The family of a young child in Dangriga Town is tonight mourning his death, following an unfortunate incident over the weekend in which he drowned. Eight year old Adrian Lopez, a student of Sacred Heart Primary School, was reportedly swimming with friends in the North Stann Creek River when he went under. His parents, police […]
Former U.D.P. Minister of State Elvin Penner was criminally charged in Belmopan Magistrate’s Court last week. Those charges were not brought by government nor by Police, but rather by a private entity, COLA. Penner is scheduled to reappear in court on May twenty-ninth, but in the meantime, he’s got additional worries. A recall petition, launched […]
Around one-thirty this afternoon, there was a dangerous shooting on Mahogany Street; it was all caught by our camera. Here’s how it unfolded…Police and GSU officers were responding to a shooting that occurred near Electric Avenue minutes before. According to information available, the shooter or shooters fled to the area of Lacroix Boulevard traveling inside […]
In the west, there is growing dissention tonight among the faculty and staff of St. Ignatius High School in Santa Elena Town, following a series of unsanctioned decisions reportedly being taken by the principal to transfer administrative personnel from their respective posts. A number of teachers, including vice Principal Diana Askari, are up in arms […]
Green Tropics, a Spanish company involved in sugar cane cultivation, is accused of conducting aerial spraying in the Valley of Peace community which is the main supplier of vegetables in the Cayo area. The spraying has caused destruction of acres of vegetables but today after weeks of uncertainty, the vegetables farmers received some good news […]
Frank Edwards beat a murder charge back in 2011 before Justice Troadio Gonzalez but he was in the Belmopan Supreme Court this week on a robbery charge. Edwards was accused in one of the biggest bank heists in Belize in which a security guard was murdered. Today, he walked free after the prosecution entered a […]
Fifty-one year old May Bush, convicted of the June 2011 stabbing death of David Guerra, has been sentenced to thirteen years for manslaughter. On March seventh, a jury of twelve found Bush not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter. This morning in mitigation, the mother of thirteen, called a character witness to speak on […]
A written judgement is yet to follow, but a decision was verbally handed down in the case of Magistrate of San Ignacio, Nardia Morgan. Morgan defended herself in trial this morning before Judge Courtney Able in the Supreme Court. The case is unprecedented because a Jamaican born sitting magistrate found it necessary to take the […]
Anybody travelling on the George Price Highway recently would see a massive program of infrastructure works in effect. It’s all part of a wider Road Safety Program, and the primary target is to reduce accidents. A significant amount of money is being spent, and several contractors are sharing the pie. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with […]
Former Minister of State Elvin Penner appeared in Belmopan Magistrate’s Court this morning where he was criminally charged for his involvement in the immigration scandal. Despite what appears to be overwhelming evidence and multiple investigations, in the end charges were not brought against Penner by the Police. In fact, if it were not for the […]
On March third, the Supreme Court issued landmark directives to Commissioner of Police Allen Whylie to investigate Elvin Penner and the Won Hong Kim passport scandal. The court took that rare step after it determined that the ComPol had not fulfilled his duty and obligation to investigate. But even as that investigation has allegedly gotten […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow also spoke on this morning’s arraignment of his former cabinet minister and Cayo Northeast Area Rep., Elvin Penner. He told the media that in his estimation, the evidence to prove legal guilt against the disgraced and distanced former minister of state isn’t there. FOR VIDEO CLICK HERE. Prime Minister Dean Barrow […]
The European Union earlier this week imposed fisheries sanctions on Belize because the country has been found not to be cooperating in the fight to stop illegal fishing. The government jumped to the defense saying that all necessary steps have been taken to eradicate illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. According to the Prime Minister, the […]
While Penner was arraigned in Belmopan, in the San Ignacio Court, Gabino Garnett Junior was charged for murder. Garnett Junior was wanted by San Ignacio police in connection with the stabbing death of Earl Baizar and is tonight on remand at the Belize Central Prison after his arraignment this morning before magistrate Nardia Morgan. […]
Country Representative for U.S. Capital Energy Ltd., Alistair King, as well as Executive Director Greg Ch’oc, of the Sarstoon-Temash Institute for Indigenous Management, SATIIM, were back in court this morning. Both parties awaited a decision by Justice Michelle Arana for an injunction to halt pre-drilling activities within the Sarstoon-Temash National Park, formerly co-managed by SATIIM. […]
According to Ch’oc, the injunction has been a secondary issue because SATIIM believes that it will gain more grounds on the primary matter which is its challenge against government to affirm the customary land rights held by the indigenous community. He also took the liberty to respond to U.S. Capital’s claim that it is all […]
Almost one year ago, on March thirtieth 2013, Maranco Energy Belize Limited announced that it had found an encouraging oil show at its South Canal Bank number one exploration well. That never panned out, but tonight there is confirmation that Maranco has struck oil, black gold, after digging a second appraisal well as South Canal […]
More than six months ago, former Minister of State Elvin Penner was implicated in the facilitation of fraudulent Belizean nationality and a fraudulent Belizean passport for a South Korean national who was in jail in Taiwan. Six months and multiple alleged investigations after, Belizeans know nothing more than they did in September…or at least nothing […]
Since we were circling the subject of the criminal investigation of former Minister of State Elvin Penner, News Five came right out and asked National Security C.E.O., George Lovell, for a status report. In the past couple weeks we’ve done that whenever opportunity presented itself… and the answer has generally been the same. Today was […]
The status of the criminal investigation might be very much in the air at this point, but a private criminal case has been lodged against former Minister of State Elvin Penner, and that case will be heard in Belmopan Magistrate’s Court on Thursday. The claimant is COLA, Citizens Organized for Liberty through Action, and their […]
While the COLA and the D.P.P. prepare to head to court on Thursday, the status of the criminal investigation ordered by the court is still up in the air. Now, there are two other investigations…the internal investigation at the immigration department as well as another being carried out by the Auditor General, which was scheduled […]
Minister Hulse says that the files on Won Hong Kim are still missing and that has caused setbacks in the investigations. But Hulse went on a limb to protect former minister of state Elvin Penner, who he thought has already been punished for the illegality of issuing a passport to a man who never set […]
There is a report tonight that a small single engine plane has crashed in the Spanish Lookout area. Details have been slow in coming in but police confirm that the remnants of the plane were found on a dirt road about three miles from the Guatemalan border in the Spanish Lookout Community. What we were […]
Aerial sparing carried by the Spanish company, Green Tropics, has caused the destruction of about a million dollars in crop in thirty-two farms in the Valley of Peace area. As we reported on Friday, Green Tropics carried out the spraying on March fifteenth; it is the same company that grazed several acres of the Jaguar […]
As we bring you the news tonight, the Budget Debate is still raging in the sacred chambers of the National Assembly in Belmopan. All members of parliament from both sides of the House are given the opportunity to speak on the draft estimates for the year 2014 – 2015. It’s important stuff, because it is […]
