There is tragic report tonight that four Belizeans were murdered in Mexico today. They were on their way back from the USA and were reportedly victims of a robbery. Information is still trickling into our newsroom but so far we know that Kirk Mariano, his wife, Aricia, and Scenes of Crimes Police Constable, Martin Rodriguez […]
He is known for his fiery speeches in the House of Representatives and at the last House Sitting for the Budget debate, he did not show any sign of illness. But tonight, Minister of Housing, Michael Finnegan is in Detroit, Michigan recovering from a prostate cancer surgery at the Harper University Hospital. News Five spoke […]
On Tuesday night’s newscast Commissioner of Police, Crispin Jeffries told News Five that the Police Department has long known that wanted man, Jermaine Fuentes, is alive because he had been taken into custody several times in the US. The Commissioner also said that Belizean law enforcement officers are coordinating with their US counterparts to see […]
Stephen Buckley was shot one week ago by the police with a high powered weapon. He has been left paralyzed on the left side of his body. The senseless shooting stirred public outrage since Buckley is known as a law abiding civilian. We asked on Tuesday night if you believe the shooting of Stephen Buckley […]
There was a flurry of activity last month, when the Italian Minister of Economic Development, Claudio Scajola, visited Belize accompanied by Belize’s Ambassador to Italy Nuncio D’angeri. Scajola was wined and dined and was cajoling with the Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington and his counterpart Erwin Contreras. The official side of the visit was brief but […]
Mid morning while the City Council was hosting a Violence Prevention Summit at the Princess Hotel, News Five was called out to the scene of a shooting on Cesar Ridge Road. Eustace Andrews was behind the wheel of a GMC Canyon pickup truck which was targeted by an armed man believed to have been on […]
In the courts, a waitress who was facing eighteen years to life imprisonment for stabbing another woman had a charge of Attempted Murder withdrawn today. But before you assume it was another nolle pros, the reason the case was thrown out was because the victim softened up. Twenty-five year old Kadisja Castillo was stabbed on […]
Twenty-five year old Cecil Castillo is once again facing charges for firearm offences following a raid near his residence on Iguana Street Extension which yielded a black homemade shotgun on Tuesday. This afternoon Castillo appeared before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers and was slapped with a single count of possession of a prohibited firearm and one count […]
The Belize Tourism Board announced today that semifinalists in various categories for the Tenth National Tourism Awards have officially been nominated. This year, says the BTB, industry stakeholders will vote for their favorite hotels, restaurants, tour guides and environmental organizations. In a press conference held at the Radisson this morning the BTB revealed the list […]
Immediately following our newscast tonight, we will be airing a special television report by Robert Beckford, an independent writer who has produced numerous documentaries for the BBC. Beckford has covered numerous topics, particularly on Africa including a special documentary named “The Great African Scandal”. In the interview Beckford, who is also a lecturer at Oxford, […]
Everyone agrees that something needs to be done about crime and urgently so. This morning, Belize City Mayor, Zenaida Moya Flowers, convened a summit in search of ways to stop the violence in the streets. Notables such as Attorney Michael Young, Senator Godwin Hulse and the outspoken Yolanda Schakron, took turns on the microphone. News […]
