. Minister of State Panton says that when rolled out, the national trade policy will foster […]
Orange Walk Town has lost one of its most prominent members. Former politician, teacher and businessman, Rosendo Urbina Senior passed away on Thursday night. The founder of A and R chain of stores, U.D.P politician, and former Ambassador to Mexico, “Chendo” Urbina is well-known across Orange Walk Town, having served on multiple boards of educational […]
It has been ten years since renowned Belizean musical icon Andy Palacio passed away. Despite his untimely death in 2008, Palacio’s legacy in world music remains intact. This weekend, friends and family of the late cultural ambassador will gather in Belize City to celebrate his life on the eve of what would have been his […]
World AIDS Day is celebrated globally on December first; the occasion is used to encourage persons to get tested and prevent the disease. On this the thirtieth anniversary, there are worrisome figures that place Belize as one of the countries with the highest rates in the region. There are two hundred and twenty-three new infections […]
The 2018 Atlantic hurricane season has ended and there is a sigh of relief in Belize. The season was forecasted to be normal to slightly above normal in the Atlantic Basin. It turned out to be above normal, more specifically in the North Atlantic region. Of the eight hurricanes which formed, two developed into hurricane […]
Orange Walk Town Council is getting ready for Christmas! Today, we found the Council’s employees hard at work getting the Central Park ready for the holidays. The council is hosting its annual tree lighting ceremony which will feature entertainment, Santa Claus and lots of fun activities on Saturday evening at six. Mayor Kevin Bernard says […]
Pomona resident, twenty-one-year-old Christopher Albert Bradley was charged on Wednesday for the murder of sixty-eight-year-old Marta Gonzalez. Bradley is accused of fatally stabbing Gonzalez on the chest and dumping her body in his backyard. Her body was discovered in a pit latrine inside the yard in Pomona Village on Tuesday. Investigators also found some of […]
Dangriga resident, Nelson Jackson is tonight recuperating from a gunshot wound he received on the right leg. Jackson was shot by a police officer on Tuesday. At this morning’s press briefing, ACP Joseph Myvett explained that Jackson was being boisterous in front of a local business establishment and officers were called in to calm him […]
While that is the official police version of events, an eyewitness told News Five that Nelson Jackson was not being boisterous. Elizabeth Williams was nearby when the incident occurred. She says that it was the police officers who began aggressing Jackson. On the Phone: Elizabeth Williams, Witness “The police man said something to Mr. […]
There is an update tonight on the health of B.D.F. private Fidel Williams. While on duty, Williams fell from the deteriorating pier at the Sarstoon Forward Operating Base on November fourteenth. He, unfortunately, lost an eye as a result of the fall when a steel rod rammed into his eye. Today, the Ministry of National […]
PC Steven Ferguson was today laid to rest by the Belize Police Department in his home village of Hattieville. Ferguson died on November twenty-first in a house he was renting with his common-law-wife, Josephine Hamilton. He fatally shot Hamilton before turning the gun on himself. The couple was involved in a volatile relationship for years […]
