Lois Young, the Prime Minister’s first wife, is the attorney of choice for the Barrow administration. She has been contracted as lead attorney in many of the government’s high profile cases. It is estimated that she collected well over one point two million dollars from the Ministry of Finance during the period from March fourteenth […]
There’s a new boss at the Belize Tourism Board. She is Seleni Matus. Matus has worked as advisor for the Center for Environmental Leadership in Business Mesoamerican Reef Tourism Initiative and has managerial experience in ecotourism and sustainable development. She holds a Masters Degree in Corporate Strategy and Governance from the University of Nottingham in […]
He’s been a fugitive since February of 2007 and today the luck of Gary Seawell, ran out when an ongoing anti-drug, anti-gun operation resulted in his capture. Seawell was busted three and a half miles behind Esperanza Village, Cayo; a mere ten miles away from the police station. If his name doesn’t jolt your memory, well […]
At news time tonight, three male and one female employee are being questioned by Criminal Investigative Branch in relation to thousands of dollars missing from City Hall. The figure is put as high as sixty thousand dollars but the exact amount is yet to be ascertained pending the outcome of an ongoing spot audit. The […]
As we said, the exact amount of missing monies is not yet known and already there are many questions on what happens in instances where persons have paid taxes to City Hall. Either the record of payment is missing or the exact payment was “under-recorded” in the record books . Willoughby says the council will […]
America’s Most Wanted is a show that is well liked in Belize and as it now appears, several of the criminals featured on the show have headed this way for safe haven. This coming February, twenty-seventh, Channel Five will be airing a recent episode filmed in Belize City in which a primary school student, Cree […]
A Ministry of Works 12-H grader was stolen on the Young Gial Road in Teakettle Village on February third. Its operator, Douglas Arthurs, was bound and tied by armed bandits before they took off with the grader worth over three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Arthurs felt lucky his life was spared, but the investigation took […]
In one of the more disturbing matters before the court today, thirty-three year old Enrique Pandy of Ladyville was charged with Aggravated Assault of an Indecent Nature. What makes the offence even more sickening is that the victim is a five year girl. All details of the matter were not revealed in court because it […]
The facilitators of the Conscious Youth Development Program are tasked with keeping at risk youths on the straight and narrow. But it has turned out the other way in the case of thirty-two year old Anthony Morris Junior, who holds a supervisory position at CYDP. Morris has reportedly been found in possession of stolen items […]
The saying goes: three strikes and you’re out. Well, for Joel McGregor after his third offence he’s in… in jail that is. At age twenty, McGregor has a conviction for burglary and one for theft on his rap sheet. His most recent charge came on Monday when he was arraigned for Burglary and was denied […]
The Citrus Products of Belize Limited and Citrus Growers Association have been on a collision course over a number of issues. Both sides are not letting up and the future of the industry is at stake. The C.G.A. is insisting it wants three of CPBL’s directors to resign, including Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Henry Canton. […]
Frankie Rhys is a local pioneer in jazz music and is also a well known activist for social causes. But he has been battling with diabetes for over thirty years and in the past months his condition has been deteriorating. Rhys has been transferred from the hospital to his home because further treatment is not […]
Jacob Diggz is the latest artist to make his name known in the music industry. He has been playing the drum since the age of four and while living in the U.S., he had made a little known album with Tommy Boy records. But Since returning to the Jewel, Diggz has changed his lifestyle and […]
Windows to the Soul, that’s the way Melody Sanchez-Wolfe describes the eyes because she believes they tell the story of a person’s inner feelings. It is also the name of her art exhibit that is opening at the Bliss tonight. Wolfe hails from La Isla Bonita, San Pedro and brings with her a variety of […]
Music that makes you dance, music that makes you sing and music that makes you feel: it all comes to the stage on KTV Latino. Last week the first seven contenders in Group A set the standards high with caliente performances that went above and beyond the Spanish language to impress both the judges and […]
Coming close on the news of the sensational arrest of Robert Snyder, the chess player caught recently in Belize, another of America’s Most Wanted fugitives has been captured in the country. This time it is an accused murderer who has been on the lam for about a decade. Thirty-four year old Patrick Brown is accused […]
While Patrick Brown is now in police custody, officers from the Inter-mediate Southern Formation in Independence Village are looking for suspects in the nation’s latest known homicide. On Sunday, following a tip, police headed out to a feeder road off the Southern Highway, where they found the decomposed body of a Guatemalan national, who was […]
It was a gruesome scene last Thursday night when tragedy struck an Orange Walk Town family. The murder of fifty-three year old Baldemar Moguel at his family business on Stadium Street has left neighbours fearful to venture out of their homes. But the real shock is perhaps what police have confirmed to News Five. Up […]
The senseless violence spilled into Belize City over the past weekend. The proprietor of a fast food and grocery shop was shot several times on Saturday night. Forty-five year old Song Qing Gu, along with his wife, were at Chiu Kwan Fry Chicken, located at fifty-one Amara Avenue when a lone gunman rode up on […]
It has been a bumpy ride for the family of Belize City resident Bernadine Cattouse. One year ago, she lost her seventeen year old daughter, Michelle, to rivalry between gangs when she was shot on Belcan Bridge after leaving the Putt-Putt Bar. Three months later, another daughter, ten year old Carolyn was injured when the […]
It’s been five days since the government owned 2000 12-H grader was stolen and tonight the Ministry of Works says that there is reason to believe that the grader was stolen with help from locals. The heavy duty equipment, which is valued at three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, was used for road maintenance in […]
They say that if you commit the crime, you should do the time. And it seems that’s a lesson construction worker, Marlon Curtis Usher, knew well because when he was busted with an unlicensed point twenty-five caliber Beretta Pistol and five live rounds of ammo, he quickly took responsibility for the illegal weapon. Usher was […]
The war among women is not letting up on the streets and tonight there is one more Belize City female behind bars for allegedly threatening her neighbor with a firearm. That’s the claim being made by forty-six year old Bernadette Euwatu, who called the police in fear for her life at about four-thirty last Thursday […]
Notorious figure, thirty-five year old Arthur Young and twenty-three year old Abraham Leslie were charged with possession of a nine millimeter gun which was found in an open lot in Ladyville on January thirtieth. . Young, who was freed of a murder charge as recent as three weeks ago, claims he is innocent and that […]
Last week, the host of America’s Most Wanted, John Walsh, was in Belize filming an episode which showcases the capture of convicted child molester Robert Snyder. Snyder failed to register as a sex offender and went into hiding when he was released from prison and then surfaced in Belize. Snyder is described as a cunning […]
