A major controversy has exploded and fireworks are erupting between the President of NICH, Diane Haylock and her immediate boss, the Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Marcel Cardona. Since last week News Five has had in possession a copy of a contract signed between Haylock and businessman David Gegg, giving him exclusive rights to […]
There were a string of murders, shootings and robberies over the long Christmas weekend as criminals took to the streets. We begin with a fatal shooting early on Boxing Day at the Princess Hotel and Casino parking lot. It happened as twenty-nine year old Jermaine Trapp of Faber’s Road was about to drive out of […]
And while many families were celebrating Christmas, a fourth person was murdered. The man’s body was found in a building that was totaled by fire in downtown Belize City. At first the fire originally appeared to be accidental, but there is now reason to suspect that the building was set on fire to conceal the […]
In the second fire on Boxing Day, a two storey wooden structure located on Victoria Street in Belize City went up in flames leaving two families without a roof over their heads. News Five’s Duane Moody and cameraman Darrel Moguel were at the scene to find out more. Duane Moody, Reporting When the fire broke […]
Two visitors to the Jewel over the Christmas holiday died in separate drowning incidents on Boxing Day. The first fatality occurred at San Pedro, Ambergris Caye when a family of four went scuba diving in the deep waters of the Caribbean Sea about eleven that morning. Thirty-one year old Noah Webster, an American engineer of […]
While two died from drowning, a traffic accident on Christmas day claimed the life of a woman from Toledo. Fifty-two year old Alberta Elcina Gonzalez, a domestic of Wilson Street, Toledo was knocked down between miles two and three on the Southern Highway. She was hit by a Honda Accord car driven by twenty-six year […]
The long arm of the law has finally caught up with Kareem Barona, wanted in connection with an attempted robbery at the Swing Bridge. Police have been looking for Barona since November twenty-eighth after a report by ex-police constable Javier Castellanos. They picked up Barona on Christmas Day while on patrol on Victoria’s Street and […]
Criminals were undeterred over the holidays and the number of shootings turned the weekend into a Wild West movie. Early Christmas morning in Saint Matthews Village, fifty year-old John Olivera, a laborer of Franks Eddy Village, was shot in his head. Olivera’s son, John Junior told police that the shooting followed a fight in his […]
Police were out in force during the holidays and although they couldn’t stop many crimes, they were able to take several guns off the streets. While on mobile patrol on Boxing Day, cops managed to get their hands on three guns and over twenty bullets. On Sarstoon Street they found nineteen year old Winfield Dennison […]
And a grocery store in the Kings Park area of Belize City has been robbed. On Sunday afternoon just after midday, two men with rags over their faces stormed Tang Supermarket on Third Street and held up eighteen year old Zhen Deng. Zhen said after the assailants opened up the barred entrance to the store, […]
And still on crime, on Boxing Day, police visited the Western Regional Hospital and saw twenty year old Brian Garbutt of Roaring Creek admitted to ward with cut wounds to his face, back of the head, neck, shoulder and hand. Investigations reveal that sometime earlier Garbutt became embroiled in an altercation with Corwin Mendoza, who […]
A woman is tonight thanking her lucky stars after she narrowly escaped a kidnapping and probably rape. Thirty-one year old Yettie DeSouza reported to police that just after midnight on Christmas morning she was taking food to her common-law husband. DeSouza says as she neared the junction of Calle al Mar and Baymen Avenue, a […]
A nineteen year old waitress from San Ignacio was not as lucky as Desouza. The woman told police that over the weekend she was socializing with a male friend by the name of Amir Eck at Legends Nightclub, but when she went to use the bathroom, Eck followed her, dragged her into a nearby corner […]
He has been at large ever since he allegedly stole over ninety thousand dollars from his employer. Now a reward of a thousand dollars is being offered for information leading to the arrest of twenty-one year old Asian National, Jian Hong. The management of the North America International Company Limited at the Commercial Free Zone […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and here’s this week’s portion of Sports Monday. The Belize Bank Super League of Football took a break over the weekend and indeed so did many other sporting competitions as the nation observed Christmas celebrations. So folks, we take this particular opportunity to highlight the Super League Tournament which is […]
