A young man was shot on Sunday evening and investigators believe that it may be gang related. The victim is twenty-two-year-old David Diaz and it is reported that he is associated with the Back-a-Town Crips Gang of Orange Walk Town. He was shot while he was near a barber shop, known to be a hub […]
Police in Hopkins Village are investigating a shooting incident which left forty-five-year-old Alvin Lopez injured. Lopez was inside his home in the village when he heard gunshots. He told police that it happened early this morning sometime after midnight, as he was entering his bedroom. He received a gunshot wound to the knee. Police told […]
The saga of Iverson Neal who went missing from Belize City on December eleventh, has come to a positive end. The twenty-three-year-old was found alive near the outskirts of Belmopan on Saturday afternoon sometime around four p.m., by someone who spotted him just outside of the city. That individual wasted no time in apprehending Neal […]
Benson Jerry Butler was found alive and in good health over the weekend. The fifty-three-year-old resident of West Lake Area of Western Paradise Village had been reported missing last week after his family and friends did not hear from him since December second. That was when he had left home en route to Belize City […]
A man is in police custody and facing firearm offences. He is thirty-seven-year-old Marvin Monge and according to police, he was busted with a handgun at a checkpoint early this morning. Police had set up a routine checkpoint at the junction of Monkey River and the Southern Highway when they intercepted a James Bus. Police […]
Someone’s Christmas plans were ruined on Saturday after police in Caye Caulker confiscated twenty-one cases of contraband Mexican beers on Saturday afternoon. Police say officers searched a cargo at Ocean Ferry and discovered fourteen and a half cases of Corona canned beers and seven cases of Superior canned beers. The beers were handed over to […]
On Friday morning, a house fire on Cleghorn Street destroyed the upper flat of a two-storey wooden structure. The blaze was the result of a tenant deliberately setting his room on fire. While it was initially reported as a failed suicide attempt, investigators have learned that the renter may be suffering from mental health issues. […]
Fire completely destroyed a house at mile sixteen on the Stann Creek Valley Road over the weekend. A family of eight lost all their personal belongings, as well as the roof over their heads around ten-thirty on Saturday morning when a fire broke out inside their home in Steadfast Village. The owners of the property, […]
The inaugural flight from Minneapolis courtesy of Sun Country Airlines landed at the Philip Goldson International Airport around eleven a.m. on Saturday. The flight, which will bring tourists to Belize every Saturday, is seasonal and will only add to the already increased number of airlines now coming to the Jewel. News Five’s Duane Moody was […]
Golden Tree Hotel was temporarily closed down by the Belize Tourism Board for having violated the Hotel and Tourists Accommodation Act due to non-payment. Within twenty-four hours, the owners of the recently renovated hotel on Coney Drive, were able to clear its arrears on the mandatory hotel tax payments and was reopened. Director of Marketing […]
Back in November we told you about the shooting death of on-duty cop, Osbourne Martinez. The twenty-seven-year-old Police Constable was shot and killed when he responded to an armed robbery in downtown Belize City. Martinez ran into one of three thieves who robbed the Belcove Hotel on Regent Street that morning. The shocking and tragic […]
The joy of Christmas is being able to spend time with family and friends. The spirit of the season is rooted in the celebration of the birth of Christ, a time of year when caring and sharing is at the heart of Yuletide. Earlier today, Bishop Phillip Wright of the Anglican Diocese shared with us […]
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The most recent suspected drug plane landing was in southern Belize. Previous landings were occurring frequently up north where the narco-traffickers were generally outsmarting police in their modus operandi. The plane that landed overnight is a Centurion single engine, similar to one that was found in Tres Leguas community in Orange Walk with one thousand […]
There have been two more murder victims this week, which brings the murder count so far in 2018 to one hundred and forty-two. That is dead even with the total number for the entire 2017 and there is still ten more days to go. This morning, sanitation workers made a gruesome discovery. In a drain […]
Eleven persons who occupied a two storey building on Cleghorn Street, Belize City, are left to pick up the pieces just before the Christmas. This morning one of the tenants on the upper flat set a mattress on fire in an attempt to take his life. Though he barricaded himself inside the apartment as the […]
Station Manager Orin Smith provided details of the firefighting effort to extinguish the blaze, however, he was not able to confirm the suggestion that the tenant who started the fire was attempting to take his own life in the process. Orin Smith, Station Officer, National Fire Service “Earlier today, Friday, December 21st, 2018, at […]
Police Constable Modesto Cucul lost his life on Thursday morning when he was ambushed by a pair of gunmen who opened fire on him and his common-law while they were en route to Crique Jute. He’s the second murder victim for this week. The thirty-five-year-old officer, who was stationed in Belmopan, was returning to his […]
Its four days until Christmas and people are busy with their preparations for their own version of a Christmas dinner. Downtown Belize City was extra busy today with shoppers from across the country, taking advantage of the deals at the popular stores. Christmas is a time for family reunions, bonding, renewing friendships, exchanging gifts and […]
Golden Tree, the newly renovated hotel here on Coney Drive, is back in business. Earlier this week, the Belize Tourism Board closed it down for infractions to hotel regulations contained in the Hotel and Tourists Accommodation Act. Golden Tree reportedly had not been making the mandatory hotel tax payments to the B.T.B. and after several […]
The Belize National Teachers Union is calling some school managements the “Grinch who stole Christmas.” The powerful union fired off a press statement this evening in which it expresses its utter discontent with the decision by certain school managements to dock the salaries of the teachers who participated in a demonstration on November seventh. In […]
There is good news for motorists tonight. The price per gallon of regular fuel is expected to decrease at midnight tonight. The price will go down by thirty-five cents, from nine dollars and seventy-six cents to nine dollars and thirty-one cents. Kerosene will also see a reduction, falling by eighty-one cents per one hundred pound […]
The family of missing man Iverson Neal says that, contrary to police reports, they fear he is dead. Today family members told the media that they don’t believe the twenty-three-year-old is in hiding over a conflict because there is no feud within the family. The family alleges that the girlfriend knows more than she is […]
As Christmas Day approaches, the family of Anisha Young grows more resolute in locating her. The young woman has been missing for almost two weeks now and there has been no contact or information from her. Young left a night club in a taxi with her boyfriend and disappeared in thin air. While it is […]
The Christmas holiday in Belize is synonymous with family get-togethers. And at the heart of the celebrations are the delicacies like the ham, Christmas cakes and the rum popo. To lead up to the holidays we want to share with you one of the Belizean traditions during this season. Rum Popo is known to many […]
