It’s only been a week since thirty-eight year old Salvador Marlon Carballo was released from jail, but tonight he is back behind bars to serve an eighteen month jail term. Carballo appeared before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith this afternoon and was charged for Aggravated Assault of an Indecent Nature and Threatening Words on a […]
A Belize City businessman who drank a sixty dollar bottle of wine at the Princess Hotel and could not pay for it was criminally charged this morning. Thirty-four year old businessman, Thyron Edward Lamb, a resident of Belize City, was arraigned in the court of Magistrate Hettie-Mae Stewart for a single count of Making off […]
Police continue to investigate the killing of Dean Yearwood Junior, the cop who was shot in back by another police officer in the early hours of Sunday morning. And from some accounts, there are discrepancies in the official version of the shooting. The Yearwood family is contending that the same weapon used in the shooting […]
The charred body of Daniel Aguirre, a Belmopan taxi driver who in 2011 captured the title of KTV Latino, was found in his taxi last Saturday morning in the Arizona area of Teakettle on the George Price Highway. The motive of his murder is still under investigation, but tonight four persons linked to Aguirre’s murder […]
The Stake Bank Project seems just about set to go, but information from those in charge of the environmental checks and balances has still not been forthcoming. On Tuesday, September third, the National Environmental Appraisal Committee met in a prolonged session at the Belize Biltmore Plaza in Belize City. On the agenda was the two […]
In February 2010, fugitive from the law Gary Seawell was captured by Belize Police after being on the run for three years. He was found on a remote hillside in the Cayo district with drugs, assault weapons and a grenade and was taken into custody. But even as he faces those charges before a local […]
Belize City police are tonight investigating a report that a minor, a ten-year-old boy, was caught driving a delivery truck in the area of Belama Phase Four on Tuesday. According to an eyewitness, the child was seen commandeering the vehicle along the street immediately behind the Benny’s apartments with a visibly intoxicated adult slumped in […]
Twenty-two year old Nicholi Rhys is no stranger to the courts and this morning he was back to answer a charge of Handling Stolen Goods. Rhys has beaten a murder charge and has pending charges before the courts for harm and Possession of Controlled Drugs. But today, Rhys was before Magistrate Hettie Mae Stewart in […]
Less than a month ago, Belize City Stevedore, Jermaine Ottley, a resident of Allenby Street claimed that the Gang Suppression Unit had used excessive force on him. But this morning, Ottley was before the courts on a Drug Possession charge which soon lead to another charge. Ottley was first arraigned for a single count of […]
The police department finds itself in a quagmire tonight. It is investigating one of its own who shot and killed another cop on Saturday morning. Of the eleven bullets fired, one found its mark on the back of Detective Constable Dean Yearwood. The shooting happened soon after Yearwood had gotten off work and was in […]
Commissioner Whylie, flanked by the brass of the Belize Police Department, also commented on the direction of the investigation, as well as the subsequent action to be taken against Grant and Vasquez once the D.P.P. has been given the requisite files. Allen Whylie, Commissioner of Police “The file will be sent to the Director […]
Just before eight on Friday morning, thirty-three year old Nigel Neal was gunned down in front of his mother’s house on Progress Avenue in Roaring Creek Village. Blue, as he was affectionately known, was killed by a gunman who lay-waited him as he returned from the Belmopan Police Station. Residents say up to five shots […]
Two men lost their lives over the weekend. The first is a police officer who died at the hands of another in the city…we will come to that shortly. The other is the King of KTV Latino, Daniel Aguirre. Aguirre sang himself to fame in 2011 in our hit show KTV Latino, but he earned […]
Construction of a world class facility to be called the Marion Jones Sporting Complex commenced in 2004. Two political terms and several re-incarnations later, the complex is still underway. The media has, with good reason, grown very skeptical and cynical whenever this facility is mentioned. There was a proclamation last week that it would be, […]
When the Marion Jones Sporting Complex does open, whether in 2013 or 2014, there will be new rules put in place. One of those new rules is that the facility will only be used for tertiary level sports. All secondary level sports will have to be played elsewhere. And if you want to be a […]
And there’s another issue which probably won’t sit easy with Belizeans who’ve gotten used to taking that early morning or evening workout at the National Stadium. You’ll still be able to do it, but only if you join a club. And it’s not going to be free. Herman Longsworth, Minister of Sports “That I […]
Roaring Creek this morning was the scene of an execution style murder. Just after eight o’clock, a resident was executed within minutes of leaving the police station. The gunman appeared to have been following thirty-four year old Nigel Neal as he headed to his mother’s house. A hail of bullets was unleashed on him immediately […]
Twenty-four year old Arthur Baptist and his uncle, forty-four year old Melvin Baptist, were gunned down on June first in Belize City. Both men were socializing inside Melvin’s Barbershop on Neal Penn Road when two men rode up, entered the establishment and unleashed a barrage of bullets. Arthur Baptist was shot to the left side […]
A young woman accused of killing three of her children will appear in court on September seventeenth to stand trial on three counts of murder. On April twenty-seventh twenty-two year old Felicia Chen allegedly walked her four children into the sea at Belizean Beach and held three of them underwater until they were dead. The […]
On Wednesday, the Clerk of the National Assembly sent out a schedule and agenda of hearings of the Public Accounts Committee. That committee, mandated to scrutinize and report on government spending, is now run by four members of the Cabinet. Minister of National Security John Saldivar was appointed pro-tem Chairman of the Committee after opposition […]
The Chiquibul National Park continues to be a major draw for Guatemalans who want to farm, or pan for gold or cut xate or cut timber or exploit any of our resources that they wish. Between these looters and their bounty stand a few brave rangers of the Friends for Conservation and Development, joined on […]
The Central Campus of the University of Belize received a bomb threat at around five-forty Thursday evening. All students were evacuated by the security of the national university. Police and the MIT Unit as well as the bomb dog of the K-nine Unit searched all eighteen buildings as well as the rest of the compound. […]
Literacy and numeracy…together with comprehension are all hallmarks of learning. Today, primary schools across the country celebrated International Literacy Day with activities geared towards reading and writing in various forms including storytelling and poetry. News Five’s Isani Cayetano caught up with one school making the most of the special occasion. Isani Cayetano, Reporting International […]
The Stake Bank and Ocean View Grand two hundred million Belize dollar project with the Feinstein group of companies was unveiled on Wednesday. The development involves both Stake Bank and Drowned Caye and the construction of a causeway. There was support coming from stakeholders even as the National Environmental Assessment Committee was yet to pronounce […]
And if there was still any doubt that Cabinet has given the green light to the proposed two hundred million dollar Stake Bank Project, senior Minister John Saldivar today dispelled those. When asked about support for the massive undertaking, Saldivar was clear that barring some minor concerns, as far as Cabinet is concerned the project […]
