The official Tenth of September celebration was reduced to a mockery of the prestigious Queen of the Bay. It all played out on live television from the Memorial Park where for the first time in history two queens were crowned. Aliyah Ysaguirre of Stann Creek was announced as the winner on pageant night and crowned […]
In the aftermath of Sunday morning’s national embarrassment, and indeed even before, social media has been blowing up with recriminations between members of the judging panel and other observers. Persistent reports to News Five indicate that there is bad blood between several district committees overseeing regional pageants and national coordinator Zenaida Moya. In Cayo for […]
The icing on the cake on Sunday was an announcement of a letter from Emma Boiton, long-time pageant coordinator, who effectively terminated Moya’s tenure as coordinator under the authority of the Loyal and Patriotic Order of the Baymen. Boiton ordered Moya to turn over all relevant material and correspondence for the committee and records of […]
Earlier you heard the members of the National Committee’s comments regarding their meeting with Minister of Education, Culture, Youth and Sports Patrick Faber on Saturday. Faber has confirmed to News Five that he has been in touch with his attorneys concerning Zenaida Moya’s comments on Monday morning’s LOVE FM morning show and elsewhere about his […]
On Saturday afternoon, the Stann Creek District Queen of the Bay Committee held a press conference in Belize City at the Biltmore Plaza. The Committee felt, at least at that time, hard done by with the handling of the apparent change in results against their candidate. District Coordinator Sherima Usher-Guity, herself a former Queen of […]
Now…at news time, the National Celebrations Commission issued a statement apologizing to the various dignitaries present on Sunday, both Esmeralda Cal and Aaliyah Ysaguirre and the people of Belize for what it calls “the unfortunate events” that took place at the official ceremony. It states that only two members of the Queen of the Bay […]
There is a troubling murder to report tonight; a witness in the murder of Daniel Sosa was killed execution style in Orange Walk. Full disclosure in the case against highly connected Hilmar Alamilla accused with the Sosa murder, was scheduled for September fifth. But on Sunday morning, Gustavo Hernandez, who gave a statement and who […]
While we were unable gather officially from police the motive for this latest homicide, the Officer Commanding Orange Walk Police, Superintendent David Chi acknowledges that the murder of a key witness is an angle that the investigators are looking into. Here’s that back and forth with the media. Supt. David Chi, O.C., Orange Walk […]
Police presence was heavy at major events over the weekend, but that did not avert any violence. Not for Akeem Augustine who was set free of a murder charge on Friday. By Saturday morning, following the popular J’ouvert, Augustine was targeted. He was among the revelers in the area of Cinderella Plaza when a gunman […]
Shortly after ten o’clock on Saturday night, gunshots rang out on Ebony Street, at its intersection with Sibun Street, where passengers inside a vehicle were being targeted by a pair of gunmen. Twenty-six-year-old Darwin Martinez, a resident of Mayflower Street, was riding inside a black Saturn along with his uncle when they came under gunfire. […]
An explosive device was retrieved in Corozal Town over the weekend when police in that jurisdiction were handed a sophisticated bomb, complete with a remote detonator. While an actual charge was not attached to the device, its complexity marks a first for the discovery of such contraptions in Belize. News Five spoke with local bomb […]
A Salvadoran national was killed in the Cayo District over the weekend. He was at a bar when another man took his drink and consumed it. A fight ensued outside of the premises and that is when Jose Sibrian was stabbed and killed. Police say they are now looking for the suspect. Andrea Polanco has […]
San Ignacio Police are on the scene at the moment where a body was found in the Macal River. Sometime after three this afternoon the body of a man was spotted floating face-down in the river. According to reports, the body has not yet been identified and neither is a missing person’s report in San […]
Throughout the many festivities on carnival day, the Belize Police Department was working overtime to keep criminals at bay. Along the parade route officers kept a watchful eye for suspicious activity and were able to intercept an onlooker who came to the event prepared for a brief shootout. Thirty-two-year-old Darren Dawson, a resident of Neal’s […]
Did the police department intentionally turn a blind eye to certain criminal elements and allowed them to carry on with illicit activity in return for keeping the peace in Belize City? It’s an opinion that is shared by some, however, the truth of the matter is that the crackdown on the local marijuana trade seems […]
This morning, Tropic Air and Maya Island Air announced that they will suspend all scheduled flights to Caye Caulker effective October first. That’s because the runway at the airstrip on the island is badly deteriorated and so to avoid safety and operational challenges, the airlines are taking this necessary step. Both airlines say there is […]
Last week News Five shared correspondence from Prime Minister Dean Barrow indicating that after the current allocation runs out in November, the Government would not continue to fund the Senate Special Select Committee. Its reason is that it wants to save funding for the Integrity Commission and implementation of the United Nations Convention against Corruption […]
The 2017 Carnival Road March got off without a hitch. Thirteen bands, seven juniors and six seniors battled in various themes and revelry as they took on that two mile stretch from Caesar Ridge to the Marion Jones along a new route. While there were lapses, the bacchanal was nothing short of a spectacle and […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend sporting activities….]
