The political career of Mayor Zenaida Moya Flowers has been on a rollercoaster since she was first elected as the city’s first female mayor. Today it was on a high point; she walked free of the last two of a total of twenty-four charges brought against her. The charges of Failure to Comply with City […]
While the legal battles are now behind her and she can breathe a sigh of relief, the past thirteen months have been the most trying time of Moya’s political career. In a one on one with Marion Ali, the mayor revealed that the knocks of life have matured her but she remains committed to the […]
The leaders in the recently exposed human smuggling ring are highly connected persons and there officially seems to be more concern about leaks than about getting to the bottom of the scandal. News Five has been following the paper trail and in our special report on the immigration scandal, we have revealed the details that […]
After the revelation that human- traffickers managed to land three planes at the Philip Goldson International Airport in September and October and their human cargo headed across the border, public outcry began for an investigation. When that scam was busted, we launched an investigation that has shown that a steady flow of Chinese Nationals bypassed […]
The B.T.L. shares were launched for sale on October fifteenth, and from what we gather, the sale to the public is moving at a snail’s pace. Digicel Caribbean had indicated an interest to buy, but as far as we can tell, that has not yet happened. Last week the Social Security Board, by slim majority, […]
Up north, there’s still a quandary over the third payment to farmers for the 2009-2010 that was due this past Monday. Belize Sugar Industries Limited has been unable to come up with the cash because they lost an important source of income when ING bank did not renew their funding agreement in September. A loan […]
Gun violence has flared up again in the city. The executions of Eric “Ghetto Fab” Savery on Friday and Kenroy Mejia on Saturday, were followed by the homicide of Keon Williams Myvette just after six o’clock on Monday night. It is not known why he was executed, but Myvette was recently twice tried for the […]
Three hours later, there was another victim of gun violence. The first attempt on Keith Middleton was back in October, but on Monday night Middleton was shot in confines of his home and in the presence of his girlfriend. The blast caught him in the chest but so far he has survived both attempts. News […]
Two days after a vicious stabbing in San Pedro ended the life of twenty-three year old Lionel Pinelo, police have a suspect in custody. Today, twenty-one year old Jason Reyes, a resident of the Boca Del Rio area, was arraigned for Murder in the San Pedro Magistrate Court. No plea was taken on the indictable […]
The courtroom drama today was pale in comparison to the political theater that played out when she was first charged on October first, 2009 days after she had given birth to her first child. At the time Mayor Zenaida Moya became the first sitting mayor to be criminally charged. She angrily fought back at her […]
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An online report circulated to media houses today contains rather shocking revelations about a former minister of government as well as a former prime minister. The content of the document is the result of an appeal of a convicted drug trafficker, who was extradited to the United States and convicted in 2007 in a U.S. […]
The government is being completely silent on the gaping holes being exposed in Belize’s national security apparatus by the continuing revelations about the immigration scandal. Our investigations have shown that there are ongoing breaches, at multiple layers, in Belize’s national security arrangements at our diplomatic missions abroad, and locally at the Ministry of Defence and […]
The Visa and Immigration scandal has revealed a human trafficking ring that spans across the globe. The official investigation of the three flights with thirty-three Chinese Nationals that were trafficked through the international airport in September and October is lagging. The People’s United Party had already called for a Commission of Inquiry and now another […]
There’s breaking news just into our newsroom tonight. Keon Williams Myvett was shot in the head just before news time on Castle Street. Williams was rushed to the K.H.M.H. and is believed to be dead. We’ll have more on this tomorrow but Williams was recently acquitted of Manslaughter charge in the 2007 of Michael Gladden.
In our newscast on Friday we left you with the story of Eric Savery, the notorious street figure who was killed on East Canal on Friday afternoon. A little over twenty-four hours later, a minor was executed as he slept at an abandoned house in close proximity to the Savery murder scene. It is not […]
As we said, Eric Savery, also known as Eric Lewis, was murdered on Friday afternoon. Tonight Belize City Police are questioning one person in his shooting death. The thirty-seven year old was executed near East Canal sometime around two o’clock after an attempt on his life in the morning. The individual in custody is said […]
The weekend’s other murder took place in San Pedro where a cabinet maker was stabbed to death outside a bar. Lionel Pinelo had moved to the island years ago in search of a better future. But just before midnight on Friday, he was viciously stabbed outside a bar and he died hours later, early Saturday […]
Police are still trying to close in on leads in the other murder in San Pedro of Spanish flight attendant, thirty-seven year old Maria Antonia Plaza Gomez who was strangled to death on October thirty-first. Late last Friday evening San Pedro police detained a man who matched the description of the suspect in whose company […]
Our investigations on the immigration scandal started weeks ago when chartered flights from Haiti carrying Chinese nationals landed at the Philip Goldson International Airport. It exposed a human smuggling ring which we have said is international and complex. So far we have focused on the Chinese nationals who invariably obtain visas at the Embassy of […]
The media publicity over the termination of High Commissioner Kamela Palma on November first has stirred an ant’s nest in Belmopan. Last Friday at a press conference, Prime Minister Dean Barrow left a window open when he declared that Palma could possibly get her job back if she apologized to the C.E.O. of the Ministry […]
In the past twenty-four hours, there was a resurgence of gun violence in the city. The first did not turn out fatal and the victims were fortunate to survive. In the other shooting, a well known street figure was violently gunned down. We’ll have more on that shortly but first, it is believed that a […]
There is tension in the streets tonight following the murder of a well-known street figure who reputedly wore a bullet proof vest because he felt his life was under constant threat. Today, who ever wanted him, got Eric Savery dead. Eric, who resided in Ladyville off and on, was shot at twice today; once in […]
San Pedro police have taken into custody a suspect wanted in the vicious murder of Spanish flight attendant, thirty-seven year old Maria Plaza Gomez. The suspect, who was picked up in Caye Caulker, was transported to San Pedro a few minutes ago. Two other men who were detained following the brutal murder have since been […]
A car collided into a school bus last night at mile one and a half on the Western Highway. The car was extremely damaged and luckily no one was seriously injured. The driver of the car, Gaynor Richards was stuck inside the vehicle until officers cut the metal around her and pulled her out. The […]
