A Roaring Creek resident is tonight in police custody, following an early morning murder in Belmopan. Reports are that as police were closing up shop at La Cabana Night Club, one of its bartenders and another person ran to the aid of a woman who had been robbed of her gold chain. The duo, Luis […]
This week’s firings at City Hall have ignited a political firestorm that has morphed into a potentially dangerous situation. A vehicle belonging to a high ranking official at City Hall was torched on Wednesday night. From all accounts it was politically motivated. Sharlene Rudon was in bed at home in the Kings Park area of […]
City Administrator Candice Miller and office manager Lisbeth Butler were among six city council employees who were given their marching papers on Tuesday. But were the dismissals foretold in Mayor Wagner’s press conference on April twenty-sixth, when he informed that a restructuring of the organizational makeup of City Hall was inevitable? Those who have been […]
And today when asked about the recent firings at the Belize City Council, Deputy Prime Minister Patrick Faber echoed the sentiments of the United Democratic Party’s press release earlier this week. He chalks up the terminations to political victimization. He did say, however, that if there is strong evidence to support why employees were fired […]
There has been a major development in a missing person case dating back to February of this year, when thirty-five-year-old Alaine Garcia was reported missing. The Hattieville resident was last seen returning home on Sylvestre Boulevard after taking his children to catch the bus to go to school. While no body has yet been found, […]
On the heels of the confiscation of some thirty pounds of marijuana in the San Antonio Village, the police department is reporting yet another huge drug bust in the west. On Wednesday afternoon, around two o’clock, police intercepted a Great Wall Wingle loaded with cannabis from Guatemala en route to Belize City, during a joint […]
A fifty-year-old security guard is tonight recovering at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital following a frightening home invasion in the Jane Usher Boulevard area of Belize City. Around one o’clock this morning, as Merrick Lambey slept on a sofa inside his house on Curl Thompson Street, he was awoken by a knock at the door. […]
Two persons are tonight in police custody pending further investigation into a shooting in the Jane Usher Boulevard area of Belize City. Police say that on Monday night, at least one gunman opened fire on the residence of Eric Mendez, a nineteen-year-old who was remanded that same day for the shooting of Tyrone Stevens over […]
After being halted at the Caribbean Court of Justice, Sunshine Holdings Limited, which owned over eleven million shares in Belize Telemedia Limited, is taking its case for compensation for the value of the shares to the Supreme Court. But it will have to overcome a number of hurdles, including that it was offered compensation originally […]
The uproar continues tonight over the terminations of six employees of the Belize City Council on Tuesday. They were sent home without warning and, according to at least one letter we’ve seen, no details about why exactly they’re being terminated. Amid the whispers of politics being involved, the Christian Workers’ Union is intervening on behalf […]
Like his fellow employees, Jenkins, who had been at City Hall for twelve years, has no idea why he was in the firing line. But he suspects a particular reason – that someone got wind of his plans to run for the United Democratic Party in the Lake Independence constituency. Lake Independence’s area representative Cordel […]
The United Democratic Party has thrown its support behind the fired employees, claiming in a press release that more firings are to come because it is aware of what it says is a long list of persons at City Hall targeted because of allegedly being U.D.P. supporters. The U.D.P. accuses Mayor Bernard Wagner of going […]
May eighteenth has been set aside as National Teachers Day, in honor of the many contributions educators have made towards the development of the nation. Across the country, schools will be closed next Friday to give teachers an opportunity to enjoy the day in the company of their colleagues. Several weeks before the official launch […]
While the education minister blames B.N.T.U.’s dropping out on a lack of willingness to participate financially, the union president says that significant funds have been spent documenting the plight of teachers during the twelve days of strike action in 2016. Monies have also been expended more recently on organizing the March twenty-second anti-violence demonstration in […]
Notwithstanding the bad news, Faber says that other avenues are being explored in order to make good on his promise. Patrick Faber, Minister of Education “Given that news that we received this week, we officially received it in writing I believe yesterday, we now have to sit down and decide whether or not we […]
Two months after first entering office, the Belize City Council has begun clearing house, starting at the very top. News Five has confirmed that there were six terminations by the Council today. Among those terminated is City Administrator Candice Miller, who signed a four-year contract just before the 2018 municipal elections for more than ninety […]
We have been reporting on the frequency of suspected drug planes – at least seven since November 2017 – landing in northern and central Belize. The abandoned planes are usually found without cargo and in some cases damaged. But the illicit drugs are not only being transported by air, but also by water. Tonight, authorities […]
There’s another bust that has given Belize a black eye in the international press. A judge in El Salvador has ordered further detention for seven persons, including five Belizeans, who are accused of money laundering crimes. Between them, they carried more than sixty-six thousand U.S. dollars, just under a thousand Belize dollars and a small […]
A Saint Matthew’s villager was escorted by police to a courtroom in Belmopan this morning and arraigned for murder. Twenty-one-year-old Dean Galvez was well-known to murder victim, Roni Casasola who is also from Saint Matthew’s Village. Casasola met his untimely death on Sunday morning following an altercation at a local bar. He had been picked […]
Thirty-six-year-old Habib Hajjara was ruthlessly done away with inside his taxicab on Sunday morning when someone shot him at point-blank multiple times while driving his vehicle along Mahogany Street. The execution-style murder took place sometime around four a.m. when the Honduran national had just finished dropping off a female passenger he reportedly picked up from […]
Teachers Day is quickly approaching; this year, the activities are intended to step up to a national celebration which will bring six thousand teachers from all over the country under one roof. But tonight, there is uncertainty as to who will be picking up the tab for the massive celebration that can run into a […]
In Belize City, the murder count went up by two over the weekend and now stands at more than thirty. According to police an alarming sixty-six homicides have been recorded countrywide since the start of the year, which means that as much as fifty percent has taken place in the Old Capital. Two residents, a […]
The second murder victim in the city is a taxi driver who was murdered at the corner of Mahogany Street and Western Avenue not far from where mechanic, Daniel Guardado, was killed hours earlier. Honduran National, thirty-six year old Sbiero Habib Hajjara was shot three times on the chest and once to his forehead. The […]
In the wee hours of Sunday, the third murder in a period of twenty-four hours was recorded, this time in Saint Matthews Village in the Cayo District. Nineteen-year-old Roni Casasola was shot to the chest shortly after midnight and died before he could get to the Western Regional Hospital. His mother was with him when […]
A fifty-eight-year-old father of eight from Valley of Peace perished on the George Price Highway this morning. Miguel Ayala, a handyman, was heading to Belize City this morning transporting meat; behind him was a second vehicle. Somewhere near mile forty-three, there was a collision with a BATSUB heavy lift vehicle heading in the opposite direction […]
