A Belize City mother accused of beating her two year-old baby girl to death was formally charged with the crime in Magistrate’s Court this morning. Twenty-one year old Shian Whyte, a food vendor of Zacaranda Street, Belize City, was silent during her arraignment for Manslaughter before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers. Because the matter is an indictable […]
He was only fifteen years old when he killed another teenager but today a Cayo youth was sentenced to spend fifteen years behind bars for the crime. Eighteen year old Steven Manzanero was found guilty of Manslaughter last week in connection to the March 2005 death of Levi Quewell. In court today, his attorney Hubert […]
A Belize City taxi driver accused of raping a nine year old has been slapped with drug trafficking charges following the search of his home. According to police, during their investigations into a report of sodomy against fifty-three year old Belizean Jamaican Eric Mills, they conducted a search of his Freetown Road home where they […]
Following a technicality on Monday morning, the case against the Belize Bank and its president Philip Johnson on seventy-nine counts of failing to report a suspicious transaction had been adjourned until Friday. Or at least that’s what Magistrate Sharon Fraser thought. It turns out that even though Fraser had scheduled the case on her calendar […]
The world price of petroleum went up again today, to one hundred and twenty-seven U.S. dollars a barrel. That means of course, that acquisition costs will go up yet again and push the pump prices of fuel even higher. While most Belizeans have endeavored to absorb the shock, tonight News Five’s Janelle Chanona introduces us […]
On Thursday’s newscast we told Belizean consumers to brace themselves for a rise in the price of rice. The increase in the basic commodity is just another bitter reminder of the new reality in the cost of living. But if that wasn’t tough enough to bear, there are more than a handful of business houses […]
A local religious group marked an important milestone today and News Five’s Kendra Griffith was on hand for the celebrations. Kendra Griffith, Reporting Amidst singing and prayers this morning Islamic Mission of Belize officially inaugurated its newly constructed Masjid or Place of Worship. Imam Kaleem El-Amin, Amir, Islamic Mission of Belize “The whole world we […]
It was Bob Marley who said, “When the music hits you, you feel no pain”. The spirit of that quote is being promoted by the Belize Choral Society, who on the occasion of their thirty-fifth birthday, is calling on Belizeans to appreciate the power of music. News Five’s Marion Ali reports. Rose Musa, Founding member, […]
