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Since last week, the Ministry of Education has been engaged in the distribution of electronic devices, five thousand Chromebooks to be exact, that were donated to Belize by the Republic of China (Taiwan). Fifteen percent of students from schools most in need will be benefiting from the donation. The devices will be registered to them […]
Written on October 27, 2023 | Posted in
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Tonight, the search for wanted man, Christian Espat has ended as he handed himself in to Corozal police this morning, accompanied by attorney Linden Jones. He was transferred to the San Pedro Police Station where he is now detained pending the outcome of an investigation against him as it relates to Sunday night’s triple murder in […]
Written on October 26, 2023 | Posted in
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Sunday night’s triple murder in the San Pedrito area of San Pedro happened at a location where the lighting is poor at night and the killers took advantage of that condition, as well as the mangroves nearby in an attempt to conceal their identities. Lighting in some neighborhoods is an issue that the San Pedro […]
Written on October 26, 2023 | Posted in
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Twenty-six-year-old Michael Llewellyn Flowers, accused of raping a seventeen-year-old female minor inside Eruption Nightclub in October 2022, will stand trial in the January session of the High Court. That’s the decision handed down by a senior magistrate earlier today when Flowers appeared in Courtroom Number Three. This morning, Corporal Edgar Poot submitted twenty-eight witness statements […]
Written on October 26, 2023 | Posted in
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Today, the National Kriol Council hosted a press conference at Swift Hall in Belize City. It brought together community leaders from Yemeri Grove and other non-Maya, villages in Toledo to discuss the issue of land disputes in the south. The National Kriol Council, as an interested party, has been observing this issue as it unfolds. […]
Written on October 26, 2023 | Posted in
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The village leaders say they are not disputing the consent order of the Caribbean Court of Justice and Maya communal land rights. They do, however, believe that preferential treatment is being given to the indigenous Maya people. There are some who say that there is an ethnic battle taking place down south, but the non-Maya […]
Written on October 26, 2023 | Posted in
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These villages are primarily used for agricultural production. Rice farming, cattle ranching and even honey production are the livelihoods of these villages. But what about the youths, and how are they affected? Today, we spoke with several students who are pursuing degrees in agriculture with the hope of toiling farms in their communities. They share […]
Written on October 26, 2023 | Posted in
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From time to time, it has happened: a work crew is carrying out a potentially hazardous job, something snaps and one of them is fatally injured. That was what happened shortly before ten this morning at the B.D.F. Air Wing in Ladyville. A work crew from a contractor in Shipyard Village was refurbishing the hangar […]
Written on October 25, 2023 | Posted in
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Michael Brown, the man accused jointly along with Christian Espat, has still not been charged, as police wrap up the preliminary investigation into his involvement in the triple murder in San Pedro on Sunday night. And where exactly he will be arraigned, whether in San Pedro or Belize City, remains unclear. But the post mortem […]
Written on October 25, 2023 | Posted in
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Eighteen-year-old Dorian Anthony recently walked away from a murder charge while he was still legally considered a minor. That was a few months ago, back in July. Tonight, he is once again behind bars for murder, after he was arraigned earlier today for the shooting death of forty-two-year-old Trenton Webster, last Thursday night here in […]
Written on October 25, 2023 | Posted in
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Marlon Everett, accused of the murder of Albert Johnson in April 2018, appeared in the High Court today where the trial against him concluded before Justice Nanto. Earlier today, Senior Crown Counsel Sheneiza Smith closed her case after calling on thirteen witnesses, including a main witness who was only fourteen years old at the time […]
Written on October 25, 2023 | Posted in
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As we’ve reported, there were five persons murdered in two days in the Belize District – in San Pedro and in Hattieville. But are the triple and double murders, although unrelated, an indication that the intensity of murders is returning? Minister of Home Affairs Kareem says that these are isolated incidents that are not gang-related […]
Written on October 25, 2023 | Posted in
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Five persons have been murdered in two days. We begin tonight’s newscast with yet another incident during which multiple persons were killed, this time in the Belize District. In a chilling discovery, a double murder has shaken the Hattieville community. Farmer Joel Andrews and his workman were found murdered in a remote area on Andrews’ […]
Written on October 24, 2023 | Posted in
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Earlier today, a News Five team was back in San Pedro and caught up with Commissioner of Police Chester Williams who was on the ground in the wake of a grisly triple homicide in the early hours of Monday morning. As we reported, the deadly attack that claimed the lives of three-year-old Amari Rodriguez, her […]
Written on October 24, 2023 | Posted in
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We begin our next story with a sincere apology to the young man whose picture we showed on Monday night’s newscast as one of the suspects that police is accusing jointly of the triple murder in San Pedro. While we had the name, Michael Brown right, the image we used was that of another individual […]
Written on October 24, 2023 | Posted in
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In responding to an allegation by Christian Espat who claims that he was physically abused by officers while in police custody last week, ComPol Williams said he is unaware of Espat’s assertion. We also asked the Commissioner of Police whether the deadly incident on Monday is the beginning of a drug war on the island. […]
Written on October 24, 2023 | Posted in
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Belize Rural South Area Representative Andre Perez has kept a low profile since finding himself at the center of a sex scandal a few months ago. The public outrage that ensued sidelined him from his ministerial responsibilities in Cabinet, but it hasn’t stopped him from reaching out to his constituents in the wake of the […]
Written on October 24, 2023 | Posted in
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While many are perhaps focused on the likely economic fallout on the island, following Monday night’s bloodbath, the area representative told News Five that ideally, the safest places in Belize should be the tourist destinations. That notwithstanding, crime and violence remain real issues that the country is grappling with. Andre Perez, Area Representative, Belize […]
Written on October 24, 2023 | Posted in
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Disgraced parliamentarian Andre Perez has broken his silence, following a sex scandal that forced him to take a leave of absence from Cabinet a few months ago. Perez, who held the portfolio of Minister of Blue Economy and Civil Aviation, has flown below the radar in the wake of public humiliation. But today, he spoke […]
Written on October 24, 2023 | Posted in
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Before Sunday night, the murder count for 2023 on La Isla Bonita stood at two. But the bloodbath that occurred in the San Pedrito area sometime before midnight on Sunday has more than doubled that number. The unthinkable happened: a family of three and two of their friends were ambushed as they turned onto the […]
Written on October 23, 2023 | Posted in
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As we reported, word on the street in San Pedro and from the police department is that drugs were the reason behind Sunday night’s deadly ambush on the Rodriguez Cordova family and friends. The Belize Police Department has assigned a team of investigators from Belmopan to assist San Pedro police in the heinous attack that […]
Written on October 23, 2023 | Posted in
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But what could have caused such a vicious attack on a family that had a three-year-old baby with them? According to the police, it was all rooted in a drug find that ended up going wrong. It is believed that Rodriguez was targeted when he opted out of a hit, after he and one of […]
Written on October 23, 2023 | Posted in
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And, the death of Amari Rodriquez has been weighing heavily on the Commissioner of Police who says the police will spare no resources to capture the two suspects. ComPol Williams stated that such indiscriminate act of violence will not be countenanced by the department. He noted that police are confident that the murder suspects will […]
Written on October 23, 2023 | Posted in
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This afternoon, Tourism C.E.O. Nicole Usher-Solano also expressed concerns in the wake of the deadly attack in San Pedro. The island town is a prime tourism destination in Belize and incidents like this do have an adverse effect on tourism and citizen security. Nicole Usher-Solano, C.E.O., Ministry of Tourism & Diaspora Relations “It’s an […]
Written on October 23, 2023 | Posted in
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Commissioner of Police Chester Williams also weighed in on the general state of affairs on Ambergris Caye as it pertains to the trafficking of illegal firearms and drugs. He noted that the island is close in proximity to Xcalak, Mexico and that it is not lost on the department that drugs and guns are trafficked […]
Written on October 23, 2023 | Posted in
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