Last week he shot two robbers who tried to hold him up at his shrimp farm, but this week two men he shot last year for trespassing on his property, failed to appear in court. As a result, Charles McIntosh of Marage Road, Ladyville, had the case against him dismissed. McIntosh had been charged with […]
Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It was only today that the newly constituted Sadie Vernon Technical High School was inaugurated, but already a total of two hundred and forty students are waiting for classes to start. The increase in number is due to the placement of third and fourth form students who were enrolled in Excelsior High […]
History was not made in the cramped confines of courtroom number one this morning as Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord denied bail to the Brown brothers. In prefacing his ruling, Lord maintained that even though the case gets more difficult everyday and there is no end in sight, his decision today is based strictly on the […]
There has been yet another change in direction in the legal wrangling over control of B.T.L., but depending on who you talk to, Monday’s ruling by the Belize Court of Appeal changes everything… or nothing at all. The Court of Appeal has set aside three of four declarations made by the Supreme Court Chief Justice […]
It might have been put on the back burner recently, but latest word out of the D.F.C. Commission of Inquiry reveals that its members have been hard at work. Via a press release issued this week, Chairman David Price maintains that data collected so far include board meeting minutes and papers, loan files, a loan […]
Forty-one year old Hubert Bennett hid his face today as he was taken across to Magistrate’s Court on charges that he stabbed an eighteen-year-ld to death. On Friday night, Tiquan Emmanuel was outside a club on Western Avenue when it is alleged that Bennett stabbed him numerous times to his chest and arm. It is […]
A youth accused of shooting a man, over another bicycle, was charged with attempted murder this week and remanded to Hattieville. In addition, eighteen-year-old Owen McFoy appeared before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers on Monday and was also arraigned on charges of use of deadly means of harm, grievous harm, and aggravated assault for the incident on […]
Another youth has been charged in the hold-up at St. John’s College last week. Twenty-three year old Kenroy Gentle of Mopan Street was today charged with five counts of robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery. He joins three others, Paul Rubio, Teddy Reyes, and Herman “Yagga” Morris now sitting in Hattieville Prison awaiting trial for […]
Belize City police have charged a fifteen-year-old minor in connection with the attempted murder of another fifteen-year-old. Police say their investigations have led them to strongly believe their young suspect was along with thirteen-year-old Andrew Wallace, who they alleged shot after the teenager. Wallace was later killed by a policeman’s bullet after he pointed his […]
Corozal police have arrested the driver of a minivan for a fatal traffic accident over the weekend. Forty-three year old Hugo Espinoza of Chan Chen Village has been charged with manslaughter by negligence, causing death by careless conduct, driving without due care and attention, and failure to render aid. Espinoza is accused of knocking down […]
Three men have been charged for a robbery in Bermudian Landing and a subsequent shootout with police. Surprisingly, one of them, Ernie Miranda, is a teacher and instructor at the Hattieville Correctional Facility. Miranda, Frank Elijio, and Erleon Garbutt appeared before Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord today where they pleaded not guilty to robbery, aggravated assault, […]
A Belize City man accused of burglarizing his common-law wife?s home was additionally charged with suppression of evidence. The charge arose when Jacqueline Welch appeared before Magistrate Margaret McKenzie on Friday, and told the court she wished to drop the burglary charges against Gregory Williams. When questioned as to whether she was doing so of […]
The shooting death of thirteen-year-old Andrew Wallace over the weekend remains under investigation, but his story and that of so many other young people who fall victim to violent crime or get caught up committing them are far too common. Today, News Five caught up with a group of youth leaders who are trying to […]
The weekend was filled with crime and tonight’s broadcast is likely to read more like a police sitrep than a normal newscast. But the incident which has caused the most concern, public speculation, and in many cases outrage, was the death of a thirteen year old boy who was shot to death by a police […]
Orange Walk police are on the look out for two men they believed killed a co-worker and then dumped his body at the worksite. The deceased has been identified as twenty-four year old Roman Cisuentes, a Guatemalan resident of the Honey Camp Area. Authorities say Cisuentes’s body was found on a farm with several chop […]
Police in Punta Gorda have made an arrest in the death of escaped burglar Colin Mangar. Heminio Ical of Forest Home Village in the Toledo District has been charged with murder, as well as handling stolen property. Police believe that Ical and Mangar were partners and probably had an argument over items that they had […]
Police in Belmopan have identified the body of a man discovered last week. According to authorities in the capital city, the badly decomposed body is that of thirty year old Enrique Doroteo. A post-mortem has since certified that Doroteo died of massive brain trauma due to a gunshot wound to the head. Doroteo’s body was […]
On Saturday, Belize City and Ladyville police responding to a robbery in Bermudian Landing soon became involved in a high speed chase that ended in a shootout between the cops and the robbers. According to Assistant Commissioner of Police and Head of the Central and Eastern Divisions, Crispin Jeffries, the police were on their way […]
Tonight police are appealing to anyone who can assist them in their investigation into the death of forty-three year old William Arnold, the watchman for Cavalry Temple Primary School. Sometime on Saturday, Arnold, who lives on the premises, was taken to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, but died from injuries police believe he may have […]
A police officer remains hospitalised tonight after he was knocked down in Belize City on Saturday evening. According to authorities, P.C. Jody Ingram was walking to work around three-twenty that afternoon, but as he reached the Pound Yard Bridge he was hit by a car. Assistant Commissioner Crispin Jeffries “He was reporting for duty. He […]
Another traffic accident, this time in Corozal, has claimed the life of a resident of Chan Chen Village. According to Hugo Espinoza, around nine on Saturday night he was driving his Toyota minivan between miles ninety and ninety-one on the Northern Highway when Ramon Rodriguez suddenly rode his bicycle into his path. Espinoza told police […]
The Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry is attempting to enhance its international profile, particularly with potential trading partners in the region. Today, it released a new video, which can be used at trade expositions and as a marketing tool by its members. The fifteen-minute documentary uses the beauty of Belize as its backdrop to […]
While many people who graduate from university leave campus life behind in favour of new pursuits, others become active members of their alumni associations and help welcome new students to their alma mater. The new director of alumni relations for the University of the West Indies is in Belize this week to help our local […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley with yet another dish of Sports Monday. The heavy downpour over the weekend forced the postponement of most sporting activities here in the Jewel. Since we live in the tropics, it’s no biggie; we simply shifted gears and caught up with Jude Lizama, tournament director of the National Softball Tournament […]
The Belmopan community is tonight mourning the loss of one of its own following a fatal traffic accident on the Western Highway. Twenty-four year old Nadya Castillo was a passenger in a Toyota Corolla heading toward Belize City around seven-thirty last night when it collided with an Isuzu pickup travelling in the opposite direction, near […]
