According to Senior Counsel Barrow, Floralia was given preferential treatment by the Ministry of Transport when it was awarded the road service permits for the respective runs to PG and Independence. With the licenses being cancelled, new applications will have to be submitted by bus companies that are interested in taking up the runs. Barrow […]
On Wednesday, we brought you the terrible news of the loss of a Coast Guard seaman who was returning to base after completing three weeks of operational duties offshore Ambergris Caye. The sailor, Kiman Garcia was one of two Coast Guard members who fell into the sea when the boat captain lost control of the […]
On Wednesday’s newscast, we told you about the Ministry of Infrastructure Development and Housing’s plan to replace the Joe Taylor Bridge in Punta Gorda Town. It will take fifteen months and two-point-three million dollars. The new bridge will be twenty-five meters long and fourteen meters wide, accommodating two lanes of traffic and two lanes for […]
Chief Engineer Evondale Moody told News 5 that all stakeholders were consulted before it was decided that the Carib Reserve Road would act as the alternative route while the ministry moves ahead with replacing the Joe Taylor Bridge. However, resident Orlando Muschamp says the people of the town and surrounding areas were not consulted. […]
A Coast Guard member lost his life at sea today – the first fatal incident involving a sailor on the open waters since the Belize Coast Guard was commissioned into service back in 2005. The sailor, twenty-four-year-old Kiman Garcia, was part of a sea patrol that was wrapping up an operation in the Bacalar Chico […]
Even though first information is that Garcia lost his life by accident, Coast Guard Commandant, Rear Admiral Elton Bennett says that separate investigations will be carried out by the police, the coast guard, and the Belize Port Authority to determine how exactly the accident happened. Seaman Garcia is described as very energetic and enthusiastic about […]
The preliminary inquiry in the case of accused murderer, former police corporal, Elmer Nah, was deferred to December fifteenth. While the media was not allowed to enter the courtroom of Magistrate Juliet Johnson-Clarke, a relative of the three deceased persons briefed the reporters who were present on the reason for the deferral. Dion Pascascio told […]
The trial against attorney Oscar Selgado continued today in the courtroom of High Court Justice Nigel Pilgrim. Selgado stands accused of abetment to commit murder against Marilyn Barnes. The voir dire is to determine whether Giovanni Ramirez’s statement can be relied upon by the court. Ramirez, who refuses to testify out of fear, reportedly handed […]
Twenty-five-year-old Feleecia Kerr and her mother Farah Bonner have been released from police custody without being charged for the stabbing death of Belize City mechanic Dean Halliday. As we’ve reported, the tragic incident involving Bonner and common-law husband occurred on Saturday at Bonner’s residence in Maxboro. Halliday reportedly attacked Bonner and inflicted multiple stab wounds […]
On Tuesday, forty-four-year-old Juan Carlos Novelo was taken into police custody where he was later arraigned in the San Pedro Magistrate’s Court for the crime of murder. The charge was brought against Novelo following a deadly encounter in Caye Caulker that claimed the life of his common-law wife, Leslie Verde. ACP Hilberto Romero tells us […]
Forty-four-year-old Juan Carlos Novelo was arraigned today at the San Pedro Magistrate Court. He was read a single charge of murder. He is accused of murdering his girlfriend of six years, Leslie Verde, sometime on Saturday morning at their house in Caye Caulker Village. Due to the nature of the offense, no plea was taken […]
As we’ve reported, this latest murder on La Isla Cariñosa has left residents in shock. Caye Caulker is known as a peaceful village with a low crime rate. This is the second murder to happen on the island this year. In June, forty-five-year-old Floyd Samuels was shot dead at his home. Back in 2016, fifty-one-year-old […]
Fifty-two-year-old Dean Halliday was fatally stabbed by Feleecia Kerr, the daughter of his common-law wife, on Saturday evening. The deadly incident occurred in Maxboro where the Belize City resident had visited the home of Farah Bonner, reportedly unannounced and uninvited. While there an altercation ensued between Halliday and Bonner during which the mechanic allegedly inflicted […]
Police have laid charges against a man in connection with a murder that occurred in April 2022, more than eighteen months ago. You might recall when Jose Cedillos was shot multiple times on Good Friday, 2022 in Guinea Grass Village, Orange Walk. Reports are that Cedillos had threatened to assault a relative for monies that […]
Nineteen-year-old Keon Straughan appeared unrepresented before the lower court this morning where he was arraigned on a single charge of kept ammunition without being granted a gun license by the Commissioner of Police. It is alleged that on Monday, Straughan, a resident of Allan Pitts Crescent, was busted while on Caesar Ridge Road with nine […]
There were two deadly incidents over the weekend that appear to be the results of domestic violence. The first occurred on Saturday evening in the Maxboro Community where Farah Bonner resides with her twenty-five-year-old daughter. They were at home with Bonner’s common-law husband, Dean Halliday, when the couple got into an argument. During the struggle, […]
Guilty of murder, that’s the verdict handed down in the High Court earlier today in a matter involving thirty-three-year-old Marlon Everett. In the courtroom of the newly appointed Justice Candace Nanton, it was explained that the case against Everett was based on identification by the Crown’s main witnesses, one of whom was only fourteen years […]
An investigation into the death of thirty-two-year-old Leslie Verde continues. Verde was found dead in her home in Caye Caulker Village on Saturday morning. She was found unresponsive by her daughter who, with the help of her uncle, rushed Verde to the health center where she was pronounced dead on arrival. The police department has […]
Asian businessman Jian Kun Huang pleaded guilty to a mischievous act when he appeared before the lower court today. The thirty-one-year-old resident of Blue Marlin Drive reported to police that his 2015 Nissan Murano had been stolen on September twenty-ninth, 2023. He informed officers that the vehicle, valued at eleven thousand dollars, was parked in […]
The Briceño administration announced on Thursday evening that the Government Lotteries will resume on December first, with two master agents overseeing the vending of tickets in Belize City and other parts of the country. Those two agents are Nando’s Wholesale Limited for Belize District and MGM Entertainment Limited for Corozal, Orange Walk, Cayo, Stann Creek […]
A tendering process for interested businesses to assume the role of master agents was delayed by a few months, as it was initially anticipated that the Boledo and Sunday Lottery would have resumed in September. But how was that process undertaken and what about the revenues that government would have lost in the interim? Here’s […]
As previously announced, the sale of tickets for these games will resume on December first, and the first drawing date will be on Sunday, December third. News Five’s Marion Ali found out today that the return of the Boledo and Lottery will make quite a few people very happy. Boledo buyer #1 “I wudda […]
Epifania Caliz is back in court after she and her common-law husband Elmer Nah, along with her brother Manuel Caliz, were acquitted of ammunition charges earlier this month. Today, she appeared inside the Belize City Magistrates Court to answer to a different charge, common assault. On October sixteenth, court reporter, Anita Nembhard was on duty […]
This week’s Look on the Bright Side features a remarkable young woman who serves as a beacon of inspiration to her peers and educators. Her journey has been marked by defying numerous odds from the early stages of her life. Tonight, we share the remarkable story of how this determined teenager has captured the hearts […]
Two men who were on trial for murder were found guilty of the crime today, despite the fact that one of the Crown’s main witnesses strangely disappeared just after he had given testimony in the trial. His body was later discovered in a shallow grave in Belize District. The trial of Eric Miranda and Jeffery […]
