A jarring video of extreme pain being inflicted on a male minor began making its rounds on social media on Saturday morning. The individual, who is seen torturing the teenager, is someone well-known to police. The clip shows an individual lying on the floor, being kicked and struck repeatedly with a broomstick, before a kitchen […]
According to ComPol Williams, the teenager, who was subsequently handled with little to no regard by police officers at the station, would not have survived the harrowing ordeal were it not for a noise complaint from neighbors. Sutherland, he says, is facing a raft of charges relating to the incident. Chester Williams, Commissioner of […]
The trio police accuse of kidnapping and torturing a minor over the weekend were shuttled to the Magistrate’s Court in the back of a police van this afternoon but they never appeared before a magistrate. It is not clear if there was an error with their charge sheets, but sometime around three p.m., police escorted […]
Earlier today, there was a flurry of activity on social media when it was reported that B.T.L. had terminated over a hundred employees. While the so-called firings were never confirmed prior to publication of the news story, the article went on to say that as many as two hundred workers would be let go from […]
Today, the Belize Tourism Board issued a very sparse statement confirming what News Five first reported on Friday: Tourism Director Karen Bevans no longer holds the post. Following a meeting of the B.T.B. Board of Directors, a unanimous decision was taken on March twelfth that the “time had come to part ways with Misses Bevans.” […]
News Five has confirmed that teachers will take to the streets across the country in their green shirts on Tuesday for simultaneous protest motorcades in each municipality. It is part the union’s response G.O.B.’s proposal for a ten percent salary cut and an increment freeze for an additional three years for teachers and public officers. […]
A Belize City family is making a serious charge, saying their loved one would be alive today had an ambulance responded in time to a distress call instead of asking about a service fee. News Five’s Duane Moody reports on the incident in Belize City on Friday night. Duane Moody, Reporting As the family […]
A young man Leary Simon has succumbed to injuries he received after being shot on Reggae Street March seventh. The Santa Elena resident was approached by a lone gunman last Sunday. He was hospitalized at the K.H.M.H. where he fought for his life until Friday morning when he passed away. Senior Superintendent Hilberto Romero told […]
Was a suspected drug plane seen or heard hovering in the north over the weekend? The police department says no. Others in the media, however, are adamant that credible information they received placed an aircraft in Belizean airspace on Saturday night. While Commissioner of Police Chester Williams chided the reporting of the incident, he admitted […]
There is trouble brewing in one of Belize’s nature reserves, the kind that could escalate as it has in the Chiquibul. This time, it is the Bladen Reserve in Toledo facing millions of dollars in losses from extracted resources. The reserve is a hundred thousand acres of forest that enjoys the highest status of protection […]
Water is a basic need and even today, there are still a number of households in villages without potable water. The Ministry of Rural Transformation, Community Development, Labour and Local Government is trying to change that and today, a rehabilitated water system in Bullet Tree Falls Village in the West was inaugurated. The goal is […]
The Ministry of Health and Wellness COVID-19 daily report for March to thirteenth through to the fifteenth shows that there are thirteen new COVID-19 infections. There are a total of fifty-seven active cases; twenty-seven of whom are women and thirty are men. There are seventeen new recoveries. There are no deaths to report today which […]
On Friday, the International Monetary Fund issued its concluding statement after their annual country visit. The Government of Belize has responded to the report saying the IMF has now confirmed what Prime Minister John Briceño has been saying for months regarding the financial legacy left by his predecessor Dean Barrow. The IMF reports that Belize […]
A new fleet of patrol cars for the Belize Police Department, that’s the call being made via public tender since the existing vehicles are in a state of disrepair. It is no secret that the hundreds of pickup trucks assigned to the law enforcement agency are the most overused and least serviced. Those Wingles and […]
