News Five has managed to confirm that there was a murder moments ago in Hopkins. Details are sketchy at this point because officers have been dispatched to the scene, but we are informed that a teacher and her husband were brutally chopped, allegedly during the commission of a robbery. The teacher was killed while her […]
Deputy Commissioner of Police Miguel Segura has been placed on interdiction for his involvement in a fatal road traffic accident which occurred early Saturday morning. Police were called to mile seventy-one on the George Price Highway at just after five-thirty, to the scene of a collision between a government-issued Nissan Pathfinder and a blue Toyota […]
There is a great deal of outrage tonight surrounding a fatal traffic accident near Succotz early Saturday morning. It involved a vehicle driven by Deputy Commissioner of Police Miguel Segura, and resulted in one fatality and one man still fighting for his life in the KHMH. We’ll have full coverage of that incident and subsequent […]
And on the heels of outrage at that video, there are allegations that Segura received special attention on the scene. Eyewitnesses told News Five today that Segura was taken from the scene by Police, and when he showed up at the polyclinic later, he had taken a bath and changed his clothes. There are also […]
Two men were shot at over the weekend and tonight one of the alleged shooters is behind bars on remand at the Belize Central Prison after he was denied bail this afternoon by Chief Magistrate, Anne Marie Smith. Twenty-two year old Devon Bailey, a Construction Worker of Raccoon Street in Belize City was slapped with […]
Cayo Police are tonight on a manhunt for the killer of a resident of Unitedville who was fatally stabbed early Saturday morning. It happened at around three a.m. at the corner of Albert Street in the village. Thirty-seven-year-old Victor Vargas was stabbed in the neck, and bled to death shortly after, as he tried to […]
Police have not officially released the name of the man wanted for Vargas’ murder, but one woman from Unitedville is convinced that her nineteen year old son is the suspect. Today, Arita Gomez told us that she was picked up by Police and locked down on Saturday as Police tried to find her son Steven. […]
Also in the west, the Gang Suppression Unit conducted an eight-hour operation targeting drug dealers and peddlers in the San Ignacio area. Around five-thirty a.m. on Saturday, the unit searched the Geronimo Thompson Street residence of forty-seven year old Mark Francis Peters. According to the GSU, Peters and three other persons were inside the house […]
Thirty-eight year old Oscar Rubio was taken to the K.H.M.H. by the police after he was found drunk in the Belize Constitution Park in late July and two weeks later, he was laying dead at the morgue. Rubio died as a result of an injury he sustained during an altercation at the Conch Shell Bay […]
The desecration of a loved one’s grave by vandals or others who are intent on unlawfully occupying precious funereal estate is an injustice that is not limited to the Lord Ridge Cemetery. In fact, we have reported numerous instances where headstones are damaged, skeletal remains are unearthed and tombs often looted. Tonight, a Ladyville family […]
The public health system is once again under intense scrutiny, following the suspension of a pair of administrators from the Primary Care Provider Clinics in Dangriga and Punta Gorda, respectively. Harry Sabal and Kayla Hoare have both been temporarily removed from their posts after it was discovered that there are financial irregularities at their individual […]
“Inspiring Solutions to Global Challenges through Innovation and Creativity.” That’s the theme of a seminar being hosted by the Public Utilities Commission in which tech savvy youths are being trained to create their own mobile apps. It was an initiative that was launched a few weeks ago and today dozens of teenagers gathered in Belize […]
The preliminary results of the 2014 CXC Exams, sat in May and June, are in and, while the top scorers are yet to be named, a total of three thousand, forty-nine students signed up to sit thirty-two of the thirty-five subjects offered in the annual assessment. This year has seen a nominal decrease of one […]
On Saturday, the first in a year-long series of Belize Jazz Fusion Culture Concerts was held at the Biltmore Best Western Hotel, where a host of performers and musicians entertained an audience of young and old with renditions of contemporary music. Advertised as the Belize Jazz ‘N Culture Show, the two-hour program featured guitarists, keyboardists […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. We caught up with Saturday night semi-final showdown in Firms Division Basketball as BWSL and the Belize Bank/Airport faced off in game II for the rights to move on to the championship round. On Friday night the Bank/Airport combination had ran over BWSL 60 […]
