Three years and four months ago construction worker Steven Buckley was shot twice in the face by an Inspector Dennis Lopez on April twenty-eighth 2010. Buckley, his employer and another worker had just retired from work in the Port Loyola Area when a police patrol headed by Lopez intercepted them. Before they could exit the […]
That disappointing trip to the St. John’s Credit Union was taken at a little after midday. But just after two this afternoon Buckley got the news from his attorney Dickie Bradley that payment had been made – fifty-thousand dollars to be exact. News Five was there as Buckley made his second trip to the credit […]
There is an ongoing dispute tonight within the executive council of the Belize Ex-Services League, despite a recent Supreme Court ruling in favor of the organization’s membership. The problem is the result of a proposal to sell to the proprietors of Golden Princess Casino, the property where the existing headquarters has stood since its establishment […]
Mark Seawell has been fighting an extradition request from the United States since 2007. The US claims that Seawell and his brothers Gary and Dwayne were responsible for cocaine being transported into the US through Mexico between 1994 and 1997. Mark Seawell’s extradition has been approved at both the Magistrate Court and Supreme Court level. […]
The Customs and Excise Duties Amendment Bill was one of the thirteen bills tabled at the House of Representatives on Wednesday. The bill essentially increases the import duty on flour from twenty-five percent to one hundred percent. Earlier in the year, when bakers were allowed to import freely, they enjoyed a substantial cost reduction on […]
Samer Akil Rada’s name has surfaced in an ongoing investigation that goes back to a July nineteenth cocaine bust in El Salvador. It involves two containers, one in which eight hundred and eighty pounds of cocaine was found in frozen pineapples in El Salvador and another which Rada’s company transported from the western border to […]
Former NBA player Derek Anderson is currently on a working visit to Belize during which he is sharing his life story, both as a professional athlete, as well as an established businessman, with the Belizean public. Anderson, who has also embarked upon a career as a motivational speaker, gave a stirring presentation to an audience […]
A Belize City police officer attached to the Director of Public Prosecution’s office was busted today with four point five pounds of weed. P.C. Suazo was headed back from Arenal with the drug when he was busted by San Ignacio Police at a check point. Report to our newsroom is that Suazo was carrying the […]
An Isabella self-professed psychiatric clinic caregiver was busted with over five pounds of weed scattered under his home and thirty cannabis plants at his farm in the Belize River Valley area. Owen Baptist was arraigned this morning before Magistrate Leslie Hamilton for Drug Trafficking and Cultivation of a Controlled Drug. Baptist agreed with the statement […]
A man who pleaded guilty to theft and possession of a pipe was spared jail time for those offences, but tonight he is still behind bars because of an old unpaid fine. Fifty-eight year old Alden Trapp appeared before Magistrate Clive Lino today. He was charged for stealing a keg from Louis Herrera, and additionally […]
The University of Belize-Office of Student Affairs today presented the recipients of this year’s Student Athlete, Barton and UB Alumni scholarships. The students were selected based on academic and athletic capabilities and are from all over the country. The scholarships cover a period of one year and are renewable. News Five’s Jose Sanchez reports. […]
Belize has seen the departure and return of the U-sixteen football team from the Copa Nacional Gladiadores Merida and the Jaguars from the Gold Cup. Another set of athletes hopes to bring back gold to the jewel. A group of female soft ballers departed from the Philip Goldson International Airport this morning. The national team […]
On Thursday, you heard the private sector express concerns about the upcoming Belize Expo Marketplace which is scheduled to be held on the same day that the equally popular Carnival road march will take place. Both events are planned for September fourteenth and both have huge support. The private sector says it stands to crowd […]
The national song competition takes place this Saturday night at the Memorial Park and you can catch it live on this station. The lineup includes a return of defending champions as well as top performers in the music industry all hoping to walk away with titles in the different categories. Duane Moody caught up with […]
