On Monday we reported that two of five fishermen from Jamaican had been rescued after they were lost for more than month at sea. Anthony Hibberd and Jason Noble set sail in the Gentle Breeze from the Old Harbor Bay in Jamaica in mid March and were found on Sunday off the coast of Mexico. […]
Another inmate flew the coop on Monday night shortly after seven o’clock. Edgar Roberts, a resident of Independence Village, who is not considered to be armed and dangerous broke free from cell number forty-three in the Medium Security Section of the Hattieville Prison by smashing a lock and exiting the building unnoticed. Roberts is described […]
There has been an arrest for the murder of Orange Walk resident Josue Velasquez. On Monday, Orange Walk Police charged nineteen year old Pablo Diaz, a laborer of San Lazaro Village for Velasquez’s murder. Velasquez’s body was found on March seventh in a drain off a feeder road with multiple chop wounds. Before he died, […]
Close to six hundred and fifty persons polled on last Friday’s question on whether or not they felt that their personal safety is more at risk. As many as ninety percent who voted thought so. In tonight’s newscast we focus on children given the number of violent incidents affecting their well being. The question is: […]
A number of business establishments in the city got surprise visits today from the GST Department and the Bureau of Standards. The spot checks were to determine if the businesses were properly implementing the tax increase. News Five’s Jose Sanchez found out who passed the test and got the reaction from customers. Jose Sanchez, Reporting […]
As part of the campaign promise for re-election last year, the Belize City Council promised to bring back the beach at the seafront of the B.T.L. Park along Marine Parade. But how would the cash strapped council, which has been ailing in the past year to pay its garbage collection debt, build a beach which […]
The Citrus Growers Association and Citrus Products of Belize Limited have been embroiled in a bitter legal battle that has left a lingering and sour taste in the citrus industry. It has spilled out of the court and onto the pavement earlier this year when hundreds of workers in the industry protested against CPBL on […]
On Monday, News Five aired the story of Kainie Manuel, the former reporter of the San Pedro Sun who is in trouble with the law for theft of forty-five thousand dollars from her former employer, the San Pedro Sun and its owners, Ron and Tamara Sniffin. Manuel admitted to making the mistake and she also […]
A businessman who was partying with two men he met at a local bar on April twenty-second was robbed of his car, a 2000 gold Jeep Cherokee, and a thousand dollars in cash. The two men are nineteen year old Omar Espat and twenty-seven year old Pedro Pena, a supervisor at Ready Call Centre. They […]
A thirty-three year old bus conductor from Benque Viejo Town appeared before Magistrate Kathleen Lewis in Belize City today to face charges of Carnal Knowledge, an offence he allegedly committed against a fifteen year old girl. The charges, which will now go before the Supreme Court for a preliminary inquiry, stem from reports that Felipe […]
Two Belize City men were caught red handed while they allegedly bought marijuana on Lavender Street on Monday morning. That purchase cost twenty-two year old Steven Flowers and thirty-three year old Kenneth Neal much more today when they were arraigned in Magistrates’ Court. The two pleaded not guilty and their bail was set at three […]
Last Friday forty-three year old Edmund Castillo was gunned down at his house on Curl Thompson Street in the Jane Usher Boulevard area of Belize City. Castillo was socializing with friends when a gunman entered his yard at approximately eleven a.m. and fired several shots at him and eighteen year old Carlton Augustine. Though Augustine […]
ZITRO International Limited, a financial services company that was started in June of 2009, has joined the hundreds of thousands of Western Union agents around the world. The partnership started nine months ago and today representatives from Western Union International flew in for the launch of operations at the new agent on Freetown Road. The […]
It made the news numerous times before, either when fetuses were discovered in inconspicuous wrappings or more recently, when the toxic piles of refuse were on fire. But on Friday morning, the first in a series of phases to shrink the size of the dump site at mile three on the Western Highway will get […]
In December of last year a fleet of Jamaican fishing boats was spotted off the coast of Punta Gorda Town. The vessels, belonging to the PG Fishing Company which has a joint venture with the Rio Grande Cooperative of Punta Gorda, were in Belizean waters to conduct fishing operations. Both the Departments of Fisheries and […]
