The brutal murder of Ramon Cervantes Senior from Orange Walk Town is shrouded in mystery and up until tonight no one has been charged. But there is breaking news tonight as the investigations continue. News Five Mike Rudon has been in Orange Walk following this story and has returned to the farm where Cervantes’ body […]
It is exactly one week since seventy-one year old Ramon Cervantes Senior was reported missing, and three days after his decomposed body was discovered in a shallow grave on a farm off the Honey Camp road in the outskirts of Walk Town. There have been multiple detentions by Police, and reports of a ringleader on […]
In the old capital, gun violence is relentless and grows even more brazen. On Monday night, a young man was gunned down in his bed inside his home. Leon Burgess and his common-law-wife had just retired for the night when he was executed. Numerous bullets found their mark on his upper body and head causing […]
Over the weekend, sixty-six persons were left homeless when a fire spread through the Boca del Rio area of San Pedro gutting eight houses. The origin of that fire remains under investigation but tonight there are thirteen additional persons left without a roof over their heads in the Hattieville community. It took less than half […]
Earlier in the newscast we reported on a fire in Hattieville, but there is a development in respect of another blaze which totally destroyed a bar and a business in the City on June twenty-third in the Newtown Barracks area. A young woman, Jacqueline Arteaga, was tragically killed in that inferno; she was pregnant and […]
This morning in the Supreme Court, the case against Belize Water Services Ltd., in a lawsuit filed by a group of six former employees of the utility company, commenced before Justice Michelle Arana. Mark Menzies, Colin Morrison, Don Gillett, Michael Novelo, Journett McKoy and Charlette Barnett were fired from BWS in February 2013. They contend […]
According to Musa, BWS says that Menzies’ severance was included in his payout. The others, represented by Tricia Pitts-Anderson, are also seeking general damages which Musa says can range from a couple thousand dollars to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Reporter “Sir, the other side mentioned a hundred and eighty-eight thousand dollars that was […]
Earlier we told you that the body of a woman has been found two hundred yards away from the shallow grave that Ramon Cervantes Senior was buried in. The Cervantes murder has attracted national attention. Today, former Prime Minister Said Musa, a colleague of the deceased Orange Walk businessman and erstwhile politician Cervantes Senior, shared […]
Today, the family of Myron Smith was dragged to court on firearm charges. Myron was killed on the basketball court behind the Complex building on June thirtieth, just a stone’s throw from his house. The family had just buried Myron when police raided their house on Monday. The search allegedly yielded a firearm and today, […]
For seven years, Honduran national, Alexis Servia has been living in Belize illegally; his home is a boat moored at mile four and a half on the Phillip Goldson Highway. Police stumbled upon him during an investigation on Monday and today he was taken before Magistrate Herbert Panton and read a single charge for being […]
Earlier today, Germany routed Brazil in a devastating score of seven to one in the 2014 World Cup Games playing in Brazil. While the magnitude of the victory may not have been imaginable, a Belize City man has won the SMART World Cup Challenge for his predictions. Andres Grajales is a football aficionado who has […]
Fifteen performers took the stage last Tuesday with the hope of becoming this season’s champion of If You Can Sing it Bring. The three coaches have worked with them in the past few days to improve and perfect their singing talent and move them to the next round of competition. Coaches Jenny Lovell, Rick Pech […]
