Just before news time tonight, there was a murder on Police Street in the south side of Belize City. Around five p.m., police responded to reports of shots being fired on La Croix Boulevard. Inside a property at the corner of Linda Vista and Police Streets, they found the body of Dorian Sutherland. Preliminary investigations […]
Within a span of twelve hours over the weekend, one person was killed, another stabbed and five others injured in separate shootings also in the city. A birthday celebration ended fatally for Daniel Anderson; a man well-known to the law. Party goers at the popular Bismark Club on Queen Charlotte Street were exiting the establishment […]
Alex Underwood and Crystal Flowers remain hospitalized at the K.H.M.H. recovering from gunshot wounds following the shooting at Bismark Club on Sunday morning. Now, Underwood is one of the reputed bosses of the South Side Gang and most recently was part of the gang truce organized by then South Side Regional Commander, Assistant Commissioner of […]
There’s a break in Friday’s murder of Marcel Samuels. Eighteen-year-old Blake Norman Lewis, a construction worker of Myvette Street in Hattieville Village, was arrested and charged for the murder of the sixty-two-year-old jeweler and butcher of Cemetery Lane in Belize City. This afternoon, Lewis appeared before Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser and read a single charge […]
On Friday, the body of forty-six year old Luis Antonio Sierra, a naturalized Belizean businessman of Bullet Tree village, Cayo, was located near Valley Community, Stann Creek District. He had been shot once to the abdomen. On Sunday, the man whose farm he was visiting, thirty-one year old Lyndon Lewis of Mile eighteen, Hummingbird Highway, […]
Back to the city where there were two other acts of gun violence on south side prior to the shooting murder of Daniel Anderson at the Bismark Club on Queen Charlotte Street. The first shooting for the weekend occurred around five-thirty on Saturday evening on George Street near the barracks. Reports are that twenty-six-year-old Emerson […]
Five hours later, shots rang out near Yarborough Bridge. Twenty-two-year-old Justin Coote is tonight recovering at home after he was shot to the back. The fisherman was walking on Queen Charlotte Street when a gunman emerged from a nearby bushy lot and fired a single shot at him. Coote was rushed to the K.H.M.H. where […]
It’s been one month since seventeen-year-old Erwin Paulino Rodriguez of Grown Dove Street in Belize City has gone missing. The teen was last seenin the Jane Usher Boulevard area on Thursday, August twenty-fourth after three o’clock in the afternoon when he went to his mother’s work place. But since then, there has been no word […]
There is also a disturbing report of a rape in the city over the weekend. On Saturday night on George Street, an off-duty police caught a man in the act. Sometime after eleven p.m., a Honduran national pulled a woman into an abandon building, stripped her of clothes and proceeded to rape her. But the […]
The People’s United Party’s National Party Council met on Saturday at the Saint Catherine Academy multipurpose center in Belize City. The Council is the party’s second highest authority after the National Convention. But the major news coming out of the meeting is that the surprise convention has been scheduled for November twenty-sixth and that party […]
The party leader took questions on several national issues, including one that dominated most of last week’s newscasts. We are speaking of the disappearance and return of seventeen-year-old Kelvin Usher, who fled the Gang Suppression Unit after they went shooting into a farm in Lucky Strike village where a marijuana plantation was located. Usher’s family, […]
The Integrity Commission is under fire for two reasons. The first is its reversal of a prior position that persons in public life were to submit five years of declarations for review, later reduced to one. The second is its list of persons who violated the law in terms of late declarations, including no shortage […]
The country is battling an outbreak of conjunctivitis – or what is better known as ‘pink-eye’. The outbreak is also affecting Mexico, Panama and Costa Rica. And while the Ministry of Health has put out a number of announcements to raise awareness to avoid the spreading of the pink-eye – there are still hundreds of […]
Nearly two months after the incumbent United Democratic Party held a contested convention for the Belize City Council slate; the People’s United Party is planning theirs for mid-October. It will be the last slate to be named by the P.U.P. since the other eight were introduced at Saturday’s national party council meeting. Party Leader John […]
Belize’s top two judicial courts are seeking to fill posts. In the case of the Court of Appeal, Prime Minister Dean Barrow is proceeding with the appointment of former classmate Franz Parke to a five-year term beginning with the current session. Leader of the Opposition John Briceño’s has opined that Parke is not qualified, but […]
Belize won a regional sporting competition in Guatemala last week. But this sport doesn’t have as much of a national following as football or basketball, though it does have centuries of tradition behind it. The Maya sport of pok-ta-pok or Maya pelota is one of the last surviving traditions of a people who dominated northern […]
Over the weekend, OCEANA in Belize formally recognized two Belizeans as the 2017 Ocean Heroes. They are eleven-year-old student Madison Edwards and career tour guide and conservation educator, Luz Hunter. Both have inspired and encouraged others to be conscientious about the marine environment as well as the flora and fauna. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. […]
Tonight there is another missing person to report. Karen Baptist, the mother of murder victim Erica Wills, last saw her daughter Kenisha Wills as she was leaving to go to a party in Kings’ Park on Saturday night. She has not been heard from since and Baptist has reported her missing to police. The situation […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. {Highlights of the weekend sporting activities…]
