According to Smiling’s Attorney Michael Peyrefitte, they are requesting that the money be paid in full because Nembhard has shirked the court order repeatedly and is now considered a flight risk. Michael Peyrefitte, Attorney for Winston Smiling “When the matter was finished on the twenty-sixth of May the court ordered that Mr. Nembhard pay three […]
Not far away, in the Supreme Court, three of five men who were accused of the 2009 murder of John Paul Saldivar are suing the Attorney General’s office for wrongful imprisonment. Saldivar was shot several times in the Rocky Point area of San Pedro and his body was found in a shallow grave. Micah Thompson, […]
There has been a flurry of purported fraudulent land transactions involving the Lands Department. It all became public when Israel “Pie” Marin, the manager of Belize Diesel and Equipment found out that an island that he co-owned with Rosella Zabaneh was fraudulently sold off. Bikini Island was sold by a person using the alias Satuaye […]
Over eleven million dollars are outstanding to the Government through the collection of General Sales tax (GST) and a total of thirteen businesses who owe GST were targeted this week for committal. One businesswoman came close to going to jail after she was placed on a prison bus late Tuesday evening and was saved from […]
Tragedy has landed again at the front door of Delia Lewis. Lewis is the mother of a cyclist Maurice Usher who was hit in a terrible traffic accident last Friday night that sent him in coma. Usher was driving a motorcycle, heading to Belize City from his family’s farm when he collided with a bicycle […]
An aircraft belonging to Tropic Air suffered a blowout soon after landing at the San Pedro Municipal Airstrip this afternoon. News Five spoke with Tropic Air’s Johnny Grief, who says the plane pulled up to the terminal and almost came to a complete stop, when it experienced a flat tire. The passengers exited the plane […]
The Director of Public Prosecutions is appealing the sentences handed down to three Colombian nationals who pleaded guilty to a slew of charges on June twenty-eighth. Twenty-seven year old Alberto Bedoya, thirty-seven year old Hernan Dario O’Quendo and forty-two year old Yeney De Jesus Echavaria Manco were caught in Independence Village with fifty-three parcels of […]
Earlier today the Ministry of Sports announced that a delegation from FIFA will be in Belize on July nineteenth. The release says that it received a letter from the international football authority saying that the delegation comprises FIFA Executive and Emergency Committee member, Rafael Salguero; CONCACAF Executive Member Ariel Alvarado and UNCAF President, Rafael Tinoco. […]
Attorney Godfrey Smith’s Marine Parade Office was targeted by thieves on September ninth, 2010, but the six culprits were caught on surveillance cameras and the arrests were swift. Fredrick Waight, Jose Caliz, Charles Neal, Michael Fairweather, Kareem Gladden and Mark Alamilla were charged and pleaded not guilty to Burglary. But when the matter came up […]
Former village council chairman Walter Gillett, who was accused of embezzling money from Gracie Rock Village Council’s Atlantic Bank account, was today acquitted of four counts of obtaining property by deception. The forty-one year old appeared before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers to answer charges that he withdrew a total of nine thousand, eight hundred dollars from […]
Late last year, a chartered plane, coming from Haiti, landed at the Philip Goldson International Airport in what turned out to be a major immigration scandal. The passengers were originally passed off as Japanese, but it was later discovered that they were in fact Chinese nationals believed to be using Belize as a staging point […]
Now to a tragic story from the community of Jalacte in the southernmost reaches of the Toledo District. It involves a family feud over the weekend that left a twenty-two year old woman dead and police are on the hunt for her brother-in-law. Rafael Ack, a Guatemalan national, became involved in a verbal altercation with […]
From our checks, government has not yet filed an appeal at the Caribbean Court of Justice, as Prime Minister Dean Barrow said he would, against the June twenty-fourth ruling by three justices of the Court of Appeal, declaring that government’s acquisition of Telemedia back in August 2009, was unconstitutional, null and void. Ten days later, […]
The National Sports Council met on Saturday and unanimously voted not to register the Football Federation of Belize. Notwithstanding, the second leg of competition between Belize and Montserrat in a World Cup 2014 pre-qualifying series is set for Sunday in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. The NSC decertified the Football Federation of Belize, but FIFA has […]
A new report on the financial status of Belize has been written by a well known Financial Advisor of Oppenheimer and Company Incorporated. Carl Ross, the Managing Director of Investments at Oppenheimer has just concluded research on the ongoing fiscal strength of the economy in light of recent nationalizations that have sent the national foreign […]
It rained over the weekend and parts of the south are threatened by flooding. The National Emergency Management Organization has issued an advisory on water levels and as you can guess, the temporary crossing at the Kendal River is one of the areas of concern but according to NEMO, it is not yet flooded. The […]
But there is some good news. If you live in rural communities, it is becoming easier to access dental services. The Ministry of Health has received a number of mobile units that will be deployed throughout the districts to provide services to children, seniors and just about everyone. And since for many it is difficult […]
A sensational murder trial ended today in the Supreme Court. A woman was tried for setting her common law husband on fire. She is fifty-four year old Veola Pook and she was found guilty of his murder. At midday a jury of eight men and four women retired to the deliberation room and emerged almost […]
The Football Federation of Belize’s national selection is preparing to head to San Pedro Sula, Honduras for the return game against Montserrat but before it leaves, the National Sports Council will determine the status of the F.F.B. On Thursday, the F.F.B. got the news from FIFA headquarters in Switzerland that the body temporarily lifted a […]
Government, for the most part, has been stuck with shares in Telemedia since the company was first acquired in August 2009. There was an initial investment of fifty million dollars from Social Security and another four million dollars worth bought by ordinary Belizeans. The Central Bank has reportedly also acquired twenty million dollars worth. But […]
On Thursday night we told you about an advisory to consumers on the levels of mercury found in the Macal River Bay Snook. The release from the Ministry of Health stated that the levels of mercury have tripled and continue to increase. The samples were taken in April. While the release states that Bay Snook […]
The Belize Sugar Industry has processed more sugar than it expected the local market to consume. But there are some consumers who insist that there is a sugar shortage and that stores are rationing the amount they sell. News Five spoke this afternoon to the marketing manager of BSI, Damian Gough, who says that BSI […]
Team Belize will be playing a return match against Montserrat. That’s the word that came out earlier today from FIFA. The team will be heading to San Pedro Sula in Honduras early next week for practice before the July seventeenth game, the second in a series of World Cup 2014 pre-qualifiers. Belize was given the […]
The Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry met in emergency meeting on Wednesday night. The Chamber and its president have already been flogged on the airwaves and in the House, by government for its views on the re-acquisition of Telemedia and the nationalization of Belize Electricity Limited. Notwithstanding, the membership of the influential private sector […]
Four persons were injured in a shooting spree on Wednesday night within minutes of each other; at least one of the victims is in critical condition. We start at Glenn Street where a party was interrupted by gunshots coming from a man who rode up to the area on bicycle. Two victims were rushed to […]
