San Pedro resident Miguel Angel Orrego celebrated his birthday day the best way any man on remand can as he walked away free of murder and manslaughter charges today. After three and a half hours, a jury of six men and six women found him innocent in the fatal stabbing of Yubert Flashy which occurred […]
While Orrego walked free, a Czech national got his marching orders when he appeared in court today. Forty-three year old Tomas Kahan, who caused a bomb scare last Friday at the Philip Goldson International Airport, was ordered to leave Belize within a period of five to seven days for overstaying his visit to Belize. Kahan […]
In other news from the courts, last month charges of Aggravated Assault and Unlawful Imprisonment were struck out against Nigeymon Bevans because the case file was not available. Bevans was a free man then, but he has been picked up by police and new charges of Rape and Kidnapping have been placed against him in […]
You previously heard of him following the May eighteenth Grenade explosion and today twenty-two year old Kareem Smith, a fisherman of Junesville, Belize City, was back in court. Smith has been behind bars facing charges of conspiracy in connection with the grenade that exploded, killed one and injured eleven persons on Mayflower Street. And when […]
It was a busy day in court today. Twenty-two year old Rushelly Smith, a data entry clerk at Belize Tourism Board, was arrested by the police on Friday after they uncovered her alleged role in a scam to defraud the B.T.B. The incident, which occurred between September third and fifth was not detected until the […]
Right after the Belize City robbery of JB Security by armed bandits, two other thieves robbed a villager of St. Mathews and made good their escape in a blue Toyota Camry car. On Friday police were called to the residence of Angel Miguel Adle where thirty-five year old Elba Arce reported that at about twelve-thirty […]
Belmopan police are trying to close in on the thief or thieves who broke into a business and made off with electronic equipment worth over six thousand dollars. The burglary occurred at apartment thirteen which houses a consultancy in the Garden City Plaza. The burglars got away with two Toshiba lap tops, a Cannon digital […]
Marion Ali is just back from a traffic accident on the Boom/Hattieville Road. Five persons were injured and hospitalized. The incident occurred shortly before five this evening at the entrance to Fresh Pond and involved a heavy truck used for transporting sand and a smaller Ford pick-up truck. Five persons were travelling in the pickup […]
A family of six is homeless tonight and two of them are recuperating from injuries after their house collapsed with them in it shortly before midday today. The two-storey wooden structure on Seagull Street in the Collet area came crashing down into a pile of debris after it showed several signs of caving in. Built […]
There are reports from western Belize that the Macal River continues to overflow. According to Chief Meteorologist, Ramon Frutos, over the past weekend Guatemala and Belize experienced extreme rainfall. Frutos told News Five that due to the run-offs from Guatemala, rivers including the old Belize River, the Macal River and the Mopan River are overflowing […]
It is not uncommon to hear of vessels registered in Belize involved in illegal activities. But tonight a Belize-flagged ship is in trouble not for breaking the law, but as a victim. On Thursday the Ukrainian vessel, Faina, and its twenty-one member crew were on their way to Kenya when it was seized by pirates […]
The two major political parties in Belize are celebrating birthdays. The oldest, the P.U.P. turns fifty-eight today while the U.D.P., turned thirty-five on Saturday. The P.U.P. is Belize’s first political party and was birthed when its founders, Leigh Richardson, John Smith, Phillip Goldson and George Price re-organized the then People’s Committee that was formed in […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and it’s my pleasure welcoming you to Sports Monday. Week nine of the RF&G Cup Tournament saw the battle for the lead in the south zone as Llagulei hosted the Belize Defence Force of Belize City inside the Carl Ramos Stadium yesterday. The hometown attacks early off the left side […]
