How did David Nanes Schnitzer acquire Belizean nationality and other IDs? A motion to summon former Acting Director of Immigration Maria Marin before the Senate will be filed during the next meeting scheduled for December ninth. If it gets the nod, Marin will be requested to appear before upper parliament to answer a battery of […]
El Espanol, Ernesto Alonso de Miguel was killed at a restaurant in Chetumal back on the fourteenth of November. Also killed was top police officer, Agustin Martinez Guevara. A Mexican newspaper is reporting that the Attorney General of Quintana Roo believes that El Espanol was killed by a Belizean and is requesting exchange of information […]
There are still only few details available on the Cessna single-engine aircraft with tail number YZ3241 which was found in an isolated area behind Spanish Lookout, Cayo District. The Cessna 210 landed on Tuesday near Aguacate Lagoon after one in the morning and soon after it was torched presumably to destroy the evidence. Its seared […]
Police are tight-lipped today after an alleged drug plane landed at a remote location behind the Spanish Lookout Community sometime after midnight. Official details are practically nonexistent, perhaps because Police do not have much to offer at this time. But unofficially, News Five has learned that at around one this morning a plane was heard […]
The families of three fire victims who perished inside a padlocked room at the Princess Youth Hostel are still reeling over their horrific deaths. Today, the families of the minors received their charred remains prompting deep emotions and pain. Two of the minors were interned at the facility for a year, but the other enrolled […]
There are lingering questions on the death of Shadisha Arnold, Ana Carlos and Elizabeth McKoy. As far as we know, the independent investigation led by a former magistrate, Margaret Nicholas, has already begun and she has received preliminary information on the fire, including a riot that took place on the compound in the aftermath of […]
Today at one p.m., a postmortem was performed on the charred bodies of Shadisha Arnold, Ana Carlos and Elizabeth McKoy. According to the families, only Arnold’s mother was informed of the date and time for the autopsy and the others were only told late this morning. But Belize Progressive Party representatives, Jose Espat and Elizabeth […]
And tonight’s question is: Do you believe there’s negligence which led to the death of three girls in a fire at the Princess Royal Youth Hostel? Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones to 8686 or post your vote on our e-poll at channel5belize.com. You can also send an email with your comments […]
Legal redress in the wake of Saturday’s deadly fire at the female section of the Princess Royal Youth Hostel is an option that most likely will be explored by the grieving families of the trio of teenagers who perished in the mid-afternoon blaze. There are two investigations taking place, including one by the police to […]
Collectively, attorneys offering counsel to the fire victims’ families have come up with a figure for compensation in the absence of a formula such as the one used to calculate the potential earnings of an adult. According to Saldivar, the existing laws of Belize do not provide for compensation in the death of persons under […]
Whereas an independent investigation into the tragic incident is being led by former magistrate and Director of the Family Court Margaret Nicholas, attorney Saldivar maintains that the ministry should not be investigating itself. Arthur Saldivar, Attorney-at-Law “This is a tragedy and my heart goes out to the families. In relation to the whole investigation […]
Belizeans travelling across the border to shop during this Christmas season are asked to be on alert. A Mexican newspaper reports that Belizean shoppers are being targeted by thieves who prey on them at the Plaza de Las Americas mall or at commercial centres such as Wallmart and Sams. The newspaper says that the modus […]
I n July of this year, the Customs Department caught an Orange Walk businessman with an assortment of uncustomed vegetables and flour. Sergio Chi pleaded guilty and was fined three times the value which means he was to pay more than thirteen thousand dollars. Chi agreed to settle out of court but did not and […]
In the Supreme Court, the trial of three Belize City brothers, Michael, Ryan and Adrian Pook is coming to an end. This morning, the trio was called to answer to the charge of murder in the chopping and stabbing death of Errol Ferguson, aka “Lighter,” which occurred on Administrative Drive and Mahogany Street Extension on […]
COLA President Geovanni Brackett, one of five persons who protested on Coney Drive, was released at around midday from the Queen Street Police Station, without being charged. He told News Five that he feels that he was targeted by the GSU, but that is just the price that any activist must be prepared to pay. […]
Tonight, two teenagers age eighteen and nineteen years old, are behind bars for the murder of businessman, Rueben Perez that occurred on November twenty-sixth at his business on Vernon Street in Belize City. The two suspects were detained since Friday and their arraignment took place this morning. They are Tyrone Reid, of Cohune Street, Belmopan […]
The curious tale of international fugitive David Nanes Schnitzer is one of those things that make you go hmmm – repeatedly and very loudly. Wanted by Mexico for fraud to the tune of tens of millions, Nanes was apprehended in San Pedro with the help of US Marshalls. He was found with every form of […]
Bail for such a fugitive as Nanes is one thing…one very strange thing. But then there’s the matter of Police scrutiny. How is it that Nanes was allowed to just skip merrily away, with the Police none the wiser until he didn’t show up for his court-ordered check-in? PM Barrow said the media needs to […]
Then there’s the fact that when Mexican-American Nanes Schnitzer was apprehended, he had more Belizean ID on him than the average Belizean. The Prime Minister pulled no bones in citing corruption at the highest level. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “When there are things that make clear that there is obviously a level of collusion, […]
A near-fatal assault during which an eighteen-year-old was stabbed multiple times in Armenia Village has left one person hospitalized. Sometime before nine o’clock on Saturday morning, Daniel Edaldo Esevado was accosted by a pair of men while standing near a store in the village. One of the men, wielding a sharp instrument believed to have […]
Another Belize City man was gunned down on Thursday. This time the targeted assassination took place in Ladyville, in an area known as Japan. Kevin Peters, alias Breast, was an infamous figure in the Taylor’s Alley neighborhood. He met his bloody end in a hail of gunfire while celebrating Thanksgiving with his family. Police have […]
But will there be retaliation for the coldblooded murder of Peters? Regional Rural Commander Senior Superintendent Edward Broaster told the media today that there have been several threats made against members of the Taylor’s Alley Gang, with whom Peters was known to have associated himself. So, will there be reprisals for his murder? Commander for […]
There was also another murder on Thursday in Belize City in which a well-known businessman was killed at his establishment on Vernon Street. As we reported, two gunmen on bicycle shot and killed Ruben Perez during a robbery at his construction supplies business just after three p.m. on Thursday. Perez was shot once to the […]
Twenty-six-year-old Troy Treston Cole, a resident ofCurassow Streetis tonight on remand at the Belize Central Prison after being accused of assaulting Gilroy Arnold with a firearm. The incident reportedly took place on Wednesday onBocotora Streetwhen Cole allegedly opened fire on Arnold who fortunately escaped serious injury. Cole, who was unrepresented, appeared before Senior Magistrate Sharon […]
Belize City Businessman and owner of Perez Construction, Ruben Perez was murdered in cold blood sometime after three this afternoon. Perez was killed at his Sand and Cement Distribution Company located near the junction of Vernon Street and the George Price Highway. Two men on bicycles reportedly rode into the business and opened fire […]
