Over the weekend, videos of young girls engaged in sexual activities were posted on social media and shared hundreds of times. The leaked tapes have caused uproar because some of the participants could be minors, who appeared to be inebriated. Now sex with minors under the age of sixteen is rape; but there is also […]
The Government of Belize is on the hook for approximately one hundred and twenty million dollars after the United States Supreme Court today declined to hear the petitions for review of two judgments against G.O.B. – one in favour of Belize Social Development Limited (B.S.D.L.) and the other in favour of Caribbean Investment Holdings Limited, […]
Government will have to find a hundred and twenty million dollars even as Superbond renegotiations take place. But is Belize closer to obtaining debt relief from the Belize 2038 Bonds, also known as Superbond Three Point Oh? Credible information to News Five is that the Consent Solicitation to bondholders will be launched on January twelfth, […]
Weeks ago, Alexander Palacio was released from prison on parole for a manslaughter conviction. But his life was taken over the weekend in Punta Gorda where he was seeking refuge following his release from prison. On Friday night, a duo of shooters appear to have monitored his movements and then fired the fatal shots as […]
Six persons are in detention this evening after police stopped an armed robbery in progress at the Northern Fisherman’s Cooperative’s offices on North Front Street in Belize City this afternoon. Police responded to the area based on prior intelligence just after two p.m. and detained the men, including the driver of the van used in […]
A well-known foreman at the Port of Belize escaped death after he was chopped twice to the head on Friday night. In Ladyville, the Nicholas family was having an annual memorial for their son, Barney Cunningham. But later that night, word came to the gathering that Wilfred Nicholas Junior, better known as Chicky Blue, had […]
Police came out to the scene within minutes because the incident occurred just around the corner from the Ladyville Police Station. An injured Nicholas and his wife were escorted to the medical facility at the B.D.F. Compound at Price Barracks. There, they were given a medico form by the police who left the facility. But […]
“Free paper bun” for thousands of students countrywide on this Monday, after schools formally re-opened following a three-week holiday break. The Ministry of Education, with support from managers of schools, had tried to re-open them on January third with limited success. It was an attempt to make up four of six days agreed as having […]
A Ladyville man lost his life in an accident in Ladyville village on Sunday night. He was heading to work when it is alleged that a vehicle was reversing on to the highway and it hit the oncoming motorcycle. It combusted and the blaze claimed the life of the Ladyville father of one. At the […]
There was another accident, but fortunately there were no fatalities. It occurred at mile ten on the George Price Highway, and while no one perished, several persons suffered various degrees of injuries. According to a police report, sometime after five on Saturday evening, a truck transporting cement blocks allegedly reversed on to the highway and […]
There was a home invasion in Ladyville just before midnight last Thursday on Hibiscus Street. Twenty-six-year-old Steven Wade reported to Police that while he was inside his girlfriend’s house in the village, he was approached by an armed masked man. The intruder proceeded to rob Wade and his girlfriend of two cell phones valued at […]
Police detained a seventeen year old minor of Belize City over the weekend. He may face charges in the attempted murder of Kyron Tyrell Santiago. On Sunday afternoon, Santiago was shot to both arms and back on Police Street in Belize City. Police continue their investigations; however, initial reports say the shooting was a result […]
This Friday, thirteen-year-old Anaseily Gonzalez was allegedly kidnapped; her family believes it is by her Mexican father, forty-three-year-old Javier de la Cruz. De la Cruz was recently released from a Mexican prison for sexual molestation. The mother has reported that on Saturday, he contacted her using a Mexican phone number to say that he had […]
According to Menzies, the Jasmine Alert program is not as effective as intended. While anyone under eighteen years of age falls within the program, the police should immediately start investigations into a missing person report when it is filed. In that respect, Menzies asserts that the Corozal Police Department dropped the ball. On the […]
Two buildings went up in flames in Punta Gorda over the weekend; one was completely destroyed and the other partially damaged by the blaze. A couple who resided in one of the buildings was reportedly involved in a dispute and the cause of the fire is being investigated, but arson is not ruled out. News […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. {Feature including national team weekend friendly games; Weekend Warriors cycling race and C.Y.D.P. football match….}
The New Year has been greeted with protests in Mexico against a government price deregulation that sent the price of fuel there up by as much as twenty percent over the weekend. The Mexican government said the deregulation had long been planned, but unfortunately coincided with rising world oil prices. While prices are still relatively […]
Tonight there is a report of a despicable act upon an elderly man in Hattieville. It happened at a time when seventy-eight year old Clinton Belisle was grieving the death of his brother hours earlier on Thursday. He was inside his home at mile seventeen on the George Price Highway when around midnight, four masked […]
After spending two nights on remand at the Belize Central Prison, Japanese national, Asako Solis, who has been living in Belize for over ten years is home tonight. The thirty-eight-year old mother of two children is facing two counts of aggravated assault with a firearm upon her Belizean husband, Elvis Solis. Her husband alleges that […]
The Prime Minister is forced to make good on his promise and a thirteenth senator is nigh. This Tuesday, twenty-eight non-governmental organizations will elect the long anticipated thirteenth senator who is expected to bring meaningful debate and assist in changing the status quo in the Senate, where government appoints six, opposition three and the civil […]
Along with a shortlist of nominees who had been chosen to vie for the senatorial post came information that Froyla Tzalam, executive director of SATIIM, had declined her appointment. Tzalam, who also sits on the Thirteenth Senator Steering Committee as media relations officer, turned down the candidacy because her commitment to the organization is pressing. […]
Following the appointment of the thirteenth senator by the N.G.O.s, the Office of the Integrity Commission will swear in its new members at its first meeting next Thursday, January twelfth, in Belmopan. The Prime Minister recommended the names of attorney Marilyn Williams for Chairman; Armead Gabourel; Lisbeth Delgado; Wilmot Simmons, and Nestor Vasquez; while the […]
Students were away from the classrooms this week and so were teachers and other members of the Belize National Teachers Union. They are expected back in school next Monday as scheduled, long before a dispute between the B.N.T.U. and the Ministry of Education would come to boiling point. This latest salvo in an ongoing dispute […]
Police have re-captured thirty-nine-year old Eugene Bailey, who fled the long arms of law at the Queen Street police station at around noon today. Bailey had been taken to the station after he was sentenced to two-five year prison terms for firearm and ammunition offenses earlier in the morning. It is reported that he disappeared […]
Earlier this week we shared with you a wrap-up of the year in terms of crime statistics from the western-most part of Belize, Benque Viejo del Carmen Town. While that area is mostly quiet, about fifty miles east, the capital, Belmopan, sits at the center of one of the largest police jurisdictions countrywide, covering at […]
