We reported earlier about a brawl in Progresso Village, and while that was nasty, further north in Cristo Rey Village, Corozal, a machete war early Sunday morning left three men injured. Police have since found out that twenty year old Richard Cantun was along with eighteen year olds Dennis Villatoro and Henry Pena as well […]
She is only five years old, but a school girl is reporting that she has been sexually abused. The alleged perpetrator is her step-father and the girl says that the crime occurred at her home in the San Pedrito Area of San Pedro Town. Last week she told police that her two younger brothers were […]
Over the weekend there was a major heist at the Maya Island Air office at the Philip Goldson International Airport. The brazen thieves easily penetrated the building and walked away with items, including tools, electronics and appliances as well as aircraft equipment. Over one hundred and thirty-one thousand dollars. Two men, thirty-one year old Lindon […]
The past weekend brought grief to at least three families. In the first instance, it is believed that robbery may have triggered the latest murder in the Old Capital. A market vendor of Honduran nationality who has been residing at Boston Village was shot at the start of the weekend. One man stood watch while […]
Meanwhile in Ladyville, a night out in the town turned fatal for well known resident, Robert Burgess, who worked as a security officer. Burgess, along with four others, was heading back home in the wee hours of Sunday, when their vehicle ran off the road and ended belly-up along the Northern Highway. Three other passengers […]
We’ve told you about the murder in the city and traffic accident in Ladyville; heading to Flowers Bank, Wilton Robinson, aka Premier, did not return home after a cricket outing in his village on Saturday. Search parties were deployed but came up empty handed; that is until this morning when his body was retrieved from […]
The 2011-2012 budget presentation was on Friday in the capital and details of how it will impact Belizeans are just beginning to take shape. Prime Minister Dean Barrow did reveal that while revenue and grants are projected at eight hundred and forty-three point six million dollars, expenditure is at eight hundred and ninety million. That […]
Last month there was huge public outcry after it became known that gas companies were shortchanging consumers. Subsequently, the Bureau of Standards introduced the National Metrology Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) Regulation 2011, which seeks to force butane companies to give consumers value for money. The regulation also requires gas companies to use scales, approved by […]
So just how will the Bureau of Standards implement the recommendations? First of all, there isn’t even a set of quality standards to go by in Belize. But Director of the Bureau, Jose Trejo, says while it will not be an overnight fix, they are serious about getting things done right. Jose Trejo, Director, Belize […]
We told you earlier about a fatal traffic accident in Ladyville, but a city resident needs your help to find the driver that knocked him off his bike and kept driving. The hit and run happened in the vicinity of the Swing Bridge where it meets Queen Street shortly after ten on Saturday night. Delivery […]
The 2011-2012 Budget was presented in the House of Representatives this morning. It is called Celebrating Growth, Sustaining Recovery and is to come online on April first. Before we get into the full figures, there’s a projected deficit, an increase in recurrent expenditure due to the wage bill and a slight increase in revenue and […]
Even though construction, manufacturing and fishing are not up to target and shrimp production has not shown signs of recovery, in the new budget, government is projecting a three percent growth in GDP. According to the prime minister, the growth will be reflected in electricity generation, retail trade, tourism services, transportation and agricultural production as […]
The budget will be debated on March twenty-third. It’s sure to bring fierce resistance from the opposition. But before that occurs, News Five asked P.U.P. Leader John Briceño for his first impressions of the budget. Briceño said it was a yawn, since old programs that never got off the ground were being rehashed. John Briceño, […]
At last poll we asked you our viewers and internet browsers to vote on whether you think the government should have a limit on what it spends on lawyer’s fees when it outsources legal work. So what was the response to the question? Well, a vast majority of viewers, ninety one percent to be specific, […]
At minutes before the five o’clock hour on Thursday evening, Andrew Moses was shot and killed by a lone gunman on Kraal Road, one of the City’s hotspots. Moses, a former postman, hardly had a chance of survival. Multiple gun shots hit on the left side of his chest, abdomen and leg. News Five’s Isani […]
A Belize City businessman, who has been in prison since February fourteenth, was released on bail despite objections from the D.P.P.’s office, which was represented by Crown Counsel Triennia Young. Young submitted that twenty-seven year old Bert Vasquez is a flight risk and more importantly, that he might interfere with the victim. But Attorney Ellis […]
An appeal by the D.P.P.’s office had an unusual end in the court today. Thirty-nine year old Albert Garbutt Jr. was initially charged with Attempted Murder, but was convicted of Dangerous Harm on August thirty-first, 2009. He was fined seven thousand dollars or in default three years in prison. This morning the Appeals Court judges […]
The housekeeper, who orchestrated a robbery at her employer’s house in Belama Phase two, was arraigned along with her co-conspirator today. Forty-six year old Donatila Najera and thirty-eight year old businesswoman, Sixta Medina, were jointly charged with Theft and Conspiracy to Commit Theft. There are two additional counts of Handling Stolen Goods against Medina, who […]
There was gunfire in the Old Capital this afternoon. At around five o’clock, a man was shot at the corner of Kraal Road and Ross Penn Road. He is twenty-nine year old Andrew Moses, who was in the employ of Minister of Works, Anthony “Boots” Martinez. Moses was rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, […]
The biggest drug bust in local history was recorded in mid-November 2010 when an executive aircraft stuffed to the gills with eighty bales of Colombian cocaine landed along the Southern Highway near Bladen Reserve. Since that sizeable haul reports of international drug activity within our borders have been far and few. That doesn’t not mean […]
A brazen home invasion in Belama Phase Two made headlines on March second. The story was that three armed men ambushed a helpless housekeeper, ransacked her employer’s home and stole over seven thousand dollars in jewelry and electronics. But it turns out that the maid, Donatila Najera, wasn’t a victim at all; in fact she […]
Solid Rock Christian Academy in Dangriga became the scene of a crime earlier today. This school is under the management of the Assemblies of God Christian Schools of Belize, with Revered Michael Evans serving as the local manager. According to Evans, while classes were in session, two armed men wearing masks robbed the school’s cafeteria. […]
The murder of businessman Jose Shoman and his family was foiled on the night of December thirteenth 2008, but five of the six men who plotted the crime were tried and convicted for conspiracy and firearm charges. The group of men, dubbed the Shoman five, appeared before Justice Adolph Lucas today for sentencing. They were […]
There is one unconfirmed report that upwards of four million dollars has been paid in fees to one lawyer in private practice to do government work. So tonight’s question is: Do you think G.O.B. should put a limit on what it spends on lawyer’s fees when it outsources legal work? Send your comments and responses […]
Brothers Dennis and Norman Trapp along with an Asian businessman, Lee Quan, known as Tommy, were involved in a crazy shooting incident at about midnight on February twenty-eighth down south in Punta Gorda. Twenty-six expended shells were retrieved from the scene and two police officers, who are also brothers, stand accused in the mayhem which […]
