Another shooting incident in Belize City later that night landed a pair of youths inside the KHMH, both suffering from varying degrees of injuries. Shortly before nine o’clock, twenty-year-old Rakeem Vernon and twenty-year-old Eric Wills were socializing in the backyard of a residence near the corner of North Creek and Central American Boulevard when someone […]
In the capital, a twenty-two year old waitress is reporting that she was gang raped over the weekend. The incident reportedly happened on Sunday morning. The woman claims that at around eleven on Sunday night, while heading to work, she was offered a ride by four men travelling in a pickup truck. When she reached […]
The intensive and wide-ranging multiple investigations into corruption at the Immigration Department have allegedly been ongoing for at least two months now. We say allegedly because there is no real evidence of any investigation into corruption. At this point we can’t even say that a so-called Financial Intelligence Unit investigation even exists, because head of […]
A woman police officer is in critical condition tonight at the Northern Regional Hosptial. WPC Marilyn Pate accompanied personnel of the Human Development Department to the house of Oscar Perez in Trial Farm, Orange Walk on Thursday. The department was investigating Perez for allegations of sexual abuse of minors. His reaction was swift and deadly […]
An investigation into alleged embezzlement of funds at the Southern Regional Hospital which has been ongoing since July 2013 is expected to be completed soon. Hospital Administrator Nasley Sommerville has been on suspension since October, after an audit investigation turned up serious irregularities in check cashing which amounted to hundreds of thousands of dollars missing. […]
Twenty-nine year old Zoila Elizabeth Garcia was brutally slain a block away from her home on Orquidea Street in Las Flores on Tuesday night. She was shot once to the back of the head by an unknown assailant. The businesswoman had reportedly set out on foot to meet someone near the football field when she […]
Almost six weeks ago News Five received reports of misappropriation of funds in the Central Health Region of the Ministry of Health. Those reports were confirmed, but not much information was available because the Audit Department was called in to investigate. Today C.E.O. in the Ministry of Health could not provide many details, except to […]
There has been a reduction in the murder statistics in the City, but the count notched up today by one in the Capital. On Tuesday night, a businesswoman from the Las Flores area of Belmopan was murdered; execution style. It is believed that Zoila Elizabeth Garcia was lured to a football field located in an […]
The Belize Police Department has issued a wanted poster for twenty-six year old Justin West, a resident of Lord’s Bank who is believed to have fled to the United States. West is believed to have been the mastermind in a long-term financial scam which netted one hundred and eighty-six thousand dollars from the Radisson Fort […]
Tyson Rodriguez was killed in Placencia on the twenty-second of November. At the onset, police issued a dubious bulletin saying that Rodriguez’s body was found floating in the water. This is after he had been handcuffed and placed in the pan of a police vehicle. Tonight, a high ranking police officer has been charged and […]
There is also a development in the case of another resident who was killed by the cops. Last Wednesday, a Ladyville resident was shot at about four o’clock in the afternoon. Police took twenty-four hours to confirm they had fired the deadly shot on Travis McKay. Police also claimed that McKay was shot following a […]
On September seventh, Belmopan Police were called to a nightmarish scene in the village of Teakettle. In the trunk of a taxicab which had been parked on a deserted stretch of road, they found the charred remains of a human body. The taxi belonged to Daniel Aguirre, one of KTV Latino’s most memorable champions. A […]
This morning, an unidentified male person called in a bomb threat to the Belize Biltmore Plaza just before midday. Normally that wouldn’t make the top of the news because they happen relatively frequently and are never real. But it is headline material today because when the call came in, Prime Minister Dean Barrow was in […]
On Wednesday afternoon, Ladyville resident Travis McKay was shot and killed by the police. His brother states he witnessed the police use unnecessary force when an officer pushed the face of Travis in the mud after he had been shot and laid dying. There has been serious concern on the police actions while in some […]
Minister of State turned political and public pariah Elvin Penner has gone M.I.A. Penner was castigated for his role in procuring nationality status and a Belizean passport for South Korean, Wonhong Kim. But while being declared persona non grata seems to be the extent of Penner’s reprimand, there remains a public perception that he should […]
Thirty-four year old Leslie Frazier, charged with the attempted murder of Faron Waight, was today found guilty by Justice Adolph Lucas, after the conclusion of a trial without jury. The incident occurred between eleven p.m. and midnight on May twenty-ninth, 2011. Waight testified and told the court that while he was at his residence, at […]
Police are saying tonight that Ladyville resident, Travis McKay, was shot and killed in a cross fire, but family members who witnessed the shooting vehemently contradict the police version. Wednesday’s shooting took place after sixty year old Rafael Hernandez, a butcher of Ladyville, reported that his business, Belize Country Products, located at nine miles on […]
The Director of Public Prosecutions has not pronounced on the death of Tyson Rodriguez who was killed in police custody in Placencia late last week. But tonight, another man was killed and family members and neighbors say that it was by police. It occurred just before four this afternoon in Ladyville. Travis McKay died in […]
The family of Travis McKay came to our studios with a compelling report that they saw when the police chased and fired at McKay. According to the Aunt and brother, even after McKay lay wounded on the ground, officers stomped on him and pushed his face in the mud. Aunt of Deceased “I saw […]
The police are in the hot seat for the death of twenty-seven year old Tyson Rodriguez? Rodriguez died while in police custody on Friday night in Placencia. His relatives say they believe he was murdered and the post mortem results issued to the family and their lawyer, Audrey Matura Shepherd, suggests that it was not […]
But as both a criminal and internal investigation continues, the case of the aggravated burglary that spawned the fatal incident is still very much alive. The Canadian couple, David and Susan Baier, is still traumatized from the aggravated assault by three assailants, who reportedly tried to drown David and before tying them up, viciously attacked […]
A Guatemalan national charged with exposing his person in public and failure to comply with the conditions of his visitor’s permit will spend the next eight months in jail. Forty-nine year old Edwin Morales pleaded guilty to both charges in separate appearances on Monday and today before Magistrate Hettie Mae Stuart. On Monday, he was […]
An internal police investigation is underway in the death of a Dangriga resident who police detained following the burglary of a Canadian couple in Placencia. And it appears that the official police information is not adding up with the results of a post mortem. On Thursday night, the home of the couple was burglarized and […]
You heard the police version of how they found the body of twenty-seven year old Tyson Rodriguez in the sea near the Chabil Mar Villa Resort in the Placencia Peninsula. But there are more questions than answers surrounding the mysterious circumstances under which the Dangriga resident met his horrific end over the weekend. An autopsy […]
The family has indicated that legal action against the police department will be pursued. Meanwhile, attorney Audrey Matura-Shepherd says that what she observed on Rodriguez’s body is not consistent with the police report. There were no wounds to his lower extremities to indicate that he had jumped out of a moving vehicle. Audrey Matura-Shepherd, […]
