A Belize City businessman has been found guilty of manslaughter. After deliberating for about two hours, a jury of eight men and one woman came back to court with the unanimous verdict against thirty-four year old Edward Reyes. Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh has set March seventeenth as the date for mitigation and sentencing. On January […]
A truck transporting prisoners to Hattieville Correctional Facility collided with an S.U.V. this evening, fortunately there were no major injuries reported. Reports reaching News Five are that around four o’clock, nine prisoners were on their way back to jail when around mile eight on the Western Highway an Isuzu Rodeo made a sudden U-turn onto […]
In Belize City, police continue to investigate the disturbing discovery of two hand grenades in an abandoned lot. Police Press Officer G. Michael Reid declined to identify the area where the hand-held explosives were found, citing the sensitivity of the ongoing investigation. Along with the grenades, police also recovered a nine millimetre pistol. It is […]
A Mexican national has been arrested in Corozal after police found guns in his hotel room. Acting on a tip, on Thursday evening police searched the room of thirty-four year old David Rendon and found two unlicensed nine millimetre Beretta pistols and one nine-millimetre Sig Sauer. All the guns were loaded and additional rounds were […]
A purse snatcher who thought a Belize City teacher was an easy target could not have been further off the mark. This afternoon Tricia Reneau, a teacher of Calvary Temple School was on her way back to work when as she got near to the Salvador Habet Store a man identified as forty-seven year old […]
A Belizean teen kidnapped in Los Angeles earlier this week may not have been the intended target. According to media reports out of California, police believe thirteen year old Kalan Dapson was mistaken for someone else by the two men who took him at gunpoint from his uncle’s Inglewood home. The boy told police he […]
A man who told police six men tried to steal his boat and threatened to shoot him, has dropped all the charges, except against one man. Dwayne Tillett reported that around ten-thirty on Wednesday morning a group of men tried to tow away his skiff with their boat. He yelled at them, but one of […]
A trial in the Supreme Court was halted today after the prosecution convinced the judge that the defendant might not get a fair trial. In February, forty-four year old Valentine Ferguson pleaded guilty to two counts of causing death by careless conduct. But when he appeared in court on March second for sentencing, his lawyer […]
It may have started out over a long weekend full of sporting activities, but Women’s Week 2006 was certainly not overshadowed. In fact, the various agencies promoting the observance say this year was one of the best ever, and much of the success was due to strong sister to sister relations. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods […]
Belize’s office of the Ombudsman played host this week to its counterparts from the around region. And as News Five found out, despite the variations in country size and population, many of the complaints the ombudsmen investigate share common causes and cures. News Five’s Karla Vernon was at the Princess Hotel this afternoon for the […]
