San Pedro police are tonight continuing their investigation into the grisly murder of fifty-seven-year-old Santiago Trapp whose remains were unearthed from a shallow grave in the Basil Jones area, approximately fourteen miles north of town. The officers, accompanied by coast guard personnel, initially responded to information of a fire at a fishing camp belonging to […]
There were four murders reported over the weekend between Saturday and Monday morning…two in the city, one near the eight miles community and one in San Pedro. Well today, the police are adding one more to the already growing list of homicides…it means that as many as five persons were killed over the past weekend. […]
And our question for tonight is: Police top brass has blamed the media for the perception that crime is out of control, do you agree? Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones to 8686 or post your vote on our e-poll at channel5belize.com. You can also send an email with your comments to […]
Tonight one man from Belmopan is in Police lockdown and another is in the morgue following a traffic accident on Monday. It happened about eight miles off the George Price Highway near the Green Tropics Compound. Both men, Marcelo Reymundo and Yeymi Saquic, are employees of that company and were heading home when the accident […]
A couple of students from Colombia University in the United States are in Belize putting off a timely three-week program targeting youths between the ages of fourteen and eighteen. The first two weeks of the program focuses on intensive workshops for thirteen participants and the final week will involve school tours to provide leadership workshops […]
The shooting spree over the weekend is the worst case of violence to grip the city so far this year. Between Friday night and today, four persons lost their lives in the craziest bloodbath: Ernest ‘JawMeighan’ Meighan, Raheem Crawford, Jose Portillo and this afternoon in San Pedro, the body of Santiago Trapp was unearthed from […]
The heinous murder of Ernest ‘Jaw-Meighan’ Meighan during one of the bloodiest weekends in recent history has sent shockwaves across the sporting community. Jaw-Meighan is to cycling what Pulu Lightburn is to basketball and what Leopold Smart is to boxing; a revered figure in the pantheon of Belizean athletes. This morning, friends and family of […]
The murder of cycling legend Ernest ‘Jawmeighan’ Meighan was only one of four over the bloody weekend, a weekend which also saw seven persons fall in a deadly hail of lead. The weekend’s first murder occurred early Saturday morning. Twenty year old Raheem Crawford was on a motorbike with a friend, Kevin Faber, just a […]
The lifeless body of fifty-six-year-old Santiago Trapp, a resident of San Pedro, was unearthed from a shallow grave this afternoon by law enforcement officers on Ambergris Caye. On Sunday night, acting on information received, police responded to an arson in the Secreto del Mar area, approximately thirteen and a half miles north of San Pedro. […]
The third murder for the weekend occurred on Saturday. Just before nine a.m., Hattieville Police were called out to a boat yard just before mile eight on the George Price Highway. There, they discovered the mutilated body of forty-two year old Jose Portillo. The Honduran watchman was chopped multiple times to the body and head […]
The shocking murders prompted an emergency meeting of the top brass of the Police Department which was followed by heavy police and B.D.F. patrols in the city’s hotspots. The police issued a release attempting to quell the fears of citizens saying that with immediate effect, the community and visitors to Belize City will see an […]
The crime blotter also includes a string of shootings in which seven persons were victims. Early on Saturday morning shortly after four 0’clock, while birthday bash was taking place at the home of Tiffara Usher on Ysaguirre Boulevard, Hattieville, a shot single shot broke up the celebration. It was fired from an adjacent fence injuring […]
Arthur Saldivar is known as a very vocal, very dramatic and flamboyant attorney as well as a political aspirant, but tonight both his careers may be in serious risk. He has been accused of making off with almost a million dollars from his client. Melonie Coye alleges that on June twelfth, after hours counting cash […]
And while Fonseca plans to take decisive action where Saldivar is concerned, he is also demanding that Prime Minister Dean Barrow do the same for Minister of Foreign Affairs Wilfred Elrington. Elrington’s brother Errol is a fugitive from justice, wanted in the US on racketeering and medical fraud charges. Errol is in Belize and incredibly, […]
Remember Rural Executive Officer Assistant Superintendent Chris Noble. He was the officer in charge of the entire rural Belize District. Well, he’s now Fleet Manager Chris Noble, in charge of all the Police vehicles countrywide. Doesn’t quite have the same ring, does it? So what happened? Well, as we understand it, Noble got into an […]
P.U.P. activist Albert Vaughan, who was arrested on Monday along with dozens of disgruntled B.M.L. employees for loitering and participating in an illegal gathering, was back in court this morning to answer to charges brought against him. Vaughn, you would recall, was covering a spur-of-the-moment protest in front of City Hall where angry sanitation workers […]
The plight of the BML employees who, up until the prime minister’s intervention on Wednesday, were in jeopardy of losing their jobs with the sanitation company is not lost on the citizenry nor will it soon be forgotten as a major political and public relations blunder by Mayor Darrell Bradley. While the commitment from central […]
And just what are Fonseca’s thoughts on P.M. Barrow interceding in the BML fallout? Well, according to the opposition leader, he supports the idea of coming to the aid of the workers since they were the ones who stood to lose their livelihoods as a result of the impasse. Fonseca says the decision by the […]
Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith will hand down her ruling in two weeks in the case of police corporal Darius Martinez who is accused of attempting to corrupt a public officer back in May 2011. During the trial which concluded on Thursday, GSU Officer, WPC Stacey Smith, told the court that she received a call from […]
For the most part, the BML – CitCo bomb has been defused by a timely intervention by, and a very large infusion of cash from the government of Belize. As we told you on Wednesday, BML workers will be rehired, littering tickets torn up, charges dropped and future employment secured. With central government cleaning up […]
As we’ve told you, part of the sweet deal being offered to workers is that in 2015, when BML’s contract expires, they will be assimilated into the Council. The Council will then be taking over the work of cleaning up the city. It’s clearly not a deal that would have been countenanced by Bradley, since […]
In all the deals being struck, BML is perpetually owed staggering sums of money by City Hall. When it comes to payment for sanitation companies, both BML and Belize Waste Control, the Mayor focuses on dry periods, peak periods and the alleged gorging at the public trough by these companies. It’s been extremely difficult to […]
With an agreement on finances being brokered, and current workers’ issues resolved, the crisis is officially over. But there’s still some unpleasantness hanging over the matter. That stems from the treatment of workers by Police. Prime Minister Barrow claimed ignorance on the lockdown of workers for twelve hours on Monday. But they were – in […]
And for final word on the matter…at least for now, News Five spoke to Audrey Matura-Shepherd, the attorney for the BML workers. She worked all day Monday to get them out of lockdown, and all day Tuesday to get them processed in court. But with those legal issues in the past, she says that the […]
It is one of the most sensational cases in recent times. It involves attorney Arthur Saldivar and a very large sum of money. Saldivar has been the attorney of record for the Coye family, accused of laundering millions. He got them acquitted, and got government to give them back all the money that had been […]
