Following the national song competition over the weekend, the September Celebrations Committee officially announced the calendar for the 2014 September celebrations. Preparations have been underway since February of this year and the calendar is packed with activities for the entire family. News Five spoke to Communications Officer for the National Institute of Culture and History, […]
Nello Player and TR Shine are among the top vocalists in the Jewel. This past weekend, they energized the crowd at the Memorial Park during the national song competition 2014 with their original songs. At the end of the marathon competition, the defending champs retained their titles as Patriotic and Carnival Song winners and were […]
The shooting spree over the weekend is the worst case of violence to grip the city so far this year. Between Friday night and today, four persons lost their lives in the craziest bloodbath: Ernest ‘JawMeighan’ Meighan, Raheem Crawford, Jose Portillo and this afternoon in San Pedro, the body of Santiago Trapp was unearthed from […]
The heinous murder of Ernest ‘Jaw-Meighan’ Meighan during one of the bloodiest weekends in recent history has sent shockwaves across the sporting community. Jaw-Meighan is to cycling what Pulu Lightburn is to basketball and what Leopold Smart is to boxing; a revered figure in the pantheon of Belizean athletes. This morning, friends and family of […]
The murder of cycling legend Ernest ‘Jawmeighan’ Meighan was only one of four over the bloody weekend, a weekend which also saw seven persons fall in a deadly hail of lead. The weekend’s first murder occurred early Saturday morning. Twenty year old Raheem Crawford was on a motorbike with a friend, Kevin Faber, just a […]
The lifeless body of fifty-six-year-old Santiago Trapp, a resident of San Pedro, was unearthed from a shallow grave this afternoon by law enforcement officers on Ambergris Caye. On Sunday night, acting on information received, police responded to an arson in the Secreto del Mar area, approximately thirteen and a half miles north of San Pedro. […]
The third murder for the weekend occurred on Saturday. Just before nine a.m., Hattieville Police were called out to a boat yard just before mile eight on the George Price Highway. There, they discovered the mutilated body of forty-two year old Jose Portillo. The Honduran watchman was chopped multiple times to the body and head […]
The shocking murders prompted an emergency meeting of the top brass of the Police Department which was followed by heavy police and B.D.F. patrols in the city’s hotspots. The police issued a release attempting to quell the fears of citizens saying that with immediate effect, the community and visitors to Belize City will see an […]
The crime blotter also includes a string of shootings in which seven persons were victims. Early on Saturday morning shortly after four 0’clock, while birthday bash was taking place at the home of Tiffara Usher on Ysaguirre Boulevard, Hattieville, a shot single shot broke up the celebration. It was fired from an adjacent fence injuring […]
There were three other shootings over the weekend, bringing the total to seven persons injured by gunfire. The first happened on Friday night. At about eight thirty-five, Police were called to the K.H.M.H. where they found twenty-five year old Mauricio Rodriguez shot to the left shoulder and right buttocks. The young man was socializing in […]
Tonight there are allegations that a woman living in Belize City aided in a murder attempt on her common-law-husband. Twenty-nine year old Indira Mejia, originally from Orange Walk, was this morning charged with abetment to murder in the court of Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith. Police believe that Mejia aided two men, twenty-year old Ignatius […]
Meanwhile a minor claims that she had consensual sex with her boyfriend even though she is only thirteen years old and furthermore that she was raped by his brother. The girl reported to police that around eight-thirty on Friday night she went to a Chinese Shop at the corner of Kraal Road and Faber’s Road […]
There were other crimes over the weekend. On Saturday, thirty-two year old Sunil Daryanani, was robbed by four men at his business, Gold Star Store, located on Albert Street. At around three-thirty, while at this store with two employees, an assailant entered the establishment and pulled out a firearm, pointed it at him and his […]
There is one more incident of crime to report. A Belize Electricity Limited Supervisor says that last Wednesday afternoon at around three o’clock when he checked the Belmopan compound of the Belize Electricity Limited, he detected that an assortment of copper wire and copper cable wire were either missing or damaged. The value of the […]
There was a horrific aggravated burglary on July thirtieth at the Crooked Tree home of Pastor Maurice Westby. His wife, fifty-one year old Betty, her mother, Vilma Wade and their fourteen year old son were held up by two burglars, one brandishing a knife. The men, who demanded money before escaping with Westby’s licensed firearm, […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. We begin with the Belize City Senior Female Softball playoffs as B.T.L. faced Beacon in a must win situation Friday night after losing game 1 of the semi-final series in a 13 to 11 decision Wednesday night at the Rogers Stadium. We pick up […]
Arthur Saldivar is known as a very vocal, very dramatic and flamboyant attorney as well as a political aspirant, but tonight both his careers may be in serious risk. He has been accused of making off with almost a million dollars from his client. Melonie Coye alleges that on June twelfth, after hours counting cash […]
And while Fonseca plans to take decisive action where Saldivar is concerned, he is also demanding that Prime Minister Dean Barrow do the same for Minister of Foreign Affairs Wilfred Elrington. Elrington’s brother Errol is a fugitive from justice, wanted in the US on racketeering and medical fraud charges. Errol is in Belize and incredibly, […]
Remember Rural Executive Officer Assistant Superintendent Chris Noble. He was the officer in charge of the entire rural Belize District. Well, he’s now Fleet Manager Chris Noble, in charge of all the Police vehicles countrywide. Doesn’t quite have the same ring, does it? So what happened? Well, as we understand it, Noble got into an […]
P.U.P. activist Albert Vaughan, who was arrested on Monday along with dozens of disgruntled B.M.L. employees for loitering and participating in an illegal gathering, was back in court this morning to answer to charges brought against him. Vaughn, you would recall, was covering a spur-of-the-moment protest in front of City Hall where angry sanitation workers […]
The plight of the BML employees who, up until the prime minister’s intervention on Wednesday, were in jeopardy of losing their jobs with the sanitation company is not lost on the citizenry nor will it soon be forgotten as a major political and public relations blunder by Mayor Darrell Bradley. While the commitment from central […]
And just what are Fonseca’s thoughts on P.M. Barrow interceding in the BML fallout? Well, according to the opposition leader, he supports the idea of coming to the aid of the workers since they were the ones who stood to lose their livelihoods as a result of the impasse. Fonseca says the decision by the […]
Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith will hand down her ruling in two weeks in the case of police corporal Darius Martinez who is accused of attempting to corrupt a public officer back in May 2011. During the trial which concluded on Thursday, GSU Officer, WPC Stacey Smith, told the court that she received a call from […]
Thirty-eight year old Wesley Emmanuel was today freed of murder charges in the death of thirty-six year old Emigdio Gomez which occurred in July of 2008. In a voir dire, Justice Troadio Gonzalez did not allow into evidence a caution statement taken from Gomez by police, on the basis that it was given under duress […]
Today, seventy-two proud recruits of intake number fifty-eight passed out at Price Barracks, ready to stand as soldiers in the Belize Defence Force. The graduation is the culmination of weeks of intense physical and mental training, with only the best of the recruits still standing to take their place in the ranks of the force […]
