There was a major drug bust in Orange Walk on Wednesday night. Police are reporting that while on an anti-drug operation in the town, the unit intercepted a black Toyota Camry with Orange Walk license plates. When the driver and his passenger caught wind of the officers, they sped off towards Liberty Avenue. As it […]
A duo of armed thieves has made off with a little over thirteen thousand dollars in cash and personal items, following a late-evening heist at A&R Enterprise Limited on Wednesday. Sometime around six-thirty, a pair of men reportedly held up the security guard, before entering the store located on the Phillip Goldson Highway and lifting […]
Meanwhile, in the El Pilar area of San Ignacio Town a few hours earlier, a group of five bandits, believed to be Guatemalan nationals, robbed a couple of cash and an assortment of items from their place of business. According to fifty-two-year-old Betty Cruz of Bullet Tree Village, the men, armed with assault rifles and […]
Orange Walk police are also reporting the death of a sixty-five-year-old man. Tagged as an accidental shooting, Inspector Selvyn Tillett says that police visited an area two miles southwest on the Yo Creek Road where approximately fifty feet from a feeder road, the body of Gumercindo Mendoza was found with gunshot wounds to the hands, […]
While the community cries out for justice, the Police are doing their best to deliver it. On Wednesday morning, Belmopan Police captured four men whom they believed were definite persons of interests in the home invasion in Hopkins. Those men were delivered to Dangriga and questioned by investigators. Today, Southern Zone Commander Ralph Moody told […]
On Monday, teacher Josephine Augustine was brutally murdered in her home in the quiet community of Hopkins. She was beaten and stabbed to death. Her husband Dudley Augustine, a retired teacher, was beaten and left lying in a pool of blood, fighting for life. The violent crime has shocked the tranquil, humble village which is […]
The Southern Regional Hospital and Dangriga Polyclinic are being run by middle managers after two administrators have been accused of misappropriation of funds under their control. Today, News Five was at the facility, and found out that hospital administrator Nasley Sommerville has been suspended for more than nine months, while the hospital has been left […]
The aggravated assault case of notorious street figure, Jason Williams aka “Soup” began on Monday in the courtroom of Chief Magistrate Ann Marie Smith. And today, the charge was dismissed. Williams was remanded earlier this year after he was accused in the shooting of two alleged George Street men, Tarique Cadle and Andrew Tate. He […]
Thirty-year-old Tyrone Smith was today sentenced to seven years in prison after he was found guilty of beating up a pregnant woman before snatching her purse. Smith, an unemployed of Raccoon Street Extension in Belize City, attacked twenty-year-old Scarlett Zelaya on October twenty-seventh, 2013 on a side street near the Lord Ridge Cemetery. Zelaya testified […]
This morning, stakeholders across the transportation industry, as well as the public service, converged on the Biltmore to evaluate the National Road Safety Program one year later. While the focus of the program includes drunk driving, a great deal has also been invested in infrastructure, equipment and training. News Five was present at the review […]
The Road Safety Annual Review, ironically, comes on the heels of one of the most high profile cases involving drunk driving in recent memory. The fatal road traffic accident on Saturday which claimed the life of Yolanda Valencia and landed Yanie Cu in the K.H.M.H. fighting for his life involved Deputy Commissioner of Police Miguel […]
This morning at the Radisson, ten high school students from across the country were awarded four-year scholarships by Courts Belize Limited. The financial assistance comes in time for the start of the new academic year which commences on Monday. The initiative follows a review of the academic performance of the candidates, as well as their […]
The Embassy of Mexico is tonight officially opening a collective art exhibition entitled “AEQUITAS” at the Institute of Mexico in Belize City. The artwork of six Mexican artists: Marisol D’ Estrabeau, Leon Alva, Carlos Generoso, Ruben Carrasco, Monica and Cristina Navarrete Bösch will be on display. The artists were tasked with creating pieces that evoke […]
Frequent reports on traffic accidents in our nightly newscasts; and that’s because we don’t even get a chance to report on all traffic mishaps that take place. Road Traffic Accidents or RTA’s are among the leading causes of death in Belize; and even if the accident does not result in a fatality, the impact of […]
Opening at the Bliss tonight is the play, the Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, better known as Hamlet by actors from the Shakespeare’s Global Theater Company of London. The theater company is on a world tour which began in April of this year in the honor of Shakespeare’s four hundred and fiftieth birthday. The […]
