It was a particularly bloody weekend, but before we get into the carnage, there’s more bad news that will put a licking on drivers and consumers. So if your tank is empty or half full, you’ll want to fill up before midnight because fuel prices will take a huge jump. At the presentation of the […]
A crime spree swept across the Old Capital and spread to San Ignacio in the west. Four men were killed; three in the City which statistically continues to record the highest number of murders in the country. We start with the homicide of a baker who was last seen on Saturday night. His body was […]
The second murder for the weekend in the Old Capital occurred on Saturday morning. A Cayo youth, twenty-three year old Marlon Jones, was gunned down in the Port Loyola area. Jones, who is from Georgeville, was hanging out with a friend when he was approached by two men. Minutes later he was dead. News Five’s […]
The violence started on Friday night when twenty-two year old Brandon Gibson, a resident of Moya Street in Belize City, was killed shortly after nine o’clock. While residents of the St. Martin’s neighborhood remain tight-lipped about the shooting incident, Belize City police are probing what appears to be a case of self-defense. Gibson was shot […]
While families of murder victims are grieving the weekend’s violence, eight of eleven Cuban nationals are safe and dry tonight. The Belize Coast Guard rescued the eight men on Sunday morning near the reef where their vessel had submerged. The men were in rafts when they were spotted and pulled out of the deep sea. […]
While the search continues for three missing Cubans, a US National was safely pulled out of Belizean waters, also near Caye Caulker. Four men set out on a snorkeling expedition on Saturday. Fifty-five year old American, Jack Burnette, who now resides in San Pedro, took his friends Kenneth Cox, Gary Paumgargmar and Eric Resse, to […]
Earlier we reported on the murders in the Old Capital. The crime wave spread to the west where a watchman was stabbed to death while on duty at a bar. When the body of the elderly Julian Lara was found just past midnight on Sunday, his arms and legs were tied up. The owner of […]
While police are yet to make arrests in the weekend’s homicides, a fisherman was brought to the Belize City Magistrates Court for a crime he allegedly committed in San Pedro Town. Twenty-one year old Jamie Young is accused of raping a thirty-eight year European woman on March seventeenth and he was arraigned “en camera” today […]
When the story made the news last November, it had all the indicators that the child who died, four year-old Hidalia Maldonado, had suffered various forms of cruelty. Five months later, the Director of Public Prosecutions has instructed the police to press charges of Manslaughter against the child’s mother, nineteen year old Yeysi Maldonado and […]
We have been reporting since last week that a consulting firm has concluded that government should not proceed with cruise tourism in the south. And tonight, another round of public consultations are being held with residents of the Placencia Peninsula to discuss the results of the assessment, conducted by Seatone Consultants. In the executive summary […]
News Five also spoke with Rich Wilson, the consultant who led the discussions with both public and private stakeholders prior to formalizing his final report. Wilson used a two prong approach: confidential interviews as well as the public consultations, to make his recommendations. Residents of Placencia shared concerns that the destination, as a port of […]
The opposition held its Port Loyola convention on Sunday afternoon. A little less than eight hundred persons lined up to vote for one of the four aspiring politicians. Additional to the convention goers, was a group led by Anthony “Boots” Martinez, the Minister of Housing and Area Representative. A voter dropped by our studios today […]
The Statutory Instrument regulating the weighing of Liquefied Petroleum Gas takes effect on Tuesday. The Belize Bureau of Standards made the announcement earlier this month, giving butane suppliers time to adequately equip their depots and trucks with approved scales. And following a weeklong visit, German Metrologist, Rolf Weiss, has provided the Belize Bureau of Standards […]
Belize formally adopted the Caribbean Court of Justice as its final appellate court in June of last year. Barbados and Guyana are the other Caribbean countries that have joined the CCJ. Belize has elevated several cases to the CCJ most notably that of former ministers Florencio Marin Sr. and Jose Coye over the sale of […]
Moshe Levi Ben David, Belize’s Music Ambassador, will release his first album after being behind bars for nine years. Promoters say Ben David, also known as Shyne, is expected to have at least two Def-Jam recording artists present at his pre-release album party this weekend. The promoter says that because of the hype being generated, […]
Good Evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The National Cricket Team has made a dramatic statement in International Cricket by winning the ICC Division 3 Tournament staged at Costa Rica, sweeping all 5 matches in emphatic fashion. On their return to the Jewel Yesterday was filled with excitement, pump and circumstance and […]
