While the body of Welcome Junior was discovered inside his house, in Roaring Creek, Belmopan Police, Coast Guard personnel and residents of the village are currently searching the river for the body of Kerwin Mendoza. Police would not confirm whether Mendoza has been killed, but Superintendent Howell Gillett went on record to say that there […]
Executives of the National Institute of Culture and History, the Belize Tourism Board and the Federation of Cruise Tourism Associations of Belize met well into this evening at the offices of the Belize Tourism Board. The meeting was called after FECTAB told the media on Friday that NICH had instituted a forty-eight inch regulation which […]
A recorded phone call between widow, Vilma Cervantes, and alleged murderer, Manuel Castillo, continues to dominate the news and shock the nation. In that call, Castillo tells Cervantes that a senior U.D.P. Minister and a senior police officer are involved in the kidnapping and murder of Ramon Cervantes Sr. It is an incendiary and disturbing […]
So we’re a little confused. Is the investigation into the Cervantes and Sonia Abac murders, opened months ago, now closed? If so then when was it concluded and why wasn’t anybody told until Thursday? And why did the announcement that it was closed come after the release of new evidence which must have at least […]
And while the Cervantes family walked into the Police Station today unescorted, News Five has been informed that additional security has been provided for Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega and his family. We’ve listened to the same recording everybody has, and we’ve also heard the DPM state that his life and his family have now […]
FECTAB held a press conference this morning and as expected, there was some drama to the proceedings because archrivals were sitting at the same table united in a common cause. But in the following story, News Five’s Isani Cayetano deals with the real purpose of the event. Tour guides are feeling the pinch; new regulations […]
A FECTAB press conference, as we have come to learn, is never quite complete without its share of histrionics. This morning, archrivals Yhony Rosado and Vitalino Reyes, proprietors of Cavetubing.com and Cavetubing.bz, respectively, shared opposite ends of the head table, albeit out of striking distance from each other. Their history of enmity dates back several […]
On Thursday, the news broke of an internal memo from Assistant Superintendent of Police Henry Jemott, Deputy Coastal Executive Officer, to the Head of the Fisheries Department. The memo is dated October sixteenth, and in it Jemott is making serious allegations against a fisheries officer stationed at the Bacalar Chico Marine Reserve. He says that […]
In August, Benque resident Yanie Cu was badly injured in a collision with a government vehicle being driven by Deputy Commissioner of Police Miguel Segura. In October, News Five ran the story of Cu, who had gotten surgery in Guatemala but was still in terrible pain, unable to walk and further crippled by mounting medical […]
Late this evening, the Deputy Prime Minister, Gaspar Vega issued a statement in respect of an allegation made against him in a shocking recording of a phone call to Vilma Cervantes, wife of murder victim, Ramon Cervantes Senior. In the recording, a senior, very high profile politician is being accused of paying for a contract […]
As we said earlier, the DPM has issued a statement on respect of the allegations made against him. He says that he is hurt and angered by the allegations that seek to wreck him and his family. Here is a small clip of the statement which will run in its entirety later in the newscast. […]
Thirty-one year old Elisa Hunter, who was struck by a government vehicle as she crossed the George Price Highway, perished on Wednesday evening at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Hunter was on her way to work at Belize Recycling Company on Tuesday morning when she was hit and flung into the air by the vehicle […]
Hunter, who is originally from Nicaragua, lived in Belize for the past nine years; she leaves behind a seven-year old child and two sisters and a brother. Her sister, Ersi, says that Elisa’s last words to her were a plea to take care of her daughter. According to Ersi, while the minister did come to […]
Caye Caulker is an island fast realizing its tourism potential, second only to the larger San Pedro but growing. Perhaps the main attraction for tourists on the island is an area known as the split, a natural division caused by Hurricane Hattie in 1961 and enhanced by dredging. It’s officially listed as Emerald Point, and […]
Across Mexico and the Caribbean hundreds of employees of Scotiabank will be made redundant in a massive downsizing exercise. The laying off of at least one thousand, five hundred full-time staff within the region is part of an effort by the lending institution to save a hundred and twenty million Canadian dollars annually. Of the […]
In Wednesday’s newscast, we reported that a land dispute between Bernadette Pickwoad and Maud Williams, over a piece of property located in Belama Phase One, had been adjourned pending the outcome of court-ordered mediation. While both parties had been looking forward to a satisfactory conclusion, things have seemingly taken a different turn overnight. This morning, […]
Tonight’s headline is one of the most incredible, disturbing and frightening we’ve carried. It contains an allegation that very senior persons put out a hit on an Orange Walk resident. We’ll try to keep it as simple as we can because the allegation is under investigation. Now, on July fifth, 2014, the body of Ramon […]
Today, it was a very sombre gathering which listened to that explosive recording released by the Cervantes family. The call came in on the night of October eighth. Vilma Cervantes answered, and the call was put on speaker and recorded on her daughter’s phone. The caller, whom Cervantes swears is Castillo, promises to call back […]
P.U.P. Party Leader Francis Fonseca was present at the memorial today to give support to the family. The release of the recording came as a surprise to him as well, since he hadn’t been warned about the allegations. We asked him for his reaction after the memorial. Francis Fonseca, P.U.P. Leader “Shocked, shocked and […]
Traffic accident victim, Elisia Hunter remains in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. This morning, she underwent surgery. Hunter was flung into the air on Tuesday morning when the vehicle of the Foreign Minister, Wilfred ‘’Sedi” Elrington hit her soon after she alighted a bus near Mile Eight on the George Price Highway. […]
Things came to a head this morning in the village of Saint Matthews located on the George Price Highway. For days, the government school has been without some of its teachers so that students have had to be placed in other classes causing a disruption in flow of their lessons. There are number of contributing […]
There are two stories coming out of Orange Walk tonight. The first is a serious allegation about who put a hit on Ramon Cervantes Senior. A recording has been broadcast from a man who is a main suspect in the murder but is on the run. We will have all that coming up. But also […]
The Court of Appeal has reserved judgment in the case against Great Belize Productions, formerly a subsidiary of Belize Telemedia Limited. On August twenty-third, 2009, the day before B.T.L. was nationalized, the board of directors of the company divested Great Belize Productions from its assets. According to attorney Michael Young, the divestiture followed an investment […]
A thirty-one year old woman is tonight clinging to life at the K.H.M.H. after she was struck by a government vehicle. The accident happened at just after nine this morning at mile eight on the George Price Highway. Elisa Hunter had just gotten off a bus and was crossing the road to her workplace when […]
Elisa Hunter was rushed to the K.H.M.H. and when we checked this afternoon, she was in surgery. We understand that she sustained head and body injuries, and from what is seen in the footage, she is lucky to be alive. A blood specimen was taken from Elrington’s driver, Amir Garcia, and he was served with […]
