Four days after he knocked down and killed two people, Orange Walk Town Mayor Ravei Gonzalez was arraigned in the Belize City Magistrates’ Court on two counts of Causing Death by Careless Conduct. Magistrate Dorothy Flowers did not take any pleas from Gonzalez because the matter will be tried in the Supreme Court following a […]
Litigation involving the Belize Bank continued in the Supreme Court today before Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh. Through its attorney Nigel Pleming, the Bank filed what is being referred to as an anti-suit in response to the Government’s ongoing efforts to recover the ten million U.S. dollars sent from Venezuela. To put things in context, viewers […]
In our coverage of these various cases, we have noted that several private attorneys have been arguing the Government’s position in court. Earlier this week Solicitor General Tanya Herwanger told us that while those services do not come cheap, her office simply does not have the manpower to handle Belmopan’s legal issues. Tanya Herwanger, Solicitor […]
In news from the Court of Appeal, an accused killer awaiting retrial for Murder has been granted a new trial for a separate charge because of a technicality. In mid April, a jury was unable to reach consensus for verdicts against twenty-two year old Rene Morente and co-defendant Carlos Granillo. Both Morente and Granillo had […]
High speed police chases are the kind of stuff you normally see on North American news channels but that’s exactly the scene that played out in Belize City this afternoon. Details are sketchy but reports to News Five are that around three this afternoon a woman was getting out of her car when two armed […]
In other dramatic news, an explosion on St. George’s Caye has left a caretaker in critical condition. Forty-eight year old Alburn Stevens is hospitalised with second degree burns to eighty percent of his body following an incident around seven on Sunday night. According to Therese Plunkett, it appears that a leaking gas tank caused the […]
Meanwhile, police still have not made any arrests following Monday evening’s kidnapping, robbery and murder. Official investigations have spanned several communities in Belize and Guatemala. However, police say that all three of the suspects are believed to be Belizeans who had been following the movements of their victims for some time. On Monday evening twenty-two […]
Earlier this week we highlighted the case of Financial Intelligence Unit versus the Belize Bank for suspicious banking transactions. But tonight a report conducted three years ago apparently found another institution in violation of the same law. News Five has obtained a copy of a Central Bank report dated October 2005 which examined FirstCaribbean International […]
Three weeks after Tropical Storm Arthur claimed five lives and caused more than fifty million dollars in damage, life in the Belize and Stann Creek districts is slowly returning to normal. The devastation has highlighted the extreme vulnerability of coastal communities like Gales Point and Mullins River, who are still cut off by road because […]
It never made it to the police blotter, but a diving incident in Belizean waters has left a Canadian tourist critically injured and hospitalised since April. According to an article from the Cyber Diver News Network, on Friday, April eighteenth, sixty year old Denis Turcotte and his son Alden arrived in Belize to dive. But […]
They’ve been hitting the books for more than a year now and this week primary and high school students from across the Belize District faced off in a science competition dubbed the “Quiz Bowl”. According to organisers, the event is part of an educational outreach programme initiated by Marine Scientist, Dr. Caryn Self-Sullivan and the […]
One week ago Belize Energy Workers Union and Belize Electricity Limited launched a public battle in the media, with both sides accusing the other bad faith. BEWU threw the first punch, accusing B.E.L. of being greedy and unethical for wanting a rate increase. The union also went on to allege that C.E.O. Lynn Young refused […]
