As News Five first reported last night, an Indian man arrested in Canada in 1998 “as a threat to national security” was deported to Belize earlier this month after acquiring a Belizean passport under our Economic Citizen Investment Program. Today no one seems to know if Iqbal Singh is still in the country, or how […]
With hefty commissions on this type of money circulating how particular are the agents about their clients? While the agent who handled the Singh case Manolo Romero of Belize Passport Consultants told news five today that he cannot reveal the particulars of that application, consultants Rosy Shyu, Santiago Gomez and Gaby Afif told News Five […]
Today, twenty-one year old Eustagio Blanco was charged with two counts of murder and robbery in connection with the beating death of Hipolito Muy and Orlando Reyes on the San Juan/San Pablo road in the Orange Walk district. The men who worked in the Vector Control Programme in the Ministry of Health had gone to […]
Police have detained five men for questioning and are looking for one more Marlon Budd in connection with the murder of twenty-six year old Oscar Perez. Perez was shot twice in front of his wife and brother near the Salvation Army Primary School on Saturday night. Perez’s common-law wife, Glenda Castro, told News Five that […]
Today the students of Saint Catherine’s Academy spent the day outdoors doing a number of community projects throughout the city. The students are observing Foundation Day which is held to celebrate the arrival and work of the Sisters of Mercy to Belize. The young girls planted trees on the medians on Princess Margaret Drive and […]
In October News Five accompanied a BDF police patrol about eight miles from the Caracol Ruins near the Guatemalan border as they went to destroy marijuana plantations. On this trip we were told the area is considered dangerous and that the soldier often encounter illegal marijuana cultivators, who are sometimes armed. On Tuesday one of […]
