Round one of the controversy between Christine Perriott and Zenaida Moya has gone the mayor’s way… at least for now. And Perriott is no longer an employee of the Belize City Council; that’s the word tonight according to Mayor Moya. The two had locked horns over the weekend and last Friday the mayor asked Perriott […]
There is still no resolution tonight to a strike in the north where cane farmers are facing lower prices for cane delivered to the B.S.I. Sugar Factory in Tower Hill. The usually long delivery lines did not form and farmers kept away for the most part. All day farmers were asked through the media not […]
City Hall and Tower Hill aren’t the only places where controversy is brewing. Word reaching News Five is that, in an unprecedented move, a student’s family has taken the administration of the all-girls Pallotti High School to court. The matter began in December when a fourth form student was expelled from the school for breaking […]
But that is not the end of things between Pallotti and Matura-Shepherd’s client since today it appeared that the school’s administration decided to keep the students indoors all day but not in regular class. Matura-Shepherd visited our newsroom late this evening to say what transpired during the course of the day and what she intends […]
Harold Crooks, a former superintendent of the Jamaica Constabulary force and former advisor to Jamaica’s Ministry of National Security was in Belize from June to November of 2008 to assess and make recommendations to improve the police department. It has been known from last year that the contents of the report was damning to the […]
But what the top brass of the police did not want to disclose in detail is that Harold Crooks recognized that the National Crime Investigation Branch lacks the infrastructural capacity to investigate and interdict complex organized crime and dangerous criminals. The mechanisms and processes for intelligence- led policing are absent. Investigators use obsolete file preparation […]
A businessman today received for the second time a sentence of seven years behind bars after a jury last week found him guilty of Manslaughter. Thirty-eight year old Edward Reyes, also known as “Mandito” who owns Prime Cut Meats on Central American Boulevard, listened as Justice Adolph Lucas handed down the sentence this morning. His […]
Police have begun an investigation in the sudden death of an infant who apparently died from head injuries. Two month old Vivanni Torres expired shortly before midday on Tuesday morning after being transported from the Progresso Village Health Centre. News Five understands that the child’s mother, Norma Solis, was inside her kitchen which is detached […]
A former Belize Defense Force volunteer soldier is behind bars tonight after he was remanded for a fire that destroyed his brother’s house on Sunday morning. And police believe that forty year old Reynaldo Solano of Pine Street, Dangriga is responsible for the Arson that occurred around seven-thirty that morning. When police and fire officials […]
Dangriga police have launched an intensive manhunt for two men following a report of rape. The victim, a nineteen year old domestic told police that at around eight-forty-five on Monday night she was on Front Street in Dangriga when the two suspects approached her and dragged her into a wooden house and had sexual intercourse […]
A prison inmate who is on remand for a firearm offense has run into additional problems for the possession of a stolen phone. Last Friday police on patrol in the King’s Park area of Belize City stumbled on Stanley Moore with an unlicensed gun. But that was just the beginning of Moore’s dilemma. That’s because […]
Earlier in the newscast we reported on the brevity of the controversial Crooks Report and at today’s conference at the Raccoon Street Police Station, police told the press that the department is turning to a new strategy to combat the alarming levels of crime. And this involves the use of technology that will balance expertise […]
It has been in the news for some time, the damages to the reef caused by the cargo ship Westerhaven which is still under arrest at Anchorage until the dispute is settled. And the news tonight from Martin Alegria, Chief Environmental Officer for the Department of Environment is that Fritz Schroeder, who was captain for […]
But in positive news, at the Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts, we found kids under the age of five testing their locomotive skills. The program has been ongoing for the past three weeks and is targeting four year old kids throughout the country. The Ministry of Education, in collaboration with NICH, says that the […]
