The life of thirty-eight year old Nathan Underwood was also cut short. The Hattieville resident was at his bar, Nates Cool Spot, when he shot dead. The establishment is located in Gardenia, Belize District and Nathan was alone in the kitchen when he was executed. Police found eleven expended shells, but don’t have a suspect […]
The most recent murder took place this morning and in the nation’s capital. A mother of three, Regina Williams was found partially nude in front of her house in the Las Flores area of Belmopan. It is believed she was raped and then killed by a person known to her. Williams went out on Sunday […]
Heading back to the Belize District….just minutes after the murder of Nathan Underwood at mile twenty-one on the Phillip Goldson Highway, there was a shooting on the Old Northern Highway in Sand Hill Village. A twenty-six year old American national was shot once in her rear as she slept with her common-law-husband at their home […]
American businessman Bradley Paumen, owner of Dark Knight Cave Tours, was back in court today. Paumen is another person with high connections in government circles; so much so that he was able to obtain land belonging to another businessman with government’s blessing. He, along with several others, including Lisburn Anderson and Ian Skeen, appeared in […]
We don’t normally hear of the use of a pen gun in the committal of crimes in Belize, but around eleven o’clock today, Orange Walk police were called out to an area in Carmelita Village where they discovered the weapon in an open lot. Officer Commanding Orange Walk Police, Superintendent Selvyn Tillett told News Five […]
The well-known and loved artist John Rodriquez aka “John Jay” was killed in Dangriga in June of this year. His murder stunned the community; it occurred at the Harlem Square Game Shop which he was known to patronize. A number of patrons were at the club on the night of the murder and witnessed as […]
After more than a month in the hospital, police have charged twenty-three year old Richard Smith with four criminal offenses. Smith was chopped by his fourteen year old stepson for allegedly abusing his common-law wife, Ursula Ferguson, who is the mother of the minor as well as a five year old child with Smith. Ferguson has […]
A candlelight vigil is underway in Belmopan and was organized by a group of religious leaders and concerned citizens, following the decapitation of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas a week ago. Tonight’s initiative is part of a growing movement that was born on social media with a blog posted by Pastor Louis Wade. The vigil is the […]
The recent allegations of sexual abuse against children prompted a reaction by the National Committee of Families which is citing Belize’s ascension to the United Nations convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). A release quotes the CRC in part that children should be protected from being hurt and mistreated in body or mind […]
Interestingly, Eastern Division South did not see any major criminal activity over the weekend. In fact, it’s been three weeks since there has been any murder or violence triggered by gang rivalry in the city. ACP Chester Williams told News Five that several interventions with gang leaders over the past weeks have been working. […]
Earlier today, Assistant Commissioner of Police Chester Williams said that he is of the view that putting back the GSU in the streets to curb crime may not be the best option. ACP Chester Williams, Regional Commander, Eastern Division South “While many are calling for the police to become tougher and go out and […]
Eastern Division South has embarked on another community policing program for the summer. It targets underprivileged families and youths who are at risk of being recruited by gangs. Fifty participants between the ages of ten to seventeen years will be taken on field trips and visit institutions where they could end up if they are […]
There is unease in the always volatile sugar industry tonight as millers and producers argue over who should pay, after hundreds of thousands of dollars- worth of molasses was destroyed at the factory. ASR/B.S.I. has decided that farmers will need to foot sixty-five percent of the losses, amounting to just over two hundred and eighty-one […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Certainly was a biggie at Birds Isle Friday night in Interoffice Basketball play as Heritage Bank Heatz challenged the supremacy of the league leaders Mayan Man Warriors in what turned out to be a low scoring affair. Winston Pratt got the Warriors off to […]
There has been a full week of solid coverage of the bizarre murder of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas. Five persons including the man alleged to be the murder mastermind, William Mason, have been arraigned and are behind bars. The companion of Mason, Melissa Ferguson, is allegedly the subject of an intense countrywide search. The investigation continues, […]
Before coming to Belize William Danny Mason, using multiple names, was known to be a grifter, a con man, and a scam artist without scruples. In Belize he was a great friend of highly placed politicos and Police, but his schemes took on a violent tone. He is believed to have extorted several persons in […]
The birth certificate in question, obviously fraudulent, was actually issued by the Vital Stats Department which comes under the Attorney-General’s Ministry. That occurrence, we can tell you with certainty, is nothing out of the ordinary. For many years that department has been rife with corruption, seemingly unchecked. Hulse told News Five he is as frustrated […]
News Five also got the opportunity to speak to Minister of State in Economic Development Tracy Taegar-Panton. It seems that just about every other U.D.P. Minister hung out with William Mason, so did she? Tracy Taegar-Panton, Minister of State, Economic Development “I will respond to your question, but let me say very clearly that […]
Just when you thought that the B.T.L. acquisition fiasco had been settled, the Ashcroft Group and the Government of Belize are headed back to the courts for an interpretation of the arbitration award. Both parties are to appear before the Caribbean Court of Justice in the days ahead to get a clarification on the dollar […]
Frank ‘Papa’ Mena received ten thousand dollars from Mason toward his by-election campaign. At least he says it was only ten thousand. According to Prime Minister Dean Barrow, no other Cabinet minister received any monies, or at least they say they didn’t. There’s really no way of telling. For example, John Saldivar has admitted that […]
After nine this morning, there was a traffic accident on the Phillip Goldson Highway in front of Enrique Martinez and Sons Limited. It involved two government vehicles, a Ford Ranger Pickup registered to the Fisheries Department and a grader for the Ministry of Works. Both vehicles were traveling into the city and collided when the […]
Now the last time we spoke with Senior Superintendent Flowers, traffic accidents were a perennial problem in the precinct four area. Today it still remains the most prevalent issue officers find themselves policing in that zone. Flowers told News Five that a mobile patrol will soon be installed along the stretch of highway from Save […]
Up north, there is trouble in the sugar belt. Will sugar cane farmers in the north bear the brunt of financial losses from spoiled molasses? Caneros are tonight incensed over the suggestion that they will have to absorb sixty-five percent of the total cost of the wasted syrup. That works out to about twenty-two cents […]
An elderly homeless man is spending his first night of a five-year prison term in jail tonight for causing damages of four hundred dollars during a break-in. Sixty-year old Codrington Carter entered the Mercy Kitchen here in our neighbourhood on Mercy Lane looking for food. To ease his hunger, Carter burglarized the facility, and for […]
Two persons were injured in separate shootings on Thursday night in Belize City and San Pedro. In the Old Capital shortly after nine o’clock, gunshots rang out in the vicinity of Central American Boulevard near its intersection with Jane Usher Boulevard. When the gunfire subsided, a seventeen-year-old male had been shot to the right shoulder. […]
