This weekend, the Belize Police Department found itself investigating the sixteenth murder of the year. The victim was out buying a firearm, but as News Five’s Jacqueline Godwin discovered, he soon wound up on the business end of a gun. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Police reports are that around noon on Sunday, twenty-nine year old Gilbert […]
Belize City police have arrested and charged a sixty-nine year old man for having sex with and taking pornographic pictures of a twelve year old girl. This morning Henry Stein was handcuffed and taken over to Magistrate’s Court where he was arraigned on two counts of trafficking in persons, and one count each of carnal […]
Separate traffic accidents over the weekend in the Stann Creek and Belize districts have left three people dead. The first occurred late Friday night near mile seventeen on the Southern Highway. Police reports are that twenty-three year old Ryan Valerio and thirty year old Tyrone Flores were heading to Dangriga when their car broadsided a […]
He has been linked to several major crimes in the past, but tonight twenty-six year old Aniver Palacio is in the news as the victim of a shooting. Authorities say around seven on Sunday night Palacio was shot at least six times, including one shot at close range to the head, as he sat on […]
A life sentence has been handed down to the convicted killer of a Belize City businessman. During proceedings in the Supreme Court this morning, Justice Troadio Gonzalez told twenty-one year old Jermaine Pascascio and the rest of the court “I have considered all the mitigating factors put before the court that the accused was sorry, […]
The Musa family is tonight in mourning following the death of the Prime Minister’s mother, Aurora Augustina Musa nee Gibbs. “Granny Musa” as she was affectionately known to loved ones, passed away at her home in King’s Park on Saturday afternoon from what is believed to be cancer complications. A mass celebrating her life was […]
Over the next few days more Belizeans will take to the cayes, rivers and roadways than at any other time of the year. Most will be conscious of the need for safety and security while a small minority will simply be out to make trouble. Today the Police Department and Belize Port Authority held a […]
In the capitalist world in which we live, every holiday has its corresponding commercial items … Halloween with its sweets and scary masks; Valentine’s Day with its flowers and chocolate; and of course Easter with its bunny rabbits and sugary treats. As every parent knows, trying to give your children some holiday happiness can easily […]
You might have noticed that over the last five months, there have been a few name changes here at Channel Five and tonight we thought we’d explain why. At four-thirty last Friday afternoon, after three years of courtship, our very own Jacqueline Woods officially became Mrs. Murray Anthony Godwin following a brief ceremony at the […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley with this week?s serving of Sports Monday. The future of Belizean cycling was on display yesterday with the presentation of the Junior Cross Country Classic which left San Ignacio for the sixty-six mile ride to the Leslie?s Imports at the entrance of Belize City. Some thirty-one hopefuls, including the reigning […]
