While C.E.O. George Lovell condemns the policemen’s behavior, Acting Prime Minister Patrick Faber told the media today that he does not have enough information to condemn the action of the officers. Faber did say, however, that police officers need to be properly trained to deal with such situations. Patrick Faber, Acting Prime Minister of […]
Well-known psychotherapist Jenny Lovell experienced a horrible scare this early this morning. Robbers broke into her family home as she and her sister were sleeping. Fortunately for her, an alert neighbour called the police to report that thieves had broken into Lovell’s house. The brazen duo was able to get away. Lovell says the incident […]
Files showing the stacking of a single residence with phantom voters are in circulation. It is an issue that keeps popping up in constituencies all over. The key purpose of the recent re-registration exercise was to clean up the voter’s list, but leaked documents show that the trend of phantom voters continues. One of the […]
Amateur video of Belize City police physically roughing up a teenage escapee on North Front Street on Wednesday evening has gone viral on social media and many are up in arms over the manhandling of the female minor. The teen, who is in the custody of the youth hostel on the George Price Highway, was […]
Senior Tax Administrator, Reynaldo Verde stands accused of attempted extortion and is in a federal holding facility in the United States. Verde’s employment status at this juncture is being considered by the Public Services Commission, in accordance with the rules and regulations. The F.B.I. accuses Verde of attempting to extort Chris Williams, C.E.O. of Legacy […]
Atlantic International Bank Limited, with the assistance of Prime Minister Dean Barrow and liquidator Julian Murillo, managed to secure a twenty-three million dollar settlement with the Federal Trade Commission. The F.T.C. had filed charges in a U.S. District Court against A.I.B.L., and several other companies, for facilitating the Sanctuary Belize scam, known as the largest […]
Deputy Commissioner of Police Edward Broaster told News Five on Wednesday that he has been residing at number one Kelly Street in Belize City. The location is the address of Chon Saan Palace Restaurant which is owned by former Senate President and U.D.P. Caribbean Shores standard bearer Lee Mark Chang. It is also shared by […]
Musa says that Broaster or the property owner would need to appear in court to prove that that is Broaster’s address. While the case is scheduled for Monday morning, Musa today told News Five that he believes that it will be dismissed. Kareem Musa, Area Representative, Caribbean Shores “People can have multiple residences. If […]
Last week, News Five reported on brewing troubles at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The K.H.M.H. Workers Union met with medical officers who have been disgruntled for the past few weeks over unpaid overtime. The Union wrote to C.E.O. Michelle Cox Hoare and the K.H.M.H.A. Board demanding that Medical Chief of Staff Doctor Beatriz Thompson […]
The Belize Tourism Board will be hosting the first Belize Travel Expo, called Beltravex. It is a component of its Belizean Traveller campaign which was launched in August. The campaign serves to encourage Belizeans to be tourists and experience their own country. The B.T.B. says it has been well received by Belizeans, and this Saturday, […]
Reynaldo Verde, the Deputy Director of the Belize Tax Services, has been in a U.S. jail since September seventh, on a charge of extortion and attempted extortion. He was picked up by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation at the Washington Dulles airport, as he was making his way back to Belize. Prior to […]
On Tuesday, a district court in the United States released details of the twenty-three million dollar settlement that the Barrow Administration, along with liquidator Julian Murillo and F.T.C. officials, to have charges brought against Atlantic International Bank limited forfeited. The bank is accused of facilitating the Sanctuary Belize scam that promised more than a thousand […]
The alleged actions of Reynaldo Verde demonstrated that corruption continues to exist within government ministries and department. In 2013, Prime Minister Dean Barrow famously said that the Lands Department was another hotbed of corruption. The P.M. says that he would sharpen his machete and wipe out corruption. Bodies such as the Integrity Commission, the office of the Auditor […]
There was loss of life and property from the devastating fire on Caye Caulker over the weekend which also displaced fourteen persons. The cause of the fire is still undetermined but we have been reliably informed that one person was detained but later released. Elmer Chub perished in the fire and his lifeless body was […]
This afternoon at the Coast Guard Headquarters in Belize City, a twin engine marine vessel was handed over to the maritime law enforcement agency to aid in the fight against illegal activity. Funds to have the launch built were donated by a number of organizations and businesses and today’s donation was facilitated by Oceana in […]
The Disciplinary Committee of CONCACAF has made a decision against the Football Federation of Belize for not showing up to participate in match six between French Guiana and Belize. The international match was to be held in the South American country on September fifth as part of the CONCACAF Nation’s League. The F.F.B. has been […]
Will the F.F.B. appeal the decision of the CONCACAF Disciplinary Committee? They have until September twenty-sixth to do so. But with losing three points, where does team Belize stand in the nation’s league? Are they any closer to getting to the Gold Cup? Marlon Kuylen says that all is not lost. Marlon Kuylen, Senior […]
Twenty-three million U.S. dollars – that’s how much Atlantic International Bank Limited has been ordered to cough up to settle charges filed in the U.S. district court by the Federal Trade Commission concerning the multi-million dollars real estate fraud known today as Sanctuary Belize. The judgment was handed down today after several settlement correspondences were […]
Julian Murillo, the Liquidator of A.I.B.L., also confirmed the settlement which will cede to the F.T.C., twenty-three million U.S. dollars of A.I.B.L. assets held in the U.S. and currently subject to the restraining order and agreements of cooperation with the F.T.C. Murillo asserts that the settlement resolves all allegations against the bank, ensures the recognition […]
Sixty-two-year-old Taiwanese national Ching-Sung Chen was killed inside his store in Camalote, Cayo. He was sound asleep but woken by robbers who had entered E-Star Store through a window on the lower flat of his property. There were two armed robbers, one opened fire on the businessman hitting him as many as four for times. […]
As we said the murders of Chinese nationals, including the most recent in Camalote, has triggered the offering of cash rewards by the Belize Chinese Association. The B.C.A. is offering at least six thousand dollars for information and conviction for the September tenth murder of Xu Jing Zhang at Chen’s Store in Bella Vista, Stann […]
There was a second murder recorded over the extended weekend In the Old Capital. Shooting victim Joseph Rowland succumbed at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The thirty-one mechanic was critically injured and was clinging to life at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital following a drive-by shooting exactly one week ago. Rowland was in front of […]
A second person has been charged for the murder of Mexican national Ofelia Cruz. The sixty-nine-year-old woman was bludgeoned to death inside her house in the Salt Creek area of Sand Hill Village. In late August, eighteen-year-old Camalote resident Derry Bennett was charged and remanded to central prison for the murder. Late this evening, in […]
At Caye Caulker today, the community is picking up the pieces following a deadly fire. Early on Saturday morning, the quiet in the village was interrupted when a two-storey commercial building, which housed Nando’s Golf Cart Rentals and Apartments, erupted in fire. Inside one of the apartments was Elmer Chub, a mechanic from San José […]
There is an update tonight on the condition of the New River; the Department of Environment is reporting a level of success with the installation of aerators at various points of the river in Orange Walk Town where they introduced oxygen back into the water. But there is concern that sediments will flow downstream and […]
