The Annual General Meeting of B.T.L. takes place on Thursday evening at seven o’clock to review the performance of the company over the twelve months to March 2014. As you know, shares in the company were offered to the public by the Government at the end of 2010 to a great fanfare, with promises of […]
Last week News Five showed you a proposed subdivision in the Sunset Cove area four miles north of San Pedro Town. Forty acres have been surveyed for a total of three hundred and nineteen lots. One hundred and fifty persons have paid five hundred and fifty dollars each towards the survey. The only thing is […]
There is some confusion which Minister Manuel Heredia seems unwilling to clear up where the wetlands of Los Bajos are concerned. When News Five spoke to Heredia last week, he blamed the P.U.P. for breaking the news about the subdivision being underwater. And today, he blamed the media cameras for making things look worse than […]
There were three murders that marred the Independence weekend. At the start of the holidays, Leslie Logan Junior was murdered in Orange Walk Town on Friday at the start of the holiday weekend. His murder was followed by another in the City on Saturday night which we will have coming up. And on Independence Day […]
There was an unplanned power interruption that plunged the entire country into darkness on Independence eve. It occurred sometime after eight p.m. when in some municipalities celebrations were ongoing. But just prior to the blackout, there was a murder in south side Belize City. Thirty-eight-year-old Glenmore Stevens was shot and killed on Raleigh Street off […]
In addition to the murders in Cayo and Belize City, on Friday, one of two robbers at a Chinese store in Orange Walk Town was killed. The robbers held up the attendant inside the store and stole five hundred dollars in cash and two cell phones. But as they fled the scene, the proprietor of […]
The Carnival Road March in Orange Walk on Sunday was attended by persons from across the country, but the event was not without incident. Around five p.m., a Belize City youth was stabbed to the neck following an altercation with another person as the revelers made their way through the principal street of the town. […]
Aside from the murders, there were also burglaries and robberies over the weekend. Police are investigating a brazen broad-daylight robbery that occurred today inside the parking lot of Pink Boutique on North Front Street. The driver was reportedly robbed of an undisclosed amount of money believed to be the proceeds of two days of sales. […]
Independence Day activities were held across the country on Sunday. In Belize City, hundreds of high school students joined the Belize Defense Force, as well as the People’s United Party and other organizations in the annual Uniform Parade. Incidentally, somewhere along the parade route supporters of the opposition party came under attack from onlookers. While […]
Belmopan Police are currently investigating a distasteful and disturbing allegation of sexual assault of a student. The report was made at the police station last Tuesday by the alleged victim, a five year old boy, in the company of his mother. According to the mother, she noticed blood on her son’s underwear, and when she […]
Late this evening, representatives of the Roman Catholic Church rushed to the Supreme Court seeking an interim injunction to stop a concert that is planned for this Independence holiday weekend at a church-state school in San Ignacio. It follows a statement issued this morning by Bishop Dorick Wright. The Church is outraged that Sacred Heart […]
The promoter behind the Alkaline concert is Martin Castillo of Marine Sounds. Castillo was taken by surprise at the church’s stance and late this evening when we contacted him by phone, he told us that his lawyers will be in court for the unusual Saturday morning hearing. But according to Castillo, the concert will go […]
A man who robbed a store in Orange Walk at gunpoint is tonight at the Northern Regional Hospital morgue after he was fatally shot by the proprietor. That man, Leslie Logan Jr., is a former Police Constable and the son of highly decorated retired Police Inspector Leslie Logan Sr. It happened at around two forty-five […]
Following a spade of violence in which three persons were murdered in a matter of hours on Wednesday, the Prime Minister met with the police top brass and hosted a press conference. The P.M. committed additional patrols by the police and the B.D.F. on the streets and is seeking further funding to fight […]
Police are holding a third person behind bars presumably to stop further mayhem on the streets. He is Kareem Lopez, aka Robbery, who was charged today for causing public terror on Carnival Day. Allegations are that while on Douglas Jones Street, Lopez wantonly discharged a firearm in a public place and caused terror by […]
Reeling from an explosive surge of gangland violence which resulted in three murders and multiple casualties in a matter of hours, Prime Minister Dean Barrow on Thursday announced that Police will now be enforcing anti-gang laws. The laws aren’t new by any means – but they’ve just gotten obscure from lack of use. Government has […]
Preventative Detention – the proposed amendment to the constitution was the cause of fiery debate, controversy and contention. So much so that Prime Minister Dean Barrow backed down from the law which would have made it legal for police to detain persons before the commission of any crime. While the amendment never materialized, at least […]
Belize City came under siege on Wednesday. In a spate of seven hours, three men were murdered. It started in the early afternoon when Cyril McFoy, the father of a notorious George Street figure, was murdered as he played dominoes in his yard while classes were ongoing nearby at Saint Ignatius School. Within hours, McFoy’s […]
The overnight violence in Belize City immediately prompted Prime Minister Dean Barrow to call a meeting with the brass of the Belize Police Department to address the ongoing reprisals that started with the murder of Cyril McFoy, the father of Brandon Tillett. While additional boots will be placed on the ground in the streets of […]
In an attempt to quell fears of further violence, P.M. Barrow has pledged that government will expend whatever financial and material resources necessary to address the ongoing issue of gang-related homicides. The P.M. committed additional funds by way of a financial re-assignment to deal directly with the crime and violence. He announced this afternoon that […]
Barrow says that he does not believe that any of the six men who are presently in detention will be charged for murder, that he says would only succeed a thorough police investigation. They can however, be charged for gang affiliation. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “You asked about whether any of those being detained […]
Police and Customs officers made a huge bust on Wednesday night in Orange Walk. Just under forty pounds of suspected cocaine with a street value of over one point three million Belize dollars were confiscated from a Guatemalan national living in Ranchito Village, Corozal. Thirty-six year old Axel Fuentes was driving a Toyota pickup when […]
Still in the south of the country – Dangriga Police report that this morning they conducted anti-drug operations in that municipality. The operation included the Special Branch Unit, the Dangriga Quick Response Team, the Crimes Investigation Branch and the K-9 Unit. Using intelligence gathered, the units first went to the residence of Darwin Duran in […]
Tonight, News Five can confirm that a subdivision planned in Northern Ambergris Caye, about four miles from the town, is on hold. That subdivision – forty acres of wetland and lagoon divided into three hundred and nineteen house lots – is underwater, which makes that development idea somewhat misguided or perhaps even ludicrous. One immediate […]
At ten minutes past four this evening, the political career of Arthur Saldivar, at least as a Standard Bearer of the People’s United Party, came to an end. Following a two week long investigation by a special committee and a two hour meeting this afternoon, the National Executive issued a directive that Saldivar be removed […]
