The family of sixteen year old Kevin Francis is making strong allegations against the police department in the death of the St Michael’s College student. Francis’ body was discovered behind the BTIA building near the Memorial Park on Monday morning and initially the reason for death was undetermined in the death certificate. He was reportedly […]
While the death of Kevin Francis is still unresolved, in San Ignacio, the death of another minor has been determined a case of murder. The sixteen year old was partying at a local bar when he was fatally stabbed with a small knife. Duane Moody has this report from San Ignacio where one person was […]
A Belize City resident, Clarence Richards, is alleging police harassment and brutality. Richards says that while he was at home with his common law wife, they were awoken by the cops and that ordeal ended up with twelve stitches on his face. Richards claims that Queen Street won’t listen to him and so he has […]
And while the weekend was punctuated by either murders or questionable deaths, it was not confined to that. There were also other crimes of a lesser nature. Just before two on Saturday afternoon twenty-four year old Gilroy Garnett was shot in his right thigh. Garnett was standing near De He Li Store on Freetown Road […]
Two big players from Panama were found guilty in a Federal Cocaine Conspiracy case. And what makes their trial of interest to us, is that the men were smuggling large quantities of cocaine from Belize. Dr. Michael Reed, a successful surgeon who owns more than thirteen million dollars worth of property, and Hector Melara, owner […]
A third arrest was made today in the case of the pension funds from the Treasury Department that were deposited in pensioners’ name at commercial banks. Last week, Belize City police reportedly zeroed in on the mother of Monica Escarpeta after they could not locate Escarpeta for the missing monies from the Treasury Department’s Pension […]
Three men are detained, including one police officer, and awaiting charges following Thursday’s robberies in Orange Walk Town. The culprits were dressed in camouflage B.D.F. and police uniforms. Late this evening, the second in charge of Orange Walk police station, Inspector Selvin Tillett confirmed that P.C. Selwyn Griffith of Belize City along with Dominique Strack, […]
Three women have been named in connection with the over two hundred thousand dollars missing from a public service pension fund managed by the Treasury Department. Yesterday Rhea Pennil was the first to be charged, she faces charges for Handling Stolen Goods of over one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. But today Monica Escarpeta, a […]
Two weeks ago, Prime Minister Dean Barrow revealed that arrests would be made at City Hall for financial improprieties. Mayor Zenaida Moya Flowers countered the PM saying City Hall was in fact using a system called “under-depositing”. Well, no arrests have been made in that case, but the man who blew the whistle, Patrick Tillett, […]
In late November, he was featured On Channel Five’s morning show as an entrepreneur and the owner of Poor People’s Furniture—an upholstery and furniture business on the Southside of Belize City. He was a young man who said he wanted a positive lifestyle after his past experiences in gangs and violence. But shortly before eleven […]
We reported at the top of the newscast that two had been arrested in the missing Treasury funds. And now there is finally an arrest in the case of the missing monies from the Western Border Management Agency in the Cayo District. This morning, thirty-eight year old Julio Santos was apprehended for six counts of […]
The long-anticipated arrest in connection with the allegations of missing funds from the Treasury Department finally took place today. But the person who police brought to court was not the same woman, Monica Escarpeta, whose name has made the headlines since the story broke. Instead, they charged twenty-eight year old Rhea Pennil, a domestic of […]
A minor was stabbed last night in the Allen Pitts Crescent area of Port Loyola and is currently receiving treatment for his injuries. The fifteen year old was stabbed several times to various areas of his body. His right lung was punctured and doctors say he will most likely lose his right eye. But what […]
Police officers are usually expected to catch culprits with illegal substances, but the tables turned today when a few of them were caught with drugs in the Free Zone. The top brass in the force up north were tipped off and quick action led to a number of arrests. Inspector James Moreira, the Deputy O.C. […]
Turning to crime news, there has not been a murder to report in the past few days and that in itself is news, but a shooting in Belize City could have turned deadly for a man who is no stranger to the dangerous streets. If his name, Delroy Matura, sounds familiar, it’s because he has […]
And in an update to the missing monies at the Western Border Management Agency, the case file for the missing thirteen thousand plus dollars is expected to be at the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions by Wednesday morning. And while he would not grant us an on-camera interview the Agency’s General Manager, Gonzalo […]
It is five days since it was revealed that hundreds of thousands of dollars were missing from the Treasury department. The elaborate scheme began back in 2007 and while the initial amount missing was in the range of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, it is now said this figure could be much higher, as […]
As in the case of the Treasury Department and the Belize City Council, Benque police are still investigating the thousands of dollars missing at the Western Border’s Management Agency and no arrests have been made. While police have their eyes keenly on the Agency’s former supervisor, Julio Santos, they are also watching another employee of […]
There is a big development in the case of the hundreds of thousands of dollars missing from the pension fund at the Treasury Department. Since Thursday there have been reports that police had questioned government employee, Monica Escarpeta, pending charges in the case. The monies were reportedly deposited in an Atlantic Bank account sporadically since […]
And still on the case of the missing thirteen thousand dollars, this time from the Border Management Agency in the west, a second person is now under investigation along with Julio Santos, who was sent home on July third. The second suspect is said to be the person from whom Santos received the money for […]
It’s one week since Prime Minister Dean Barrow dropped a bombshell that police would be making arrests over missing monies at City Hall. Well there still have been no arrests. This week the Financial Regulator appointed to City Hall by Barrow, Patrick Tillett, told News Five that after having gone through the first batch of […]
Two women; one a government employee, are expected to be charged this Friday in the case of the missing funds the pension fund administered by the Treasury Department. The missing monies, amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars, were reportedly deposited in an Atlantic Bank account sporadically since 2007 to present. News Five has confirmed […]
And while the missing monies are rife with scandal, News Five is also closely monitoring the City’s Traffic Department where a similar case is said to be developing. Impeccable sources tell News Five that ticket books and monies have also mysteriously gone missing. Both the Deputy Mayor, Dion Leslie and the Councillor in charge of […]
Later in this newscast we will report on the missing monies at the offices of the Border Management Agency at the western entry point. But first there is yet another case of funds gone missing, and in this latest instance, the B.M.A. case pales in comparison. News Five can confirm that hundreds of thousands of […]
Cases of missing monies are popping up everywhere as millions of dollars are unaccounted for in white collar crimes from the government coffers. We reported at the top of the newscast that hundreds of thousands are missing in pension funds. Marion Ali headed west today to find out more about a huge amount also missing […]
