Fruit cakes are a staple fare around the Christmas season. And although not everyone is a fan, tonight the temperature in homes across the country will go up considerably as ovens are lit to bake white and black cakes. For those trying their hand at making a black fruit cake for the first time, we’ve […]
We begin tonight’s newscast with the strange death of Ben Bou-Nahra, a thirty-four year old businessman who has had his own share of run-ins with the law. Bou-Nahra died from a single gun shot to his head early Sunday morning at the K.H.M.H. It follows two scuffles earlier in the night, one in Benque Viejo […]
And while Bou-Nahra’s death is yet inconclusive, a fifty five year old man was shot and killed early Saturday morning. George Emmanuel Cofffin was at the corner of South Street and East Canal when a man pulled out a small firearm and fired a single shot to his face. The senior citizen then walked from […]
While Police have a suspect in the murder of George Coffin, they have no leads as to what caused the death of a man who was found floating in the Belize River on the Northern Highway this morning. Officer Commanding C.I.B. says that they have been able to identify the body as that of Kevin […]
And there are more deaths to report tonight. A fatal traffic accident in the Toledo District has claimed the life of a high-ranking police officer. Around five Saturday evening, Inspector Floyd Reynolds and Corporal Eugene Benguche were en route to Punta Gorda in a grey Chevy Tracker when Reynolds, who was driving, lost control of […]
And while that accident occurred in the Toledo District, a Mexican National who resides in San Jose Village of the Orange Walk District died under similar circumstances. Yesterday, police visited a scene between miles sixty-two and sixty-three where they found thirty-six year old Javier Garcia lying in a pool of blood, apparently dead. It appears […]
Two B.D.F. soldiers are in the hot seat tonight facing investigations by their own and the police. The two were busted with over a thousand rounds of ammunition over the weekend. Thirty year old Sergeant Emerson Michael and twenty-nine year old Corporal Henry Williams were charged with Keeping Ammunition without a Gun License when they […]
But police tonight have no leads into an armed hold-up of an employee of a Belize City bank. During the broad daylight jacking, fifty year old Griffith Green was robbed of cash and personal effects after demanding the combination for the Alliance Bank ATM safe on Barrack Road. Green, who was driving along with a […]
It was not only the bank employees who were targeted by robbers, but thirty-five year old Guatemalan, Vergillo Serceno, says that he was jacked shortly after eleven Saturday night. Serceno says that when he got home in the Another World area in Roaring Creek Village and alighted his vehicle, a male person wearing a mask […]
In other crime news, a fourteen year old girl has reported being raped at knifepoint. The teen told police that just after midnight on Friday she was walking on Main Street in Seine Bight Village when she was approached by Wallace Cayetano, also known as Scurvy. She says he invited her to his house to […]
There is news of some good sorts today for the Novelo owned National Transport. Justice Samuel Awich today dismissed an application by the Belize Transport Department and the Chief Transport Officer Candaleria Saldivar against the owners of National Transport Services and the Novelo family. Justice Awich upheld an earlier ruling that National Transport can claim […]
There has been a lot of discussion on how the recent collapse of major global economies has triggered an economic meltdown around the globe. In Belize, depending on who you speak to, the response is varied. But there is no getting around the fact that natural disasters, budgetary shortfalls, and loss of revenue from many […]
In September we told you of MV Faina, the Belize-flagged merchant vessel which was seized by pirates. Almost three months after the capture, it appears that the hijackers will get millions of dollars in ransom payments. According to reports in the international media, the pirates had originally asked for thirty-five million dollars, but reduced that […]
A Belize City-based internet company is in big trouble with the Federal Trade Commission and the courts in the United States. On Friday, a Baltimore federal court judge found Innovative Marketing Incorporated in contempt of court for ignoring orders to shut down and hand over its financial records. Earlier this month the F.T.C. sued Innovative […]
The bad news continued with another report that the owner of a Belize City security company is being investigated by the Los Angeles Police Department. According to media reports coming out of the U.S., forty-nine year old Johnny Baltazar, owner of Elite Security, is being investigated for allegedly smuggling several handguns into Belize last year. […]
Eight year old Rashale Arana, who was battling with bone cancer, a condition referred to Osteosarcoma, passed away earlier today. Arana was in the U.S. receiving therapy and was looking forward to returning to her family and friends here in Belize when shortly before ten this morning, she succumbed to the illness. On December ninth, […]
Good evening, I’ m James Adderley and thanks for joining this Christmas package of Sports Monday. Week fifteen of the Belize Bank Super League football tournament brought Valley Renaissance to the M.C.C. Grounds to face Lake-Collet Survivors yesterday as the mad dash to make the post season continues. In the opening minutes we must say […]
Months of anticipation came to an end today when the paving of Albert Street finally commenced after many delays. Minister of Works Anthony “Boots” Martinez was among the many spectators downtown to see the first spurt of tar, hit the ground. Jose Sanchez reports. Jose Sanchez, Reporting On Thursday, officials and city residents were disappointed […]
A mother in Benque Viejo Town fears the worse for her son after he mysteriously disappeared while on a shopping trip to neighbouring Melchor de Mencos. Twenty year old Nelson Chulin reportedly left his home around nine on Wednesday morning to purchase a vehicle part. But when Chulin did not return home by eleven that […]
Police are looking for three suspects in an Aggravated Assault. Between twelve-thirty and one on Thursday afternoon, twenty-five year old Shama Menzies of Magazine Road says that while walking on Mosul Street she was approached by Taneese Mejia and two men. Menzies says that one of the men gave Mejia a handgun which she was […]
Shopping increases considerably during the Christmas season and criminals are using it to their advantage to slip in some counterfeit notes. That was the case for Friendship Restaurant on Hummingbird Avenue in Belmopan. Around nine last night, thirty-one year old Qun Fang Tan told police that two men, one Caucasian and the other of Hispanic […]
In court news, a couple was charged with ten counts of firearm and ammunition offences after police discovered a weapons cache during a house search. Twenty-one year old Sheldon Moguel and his girlfriend, eighteen year old Anna Hunter, today appeared in Magistrates’ Court to answer to three counts of Keeping Prohibited Ammunition, two counts of […]
Kicking a bad habit is no easy task… but today over a hundred inmates at the Hattieville Prison are saying they have done just that thanks to an on-site addiction program. News Five’s Marion Ali was in Hattieville for the graduation celebrations. Marion Ali, Reporting These prison inmates have reason to celebrate having completed a […]
Christmas shopping is in full swing, but not everyone can afford to purchase those new curtains, Marley, or even turkey and ham… With that fact in mind, the Yarborough Community Policing Unit in cooperation with various members of the business community embarked a food and toy drive. According to coordinator, Corporal Darius Martinez, they intend […]
On Thursday evening, the Young Men’s Christian Association held its annual Children’s Christmas Party at its headquarters on Faber’s Road Extension. The party caters to members of Y.M.C.A. and youths within the community of Port Loyola and Collet and allows them to showcase their talents. This year’s festivities, however, also had the participation of parents. […]
