Twenty-one year old Rafael Mencias is tonight in police custody after being apprehended at a bus terminal in Corozal Town around nine-thirty on Tuesday night. As we reported on Tuesday night, Mencias was wanted for the gruesome murder of Philip Moses Hall, a resident of Carolina Village. Hall had been stabbed numerous times before he […]
Jaguar study was put on the map by Alan Rabinowitz, the author of a well known memoir called Jaguar which focuses on his experiences of the jaguars in Belize. Rabinowitz was instrumental in having the Cockscomb Basin declared a National Forest Reserve. Four years ago, he started an NGO called Panthera, which entered into an […]
In light of recent findings that as a country we are behind in education, we asked the question on Tuesday night: Do you think the education system is antiquated and therefore failing to address our developmental needs? Eighty percent of our viewers thought that the system is not entirely to blame. One viewer opined that […]
We have covered stories about gruesome murders, but tonight the slaying of a forty-one year old man in the north is one of the most horrific to report. Philip Hall was stabbed multiple times, his private parts were severed and then he was set on fire in a small house a few miles outside Corozal […]
As we said, sixteen year old Alexander Murray, a mechanic, was killed on Saturday morning. He and his older brother Alton, along with two friends, Glenford Martinez and Michael Stevens, were traveling in a black Pontiac Grand Prix car on Freetown Road, when they were cornered by two vehicles near Korea Electronics, a Ford F150 […]
The infamous fake cop, Aaron Wilson, who ran a scam on the Police Department for six months, was back in court today. On Wilson’s first appearance, he was charged with Forgery, Possession of a False Document, Unlawful Possession of Belize Police Department Uniforms and Accessories, Theft and Threatening Words. This morning the cop impersonator was […]
Anthropologist in social violence, Dr. Herbert Gayle, revealed a summary of his research on Male Social Participation and Violence in Urban Belize this past Monday. The findings are not entirely new, but still alarming. His research reveals among other issues that the education system, inherited from the colonial days, is placing Belize far behind standards […]
Under the cover of darkness, a minor was fatally shot and his brother injured at Cinderella Plaza. It happened after four in the morning when the usually busy plaza was scanty. Alexander Murray was in a car along with his brother, Alton, and two friends when they were sandwiched by two vehicles at the stoplight. […]
Alarming details were revealed today from a survey on Male Social Participation in Violence in Urban Belize. The research discloses that mothers have replaced fathers as heads of households, that the education system is lacking and that the conviction rate in Belize is lower than most countries. Dr. Herbert Gayle, a well known anthropologist in […]
The old capital this morning looked like it had been hit by a hurricane. The heavy downpour caused streets to flood quickly and a few stores downtown closed business as water seeped into the buildings. Some vehicles stalled on the streets due to engine failures brought on by the deluge. The heavy rains also affected […]
While the cane farmers were agitated in the north, in the South the annual general meeting of the Citrus Growers Association was subdued over the past weekend. The meeting started in the morning and went well into the afternoon; it was held with relative quiet compared to previous contentious meetings. The growers looked at the […]
In the north temperatures were running high as the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association ran into plenty trouble with its membership. Over a week ago, a number of its vehicles were crow footed by marshals of the court when the Association failed to make good on payments for fertilizers. The debt is being paid off, […]
There was another murder today; it’s the third for this week and it happened in the west of the country. The homicide happened at Legends Bar on Bullet Tree Road in San Ignacio and as News Five’s Marion Ali discovered, it is believed the slaying of the thirty-nine year old man was motivated by jealousy. […]
Late this afternoon, robbers jacked the Brodies Agrochemical division on the Northern Highway which is located near the first roundabout. Details are still unraveling but at least three men pulled into the compound in a car that has been described from gold to beige in color. The men, who did not wear any masks, but […]
Emil Audinett, who was detained for the execution style murder of Giovanni Lauriano, was released last night. No charges were brought against him. Lauriano, a well known street figure, was gunned down on Sunday evening as he headed home to his wife in Hattieville. He ran from his vehicle after the first bullet hit his […]
The tale of fake cop, Aaron Wilson, continues to spin out of control as more information is revealed about his misdeeds. On Tuesday we posed the question: Do you think the fake cop was being aided and abetted from within the police department to carry on his charade? Most viewers on our e-poll are convinced […]
The Westerhaven, the Great Escape and the Azteca were three notable vessels that ran aground on Belize’s barrier reef recently. But five years ago, another yacht, Summerwind, also damaged the reach but its owner is now claiming that his vessel never ran aground on Belize’s reef, despite irrefutable evidence. United States Billionaire Jeff Greene’s three […]
A Belize City resident was shot multiple times this morning and contrary to reports of his demise, he is recovering from surgery tonight. Thirty-five year old Jeffrey Roches was heading on bicycle to his mother’s house at about seven o’clock this morning when he was targeted by two gunmen, who unleashed a volley of bullets […]
The murder trial of twenty-seven year old Robert Taylor concluded today before Justice Adolph Lucas. A jury of twelve deliberated for over four hours before they emerged with a reduced verdict. Taylor admitted in trial that he stabbed Leslie Gentle Junior on July thirtieth, 2008 but claims it was in self defense. According to Taylor’s […]
He was detained earlier this week for the shooting murder of thirty-two year old Giovanni Lauriano. But when cops could not pin him down they released him. But sure enough, Emil Audinette, was brought back to the Queen Street Police Station today. Police now think they have enough evidence to charge him. Lauriano was gunned […]
The tale of the fake cop has stunned pretty much everyone. How did Aaron Wilson con the cops at Eastern Division where he allegedly reported to work, went on patrol and threatened to make arrests? The extent of his misdeeds is still coming to light, but from initial reports the impersonator was wreaking havoc around […]
Aaron Wilson the man who pretended to be a cop may have inspired a copycat. The details are still sketchy but a man was busted at an Orange Walk police checkpoint earlier today with counterfeit money. He probably thought he could be bold like Wilson, but he must have forgotten that Wilson was busted. So […]
Aaron Wilson is now behind bars at the Hattieville prison. Wilson passed himself off as a police officer for six months and claimed he operated out of the Eastern Division for months. He fooled the department and even his own common-law-wife. That has earned him the name of fake cop. His cover was blown when […]
It has been seven years since the murder of Arthur Ellis who was severely beaten and left for dead while entering his vehicle on Kraal Road. The fatal attack on Ellis on the night of November seventeenth, 2003 was sensational because he was allegedly killed by a close friend during an altercation over a parking […]
The owner of the boat that spent Saturday night into Sunday morning at the Municipal Airstrip in Belize City has come forward to explain what happened. That report made the news because the vessel was unregistered and the anti-drug unit showed up at the scene on Sunday morning. Damien Chamberlain has indicated that he owned […]
