A team from the Gang Suppression Unit carried out a surprise raid at the house of Mike Menjivar, the well known owner of La Cabana Bar in Belmopan looking for illegal items. It started before dawn and continued all day. A shoot-out ensued, Menjivar and his wife were held inside their house, but their three […]
As we said, at about six this evening, Menjivar was finally taken to the police station for processing. His attorney, Arthur Saldivar told News Five that the house was completely ransacked and that Menjivar was injured. Arthur Saldivar, Attorney “All rooms, all rooms in a whole has been shot up. There are bullet holes in […]
A high ranking police officer was busted with alleged counterfeit notes on Wednesday while at a bank making a deposit. It’s a major bust because Sergeant Sherwood Wade is the head of the Police Special Branch. This afternoon, dressed in a guaberra, he was escorted to court and was formally arraigned for Possession of Counterfeit […]
But those sixteen notes were just the tip of the iceberg and the cops are now on high alert, following an even bigger bust on Thursday afternoon. Thirty-five year old David Sedacey, who was busted with fifteen thousand US dollars in fake bills, was arraigned this morning for Possession of Counterfeit Notes. Police searched his […]
The official statistics released earlier this week say that crime is down. We asked our viewers if they felt safer even though the heinous crime of murder is up when compared to last year. By a large margin, as high as ninety four percent, viewers said no. One viewer said, “When more than ninety percent […]
Bus operators from the North of the country attended a meeting in the old capital at ten this morning. The meeting was necessary because operators were not happy with the schedules proposed by the Ministry of Transport for the northern and western zones. Some of the operators lost a number a number of runs, which […]
The Orange Walk Technical High School is getting a new name; we caught up with this piece of news on Facebook, were we found that emotions were running high among those not enthused with the change. The Chairlady of the Board of Management circulated a letter to that effect today saying the instructions had come […]
COLA’s President Moses Sulph recently found himself in hot water after his advocacy group staged a sleep out in front of the Prime Minister’s Office in the Capital against oil exploration. Soon after, it became known that he was under investigation and was subsequently fired from his post at the General Registry after alleged irregularities […]
The boom in cruise tourism has opened up plenty of Belize’s natural resources for income generation. But the droves of buses that take tourists to the sites also have an impact on the roads. Taxes are being taken per head of tourist that enter sites such as Caves Branch for cave tubing. But the infrastructure […]
The recently released statistics showed that at the end of April, the number of carnal knowledge cases was down by two when compared to same period in 2010. Well, it appears the culprits are playing catch up because there were two carnal knowledge reports in today’s police blotter. A fourteen year old student told the […]
An accident on the Hummingbird Highway this past Sunday night resulted in the death of nineteen year old Suzette Mossiah and according to police, the driver of the vehicle is facing four charges. Mossiah was travelling from Armenia Village to Belmopan along with Balmore Hernandez. But Hernandez lost control of the Toyota Tacoma pickup and […]
Burglaries of churches are becoming frequent. In the most recent case Pastor Arturo Mendez, of Paraiso Village in the northernmost district, reports that the Penial Presbyterian Church located in the Ramirez Layout Area of Corozal Town was vandalized. The thieves made off with an assortment of furniture and electronic items that are worth over twelve […]
There’s a disturbing report coming from the Corozal District that two women were badly beaten by the cops. According to a relative of the victims, Maity Garcia and Yorhemi Monima, got into an argument near the Police Station and the cops intervened. But instead of breaking up the confrontation, the officers allegedly attacked the women. […]
A report in the Honduran press says that the Crime Investigation Unit of Honduras is investigating the twin engine plane used in the biggest drug bust in Belize. The Beach craft is in the custody of the Belize Defence Force but, as we reported at the time of the raid, it is eerily similar to […]
Vivian Castillo, a police sergeant attached to the Dangriga Formation, is the latest Lotto winner. Castillo, who has been taking a chance on tickets since the inception of the game, struck gold on Wednesday when the slip she purchased prior to the draw contained the winning numbers. At the time she bought the ticket the […]
There are numerous theories as to when judgment day will be upon us, but one religious group is of the belief that it’s closer than you think. Robin Harp, of familyradio.com came to News Five six months ago with a message of repentance and a claim that the world would end on May twenty-first, 2011. […]
