It is exactly one week since seventy-one year old Ramon Cervantes Senior was reported missing, and three days after his decomposed body was discovered in a shallow grave on a farm off the Honey Camp road in the outskirts of Walk Town. There have been multiple detentions by Police, and reports of a ringleader on […]
In the old capital, gun violence is relentless and grows even more brazen. On Monday night, a young man was gunned down in his bed inside his home. Leon Burgess and his common-law-wife had just retired for the night when he was executed. Numerous bullets found their mark on his upper body and head causing […]
Over the weekend, sixty-six persons were left homeless when a fire spread through the Boca del Rio area of San Pedro gutting eight houses. The origin of that fire remains under investigation but tonight there are thirteen additional persons left without a roof over their heads in the Hattieville community. It took less than half […]
Earlier in the newscast we reported on a fire in Hattieville, but there is a development in respect of another blaze which totally destroyed a bar and a business in the City on June twenty-third in the Newtown Barracks area. A young woman, Jacqueline Arteaga, was tragically killed in that inferno; she was pregnant and […]
This morning in the Supreme Court, the case against Belize Water Services Ltd., in a lawsuit filed by a group of six former employees of the utility company, commenced before Justice Michelle Arana. Mark Menzies, Colin Morrison, Don Gillett, Michael Novelo, Journett McKoy and Charlette Barnett were fired from BWS in February 2013. They contend […]
According to Musa, BWS says that Menzies’ severance was included in his payout. The others, represented by Tricia Pitts-Anderson, are also seeking general damages which Musa says can range from a couple thousand dollars to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Reporter “Sir, the other side mentioned a hundred and eighty-eight thousand dollars that was […]
Today, hundreds of Orange Walk residents gathered outside the police station and magistrate’s court, awaiting the arraignment of persons detained for the sensational and gruesome kidnapping and murder of Ramon Cervantes Sr. The seventy-one year old businessman and farmer was allegedly taken from his farm on the San Roman Road on Tuesday. His body […]
As we told you earlier, more than three hundred residents gathered in front of the Orange Walk Police Station and Magistrate’s Court this morning. Reports circulated early that those persons detained for the kidnapping and murder of Ramon Cervantes Sr. would be formally arraigned today. The Police have remained tight-lipped and evasive about the investigation. […]
Cervantes was buried yesterday evening, immediately after an autopsy was conducted on his body at the site where it was discovered. His sudden, violent loss has shocked, saddened and angered the community, of which he was a vital part. He was a long-time teacher, a former Mayor and Senator, a businessman and farmer, and his […]
Sixteen families are tonight without roofs over their heads following a massive inferno which eviscerated eight buildings in San Pedro Town. While relief has been forthcoming, the families, a large number of which include children under the age of seventeen, have lost everything and starting over will be a challenge. This morning, News Five’s Duane […]
A Los Lagos businessman is detained pending the advice of the Director of Public Prosecutions after he knocked down a man on a motorcycle in Orange Walk. Forty-four-year-old Rolando Silva was allegedly overtaking a vehicle near the Tower Hill junction when he slammed head-on into a motorcycle being driven by thirty-two-year-old Marvin Tillett. The incident […]
A hit and run accident in the Toledo District has left one man dead and a minor critically injured. Shortly after nine o’clock on Saturday night, twenty-four-year-old Francisco Coy and a child were riding along the Southern Highway when they were hit from behind by an unknown vehicle. The driver did not stop to render […]
While all eyes were turned to the Cervantes tragedy this weekend, there was also some gunfire which resulted in one man getting shot three times. The incident happened in front of the Hi Five Nightclub early Sunday morning. Police would not release the name of the person who was shot, since he is not cooperating […]
Seventy-two hours after businessman and farmer Ramon Cervantes Sr. was reported missing, his family is saying nothing and the police are being very cautious about what they do say. The seventy-one-year-old Orange Walk resident allegedly disappeared on Tuesday from his farm located on the San Roman Road, just a few miles from town. His family […]
Several bail applications were heard today in the Supreme Court. There were no objections from prosecutors in the Supreme Court all morning until the application of Shaquille Meighan came before Justice Herbert Lord. Shaquille, who is the younger brother of notorious siblings Ellis and Tyrone, has been tied to the spate of shootings that started […]
Torrential rains overnight in the south have resulted in flooding in the Toledo District. This morning, commuters along the Southern Highway were delayed near the Jacintoville Bridge where several inches of water inundated the thoroughfare for a few hours. Although the area is considered a flood prone location, traffic was interrupted until midday when the […]
Two squatters are tonight in detention following a complaint from a reported land owner in the Krooman Lagoon area. The men have been arrested for illegally squatting on private property. According to Officer Commanding Precinct Two of the Belize City Police Department, Superintendent Alford Grinage, the men have not been charged because they are working […]
As we told you earlier in the newscast, several bail applications came before Justice Herbert Lord today. Four residents from Orange Walk and Benque were granted individual bail in their respective municipalities. Orange Walk men, Kevin Albert Flowers and Martin Rigoberto Rosado, were both granted bail in the sum of ten thousand dollars each. Both […]
Twenty-six-year-old Jason Sutherland was busted on Thursday attempting to dispose of a bag of weed. Police on mobile patrol along West Collet Canal spotted a black Geo Prism going contrary to the flow of traffic. When the vehicle was stopped the driver identified himself and was informed that a search of the vehicle, as […]
Danini Contreras is the daughter of U.D.P. Minister Erwin Contreras. She is also the newly appointed Director of the Drug Inspectorate, a post that was created for her. It’s an appointment that has caused no end of discontent, primarily in the Pharmacy Association but also in the Ministry of Health. The situation has gotten so […]
Orange Walk businessman Ramon Cervantes Sr. has been missing for over forty-eight hours. Cervantes was last seen as he headed to his farm on the San Roman Road early Tuesday morning. He did not come home for lunch, and calls made to him by family during the day suggested that something was wrong. His vehicle, […]
On Wednesday morning, the lifeless body of Andrea Herbert was retrieved from the Haulover Creek near the BelChina Bridge, amid speculation that she may have been killed and dumped into the murky water. It was later discovered that she had a history of mental disorder which is strongly believed to be the reason that Herbert […]
Tropic Air and the Construction Depot, one of the Benny’s Group of Companies, will seek a settlement after a multi-million dollar land dispute. That dispute arises from a human error in the Ministry of Natural Resources. In a nutshell, a lease to a parcel of land was granted to Tropic Air, which started construction of […]
This morning, Minister of Immigration Godwin Hulse was in court for a libel suit he brought against the Belize Times. That matter will not go to full hearing as attorneys are talking settlement which will be determined at a final court session on July tenth. But with that out the way, there’s always plenty to […]
The Puerto Azul project is still months away from serious consideration, according to Hulse. But the Norwegian Cruise Line Project is a definite go. In fact, work has already started on Harvest Caye to clear the site. Notwithstanding Government’s clear support for the project, on Wednesday, Justice Courtenay Abel granted B.T.I.A. leave to apply for […]
