Guns and airplanes are not a good combination but this morning shots rang out at the Belize City Municipal Airstrip. When the smoke cleared two men lay wounded and two more were on the run. News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports from the scene. Kendra Griffith, Reporting Just after nine this morning Atlantic Bank employees, twenty […]
Two more murders occurred in Belize City over the weekend, numbers twenty-eight and twenty-nine for the year. News Five’s Marion Ali has the details. Marion Ali, Reporting The victim, twenty-two year old Floyd McFadzean, fresh out of prison off a six month sentence for marijuana, decided to stay home. Little did he know that trouble […]
The city’s next homicide occurred on Sunday night. Marion Ali, Reporting The second victim of the gun violence was twenty-two year old Ryan “Fatback” Young, of fifty-eight Faber’s Road. Young was not inside his house like the first victim, but as we found out, he was nearby playing cards. Voice of Cousin/Eyewitness to Shooting “Bout […]
It’s called Operation Cycle Breaker and last Tuesday evening it attracted much more than media attention when a combined team of police and B.D.F. personnel conducted a raid at the Kraal Road home of student counsellor, Carolyn Westby. The raid yielded nothing illegal and the way it was carried out left many people criticising the […]
A teenager riding alone in the early morning hours of Friday has reported being raped. According to the seventeen year old, she was in the Mosul Street/West Canal area of Belize City when something hit her in the head. The girl says when she fell to the ground a tall man approached her, dragged her […]
Meanwhile, a stabbing in Placencia has left a food vendor suffering from multiple wounds and the suspect on the run. According to witnesses, forty-three year old Brenda Bernard and her common-law husband, forty-six year old Lincoln Kerr, were at the Barefoot Beach Bar on Sunday night but around seven fifteen the two began to argue. […]
Ladyville resident Lenny Bennett, twenty-three, was charged with Maim when he appeared in Magistrate’s Court today in connection with the shooting of his former friend, twenty-one year old Cristina Zetina. Bennett, a remanded prisoner, was returned to jail until May fourteenth. The charge of Attempted Murder was substituted with Maim because Zetina, who was shot […]
Loss of life this weekend was not confined to gunfire, as on Friday night Coney Drive became the scene of a deadly traffic accident. News Five’s Janelle Chanona has the details. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This was the scene around seven on Friday night. According to witnesses, around six-thirty, nineteen year old Zhi Heng Deng, also […]
He was elected as P.U.P. leader at the end of March and this Sunday Johnny Briceño will get the opportunity to put his personal stamp on the party’s machinery. The national convention, to be held in Briceño’s back yard at Orange Walk’s People’s Stadium, will elect a new National Executive. That body, which includes the […]
Belizean consumers took another hit at the gas pump today as prices for fuel have gone up again. Premium is selling at ten dollars a gallon, regular now retails at nine dollars and ninety cents and diesel is a whopping nine dollars and eight cents. The new rates took effect at midnight on Sunday. The […]
As a country, Belize has been talking about dealing with climate change for more than a decade, but on the occasion of World Health Day, officials this morning agreed that if we don’t seriously address this global issue, the national impact could be devastating. News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports. Diane Moore, Environmental Officer, U.N.D.P. “At […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re locked into this portion we call Sports Monday. We take you out immediately to the M.C.C. Grounds where game one of the B.P.F.L. Championship series between the number one seed Hankook Verdes and the Belize Defence of Belize City force kicked off amid an opening ceremony that had […]
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