2009 is only five days old and already the murder trend is matching last year’s record high. On January third, tragedy visited a family in San Ignacio Town just as they were about to close for business shortly before nine that night. It’s an all too familiar story… yet another attack on a Belizean family […]
And in Belize City, crime continued unabated. The Castillo family’s moving day last week Friday was expected to be a happy and uneventful occasion, but it was everything that it shouldn’t have been. The homeowner plus the three men who were assisting with the move were shot and badly injured. Edmond Castillo and his wife […]
The shooting incident on Curl Thompson Street was not the only one that occurred on January second. After seven p.m. Friday night, a seventeen year old young man was shot when he went over to a friend’s home to play a video game by a familiar offender who was thought to be behind bars. Justin […]
James Gerou is back in police custody. The thirty-seven year old American baseball player allegedly got away from the Queen Street station on Friday before police could charge him in connection with the discovery of over a million and a half dollars, mostly in Belize currency in the biggest case of money laundering to be […]
A domestic squabble has landed a man to the remand section of the Central Prison. Thirty-five year old Ralph Sherlock Martinez a.k.a. “Miniman” who allegedly pulled a gun on his twenty-two year old stepdaughter, Lucretia Myvett was charged with Aggravated Assault and sent to prison until his case comes up on February third. Myvett reported […]
A businessman busted for a firearm offence is tonight claiming he is being victimized. Around six on Friday police on patrol in Belama Phase two stopped and searched thirty-three year old Ernest Raymond Junior, who was sitting in a parked vehicle. During the search police say they found Raymond with a nine millimetre pistol and […]
And while the crime statistics for 2008 are not yet available since the December numbers are still being tallied, we can share the figures for the San Ignacio/Santa Elena Twin Towns from January to November. The chart shows that there were a total of thirteen murders, sixteen attempted murders, six grievous harm, one hundred and […]
NICH President, Diane Haylock, returned to work today and as we reported last week, she found herself in the middle of a war waged with clear battle lines. Haylock’s boss, Minister Marcel Cardona and the NICH Board members want her removed as president and Prime Minister Dean Barrow is standing up in her defense. News […]
There are two appointments in government to report tonight that had become vacant with the change of government. A release from the Office of the Clerk of the National Assembly, states that the Governor General this afternoon took the oath of allegiance from Godwin Arzu and Cynthia Pitts. Arzu will fill the post of Contractor […]
It was déjà vu for the Belize City Council this morning as workers from the Belize Waste Control showed up at their North Front headquarters wielding placards. The issue once again was the council’s outstanding debt to B.W.C. Last week Tuesday the company sent out a press release expressing its frustration at Mayor Zenaida Moya […]
At seven weeks in arrears the City Council owes B.W.C. two hundred and seventeen thousand dollars. Today it was revealed that CitCo also has five weeks of outstanding bills with Belize Maintenance Limited, which at seventy-three thousand per week adds another three hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars to its debts. When News Five tried to […]
Traffic accidents are unfortunate whenever they occur and the story that follows has left a pregnant woman with constant nightmares and unable to walk. The expectant mother and her one year eight month baby were about to cross the street when they were knocked down by a bus. The incident occurred at the corner of […]
A Punta Gorda man found a great way to start the New Year, by going home with a lot of extra cash. Gilroy Selgado was one of seven participants in the Courts Big Cash contest held at its Belize City Branch on Saturday January third. And after a hot dog eating contest, balloon bursting and […]
The topic of this morning’s Open Your Eyes was mental health. Speaking on the issue was recurring Channel Five judge, Jennifer Lovell who has a master’s degree in counseling and mental health; and psychiatric nurse Eleanor Bennett. On the subject of depression, Bennett and Lovell related that it is typical for persons to feel sad […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and in our first delivery of Sports Monday for 2009 we take this opportunity to wish all Belizeans much betterment in the new year. Speaking of betterment, Kraal Road of Belize City reinforced its position as a powerhouse inside the Belize Bank Super League of soccer with a dominating performance […]
