Gun violence flared up in the past twenty-four hours. A murder and two shootings in the City’s took place in the Old Capital in what is believed to be an open war over turf among the gangs. Only last Thursday, the leader of the South Side Gangsters, Andre Trapp, was gunned down mid-morning near the […]
Several hours after the fatal shooting of nineteen year old Joyce Mitchell gunfire once again erupted on the south side of Belize City. Shortly after twelve o’clock this morning, twenty-eight year old Colin Lord and a few of his friends were sitting on a verandah at the family residence on Lavender Street celebrating the outcome […]
The bloodbath across Belize City continued today as another man was fired upon multiple times by gunmen on bicycles. Reports are that shortly after one o’clock this afternoon, Emerson Gill was walking along Banak Street near its intersection with Central American Boulevard when two young men rode up to him and fired as many as […]
The rampant violence on the streets of Belize City has reached crisis proportions. No longer do criminals wait for the cover of darkness to attack. The Prime Minister’s law office, Barrow and Williams, was shot at by an unknown assailant on April fifteenth, a bright Thursday morning. On the night of May thirty-first, the P.M. […]
The views expressed on the e-poll does not necessarily reflect the views of this Station. On Thursday we asked the question: Do you feel that the Chief Justice is being treated fairly by the government? Our e-poll shows that sixty-eight percent of the viewers are of the sentiments that the Chief Justice is being treated […]
Earlier this week, murder charges against five men were dropped because the case file was not provided by the office of the D.P.P. The murder trial of Timroy Neal began earlier this week but also fell apart today when the court was informed of an all too familiar reason—that the main witness cannot be found. […]
Eighty year old Gerald Gentle, a resident of corner of Haynes and Neal Penn Road, was charged for drug trafficking when he was busted with almost sixty-three pounds of weed. At around eleven-thirty this morning, a team of police and B.D.F. soldiers searched two houses, both which Gentle claimed belonged to him. In one […]
Almost five thousand dollars worth of fuel was reportedly stolen from Shell One Stop Gas Station located at the corner of Central American Boulevard and Cemetery Road. The alleged culprit, twenty-two year old Felix Lino Vargas, appeared before Magistrate Albert Hoare today and was slapped with seven counts each of Obtaining Property by Deception and […]
On Thursday we reported on Neisa Pipersburgh, a nineteen year old who disappeared from her home. Her mother, Alice Williams, came to our studios to ask the public for any information that may indicate that her daughter is safe. She has still not been located. On Thursday, Williams indicated that a bag with her daughter’s […]
A lot of antiquities and treasures have been looted from Maya temples across the country. While many artifacts continue to be illegally smuggled out of the country, quite a few were legally removed when Belize was still a colony under the expansive arms of the British Empire. The following report is about one antiquity that […]
There was a neighborhood party today but the event was no regular occasion. It was the Mercy Care Centre’s first ever health fair for the elderly at its headquarters on Mercy Lane in Belize City right next our headquarters. This is one party that News Five’s Marion Ali did not want to miss. Here is […]
The death of sixty-five year old Edmund Spain a few weeks ago, after being badly bitten by two pit bulls in the Tropical Park of Hattieville, has raised concerns from the public about the raring of these vicious dogs. While that incident flew under the radar because of a slipup within the police department, residents […]
It’s Father’s Day weekend and entertainment host Safiyyah has a list of fun activities to celebrate with dad. And challengers step up to the plate as they square off in the latest round of man verses food at Old Belize. Hey I’m Safiyyah and this is What’s Happening Belize? This weekend of course is centred […]
