It is exactly one week since seventy-one year old Ramon Cervantes Senior was reported missing, and three days after his decomposed body was discovered in a shallow grave on a farm off the Honey Camp road in the outskirts of Walk Town. There have been multiple detentions by Police, and reports of a ringleader on […]
In the old capital, gun violence is relentless and grows even more brazen. On Monday night, a young man was gunned down in his bed inside his home. Leon Burgess and his common-law-wife had just retired for the night when he was executed. Numerous bullets found their mark on his upper body and head causing […]
Over the weekend, sixty-six persons were left homeless when a fire spread through the Boca del Rio area of San Pedro gutting eight houses. The origin of that fire remains under investigation but tonight there are thirteen additional persons left without a roof over their heads in the Hattieville community. It took less than half […]
Earlier in the newscast we reported on a fire in Hattieville, but there is a development in respect of another blaze which totally destroyed a bar and a business in the City on June twenty-third in the Newtown Barracks area. A young woman, Jacqueline Arteaga, was tragically killed in that inferno; she was pregnant and […]
This morning in the Supreme Court, the case against Belize Water Services Ltd., in a lawsuit filed by a group of six former employees of the utility company, commenced before Justice Michelle Arana. Mark Menzies, Colin Morrison, Don Gillett, Michael Novelo, Journett McKoy and Charlette Barnett were fired from BWS in February 2013. They contend […]
According to Musa, BWS says that Menzies’ severance was included in his payout. The others, represented by Tricia Pitts-Anderson, are also seeking general damages which Musa says can range from a couple thousand dollars to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Reporter “Sir, the other side mentioned a hundred and eighty-eight thousand dollars that was […]
Earlier we told you that the body of a woman has been found two hundred yards away from the shallow grave that Ramon Cervantes Senior was buried in. The Cervantes murder has attracted national attention. Today, former Prime Minister Said Musa, a colleague of the deceased Orange Walk businessman and erstwhile politician Cervantes Senior, shared […]
Today, the family of Myron Smith was dragged to court on firearm charges. Myron was killed on the basketball court behind the Complex building on June thirtieth, just a stone’s throw from his house. The family had just buried Myron when police raided their house on Monday. The search allegedly yielded a firearm and today, […]
For seven years, Honduran national, Alexis Servia has been living in Belize illegally; his home is a boat moored at mile four and a half on the Phillip Goldson Highway. Police stumbled upon him during an investigation on Monday and today he was taken before Magistrate Herbert Panton and read a single charge for being […]
Earlier today, Germany routed Brazil in a devastating score of seven to one in the 2014 World Cup Games playing in Brazil. While the magnitude of the victory may not have been imaginable, a Belize City man has won the SMART World Cup Challenge for his predictions. Andres Grajales is a football aficionado who has […]
Fifteen performers took the stage last Tuesday with the hope of becoming this season’s champion of If You Can Sing it Bring. The three coaches have worked with them in the past few days to improve and perfect their singing talent and move them to the next round of competition. Coaches Jenny Lovell, Rick Pech […]
Today, hundreds of Orange Walk residents gathered outside the police station and magistrate’s court, awaiting the arraignment of persons detained for the sensational and gruesome kidnapping and murder of Ramon Cervantes Sr. The seventy-one year old businessman and farmer was allegedly taken from his farm on the San Roman Road on Tuesday. His body […]
As we told you earlier, more than three hundred residents gathered in front of the Orange Walk Police Station and Magistrate’s Court this morning. Reports circulated early that those persons detained for the kidnapping and murder of Ramon Cervantes Sr. would be formally arraigned today. The Police have remained tight-lipped and evasive about the investigation. […]
Cervantes was buried yesterday evening, immediately after an autopsy was conducted on his body at the site where it was discovered. His sudden, violent loss has shocked, saddened and angered the community, of which he was a vital part. He was a long-time teacher, a former Mayor and Senator, a businessman and farmer, and his […]
Sixteen families are tonight without roofs over their heads following a massive inferno which eviscerated eight buildings in San Pedro Town. While relief has been forthcoming, the families, a large number of which include children under the age of seventeen, have lost everything and starting over will be a challenge. This morning, News Five’s Duane […]
A Los Lagos businessman is detained pending the advice of the Director of Public Prosecutions after he knocked down a man on a motorcycle in Orange Walk. Forty-four-year-old Rolando Silva was allegedly overtaking a vehicle near the Tower Hill junction when he slammed head-on into a motorcycle being driven by thirty-two-year-old Marvin Tillett. The incident […]
A hit and run accident in the Toledo District has left one man dead and a minor critically injured. Shortly after nine o’clock on Saturday night, twenty-four-year-old Francisco Coy and a child were riding along the Southern Highway when they were hit from behind by an unknown vehicle. The driver did not stop to render […]
While all eyes were turned to the Cervantes tragedy this weekend, there was also some gunfire which resulted in one man getting shot three times. The incident happened in front of the Hi Five Nightclub early Sunday morning. Police would not release the name of the person who was shot, since he is not cooperating […]
Twenty-one year old Shane Fisher narrowly escaped death on Saturday when he came under gunfire from a known assailant. The Kelly Street resident was standing in front of Kick Down Fence Chinese Restaurant on Dean Street when someone he recognized approached him and opened fire with a sawed-off shotgun. Fisher received gunshot wounds to the […]
A pair of masked men entered Belize Medical Associates on St. Thomas Street shortly before dawn today and attempted to make off with two strongboxes containing thousands of dollars in cash and phone cards. Sometime around four-forty a.m., police received reports of a burglary in progress at the hospital. Upon responding to the location they […]
On Saturday, Paul Saldivar Sr. was rushed to the Western Regional Hospital with acute vomiting and diarrhoea. He died at the hospital that same day, succumbing to what doctors believed was a heart attack. But his family says it is foul play, and they are basing that assertion on the findings of an autopsy conducted […]
A pair of siblings, busted over the weekend in Hattieville with a little over seventy pounds of marijuana, is tonight on remand at the Belize Central Prison after being unable to meet bail, following their arraignment before Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser earlier today. Shortly after two p.m. on Friday, police, while conducting a checkpoint between […]
A young, Kenyan student who was busted at the Phillip Goldson International Airport was today arraigned on an immigration offense after he was found in possession of a fake, as well as an authentic passport he was using en route to the United States of America. Twenty-three-year-old Adannur Adan Abdullah, a student and resident of […]
An election was held by the Christian Workers Union on Saturday to choose a third trustee on its executive board. A hundred and twenty-four members participated in the process, casting a majority of ballots in favor of Ras Dion Pitter. The election succeeded a previous exercise in December 2013 during which Pitter and Maureen […]
This morning, the San Pedro Town Council was visited by members of the opposition People’s United Party on the island. The meeting, at the invitation of the current U.D.P. Mayor, Daniel Guerrero, was in reference to allegations of misappropriation of public funds at the town hall. It has been quite some time since an audit […]
