For a period of two weeks since November twenty-fourth, there were no murders recorded in the city, but shortly after midnight on Friday, the lifeless body of Baltazar Sarmeinto Ponce was discovered at his workplace. The Honduran watchman was shot to the head while on duty at Buca Shell Gas Station at two and a […]
In the case of the lifeless body of thirty-four-year-old Israel Chuc, a resident of Santiago Juan Layout in San Ignacio, police do not suspect foul play. Chuc’s body was discovered on Sunday morning in the vicinity of Branch Mouth Road. It had a faint trace of blood on the nose and his throat appeared to […]
The sexual assault of an inmate, an alleged rape that occurred at the Belize Central Prison, is being investigated by police and it is expected that the perpetrator of that crime will appear before the court by Tuesday. News Five first reported the incident last Tuesday, when the family of the alleged victim came forward […]
An Ex-B.D.F. soldier, along with a night division student at Gwen Lizarraga High School, were arraigned this morning in connection with the robbery of Gas Tomza on the George Price Highway, where the Manager was held at knife point and robbed of one thousand four hundred and eighty dollars on December seventh, 2017. The duo, […]
The Michael Finnegan Market, formerly known as Queen’s Square Market, was the scene of a fire over the weekend. On Saturday afternoon, a stall that was being occupied by fifty-two-year-old Pearl Usher, at the corners of Hicattee Street and West Collet Canal went up in smoke sometime after midday. Belize City police were called out […]
The overwhelming backlog of cases that have inundated Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin continues to weigh down on his ability to mete out justice in a timely manner. When the Bar Association of Belize called him out for the surfeit of pending decisions, the CJ said he would dispense with those matters by December fifteenth. That […]
On Thursday, representatives of the Public Sector Workers Trust, along with attorney Anthony Sylvester, came forward claiming a legal victory against a trio of former public officers who filed a lawsuit against the trust. That information, as it turns out, was misrepresented. Today, retired public officers Sheila Genitty, Ruth White and Darrel Gardiner convened a […]
Senior Counsel Magali Marin-Young refuted the claims made by trustees at Thursday’s press conference, laying the facts of the case before the media this evening. She says that the claims made by the defendants are furthest from the truth, that Genitty, White and Gardiner did not set out to remove any of the existing trustees […]
In the lawsuit filed by the three pensioners, the question of loans amounting to four hundred and thirty-one thousand, two hundred and fifty dollars disbursed to various unions and associations was brought up. While Public Sector Workers Trust lists those monies under a line item called investment, the court has ordered that an accounting of […]
With Christmas fast approaching, Police say that business owners must be on the lookout for a fake money collector. That’s because there is a person going around targeting shops in the city. He pretends to make collections on behalf of various businesses using fake receipts. Police say there have been several reports from businesses on […]
On Friday, we reported that an arrest had been made by Mexican authorities in connection with the brutal slaying of San Pedro resident Felix Ayuso back in February. While Vildo Westby has been on the lam from the Belize Police Department since that incident over six months ago, details of his detention in Los Choapas, […]
A trio of men, including thirty-three-year-old Leon Earl Weir, Luwan Flowers and Edward Saldano, has been charged for a daring aggravated burglary in Fuller’s Alley in Belize City last week. The home invasion netted the thieves over seven thousand dollars in cash and personal belongings taken from a resident who had reportedly just collected rent […]
The Sea Cadets – they are the young new faces on whom the Coast Guard hopes to make an impression. After years of planning, the Coast Guard is taking fifty students under its wings. The recruits will participate in different activities organized by the Coast Guard and will receive mentorship with the help of Restore […]
On December ninth, 2016, Belize took a historic step by signing its accession to the United Nations Convention Against Corruption, UNCAC. By doing so, it became the hundred and eighty-second country to become a signatory to the UN accord. In concluding Anti-Corruption Week, a symposium on corruption was held at the Biltmore earlier today. The […]
After more than three hundred thousand dollars spent in the course of twelve months and forty-plus sessions, the Senate Special Select Committee’s work, at least publicly, is done. It has been a wild ride as News Five has been there from start to finish for all the heartfelt confessions, helpful recommendations and occasional drama as […]
Friday’s final meeting of the House of Representatives for 2017 passed by with not excessive fanfare and fuss, as the parliamentarians got through a relatively light schedule around the stroke of noon. As usual on the adjournment, various issues of regional and occasional national importance were raised. For residents of Santa Cruz village in the […]
Over the past two weeks, we have been showing you the teams representing Belize at the Central American Games in Nicaragua. It took Belize a few days to get on to the medal board, but we did. So far, Belize is behind in medal count, with only four medals: two silvers and two bronzes – […]
Channel Five’s twenty-fifth anniversary as a television station came last year. But last week our longest-running program other than this newscast marked a similar anniversary too. That’s right; it has been twenty-five years since Gimme 5 first premiered on this station in 1992. And while it’s always fun to win prizes – and in our […]
It is the season for giving and the children at Stella Maris Primary School had a day of fun-filled activities complete with gifts from Santa Claus at the Radisson. The Christmas party sponsored by the Belize Bank took place today. Their excitement was contagious; aside from the gifts and games, they were all too happy […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend sporting activities…]
