A resident of Franks Eddy Village remains missing tonight and friends and family are concerned about his whereabouts since he was last seen in police custody four days ago. It is unclear whether Guatemalan national, Manuel Acevedo, is dead or alive. Despite an ongoing investigation in which Belmopan Police say they were initially unaware of, […]
Tonight, News Five has confirmed that Dr. Louis Zabaneh, President of Galen University, has demitted office effective immediately. Zabaneh’s abrupt departure comes on the heels of a recent decision taken by majority shareholders of the institution to appoint a new president unbeknownst to the board of directors, as well as the Minister of Education, Patrick […]
Tonight, there is credible information surfacing which indicates an emerging scandal in another government department. News Five has been able to confirm that there are multiple allegations of corruption being levelled at politically connected officials within the General Sales Tax Department. We are told that two officers in particular are being accused of attempting to […]
There is another case of extortion to report on in Orange Walk, and this one is really frightening. News Five understands that the Cabanas family, which owns a large thrift and used clothing store, is the target of a death threat, delivered in truly grisly fashion. We’ve been able to confirm that the threat was […]
Imagine working on a piece of land for almost forty years – backbreaking labour to clear and keep clean. You plant every fruit and vegetable you can get your hands on, because this is the legacy you want to leave for your family. And then one day you find out that your piece of land […]
Today, police presence has been boosted significantly in the area of Jane Usher Boulevard, following a shooting incident just before noon. It happened on Freedom Street which runs parallel to Jane Usher Boulevard. An eighteen-year-old student and a friend of his are both lucky to be alive after two gunmen fired as many as eight […]
There was another shooting in Dangriga which has left one youth recovering from three gunshot wounds. Just after eight pm on Wednesday night gunshots were heard in the vicinity of Castillo Alley, and when Police arrived on the scene they found seventeen year old Hansel Garcia lying on the street. He had been shot in […]
The Belize Grassroots Youth Empowerment Association (BGYEA) is in its fourth year of existence and has been fighting for months to get titles and even leases to parcels of land in a community they call Harmonyville. It continues to be a frustrating process for the one thousand plus individuals who were given an acre of […]
There is also valuable lumber in Harmonyville that Petillo says is being pillaged by villagers living along the George Price Highway. He says that a businessman is offering to build additional roadways within the community in exchange for gaining access to the lumber. But that aside, Petillo says that he is frustrated with the state […]
On March eighth at about one p.m. a sixteen-year-old female of San Ignacio Town visited the San Ignacio Town Police Station in the company of a guardian and reported that the night before whilst walking on Bullet Tree Road heading home from Maxim’s Restaurant and upon reaching Rx Pharmacy, a male person who was behind […]
Drug seizures are often the result of intelligence-led operations conducted by personnel from the police department or, in some cases, a collaborative interagency effort utilizing such information. Whether police at a checkpoint along the George Price Highway were tipped off about narcotics onboard two individual passenger buses or the subsequent busts were the outcome of […]
Forty-three year old Rueben Cox, a resident of Biscayne Village, has been sentenced to seven years in prison effective today, after being found guilty of burglarizing a building at Croc Land in April 2013. Cox had been arraigned from his bedside at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital eight days later, after falling from a beam […]
Meanwhile a Belize City youth was spared jail time when his attempted murder case was thrown out of court. Forty-eight year old Marco Obdulio Valle was shot once in the head on New Year’s Day 2013, as he was purchasing food at Battlefield Park. His recovery has since been a long and arduous process. Valle’s […]
On Tuesday, we reported on the tragic death of a sixty-eight-year-old woman in the village of Boston. It is believed that someone broke into her home during the Easter weekend and violently attacked her with a piece of wood. Myra Miller, a Jamaican national, was clinging to life when she was discovered inside her home […]
On April fourth, two students of Escuela Secundaria Tecnica Mexico—Anahi Zepeda and Edgar Puck—drowned on a school trip. They were part of a group which had visited the Che Chem Ha Maya Site. On the way back the students stopped by the low-lying bridge in San Ignacio, allegedly to wash up, and minutes after, Zepeda […]
“Un viaje de Ida y Vuelta” a gala concert featuring Mexican piano, guitar and solo talents will be held on Saturday at the Mexican Institute. It will showcase the talents of pianist Melanie Lopez, guitarist and composer Victor Celis and soprano Cristina Woodward who will take listeners on a musical journey through Europe, to countries […]
