Most people would recognize the name Harold Crooks, he is the man who gave a damning report and recommended over a hundred ways to fix the police department. In fact the Minister of National Security, Carlos Perdomo, and the police hierarchy often pull out the report when questioned about how to deal with the rampant […]
But will the allegations have any bearing on the famous Crooks Report? The Commissioner of Police, Crispin Jeffries, was busy most of today, but the Police Press Officer, Sergeant Fitzroy Yearwood says Crooks’ problems should not affect the credibility of the report. Sergeant Fitzroy Yearwood, Police Press Officer “If he is being sought in Jamaica […]
There’s another suspect on the run but here in the city. He is wanted for a shooting that has ended in murder. Shots rang out on Ebony Street just before ten on Monday night and one man was wounded. Hours late he succumbed while at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. But witnesses say Anthony Burgess, […]
And in the south, an accident on the highway Monday night left three persons dead and five others hospitalized. It happened around eleven p.m. at mile two on the Southern Highway when a white pickup and a grey sport utility vehicle collided. At the scene of the wreckage it seems as if it was a […]
Our segment on questions and reflections has picked up considerable steam from our viewers who have been texting and writing in their comments in reaction to the issues of huge national importance. The questions are aired on Tuesdays and Thursdays and the response is presented on Wednesdays and Fridays. This week’s question is: Do you agree […]
Just before news this evening a bomb threat was called in to Scotia Bank Albert Street Branch. Bank employees were already leaving work when someone called in a bomb threat. The bomb expert arrived on the scene shortly after and the threat turned out to be a prank. A thorough search of the building yielded […]
The increase of twenty-five percent on GST will hit consumers on April first. And if you are bracing to now pay twelve point five percent in the sales tax, hold on because fuel prices have just gone up again. That’s despite a promise made by the government to keep prices below the seven dollar price […]
In Belmopan, Cabinet met in regular session today and discussed a matter that has been on the airwaves since the beginning of the week. Three weeks ago News Five reported that thirty-eight families that had now taken up the land had been given the consent by a U.D.P. elected representative. The matter has been boiling […]
A jury of nine convicted a bad cop for extortion today. According to Hytklin Kelat, on November thirtieth, 2008, Police Constable Marlon Harris, stopped him at the checkpoint located four miles outside of Belize City on the Western Highway. Kelat was found to be driving without insurance. But the following day, officer Harris visited him […]
A man faced an embarrassing period before the court because his ex-common law wife has accused him of touching her inappropriately. Thirty-two year old Preston Reynolds is charged with Aggravated Assault of an Indecent Nature and Common Assault upon the twenty seven year old woman. The allegation was made since January twelfth but Reynolds was […]
A man who already has a series of criminal offenses to answer to had another charge added to his list today. David White is being accused of breaking into the business place of Raymond Matus, who owns a store on New Road. Allegations are that between seven thirty last Friday night and seven forty five […]
And while Harold Crooks is being sought in Jamaica, in Belize local crooks are carrying on an onslaught of robberies. On Monday night it was Cosmetic Corner on Cemetery Road which was targeted and this afternoon robbers zeroed in on Swami’s Boutique on Albert Street at around two ten and the Port of Belize Limited […]
Hubert Erin Elrington is a Belizean American, who is free in Belize, but wanted by the police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States. He is the nephew of the Foreign Minister, Wilfred “Sedi” Elrington and former Minister Hubert Elrington. Elrington, twenty four years old, has been implicated in a home invasion […]
Human trafficking is the trade or commerce of people, a practice which is illegal in most countries and has been likened to a form of modern day slavery. The most common form in Belize is the internal sex trafficking of minors. And according to the 2009 Human Trafficking Report of the US State Department, the […]
Nausea, upset stomach, vomiting, cramps, diarrhea: do these sound familiar? If you’ve been experiencing these symptoms you may have been affected by a wave of gastroenteritis, which is spreading like wildfire. The illness might also have you achy within a day and according to Doctor Fernando Cuellar, one third of persons have it so severe, […]
The crime situation in Belize has many residents constantly looking over their shoulders in fear that their lives would be washed away in the indiscriminate wave of bloodshed that now runs through the streets. Commissioner of Police, Crispin Jeffries a few days ago made a presentation to the Rotary Club of Belize addressing the effects […]
