A distraught mother and her sixteen year old daughter reported to police that on February seventh two women stormed their home and beat the minor brutally. Two sisters, Shantel and Sherae Robateau, have been named as the culprits and while they may have won that fight, the battle is now before the courts. Twenty-six year […]
There were two earthquakes today in the same general area in Central America. And while they were not strong enough to cause any major damages, they moved the earth enough to raise some brows. But as Marion Ali found out, this week has been a pretty busy one. Marion Ali, Reporting Their magnitudes were not […]
There is no shortage of information on the prevention of HIV/AIDS. Unfortunately, there is an abundance of new cases being diagnosed each year. A national assessment is being conducted that seeks to find the short falls and improve the country’s national response as it relates to HIV. It is the third biennial assessment under the […]
Back in April 2009, a large crowd gathered at the City Center for the launch of Mission Miracle or Operacion Milagros. But by the end of that month, the Influenza A H1N1, which was introduced then as “swine flu”, posed an international threat and the mission was put on hold. Well, the Embassy of the […]
A very successful music executive from New York arrived in Belize this evening. About four thirty this evening, Antonio ‘L.A.’ Reid, a Grammy Award winning songwriter and record producer, emerged from his jet to meet Shyne, the rapper who has become more bankable since his deportation to Belize. Reid is responsible for signing and taking […]
A large explosion sounded throughout Belize Sunday night. A few minutes after nine, people from all over the country were calling radio stations claiming it might have been a grenade attack or even comets falling from the sky. In truth it was the space shuttle Endeavor returning into earth’s atmosphere. While traveling at speeds over […]
The Department of Civil Aviation closely followed Endeavour’s re-entry into earth’s atmosphere as it headed for landing at Cape Canaveral. The shuttle moved directly over Belize’s path but by the time the boom was heard, it was already further north over Cozumel. Brian Dominguez, Operations Officer, Department of Civil Aviation “The Sonic boom is the […]
A taxi driver is recovering and is in stable condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after a traffic accident on the Northern Highway this morning. Police say the taxi driver, Daniel Itza, was injured in a collision involving his minivan and a Honda Passport, heading in the same direction and driven by Dion Robinson. […]
The Senate meets in Belmopan this Tuesday and it is expected to ratify the Seventh Amendment to the Constitution that was passed by the House of Representatives last Friday. Of the three changes to the amendment package, government proceeded with the two less contentious. Firstly, it passed the Caribbean Court of Justice as the final […]
The amount of money paid to the law firm of the Prime Minister’s ex-wife was also at the center of a feisty debate in the House. The Opposition has consistently raised questions about the amount of money Lois Young’s law firm has been collecting since the change of government. The issue was brought up in […]
There was a shooting in Belize City that has landed a repeat offender before the courts. In the wee hours of Saturday morning, residents of the Elston Kerr Street area were awaken by sounds of gunshots as two alleged gunman opened fire but missed their intended target, a city tour guide. One of the men […]
While Ham makes his second appearance in the court, Steffon Anderson, has appeared in Magistrates’ Court three times before and on each occasion he was convicted of drug related offences. It was déjà vu today as thirty-two year old Anderson was charged after being caught with weed for a fourth time. He pleaded guilty to […]
Last Thursday, we reported that the ordinarily quiet community of Sandhill was rattled when the only gas station was held up and the employees bound before being robbed of almost five thousand dollars in cash and items. By today police had bangled and escorted not one but three Sandhill residents to the Magistrate’s Court to […]
The vast expanse of the Caribbean Sea and Belize’s geographic location within the region has long made it an ideal watercourse for the transshipment of narcotics from South to North America. Along with the illegal trade comes the issue of crime and violence and while that may be the residual effect on land, law enforcement […]
The Garifuna Collective and the Umalali Women Singers are just back in Belize after a two week successful tour of North America. It’s an experience their producer, Ivan Duran of Stonetree Records, sees as a cultural exchange as the group continues to propel Garifuna music to the world. They toured for years with musical icon […]
It’s been one month and ten days since the seven point O earthquake ravaged Haiti, killing over two hundred thousand persons and leaving millions homeless. The global response has been quick and we found out that Belizeans are still doing their share to help our regional neighbours to rebuild their lives. Marion Ali caught up […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and we welcome you to Sports Monday. We take you immediately to the City center where all seven Central American countries converged Friday night for the staging of the Fifteenth Central American Karate Championship with Belize in role of host to this massive international event. Among the dignitaries present at […]
It was a busy day in Belmopan today. Teachers demonstrated outside the National Assembly, while inside the parliamentarians went head to head over the Education and Training Bill. The contentious article in the bill deals with corporal punishment. And while it will not come into effect immediately, the B.N.T.U. had asked for a delay to […]
It is one of the largest demonstrations against this government, and the ire of the teachers had been building up for some time. Estimates are as high as two thousand strong but by and large the teachers were orderly and peaceful. A News Five team was stationed outside the House from where Isani Cayetano has […]
While all the action was in Belmopan, where teachers from all branches of the Belize National Teachers Union marched on Independence Hill, in Belize City some schools closed their doors for the day while classes continued at others. Downtown at Holy Redeemer, the gates and classrooms were locked up and neither students nor teachers were in […]
It is one of the biggest drug busts in recent memory. On Thursday, police seized a whopping twenty kilos, that’s over forty-five pounds of suspected cocaine. San Ignacio police, acting on a reliable tip apprehended their suspect, Carlos Gibson, a resident of Alta Mira, Corozal. He was nabbed while traveling along the Western Highway and […]
Four men have been charged in connection with two murders this week. In the first instance, Dwayne Evelyn was arraigned before Chief Magistrate Margaret Gabb this afternoon for Wednesday’s shooting murder of twenty-two year old Peter Myvett on Kutt Avenue. Myvett was washing a bus near his house when he was shot by gunmen on […]
Meanwhile for the stabbing murder of Nigerian security guard, Kaluru Oloungududu early Monday morning, cops have brought a joint charge of murder against three men, two of who were his work colleagues. They are twenty five year old Jamal Jackson, nineteen year old Daniel Myvette and twenty-one year old Kareem Stevens who was once employed […]
Also in court, this morning Justice Troadio Gonzalez empanelled the jury to hear the case against interdicted officer Richard Polonio, who was attached to the patrol branch. Polonio was initially charged with manslaughter but that charge was changed to murder and the trial started promptly. Polonio is accused in the shooting death of Carmen Herrera, […]
Meanwhile, it turned out better for another ex-cop who was on trial. Francis Ogaldez was accused of extorting four hundred dollars from Ladyville residents, Windell White and his common-law-wife, Sonia Guerra last September fourteen. A jury of nine persons asked the court for more time when they could not reach a verdict but after almost […]
