Another nolle pros in court and two brothers charged with murder were freed for lack of evidence. Just after one o’clock today, the trial came to a sudden halt and Gilbert and Nelson Martinez were released when the prosecution indicated it could not continue with the case. The reason? Both police and the prosecutor were […]
Turning to the economy, it’s no secret that “haad” times are hitting home and that little under fifty percent of the population is now considered poor according to a Poverty Assessment report. With the economic and social picture already dismal, Prime Minister Dean Barrow, warned on Wednesday at his first press conference for the year, […]
It made big news earlier this week when three of its employees were detained pending investigations into more missing monies. The news plunged City Hall deeper into scandal after the recent charges against Mayor Zenaida Moya Flowers and three members of her finance team last October. But the forty-eight hours that the cops were entitled […]
The Foreign Minister’s artificial border comment made to an OAS reporter in December will not be forgotten soon in particular since the borders remain porous. Still, a handful of B.D.F. soldiers are no match for the Guatemalan armed forces while they patrol the southern border. During his press conference on Wednesday, the Prime Minister reflected […]
There are fresh accusations coming from the Galvez family tonight and it’s against the police. Today Yolanda Schakron, the aunt of murder victim, Chris Galvez, told News Five that last night two of her twelve year old nephews were approached and intimidated by officers on motorcycles on Amara Avenue. One of the officers, according to […]
The Chris Galvez murder remains unresolved and the family has maintained there’s been a cover up. Aside from the alleged harassment of the minors on Wednesday night, there were other incidents that have allegedly taken place against friends of Galvez: the latest on Tuesday night was against an eighteen year old. The friend, who did […]
Brace up because the worst is yet to come. That’s because the economy is not a dark cloud looming over the Barrow administration, it’s a potential hurricane on the horizon. Prime Minister Barrow admitted that Quote “The upcoming fiscal year will be the hardest of the UDP term.” End Quote. And that is because there […]
But what about the revenues from oil profits? According to their data, Belize Natural Energy’s gross revenue from petroleum production is three hundred and twenty-six point one U.S. million. The government’s share is seventy-eight point five million dollars. BNE claims it only receives fifty five point five million dollars. But the largest share, sixty percent […]
According to the police statistics, crime is going down. But the man on the street knows that violence and grenade attacks are on the rise. Urban terrorism is the new description of the warfare between rivaling gang factions throughout the old capital. Morale within the Police Department is low and the strategy to combat crime […]
Gary Seawell, the Ladyville resident who has been on the lam since 2007, is the last of three brothers wanted by the United States on narco-trafficking and money laundering charges. Duane is locked up in the United States and Mark is in the Hattieville Prison fighting extradition to the U.S. On Tuesday morning the police […]
Forty-eight hours—it’s the maximum time that a person can be detained before being charged. And for the employees of the Belize City Council in custody, their detention time will elapse sometime around eight tonight. But word coming from CIB personnel is that it is still uncertain whether they will be charged for allegedly stealing approximately […]
He’s been a fugitive since February of 2007 and today the luck of Gary Seawell, ran out when an ongoing anti-drug, anti-gun operation resulted in his capture. Seawell was busted three and a half miles behind Esperanza Village, Cayo; a mere ten miles away from the police station. If his name doesn’t jolt your memory, well […]
At news time tonight, three male and one female employee are being questioned by Criminal Investigative Branch in relation to thousands of dollars missing from City Hall. The figure is put as high as sixty thousand dollars but the exact amount is yet to be ascertained pending the outcome of an ongoing spot audit. The […]
As we said, the exact amount of missing monies is not yet known and already there are many questions on what happens in instances where persons have paid taxes to City Hall. Either the record of payment is missing or the exact payment was “under-recorded” in the record books . Willoughby says the council will […]
America’s Most Wanted is a show that is well liked in Belize and as it now appears, several of the criminals featured on the show have headed this way for safe haven. This coming February, twenty-seventh, Channel Five will be airing a recent episode filmed in Belize City in which a primary school student, Cree […]
A Ministry of Works 12-H grader was stolen on the Young Gial Road in Teakettle Village on February third. Its operator, Douglas Arthurs, was bound and tied by armed bandits before they took off with the grader worth over three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Arthurs felt lucky his life was spared, but the investigation took […]
Coming close on the news of the sensational arrest of Robert Snyder, the chess player caught recently in Belize, another of America’s Most Wanted fugitives has been captured in the country. This time it is an accused murderer who has been on the lam for about a decade. Thirty-four year old Patrick Brown is accused […]
While Patrick Brown is now in police custody, officers from the Inter-mediate Southern Formation in Independence Village are looking for suspects in the nation’s latest known homicide. On Sunday, following a tip, police headed out to a feeder road off the Southern Highway, where they found the decomposed body of a Guatemalan national, who was […]
It was a gruesome scene last Thursday night when tragedy struck an Orange Walk Town family. The murder of fifty-three year old Baldemar Moguel at his family business on Stadium Street has left neighbours fearful to venture out of their homes. But the real shock is perhaps what police have confirmed to News Five. Up […]
The senseless violence spilled into Belize City over the past weekend. The proprietor of a fast food and grocery shop was shot several times on Saturday night. Forty-five year old Song Qing Gu, along with his wife, were at Chiu Kwan Fry Chicken, located at fifty-one Amara Avenue when a lone gunman rode up on […]
It has been a bumpy ride for the family of Belize City resident Bernadine Cattouse. One year ago, she lost her seventeen year old daughter, Michelle, to rivalry between gangs when she was shot on Belcan Bridge after leaving the Putt-Putt Bar. Three months later, another daughter, ten year old Carolyn was injured when the […]
Gunshots rang out in Orange Walk Town on Thursday night and within minutes, a ninth victim was added to the growing list of homicides since the year began. Baldemar Moguel was shot and killed in his store and in front of his wife just as they were preparing to retire for the night. A young […]
But in the city, just after the rush of the lunch hour this afternoon, two thieves stormed into Carmen’s Take Out on East Canal Street. It’s a time of the day when the popular restaurant is normally packed with patrons. But fortunately, there was only one customer when the two gunmen entered the establishment at […]
Within three hours of the armed robbery at Carmen’s, more gunshots were heard when a trigger-happy man fired a barrage of bullets on Youth for the Future Drive. His target managed to escape the gunshots unscathed by throwing himself off his bicycle and onto the ground near the Texaco Gas Station. The area was crowded […]
But turning to one of the bloody murders at the beginning of the week, police have two persons for the murder of nineteen year old Darrel Williams Junior and injuries suffered by three persons including a young student. Twenty-one year old Phillip Wallace and a seventeen year old minor were escorted to Magistrates’ Court this […]
