Two persons lost their lives in traffic mishaps. On Friday morning, a Belize City businessman driving from Roaring Creek to Belize City knocked down and killed a person who was running across the highway in the Saint Mathew’s Village. Ian Rhaburn reported that he could not avoid hitting the victim, who has since been identified […]
Meanwhile, in Louisville a man perished four days after he was involved in a traffic accident in that northern village. Sometime last week, John Thomas was one of two victims in a collision at the junction in the village. Eyewitness reports are that the driver of the offending vehicle was intoxicated and that could have […]
A mother of a two-year-old is dead tonight and another woman is hospitalized following a shooting in Santa Elena, Cayo on Thursday night. Brenda Castellanos, who was carrying the toddler in her arms, was fatally shot while Jennis August received three gunshot wounds. The women were inside their yard on Bishop Martin High School Street […]
Twenty-year-old Kentroy McKoy was paraded this evening before the lower court where he was arraigned on a single count of murder, following the mid-afternoon execution of Arthur ‘Taz’ Flowers on December third. McKoy, a customer service representative, was denied bail due to the nature of the offense and has been remanded to custody at the […]
A forty-nine-year old U.S. national was raped and robbed on Thursday morning at around nine in the morning. The woman lives in Ladyville and has had to be hospitalized. She was sexually attacked when she left her home and got into her vehicle. The alleged assailant was armed with a machete when he committed the […]
Ladyville resident, twenty-three-year-old Jesse Mejia, on Thursday pleaded guilty to unlicensed firearm and ammunition charges in the courtroom of Magistrate Emerson Banner. Mejia was fined three thousand dollars and ordered to pay by February twenty-eighth. If he does not, he will be facing a three-year sentence behind bars. The offences date back to July third, […]
Bail was denied for fifty-nine-year-old San Pedro taxi driver Noel Wiltshire. Having been charged for attempted murder, use of deadly means of harm and grievous harm, Wiltshire appeared today before Supreme Court Justice Marilyn Williams. He is accused of trying to run over his e-common-law-wife with a van in late September. Attorney, Leslie Hamilton, brought […]
Police are investigating a house fire in the southern village of Big Falls. The fire destroyed the house of Angelina Ack, a twenty-eight-year-old bus owner. Fortunately, Ack and her two children were not at home when it went up in flames; they were at her parent’s house nearby. She claims that her common-law-husband, thirty-one-year-old Ken […]
There is a boom in tourism numbers, but the growth is causing unexpected challenges at the main point of entry. The number of visitors arriving by commercial flights has outgrown the space at the Philip Goldson International Airport, causing huge delays in their processing. In anticipation of this weekend’s arrivals, the Immigration Department has taken […]
Belize Bank’s Attorney, Senior Counsel Eamon Courtenay today warned the Government that the ‘heavens will fall’ if it does not honour the multimillion-dollar UHS debt which goes back to 2004. Day-two of the case on the UHS debt concluded this evening in the courtroom of Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin. The Belize Bank Limited has been […]
The original 2004 UHS loan agreement was for thirty-three point five million dollars, but more than a decade after, the debt is believed to have ballooned to over one hundred million dollars, more than seventy percent of it being pure interest cost. As you heard, the government has rejected Belize Bank’s offer to settle the […]
Businessmen Michael Modiri and Bradley Paumen have been locked in a protracted legal battle on both the criminal and civil ends after a business deal turned sour a few years ago. Today, they were back in the Supreme Court where an ongoing dispute involving shares in a joint venture took centre stage. The case before […]
Bradley Paumen gained widespread media attention in February 2016, when it was discovered that a contract had been placed on Modiri’s life during a land dispute involving access to Paumen’s Dark Night Cave Tours. Since then they, along with several others involved in the plot to kill the Israeli/American businessman, have been back and forth […]
Thirty-two-year-old Bride’s Alley resident, Bartholomew Lucas remains hospitalized at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, recovering from a gunshot wound to the groin. The injury was inflicted by his common-law-wife, Tanice Mejia on Wednesday morning, around nine-thirty, at a house at the corner of Magazine Road and Vernon Street in Belize City. Police confirmed today that […]
Two murders were recorded on Monday in the city, within fourteen hours of each other. The first was an organized attack on Francis and Betsy Gill before two a.m. as they returned home from a night out at the casino. The motion detectors at their Coral Grove apartment were broken and the killer or killers […]
By three p.m., shots rang out yet again this time at the corner of Handyside and Queen Streets. Well-known car washer, Arthur Flowers was executed, shot to the right temple by a gunman who escaped in a getaway car. The suspected car remains impounded, but police say the persons who were detained in the aftermath […]
A victim of domestic violence took matters in her hand this morning; she shot her common-law-husband at her house on Vernon Street. After the shooting, she fled in a van, but tonight she is in police custody. Neighbours say that numerous reports had been made in the past that Tanice Mejia, had been repeatedly beaten […]
Cameron Usher Senior first came to prominence in September 2017 when they Gang Suppression Unit raided a weed farm in Lucky Strike, where Usher and his son Kelvin, were seen on a Sunday afternoon. Kelvin would go missing for days, but Usher Senior was charged for marijuana cultivation. Today, Usher appeared in court to face […]
A legal battle for more than ninety-five million Belize dollars was back in court today before Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin. The Belize Bank Limited is continuing its quest to collect the multi-million-dollar UHS debt from the Government. Government maintains that the House of Representatives must first approve the payment. Back in January, G.O.B. tabled a […]
As you heard, the Financial Secretary was ordered to discuss the Bank’s settlement offer with the Prime Minister. But according to Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte, the government has already made a decision, which will be relayed to the court on Thursday. Peyrefitte told News Five that G.O.B.’s position on the UHS debt has been made […]
Also in the Supreme Court, a Honduran woman, who is accused of human trafficking, was denied bail by Justice Colin Williams. Lourdes Guerrero Moreno is accused of making a thirty-six-year-old woman a victim of human trafficking. Moreno has been living in Belize for several years in a common-law-relationship. These factors were not sufficient enough for […]
Reports emerging out of the Vital Statistics Unit today are that four employees have been terminated. The employees are accused of issuing a fraudulent birth certificated to William “Danny” Mason, the very same man accused of leading the beheading of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas. In 2016, it was reported that Mason, who also used the names […]
Drowning is the third leading cause of unintentional injury death worldwide; it accounts for seven percent of injury-related deaths globally. But the World Health Organization says that the figure may significantly underestimate the actual public health problem. Often times we report on incidents that happen across the country and our records show that at least […]
Three persons are in detention for the murder of Arthur Flowers, a well-known car washer stationed at the Majestic Alley Taxi Stand which is located not far from the Queen Street Police Station in Belize City. Taz, as he was commonly known, was executed at the corner of Handyside and Queen Streets by a gunman […]
The frequency of drug planes landing in northern Belize is on the rise and cause for great concern. But tonight there is a report of a suspected drug plane landing at the other end of the country, in southern Belize. The Police Department says it has been working around the clock to seize the illegal […]
