Forty-nine-year-old construction worker John Brackett of Prince Street, Belize City, is behind bars tonight. Brackett is accused of the attempted murder by stabbing of thirty-four-year-old security guard Kenrick Valencio, of the Princess Ramada Hotel and Casino. The attack took place on Thursday in front of the Novelos’ Bus Terminal on West Collet Canal. Valencio told […]
Another case of attempted murder was heard in the Magistrate’s Court. Eighteen-year-old Elroy Williams from Lords’ Bank is accused of attacking Michael Jones with a two-by-four board on January thirty-first. It’s a case of a love triangle in which Jones’ current partner was Williams’ girlfriend. Jones said he was at home with the woman when […]
A total of four persons have now been arraigned for a reported home invasion in the village of Burrell Boom, involving a woman whose house was invaded and two men who claim they were held against their will when a group of persons stormed onto their premises. Already charged is Shereffa Jex, a Burrell Boom […]
Earlier this week we told you about the Belizean who attended the State of the Union Address. It wasn’t a diplomat or a highly politically connected person – it was a young girl from Belize who is living undocumented in the US and has been at the forefront of the immigration fight. She is at […]
Our top story tonight is a major update on the Universal Health Services matter. Both the government and the Belize Bank Limited are headed back to court in dueling applications before the Caribbean Court of Justice in March. According to the Government of Belize, there may be further delays not only in payment of the […]
On Monday, February fifth, the Supreme Court is expected to hear the case of Sunshine Holdings against the B.T.L. Employees’ Trust in a partial continuation of the original Telemedia saga which had been brought in the main to its conclusion last November. Of the over half a billion dollars repaid in compensation for the taking […]
On Tuesday, we reported that a group of former holders of premium annuities with the defunct Colonial Life Insurance Company (CLICO) took an appeal of previous judicial decisions to the Caribbean Court of Justice. When the company folded in 2009, the fifty-four holders of what are known as Executive Flexible Premium Annuity policies were not […]
During U.S. President Donald Trump’s live televised State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday night, he intimated that American foreign assistance should always serve American interests and go to its friends and not enemies. The comments came in the wake of more than one hundred countries banding against the U.S.’s decision to recognize […]
The combined effort of the Belize Defense Force, the Belize Police Department and the Forestry Department led to the successful location of two park rangers who had gone missing on Monday evening in the Chiquibul. Luis Ramirez and Elroy Villanueva became disoriented and lost their way from a camp at the Caracol Archaeological Site. And […]
Earlier this week, we reported on the case of two Guatemalan fishermen charged with illegal fishing in southern Belize. Tonight, Friends for Conservation and Development, FCD, is reporting that on Sunday, a joint patrol comprising of the Chiquibul National Park Rangers, the Belize Defence Force and Special Patrol Unit of the Police Department detained three […]
The homestretch of the municipal elections race has arrived. As the calendar turns to February, the ruling United Democratic Party is first off the mark with its production of promises and plans should it be voted in for another three-year term. Some believe that the U.D.P. in the Old Capital has little left to accomplish […]
The Ramirez and Villanueva families are breathing easier tonight now that their two loved ones, rangers Luis and Elroy, have been located in the Chiquibul Forest. At about now, Ramirez, we are told, is being transported to the Loma Luz Hospital in Santa Elena, Cayo. The rangers went missing on Monday evening, after setting out […]
A man was arrested and charged today for the shocking double killing of two sisters in the south, eleven days ago. Police say that twenty-one-year-old Wilmer Alexander Escobar of Bella Vista Village has been charged for killing Josephine and Crecencia Oh. Unconfirmed reports are that Escobar confessed to killing the young women and that he […]
There’s another murder arrest. One month after the vicious killing of twenty-six-year-old Errol Gabourel Smith, Devon Brooks of Cotton Tree village has been charged with his murder. On December twenty-seventh, the body of Gabourel, also known as “Rabbit,” was found in the Belize River outside of Roaring Creek. Gabourel was an ex-con seeking a new […]
Meanwhile, twenty-nine-year-old John Martinez was acquitted of murder before Supreme Court Justice Adolph Lucas today. He was charged with the February 2013 murder of thirty-seven-year-old Ernest Savery in Ladyville. Savery had been shot once in the abdomen while crossing the street from his home to his girlfriend’s residence in the village. Crown witness, Martin Teul […]
On Tuesday night, eleven months after he was elected as the president of the United States of America, Donald Trump delivered his first State of the Union address in Washington D.C. Following disparaging remarks about small and developing nations and countries such as Haiti, El Salvador and others in Africa as ‘shithole countries,’ the U.S. […]
In respect to the suspension of U.S. visas for temporary workers that came on the heels of the Belize vote at the United Nations, the U.S. representative says that each country is assessed separately. In the region, there are countries that have had no success with convictions for human trafficking, but unlike Belize, have not […]
The thirty-three members of the Organization of American States’ Permanent Council – Cuba and Venezuela aside – met in session in Washington this morning to hear from the Belizean and Guatemalan foreign affairs ministers on the status of the Belize-Guatemala claim as it reaches flashpoint. The O.A.S. has established a Peace Fund to regulate activities […]
There is word tonight that two park rangers are missing in the Chiquibul. The rangers, Elroy Alvarado Villanueva and another who has been identified as Luis Ramirez, set out from their base at the Caracol Archeological Site in the Chiquibul looking for a vegetable known as chib. That was since Monday afternoon and the duo […]
A BelAm retiree residing in Burrell Boom, Belize District, perished in a fatal traffic accident on Monday afternoon. Seventy-seven-year-old George Young was heading to Burrell Boom when he collided into an eighteen-wheeler truck carrying a bulldozer and driven by businessman Anselm Gillett. About a mile and half pass the dump site on the Boom/Hattieville road, […]
For a few days last August, the beating of university student Kevin Brown on Ambergris Caye on the night of August sixth was all anyone would talk about. Brown was hit with a fire extinguisher, causing him to go unconscious, and kicked about, all because of a piece of jewelry. Police stumbles and fumbles led […]
Now to another sensational case, the December twenty-eighth murder of Fareed Ahmad in Hattieville. News Five confirmed last week that police had met with Ahmad’s family to go over recently obtained phone records. This was intended to help the investigation by addressing two prevailing theories about Ahmad’s death inside his vehicle, for which Woman Police […]
At the time of the January eleventh meeting between members of the Ahmad family and Police personnel in Belize City, they expressed their remaining displeasure over the rounding up of its members back in 2016 by the Special Branch of the police department. As many as twenty persons including pregnant wives, young children and grandparents were […]
The shooting death of thirty-six-year-old Jermaine Curtis Hyde remains an open case for the Belize Police Department whose investigators have made little progress in delving into his murder. Onion, as he was popularly known, was shot once to the back of the head while walking along Thurton Lane just before five a.m. on Saturday. According […]
U.S. President Donald Trump will give his first State of the Union address tonight in Washington. Marking the first year of his presidency, he will deliver the speech at the White House which will highlight issues related to the U.S. economy, national security and immigration, among others. And if you’ve been following the international news, […]
