Four of five prisoners are still at large, but this morning there were reports of shots being fired and all hell breaking loose inside the Tango eight, Tango Ten and the remand section at the Belize Central Prison which is run by the Kolbe foundation. Reports of a riot were broadcast over the radio waves. […]
For three days, there have been reports that a plane had crashed in a caye in the Lighthouse atolls. It is believed the incident is drug related and police has remained tight lipped. As far as we can ascertain, the mystery plane is still submerged in the waters. News Five has learnt that a body […]
While the family of slain car dealer Kashif Jeffries makes arrangements to lay him to rest, Belize City police are still looking for his killers. Jeffries was callously gunned down while in his vehicle on Levi Slusher Street on Sunday afternoon just hours before his flight to Houston, Texas. His trip to the United States […]
Thirty two year old Stephen Lopez, a security guard, was killed during the robbery of the Spanish Lookout branch of Scotia bank on March thirty-first. The bank was held up by five armed men and the security guard was gunned down. There was another man who was injured during the incident but his story has […]
The conviction rate in criminal cases is weak so our first question for this week is: Should government contract private attorneys to prosecute criminal offenders? Send your responses using your SMART phones to 8668 or post your vote on our e-poll at channel5belize.com. You can also send an email with your comments to questions@channel5belize.com.
Village Council Elections got underway in a number of villages around the country this past weekend. The elections were once not politicized but of late, the results are used as barometers to measure the political clout of the two major parties in rural communities. With General Elections three years away, there is already controversy and […]
In the deep south in Punta Gorda, residents are clamoring for assistance to ward off a health risk at the St. Peter Claver Primary School posed by its asbestos roof. The school was built decades ago and the building has been condemned by health authorities because its asbestos roof is deteriorating with the passage of […]
The April session of the Supreme Court got underway today. There are forty-nine cases to be heard. In the first case dealt with, two men were acquitted of Attempted Murder despite an original testimony from the victim, Jermaine Jones, a resident of Banak Street, who was stabbed sixty-eight times. Jones was short in his testimony […]
After spending five days behind bars, a twenty-seven year old mother of four, Andrea Jenkins, was today spared from returning to the Hattieville Prison for Drug Trafficking. At the close of trial, a mitigation plea was made on Jenkins’ behalf by her attorney, Arthur Saldivar, who said that while Jenkins made a mistake, she deserves […]
The Financial Intelligence Unit was swift to bring charges against the Coye family that operated a MoneyGram agency on Central American Boulevard after over a million dollars in cash was found at their home. The money was believed to be the proceeds of money-laundering. The bust was made on December thirty-first 2008 and during 2009, […]
The ruckus at the prison started in Tango Ten, the same building in which five prisoners escaped. One of the inmates Thirty year old Jose-Luis Cocom who was in jail for Burglary, Committing a Mischievous Act and Maim was captured in Orange Walk today. The other four escapees, thirty year old Terry Bainton, Thirty five […]
One person was critically injured in the botched robbery of a D and E bus last Saturday night on the Western Highway that was held up by two men, one carrying a grenade. Luisa Carillo was hospitalized for fractures to her skull but tonight we can positively report that there has been some improvement in […]
Doctors say they will conduct a CAT scan to see if the swelling on her brain has subsided any. But while the family wait and hope for good news and a full recovery for Luisa, they also question whether she actually jumped out of the bus or, in the commotion, someone pushed her out. Voice […]
A contingent of Belizean athletes headed to Panama to compete in cycling, karate, softball, volleyball and athletics in the 2010 Central American Games. The best performances so far are from the female softball team that is heading the semi-finals as number one among the four teams that made it that far. The Female National Team […]
