Leader of the PIV gang, Edwin Flowers, was shot on Tuesday night on Neal’s Pen Road….just a stone’s throw from where the body of unidentified man was found this afternoon. Before news time tonight, there was another murder in the city, also on Fabers Road. What we know so far is that two persons were […]
At exactly five thirty this evening, three men were escorted to the Orange Walk Magistrate’s Court for formal arraignment. These men are believed to be part of a criminal gang which kidnapped and murdered seventy-one year old Ramon Cervantes Sr. Since Monday Orange Walk residents have crowded the Magistrate Court surrounds, and despite the lateness […]
Tonight a tangled web of abduction, criminal conspiracy and violent murder in the Orange Walk district continues to dominate the news. We can report that the body of a second person, a woman, was found in a well on a farm on the Honey Camp road, five miles out of Orange Walk Town. Police were […]
We revisit the developing story in Orange Walk where the body of a Sonia Abac. At exactly five p.m. today, Head of the National Crimes Investigation Branch, Assistant Commissioner of Police Russell Blackett, released official information on the identity of the body discovered on the Honey Camp road. He also confirmed the Manuel Castillo connection […]
Even as NCIB Head Russell Blackett was confirming the discovery of Sonia Abac, the grieving family of the woman who had been missing since April twenty-third were laying her remains to rest at the Piemont Cemetery. She was identified by her clothes and other items found with her remains. Her family is convinced that deportee […]
Another body was found this afternoon. It is that of a young man who remains unidentified up to news time. The body was floating on the sewer lagoon off Faber’s Road and while partially decomposed, there were traces of blood on the bank of the creek which leads investigators to believe, that the young man […]
Urban warfare continues to grip the city. On Tuesday night around nine o’clock, PIV gang leader, thirty-one year old Edwin Flowers, was shot to the head, but has so far survived the shooting and is in a stable condition at the K.H.M.H. Flowers was shot to the forehead, left arm and upper chest. While police […]
The chaos in the city has prompted government to re-deploy the B.D.F. to the streets. This afternoon, C.E.O. in the Ministry of National Security confirmed to News Five that, effective today, the B.D.F. will be scene at hotspots throughout south side Belize City. Ret. Col. George Lovell, C.E.O., Ministry of National Security “There have […]
The death of Ambassador Fred Martinez has sparked an outpouring of tributes from his colleagues in the diplomatic community, as well as from persons from all walks of life. Martinez had been ailing for some time and was hospitalized on Saturday in Guatemala City. His condition deteriorated and on Monday he was transferred to the […]
On Monday’s newscast, we reported a fire in San Pedro that left sixty-six persons displaced from their homes and on Tuesday, a mid-morning blaze in Hattieville gutted the two storey house of Justice of the Peace, Eloise Hyde. Well tonight, we report yet another fire; this time in Corozal. Two buildings were destroyed by fire […]
Four years ago, a plane was confiscated in one of the biggest drug bust in the country. The plane, a twin engine Beechcraft, landed and sat on the Southern Highway for hours back in 2010 and carried two point six tons of Colombian cocaine. Six persons including four police officers were charged, tried and released, […]
The Belize Tourism Industry Association held a biennial general meeting today at the Biltmore where stakeholders in the tourism industry were present to discuss developments within the sector over the past six months. This time the association invited C.E.O. Guido Bauer of Green Globe, a universal certification for sustainable tourism. While there are presently six […]
Do Di Right Thing has become one of the most successful programs by the police department; it recognizes exemplary and outstanding youths who have beaten the odds despite adversity. This morning thirty nine youths were honored; the top spot was taken by an eighteen year old young lady from the Cayo District whose story inspired […]
Six former workers of Belize Water Services Limited were back in court today in a legal suit they are pursing against their ex-employer for wrongful termination. BWS, however, claims it has had a long-standing restructuring plan in place that began to be seriously implemented in 2012 after a rate cut of over seven percent from […]
The memorandum from BWS C.E.O. Alvan Haynes released within the company on February seventh, according to Senior Counsel Rodwell Williams, had nothing to do with the termination of these workers, but with unrelated firings that took place a day earlier. Rodwell Williams, Attorney “Furthermore as the evidence unfolds, the company has always been keeping […]
