There is a murder to report tonight resulting from the hostility between two south side gangs. It stems from a shooting on Tuesday night at the corner of King Street and West Collet Canal. Two men were injured and hospitalized in that incident. But by this morning, in the George Street area, a resident of […]
While police are investigating Tarique Cadle’s murder, the two Belize City gang affiliates of George Street who were shot on Tuesday night remain hospitalized. Twenty-five year old Kariq Tzul of West Street and twenty-seven year old Andrew Tate from George Street were sitting on the steps of house inside a yard at the Corner of […]
On Monday evening, the lifeless body of sixty-one year old Lester Rowland was discovered inside a concrete vat outside of his home on Guerrero Street. A team of law enforcement officers worked diligently the following day to remove the corpse from the tank, before a post mortem examination could be conducted on site. While the […]
Elvin Penner, the disgraced former minister of state, who facilitated the illegal issuance of a Belize passport to a South Korean fugitive, has not been questioned much less investigated. But three public officers employed in the Passport Section of the Immigration Department today appeared before the Services Commission. Sharon Neal, Omar Phillips and Erwin Robinson […]
The People’s United Party believes that by his own admission in an email to the media, Elvin Penner committed an illegal and criminal act in the passport issued to South Korean fugitive, Won Hong Kim back in September 2013. But Penner has not been investigated, so late this afternoon; the P.U.P. filed a writ of […]
As you heard, the P.U.P. is asking the court to direct the Commissioner of Police to carry out a criminal investigation into the illegal issuance of a passport to a South Korean fugitive who never set foot in Belize. But tonight, we can report that there is another such writ of mandamus already before the […]
There were thousands of tourists today in the area of the Tourism Village when a pair of visitors narrowly escaped grave; they were wounded by the fragments of a nine millimeter round. The incident occurred inside the Brown Sugar Mall shortly before ten o’clock. A mother and her daughter were reportedly in the vicinity of […]
A News Five team traveled to a farm on the Guinea Grass Road where human remains were found by the farm’s caretaker. While the police would not confirm the identity on Tuesday, today, they verified that the remains were those of twenty-three year old Luis Moreno. Moreno had been reported missing by his mother, Marcela […]
In November 2013 Prime Minister Dean Barrow hosted a special press briefing to announce a countrywide infrastructure bonanza, what he called a plan on steroids. G.O.B. proposes to spend approximately seventy-six million dollars on major projects all over the country and that money will be sourced from Petro Caribe funds. When that announcement was made, […]
That’s good news for Belize City and other municipalities who will benefit under the National Infrastructure Plan. But there is an area in the north which continues to bedevil commuters. The San Estevan/Progresso Road in recent years has raised the ire of those who live in the area. The paving of that entire stretch was […]
A Belize City man, who claims he was badly beaten by the police and B.D.F. after he was accused of trying to steal a rifle assigned to a B.D.F. officer in January of this year, was before the court this afternoon to answer to a charge of attempted theft. He is twenty-two year old Patrick […]
A total of six illegal immigrants, who were rounded up as a part of a sting operation by the Immigration Department, appeared in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court today to answer to different charges. They are forty-five year old Jose Orlando Florez, a Honduran mason who has been living in Santa Cruz Village in Mango […]
Today, police officers, traffic wardens and transport officers gathered at the Belmopan Training School to learn the dos and don’ts of traffic enforcement. It’s all part of a larger Road Safety Project funded by the Caribbean Development Bank and launched in 2013. There are different facets to the project, from effective interaction with motorists and […]
As we told you, the Road Safety Project deals with everything from traffic enforcement to road conditions, specifically the road on what is called the western corridor. That’s the Western Highway to us regular commuters, and it is a particularly deadly stretch of road, claiming many lives and maiming many. If you’ve travelled that road […]
Moses Williams, a mentally challenged person, was shot and killed by the police in Big Falls. Police told News Five that Williams was shot after chopping the left arm of one of the officer. Today, the Mental Health Association issued a statement on the confrontation between Williams and the police that ended in his death. […]
