For months complaints of brutality and even murder against cops have gone unheeded, but with public outrage at an all time high, there is now a rush to make arrests. It is reported that as many as six officers are being questioned after gunmen opened fire on the Western Highway checkpoint over the weekend. One […]
By any stretch, John McAfee is a name to reckon in the computer world. He is the founder of McAfee, the largest computer anti-virus company in the world. For the past two and a half years, he has been living in Belize; more specifically in San Pedro Ambergris Caye. The fact that he had moved […]
There was little violence reported in the city over the weekend, but before lunch today a shooting took place on Mahogany Street. Brian Yorke, who has had his own troubles with the law was shot in a foiled robbery attempt and is in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Police report that around […]
There is more stench coming from City Hall. This time it is the news the licensing of stolen vehicles that has hit the fan. According to the man who heads the Traffic Unit, Kevon Jenkins, the problem has been going on for years but there’s nothing he can do about it because one of the […]
Last Friday morning nine year old Jamil Wade, a standard two student of Calvary Temple, headed to the store for his mother but ended up in the hospital after he was knocked down by a police vehicle. It was after eleven that morning and his mother, Paula Wade, was at home with her other child […]
Presidential elections in Guatemala will be held in November 2011 but the news today is that Sandra Torres, the powerful wife of sitting President Alvaro Colon has for the first time publicly acknowledged her bid for the presidency. It is all interesting because Torres has Belizean roots through her mother, Teresa Casanova de Torres, a […]
The Thurstons, Byron and Armead, owners of Baker’s Ranch, a sprawling homestead in Sand Hill Village are today in jeopardy of losing two hundred acres of real estate to village expansion. They have been fighting the takeover of their land since last year and it appears that this will soon come to be. The Thurstons […]
At around one-thirty this afternoon, primary school students streamed out of exam centers with a weight lifted off their shoulders after completing the second half of the Primary School Examinations. Today’s papers were in Math and Social Studies, two subjects that put the students to the test. We caught up with a few of them […]
The near one hundred degree temperatures over the weekend sent many people looking for the nearest watering hole and in one such case, the outing ended up fatal. Thirty-four year old James Young, a messenger of Hattieville, was with five friends swimming in a river two miles behind New Site in the village shortly after […]
A forty-two year old City resident is tonight behind bars for allegedly committing an indecent assault on a seven year child. This afternoon, Dalesmon Lewis, appeared before Senior Magistrate, Sharon Frazer and was arraigned for aggravated assault. The abuse happened as the child slept at her home. She screamed for help when she felt she […]
A messenger who pleaded guilty today to stealing money from his nephew, has until the end of the month to pay six hundred dollars, or in default he will spend five behind bars. Forty eight year old Charles Skeet, admitted to swindling his nephew, Melvin Hewlett, of seven hundred dollars. The complainant, a teacher by […]
A landscaper has pleaded not guilty to Drug Trafficking after police allege they busted him with about eighty five grams of marijuana. Police say they detained twenty year old Peter Lauriano at around six forty last Friday evening during a mobile patrol on the Southside of Belize City. The cops say Lauriano was acting suspicious […]
A joint police/Belize Defense Force operation last night resulted in the seizure of three boxes of vehicle parts when three men entering Belize from the western border decided to abandon the boxes of vehicle parts and flee back to the Guatemalan side. The incident happened around nine on Sunday night on the Belizean side of […]
Thousands make the trip across the border into Mexico. But over the weekend many Belizeans were surprised by a new process that caused hours of delays and long lines. The new requirement comes at the behest of the Mexican government for visitors to that country and the new regulation is being implemented at all Mexican […]
The annual pilgrimage to the Garden City for what has become Belize’s biggest commercial fair lived up to expectations over the past weekend. Thousands headed to the agriculture and trade show and as News Five’s Isani Cayetano found out, there was something for everybody. Isani Cayetano, Reporting The change from being an agrarian expo to […]
Members of the judiciary and the legal community gathered in the chambers of Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh to pay tribute to one of their own, the late Horace Young, who passed away on April eighteenth. At the time of his death, Young had retired from private practice, but in earlier years, he served in numerous […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The fifth annual Pablo Marin Cycle Classic took center stage on the Northern Highway on Saturday, May first with eighty-two athletes suited up for the start at Miami Beach Corozal for the seventy-nine point three mile ride open to all male cyclists. Coming out at […]
