Both the Prime Minister Dean Barrow and the Commissioner of Police Crispin Jefferies dropped a bombshell today in the recent spate of armed robberies. It is an admission that is bringing shame to the department. The violence was undeterred and criminals were controlling the streets. Barrow and Jefferies told the press that a recent sting […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow explained that it was one of the civilians who were apprehended during the incident in Saint Martin de Porres that turned in his partner in crime, the police constable. So now that the news has been spilled, the Police Department and the government will dismiss the officers who are suspects. Crispin […]
So if you’re wondering how the city will look after you leave for the Easter holidays, well Jeffries says his senior officers are on high alert and will not yield to the criminal element. Jeffries and his team will man the streets this Easter, but the PM is more focused on strengthening the Department. Dean […]
Rufus X, the outspoken critic who sports combat fatigue and with his trade mark shaggy head of hair and beard has not been heard of in quite a while until when on March twenty sixth, the Minister of Housing, called out his name in the House of Representatives. In the middle of the debate on […]
The criminal ring may have also planned the robbery at Courts Belize Limited on the Northern Highway shortly after three on Wednesday afternoon. In the ongoing investigation, it is now known that only two thieves entered the building, the total number may have numbered up to four because two other suspects waited in a parked […]
The spate of brazen murders and robberies has the national psyche on edge. Everyone desperately wants something to be done to halt the madness in the streets. Our question for today is ‘Do you believe hanging should be brought back?’ The answer to this question will be presented after the Easter recess in next Tuesday’s […]
At about three-thirty this afternoon, three armed masked robbers walked separately into Courts on the Northern Highway. The first headed directly upstairs where the cashiers are stationed and asked a female cashier to hand over the cash pan. She was threatened and handed over the money and the robbers ran out of the store. The […]
It is about thirty hours since the murder and daring robbery at the Scotiabank Branch in Spanish Lookout and police have already made some progress in cracking the case. Five robbers entered the bank after eight Tuesday morning and got away with a large sum of money from the bank and a customer. A K.B.H. […]
Also in the city this morning, a young man was shot in the head on Prince Street. Tyler Garbutt was reportedly going to visit his girlfriend when someone on a bicycle rode by and shot him in the back of the head. The bullet exited through his face and Garbutt is receiving treatment at the […]
On Tuesday night we asked the question: Do you at this time support the cuts in the budget of the police department? The question relates to the spate of murders and other violence in recent days in contrast to the limited resources available to the police to get a grip on the crime situation. The […]
Just a week after Prime Minister Dean Barrow painted a grim picture about the economic prospects for the new fiscal year, the Public Utilities Commission made that picture even bleaker when today it announced that water rates will go up. In a press release today from the P.U.C., it announced that it approves a twelve […]
Five thieves hit a bank in Spanish Lookout today in one of the biggest and deadliest bank heists in recent times. They got away with a large sum of money during the armed hold-up, almost double the biggest amount won in the lotto. Over three hundred thousand dollars was stolen in the robbery when the […]
And in the City, the area of Central American Boulevard near its intersection with Fabers Road has long been the scene of a number of shooting incidents. That area is considered a hot spot where another early morning shooting left one man suffering from gunshot a wound to the hand. News Five spoke with Police […]
And turning to our first question for this week. Given the level of crime, Do you at this time support the cuts made to the budget of the police department? Text in your answers to Smart phones to 8686 or go to our e-poll on our website. Still yet, sent us an e-mail to questions@channel5belize.com. […]
There was rampant speculation today that Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh had been placed on pre-retirement leave of seventy days. But when we checked the courts we found him sitting on the bench and that in fact a number of cases are yet to be heard by him. As far as we have been able to […]
In Spanish Lookout today, a bank heist, ended with the murder of a security officer. The thirty-two year old was killed on the spot when five thieves jacked the Scotiabank. We will more on this story later in this newscast. But first we go to the Senate which met today in Belmopan and while the […]
The budget for the police department is being slashed in the upcoming financial year which begins April first and law and order is expected to come under more strain. March has been a busy month for criminals, and even before the month closes, gun violence continued unabated in the streets of the old capital. Two […]
Meanwhile, a woman lost her life on the highway also over the weekend. Forty-six year old Leticia Marva Garcia, a resident of Unitedville in the Cayo District, was in a vehicle that overturned in a traffic accident on the Western Highway. Reports are that around seven-thirty on Friday night a family of three including Garcia, […]
There is another fatality to report. The lifeless body of two-year old Kelisha Kelly was found floating in the Belize River on Sunday morning by a Belize City resident traveling along the river. At about nine thirty that morning Colin Cabral, who was traveling along the river came across the body. It is reported that […]
The budget debate took up the largest part of the proceedings in the House of Representatives last week so few persons noted that an alarming piece of legislation was sneaked through the House. It is the Supreme Court of Judicature (Amendment) Act, 2010. The new law gives to the Supreme Court of Belize the power […]
A slew of taxes to be imposed to bridge the sixty million dollar plus financial gap in the budget for the upcoming fiscal year will prove to have far-flung effects on the local economy. With the implementation of an added twenty-five percent on the existing General Sales Tax, consumers will see an increase on items […]
On Thursday we showed you riveting images caught by our cameraman George Tillett of a shooting underway at North Front Street. Police have not yet levied any charges against the suspect they nabbed seconds after he allegedly robbed Accents Store and a customer paying an electricity bill. The seventeen year old was shot by the […]
The budget for the new financial year was approved this afternoon just before four o’clock when Prime Minister Dean Barrow wrapped up the two day debate. The ayes came only from the government side since across the aisle members were absent after having ripped through the budget on Thursday. Government projects to raise in revenue […]
Petroleum has been one of the largest income earners for the government over the 2009 to 2010 financial year. According to the prime minister, there was an inflow of approximately forty five million dollars from the local petroleum sector, coming not only from royalties, but also from income tax, working interest, production sharing, surface rental […]
The increase in the GST was fully ventilated in the House of Representatives by parliamentarians. We asked the question to our viewers if they thought the two point five percent increase is affordable. One viewer who participated by IMS, said that it is not affordable to the common man trying to make a living while […]
