The murder statistics continue to rise with the city’s latest homicide at the Biltmore Plaza on Sunday morning; victim number seven for February. That story is coming up, but first we go to the tragic death of a Jamaican national who was killed in Lord’s Bank. The victim intervened to stop an argument at a […]
There are many questions that still remain unanswered regarding the shooting of the Jamaican National. Did O’Neil have a weapon in his possession at the time of his death? Was the police officer who discharged his service weapon under the influence of alcohol? This afternoon News Five spoke to police press officer Clement Palacio about […]
There was more gun violence over the Valentine weekend. On the north side, at the prominent hotel, the Best Western Biltmore Plaza, even before dawn, a security guard was murdered. Three men descended on the Nigerian officer on duty and within minutes he was dead. This latest homicide has distressed the Nigerian community to the […]
Another high powered weapon is missing from the Belize Defense Force and this time it’s an M-sixteen A-one rifle. The weapon had a full magazine of thirty ball rounds of five point five six millimeter ammunition when it went missing. The circumstances of its disappearance are unlike the M-four carbine which was discovered missing over […]
Senior Counsel Godfrey Smith is taking on Prime Minister Dean Barrow. It’s not the usual challenge over politics which he writes in his blog, Flashpoint; it’s about legal and weighty matters. At a press conference billed as his state of the nation Barrow contracted earlier statements that he expected that the economy would rebound in […]
Also on Wednesday, when a reporter brought up the matter of the Prime Minister’s first wife, Lois Young, being contracted as lead attorney in many of the government’s high profile cases he said he makes no apologies for that. Pointing to Young’s pro-bono legal work for the unions and the Association of Concerned Belizeans before […]
Earlier we reported on the murder of a Nigerian security guard at the Biltmore Plaza. That happened early on Sunday morning. Hours later, a shooting took place on Mahogany Street. It did not turn deadly but, left one man hospitalized. The gunman has not been caught or identified by police, but what is known is […]
But before Polanco was targeted, twenty-seven year old Corrington Villanueva of Hattieville was shot several times near the taxi stand at the entrance of the Western Highway. Villanueva was enjoying a Friday evening game of poker with some friends when the gunman walked up a shot blasted him with a bullet to the left side […]
And this news just in from the north. Three Corozal residents were today acquitted of murder charges following the bludgeoning of an elderly Belizean American in San Andres Village in June of 2007. Brothers Noel and Rosendo Guy along with their cousin Federico Caballero reappeared before Justice Herbert Lord following an adjournment last Friday. In […]
And forty-two year old, Basil Willis also known as ‘ET’ is tonight once again an inmate at the Hattieville Prison after being charged with robbery. Willis was out on bail for a robbery at Western Union when he ran into trouble again with the law. In latest incident, on February tenth, Willis allegedly robbed Gregory […]
An ex-Belize Defense Force soldier who was busted with an unlicensed nine millimeter gun and a magazine loaded with thirteen live rounds is tonight behind bars on remand. Police say that twenty-nine year-old Alton Roches of Jane Usher Boulevard was acting suspiciously around nine last Friday night, when he was spotted in a fully tinted […]
While there is continuing dispute within the citrus industry over control and finances between Citrus Products of Belize Limited and the Citrus Growers Association, another legal battle is being waged in the chambers of Supreme Court Justice Minnet Hafiz. In one corner is the Government of Belize. In the other are seven private interests including […]
The existing system requires that licenses must be obtained prior to supplying the processor. In this case CPBL is the only processor that purchases citrus in large quantities. Marshalleck, in his arguments, said that if and when licenses are refused growers are essentially denied of gaining a living from the industry. William Bowman of Belize […]
The dispute in the citrus belt is not letting up, we said earlier, a demonstration is planned for this Tuesday by the Citrus Growers Association against its subsidiary Citrus Products of Belize Limited. Both can’t agree on a number of issues; the CGA is primarily aggrieved that it owns fifty one percent interests of the […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. We take you immediately to the Western Highway where we join the fifteenth running of the Digicell Valentine Classic as these two riders use the descent on Cement Hill to distance themselves from the main pack in this ninety mile journey that headed from San […]
