A man who was serving one of two years in prison for drug trafficking was sentenced to an extra year in prison for another drug trafficking incident. Today, nineteen year old Charles Leslie appeared in Magistrates’ Court where he was found guilty of possession of forty point six grams of cannabis. Magistrate Edd Usher stipulated […]
As suspected, there was a dramatic increase in crime last year, in particular in reported cases of carnal knowledge. Murders went up and so did robberies, burglaries and firearm offences. And Belize City gets the dubious distinctionas the crime capital. Figures were released today by the police department that show a comparative review of crime […]
It’s almost complete – that is the paving of Albert and Regent Streets. The works are in the last stages which would end the dust and the traffic congestions in the two main arteries in the city after five in the evenings by the end of this week if all goes according to plan. That’s […]
In political news, the temperature is expected to raise as the two main political parties go eyeball to eyeball in the race for municipal bodies. The City Council and Town Board Elections are important not only for the running of local governments in the city and municipalities around the country, but it will serve as […]
Electricity rates have gone down; that’s the word from the Public Utilities Commission in a press release issued late this evening. The Mean Electricity Rate dropped just under six cents from forty-four cents to thirty-eight cents. While the over seven thousand customers accessing the social rate will not see any movement, residential, commercial and even […]
Since the start of the New Year police are conducting special operations at the major bridges in Belize City. The stint by the armed officers of the Anti-Drug Unit aims to crack down on traffic, drug and firearm offenders. This evening we got a glimpse of how the operation was being conducted at the northern […]
We lead tonight’s broadcast with news of three murders in the last twenty-four hours… as two previous gunshot victims succumbed to their injuries. But first, today News Five returned to San Ignacio for the latest homicide, which is also the second for that municipality in past three days. It involved an attack on two employees […]
In the other two cases, two more Belizeans succumbed to gunshot wounds. Around four-thirty Monday evening, after ten days in a coma at the K.H.M.H., eighteen year old Cameron Blease died while receiving treatment for gunshot wounds he received after a crossfire outside the Princess Hotel on the night of December twenty-sixth, 2008. The culprit; […]
In one of the most recent shootings in the city, the victim is thirty-eight year old Marion Henkis who was shot while exiting her yard towards Regent Street West. At around six Monday evening, Henkis was in an alley heading to a nearby shop when she observed two young men riding on separate bicycles from […]
A Seine Bight teen has drowned following a religious ceremony. On Sunday, the lifeless body of seventeen year old Elmer Melgar was retrieved from the Swasey River near the Waterfall Area of the Stann Creek District. Melgar was administered CPR but never regained consciousness and was pronounced dead on arrival at the Southern Regional Hospital. […]
A shopkeeper has reported being robbed. On Monday, two armed gunmen entered the business place of thirty-one year old Areliona Leon, located in the Another World area of Roaring Creek. A scared Leon ran out the backdoor, leaving her fifteen year old shop assistant. The teen says the men then pointed a gun at him […]
James Gerou, the fourth of five persons named in the laundering of over one point five million dollars cash was finally charged today. The thirty-seven year old American National pleaded not guilty to the charge and despite the objection to bail by the prosecution, Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie released him on a bail of fifty […]
And in other news from the courts, a Haitian security guard is behind bars tonight for carnal knowledge. Twenty-seven year old Patrick Lorent, allegedly had sex with a fourteen year old minor on various occasions. Lorent will reappear in court on February sixth. The minor reported to police this past Monday, that the last time […]
Two men, twenty year old Kenroy Humes and twenty-one year old Kareem “Stamma” Smith, who allegedly shot seventeen year old Justin Roches in the right side of his abdomen, were charged with Attempted Murder when they appeared today in Magistrates’ Court. They were also charged with Conspiracy to Commit Murder, Dangerous Harm and Use of […]
It has been in the news for days and today the issue came up again in Cabinet and the verdict is that except for what amounts to a slap on the wrist, Diane Haylock will remain as President of NICH; that is the word from the Cabinet. Haylock appeared in front of the cadre of […]
Employees of the Belize Waste Control Limited (B.W.C.) took to the streets yesterday to protest the City Council’s lack of payment for garbage collection services. One of the cheques issued by the City Council just before Christmas was turned down by the bank due to insufficient funds. But today there is some progress and the […]
Since the implementation of the new bus system in October, the Ministry of Transport has had no end of problems and complaints… and tonight there is another gripe coming out of the capital. For two years Radiance Thompson has been selling her burgers and pastries at the bus terminal in Belmopan, but with the new […]
Newcastle disease is a virus that affects poultry, and it was first detected late last year in the Spanish Lookout area of the Cayo District. Because of its viral nature, it results in high mortality rates amongst infected livestock. Measures to destroy and cleanse infected areas have been taken but it has not stopped the […]
After a brief break due to the holidays, it’s back with a bang. That’s Tek it or Leave It, and tomorrow night to start your year right, another contestant will get the chance to win up to ten thousand dollars in cash. All eyes will be on the first ever male contestant, Carlos Lara, to […]
UNICEF and the Ministry of Education embarked on a unique project to establish intercultural bilingual education institutions in Belize several years ago. The schools, located in Dangriga, Aguacate, and San Jose in the Toledo District offer children the opportunity to learn in their first languages of Garifuna, and Mopan and Ketchi Maya; thereby contributing to […]
2009 is only five days old and already the murder trend is matching last year’s record high. On January third, tragedy visited a family in San Ignacio Town just as they were about to close for business shortly before nine that night. It’s an all too familiar story… yet another attack on a Belizean family […]
And in Belize City, crime continued unabated. The Castillo family’s moving day last week Friday was expected to be a happy and uneventful occasion, but it was everything that it shouldn’t have been. The homeowner plus the three men who were assisting with the move were shot and badly injured. Edmond Castillo and his wife […]
The shooting incident on Curl Thompson Street was not the only one that occurred on January second. After seven p.m. Friday night, a seventeen year old young man was shot when he went over to a friend’s home to play a video game by a familiar offender who was thought to be behind bars. Justin […]
James Gerou is back in police custody. The thirty-seven year old American baseball player allegedly got away from the Queen Street station on Friday before police could charge him in connection with the discovery of over a million and a half dollars, mostly in Belize currency in the biggest case of money laundering to be […]
A domestic squabble has landed a man to the remand section of the Central Prison. Thirty-five year old Ralph Sherlock Martinez a.k.a. “Miniman” who allegedly pulled a gun on his twenty-two year old stepdaughter, Lucretia Myvett was charged with Aggravated Assault and sent to prison until his case comes up on February third. Myvett reported […]
