A fatal traffic accident is always a sad event…but the one that occurred on Saturday morning between miles thirty-seven and thirty-eight on the Northern Highway takes on added significance as it involved the death of a police officer. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods has the story. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The lone survivor in the Toyota car, […]
Tonight two brothers have been arrested and charged with murder in connection with the stabbing death of a Placencia man. According to authorities, twenty-two year old Anthony Moody and twenty-three year old Andre Moody stabbed their brother-in-law, twenty-six year old Robert Cabral, a number of times late Friday night after several hours of socializing together. […]
It is one of Belize’s most magnificent tourist destinations, but on Saturday a trip to Caracol proved to be a frightening experience for a dozen visitors to our country after armed bandits attacked them on the Chiquibul road and held them hostage for more than four hours. According to tour guide Everald Tut, he was […]
Extradition proceedings against Andrew and Floyd Brown were delayed today in Belize City Magistrate’s Court as Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord continues to deliberate on requests from the prosecution to seek guidance from the Belize Supreme Court. Lord is now expected to make his ruling tomorrow. In previous proceedings, Lord had deemed tape recorded evidence submitted […]
Details remain sketchy tonight, but police reports to News Five indicate that a stabbing incident at the Princess Hotel and Casino has left one man recovering at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital and another in police custody. The victim has been identified to us as thirty-year-old Ernesto Graham also known as Ernesto Perez. According to […]
In court news, a young man often charged but seldom convicted has finally become the subject of a negative verdict. Today eighteen-year-old Francis Petillo pleaded guilty to one of three outstanding charges of robbery and was fined five thousand dollars or in default five years in jail. Petillo’s victim, Theodora Andrews, told police that he […]
Prosecutors were not so lucky in the case of Darren Banks, who today walked away from a prohibited firearm charge when a police witness failed to show up in court. Banks was accused of carrying a three-five-seven magnum handgun, one of a number of prohibited weapons that rate a mandatory three-year prison sentence. But when […]
The United Democratic Party held two more nominating conventions over the weekend. In Stann Creek West, former area rep and Minister of Works Melvin Hulse came out of political retirement to regain his party’s nomination in impressive fashion. Hulse left no doubt about his popularity, garnering one thousand, one hundred and nineteen votes. His nearest […]
With little fanfare, today American Airlines celebrated its fifteenth anniversary operating in Belize. According to country manager Luis Alpuche, back in 1990, there was only one daily American airlines flight to Miami. Today, there are two round trips to Miami and a third connection through Dallas. This afternoon Alpuche told News Five that the airline […]
It’s a town dependent on tourism that has increasingly seen its image as a tropical paradise overshadowed by a string of violent crimes. Today the Commissioner of Police visited San Pedro to respond to the community’s concerns. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Police Commissioner Gerald Westby is optimistic that a change […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley with this fresh dish of Sports Monday. The Cayo Female Softball Tournament presented week two of the playoffs yesterday at the Joan Garbutt Stadium inside Esperanza where the host team, the Wolverines, and the defending champions Camalote Duurlys Cristal both went in with undefeated records from the double elimination playoff […]
