Superintendent Mark Flowers, former commander of the Gang Suppression Unit, spent his first night on remand at the Belize Central Prison on Tuesday. The pretrial detention succeeds an arraignment at the magistrate’s court during which he was indicted on two counts of unlawful sexual intercourse involving a minor. The teenager is believed to be several […]
Flowers maintains that the charges brought against him are all part of a plot to make him the fall guy, to shift attention away from the ongoing investigation involving alleged murderer William ‘Danny’ Mason. He asserts that the Minister of National Security is meddling in the affairs of the police department where it concerns their […]
The former GSU boss Mark Flowers has gone on record to say that he gained access to the posh home of William Mason in Belmopan as part of a covert operation to investigate the businessman. Up until then, there had been allegations made against Mason that he conned several prominent entrepreneurs out of large sums […]
Prior to handing himself in at the Queen Street Precinct on Tuesday, the embattled Mark Flowers had a few choice words for those whom he believes are behind the conspiracy to bring him down. While he did not mention any names, it is safe to surmise that he is referring to Minister of National Security […]
Flowers fall from grace was not foreseen. The former head of the GSU once provided security for the former Prime Minister Manuel Esquivel and was seen at many political events behind the prime minister including, a rally of the U.D.P. victory in November 2015 general elections. While he claims he and his boss were not […]
Today, News Five was at the Belize Central Prison and got an opportunity to enquire about the status of the new, high-profile additions to the facility. As we told you earlier, William Mason and four others accused of the very gruesome beheading of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas, have been on remand since July nineteenth; former Commander […]
It’s not often that News Five is invited within the compound of the Belize Central Prison, currently home to about one thousand four hundred and twenty inmates. But today we were, and it was for a good and positive reason. The female population of the facility has been gifted with a new all-purpose classroom building, […]
Just one look at the Belize Central Prison would reveal that it is operating on a shoestring budget. The facilities are adequate, but not more than that. Before the construction of the new building, only possible through the largesse of generous and compassionate donors, the female population had little to write home about – just […]
Yes, you heard right. While the Kolbe group is committed to rehabilitation and turning inmates into productive citizens, the less inmates they have, the less money they get from government and the harder it is to make ends meet. That’s a dilemma that won’t be solved anytime soon. But financial woes aside, Murillo still insists […]
With so many things happening on the news front, the situation at the Sarstoon has been pushed somewhat on the backburner. But from official indications, while public attention has been elsewhere, serious progress has been made. At a training session this week, B.D.F. Commander Brigadier General David Jones confirmed that all is peaceful in the […]
Access to the Sarstoon was one major concern for Belizeans – another was the flagrant, brazen, unhindered illegal fishing not only on our side of the Sarstoon but all the way north to Barranco. From reports we’ve gotten unofficially, that situation seems to have been somewhat quelled, or at least not so brazen. Brigadier General […]
This morning at the Isidoro Beaton Stadium in the capital, we caught up with Police United Football Club as the players trained to take on a Honduran team in a home and away game in the CONCACAF’s Champions League on August sixteenth. It’s a big leap for the team that hopes to qualify for its […]
Now, to get Police United to the Scotia Bank’s CONCACAF Champions League is an expensive venture. Approximately two hundred thousand dollars is required for the team and delegation to travel and compete in the regional games in Honduras. Club Manager, Superintendent Andres Makin Senior says that the league, as well as corporate sponsors, has assisted […]
A cross-section of participants from various organizations, government and N.G.O.s gathered at the Radisson for a daylong conference where they discussed the impacts of climate change. A panel of presenters was on hand today to share professional opinions on the existing phenomenon. The forum was aptly titled Energy of Nature versus the Nature of Energy. […]
Flowers is not going down quietly. Today he provided a one-on-one interview on a number of explosive issues such as his relations with suspected murderer William “Danny” Mason; what he knows about financial contributions made to several politicians and of course about, Minister John Saldivar, his boss, who has not uttered a word to him […]
While Flowers admits to meeting the minor in the summer of 2015, he maintains that he never had any physical contact with her. As we mentioned, the report against him was made shortly after he relieved her stepfather of his duties as a farmhand. Additionally, Flowers says that similar complaints, had been filed by the […]
According to Flowers, there is a move afoot to tarnish his reputation. He believes that he is being politically railroaded because of a picture he posted on Facebook. That image reportedly shows Belmopan Area Representative John Saldivar’s political opponent Patrick Faber at an event where he can be seen interacting with another individual. That image […]
Following the sensational murder of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas, who was decapitated on July fifteenth, friends and acquaintances of alleged murderer, businessman William Mason have all disassociated themselves from him. One person who has been seen prominently posing with Mason in a photo that has since gone viral is Mark Flowers. The former GSU boss says […]
Flowers, in his account of meeting Mason, told News Five that the accused murderer bragged about having GSU protection when he first arrived in Belize a few years ago. That protection was provided by no other than his successor at the GSU, Inspector Glenn Caliz. Supt. Mark Flowers, Former Commander, GSU “As far as […]
Minister Frank Papa Mena, has admitted he received ten thousand dollars for his bye-election campaign in 2015 from William Mason. While everybody is keeping their distance with a pole a mile long, Minister Saldivar on Monday, admitted that he had received in excess fifty thousand dollars from Mason for his football club, the Belmopan Bandits. […]
But Flowers tells an entirely different story than that of the minister. According to Flowers, Mason made it known to him that he was part owner of the football club after handing over well over a hundred thousand dollars to Saldivar, but he could not appear as co-owner because he didn’t have an account in […]
Central to what has been unfolding over the past week and a half is Belmopan Area Representative John Saldivar, whose name is repeatedly being called in the current saga. Flowers insinuates that the senior politician may have had a hand in creating this perfect storm to distract from what is taking place with the Lucas […]
There was an impromptu protest this morning against ASR/B.S.I. Notwithstanding, the company set up barricades and the police showed up just in case. The protest was not advertised so only a handful of caneros came out to say they cannot accept part of the financial losses resulting from affected molasses. ASR/B.S.I. is proposing that the […]
On Monday, the People’s United Party chastised ASR/B.S.I. for the suggestion that the farmers will need to pick-up the bill for sixty-five percent of the losses incurred by the affected molasses. The losses, said the P.U.P., was due to the failure to follow standard procedures, but today, B.S.I. shot back strongly rejected the P.U.P.’s view. […]
The ongoing saga involving the relations between murder suspect, William Mason, and Cabinet Ministers as well as the beheading of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas won’t go away any time soon. The Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry today sounded off its view in the context of its Business Sustainability Agenda released just before the 2015 general […]
