On Thursday night we told you about the death of forty-nine year old B.D.F. Volunteer Sergeant, Thomas Reyes Senior. On Thursday, San Ignacio police were considering Reyes’ death as a homicide; however, police have now ruled it as a suicide. Reyes, who was working as a supervisor with SOS Security Firm in San Ignacio, was […]
Thirty-one year old Lyndon Flores, an officer of the Belize Defense Force, is remanded at the Belize Central Prison tonight following an appearance in the courtroom of Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith. Flores is accused of assaulting his common-law wife Shayla Morena with a gun and destroying several household items during a domestic dispute one […]
Two Belize City men will face a jury of their peers for charges in connection to a double murder that occurred earlier this year. On February fourth, seventeen year old Daniel Puerto and thirty-four year old Ian Martinez were killed in a drive-by shooting, while Puerto’s twin brother Darnell was injured. The accused gunmen are […]
On Sunday night, armed men held up at gun point Orange Walk businessman, Rosendo “Chendo” Urbina Junior and his wife Becky as they were leaving their secluded house in the Honey Camp area. The couple and immediate family members have since fled the country to the United States. It’s a major story because Chendo is […]
The seizure of a hundred and eleven bricks of cocaine which resulted in the incarceration of Mexican national Martin Rafael Urias is attributed to a team of law enforcement officers on training near the Belize/Guatemala Border last Thursday. Those officers were deployed to the Belize/Mexico Border where they continued training with the US Customs Border […]
After collecting eighteen thousands signatures in a nationwide campaign, the Coalition to Save Our Natural Heritage through OCEANA triggered a referendum on the question “Do you agree to oil exploration and drilling offshore and in its protected areas?” OCEANA is also requesting that the question be put to the people simultaneously with the March seventh […]
The government has said the referendum is not binding and that it is only one of two roadblocks in front of the coalition. There is dissent and one of its members has broken rank triggering an internal natural disaster that the organizers tried to clean up during the conference. The Ya’axche Conservation Trust, which manages […]
A B.D.F. volunteer sergeant was found dead this morning at his house in San Ignacio. There were telltale signs that Thomas Reyes made have taken his own life. A note and gun were found nearby. San Ignacio police, however, are investigating it as a case of homicide. The forty-nine year old Security Guard was found […]
How did a gun stolen from inside the San Ignacio Police Station end up at the Price Barracks Compound in Ladyville? Earlier this week the weapon, a nine millimeter pistol along with ten live rounds of ammunition, was stolen from an on-duty officer, who was reportedly sleeping on the job. It has since been retrieved […]
Well-known Orange Walk businessman, Rosendo “Chendo” Urbina Junior was ambushed and held at gunpoint as he exited his gated estate on Sunday. This evening, Urbina and his immediate family, left the country on a late flight bound for the US following Sunday night’s assault. Urbina is the son of former ambassador of Belize to Mexico, […]
Belize has lost a brilliant legal mind who penned numerous pieces of legislation. Over a month ago, it was wildly reported that Attorney at Law, Elson Kaseke had passed away at a hospital in Merida. The premature news of his demise was quickly dispelled and Kaseke was in fact found to be receiving medical attention […]
Also on Tuesday evening, another Belmopan resident died in tragic circumstances. Shortly before six, Wayne Williams, owner of Williams Engineering Services and Director of the Central Building Authority, died on the spot in a terrible accident on the Western Highway. Williams was driving a Toyota Tacoma, heading back to Belmopan from Belize City when the […]
Also in court, a Belize City Shopkeeper, thirty-eight year old Arden Middleton was granted bail of twenty-thousand dollars after being on remand at the Belize Central Prison for five months. In July of this year, Middleton was charged with carnal knowledge for allegedly having sexual intercourse with a fourteen year old girl. The minor told […]
A Belize City man who was accused of setting on fire the bed where his family slept was freed today in court. Thirty-seven year old Gary Clark of Hunter Lane, was accused a year ago of trying to kill his wife and, in the process, injuring his young daughter. At the time of the incident, […]
Turning to a story that has been persistently in the headlines; that’s the case of Caleb Orosco and UNIBAM versus the Attorney General. UNIBAM is challenging section fifty-three of the criminal code that states that sexual intercourse against the order of nature is punishable by up to ten years imprisonment. Two days before the start […]
There is a growing trend of foreigners coming to Belize to undergo medical procedures that are more expensive in their country. On Tuesday’s newscast we reported on the move towards putting into place, policies that would institutionalize medical tourism. The Belize Medical and Dental Association (BMDA) called News Five late this evening to say that […]
A dangerous hand grenade and assorted ammunition were taken off the city streets on Monday night. A concerned citizen, whose identity will not be revealed, handed over a black plastic bag with the grenade as well as ammunition including twelve forty-millimeter rounds, fifty-two seven point six-two rounds, and eighty-six point two-twenty-three rounds of ammunition to […]
A terrible traffic accident is reported on the Western Highway. It happened before six this evening and it is reliably reported that a resident of Belmopan was killed. A News Five team is at the scene and we can say tonight that three vehicles were involved; a passenger bus, a gas truck and a private […]
We have been reporting on the woes of rice farmers, some of whom are now going out of business. Their sales have dipped by as much as fifty percent and the importation of Uruguayan rice has contributed to their financial losses. On Monday night, the Ministry of Agriculture reported that grain growers in Blue Creek […]
A sixteen year old high school student alleged in September 2008 that she was kidnapped and raped. But the now nineteen year old victim, took the stand today and told the court that she does not wish to proceed with the case against thirty year old Richard Russell. She provided no explanation as to why […]
Before turning to tonight’s question, our viewers were pretty close on our previous poll in respect of who would better represent Caribbean shores. When we checked today just before posting the new question, the poll gave Ann Marie one hundred sixty-six votes, Chandra received three hundred and sixty-five and Santi got eight hundred and ninety […]
It has been quiet on the city streets for days, but on Monday night violence flared up again. An eighteen year old Belize City student was shot and is hospitalized. Keshawn Goff and his girlfriend were riding on Welch Street shortly after seven p.m. when they were approached by a man near the junction with […]
The IMF country report was released late last week. It follows consultations conducted in August with Belizean officials on economic developments and policies. There are two issues that stand out in respect of social indicators. The report recognizes the high poverty rate of forty-one percent and says that despite a five point seven percent spending […]
The U.D.P. Caribbean Shores campaign was a month long; it was fought hard on the ground and on the airwaves by the three contenders. Two had strong political backing and on Sunday only one would emerge as the standard bearer for the constituency of four thousand plus voters that range from the affluent to the […]
On Sunday, November twenty-seventh, Castula Westby, a resident of Zericote Street in Belize City, was stabbed numerously; her family says as much thirteen times, while laying asleep inside her bedroom. The home invasion, it is believed, was the result of enmity between her grandson and a group of young men from the neighborhood over a […]
