Just before news time, a shooting took place at a private property on Park Avenue in Belize City. Our news team reports that a father and son were injured by armed robbers and rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The victims are Chinese nationals, who were shot on the chest and taken to the […]
A pair of cousins is behind bars tonight for a wild shootout on the heavily trafficked Coney Drive in Belize City. On Wednesday afternoon, twenty-one-year-old Ulide Allen beat a hasty retreat amid a shower of bullets during the brazen exchange of gunfire with Belize City police. During the mid-afternoon shootout, a responding officer was grazed […]
Guatemalan national Anibal Avila is wanted by Belizean authorities, following an incident at the western border this morning during which he reportedly opened fire in the direction of the customs building at the Benque Viejo crossing. Avila, according to customs and immigration officials, has been denied entry to Belize on previous occasions after being arrested […]
A string of automotive fires in Punta Gorda on Wednesday morning has residents on edge and investigators working diligently to crack these most recent cases of arson. Vehicles belonging to Christon Foster, Patrick Avila and Burlington Jones were all destroyed by fire just before dawn on February sixth and police are now trying to determine […]
The case of Dion Zabaneh continues to play out in the news. He is the businessman, who along with his mother, Primrose Gabourel, was taken to court for offenses relating to a property of one point three acres in the Caribbean Shores area, specifically parcel number 4670. Zabaneh and Gabourel were taken to court by […]
The topic of gillnets is one that we have covered extensively on the news. As you know, the fishing gear has sharply divided sectors of the fishing industry and conservation groups. Gillnets are described as indiscriminate and destructive because it traps just about every species in its path. The Ministry of Fisheries has gone as […]
The Belize Federation of Fisheries is at odds again with the Turneffe Atoll Sustainability Association. The B.F.F. fired off a press release on Wednesday to call out TASA’s board for its ‘illegal’ composition. According to the federation, their reps have been removed from the board, which now only has two members. Nigel Martinez of the […]
The B.F.F. fired off a press release on Wednesday about monies TASA received from PACT because it feels that TASA’s board doesn’t have the right composition and should not have been granted project funds. The federation has since written to PACT and the Financial Intelligence Unit voicing their concerns about the disbursement of monies. They […]
A fire erupted inside a storeroom at the Civic Center shortly after midnight on Thursday. When police responded to the scene, they met personnel from the fire department in the process of extinguishing the flames. According to Assistant Superintendent Alejandro Cowo, the cause of the fire may have been some old drums stowed inside the […]
Primary school teacher Marilena Mortis was knocked down and killed on Monday morning, as she attempted to cross the busy Phillip Goldson Highway near DK Supermarket. The mother of two had just left her mother’s house on Dolphin Drive in Buttonwood Bay and had hopped over a barrier to get across the other side of […]
Sixty-one-year-old Carlos Galvan, a resident of Xaibe Village, Corozal District, lost his life in the wee early hours of Monday morning during a hit and run incident. The accident happened not too far from San Joaquin Village where the farmer was fatally ran over by an unknown vehicle. In the wake of the mishap, a […]
Tonight political and economic tensions continue to grow in Venezuela. According to online reports, Venezuelan soldiers have blocked a crossing with trucks and shipping tankers ahead of an aid delivery arranged by opposition leader Juan Guaidó, who has declared himself interim president. President Nicolás Maduro, who has the support of the army, is not allowing […]
Opposition Leader John Briceño also joined the Public Service Union in condemning a request for advice for a recommendation made on behalf of Paulette Elrington, the daughter of Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington. As we have been reporting, a leaked memo has raised eyebrows because Paulette, who is a contract officer in the Ministry of Foreign […]
Opposition Leader, John Briceño, also weighed in on the concerns raised by potato farmers in San Carlos Village. Farmers have complained that they cannot sell their locally grown, red potatoes because the local market is saturated with imported white Mexican potatoes. On Wednesday, C.E.O. in the Ministry of Agriculture, Jose Alpuche, explained that permits issued […]
On Wednesday, C.E.O. in the Ministry of Agriculture, Jose Alpuche, told News Five the ministry is attempting a new approach to assist farmers. Alpuche says they are finding ways to educate the farmers in San Carlos and teach them methods on how to effectively operate in the local market. Jose Alpuche, C.E.O., Ministry of […]
The Orange Walk Town Council is getting a new garbage compactor truck courtesy of the Japanese Government. The cost for the truck is more than one hundred and sixty thousand dollars and the funds were made available through the Grassroots and Human Security Programme of the Embassy of Japan. News Five’s Hipolito Novelo was in […]
Bishop Martin High School was also a recipient of a financial grant from the Japan Embassy through the Grassroots and Human Security Programme. In 2017, the Japanese Embassy and the school signed a contract valued more than two hundred thousand dollars. The monies were used for the construction of a news concrete school building. An […]
In 2014, we featured the Belize Family Life Association for the work they were doing in detecting and treating cervical cancer in women. It was a novel step of introducing a new test that was aimed at reducing the impact of intense sickness and possible death in women in their reproductive years. Since that time, […]
