There was a brazen midday murder in the City today. A well-known elderly businessman who had been targeted twice before unfortunately did not survive the latest attack on his life. Before one-o’clock today, Oscar Rosado Senior was shot and killed at his business, Rosado’s Construction Supply located on Cemetery Road. His wife says that a […]
A Punta Gorda resident also lost his life in an execution style murder just before midnight on Friday. Twenty-five-year-old Albert Johnson was attacked by a trio of men as he made his way on foot toward Regent Street. He was walking from Southern Foreshore unto Rectory Lane when he was fired upon twice. Those rounds […]
The body of thirty-year-old mechanic Leonel Velasquez, from Paraiso Village, Corozal District, was found on Saturday. He had been reported missing at sea since last week Wednesday. Police have confirmed that the Coast Guard found the body of Velasquez between Middle Caye and Alligator Caye. A post-mortem examination found that he drowned. The Turneffe Island […]
Already facing charges of murder in the Supreme Court, the notorious William “Danny” Mason and five co-accused could face a separate trial for kidnapping in two weeks. Mason; Ashton Vanegas of Camalote Village; brothers: Keiron Fernandez and Terrence Fernandez, as well as Ernest Henry Castillo, all of Roaring Creek Village, this morning appeared in the […]
On Friday a Belizean in the United States was found guilty of a most heinous crime after a re-trial. Six jurors in Lee County, Florida, needed three hours to find twenty-two year old Brian Hyde guilty of killing his cousin Michael Kelly, Kelly’s girlfriend Starlette Pitts, seventeen; his aunt Dorla, thirty-seven, and the unborn child […]
A young resident of Orange Walk lost his life in a road traffic accident around three o’clock on Saturday morning. Daniel Urbina, the son of Rosendo Urbina Junior and his wife Becky of A&R store and a friend had left the City and were heading home to Orange Walk Town when his truck crashed into […]
Twenty-seven-year-old Christian Charles was knocked down a week ago and left for dead near the Burrell Boom Bridge in rural Belize District. Swanka, as he is affectionately known, valiantly fought for his life at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Sadly, he lost that fight earlier today. Police still have not been able to catch up […]
Aside from the two deadly traffic accidents, there were two other traffic incidents. In the early hours of Sunday morning in Maskall Village, Transport Officer Roderick Jones was crushed between a concrete house post and a bicycle by a vehicle driven by businesswoman Paula Chen. The incident happened outside of C&R’s shop where Jones was […]
A pair of families in San Jose, Toledo District lost everything to a house fire this afternoon at around two-thirty. Wilfredo Coc, along with his wife Gabriela and six children, including twenty-three-year-old Venusiano Coc are tonight seeking public assistance after an inferno gutted three properties. Of the six children, Venusiano was occupying one of the […]
In his weekly message, Opposition Leader John Briceño discussed the recent referendum result in Guatemala, in which nearly ninety-six percent of participating voters agreed to support the Guatemalan government’s filing a claim against Belizean territory at the International Court of Justice. Briceño directly responded to the charge laid by Deputy Prime Minister Patrick Faber that […]
This morning Belizean fisherman Iginio Canto Bacab of Caledonia, Corozal District, was scheduled to appear in a court in Livingston, Guatemala, charged with illegal capture of lobster. However up to news time, Ambassador Said Badi Guerra indicated that the hearing had not taken place according to Canto’s lawyer based in Puerto Barrios. Canto along with […]
Police have charged twenty-seven-year-old security guard Ryan Neal, accused of having sexual intercourse with a fourteen-year-old female student at her high school in Belize City. The student told police that on the ninth of April, at around three-thirty in the afternoon, Neal called her to the third floor of the school building where he had unlawful […]
Two men including a former employee were charged with the theft of twenty thousand dollars from a customer’s account at Heritage Bank in the Cayo District, though they are accused of stealing much more. Twenty-seven year old Damion Dawson of Belize City and twenty-one year old Jonathan Almendarez of Teakettle, Cayo District, were read charges […]
The U.S. State Department has issued the 2017 report on human rights issues worldwide, including Belize. Belize is faulted for several alleged unlawful killings by security officers, corruption by government agents; killings motivated by sexual orientation or gender identity, trafficking in persons, dealt with more extensively in a separate report released last year; and child […]
As of news time, a team of seven young men from Stann Creek Ecumenical College in Dangriga Town are on their way to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to participate in the world-famous Penn Relays later this week. The Penn Relay Carnival, as it is also known, is the oldest and largest track and field competition in the […]
News Five tonight reports the passing of well-known proprietor and Belizean icon in the meat pie industry, Dario Hernandez. He died Saturday night shortly after ten p.m. Hernandez’s bakery had been in operation on Hyde’s Lane for more than three decades, supplying beef and later chicken meat pies not only across Belize, but to places […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend sporting activities….]
