Twenty-two-year-old Akeem Trapp, a resident of Flowers Bank, has been arrested and charged for the murder of Glenford Hines Jr. and the attempted murder of Albert Valentine which took place in Punta Gorda on Sunday night. As we reported, Trapp was taken off a bus in the early hours of Monday morning by police officers […]
The court handed down a guilty verdict today against Valentine Baptist; the decision was delivered by Justice Colin Williams who found Baptist guilty of the murder of nineteen-year-old Devin Parham. Baptist will be spending Christmas behind bars and will be sentenced in February, 2020. In his lengthy decision, Justice Williams said that he was not […]
Twenty-four year old Gilberto Chanek also appeared in the Supreme Court this morning. He was originally charged with the murder of fifty-year-old Carlitos Valdez; but today he pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter before Justice Colin Williams. The court accepted Chanek’s guilty plea. His attorney, Senior Crown Simeon Sampson, asked the court that […]
As they say, an apple a day keeps the doctor away. Red, sweet delicious apples have been imported by the Belize Camping Experience as part of their activities to raise funds for their programmes. The healthy apples are in three different varieties, and not the types that are traditionally sold in country throughout the year. […]
The popular Youth Apprenticeship Programme concluded today with a ceremony at the Radisson Hotel. The group of young men and women will be knocking on doors and hopefully get the opportunity to get jobs to earn a living. Some of the past graduates are testimony that the programme paves the way to a better quality […]
The Youth Apprenticeship Programme is a programme through the Ministry of Education. This year, coordinator Dianne Finnegan says that the polo shirts used by the graduates at today’s ceremony were donated by the Prime Minister. Notably absent from the ceremony was Minister of Education and Deputy Prime Minister Patrick Faber. Finnegan explains that he was […]
It’s the season to be giving. Going into the Christmas holidays, a number of initiatives are springing up to make the season festive for deserving families. Now, the Jingle Box initiative started ten years ago; the box contains all the goodies to make the Christmas meal a hit. The staff over at Bowen and Bowen […]
Albert Standard Bearer Paul Thompson is spearheading a feeding program in his constituency where for two weeks out of the month his office is providing fruits and healthy juices to three Belize City primary schools. This morning, we caught up with him at James Garbutt Seven Day Adventist School where he was delivering bananas, apples […]
At dinner tables across the country, turkey is a key part of the holiday meal. In other areas, it would not feel like Christmas without chicken in relleño or escabeche. Whatever, your family tradition is, don’t wait last minute to get the birds ready. Over at Quality Products, there are enough turkeys and chickens and […]
And this news, well-known Belizean nationalist and playwright Hipolito Bautista passed away earlier today after battling a stroke. Bautista is remembered for his role as Acting Chief Broadcasting Officer at the then Radio Belize at the time of the Heads of Agreement preceding Belize’s independence. He was also involved in the Corozal Free Zone and […]
In this newscast we have reported on countless cases of police brutality. The most recent was caught on camera prompting a long list of questions over the behaviour of the police versus the citizens. On Sunday night, an unsuspecting Anthony Tillett of Belize City was attacked by two cops, one held him in a chokehold […]
As the season gets underway, criminals are on the loose. Tonight, there is yet another home invasion to report in the Belama Phase One area of Belize City. For the second time in less than two weeks, a house was targeted on Samuel Haynes Street, but police cannot ascertain if the masked and armed burglars […]
Former Belmopan Mayor and businessman Anthony Chanona was held at gunpoint on Monday night near Our Lady of Guadalupe Church on the Ring Road. He had just exited the church and was walking towards his pickup truck when two Hispanic men pounced on him. One of them was armed and pointed the weapon on Chanona, […]
ComPol Williams also addressed the media following this evening’s meeting and spoke of increased measures that will be put in place to ramp up police presence in the Garden City, during the Christmas Season and beyond. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “Well first and foremost I must say thanks to Mr. Chanona, the Mayor […]
Police are yet to levy any charges in respect of Sunday’s murder of Glenford Hines Junior in Punta Gorda though one person is in custody. Hines was gunned down on Price Street and the general view is that he was not the intended target. In the aftermath of his senseless murder, there has been an […]
On December seventh, police formally arrested and charged Shane Jones for the murder of Edwin Usher. On December first, Usher was gravely beaten outside of a bar at the corner of Vernon and Johnson Streets in Belize City. He was taken to the K.H.M.H. but slipped into a coma. Usher died several days later at […]
Also appearing in court today was twenty-six-year-old Sydney Bucknor Junior, who is charged with the murder of his uncle, sixty-one-year-old Michael Bucknor. Sydney gave the police a caution statement in which he confessed to the 2016 murder. That statement was admitted into evidence after a voir dire, which is a trial within a trial, found […]
Well-known Tour Operator, Yhony Rosado, is on the news tonight for a robbery at his home on the George Price Highway. Rosado and his family were in deep slumber when thieves struck driving away with his forty-five thousand dollar pick-up truck. The vehicle was recovered but had been extensively damaged. Today, he told News Five’s […]
It’s been one year since Anisha Young vanished without a trace. The twenty-two-year-old went missing after a night out with her boyfriend at a local nightclub on Newtown Barracks in Belize City. Family and friends as well as police searched endlessly to locate her, but with no luck. There were multiple persons, including the boyfriend, […]
At news time tonight, the family has organized an event at the Digi Park on Newtown Barracks in Belize City. They are encouraging family and friends of other missing persons to come out and join in with an aim to create a support group that can help families with finding closure. Sheree Saldano says that […]
Late this evening, the Young family, along with Jose Luis Espat, who has been working closely with them since Anisha’s disappearance last year, called a press brief to provide an update on latest developments regarding the case. While they are no closer to locating Young, the family is upset that another piece of evidence has […]
There is another report of a missing person whose family is desperately looking for. It’s been nine days since Darlene Whitfield says she has seen her son, Devon Lopez and like Anisha Young’s family, Whitfield believes that her son is dead. Today, she broke her silence on the disappearance of her son. The twenty-two-year-old was […]
The family has been working closely with investigators from the Belama precinct as information on his whereabouts is being reviewed. In the one-on-one interview with News Five; an emotional Darlene Whitfield believes her son is dead and her family wants closure. Darlene Whitfield, Mother of Missing Man “If unu do something to ahn, unu […]
Kevin Jex was back in court today for a mitigation hearing. He was originally accused of the murder of Desmond Miller but pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter on July 16, 2019. The court heard from two character witnesses, including his sister, Jenisse Ramirez today. Ramirez told the court that her brother, Jex, […]
Twenty-five-year-old Travis Tyler Navarro is tonight in trouble with the law. He was reportedly busted with a loaded point three-fifty-seven revolver in the wee hours of Saturday morning. At around three-twenty-five a.m., Navarro was spotted inside a yard in Pinks Alley, Belize City, and when he saw police officers, Navarro bolted inside the house. Police […]
