The murder trial of forty-five year old Police Constable Jose Zetina culminated today with a guilty verdict. A jury of six men and six women deliberated for less than three hours and found the ex-cop guilty of the gruesome murder of his pregnant common-law wife, Rosa Isabel Mejia. The murder occurred on November twenty-ninth, 2004 […]
From the Supreme Court to the Magistrates’ Court; on May sixth, police shored up by the Canine Unit descended on the Northern Highway home of well-known businessman, Jose Shoman, and his wife, Malachi, in a full-scale operation. But after a raid lasting more than five hours, the only charges cops could drum up against the […]
In more news from the courts, a fifteen year old has pleaded guilty to Burglary. The teen and his twelve year old brother appeared in Family Court this morning to answer to the charges, but the younger sibling did not follow his brother’s lead and instead pleaded not guilty to the same offence. Magistrate Natalia […]
A night of socialising ended at the K.H.M.H. for a group of friends when the car they were travelling in flipped over several times. Just after midnight this morning the group was heading home when the incident occurred at the roundabout near the entrance of the Western Highway. (VO) Forty-four year old Dean Dawson was […]
In news from the west, police report that Cayo Cable Vision on Burns Avenue in San Ignacio was jacked. Manager Yesenia Romero reports that she left the C.C.V. offices on Wednesday shortly after five o’clock p.m. and when she returned to work on Thursday morning, found that it had been burglarised. According to Romero, the […]
There is an allegation of rape coming out of Orange Walk Town. An eighteen year old female reported to police that around midnight on Thursday she went to La Enramada Hotel on Cristock Street with Leopoldo Molina, a Salvadoran national resident of San Felipe Village. The teen claims that the forty-one year old man then […]
A house in Steadfast Village in the Stann Creek District has been destroyed by fire. According to sixteen year old Leslie Leon, while he was cooking, a butane tank fell to the ground, the hose dislodged, and a fire broke out, gutting the building and all its contents. A car parked just outside was also […]
After months of delay due to administrative snags, today the government finally closed a deal with CISCO Construction for the paving of the Placencia road. The twenty mile-long thoroughfare from the Southern Highway to the entrance of the village makes the ride to the Peninsula a real challenge and has been a sore point for […]
This coming Monday in Belmopan, the House of Representatives will meet to hear the long awaited budget presentation for the financial year 2008-2009. It is the first budget to be tabled by Prime Minister Dean Barrow, who will use the occasion to table a bill that it intends to ram through a second and third […]
With a string of unsolved disappearances at sea and on small islands off the coast of Belize, the public has become more wary of travelling in open waters. Today Operations Manager at the Belize Coast Guard, Lieutenant Elton Bennett, told News Five what while they have a role patrolling the sea, working electronic communications on […]
Today the Community Agency for the Rehabilitation and Education of Persons with Disabilities, CARE-Belize, hosted an open day to highlight some small projects that parents can do to improve the lives of children with special needs. This morning Rehabilitation Field Officer Inga Sandoval told us about the display. Inga Sandoval, Rehabilitation Field Officer “This display […]
There are more problems brewing at the waterfront in Belize City where two heavyweights are battling to secure their slice of the pie. Jose Sanchez has been following the story and has more details. Jose Sanchez, Reporting And the gloves are off as a fight, a turf war between the Caye Caulker Water Taxi association […]
Over the last several weeks, we’ve been previewing and visiting a variety of summer camps … and tonight it’s the Belize Coastguard’s turn. According to the organizers, their camp will give kids the opportunity to test their skills in a whole new way. Jose Sanchez has the details. Jose Sanchez, Reporting The Belize Audubon Society […]
