Indian nationals Keyur Barot and Jitendra Kumar are accused of having stolen a sports utility vehicle, as well as sixty-two thousand dollars in cash from businessman Jack Charles back in September. The salesmen worked for the well-known wholesaler and were on a trip to Dangriga on September thirteenth, to collect monies on behalf of the […]
Who killed German national Raimund Adalbert Kobler in San Pedro on Sunday night? It’s a mystery that local police on the island are still trying to unravel. While an autopsy is scheduled for Friday, they are no closer to a motive for his murder. Kobler’s lifeless body was discovered with a massive wound to his […]
The Government of Belize says it has the money. But tonight, the question is whether it will meet the November tenth deadline for final payment of compensation for the double nationalization of B.T.L. Financial Secretary Joseph Waight confirmed today that payment had not yet been made, and said he expected that it would be done […]
The removal of seventy-eight million U.S. dollars or the equivalent of a hundred and sixty million Belize dollars from the country’s foreign assets is nothing to sneeze at. And the timing – as retailers go into high gear for the Christmas season – is going to have an impact. But Financial Secretary Joseph Waight told […]
October has come and gone and fuel prices remain relatively high despite continuous protest. As of October twenty-eighth, premium fuel retails at eleven dollars and ninety-two cents, compared to ten dollars and fifty-three cents after a price decrease was announced at the start of June. And after a crunching price rise for both regular and […]
Turning to another matter of national interest….Belize has, for now, raised no objections to Guatemala once again promoting its unfounded claim with an offensive map purporting to include our territory, ahead of the March eighteenth, 2018 referendum on going to the International Court of Justice. But Guatemala, it appears, is fairly easily offended by Belizean […]
They are the moving hands, rarely seen, in control of national economies and finance structures. Their word can determine how much a country receives for projects, chart investment and growth, and combat problems both expected and unexpected. They are the bankers…and under the regional Caribbean Centre for Money and Finance (CCMF) and Belize’s Central Bank, […]
Chinese national Zheng Yuanran and a Taiwanese national acting as his translator remain in police custody tonight in Belmopan. Zheng entered Belize on Sunday, November fifth, but the pair was arrested by the following day, on Monday, at the Social Security Board office after Zheng tried to apply for a Social Security card using a […]
It is not surprising for residents in rural areas of the country to be found in possession of certain wildlife species. As a matter of fact, in some southern communities one would often come across an encaged parrot or a coati being kept as a pet. So when a resident of Caye Caulker was hauled […]
A small car, reportedly travelling at high speed collided into a cargo truck and the passengers are lucky to be alive. The near fatal traffic accident happened this morning on the George Price Highway. Three persons were injured; two of them were transported to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, while a third person, Warren Davis, […]
Media personality Alfonso Noble is due back in court on January twenty-fourth, 2018, for a preliminary inquiry into the indictable charges of manslaughter by negligence, among others stemming from a traffic accident on Christmas Eve of 2016. But tonight, News Five understands that a major settlement has been reached with Andrea Myers, the widow of […]
The Immigration Department made a significant arrest today. Two Asian nationals are tonight in custody at the Belmopan police station where they are being investigated for immigration offenses. Chinese national Zheng Yuanran arrived in Belize on Sunday and reports are that by Monday, he went to the Social Security Board office in Belmopan to apply […]
Two foreign ministers, the current and the former, were going at it in court today going back to a case when Wilfred Elrington was also the Attorney General. In July, the Caribbean Court of Justice ruled that principal of Pitts and Elrington firm, Wilfred Elrington, must return all the conveyancing documents that Progresso Heights Limited […]
And while Elrington continues to plead innocence or ignorance on what happened to the documents, rival Senior Counsel Eamon Courtenay laid into him for what he believes is unnecessarily dragging out the case for seven years and frustrating his clients. Representing Progresso Heights Limited, Courtenay chastised Elrington for first attempting to block the post-hearing appeal […]
In the high court, forty-six-year-old Glenford Gilbert Bermudez, the man who shot and killed his wife, was in court today for mitigation. Bermudez said he is sorry for his actions and apologized to the children of forty-year-old Racquel Violet Bermudez who was killed on November twenty-second, 2007. In mitigation plea before Justice Adolph Lucas in […]
On Monday night, we reported on the murder of eighteen-year-old Oscar Obando. The teen was shot to the chest and left for dead on a farm between Belize and Guatemala. There are more questions than answers about what Obando was doing in the area and who killed him. So far, police do not have a […]
There were four murders between Friday night and Monday morning in San Pedro, Orange Walk, Benque and in Belize City. The carnage started early on Friday night here in the Old Capital where a twenty-year-old delivery man was shot and killed. Dedron McKay was visiting with family when he was gunned down in the yard […]
Minutes later in Orange Walk, a businessman was murdered in front of his business on Friday night. Thirty-seven-year-old Amit Moryani was inside his store when he saw two men assaulting his mother, Babita. He ran out to assist her and that is when one of the assailants shot and killed him. The killers, nevertheless, escaped […]
Two of the four murders were simultaneously recorded around seven o’clock this morning by investigators in San Pedro Town and Benque Viejo del Carmen, hours before the scheduled police press conference in the city. On Ambergris Caye, the body of German national Raimund Adalbert Kolber was discovered with an injury to the head inside an […]
The fourth murder victim is an eighteen-year-old recent graduate of Mopan Technical High School, who was also found dead this morning on a farm in Benque Viejo Del Carmen. Police were called out to an isolated area on the Puga Farm where the body of Oscar Obando was discovered with a single gunshot to the […]
There was further loss of life over the weekend. Two American senior citizen tourists apparently drowned in separate incidents between Friday and Saturday. The incidents took place in the beach corridor of the Stann Creek District, in Hopkins and Maya Beach near Placencia. As police revealed today, both men went off alone, one after socializing […]
The People’s United Party on Saturday evening presented its team of eleven aspirants for the Belize City Council, which it has not controlled since 2006. The team consists of first time mayoral aspirant Bernard Wagner and councilor aspirants, Ayesha Gentle, Doctor Candice Pitts, Delthrude Hylton, Ryan Elijio, Micah Goodin, Oscar Arnold, Allan Pollard, Javier Castellanos, […]
The settlement of the acquisition of Belize Telemedia Limited and related concerns twice over by the Government of Belize between 2009 and 2011 remains a burr in the saddle of the People’s United Party. The P.U.P. contends that the issue should have been settled long ago, and that the reason it was not was as […]
Weed smokers across the country can exhale a marijuana-tinged sigh of relief tonight, following the decriminalization of ten grams of cannabis on Thursday. Governor General Sir Colville Young has assented to the passage of that piece of law after the bill was initially tabled in the House of Representatives back in August. Just last week, […]
The recent spike in violent crimes in Belize City is being attributed to an ongoing drug war among rival groups, purportedly over the sale of marijuana. With the decriminalization of that small quantity comes an insatiable appetite for various strains of the drug which will inevitably drive its demand. While the police department has made […]
