Police are looking for answers on whether four-year-old Alexander witnessed the heinous murder of his mother. While has not been confirmed at this time, it is known that the child was physically injured. That aside, the minor has undoubtedly been left traumatised by the incident. At a press conference today, police did not have much […]
Murder victim, Yanira Novelo, was laid to rest today in her home village of San Jose in Orange Walk. Over one hundred and fifty residents from San Jose and San Pablo villages held a peaceful demonstration to show support and demand justice for the young mother who was brutally killed on Monday and her body […]
With a huge scandal starring him in the face, Prime Minister Dean Barrow today called an urgent press conference in which he responded to the claims and allegations made in a U.S. court document against him, his fellow U.D.P. parliamentarians and the Central Bank of Belize. The allegations are related to the Sanctuary Belize scam, […]
PM Barrow also responded to a statement in the claim which says that “There are other important connections between the Belizean government and S.B.E.” In the claim, allegations are also made against Deputy Prime Minister Patrick Faber and U.D.P. Minister Manuel Heredia Junior and Erwin Contreras. It says that Faber and Heredia reportedly communicated with […]
One of the most serious allegations made against the Barrow administration is that there was knowledge of the scam prior to the F.T.C.’s actions to halt it. According to the F.T.C., the Central Bank of Belize knew about the fraud, but did nothing. It says that in 2016, Glen Ysaguirre, the then Governor of the […]
The Central Bank of Belize is said to have been aware of the scam, but failed to act properly in the Sanctuary Belize scam. The Bank today issued a statement categorically rejecting the allegations and reaffirming its commitment to safeguard the health of the financial system and protect the pegged foreign exchange rate. It states […]
U.D.P. Senator Aldo Salazar is also named in the claim. It says that Salazar, who represented A.I.B.L., allegedly “facilitated the fraud by helping the developer wrongfully seize Sanctuary Belize lots from American victims.” The claim says that Senator Salazar accompanied A.I.B.L. C.E.O. Pelayo and bank manager, Charles Ellis, to Pukke’s California telemarketing headquarters. The documents […]
And the visibly upset Prime Minister told the media that after learning and reviewing the claim, he urgently got in contact with the U.S. Chargé d’ Affaires to make an official complaint to the U.S. statement. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “I sent first for the chargé to complain formally to him and via him […]
Before the Prime Minister’s press conference today, the F.T.C. filed an application in the U.S. District Court of Maryland for a stay of the proceedings it commenced against A.I.B.L. This, according to the Prime Minister, forms part of an agreement discussed in June. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “It wasn’t put in writing. We got back […]
A mother was stabbed to death and her four-year-old boy was brutally attacked on his birthday. The series of tragic events started to unfold on Monday evening in Orange Walk and culminated with the discovery of the twenty-four-year-old woman’s body this morning. Yanira Novelo and her little boy were in that northern municipality to get […]
After two years on remand for a 2017 murder, tonight, twenty-year-old Eldon Flowers is a free man. His murder trial by judge without jury ended today before Justice Colin Williams of the Supreme Court who concluded that Flowers had no case to answer for the murder of nineteen-year-old Randolph Johnson, who was shot multiple times […]
Weeks ago, the Prime Minister assured to the nation that the Sanctuary Bay scam, which deprived U.S. nationals of millions of dollars, was being resolved and the government was reaching a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission of the U.S. But today, News Five has obtained a trove of documents relating to the ongoing battle […]
The Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital Workers Union is coming down hard on the Chief Executive Officer of the hospital. The union has written a stern letter, scolding C.E.O. Michelle Cox-Hoare for a memorandum, dated June twenty-eighth, in which she told the hospital staff that the K.H.M.H. Authority cannot legally pay pension. Staff members were told […]
The criminal trial against accused murderer William “Danny” Mason and his associates, Terrence Fernandez, Ashton Vanegas, Keiron Fernandez, and Ernest Castillo, finally resumed today in the Belmopan Supreme Court after several adjournments. The trial is continuing at a point that is very crucial to the prosecution. A vior dire commenced today to determine if the […]
Thirty-four-year-old James Escarpeta was this afternoon marched into the Belmopan Magistrate Court where he answered to two charges relating to Sunday’s brazen armed robbery of the PUMA gas station in Belmopan. Escarpeta was charged with robbery and possession of a firearm without a gun license. He pleaded not guilty to the charges and was remanded […]
A sixty-four-year-old San Pedro man is on remand for committing a sexual assault upon a nine-year-old boy. He is Ernesto Caliz, a self-employed resident of the island. Late on Monday, Caliz, who was unrepresented, appeared before Magistrate Michelle Trapp. The prosecutor, Corporal Roman Andrews of San Pedro, objected to bail being granted to Caliz on […]
A pregnant woman is the latest victim of gun violence. Thirty-one year old Kanchi Casey was at home in bed with her common-law-husband when a bullet penetrated the wall of her house and injuring her on the lower back. Casey may not have been the intended target of the shooting and luckily for her and […]
Brothers Maurice and Emory Felix were gunned down in cold blood last Wednesday at an establishment on Baymen Avenue in Belize City where they were playing a game of billiards. The siblings were out on bail following a stint on remand for the murder of Mark Vernon and the attempted murder of Pamela Cumberbatch back […]
Police say that no one has been charged in the murder of forty-four-year-old Jermaine Balthazar Flores. The Dangriga resident was found dead in a bushy area on the Jaguar Paw Road around seven o’clock last Thursday morning. Balthazar’s killing presumably happened on Wednesday night when he was shot multiple times in the face; his hands […]
A brazen robbery in the Capital City on Sunday afternoon has landed the suspected robber in the hospital. Police were called out to Puma Gas Station on Constitution Drive around one o’clock where a lone gunman robbed two gas attendants of an undisclosed amount of cash. The robber took off on foot, but one of […]
Robbers were also operating up north. A supermarket was robbed on Sunday night just after eight o’clock in Corozal Town. Police say that they responded to reports of a robbery at Tang’s Superstore in the Santa Rita Area of Corozal Town where three robbers targeted the establishment. ACP Joseph Myvett says that no monies were […]
Reports emerging from within the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital say that staff members are up in arms after they were told that the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital Authority cannot legally pay pension. The staff learnt of this situation by way of an international memo dated June twenty-eighth. The memo was issued after the authority engaged […]
June proved to be one of the most violent months in the past three years. As many as seventeen individuals were murdered in June 2019. The year 2016 saw twelve murders and then in 2017, there were thirteen; but in 2018, the number of homicides dipped to five. The police are yet to release their […]
B.T.L.’s tax dilemma is very much a topic of interest, despite the company’s position that it is up to speed with its monthly G.S.T. payments. Since we broke the story of the purported twenty-nine million-dollar debt owed by the telecoms provider in general sales tax, there has been public outcry, including open criticism by the […]
As for his unforeseen notice of departure, Schreiber was also careful in his response, thanking B.T.L.’s board of directors for the chance to turn the company around and steer it in a new direction. His contract of a cool half a million Belize dollars with salaries and perks was just two and a half years […]
