The murder count stands at thirty-three since the beginning of the year. That has put the government in emergency mode. On Monday, Prime Minister Dean Barrow announced tough but controversial measures to deal with the lawlessness in the streets. Preventive Detention is one of the measures that the P.M. took to Cabinet on Tuesday to […]
Commissioner of Police Crispin Jeffries has been in the hot seat since April, 2009. Jeffries was given an extension last year, but his contract is now coming to an end next month. Jeffries’ management style has been described as ineffective by his own minister, Doug Singh. With that kind of criticism, it is no wonder […]
There is fortunately no murder to report in this newscast, but it doesn’t mean, there wasn’t any violence on Tuesday night. In Georgeville, a youth was critically wounded on the head around eight-thirty. The nineteen year old left his home to assist a family member who was under attack. He ended up at the San […]
On Tuesday we reported that armed gunmen held up a local branch of Heritage Bank in Orange Walk Town. While the actual figure the heist netted has not been disclosed, word to News Five is that the thieves got away with an amount in the range of two hundred thousand dollars. Shortly after one o’clock […]
Rhett Fuller will again mount a challenge to the request for his extradition made by the United States of America. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council will be the venue for this latest challenge. In June 2009, the Belize Court of Appeal dismissed Fuller’s appeal and ordered that he be extradited; however, it subsequently […]
With the rise of urban warfare, particularly in Belize City Streets, Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting dealt extensively on crime and security issues. It was agreed that three legislative changes will be introduced at the next sitting of the House of Representatives. But two of those changes are controversial because one allows for preventative detention of persons […]
Tonight we premiere the first in a two part series on a young boy who embarked on a mission to raise funds for a charity. Rowan Garel’s face can be seen in many superstores across the country, on tip jars, that are labeled for the Belize Council for the Visually Impaired. Garel, not even in […]
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of El Salvador, Hugo Roger Martinez Bonilla, is on an official visit to Belize. During the two-day visit the minister held meetings with Prime Minister Dean Barrow and the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Wilfred “Sedi” Elrington during which a memorandum of understanding was penned to […]
A man who claims he is a private consultant with the government is in all kinds of trouble with the law after he was charged with two counts of Obtaining Property by Deception. Twenty-six year old Michael Rodriguez, a resident of Ladyville, also has five previous convictions for the same charge, and an outstanding fine […]
A Neal’s Pen Road resident is suspected of running an illegal driver’s license operation inside his apartment. The police Gang Suppression Unit closed in on thirty-three year old Rayford Benguche at around on two o’clock on Sunday afternoon. In a search of his apartment, they recovered a rubber stamp and ink pad, which is property […]
There have been numerous disturbing cases of carnal knowledge, where older men have taken advantage of female minors. Well the cops have one more of those incidents to investigate after an eleven year old student of Belize City made her report on April fourth. The child claims that she was home alone at around eight […]
Since the start of the week, the news has been dominated by the spiraling crime and proposed legislative changes to tackle the epidemic. But while the streets are infested with thieves and murderers, First Caribbean International Bank wants to show that there is still hope for this country in the people who have chosen to […]
On February twenty-eighth of this year, nineteen year old Daisy Cerda, a promising fourth form student of Mopan Technical High School in the Cayo District, attempted to take her life. She wasn’t successful because her boyfriend arrived in the nick of time. We followed her story because she offered advice to other troubled youths at […]
Tuesday night was KTV Latino night and the Bliss auditorium was jam packed with a lively audience; some of them came in from the cayes, some from the districts and others were from the city. It was all in a show of support for the five contestants that remain in the season two semi-finals of […]
