It is five days since the property of La Cabana owner, Mike Menjivar, in Las Flores, Belmopan was raided by the Gang Suppression Unit. Menjivar, his pregnant wife, their children and maid were all in the house when the G.S.U. carried out the pre-dawn attack. The G.S.U. head, Marco Vidal, gave his account of the […]
On Tuesday night we told you about the murder of fifteen year old Albert Valdez of San Ignacio. Valdez was stabbed and cut to the throat on Sunday night between an alley off Eduardo Luna and Blue Bird Streets after he got into an argument with two friends. Valdez was able to make it to […]
When the gang suppression unit was established, it was to deal with the gang related rivalry in the Old Capital. So tonight’s question is: Do you think that the scope of jurisdiction of the Gang Suppression Unit should be extended beyond the gangs and the City limits? Send your comments and responses using your SMART […]
It was announced on Tuesday in London that Lord Michael Ashcroft has been named to a key government appointment. Lord Ashcroft will now serve as the lead adviser to the military review of British troops in Cyrus. According to the report, Liam Fox, the defense secretary said that Lord Ashcroft would serve as the unpaid […]
The Under Seventeen National Basketball team is in Costa Rica for the COCABA Under seventeen Championship Tournament which got underway on Tuesday. In the opening games, Belize walked over Nicaragua by thirty one points and tonight will be going for the win against El Salvador. Today we spoke with Head Coach Fred Garcia via phone […]
Two men, one woman and a minor were all murdered over the past weekend. In the west, a minor’s life was cut short on Sunday night and it is suspected that the culprits were his friends; two minors are detained. Fifteen year old Albert Valdez was stabbed a stone’s throw away from his home in […]
In the City, the gun violence broke out early with a double murder at the start of the weekend. Antelope Street looked like a war zone on Friday night. Two men were killed by a single gunman who simply rode up and opened fire on a group of friends. Eric “Lip” Arana died instantly while […]
The double murder of Eric Arana and Dwayne Tillett in the City was followed by another homicide on Antelope Street at the break of dawn on Monday morning. This time a woman fell victim to the street violence. Along with a group of friends, including a fifteen year old minor, Aldeen Idolly Zelaya was heading […]
Aside from the murders, two other persons were injured in Belize City over the weekend. Twenty two year old Randy Allen and eighteen year old Brandon Vasquez were both shot once on their backs. At two-thirty on Saturday afternoon, the men were at a shop on Caesar Ridge Road when a man identified as ‘White’ […]
We reported last week on the complaints by the Belize Bus Owners’ Cooperative over new zoning being proposed by the Department of Transport that granted West Line Bus Company Limited morning runs from Belize City to Benque Viejo and returning in the afternoons to Belize City. B.B.O.C.’s President Thomas Shaw made pleas to the Minister […]
The Toledo Cacao Festival took place over the weekend in southern Belize, the home of the organic cacao and of the prized Belizean chocolate. The festival attracted throngs of both tourists and Belizeans lured by the delights of chocolate as well as by the many ways to transform the cacao bean into delectable treats. Toledo […]
On Friday the Gang Suppression Unit carried out a predawn raid at Miguel Menjivar’s residence in the Las Flores community in Belmopan. Menjivar is the owner of La Cabana Bar and lives under heavy security. Commander of the G.S.U., Marco Vidal told us that before five o’clock that morning, the unit carried out a search, […]
The accused gunman in a double murder was freed today due to inadmissible evidence. A Valentine’s Day ambush on Gill Street in 2008 left two men dead and one injured. Days later, police charged a sixteen year old minor for the murders of nineteen year old Eugene Flores and eighteen year old Roberto as well […]
A team from the Gang Suppression Unit carried out a surprise raid at the house of Mike Menjivar, the well known owner of La Cabana Bar in Belmopan looking for illegal items. It started before dawn and continued all day. A shoot-out ensued, Menjivar and his wife were held inside their house, but their three […]
As we said, at about six this evening, Menjivar was finally taken to the police station for processing. His attorney, Arthur Saldivar told News Five that the house was completely ransacked and that Menjivar was injured. Arthur Saldivar, Attorney “All rooms, all rooms in a whole has been shot up. There are bullet holes in […]
A high ranking police officer was busted with alleged counterfeit notes on Wednesday while at a bank making a deposit. It’s a major bust because Sergeant Sherwood Wade is the head of the Police Special Branch. This afternoon, dressed in a guaberra, he was escorted to court and was formally arraigned for Possession of Counterfeit […]
But those sixteen notes were just the tip of the iceberg and the cops are now on high alert, following an even bigger bust on Thursday afternoon. Thirty-five year old David Sedacey, who was busted with fifteen thousand US dollars in fake bills, was arraigned this morning for Possession of Counterfeit Notes. Police searched his […]
The official statistics released earlier this week say that crime is down. We asked our viewers if they felt safer even though the heinous crime of murder is up when compared to last year. By a large margin, as high as ninety four percent, viewers said no. One viewer said, “When more than ninety percent […]
Bus operators from the North of the country attended a meeting in the old capital at ten this morning. The meeting was necessary because operators were not happy with the schedules proposed by the Ministry of Transport for the northern and western zones. Some of the operators lost a number a number of runs, which […]
The Orange Walk Technical High School is getting a new name; we caught up with this piece of news on Facebook, were we found that emotions were running high among those not enthused with the change. The Chairlady of the Board of Management circulated a letter to that effect today saying the instructions had come […]
A Belizean is in major trouble across the border. Forty-two year old Argimiro Leiva has been arrested along with two Mexican nationals following an armed robbery on Wednesday morning at Aimee jewelry store in downtown Chetumal. The Mexican cops have recovered most of the loot; a whopping three hundred and forty thousand dollars in jewelry […]
You’ve heard about road rage, well there is a conflict on the highways today that has bus operators blistering for fair play and accountability. It seems that the rules of engagement have changed once again for bus operators of the north who feel that they are being hustled out of their routes, which means less […]
While bus operators are upset about the zoning that will affect them in the west and north, at the eye of the storm is Sergio Chuc, a Cayo businessman. Chuc was given the road permit under his company West Line Bus Company Limited which will be operating the morning runs from Belize City to Benque […]
On this side of the border, a cop is also in trouble with the law. The police sergeant was detained on Wednesday for counterfeit US currency and after questioning, he was allowed back to his desk. According to his attorney, Simeon Sampson, the accused officer called him this afternoon saying, that the Police Department has […]
On Tuesday the Council of Churches filed an application in the Supreme Court to join the Attorney General’s Office in a case brought by the United Belize Advocacy Movement (UNIBAM) and its executive president, Caleb Orosco. It’s a case that is attracting local and international attention and high profile lawyers are sitting on both sides […]
