Today, News Five tried to contact Prime Minister Dean Barrow, Minister of Immigration and Commissioner of Police Allen Whylie. Those attempts were unsuccessful. We actually wanted to ask just one question that seems to be baffling everybody – who told Assistant Superintendent of Police Julio Valdez to stop investigating after he found discrepancies in the […]
On February nineteenth, three public officers appeared before the Services Commission after Director of Immigration, Maria Marin, recommended their termination. The officers – Sharon Neal, Omar Phillips and Erwin Robinson, were fingered in a passport section internal investigation into the Won Hong Kim passport scandal. The Commission had ninety days to pass judgment, but in […]
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This afternoon, the Roman Catholic Church sent out an unprecedented release signed by no less than the Bishop of Belize City and Belmopan Dorick Wright. The Catholic Church is taking on the National Women’s Commission and its rally for twenty-thousand women to be held by on Thursday. We note that the rally is being heavily […]
On Tuesday’s newscast, News Five showed you three nationality certificates signed by former Minister of State Elvin Penner. We have been able to confirm that these documents were under scrutiny during the investigation which was halted by instructions from a so far unnamed person. Three persons – a Vietnamese national, a Taiwanese national and a […]
The shooting of a Belize City resident in Burrell Boom is drawing criticism in the village. Giovanni Berry was shot by a group of villagers who were reportedly accompanied by Burrell Boom police. The incident was sparked by the burglary of the house of Chad Gillett in which a licensed nine millimeter pistol was stolen […]
The following is not good news for the jewel despite a raft of legislation passed in February that includes the Financial Intelligence Unit Amendment Act and the Money Laundering and Terrorism Prevention Bill. Still today, Belize was named in a list of countries considered as major money laundering countries around the world. The 2014 International […]
The sixth traffic fatality since the beginning of March, but the fourth fatality for Rural Belize in less than two days was recorded this morning following yet another traffic mishap on the Philip Goldson Highway. Police say that over the course on Monday night, they were called out to an area between miles six and […]
Earlier we told you that the church is not endorsing the twenty thousand strong women’s rally organized by the National Women’s Commission. All indications are that the rally will proceed on Thursday and that women will be bused in from all over the country. Earlier today, Executive Director of the Women’s Commission, Ann-Marie Williams, came […]
Twenty-five year old police constable Abimael Romero remains hospitalized after being stabbed multiple times in Orange Walk on Sunday morning. The officer was reportedly in town visiting with his in-laws when he was attacked by a group of men while walking along Asuncion Street. He was stabbed as many as eighteen times to various parts […]
A daring rescue operation on Sunday night, conducted by rangers attached to the Toledo Institute for Development and Environment (TIDE), resulted in the successful retrieval of a fishing vessel and its occupants. News Five understands that the boat was adrift in turbulent waters off the coast of southern Belize when police and coastguard personnel were […]
Also in the south….Over the weekend, the Belize Territorial Volunteers organized yet another trip along the Belize/Guatemala border in the south. Residents in the southern communities led by activist and BTV founder, Wil Maheia, planted trees along what is believed to be the border between the two countries. After planting the trees, Maheia addressed the […]
The yearly coming together of paddlers in San Ignacio for the Belikin La Ruta Maya Belize River Challenge is often a spectacle of colors and athletic abilities and with the growing popularity of the race come the inescapability of the advertising dollar. That’s right; everything from t-shirts to canoes and refreshments is being marketed by […]
Aside from the marketing aspect of the Belikin La Ruta Maya River Challenge, there is the issue of citizens’ safety over the extended weekend. The finishing touches of the canoe race are being finalized and thousands of persons are expected to gather along the river banks to witness the anticipated event. The third and final […]
Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin today issued a writ of Mandamus against Commissioner of Police Allen Whylie. In simple terms, the Court has now instructed Whylie to criminally investigate the Won Hong Kim passport scandal and, of course, the man in the middle of it all, former Minister of State Elvin Penner. In addition, the Chief […]
Director of Public Prosecutions Cheryl-Lynn Vidal dropped an inadvertent bombshell last week, in the form of a memo to the National Crimes Investigation Branch. In that memo Vidal quotes from a report by Police investigator A.S.P. Julio Valdez. Valdez makes the shocking revelation that he found discrepancies in the Immigration Department during his investigation, but […]
What is being called a miscommunication between the Belize Defense Force and the police department resulted in the brief detention of several armed officers who crossed into Belizean territory at the northern border last Friday. The incident occurred prior to a high-level meeting held between B.D.F. officials and members of the Mexican military and caused […]
A San Ignacio police officer was stabbed as many as eighteen times over the weekend. The stabbing took place in Orange Walk Town where the cop had reportedly gone to visit his mother-in-law. PC Abimael Romero was found in a pool of blood by a resident of the area and it is believed he was […]
While PC Romero remains hospitalized at the Northern Regional Hospital with multiple stab wounds, in Burrell Boom, a Belize City man was more fortunate despite a volley of bullets unleashed in his direction. Giovanni Berry was asleep inside a newly built house in a remote area of the village when a group of villagers looking […]
Ongoing enmity between two rival Belize City groups has resulted in yet another brazen shooting, this time at a residence on Curassow Street. On Saturday night, a group of young men socializing inside a yard came under fire when an assailant reportedly rode up to the mouth of the alley and let loose a barrage […]
Moses Williams was shot and killed on February seventeenth, on his farm in Big Falls in the Toledo District. Police say they went for the mentally challenged young man to take him to the hospital and he attacked them with a machete. They claim that he chopped one officer before he was shot in the […]
A family is grieving tonight the death of thirteen year old Earl Ishmael Flores Junior. The minor was hospitalized since last week in a coma after he was injured in a hit and run near his home in the Buttercup community near Burrell Boom. The young boy was found bleeding and unconscious on the side […]
Another victim of a traffic accident, Jose Elmer Villanueva, succumbed just prior to the passing of Earl Flores Junior. The sixty-three year old was seriously injured last Tuesday when he fell out of a moving bus belonging to the J and J bus line, which was on a regular run to Chetumal. The elderly man […]
A third person who lost his life in a traffic fatality is John Wade. The Double Head Cabbage Villager was traveling towards Burrell Boom when he lost control of his motorbike at a curve in Bermudian Landing. Wade landed in the bushes and died on impact. ASP Christopher Noble, Rural Executive Officer, Police Department […]
There were two other fatalities to report…this time in the south. Two men from the village of Independence died on Sunday night when the vehicle they were travelling in overturned in Trio Village. At just after seven p.m., Police were called out to an area in front of the primary school where they saw a […]
