This afternoon, Doctor Marco Tulio Mendez handed himself over to Orange Walk Police flanked by two of his attorneys, Dickie Bradley and Andrew Bennett. His surrender and the wrangle which succeeded his arraignment were captured on camera. We’ll show you what transpired outside the police station and the family’s attempt to whisk him away from […]
Following his arraignment and the glare of the media, we got an exclusive interview with the politician who announced that he won’t seek reelection last November. Obviously affected by the ordeal, Mendez was restrained from going into details because the matter is now before the Magistrate’s Court. He told News Five, however, what transpired earlier […]
As we said, six charges have been laid on Doctor Mendez. Four counts of aggravated assault of an indecent nature upon a minor sometime between 2006 and 2007, in November 2009 and in September of 2010 and in 2011. In respect of the other minor, the charges are for common assault sometime between 2005 and […]
Doctor Mendez is tonight on bail of five thousand dollars and is due back in court on April thirteenth, but it is expected that the matter will be elevated to the Supreme Court. Immediately after his arraignment on criminal charges, the People’s United Party went into high gear. In a release, the P.U.P. states that, […]
While Marco Tulio Mendez is out on bail, another high ranking member of the People’s United Party is to be charged on Wednesday in the Magistrate Court. Last week, former Party Leader and Orange Walk Central Representative, John Briceño, was served with a notice of intended prosecution for negligent harm. It goes back to an […]
In the capital, a vicious murder occurred overnight and one person has been detained for questioning. A security guard was hacked to death and his body left at the premises of Anchor Security located at the entrance of Belmopan. The body of sixty-year-old Feliciano Noralez was discovered this morning; he left his home on Monday […]
Like we said, that brings the murder count for the Belmopan jurisdiction to three. The first occurred on New Year’s Day at the Dream Valley Resort in Teakettle. Resort manager, Yaima Duany Ledesma was shot and killed in broad daylight in front of patrons. Two men walked into the bar at the resort and ordered […]
Belmopan police also believe that they are wrapping up the investigation into the murder of Roaring Creek resident, Emerson Daly. The twenty-four year old was reported missing on Monday, January nineteen. His partially nude and decomposed body was pulled out from the river behind Banana Bank in the Cow Run area two days later, on […]
There was a traffic accident early this morning in the south side of Belize City. Maria and Reyna, three year old twins, were riding with their mom, Reyna Savala, when they were hit by a truck. The mother was accompanying another sibling to school when the accident happened. Fortunately, the family sustained minor injuries, but […]
In the Belize City Magistrate’s Court, thirty year old Floyd McNab, a car washer, was today sentenced to one year imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to twenty-two counts of theft. McNab initially pleaded not guilty, but later changed his plea to guilty and begged Magistrate Herbert Panton to impose a non-custodial sentence upon him to […]
For over a month now, a boat, a steel hull vessel, has been aground on the reef near the island of Caye Caulker. Word spread like wildfire in early January about the incident, but weeks later, no one has been fingered for the accident at sea. OCEANA in Belize for years now has been working […]
Belize has the second largest barrier reef in the world and is considered part of a world heritage site. The steel hull sailboat measures at approximately thirty-five feet in length and sits in approximately five feet of water in low tide. While the sailboat is currently lodged on coral “rubble”, increased wave action could push […]
Her tamales have been featured on CNN, Afar dot com, right here on Channel Five, and even have reviews on Trip Advisor. But the lady behind the famous tamales has passed on. Seventy-eight year old Bertha Lisbey, one of the most popular tamales vendors in Belize, passed away on Sunday, February first, at the Southern […]
