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An early morning murder took place in Dangriga today and claimed the life of Frank Garcia, who also goes by the nickname “Animal.” Garcia was inside his house in the Rivas Estate area when the gunman entered his house and fired the deadly shots at him. News Five’s Duane Moody travelled south today and spoke […]
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Last Wednesday, there was a shooting incident in Roaring Creek Village that claimed the life of fifteen-year-old Dane Matute Junior. The high school student was among a group of teenagers who went swimming at a popular location near Guanacaste Park when two gunmen opened fire in their direction. While Matute Junior was mortally wounded, his […]
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Where is Hattieville Primary School Principal Sharlette Jacobs? She was last seen around eight-thirty this morning and has not been seen or heard from since. The Belize Police Department has since issued a missing person’s bulletin describing Jacobs as being five feet four inches tall, slim built and about one hundred and sixty pounds. She […]
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Since the beginning of this year, there have been several reports of schools being targeted by thieves. Last week, two schools were burglarized, in Corozal and Belize City, and then on Sunday night, a police patrol ended up detaining a thief who was in the process of breaking into a school. Residents have said that […]
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Over the weekend, the family of Kyle Latchman were out in the Port Loyola area searching for closure after they received information to suggest that his body was disposed of in the area. The twenty-three-year-old was last seen on Boxing Day, 2022 and is believed to have been murdered and his body buried. Today, Assistant […]
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Former Police Constable Dion Bellini has been sentenced to three years in prison after being found guilty of drug trafficking. The conviction comes a little over two years following a bust near the outskirts of Orange Walk Town. Sometime around midday on December twenty-fourth, 2020, Bellini, a resident of a San Martin address in Belmopan, […]
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A male minor, age seventeen, is the second suspect to have been charged with the murder of Emert Flowers who was gunned down at his residence on Racecourse Street on January twelfth. The teenager appeared before Senior Magistrate Baja Shoman earlier today where he was arraigned on a single count in the presence of a […]
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Former Coast Guard officer Keyren Tzib is on remand at the Belize Central Prison after failing to appear in court. Tzib was detained by police on February twenty-third when she skipped a court date for a case of attempted murder. The warrant for Tzib’s arrest was issued by Justice Ricardo O’Neil Sandcroft. In court today, […]
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It was one of several points discussed at last week’s meeting between the Belize Bus Association executive and a Ministry of Transport team, in an effort to upgrade the transport industry – merging the bus companies that run in the three regions to come up with only two companies in each. What it meant was […]
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Ewart Metzgen, the secretary for the Belize Bus Association, says the membership of the association wants its executives to meet once again with Transport officials to further discuss the way forward for an improved bus industry. He outlined a few of the things they want. And at least one of them is not up for […]
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Belize has been producing milk and dairy products for decades now, but there’s never been a document that guides how the dairy industry can grow or become more productive, or even more competitive with other countries – that is until now. This afternoon, the Minister of Agriculture, Jose Mai and the Belize Dairy Association signed […]
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As we reported last week, there’s a new pest that is affecting beans crop, but luckily, it is not a countrywide problem as far as is known. Today, Minister of Agriculture Jose Abelardo Mai told News Five that the pest has been detected only in the Toledo District and that samples have been sent abroad […]
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The Belize Zoo is turning forty in June of this year, and in keeping with the plans to celebrate that milestone, the facility is in need of your help. Director of the Belize Zoo and Tropical Education Centre, Celso Poot, explained to News Five today that while the facility has seen an increase in visitors […]
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Poot explained that the Zoo had received a sizeable donation since the COVID pandemic, but that it was so much in the red that most of it went into balancing off its operations and then came the hurricane that required spending on cleaning up. Celso Poot, Director, the Belize Zoo & Tropical Education Centre […]
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Annually, millions of people across the world are at risk of losing their lives and livelihoods, as a result of natural hazards, including hurricanes, floods, droughts, and earthquakes. According to the Global Fund for Disaster Risk Reduction, on average direct losses within the Caribbean as a result of natural disasters amount to almost two billion […]
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An elderly resident of San Ignacio is the latest winner of twenty-five thousand dollars in Scratch and Win. The ticket was purchased on Friday evening but was not redeemed until this morning when the winner and his sibling traveled to Belize City and visited the Scratch and Win office. The money will be used to […]
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Goodnight and welcome to another edition of Sports Monday, I am Isani Cayetano. We kick things off tonight with a look at this weekend’s National Primary School Volleyball Championships where San Marcus R.C. School dominated the competition to place first in the tournament in the male division. The San Marcus boys won the best of […]
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