On Tuesday, we covered a fatal motorcycle collision in the Teakettle area, which claimed the lives of two young men from the village. It is the last of eighty-three fatal incidents reported in 2016, or an average just shy of six per month. While such mishaps have become as much a fact of life as […]
The top brass of the police met in emergency and closed door session today, in light of a murder spree since the start of the year. They were not providing details on the recent string of murders and that’s perhaps because they said too much on Tuesday night to incense the criminal elements. By seven-thirty, […]
Hours before Bert Abraham was executed, nineteen year old Randolph Johnson was among a group of friends fishing when he too was ambushed near Belize Waste Compound on the George Price Highway just after two in the afternoon. Johnson’s family believes his movements were being monitored before the gunman pounced on him. News Five’s Duane […]
Since December thirty- first, the six murders have the police working around the clock, but except for one, police are yet to crack the cases. Dillon Grinage did not live to see the New Year; he was killed in Sandhill at the close of 2016. Patrick Harris, a resident of the same village, was arraigned […]
The Forest Department is cracking down on the illegal harvesting of hardwood. Two major busts have been made in recent days in the west and south, which show that the illegal harvest of the precious wood continues despite the signing on to the CITES Convention. A Benque Viejo businessman, Miguel Angel Estala, appeared in the […]
The first hearing of the Special Senate Select Committee for 2017 was hosted at the National Assembly, Belmopan. Sitting before the six-member panel was senior official of the Immigration Department, Maria Marin. Marin, now the Director for the Refugee Department in the Ministry, served as deputy and acting director of the Immigration Department in 2012 […]
According to Marin, she was swamped with research on the Won Hong Kim matter and concurrent investigations of the Department internally and by Police. She asked her subordinates to check with either the Ministry, in some cases, or the C.E.O. to help the auditors get what they wanted to review. But the Audit Report recalls […]
The Committee also tried to question Marin on the various approvals for visas, passports and nationalities in 2012 and 2013, when she was deputy and then holding over as acting director, but she stated that she could only really speak to those done in 2013. She went on to clarify what powers she held in […]
2016 closed with a record number of murders, one thirty-seven persons were killed by December thirty-first. The carnage at the start of 2017 shows no signs of letting up so far; the past four days have been brutal especially in the Old Capital where of five murders, all except one occurred. Tonight, we look at […]
Prior to the murder of Randolph Johnson this afternoon, twenty-eight-year-old Robert Gillett was executed on North Front Street around midday on Monday. Police have not ruled out that it may be connected to another of the homicides over the weekend. As many as fifteen shots were fired at the former inmate who was released from […]
The discovery of a live M26 fragmentation hand grenade this morning, by personnel attached to the Gang Suppression Unit, continues to draw attention to an exceptionally violent and bloody New Year’s weekend in the Old Capital. The lethal explosive device was recovered from an area near the Cumberbatch Field at the intersections of Fabers and […]
Across the country, teachers were not in classrooms in response to a call from the Belize National Teachers Union. The latest dispute between the B.N.T.U. and the Ministry of Education involves the resumption of classes as the union continues with its planned absence from classrooms until January ninth. While mediation is pending over salaries and […]
The New Year continued with a second murder on Monday night. Thirty-one-year-old Kenneth Dobson was shot and killed while he socialized with friends on Raccoon Street Extension. The Belize City man has had a colorful history and has been acquitted of at least two murders and Police say that they will be looking at his […]
Twenty-two-year-old Colin Sutherland was shot and killed as he walked on Youth For the Future Drive on New Year’s Day. A man got out of a vehicle and fired several shots and killed Sutherland. Police say that they are looking for a possible connection with another murder of Robert Gillett who was killed one day […]
While families celebrated the holidays, others grieved as criminals took over the streets. In Ladyville, Belize District, twenty-five year old Dillon Grinage was executed at a local food stall by a lone gunman. Grinage is the last murder victim for 2016. His mother was heading to church when her son was shot and killed. News […]
While shy of the record set four years ago, the count of one hundred and thirty-six murders as of this evening is still a heavy toll. Eastern Division South, according to its commander Assistant Commissioner of Police Chester Williams, is the only division to record less murder this year than in 2015, a surprise were […]
Eastern Division South police have arrested and charged twenty-year-old Frank Young for the murder of nineteen-year-old David Andrews. Andrews was shot dead on Raccoon Street a week ago tonight, after receiving a phone call and going to meet a friend around the corner from where his mother was a food vendor on Central American Boulevard. […]
Traffic accidents have not been limited to the highways and by-ways. On Wednesday night in Belize City, a driver said to be an officer of the Belize Coast Guard lost control of his Jeep four-door SUV while taking a curve and wound up crashing into a fence next to a hardware store on Central American […]
The Eastern Division’s South region, long used to being the neglected step-child of the Police Department, finally got a major “come-up” with the recent distribution of vehicles to the Department a few weeks ago. Many of those vehicles have been pressed into service for patrols in both precincts under the command of ACP Chester Williams, […]
2016 is drawing to a close as one of the bloodiest years in recent times. Most murders remain unsolved as did a string of homicides that occurred between 1998 and 2000, which we revisit tonight. As many as five primary school girls from Belize City were viciously murdered. There was a common thread in the […]
Fifty-five-year-old Moises Roberto Soriano of Pescador Drive, San Pedro Town, is out on bail after being caught in possession of cocaine on the island. Soriano pleaded not guilty before Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer and was released on bail of three thousand dollars by lunchtime. On Thursday, he was found by police to be going against […]
An ex-pat in San Pedro Town has been robbed by a pair of men whom he thought were his friends. Sixty-five-year-old Gary Hamilton, a retiree of Sea Grape Drive, told police that on Wednesday night he was socializing with Omar Delgado, a construction worker of the San Mateo community. The men were leaving from River […]
The spate of traffic fatalities continues across the country, the most recent collision claiming the life of a newly-wed on Wednesday night. The Sandhill Villager was driving his pickup truck along the Phillip Goldson Highway when he overtook another vehicle and collided into a bus travelling in the opposite direction. Police have since detained the […]
Is Alfonso Noble a religious convert and if so when did he become a Jehovah’s Witness? Late this evening, attorney Herbert Panton issued a statement concerning comments he made in the media following Wednesday’s arraignment. Tonight, we revisit the tragic incident that claimed the life of Gilbert Myers and we look at Noble’s refusal to […]
Last week, you heard ACP Edward Broaster say that they were waiting for lab results from the national forensic lab in the Pakeman-Dawson case. ACP Broaster was hopeful that they would have gotten something last week, but today when he was asked he said that the report is still not forthcoming and that is holding […]
