With repeated reports of Guatemalan Armed Forces crossing into Belizean territory, the issue of border incursions was impossible to ignore during today’s high‑level talks between the two countries. Tensions have been especially sharp in the Sarstoon, where Belize has documented several confrontations over the years,
We also put some tough questions to Guatemala’s Foreign Minister about those recurring incidents in the Sarstoon involving the Guatemalan Armed Forces. We asked him directly whether Guatemala has any plan to dial down tensions in the area, or if the country intends to put
As we mentioned earlier, today’s high‑level meeting was put together by the OAS Office, and while we were there, News Five also pressed OAS officials about what’s actually happening on the ground in the Adjacency Zone, especially when it comes to those border incursions we
There is a major development tonight in the brutal execution-style killings of Raynard Raymond Garbutt and Robert Alexander Crawford, the Sarita deliverymen murdered on the Hummingbird Highway on December eleventh, 2025. As reported earlier, the men were found face down with gunshot wounds to the
A police officer has been charged for the fatal stabbing of nineteen‑year‑old American student Kevin Matthew Depaz on Caye Caulker. After months of investigation into the June 2025 incident, where a late‑night brawl left one man dead and several others injured, the DPP has directed
We take you back now to our top story on Joseph Budna. Tonight, the case involving Police Constable Gabriel Pou is headed to the courts, and it’s raising serious questions inside the police department. Both the Commissioner of Police, Dr. Richard Rosado, and Prime Minister
The decision to pull the proposed Thirteenth Amendment has drawn mixed reactions, and while several elements may still be revisited, one feature in particular is priority for former Minister of Home Affairs Kareem Musa. He says he hopes government will keep alive the idea of
Young people from some of Belize City’s most underserved neighborhoods say they’re being unfairly targeted under the country’s gang laws. They claim police are slapping them with repeated gang charges based simply on where they live or who they happen to be around, raising tough
The debate over Belize’s proposed Thirteenth Amendment is far from cooling down, and today it got another high‑profile voice weighing in. Former Home Affairs Minister Kareem Musa is pushing back against criticism of the constitutional change, saying the public shouldn’t mistake the ongoing legal fine‑tuning
Belizean pediatrician Dr. Cecilio Eck is once again in a fight for his life, after learning that his biliary tract cancer has returned. Dr. Eck was first diagnosed back in 2024 and has undergone multiple rounds of treatment since then. In fact, he made it
