Special Patrol Unit Officer Ryon Wagner, the bodyguard assigned to the Prime Minister’s wife, Kim Simplis Barrow, was arraigned in the Belmopan Magistrate Court this morning on a single charge of murder. The disturbing story of an intoxicated policeman allegedly putting two bullets in the head of Nicaraguan Eduardo Sanchez Perez has gone somewhat under […]
And in other news from Belmopan, a witness in the brutal slaying of the notorious Roaring Creek resident, Russell Hyde and Marcy Humes has given a statement to police. Authorities had been seeking that person who was with Hyde and Humes as they approached the gate of Hyde’s hilltop home in Camalote on Friday night. […]
An arrest is yet to be made in the weekend murder of twenty-year-old Malik Dixon, who was fatally shot as he rode a bicycle along Flamboyant Street on Saturday night. Toony, as he is popularly known, is affiliated with the Ghost Town Crips and, according to Belize City police, his death may have been gang […]
Belize plays Canada this coming Friday at the BMO field in Toronto. And we are pleased to announce that we have teamed up with Channel Seven to bring you the broadcast of the game right in your living rooms on Friday beginning at 5:30. The Jaguars left the country on American Airlines this morning heading […]
Late this evening News Five received confirmation of very significant news which happened completely under wraps. The Ramada Belize City Princess has changed management, effective today. We are told that the Princess, which recently associated itself with the popular Wyndham Ramada brand, is now being completely leased by an Asian company known as Gray Enterprises […]
And tonight’s question is: now that a deal to pay Fortis seventy million dollars plus thirty-three point three percent of shares has been sealed by G.O.B., was the acquisition of B.E.L. in the best interest of Belize? Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones to 8686 or post your vote on our e-poll […]
On Monday Prime Minister Dean Barrow announced a settlement with Fortis on the arbitrary 2011 acquisition of that company’s shares in B.E.L. G.O.B. will be paying seventy million dollars to the Canadian company which will also get back thirty-three point three percent of shares in the company. At the time of acquisition, it owned seventy […]
Another expedition to the Sarstoon by the Belize Territorial Volunteers took place early this morning. The group has committed to trek to the Sarstoon every Tuesday, which is the day when the Belize Defense Force carries out a patrol to Cadenas, an observation post along the bank of the Sarstoon River. But the B.D.F. was […]
Ray Davis is no longer the Senator representing the Unions. The decision was taken by the General Council of the National Trade Union Congress of Belize last week, but there was some contention from members who felt that Davis had not been afforded due process. Indeed, we are told that representatives of the P.S.U. and […]
Tonight the Punta Gorda Police Department is investigating an unusual and very disturbing allegation of rape. Over the weekend a student claims that she was beaten up by a group of females, then held down by one man and raped by another. There have been no arrests so far, but according to the Deputy Commander […]
Classes have just resumed, but tonight a student, who is a minor, is a suspect in the robbery of an even younger student. The incident happened on Princess Margaret Drive in Belize City. A fourteen year old student and his father both on foot and are from Ladyville, were pounced upon by three males who […]
Belmopan Police have made at least some progress in identifying skeletal remains found Sunday in the Salvador Area of Belmopan. A Guatemalan farmer, who went to cut sticks in a bushy area of Costa Rica Street extension, got a nasty surprise when he discovered the bones. So far an examination has revealed that the remains […]
A Western Pine resident, who had two unpaid drug trafficking bills, was escorted to court today on a third charge. He is twenty-eight-year old Andrew Smith, a resident of the mile eight community located on the George Price Highway. This morning, Smith picked up his third conviction when he appeared before Magistrate Deborah Rogers […]
The lower flat of a two-storey building was gutted by a fire early this morning in the Old Capital. The blaze started in the kitchen of the wooden house and before it could be contained, it swept through the entire floor. Tenant, Anita McKoy, left the kitchen briefly to attend to her daughter who was […]
Another wooden structure which was home to Glenford Adolphus, better known as Easy Glen, was gutted by fire on Friday night. Just before eleven o’clock that night, firefighters were called out to an area off Curl Thompson Street in the Jane Usher Boulevard area of Belize City. The elevated wooden structure was completely engulfed in […]
This afternoon, within days of elections on September sixth, Guatemala’s Congress lifted President Otto Perez Molina’s immunity of office. It means that Perez Molina can now be charged for a customs corruption scandal that has rocked his administration in recent months. A hundred and thirty-two of one hundred and fifty-eight lawmakers approved the measures so […]
