The rate at which these drug planes are being landed in dirt roads is tainting Belize in the international press as a safe haven for drugs. Months ago, a Facebook post alleging that police knew about landings triggered more effective anti-drug operations, including the detention of a senior cop. Since then, there have been several […]
A Belize City woman is tonight facing drug-related charges. Thirty-one-year-old Felicia Samuels was busted with seven parcels of marijuana by Corozal police on Monday morning. Samuels was at the Corozal Municipal Airstrip in Ranchito Village when she was approached by police officers who searched her. Samuels had the parcels of marijuana which amounted to close […]
Accused of shooting two men, thirty-year-old Moamar Andrew Zelaya was charged with grievous harm today by police. He was also charged with possession of a firearm, while under the influence of alcohol. The charges stem from an incident on Sunday morning in San Ignacio where Zelaya reportedly shot Christopher Hudson and Jermaine Pandy. According to […]
Government will be disbursing six-hundred-and-fifty-thousand dollars for its annual Christmas cheer programme. At the last sitting of the House, Prime Minister Dean Barrow made no apologies about the distribution of the monies, which will see ministers receive twenty-five-thousand dollars and elected members of the Opposition will get half of that amount. That decision didn’t go […]
Still on the subject of Christmas cheer, the Corozal Town Council called on Minister Pablo Marin to put some of the twenty-five-thousand dollars towards its activities for the holidays. The council has been going through tough financial times and says it is “doing its utmost best given the dire financial constraints inherited from the previous […]
While the city streets were quiet over the weekend, today two persons were murdered in a span of fourteen hours. The latest murder victim was executed this afternoon just two blocks away from the Queen Street Police Station in proximity of Majestic Alley. A well-known car washer, forty-four-year-old Arthur Flowers, was shot and killed near […]
Hours earlier, a Belize City couple was ambushed as they returned to their apartment on Coral Grove after midnight. A gun man, who waylaid them, opened fire instantly killing Francis Gill before he could exit his vehicle. Gill’s wife, Betsy, was spared her life but remains hospitalized at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital with injuries. […]
New details surfaced over the weekend regarding the drug plane which attempted to land in Belize early on Friday morning. Approximately one thousand five hundred kilos of cocaine were confiscated by agents of the Federal Police and the Mexican Army after the plane made an unexpected landing at the Chetumal International Airport. Early on Friday […]
When we caught up with Leader of the Opposition John Briceño, we asked him for comment on the recent landings of suspected drug planes in the north. Briceño says we need to put a stop to these illegal aircrafts to send a clear message that Belize is not a drug transit. Briceño also had strong […]
Two men lost their lives over the weekend as a result of a road traffic accident. They are twenty-nine-year-old Jose Bacab of San Pablo Village and thirty-six-year-old Samuel Gonzalez of San Juan Village. The duo was on a motorcycle on Saturday night, travelling from San Victor Village towards San Narciso Village. Coming from the opposite […]
There were two shootings over the weekend. Two men were hospitalized early on Sunday morning after shots were fired on Hudson Street in San Ignacio Town. It happened at around three-thirty-five and according to police; thirty-two-year-old Moamar Zelaya and his brother were reportedly attacked. Zelaya pulled out a firearm and fired several shots at the […]
A seventy-one-year-old Canadian man was shot, beaten and tied up over the weekend. Pierre Blais was entering his Toyota Eco car at his residence in Hope Creek Village, Stann Creek, when he was attacked by two masked men. One of the men drew a firearm and pointed at Blais’ head before firing a single shot, […]
A suspected drug plan was attempting to land somewhere in San Estevan Village sometime around two o’clock this morning. Reports are that Orange Walk police disrupted the landing and the aircraft left after hovering between San Estevan and Progresso in northern Belize. Information to News Five is that police learnt about the landing and so […]
U.D.P. Leader Dean Barrow will remain as Prime Minister until the year 2020, which is when the next general elections will be held. PM Barrow had initially announced that he would demit office prior to the elections to allow his successor enough time to rally the party together under a new leadership. This gave aspiring […]
We also asked Minister Godwin Hulse about U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision not to provide non-humanitarian, nontrade-related assistance to the Government of Belize. The determination is based on Belize’s ranking on the U.S. 2018 Trafficking in Persons Report. At Tier Three, it means that the Government is doing little to nothing to address the trafficking […]
On Monday, Isela Cano was charged and arraigned for the manslaughter of her sister, twenty-six-year-old Honduran national Keidi Ramirez. It is believed that Cano and her parents restrained Ramirez during a drunken fit last Wednesday and she died in the process. Cano was not charged with murder and there seems to be a misunderstanding as […]
Two men charged for the brutal murder of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas were today denied bail by Supreme Court Justice Colin Williams. Ashton Vanegas and Terrence Fernandez were among five men who allegedly kidnapped and beheaded Pastor Lucas in 2016. The men, along with Keiron Fernandez, Ernest Henry Castillo, and the man believed to have orchestrated […]
The Supreme Court also dealt with other bail applications. One in particular that stood out was that of Darrell Usher. The thirty-two-year-old was charged and arraigned on Thursday after he ran over five persons with a vehicle on Cemetery Street in Belmopan, two days earlier. A total of twenty-two charges were slapped on him for […]
The man believed to have been found dead along the New River is alive. Forty-two-year-old Nerry Montenegro is at home in August Pine Ridge Village tonight after being missing for some four days. His mother, Hermina Montenegro, reported Nerry missing on Tuesday. She told police that her son went missing on November twenty-fifth. It was […]
Pomona resident, twenty-one-year-old Christopher Albert Bradley was charged on Wednesday for the murder of sixty-eight-year-old Marta Gonzalez. Bradley is accused of fatally stabbing Gonzalez on the chest and dumping her body in his backyard. Her body was discovered in a pit latrine inside the yard in Pomona Village on Tuesday. Investigators also found some of […]
Dangriga resident, Nelson Jackson is tonight recuperating from a gunshot wound he received on the right leg. Jackson was shot by a police officer on Tuesday. At this morning’s press briefing, ACP Joseph Myvett explained that Jackson was being boisterous in front of a local business establishment and officers were called in to calm him […]
While that is the official police version of events, an eyewitness told News Five that Nelson Jackson was not being boisterous. Elizabeth Williams was nearby when the incident occurred. She says that it was the police officers who began aggressing Jackson. On the Phone: Elizabeth Williams, Witness “The police man said something to Mr. […]
There is an update tonight on the health of B.D.F. private Fidel Williams. While on duty, Williams fell from the deteriorating pier at the Sarstoon Forward Operating Base on November fourteenth. He, unfortunately, lost an eye as a result of the fall when a steel rod rammed into his eye. Today, the Ministry of National […]
PC Steven Ferguson was today laid to rest by the Belize Police Department in his home village of Hattieville. Ferguson died on November twenty-first in a house he was renting with his common-law-wife, Josephine Hamilton. He fatally shot Hamilton before turning the gun on himself. The couple was involved in a volatile relationship for years […]
Investigators are still unable to identify the body of a middle-aged, Hispanic man which was found on Wednesday in the Orange Walk District. The body was fished out of the New River near the Orange Walk bypass in the afternoon. Both arms were missing and police believe that the face and abdomen were disfigured by […]
