In football news, the Smart Mundialito Semi-finals were played on Saturday. In the first game, City Boys defeated Brown Bombers in sudden death penalty kicks…Cyril Jones of City Boys scored the winning shot. In the second game, Rising Stars defeated Collett Strikers 1 – 0 in regulation time with a goal from Camryn Lozano. Next […]
The internet and news outlets, including CNN, have been abuzz since Thursday and today about a company called CYNK Technology and its networking site Introbiz whose address was traced to the Matalon building here on Coney Drive. Introbiz is a social network operator that offered services to purchase the contact information of personalities including celebrities […]
Ramon Cervantes Senior was abducted on July first and killed on July second, beaten to death with a stick before being buried in a shallow grave. The men Police believe are part of the ring which carried out the heinous crime were charged with murder on July ninth, and for kidnapping on July tenth. The […]
A glaring concern expressed not only by Cervantes Junior but by residents of Orange Walk is that the three men arrested – Noe Gonzalez, Mateo Pott and Angel Antonio Cardenas – do not have the resources to have orchestrated the kidnapping and murder. The Cervantes family is convinced that it’s way bigger than that and […]
There was one shooting on Thursday night and going into the weekend there is concern that the gang violence could flare up. Tonight, the Belize Defense Force soldiers are back on the streets beefing up security, but the police have been unable to make progress in the spate of violence in which three persons were […]
The gun violence continued on Thursday night when at around eight forty-five shots rang out on the usually quiet Lizarraga Avenue in the King’s Park Area. Neighbours told News Five they heard as many as ten shots. When it was done, forty-year old Darryl Mayen lay on the ground bleeding from multiple gunshot wounds to […]
On June twenty-eight, Michael ‘Spam’ Ysaguirre succumbed to injuries he reportedly received following an altercation near the Conch Shell Bay Fish Market. While it was initially ruled as a sudden death, his family, including younger sibling and former Belize City Mayor Zenaida Moya, maintained that Spam had been murdered. In an interview with News Five […]
Who placed survey pegs on Goff Caye and what’s the plan for this beautiful, eminently accessible piece of Belizean paradise just eight miles from the mainland? That’s the million dollar question right about now. Last week questions abounded when it was reported that survey pegs appeared on the island. That suggests that somebody’s planning to […]
But while Minister Vega is focused on pointing political fingers at the previous administration, he may have to do some more digging to find out who is actually surveying Goff’s Caye. That’s because we tracked down Cervantes this afternoon. First, he verified that he indeed got a lease in 2002 based on a concept he […]
And it might have been, but it never happened. Wanting to do things the right way, Cervantes sought approval from the Belize Tourist Board and got it. But then he was shot down by the Coastal Zone Management Authority…and that was the end of that. Ramon Cervantes, Holds Lease for Portion of Goff’s Caye […]
The ashes of former Ambassador Alfredo ‘Fred’ Martinez were returned to Belize today, following a cremation in Guatemala City where he succumbed earlier this week. Ambassador Martinez, a preeminent figure within the diplomatic community, was instrumental in maintaining peace between Belize and Guatemala amid the longstanding territorial dispute between both countries. On Thursday, in Guatemala […]
On June thirtieth a discarded fetus was discovered under a hospital bed in the observation room in the Accident and Emergency Ward. It caused a stink, both literally and in the public arena. The Police commenced an investigation, but that apparently died in the water since the KHMH issued a very glib and ambiguous release, […]
And there was other significant news from CEO Longsworth – Director of Finance Carlos Perrera is no longer at the KHMH. The controversial Perrera has been under sustained fire from the Board of Directors at the KHMH, who made no secret of the fact that they wanted him out. Longsworth gave us an update on […]
Today the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital received a much needed donation of medical supplies from the Sunrise Rotary Club in Belize. It’s the result of a collaboration between the local chapter and their counterparts in Port Moody, Canada, and was born out of a request made for school supplies and book There was a request […]
Twenty-five-year-old Quinn Arnold, an unemployed of Conch Shell Bay, pleaded guilty to the offense of possession of a controlled drug, after being busted attempting to smuggle weed into the Belize Central Prison in her private parts. The discovery was made on Thursday by a female prison officer who stripped search Arnold upon entering the search […]
Innovation Program Belize, an annual competition for young, aspiring Belizean entrepreneurs and innovators, was launched this morning during a press conference held by the Public Utilities Commission. The inaugural session will be held in August and will feature a mobile application development workshop. The idea of the seminar is for two-member groups to create mobile […]
A trio of young athletes who have completed the Smart Football Summer Camp has been selected to represent Belize in Miami at an athletic training camp in the days ahead. After several weeks of participating locally, twelve-year-old Jovaunn Ramos of Hattieville, along with Deon Cacho and Shemar Waight are off to the United States to […]
According to Jovaunn Ramos, despite being nervous he is expecting to do well in Miami. Jovaunn Ramos, Summer Camp Participant “Well very nervous because it’s the first time and I just hope to do good and pass to the other guys because one of my friends, Deon, already went there and he says that […]
There is a development in the murder of Orange Walk’s Ramon Cervantes Senior. At around eleven a.m. this morning, accused murderers twenty-two year old Noe Daniel Gonzalez, twenty-eight year old Mateo Pott and nineteen year old Angel Antonio Cardenas were escorted back to Orange Walk Magistrate’s Court. There they were read the formal charge of […]
The Faber’s Road Extension has been the scene of two vicious murders and a shooting in a span of twenty-four hours. Edwin ‘Drive’ Flowers, one of the leaders of the PIV gang, was shot but survived the hit on Tuesday night, and on Wednesday afternoon, a body was found floating in a sewer lagoon nearby. […]
Hours before the murder of Duane Hilton, police made a gruesome discovery. A body was found floating in an open sewer lagoon, it was horribly gutted and already decomposing. The identity of the body could not be immediately determined but police can now confirm it is Davee Copius of Jane Usher Boulevard. His mother says […]
Felicia Chen, the young mother who drowned three of her children at Belizean Beach in April 2013, returned to court this morning. At her previous appearance she was unrepresented and pleaded guilty to murder but Justice Troadio Gonzalez did not accept that plea. Today, Chen pleaded not guilty to three counts of murder but guilty […]
The foundations of the Orange Walk community have been shaken by the recent violence and malicious conspiracy. Even as Police have been able to recover two bodies of persons abducted and cruelly beaten to death, they concede that it is a tangled web and there is much information they are still trying to unravel. We […]
On Wednesday, the first step to getting justice for the families of Ramon Cervantes Sr. and Sonia Maribel Abac was taken, with the formal arraignment of Noe Gonzales, Mateo Pott and Angel Antonio Cardenas. But it will take much more than that to quell the unease caused by the vicious crimes. For the community, the […]
Last week there was some consternation and concern when survey pegs appeared on the much used and much loved Goff’s Caye. It may not be a world heritage site, but for many years it has been the caye of choice for residents who want some sand, sea and sun for a day. So that’s why […]
