A police prosecutor is in the hot seat for missing evidence in the sensational case involving businessman, Jose Shoman. The Belize City businessman was freed of charges on July eleventh but the case is far from over and the prosecutor, Sergeant Ludwig Castillo, is on interdiction while a police tribunal decides his fate. Shoman was […]
Meanwhile in Dangriga, a police sergeant felt the full brunt of the law and has been demoted to the rank of corporal. The officer was additionally fined three hundred dollars after a tribunal of his peers found him guilty of Neglect of Duty. Sergeant Reymundo Reyes was placed on interdiction in mid-May of this year […]
And in Belize City, this morning police stopped a robber dead in his tracks as he struggled with the owner of a Chinese store on Meighan Avenue in the King’s Park area. The police caught twenty-two year old Leroy Chaplin armed with a point twenty-five pistol struggling with Zhu Hua Xino, the proprietor of the […]
And in another part of the city a delivery man was not so lucky. Just before noon Tuesday, forty-three year old Cirilo Ical was robbed at gunpoint while making a delivery of sugar on Mahogany Street. Ical was apparently being trailed by robbers who jacked him as he parked his delivery truck in front of […]
And in news from the Magistrate Court, a U.B. student is behind bars today for keeping an unlicensed firearm and ammunition. He is twenty-seven year old Giovanni Remijio Duran. Police report that they busted Duran with a nine millimeter pistol with fourteen rounds in its magazine around two-thirty a.m. this morning. According to the cops, […]
And a charge of Attempted Murder and six other offences were placed on eighteen year old Cameron Blease when he appeared in Court today. The other charges include Dangerous Harm, Use of Deadly Means of Harm and four counts of Aggravated Assault. Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie explained to Blease that she cannot take a plea […]
But two men had charges dismissed in court today. The two, twenty-one year old Keith Middleton and nineteen year old Marlon Foreman, were charged with aggravated assault for an incident on November first, in which three children and two adults were shot at. Magistrate Dorothy Flowers dismissed the charges when one of the adult complainants, […]
Not all news from the police is bad. And today they put up a brave and generous face as the men in uniform “did the right thing” with young people from across the country. Marion Ali reports. Marion Ali, Reporting In an era when crime and violence are the order of the day, the Police […]
Just before this newscast, a stabbing was reported at the Pound Yard Bridge, in front of a hotdog vendor and in an area in close proximity of the Pound Yard stop. While police have not released the names of the individuals involved in this latest stabbing in Belize City, we did get an interview with […]
Next April over six hundred children aged seven to eleven will converge on Camp Oakley for the fifth Central American Cub Scout Encounter. It is the first time that Belize is hosting the biennial event, which will feature scouts from ten countries, and local organisers are intent on making it a success. But with the […]
When prison C.E.O., Marlon Skeen, handed in his resignation two weeks ago, the Kolbe Foundation appointed Mel Auil Junior as acting Chief Executive Officer. On Friday, the board will meet to decide whether the businessman will stay in the post. Auil’s professional background includes serving as general manager of his family’s business, J.M.A. Motors; acting […]
Exactly two weeks ago, a Belize City man was crying for help to solve health hazards caused by garbage trucks parked at his home near the Pound Yard Bridge. Today News Five’s Jose Sanchez has an update. Jose Sanchez, Reporting On July fifteenth we were approached by Colin Ebanks, who lives near Pound Yard Bridge. […]
The Belize City Council launched its Adopt a Child Program this afternoon but the City Councillors aren’t exactly taking children home. They are making contributions to worthy institutions to which we entrust our children every day. Councillor Mark King explained this new venture. Mark King, City Councillor “The council found it necessary and very important […]
