In the Saint Martin De Porres area of the city on Monday night, the life of Jerson Carballo was snuffed out and police have no motive or suspect. Carballo had left the house of his cousins and was riding home when he was ambushed after midnight by a gunman who followed him. His sister, artist […]
Around seven this morning, a body was found under a tree next to the basketball court and football field in the village of San Narciso in the Corozal District. It has since been identified as that of Ramon Rejon, a resident from the neighboring village of Louisville. Rejon had returned to the village over the […]
Also up north in Corozal, the search continues for a couple who has been missing since Thursday. Thirty-four-year-old Zeidy Orozco and forty-two-year-old Balthazar Lopez were last seen in the vicinity of Corozo Blues, but hours later, Orozco car was found torched in a cane field in the outskirts of Patchakan Village. Search parties have been […]
The Belize Defence Force is under fire tonight. News Five has obtained documents showing invoices for fifty thousand dollars worth of payments of allowances made to members of the team in 2009 when they were Belize Premier Football League champions. But were these men actual soldiers in the Force, or just paid to look like […]
A seven-year-old girl has reportedly been abducted by her grandmother and is believed to have been taken from her hometown in San Pedro across the border to neighboring Guatemala. Hamy Alena Reyes is a student of Ambergris Elementary School, who was over at her babysitter’s home in San Mateo over the weekend. On Sunday morning, […]
In a surprise statement, the Director of Public Prosecutions, Cheryl-Lynn Vidal has made scathing remarks against those who mismanaged the investigation of Dorian Pakeman, the Director of the Government Press Office. In what turned out to be a sensational turn of events, Pakeman walked into a magistrate court on the morning of May twenty-sixth and […]
Students are breathing a sigh of relief tonight, following the release of this year’s P.S.E. results. Seven thousand two hundred and seventy one students registered for the exam that assesses students in the areas of English, Mathematics, Social Studies and Science. English and Math always pose a challenge and this year was no different. We […]
Most top scorers in the P.S.E. are from the City, but while on assignment in Corozal, we dropped by the Mary Hill Primary School where there was reason to celebrate. The district performed the best overall in this year’s exams and at Mary Hill we found two brilliant students who did remarkably well placing in […]
Earlier you saw some of the top performers from twenty five highest overall marks – but they represent just a fraction of the seven thousand plus students who sat the exam. The results, as described by the ministry, are average. According to a preliminary release issued by the Ministry of Education, only fifty percent of […]
P.U.P. leader John Briceño saw charges of Negligent Harm, Failure to Report an Accident and Driving a Vehicle without Due Care and Attention tossed out of the Orange Walk Magistrate’s Court today. He had been charged in February of 2015 based on a report made by Christopher Hendricks, the driver for cross-town political rival Gaspar […]
As much as one hundred and thirty million U.S. dollars is being sought by the former owners of Belize Telemedia Limited from the Dean Barrow administration. It is the final figure for legal costs arising of the settlement of the takeover of B.T.L. in 2009 and again in 2011. These costs were to be claimed […]
The Government and particularly the Prime Minister have in the past tried to shove off at least part of the responsibility for the B.T.L. debacle to the shoulders of the P.U.P. But the party has resisted such insinuations, each time squarely pointing the finger back at Barrow himself. Party leader John Briceño did so again […]
There is also the question of economic shock caused by the B.T.L. payments. The Government recently re-negotiated the Superbond, but has accumulated close to a hundred million dollars in debt from unpaid arbitration awards to several companies, which it is refusing to pay. The national reserves are hovering above danger point as the country waits […]
A Corozal Free Zone employee who in August 2011 was accused of raping a sixteen-year-old minor has been granted a retrial. Thirty-six-year-old Antonio Gutierrez was convicted of raping the minor and sentenced to eight years before Justice Herbert Lord in the Orange Walk Supreme Court. The decision of his verdict was unanimous, but the judges […]
And on a matter of clarification, Osmar Sabido Junior was sentenced to twenty-one years for killing his common-law wife, Christie Carrasco. Sabido Junior is from Orange Walk and is not related to Oscar Sabido Junior.
As we reported on Monday, residents of Burrell Boom village are up in arms that Bradley’s Boat Yard is relocating within their village, introducing them to a potentially cancerous future with the tiny particles of dust from use of fibreglass floating through the countryside air and causing various lung diseases. A group known as the […]
It has now been a month since it was reported that the villages of Otoxha and San Benito Poite have been facing a takeover of acres of territory by Guatemalan farmers seeking greater pastures. The farmers left a mile-plus-long trail from Guatemala into Belize for easier access to their ‘conquered’ territory. The matter was officially […]
Forty representatives from multiple Ministries are doing a three-day training under the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. The participants are doing the training in results based management for countries to better plan and report on the targets that they set for the sustainable development goals. News Five spoke with the trainer of […]
In sporting news, there was a victory parade on Monday night in Belmopan for the national football and basketball champions, Belmopan Bandits, owned by Minister John Saldivar. The matter of improper usage of Coast Guard vessels appears to be behind him despite still being on the radar of the U.S. He told us this afternoon […]
Last week, News Five spoke one-on-one with Kaina Martinez, Olympian sprinter turned All-American at Texas A and M University-Kingsville. After completing her college track career with good performances in the 2017 NCAA Division Two Outdoor Athletics Championships, she told us that she wants to remain open-minded about what is in store for her. But she […]
