In breaking news tonight, there has been a shooting in the compound of the Gonzalo Quinto warehouse near the Napa roundabout in Belize City. From what we have just learnt, the shooting took place a short while ago and police are currently processing the scene. We can also say that the victim has been rushed […]
Tonight, there is major news coming out of the People’s United Party camp in the wake of last Wednesday’s Dangriga bye-election. News Five was able to confirm today that Godfrey Smith is no longer the National Campaign Manager of the Party, effective immediately. Sources say that Smith had been contemplating leaving the post after the […]
Police have a number of murders to solve, but there is a new case that is baffling authorities in the north. The body of thirty-five year old Vicky Hareshlal Gyanchandani is tonight in the morgue at the Northern Regional Hospital awaiting a post-mortem examination. Police are anxiously awaiting those results to determine if indeed the […]
On Monday, the bloody footage of a man who had been viciously chopped to the face and body made its short-lived rounds on the social media. It was taken off shortly after because of its graphic nature. That footage shows twenty-seven year old Irvin Cantun bleeding profusely with multiple chop wounds to the mouth, head, […]
The island of Caye Caulker has resumed a sense of normalcy in the wake of last month’s public uproar caused by the murder of eighteen-year-old Hilberto Sotz while in police custody on June eight, 2015. Today, his parents are proceeding with legal action against the Belize Police Department. Police constables Leonard Nunez and Hallet King, […]
And our question for tonight: Do you think the police used excessive force in the recent shooting death of Hope Creek resident, Leopold Myvette? Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones to 8686 or post your vote on our e-poll at channel5belize.com. You can also send an email with your comments to questions@channel5belize.
Two Biscayne families are without their house after it was burnt to the ground shortly after two on Saturday morning. Emmerson Michael, his common-law-wife and their seven children lived upstairs, while his sister and her two children lived downstairs of the house at mile twenty-four and a quarter on the Phillip Goldson Highway. While Emmerson […]
Tonight, another cold-blooded killer remains on the loose despite the recovery of this nine millimeter Glock pistol, believed to have been used in the murder of eighteen-year-old Anthony Smith. The teenager was gunned down on Friday night as he rode his bicycle along Central American Boulevard in the direction of Freedom Street. It is unclear […]
A man from Gardenia is spending the first night of twelve years behind bars after he took the rap for a prohibited weapon, ammunition and drugs found in his home. The items were discovered during an early morning raid and search by the Rural Rapid Response Team operating out of the Rural Eastern Division. When […]
Tonight, a member of the Apprenticeship Program who is scheduled to graduate on July twenty-second has been remanded to the Belize Central Prison. Allan Allen Phillips was arraigned on Monday in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court before the Chief Magistrate, Anne Marie Smith. He is suspected of robbing businessman Fokrul Alam, owner of Take and […]
On Monday, we reported that an intervention had been staged over the weekend by the Belize Police Department, involving feuding members of the Ghost Town Gang. The mediation saw the coming together of factions purportedly led by Ellis Meighan and Roger Anthony. Both groups have been at odds for quite some time and the fallout […]
Twelve students will start the new academic year with scholarships through the Belize Bank Scholarship Programme. Among the guests at the Biltmore Plaza this morning were family members of the high school and sixth form students. The Belize Bank started the program in 2012 and this year, the first group of students graduated. Andrea Polanco […]
The tenth annual national “Du Di Rait Ting” Award Ceremony of the Police Department was held today at the Old Belize Pavilion in Belize City. It’s an initiative that started back in 2005 to encourage youths to lead productive lives and keep out of harm’s way. Hundreds of students from across the country have been […]
The official murder stats for the first half of the year is yet to be released by the Police Department, but we can surely say that 2015 is one of the most murderous years and that Belize has recently been named the fourth most dangerous country in the world. On Monday, artist Katie Usher took […]
