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Belize City teenager killed in predawn shooting

Tonight Belize City police are investigating yet another homicide that has claimed the life of a teenager. News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Tonight family and friends continue to mourn the death of eighteen year old Gerald Duhanney. The young man was fatally shot in the abdomen around three-thirty on Saturday morning on […]

Three men arrested for Friday’s fatal stabbing

And while cops are looking for Duhanney’s killer, three men have been arrested and charged in connection to the stabbing murder of twenty-five year old Mark Emmanuel Flowers. This morning, twenty-one year old Tyrone Tillet and brothers Jermaine and Jaime Villanueva appeared in Magistrate Court where they were formally arraigned on charges of murder and […]

Ex-lover charged for shooting woman’s new boyfriend

Tonight a Belize City man is recovering from gunshot wounds and his girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend is accused of pulling the trigger. According to police reports, around five on Sunday morning, twenty four year old Kareem Wright, his girlfriend and a mutual friend were walking on Sarstoon Street when an ex-boyfriend approached the couple. The former lover […]

Spate of shootings prompt strong words from police

The weekend’s violence continued on Sunday as three men were injured as they hung out near the corner of West Canal and Rocky Road. Cops say around seven thirty that night twenty year old Jermaine Cattouse, thirty-eight year old Jerry Graham and sixty year old Bernard Bradley were all injured when two men walked up […]

Cops seek suspect in Belmopan mother’s murder

In news just in from Belmopan, authorities are asking for the public’s assistance in locating a suspect in connection to the gruesome killing of a Belmopan woman. According to investigators, twenty-one year old Efrian Santiago is the man responsible for the murder of twenty three year old Velma Copo. Copo was stabbed twenty nine times […]

Southern Hway accident claims life of Cayo man

A traffic accident on the Southern Highway over the weekend has claimed the life of a Cayo man. According to police, around three-thirty on Saturday afternoon motorists alerted them to an accident near the Independence junction. When officers showed up, they found an extensively damaged KIA S.U.V. off the right shoulder of the road and […]

Hurricane Dean damage tallied at 100 million dollars

As Belizeans in the north continue to recover from the destruction of Hurricane Dean, government calculators have been assessing the storm’s financial impact on the country. In a statement released to the media late Friday evening, Prime Minister Said Musa maintained that those most in need have been identified and assistance is fully mobilized. But […]

New coordinator heads up relief efforts

This morning cameraman Chris Mangar and I travelled to areas devastated by Hurricane Dean and found that relief is beginning to take root. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Recovery efforts are well underway in the Corozal and Orange Walk Districts as those people most affected by hurricane Dean continue to receive assistance from the National Emergency Management […]

Village cop armed with new wheels

And while most of the donations these days are heading north, this afternoon, the Belize Police Department also benefited from such a contribution. Today the Belize Police Department took possession of a motorcycle, worth just under four thousand dollars, courtesy of P.U.P. Standard Bearer in the Belize Rural North, Earl Perez. The bike has been […]

Albert boys rule Over 35 Basketball

James Adderley, Reporting Good evening, I’m James Adderley with this fresh dish of Sport’s Monday. So, we take you out to the City Centre Friday night, where the Albert Team hopes to complete the sweep against Old Technical Boys for the 2007 Over 35 Basketball Title of Belize City. And it’s Travis Santos leading the […]