On Monday evening, the lifeless body of sixty-one year old Lester Rowland was discovered inside a concrete vat outside of his home on Guerrero Street. A team of law enforcement officers worked diligently the following day to remove the corpse from the tank, before a post mortem examination could be conducted on site. While the […]
Elvin Penner, the disgraced former minister of state, who facilitated the illegal issuance of a Belize passport to a South Korean fugitive, has not been questioned much less investigated. But three public officers employed in the Passport Section of the Immigration Department today appeared before the Services Commission. Sharon Neal, Omar Phillips and Erwin Robinson […]
The People’s United Party believes that by his own admission in an email to the media, Elvin Penner committed an illegal and criminal act in the passport issued to South Korean fugitive, Won Hong Kim back in September 2013. But Penner has not been investigated, so late this afternoon; the P.U.P. filed a writ of […]
As you heard, the P.U.P. is asking the court to direct the Commissioner of Police to carry out a criminal investigation into the illegal issuance of a passport to a South Korean fugitive who never set foot in Belize. But tonight, we can report that there is another such writ of mandamus already before the […]
There were thousands of tourists today in the area of the Tourism Village when a pair of visitors narrowly escaped grave; they were wounded by the fragments of a nine millimeter round. The incident occurred inside the Brown Sugar Mall shortly before ten o’clock. A mother and her daughter were reportedly in the vicinity of […]
A News Five team traveled to a farm on the Guinea Grass Road where human remains were found by the farm’s caretaker. While the police would not confirm the identity on Tuesday, today, they verified that the remains were those of twenty-three year old Luis Moreno. Moreno had been reported missing by his mother, Marcela […]
In November 2013 Prime Minister Dean Barrow hosted a special press briefing to announce a countrywide infrastructure bonanza, what he called a plan on steroids. G.O.B. proposes to spend approximately seventy-six million dollars on major projects all over the country and that money will be sourced from Petro Caribe funds. When that announcement was made, […]
That’s good news for Belize City and other municipalities who will benefit under the National Infrastructure Plan. But there is an area in the north which continues to bedevil commuters. The San Estevan/Progresso Road in recent years has raised the ire of those who live in the area. The paving of that entire stretch was […]
A Belize City man, who claims he was badly beaten by the police and B.D.F. after he was accused of trying to steal a rifle assigned to a B.D.F. officer in January of this year, was before the court this afternoon to answer to a charge of attempted theft. He is twenty-two year old Patrick […]
A total of six illegal immigrants, who were rounded up as a part of a sting operation by the Immigration Department, appeared in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court today to answer to different charges. They are forty-five year old Jose Orlando Florez, a Honduran mason who has been living in Santa Cruz Village in Mango […]
Today, police officers, traffic wardens and transport officers gathered at the Belmopan Training School to learn the dos and don’ts of traffic enforcement. It’s all part of a larger Road Safety Project funded by the Caribbean Development Bank and launched in 2013. There are different facets to the project, from effective interaction with motorists and […]
As we told you, the Road Safety Project deals with everything from traffic enforcement to road conditions, specifically the road on what is called the western corridor. That’s the Western Highway to us regular commuters, and it is a particularly deadly stretch of road, claiming many lives and maiming many. If you’ve travelled that road […]
Moses Williams, a mentally challenged person, was shot and killed by the police in Big Falls. Police told News Five that Williams was shot after chopping the left arm of one of the officer. Today, the Mental Health Association issued a statement on the confrontation between Williams and the police that ended in his death. […]
There was significant progress made in the citrus industry today with an agreement to reconfigure the Board of Citrus Products of Belize Limited. We’ll have all those details coming up but first we go to the story of a Belize City family who is coming to grips with the death of their loved one whose […]
Up north, human remains were found today at a farm in the outskirts of the village of Guinea Grass in the Orange Walk District. A caretaker at a farm discovered the bones today on a trail in the farm. At news time, the identity of the person is not known, but a family has reported […]
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On Monday, the Government of Belize announced its intervention in the ongoing citrus industry crisis. That intervention came by way of enabling immediate financing to assure payment to growers, and restructuring CPBL to create an effective and cohesive management structure. It’s a complicated undertaking, made more so because of incessant tension between the CGA and […]
The announcement was made Monday that the Social Security Board will be taking on a financial role in Citrus Products of Belize Limited. Currently CPBL has a loan facility with First Caribbean International Bank. That facility will be bought by G.O.B. and then on-sold to the S.S.B. Now pensioners and contributors are touchy when it […]
The collision of a barge into the pier at Port of Belize Ltd., shortly before five o’clock this morning, has forced the company to temporarily cease operations at the dock. The freight boat was entering the low berth area of the facility when it crashed into the edge of the wharf, damaging a number of […]
There is an update to report tonight about Mexican national, Zurisaday Villasenor Mendez, who was granted a seventy-five thousand dollar bail by the Supreme Court less than two weeks ago. The Mexican national was to report to court today, but this may come as no surprise….Villasenor Mendez did not show up in Belize City Magistrate […]
In this newscast, we have reported on a number of cases involving land hustles and questionable land deals facilitated by various players in the Lands Department. We’ll have another such story in the next few days. But tonight, we can say that three persons, all political appointees who are related and linked to the Deputy […]
A US woman who was living in San Pedro for some time was picked up by US agents with the cooperation of local police and whisked away to the United States. There is little information available locally on how she was arrested and flown to the US, but the US Department of Justice in a […]
Punta Gorda police are tonight investigating the shooting death of a Big Falls resident at the hands of one of their own. Police claim that Moses Williams, a mentally ill patient, was reportedly throwing a fit at home when police were called to the residence. When they responded the officers came under attack by Williams […]
It has been one week since Stephen Kuylen Junior was killed in the front yard of his Orange Walk home. Today when we caught up with police in Orange Walk, they told us that while they are following up several leads, there has been no arrest. What abounds police said is rampant speculation about the […]
The Gang Suppression Unit is reporting another bust in the alleged ring controlled by Raynard Grinage. On Monday evening, the GSU mounted an operation on Central American Boulevard, where they spotted a Toyota car. Standing beside it was Orvin Leonard Hugh-Donald Beeks, a thirty-five year old taxi driver. The Unit proceeded to search the vehicle […]
