The Chinese community is trying to make sense of the murder of well-known businessman, Zheng Liu. Liu, who is one of the principals of the Eighty-Eight chain of stores was executed near Old Belize on Saturday night and as investigations take place, it is be believed he was lured to his murder on Saturday night. […]
Three fishermen, who went fishing on Friday at Mapp Caye, are believed to be dead. That’s the latest word from family members just before news time. It follows the discovery of their boat, the Lorraine, around midday today in some mangroves on Drown Caye. The trio comprises Sheldon Gibson, Elijah Usher and Kevin Roches. Family […]
A child was also injured by gun violence over the weekend. The one-year-old girl was fast asleep when she was hit by a gunshot on Sunday night. She was at her grandmother’s house on Antelope Extension, Belize City. The child’s uncle and his girlfriend were at the gate of the yard and were also injured […]
Collin Francis, believed to be suffering from mental illness, has been charged with the murder of Nestor Vasquez Junior in June of this year. Francis spent the weekend in the same cell where the deadly beating of Vasquez took place. He was being detained for the attempted murder of a nurse who was treating him […]
Police in Belize City are looking for one man believed to have broken into a home, held up three persons at knife-point, tied and robbed them. On Sunday night, forty-three-year-old Dorette Vernon was inside her house on Raccoon Street Extension along with forty-two-year-old Gloria Henry when an intruder dressed in full blue clothing and a […]
Police say Omar Gomez is the name of the man who was found floating in the Haulover Creek on Friday morning. Gomez’s body was discovered at around eight o’clock that morning behind Dream Like City. Here’s more from ACP Joseph Myvett. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch “That person had been identified […]
A man was knocked off his motorcycle on November sixteenth and a week later he succumbs to his injuries. Police say that Adan Diaz was hospitalized ever since the road crash that happened on the Iguana Creek Road in the west. The driver of the vehicle that hit him, Pedro Bahadur, is expected to face […]
Today, police also gave the official report on the shooting of Justin Stephens, also known as Justin Teck. As we reported on Friday, Teck was shot and seriously injured. He is now in a stable condition at the hospital. This is the third attempt on his life. ACP Joseph Myvett of the Belize Police Department […]
There is another murder acquittal in the courts. Twenty-three-year-old Frank Alexander Young of Lords Bank village, who was charged with the murder of nineteen-year-old David Andrews, is tonight a free man. Young was tried by Justice Colin Williams. The main witnesses was WPC Hyde who claimed that on the night of December twenty-third, 2016, she […]
Jose Rodriguez luckily spared jail time when he appeared before Justice Colin Williams this morning for sentencing. Last Wednesday, Rodriguez pleaded guilty to “Causing Death by Careless Conduct” in the fatal traffic accident, which claimed the life of eleven-year-old Tezzrah Thompson. Initially, Rodriguez was charged with “Manslaughter by Negligence,” but pleaded guilty to the lesser […]
There is relief for the family of two sisters who perished in an accident. The court has ordered fifty-four-old Carlos Martinez to pay in excess of thirty-one thousand dollars to the family of sixteen-year-old Liarinette and twenty-six-year-old Cindy Cowo. On October sixth 2018, the two sisters were in the company of Martinez when he lost […]
The anniversary of the historic ascension to the Convention on the Rights of the Child was celebrated on Friday night in Belize City. To mark the occasion a number of organizations and individuals, including News Five’s Duane Moody, were singled out for fulfilling the different aspects of the convention that guarantees a set of right […]
The Sixteen Days of Activism kicked off today at the ITVET in Belize City. The National Women’s Commission and Special Envoy for Women are Children launched the event under the theme, “From Awareness to Accountability Unmasking the Many Faces of Violence.” The sixteen days of activism is used to raise awareness and create a call […]
Founded in 1968, the booming Jamaican Stock Exchange has been named the world’s best-performing stock market, twice. According to online articles, Jamaica’s success in its stock exchange is greatly due to its “dramatic economic turnaround that culminated in the country exiting its IMF programme with flying colours last month.” Chairman Ian McNaughton and Managing Director […]
The Young Women’s Christian Academy, YWCA, held a closing ceremony this afternoon for a two-year program funded by the European Union. Addressing Human Rights for More Equitable Development, AHRMED, saw as many as eight hundred and ninety women from across the country participate in training that will empower them to participate in equitable development. […]
The debate on whether to ban the use of gillnets in Belizeans waters continues tonight. Recently, a group of fishermen against the ban staged a protest in Dangriga by members of the Belize Fishermen Cooperative Association. The ban of gillnet usage has been supported by environmental groups such as Oceana, and the Coalition to Save our […]
The national female volleyball team wins silver at the 2019 under-eighteen female volleyball championships held over the weekend. Team Belize lost only to Costa Rica, which landed them in second place, but the team returned with the most individual medals after competing in San Carlos, Costa Rica. Gareth Bruce won Best Scorer and Best Attacker […]
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