Fifty-five year old Baptist Pastor, Pablo Martinez is tonight fighting for his life at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. He was critically injured in a road traffic accident this morning near mile thirty-one on the George Price Highway in the same area where a US tourist was killed last week Monday. The father of five […]
Over the weekend, there were other traffic mishaps. A near-fatal collision involving multiple vehicles, also along the George Price Highway, left several people injured. The road traffic accident happened on Saturday night near mile thirty-one, when a Toyota Camry reportedly clipped a trailer carrying a bulldozer. The impact, according to responders, resulted in a multi-car […]
Steven Buckley – he’s the man who became the poster boy of police brutality in 2010 after he was shot to the head by a cop while he was sitting inside a parked vehicle off Fabers Road. That incident left him with limited use of some of his limbs, and his long legal battles to […]
Here at News Five we can’t remember any time when so many politicians have seen the inside of a Courtroom on such a variety of charges…serious and frivolous. In Orange Walk, two politicians from the P.U.P. side were charged criminally two weeks ago, and this morning it was U.D.P. mayoral candidate, Yvette Lui Torres, who […]
A government-commissioned report which has suddenly become public information has been making the rounds of social media since Thursday. We can tell you that it has unleashed a storm of response from government political functionaries, including multiple threats of lawsuits. It’s a report on proposed cost saving strategy, and was conducted in 2014 by six […]
A small wooden structure went up in flames at about two o’clock this morning. Thirty-nine year old Darrel McClaren was asleep when he heard the crackling sounds of the fire devouring the wooden building that houses his small business adjacent to his home. Despite best efforts from the community, the small grocery shop was completely […]
A Belize City resident got bail today for charges relating to the traffic fatality that took the life of seventy year old well know educator, Maria Knowles. At around one-thirty on Tuesday afternoon, Knowles was hit by a vehicle at the corner of Water Lane and Baghdad Street in Belize City. After spending two nights […]
After living in Belize for five years, Haitian national, twenty-five year old Obed Lewis, was found without valid documents to ascertain his status in the country. He was today before the courts to answer to a single immigration offense of Failure to Produce Documents when Requested by an Immigration Officer. The King’s Park resident wasted […]
Shark Ray Alley, Cangrejo Caye, Bacalar Chico and the Hol Chan Marine Reserve have been designated as protected areas on Ambergris Caye. This past Tuesday, cabinet finally moved to approve the expansion of the Hol Chan Marine Reserve. For years the management of the reserve has proposed the expansion which would include a forty acre […]
A man who was in the custody of Ladyville Police pending charges of rape was allegedly found dead in his cell at around seven-thirty on Wednesday night. The version given by Ladyville Police is that eighteen year old Otto Palma was alone in his cell when he hung himself with his white t-shirt. Official News […]
There is another police investigation ongoing…Two men from the Corozal District who relocated to the island of San Pedro in search of a better life were found murdered on Wednesday morning. Their bodies were buried in a shallow grave, eleven miles north of the town, which has become a hot bed for narco-trafficking. When police […]
Northern Ambergris Caye, despite a handful of high-end, luxury resorts, has become the stomping grounds for beach combers who roam the largely uninhabited expanse in search of drug deposits. Criminal activity in the vicinity is being attributed to an ongoing turf war among playadores who are reportedly feuding over territory believed to be the drop-off […]
Earlier this week, we showed you images of Guatemalan soldiers purportedly on patrol in Belizean waters near the Sarstoon River. Those images were captured by members of the Belize Territorial Volunteers who were in the vicinity when they encountered Guatemalan fishermen setting gill nets in the area. When the team approached the fishermen they were […]
A well-known Belize City educator was knocked down and killed by a teenager. On Wednesday afternoon, around one-thirty, seventy year old Maria Knowles was walking near her home at the intersection of Baghdad and Water Lane when a vehicle driven at the time by a nineteen year old was speeding down the street knocked her […]
On Tuesday attorney Ernest Staine was before the Supreme Court facing committal to prison for the misappropriation of monies belonging to a client. o prison monies belonging to a client.efore the Supreme Court facing committal for the misapproprry was out of office. We’ anywThe very serious matter is a black eye for the legal fraternity, […]
With that explanation, it seems unlikely that the General Legal Council will be operational anytime in the near future. Elrington, in the meantime, is under fire from the Bar Association which continues to call him out. Still, even we get the impression Elrington isn’t budging on this one, since he doesn’t even seem convinced that […]
There is a grisly double homicide making headlines tonight, following the discovery of a pair of bodies inside a shallow grave eleven miles north of San Pedro Town. The bodies were found sometime before midday today in an overgrown area. While a motive for the murders remains unknown, authorities on the island strongly believe that […]
Just two weeks before municipal elections, Mayor Darrell Bradley has come under some heat over the finances of the City Council. It’s all about the findings of an audit report for the period 2013 to 2014. To break it down, the Council has been audited in 2012, 2013 and 2014. Where the audit of 2012 […]
In the end, there was an agreement to disagree, respectfully. We’ve seen no 2013 audit, and neither has the Council, which in our books means there is no 2013 audit. But the Mayor insists that there is – just that the auditor slipped up and didn’t get the job done. We figured that it’s fair […]
We also asked about one line item in particular, listed in the 2014 audit. That’s the total debt of the City Council. In 2012, it’s listed as just over twelve million dollars. In 2014, it’s at just over forty-seven million dollars. Again, we thought it fair to ask why the Council’s debt more than tripled […]
Today, News Five was at a media workshop involving senior police personnel, and Belize’s top cop was also in attendance. We took the opportunity to ask him about some pending matters, since he’s not been exactly accessible to the media in the past months. First, we quizzed him about the infamous Elvin Penner. Penner’s name […]
There has been a well-documented contention between the Police Department and the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. Things came to a head with a memo written by Assistant ComPol Russell Blackett instructing commanders to desist from consulting with the D.P.P. on any case. Whylie hasn’t entered that fray in any obvious capacity, so […]
On Tuesday, an accident claimed the life of a U.S. tourist and left another hospitalized. The accident, which involved a small SUV and a tow head truck, collided around eleven on Tuesday morning at the entrance of the Jaguar Paw road around mile thirty-seven on the George Price Highway. The driver of the eighteen wheeler […]
No legal professional in Belize’s history has ever been incarcerated for misappropriation of money entrusted to them by clients, but this morning senior attorney, Ernest Staine, almost became the first. Staine has been ordered by the court to pay back monies which were given to him for handling a land transaction between buyer and seller. […]
With the facts of the case on display, the court appears to have little sympathy for a member of the legal fraternity who has committed serious wrong. And certainly, Staine will get no support from the claimants who are out of pocket and whose trust has been abused. But he did have some support today […]
