A house was destroyed by fire on Saturday afternoon. The fire broke out at around two o’clock at a house located on the Cerro Road in Punta Gorda and owned by Angel Meras. The wooden structure was completely engulfed and destroyed in a matter of minutes. While two persons were inside the house at the […]
The infamous Joseph Budna is back in the news. He escaped into Belize from Guatemala where he was serving a twenty-five-year sentence for kidnapping and extortion. He managed to successfully escape in 2019, but according to Budna, not even the Guatemalans harassed him as much as he is alleging that officers of the Belize Police Department […]
Budna says that he is attempting to make a formal complaint with the Professional Standards Branch to have the matter addressed. Joseph Budna, Claims Police Harassment “If you are going to apply this law, apply it across the board to everybody; stop targeting me. But this wasn’t the main thing. The main thing is […]
The Government of Belize signed a ten-million dollar agreement with the I.D.B. this morning. At the signing, the I.D.B. Country Representative and PM Dean Barrow spoke about the educational quality improvement programme two which, aside from quality improvement, will encompass a new component on innovation on science and technology, arts, engineering and other mathematics. It’s […]
Lakers and basketball superstar Kobe Bryant is dead. The NBA MVP, his thirteen-year-old daughter, six friends and the pilot were all killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday. The helicopter carrying the nine persons is reported to have encountered heavy fog when it crashed and burst into flames in the hills above Calabasas in California, […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderly and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend sporting activities….]
There is breaking news tonight. News Five has confirmed that a murder occurred a short while ago in Dangriga. We are told that the victim was shot in the head while inside a store. More details on this latest murder in Monday’s newscast.
Former U.D.P. Albert area representative Herman Longsworth is the subject of a criminal investigation. Longsworth was fired by Prime Minister Dean Barrow after his name surfaced in the Auditor General’s Report on the National Sports Council. Longsworth, who was the then Minister of State responsible for Sports reportedly created Go Enterprises Limited which received contracts […]
But here is a kick; Longworth’s release was accompanied by a set of photographs showing clean and completed facilities at the Marion Jones Sports Complex. But just before news time, News Five received information that those photos were taken as recent as Thursday and do not reflect the state of work when Longsworth was in […]
As you heard, the former minister says the establishment of the company, Go Enterprises, was undertaken to facilitate the completion of work at the Marion Jones. Longsworth states that work ceased when the National Sports Council could no longer pay. But the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Wilfred Elrington, who was Longsworth’s boss until this week, […]
As to the firing of Longsworth for the allegations made in the Auditor General Report, the Foreign Minister offered a lawyerly explanation, saying that it is for the court to determine guilt, tantamount to the PM’s well-known statement on factual guilt and legal guilt. Wilfred ‘Sedi’ Elrington, Minister of Foreign Affairs “The practice […]
The United Democratic Party, in the final year of its three-term administration, is plagued with scandal after scandal. The most recent involves both leadership candidates and the prime minister has been busy trying to douse the flames caused by public outrage. In sitting down with Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington today, we asked the Pickstock Area […]
Amid the Lev Dermen/John Saldivar fiasco is a claim that ambassadorship for Turkey was being sought on behalf of Dermen through various U.D.P. ministers. Those appointments, as stated at his press conference last Wednesday, are handled solely by the prime minister. We asked Foreign Minister Elrington whether he knew of such a request. He also […]
Another person named in the Auditor General Report is Ivan Ayuso from the National Sports Council. Commissioner of Police Chester Williams says a senior investigator has been assigned to delve into the findings of the report and bring those who committed crimes to justice. According to the Auditor General, senior accounts clerk Ivan Ayuso had […]
Turning to other crimes…a shootout between Belizean law enforcement officers and four Guatemalan bandits occurred this morning in the border village of Arenal. The men targeted a Belizean residence, holding up a family of four at gunpoint. They stole a vehicle and an assortment of items. Heavily armed police officers and B.D.F. soldiers responded quickly, […]
Police say they don’t know how two persons were murdered inside a Belize City delivery truck found off the Farm Four Road in San Juan, Stann Creek District. The post-mortem was not able to determine the cause of death. At this time, police say that while they have the identity of the person who drives […]
A drug plane landed in an area in Crooked Tree Village, Belize District, earlier in the week. When law enforcement officers arrived at the scene, the HS 125 Hawker jet had been emptied and the plane was intact. According to Commissioner Williams, the drug plane was originally to land in Mexico, but was diverted to […]
Commissioner Williams has given the directive for the illegal airstrip to be destroyed by bombing. He says that all efforts are being made by the department to intercept these drug planes and prevent future occurrences. According to Williams, while strategies are being rolled out, the department will never be able to stop the landing of […]
Shortly after he was sworn as president of Guatemala, Alejandro Giammattei announced his intention to meet with Prime Minister Dean Barrow to forge a more cordial relationship between with the two countries. As you know, the territorial dispute is heading to the I.C.J. for resolution. Giammattei said he has asked the O.A.S. to facilitate the […]
U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo met with high level government officials and prime ministers from across the Caribbean earlier this week in Kingston, Jamaica. Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago boycotted the region and a number of other states supported that position because not all members of CARICOM were invited. Those who were around the […]
This morning in the Court of Appeal, Speednet Telecommunications Limited, the parent company for SMART, filed a leave to appeal to the Caribbean Court of Justice. The matter is to settle, once and for all, a legal dispute that has gone in favour of SMART at the Supreme Court level and against the company when […]
Dangriga businessman, Wilfred Pascacio, through his attorney, Richard “Dickie” Bradley, today acquired bail from Justice Marilyn Williams in Belize City Supreme Court. Pascascio, who is the proprietor for an island resort in southern Belize, is accused of the rape of one of his employees, an eighteen-year-old. She alleges that Pascascio forcibly had sexual intercourse with her at […]
Magistrate Aretha Ford today committed Akeem Baptist to stand trial in the Supreme Court’s February session. Baptist is charged with Using Deadly Means of Harm and Wounding upon Amira Fernandez on September thirteenth, 2019 at Western Paradise off the George Price Highway. The prosecution alleges that Baptist aggressed and wounded Fernandez with a knife on […]
Shots were fired on Thursday morning in Punta Gorda Cell phone footage shows police arresting a man on Far West Street. According to Commissioner of Police, Chester Williams, a suspect was being pursued and to capture him, officers fired warning shots. Commissioner Williams explains what transpired. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “Basically the shooting […]
Police in Dangriga are investigating a fatal shooting that claimed the life of Darrel Bermudez this evening. Bermudez was inside a store on Melinda Road when he was targeted by a lone gunman who shot Bermudez in the head. This is the latest murder that the police are investigating. This afternoon, prior to the murder, […]
