This week, a number of police officers have been taken to court to face charges for alleged criminal behavior against the people they are expected to protect. This at a time when the police department has mounted Operation Jaguar and is now involved in Restore Belize, the latest G.O.B. anti-crime initiative. We ask tonight: Do […]
There is another report of bad cops to add to the growing list tonight. A young mother and her boyfriend are suffering from injuries to the body which they claim were inflicted by several police officers attached to the Ladyville substation. But it is the victims who are facing a slew of charges. According to […]
On Monday night’s newscast we heard the story of the Garifuna Collective’s lead drummer, Joshua Arana, who claimed that a police officer abused him while he was walking home in Belize City early Sunday morning. Well today Assistant Commissioner of Police, Elodio Aragon Jr., answered questions on whether the alleged abuse which is now under […]
This is not the best of economic times and there are two young ladies that are appealing for help for urgent medical treatment. The first patient is twenty three year old Greilin Carcamo, who urgently needs a kidney transplant. Carcamo was in the news late last month when she developed complications that prevented her from […]
The other young woman who is in dire need of your assistance is twenty year old Stacey Kerr, who had a mishap over the past weekend that has left her almost totally paralyzed. Kerr fell from the verandah of her house in Ladyville. Like the earlier story of Greilin Carcamo, Kerr’s condition is grave and […]
The search for black gold across the length and breadth of the jewel has raised concerns from a number of environmental organizations that oppose oil prospecting. It was revealed recently that the entire country has been parceled off for exploration except for the Maya Mountains. Tonight we can report that there is another area where […]
Earlier in the newscast we told about the Guatemalan company that has a license for oil exploration in the Sapodilla cayes. At the same forum this morning, other groups penned their signature to join the cause against oil exploration. News Five’s Jose Sanchez has been following this story and has this report. Jose Sanchez, reporting […]
Julio and Vanesa, the reality wedding couple, share a unique love story that has captured the hearts of Belizeans all across. And while deeply in love, there is still plenty to discover about each other as they inch closer to their big day in August. This past weekend we accompanied the young couple to a […]
Exactly one week ago, Rodwell Williams was shot and critically wounded in an execution style attempt on his life. Today, police escorted two youths to the Chief Magistrate’s Court to face the music for that shooting. Twenty-seven year old Ricky Valencia and eighteen year old Akeem Thurton were charged with Attempted Murder, Dangerous Harm and […]
Police are also reporting tonight on a drowning at the compound of the Hattieville Prison. The lifeless body of an inmate remains at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital for a post mortem examination to determine the cause of death. Sometime around two-thirty p.m. this past Friday, June fourth, nineteen year old Eustaqueio Patt, who was […]
In the south, a fifteen year old minor of Independence Village was viciously beaten by another minor after nine o clock on Friday night. According to reports, up to six teens attacked the youth, but only one of them carried out the brutal beating with a baseball bat behind Rosas restaurant. According to his mother, […]
While fifteen year old Shaquille Bennett was murdered, a road traffic mishap in the Orange Walk District over the weekend claimed the life of fifty year old Daniel Cowo. On Sunday Cowo, a resident of San Antonio Village, was riding in a grey Mitsubishi pickup traveling along the Guinea Grass Road in the direction of […]
Several environmental groups are demanding a moratorium on oil concessions. So far APAMO, BELPO, COLA and Oceana have formed a super environmental coalition to protect the ocean, the reef and land from the devastating effects of a possible oil spill. The group which is now called the Belize Coalition to Save our National Heritage has […]
According to Matura Shepherd, in addition to the B.T.I.A., the Belize Tour Guide Association is also coming out strong against oil drilling and exploration. Shepherd said that the Tour Guide Association’s Chapter in Orange Walk is fuming over a current development near the heart of a sensitive protected area. As we’ve pointed out before, the […]
He is known as the lead drummer in the Garifuna Collective Band who travelled with Punta Rock legend, the late Andy Palacio, on his tours across the world. But today, Joshua Arana is making news for a different reason. He says he was heading home with friends early Sunday morning when he became the victim […]
There is another cop in trouble tonight. He is nineteen year old Police Constable Dennis Cecil Carr who found himself on the other side of the law today when he was charged with Aggravated Assault, Harm and Theft—all allegedly against his ex-common-law-wife, thirty-four year old Leonora Patricia Rhaburn. According to Rhaburn, Carr allegedly stole her […]
Two other police officers also appeared before the courts today and were charged for unlawful activity. Thirty-nine year old Leonardo Yama and twenty-six year old Frederick Frazier appeared before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers and were jointly charged with theft. Reports are that on May twenty-first both officers entered the home of Rene Rodriguez where they conducted […]
Inspector Dennis Lopez, the police officer accused of shooting construction worker, Stephen Buckley on the night of April twenty eighth was today granted bail in the sum of five thousand dollars. Lopez was denied bail last week on charges of Attempted Murder and Dangerous Harm, but the Magistrate’s Court cannot grant bail any longer for […]
Last Friday we reported on the death of a student from Sandhill. Today, twenty-one year old Dion Skeen, a resident of Ladyville, was charged with manslaughter following the death of ten year old Zion Belisle. The student, who had just left Pancotto Primary School in Sand Hill Village, was crossing the Northern Highway near mile […]
Mister Wilfred Peters, the Boom and Chime Band and King of Brukdong, was hospitalized on Sunday night. It’s not the first time the seventy-nine year old musical icon has had to take a trip to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Earlier this year, in January, Peters had surgery for an abscess on his leg. In […]
Village council elections were held in the past weeks throughout the country. Most of the villages were hotly contested and both parties at one point or the other claimed the upper hand. The interesting element this time round was the number of independent slates that contested the vote. According to a release from the governing […]
“Good evening I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. We’re inside the MCC grounds, where yesterday the City Boys united, formerly Kraal Road, made a stand against Placencia Assassins in a pivotal showdown. In some fifteen minutes into the action, when Leonard Valdez launches this left foot goal, which allows goalkeeper ,Charlie Slusher to […]
The lifelong friend and law firm partner of Prime Minister Dean Barrow, Rodwell Williams, was shot last Monday night in an execution style attack by two unknown assailants. Williams was flown to Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami for treatment where tonight Williams is still in critical condition. Doctors remain vigilant at his side due to […]
A child was tragically killed on the Northern Highway this afternoon when he was knocked down just after leaving school. The ten year old student died when he was being rushed to the hospital. The vehicle, a white Hyundai van, was heading to Belize City when the student ran across the highway in Sand Hill […]
There’s a storm brewing at the University of Belize over reports that at least eight lecturers will not be returning to the classrooms upon reaching the retirement age of fifty-five. This has stirred commotion among faculty members who claim that the UB management will not be renewing the contracts of these lecturers once they reach […]
