On Holy Saturday, B.D.F. Staff Sergeant Richard Lambey was shot as he led a patrol to a water source near Valentin Camp in the Chiquibul. After undergoing treatment at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, he was released and is recovering at his home in Punta Gorda. But five days after the shooting, a confidential report […]
The last time News Five travelled to the small community of Selena in the Cayo District, it was to cover the gruesome murder of Canadian producer Matthiew Klinck. Tonight, one man is dead and another is clinging to life after a brutal chopping in Selena, and police are hunting for two suspected murders. Preliminary investigations […]
Trial Farm resident Julia Arana remains hospitalized at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after she was hit on Saturday night by Orange Walk South area representative Jose Abelardo Mai. Arana received injuries to the head and is in an induced coma. Mai has been served with a notice of intended prosecution. The accident happened near […]
Julia Arana is the mother of well-known cyclist Nissan Arana. News Five spoke with him by phone this evening and he told us that he does not know much about the incident since he was not present at the time of the accident, nor has he had an opportunity to speak with Mai or Orange […]
Debate continues to rage over remarks made by Evangelist Pastor Scott Stirm eight months ago comparing the Garifuna dugu ceremony to witchcraft. Scott has issued a light-hearted apology which has been flatly rejected by the National Garifuna Council. But last week, the National Evangelical Association of Belize came out in full support of Stirm at […]
Appalling remarks made by Pastor Scott Stirm during his testimonial abroad continue to reverberate across the Garifuna community, in Belize and in the Diaspora. While he has been candid in his convictions, as well as his perspective on the Dugu ceremony, Stirm’s description of the sacred ritual as witchcraft has raised the ire of many, […]
Details are extremely sketchy and law enforcement authorities aren’t talking officially, but News Five has been able to confirm that at least eleven illegal immigrants were detained on Saturday night in Benque Viejo Del Carmen. Sources tell us that the intelligence-driven operation led Police to the home of an elderly man where they found the […]
The implementation of a curfew on unaccompanied minors after nine p.m. by Eastern Division South Regional Commander Chester Williams has stirred a firestorm. ACP Williams announced several weeks ago that the program would be implemented as a result of recent murders that were allegedly committed by minors. While the move has received support by residents […]
Minister Anthony “Boots” Martinez, however, says that he supports the initiative. But that a curfew imposed on children won’t address the issue of minors being recruited to commit violent crimes. Anthony “Boots” Martinez, Minister of Human Development “It’s an initiative that I support, but also too looking at the whole aspect of the involvement […]
A little over a month ago there was public concern over the construction of a parking lot at the MCC Grounds by the Princess Group. News Five investigated and found what seemed to be a win-win scenario for the Sports Council. The Princess would fund the parking lot as well as the construction of a […]
The Angelus Press Limited which is located just across from the Queen Street Police Station was burglarized during the Easter holidays. The police did not detect that a crime was taking place nearby, but surveillance camera footage captured the image of the burglar. Late this evening, thirty-eight year old Anthony Morris Junior, a Customer Care […]
An alleged sexual offender was arraigned this morning before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith. Forty-two year old Irvin Pitts was arraigned on a single charge of rape which reportedly occurred on Saturday, April second, 2016. A woman is claiming that around three o’clock that morning, she was sexually abused by Pitts who was transporting her […]
Another case of sexual assault was before the Chief Magistrate today. Twenty-six-year old Lorenzo Garbutt is accused of raping a minor four times in the period between March twenty-fifth, 2015 and March thirtieth, 2016. Tonight the fisherman, a resident of Faber’s Road, is on remand at the Belize Central Prison, for four counts of unlawful sexual […]
It’s being dubbed as the biggest leak in the history of data journalism – eleven point five million leaked files, two point six terabytes of confidential documents – linking current and past world leaders as well as prominent world figures to billions stashed in offshore accounts. The leak came from a Panamanian law firm known […]
This Saturday, the United Democratic Party will hold a special national party council meeting to determine the date for a convention to elect a new first deputy leader. The post became vacant after Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega announced on March eighth that he was stepping down as deputy leader of the U.D.P. Since then, […]
Last Wednesday, the Director of the Government Press Office hit and killed forty-five year old mechanic Dean Dawson between miles twenty-two and twenty-three on the Phillip Goldson Highway. Dawson died on the spot in what the post mortem says was a head on collision with a burgundy government issued Isuzu Dmax driven by Dorian Pakeman. […]
Diana Stevenson has carried out her own investigation at the scene of the accident in Gardenia Village on the Phillip Goldson Highway. She alleges Pakeman is getting special treatment. Voice of: Diana Stevenson, Sister of Deceased “If it was Pakeman dead and Dean the driver, would he have received preferential treatment and I allowed […]
A four point six million dollar facility will be constructed in the south side of the City with part of a loan from the Caribbean Development Bank. When completed, it will provide the space for sports, arts and culture, literacy and life skills programs for the youths of the areas. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. […]
Two lucky young Belizeans with ideas on starting their own small business will get that opportunity, thanks to an initiative which was launched today. It’s the brainchild of another young entrepreneur, Crystal Samos, owner of Capio. And to commemorate the first anniversary of her successful line of Carpe Diem products, Samos has decided to pay […]
Good evening I’m James Adderly and this is Sports Monday. The 2016 PLB closing season concluded regular season play yesterday inside the MCC Grounds as the Belize Defense Force took on Verdes FC in a bid to ensure a playoff spot. Former champion Verdes with no chance to make the playoffs looked to capture […]
