A pregnant woman is the latest victim of gun violence. Thirty-one year old Kanchi Casey was at home in bed with her common-law-husband when a bullet penetrated the wall of her house and injuring her on the lower back. Casey may not have been the intended target of the shooting and luckily for her and […]
Brothers Maurice and Emory Felix were gunned down in cold blood last Wednesday at an establishment on Baymen Avenue in Belize City where they were playing a game of billiards. The siblings were out on bail following a stint on remand for the murder of Mark Vernon and the attempted murder of Pamela Cumberbatch back […]
Police say that no one has been charged in the murder of forty-four-year-old Jermaine Balthazar Flores. The Dangriga resident was found dead in a bushy area on the Jaguar Paw Road around seven o’clock last Thursday morning. Balthazar’s killing presumably happened on Wednesday night when he was shot multiple times in the face; his hands […]
A brazen robbery in the Capital City on Sunday afternoon has landed the suspected robber in the hospital. Police were called out to Puma Gas Station on Constitution Drive around one o’clock where a lone gunman robbed two gas attendants of an undisclosed amount of cash. The robber took off on foot, but one of […]
Robbers were also operating up north. A supermarket was robbed on Sunday night just after eight o’clock in Corozal Town. Police say that they responded to reports of a robbery at Tang’s Superstore in the Santa Rita Area of Corozal Town where three robbers targeted the establishment. ACP Joseph Myvett says that no monies were […]
Reports emerging from within the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital say that staff members are up in arms after they were told that the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital Authority cannot legally pay pension. The staff learnt of this situation by way of an international memo dated June twenty-eighth. The memo was issued after the authority engaged […]
June proved to be one of the most violent months in the past three years. As many as seventeen individuals were murdered in June 2019. The year 2016 saw twelve murders and then in 2017, there were thirteen; but in 2018, the number of homicides dipped to five. The police are yet to release their […]
Women have not been spared of ongoing violence in the country showing that violence does not discriminate along gender lines. Aside from domestic and sexual abuse, crimes of passion and other forms of attacks, the lives of many women have been cut short in homicides. Here is News Five’s Isani Cayetano with a look at […]
A man was stabbed in Belize City last Thursday night, but police say that he has not made an official report of the incident. Matthew Smith was injured after seven that night, but he is not providing any information to the authorities so police have not charged anyone for this stabbing. ASP Alejandro Cowo shares […]
A twenty-year-old man has been remanded to the Belize Central Prison until September twelfth after he was arraigned this morning for last Thursday’s attempted murder of Ozen Rhaburn. Rhaburn, a twenty-three-year-old resident of Hattieville, was targeted by a gunman at his home in the Farmer’s Site area of the village. He was reportedly confronted by […]
Forty-six-year-old American tourist Jemma Paybarrah died while out on tour in southern Belize. Police say the tourist was at sea when she drowned. On Friday afternoon around three o’clock, a tour guide reported to police that he had a group of tourist out at sea when they realized Paybarrah was missing. A boater found her […]
Forty-five-year-old Leslie Pipersburgh and forty-two-year-old Patrick Robateau, the two men convicted of the murders of security guards Kevin Alvarez and Fidel Mai during a robbery at the Bowen and Bowen compound on Slaughterhouse Road back in 2002, appeared before the Supreme Court for mitigation plea to be heard on Friday. The convicts told Justice Colin […]
Round three of the village council elections was held on Sunday. Forty-three villages countrywide participated with thousands of persons electing representatives from both major political parties and independent candidates to the village councils. Elections in the villages were not always seen as political but now both political parties are reporting gains in the rural communities. […]
On Friday, a fire completely destroyed a wooden house in Dangriga. Around seven-thirty that morning, fire broke out at a residence on George Price Drive, but though firefighters responded quickly, they were unable to contain the blaze. Today, police told the media that investigation into the cause of the fire is still underway. ACP […]
On Sunday representatives from Belize and Mexico met at the border bridge of Subteniente Lopez to commemorate the 1893 Spencer-Mariscal Treaty. This year is the one hundred and twenty-sixth anniversary of the treaty which established the boundaries of both countries. Beyond that, the event also celebrates the many years of excellent bi-lateral relations and friendliness […]
A regional meeting of experts on climate change is taking place in Belize City. Over a hundred scientists from all over the world have gathered the relevant scientific data which shows that like the rest of the world, the Caribbean is being affected. There is erosion, sea level and coral beaching that in turn can […]
One of the key objectives of today’s session today was to discuss key challenges with the report and the modalities of the IPCC plenary to strengthen Caribbean small island developing countries active engagement during the approval plenary. This is important because, according to Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States, Lios Young; oil producing […]
Today, the Clear Water Marine Research Institute, along with the Port Authority of Belize and the Forestry Department, held a one-day workshop with boaters and tour guides to talk manatee safety and protection, as well as boating regulations and penalties. According to long time manatee conservationist, Jamal Galvez, the purpose of the event is to […]
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