The fourth fatality occurred in Blue Creek Village, Orange Walk. On Sunday morning, just before six o’clock, Henrich Reimer lost control of his vehicle and overturned several times on the road. The Toyota pickup came to a stop with its four wheels in the air inside a canal on the side of the road. The […]
Twenty-seven-year-old Hakeem Arzu, a Belizean who relocated to Mexico with his wife, was one of four men who were tortured and killed in Playa del Carmen over the weekend. Arzu, who is originally from Punta Gorda, reportedly left home on Friday night and was not seen or heard from until the discovery of the bullet […]
The annual agricultural show is a mass public gathering that attracts huge crowds. This year, it got off to a good start, but on Sunday, police moved in to quell a melee. The situation, however, escalated to a point that police resorted to the use of pepper spray on onlookers. It all started when an […]
Just before seven this morning, the body of a Santander employee was discovered in an open lot in Armenia Village on the Hummingbird Highway. It has since been identified as that of forty-seven-year-old Guatemalan national, Riden Rodas Pedro, who roomed with a co-worker in the village. Reports are that Rodas went out to a popular […]
A U.S. national also lost her life over the weekend on Ambergris Caye. Lora Brook Peterson was visiting the island and was out on a snorkelling trip at Mexican Rocks Marine Reserve on the north end of the island when she had trouble breathing. Despite efforts to resuscitate her, Peterson perished. The body of the […]
Two murder trials fell apart in the Supreme Court today. In the shocking double murders of Porshan Pipersburgh and seven-year-old school boy, Tyler Savery, the accused murderer, twenty-one-year-old Jayear Flores walked free. The minor and his cousin were gunned down, execution style, as Pipersburgh traveled on bike to take Tyler for a smoothie at Moon […]
A man went to a party on May nineteenth, 2013 at Miguel’s Shop in San Pedro where he got into an altercation and never made it back home. In court today, the suspect in the mysterious death of Jeremy Baptist was freed. Lucio Salazar, a resident originally from Punta Gorda, who relocated to San Pedro, […]
Seven police female officers have received charge sheets and are to appear before the disciplinary tribunal of the Police Department. They are Aleea Wade, Shantel Berry, Vanessa Kerr, Crystal Morales, Maria Grinage and Sergeant Christine Avila. It stems from an order issued by Commissioner of Police Chester Williams under Standing Order Section seven which addresses […]
Cyclist Wasani Castro has been disqualified from the Holy Saturday Cross Country Cycling Classic following a meeting of race commissaires on Friday. Castro was recorded holding on to his team’s vehicle between miles forty-seven and forty-eight on the George Price Highway. News Five has confirmed that not only was Castro, who placed twelfth, disqualified, but […]
Following a one-year investigation, a documentary has been released on what is called the horrific captive-bred lion farming carried out in South Africa. Lord Michael Ashcroft commissioned investigators to look into the practice in which lions are being bred, killed and their bones sold to South East Asia and China. In other instances, they are […]
May eighth will be a historic day for the country when voters will make a monumental determination on whether or not the territorial claim will be taken to the International Court of Justice. Both major political parties a gearing up for the day and today, U.D.P. Cabinet Minister and Pickstock Area Representative Wilfred Elrington says […]
And to bring out every single voter will take some serious resources, especially money. Reports are emerging that U.D.P. standard bearers and area representatives are expected to received tens of thousands of dollars in preparation for the May eighth I.C.J. referendum. Foreign Affairs Minister and Pickstock Area Wilfred Elrington says he doesn’t know of that […]
While attorneys were at court on the interim injunction, Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte, who has oversight of the Vital Statistics Unit, was holding a press conference at the Biltmore Plaza. Ahead of the May eighth I.C.J. referendum, the A.G. says that there are over a thousand individuals whose applications were rejected by the Vital Stats […]
According to AG Peyrefitte, several persons, including accused murderer William ‘Danny’ Mason may have been able to acquire birth certificates illegally when other employees of the Vital Statistics Unit had access to the computer system containing those records. Since then, those with access to the records vault have been limited to only two persons. Along […]
There is yet another report of local airlines being used to transport drugs across the country. The most recent incident occurred on Saturday in San Pedro Town. Around four p.m., police were called out to the cargo section of Tropic Air where over five pounds of marijuana were recovered. They were packaged off in twenty-two […]
A Roaring Creek resident remains in a stable condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital recovering from a gunshot wound to the head. Thirty-seven-year-old Mervin Young was shot just above the eye on Sunday night around ten o’clock as he was in a vehicle, dropping off a relative in the Hattieville area of Roaring Creek […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend in sports….]
The Ministry of National Security has issued a release essentially rejecting a claim by the BTV’s Wil Maheia in respect of his attempted visit to the Sarstoon on Thursday. According to Maheia, three Guatemala gunboats were blocking Belizeans from entering the Sarstoon. Maheia also said that there was no presence of the Belize Coastguard or […]
So while that plays out, the People’s United Party has reacted to the ministry’s release on the incident at the Sarstoon. Party chairman, Henry Charles Usher, told News Five that it not only shows Guatemala’s aggression, but shows the GAF violating international law. Henry Charles Usher, Chairman, P.U.P. “Again, it’s just another case in […]
While the Government has set May eight as the new date for the I.C.J. referendum, there are several related cases pending before the courts. On Monday, the Chief Justice is expected to hear substantive arguments in a case brought by the People’s United Party which is challenging the validity of the 2008 Special Agreement. The […]
While we had the P.U.P. Chairman, he was asked about the party’s preparedness for the upcoming I.C.J. referendum. May eighth is twelve days away and it will be a battle of mobilization between the two major political parties which have taken opposing positions in what should have been a non-political issue. Usher says that the […]
A pickup truck was totally destroyed by fire on Thursday in Belize City. The incident happened at a gas station so it caused alarm because of the potential risks to life and property. Fortunately, the matter was dealt with safely; still there are lessons to be learnt. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. Duane Moody, […]
Back in February, a fire in Belize City destroyed two structures that housed a family of twelve, including Virginia Garnett and her triplets. The family lost everything in the fire and they have not yet been able to fully pick up the pieces. Today, the family is living in a small building that also serves […]
Going into the Easter holidays, last Wednesday, the pump price for premium gasoline increased by forty cents; it took the cost up to a whopping eleven dollars and thirty cents per gallon. Well, there is a third increase in two weeks because today, the Ministry of Finance is announcing yet another hike, this time in […]
A video posted on social media shows cyclist Wasani Castro being pulled by a pickup truck during this year’s Holy Saturday Cross Country Cycling Classic. The video has caused quite a stir in the cycling community and many are calling for Castro, who placed twelfth overall, to be disqualified and penalized for allegedly cheating. If […]
