Coming close on the news of the sensational arrest of Robert Snyder, the chess player caught recently in Belize, another of America’s Most Wanted fugitives has been captured in the country. This time it is an accused murderer who has been on the lam for about a decade. Thirty-four year old Patrick Brown is accused […]
While Patrick Brown is now in police custody, officers from the Inter-mediate Southern Formation in Independence Village are looking for suspects in the nation’s latest known homicide. On Sunday, following a tip, police headed out to a feeder road off the Southern Highway, where they found the decomposed body of a Guatemalan national, who was […]
It was a gruesome scene last Thursday night when tragedy struck an Orange Walk Town family. The murder of fifty-three year old Baldemar Moguel at his family business on Stadium Street has left neighbours fearful to venture out of their homes. But the real shock is perhaps what police have confirmed to News Five. Up […]
The senseless violence spilled into Belize City over the past weekend. The proprietor of a fast food and grocery shop was shot several times on Saturday night. Forty-five year old Song Qing Gu, along with his wife, were at Chiu Kwan Fry Chicken, located at fifty-one Amara Avenue when a lone gunman rode up on […]
It has been a bumpy ride for the family of Belize City resident Bernadine Cattouse. One year ago, she lost her seventeen year old daughter, Michelle, to rivalry between gangs when she was shot on Belcan Bridge after leaving the Putt-Putt Bar. Three months later, another daughter, ten year old Carolyn was injured when the […]
It’s been five days since the government owned 2000 12-H grader was stolen and tonight the Ministry of Works says that there is reason to believe that the grader was stolen with help from locals. The heavy duty equipment, which is valued at three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, was used for road maintenance in […]
They say that if you commit the crime, you should do the time. And it seems that’s a lesson construction worker, Marlon Curtis Usher, knew well because when he was busted with an unlicensed point twenty-five caliber Beretta Pistol and five live rounds of ammo, he quickly took responsibility for the illegal weapon. Usher was […]
The war among women is not letting up on the streets and tonight there is one more Belize City female behind bars for allegedly threatening her neighbor with a firearm. That’s the claim being made by forty-six year old Bernadette Euwatu, who called the police in fear for her life at about four-thirty last Thursday […]
Notorious figure, thirty-five year old Arthur Young and twenty-three year old Abraham Leslie were charged with possession of a nine millimeter gun which was found in an open lot in Ladyville on January thirtieth. . Young, who was freed of a murder charge as recent as three weeks ago, claims he is innocent and that […]
Last week, the host of America’s Most Wanted, John Walsh, was in Belize filming an episode which showcases the capture of convicted child molester Robert Snyder. Snyder failed to register as a sex offender and went into hiding when he was released from prison and then surfaced in Belize. Snyder is described as a cunning […]
The Belize Water Services applied for a twenty-five percent increase in rates in 2009 and today they got the nod from an independent expert, but not for the full amount. The Public Utilities Commission has received a report on the ongoing Full Tariff Review Proceeding from the independent expert, Dr. Richard Hern. Hern was appointed […]
Where is it and how much? That’s the questions that keep popping up when the topic of revenues from the oil industry is discussed. Dr. Gilbert Canton, the CEO of Belize Natural Energy today spoke of the “crude facts” about the industry when he took the couch on our morning show. And while the jury […]
He is known for his personal fight with kidney disease and his public battle for the improvement of kidney treatment in Belize. But Jose Cruz is in need of urgent medical procedure in Guatemala City to save his limbs from being amputated. The condition is called micro vascular disease where the small veins and nerve […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and we bring you yet another splash of Sports Monday. we head immediately to La Democracia on the Western Highway for the start of Saturday’s forty mile race presented by the Belize City association which would run through the hills to the Sibun Bridge on the Hummingbird Highway and swing […]
