There was a brazen home invasion at a popular restaurant in the Yabra area. On Sunday afternoon, the proprietors of Fantaxia Restaurant located on Queen Charlotte Street in Belize City were held up by three masked men, who carried a knife and two guns. The armed burglars proceeded to tie up an elderly woman and […]
A report was made to the Police over the weekend of the abduction of a minor. On Saturday sometime after three p.m., a fifteen-year-old girl reported that she was walking on Holy Emmanuel Street heading towards La Croix Boulevard. Within minutes, a white heavily tinted SUV stopped about four feet from her before a cyclist […]
Five Mexican nationals, who were detained on Thursday evening at a boutique, were released on Saturday afternoon. After being held for almost three days, forty-seven-year-old attorney Reymundo Choc, his wife thirty-year-old Norma Gonzalez, forty-seven-year-old Victorino Rivera, thirty-five-year-old Jovita Sagredo and Blanca Sagredo were free to go without any charges. Choc and Rivera were held at […]
The Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital turned twenty-three on Saturday. The authority at the national referral hospital, which has endured good and bad times, held a brief ceremony to acknowledge the milestone. Over two months ago, Michelle Cox-Hoare was named as the new Chief Executive Officer to replace Doctor Adrian Coye, who resigned from the position. […]
The People’s United Party today reacted to a statement by the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry in respect of the U.H.S. loan motion which was taken to House, but voted down. The P.U.P. notes that it took a very long time for the social partners to condemn the childish and petulant behaviour of the […]
The National Trade Union Congress of Belize is calling out the Belize City Council for Union Busting. The umbrella union wrote to Mayor Bernard Wagner warning that it will not stand by and allow one of its Affiliates to suffer such actions by any entity. That affiliate is the Christian Workers Union. As we reported […]
Police also reported today on an attempted rape in Corozal. A Hispanic man is in custody tonight pending charges of assault of a female minor in San Andres, Corozal. On Sunday night, a seventeen-year-old girl was riding a bicycle near the Corozal Community College auditorium when she was attacked. According to the minor, she was […]
Police are looking for a suspect in a shooting on Sunday night in which a man was injured. Twenty-nine-year-old Darryl Berry it seems was at the wrong place at the wrong time because as he rode his bicycle towards the intersection of Fabers Road Extension and the George Price Highway, he was struck in the […]
Thirty-two-year-old Deon Bruce has been on remand since January 2014 on a committal warrant by then Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith who ordered his extradition to face criminal charges including murder, in the USA. Bruce stands accused of fatally shooting Aaron Carter in July 2010 in Chicago, Illinois. In 2014, Bruce’s then-attorney Audrey Matura-Shepherd successfully […]
In late August, we reported on a shooting incident on Mahogany Street where Dawn Parchue had been shot multiple times to the body. The attempt made on her life was as a result of an altercation minutes earlier with a group of persons at a restaurant in the area. Three weeks later, police were able […]
Going into the weekend, we reported on the brazen robbery in Belmopan in which two minors were involved; they were caught at the bus terminal with the loot and a recreational weapon in hand. The two young men, a fifteen and a sixteen-year-old from the Saint Martin’s area of Belize City, were today arraigned in […]
A twenty-eight-year-old housekeeper of San Pedrito area of San Pedro has been arrested and charged for drug trafficking. According to the report, Dorla Morales was caught red-handed at the boat dock in San Pedro with four parcels of compressed cannabis. Three thousand two hundred and seventy-seven grams or the equivalent of seven point one-one pounds […]
A twenty-three-year-old fisherman of a Pelican Street address in San Pedro is also missing. Miguel Arroyo left home on September tenth en-route to a store and has not been seen or heard from since. He is described as a person of Hispanic decent five feet seven inches in height, slim built, green eyes and black […]
Word has been received of the passing of Dean Lindo, one of the founders and a former leader of the United Democratic Party. He died at his home in Buttonwood Bay, Belize City after ailing for some time with a number of health issues. His political trajectory started in 1969, when he ran under the […]
Telecom giant, SMART Belize launched its ‘Do The SMART Thing!’ book this morning. The book, which features two short stories for primary school students, was a joint venture between SMART and three teachers of Holy Redeemer School. The purpose of the publication is to inspire and motive children to read. News Five’s Hipolito Novelo reports. […]
Last Friday, the deputy prime minister Patrick Faber said that the external audit at NICH would be completed by today. From what we know the draft audit found that the internal auditor did not carry out due diligence. According to the external auditors Baker Tilly Hulse, “in our opinion sufficient due diligence was not applied […]
Over thirteen thousands persons walked through the gates of the ITVET compound on Freetown over the weekend for the annual expo put off by the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry. There were the usual deals offered from cell phones to jewellery but there were also new booths that provided information on topical issues. One […]
On Friday, we reported on the planned Sarstoon Island Eco Challenge. BTV volunteers led by Wil Maheia, had gone to the area to install a flag when they were confronted by the Guatemalan Armed Forces within Belizean waters. Despite that setback, the third annual challenge proceeded. At the event this weekend, the BTV say that […]
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Five Mexican nationals, two men and four women, were detained by Belize City Police on Thursday evening. They are forty-seven-year-old attorney Reymundo Choc, his wife thirty-year-old Norma Gonzalez, forty-seven-year-old Victorino Rivera, thirty-five-year-old Jovita Sagredo and Blanca Sagredo. Choc and Rivera are being held at the Raccoon Street Police Station, while the three women are in […]
Acting Prime Minister Patrick Faber today chimed in on the recent drug plane landing in northern Belize for which two Mexicans and three Belizeans including superintendent of police, David Chi, have been charged. The fourteen million dollar cargo on board the CESSNA plane was cocaine packed in bales. Faber says that Belize is a victim […]
The proclamation on a “State of Public Emergency” on two south side neighbourhoods in Belize City has been met with criticism from various quarters on the basis that it violates the human rights of persons living in these areas. The measure was approved by Acting Prime Minister Patrick Faber on September fourth as a reaction […]
Two minors are in police custody pending charges of armed robbery. The two young men, one fifteen and another sixteen years old, believed to be from Belize City, were captured on camera holding-up the owner of Tai San Shop in Belmopan with a pellet gun. The robbery lasted for about a minute, before noon on […]
Smack in the middle of the national celebrations there has been encounter in the Sarstoon. The Belize Territorial Volunteers, lead by Wil Maheia, was up the Sarstoon River prior to this weekend’s eco-challenge. As the group was on the river, a vessel with at least five members of the Guatemalan Armed Forces drove up and […]
The misuse of government resources has been a recurring public complaint under both administrations. In the Auditor General’s Report for the period April 2013 to March 2014, the audit team lends some of its focus on the issuance of fuel for the use of Government vehicles and equipment, specifically in the Ministry of Works. As […]
