There is a grisly double homicide making headlines tonight, following the discovery of a pair of bodies inside a shallow grave eleven miles north of San Pedro Town. The bodies were found sometime before midday today in an overgrown area. While a motive for the murders remains unknown, authorities on the island strongly believe that […]
Just two weeks before municipal elections, Mayor Darrell Bradley has come under some heat over the finances of the City Council. It’s all about the findings of an audit report for the period 2013 to 2014. To break it down, the Council has been audited in 2012, 2013 and 2014. Where the audit of 2012 […]
In the end, there was an agreement to disagree, respectfully. We’ve seen no 2013 audit, and neither has the Council, which in our books means there is no 2013 audit. But the Mayor insists that there is – just that the auditor slipped up and didn’t get the job done. We figured that it’s fair […]
We also asked about one line item in particular, listed in the 2014 audit. That’s the total debt of the City Council. In 2012, it’s listed as just over twelve million dollars. In 2014, it’s at just over forty-seven million dollars. Again, we thought it fair to ask why the Council’s debt more than tripled […]
Today, News Five was at a media workshop involving senior police personnel, and Belize’s top cop was also in attendance. We took the opportunity to ask him about some pending matters, since he’s not been exactly accessible to the media in the past months. First, we quizzed him about the infamous Elvin Penner. Penner’s name […]
There has been a well-documented contention between the Police Department and the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. Things came to a head with a memo written by Assistant ComPol Russell Blackett instructing commanders to desist from consulting with the D.P.P. on any case. Whylie hasn’t entered that fray in any obvious capacity, so […]
On Tuesday, an accident claimed the life of a U.S. tourist and left another hospitalized. The accident, which involved a small SUV and a tow head truck, collided around eleven on Tuesday morning at the entrance of the Jaguar Paw road around mile thirty-seven on the George Price Highway. The driver of the eighteen wheeler […]
The controversy may have died down, but Norwegian Cruise Line cruise ship port on Harvest Caye in southern Belize is well underway. According to Director of Cruise and Regional Operations, Valdemar Andrade, the multimillion dollar docking facility should be ready for the start of the high season in October 2015. Government gave the green light […]
So while in southern Belize, there might be a boom due to cruise tourism, in Venezuela, the international media is reporting economic turmoil. According to Ambassador Yoel del Valle Perez Marcano, the impact of the steady fall in crude prices on the country’s financial affairs is being misrepresented by networks such as CNN and Fox […]
In spite of its existing economic woes, Venezuela is yet to pull the plug on the Petrocaribe initiative. The last shipment of premium fuel to Belize arrived in country in late January and delivery has since been put on hold indefinitely. While the Barrow administration has borrowed an estimated two hundred and forty million dollars […]
The first tranche of payment to Venezuela for the Petrocaribe loan is due later this year. That disbursement will bring to an end a two-year grace period granted to Belize upon signing an agreement with Venezuela in 2012. Yoel del Valle Perez Marcano, Venezuelan Ambassador to Belize “The payments are normal. We are not […]
On Friday, twenty-nine-year-old Mahesh Balani, a businessman of Corozal Town, was robbed at gunpoint of two hundred and forty thousand pesos, the equivalent of forty thousand Belize dollars. The incident occurred sometime before six p.m. while he was conversing with a friend outside of an adjacent building. A pair of gunmen reportedly approached Balani from […]
A thirteen year old student of Ladyville, Belize District was reportedly sexually abused last Sunday afternoon. According to the girl, she and her friends went swimming in the sea behind Vista Del Mar, but the abuse occurred when she was not in the water. There are few details of the incident, but the minor claims […]
Three men were free of murder charge today when they appeared in Belmopan Supreme Court. Twenty-two year old Anthony Dennison, twenty-four year olds Traevon Williams and Denfield Tasher were acquitted of the 2010 shooting death of businesswoman Zhen Nong Zheng in Santa Elena, Cayo. In trial, Crown Counsel Cecil Ramirez of the D.P.P.’s office relied […]
Belize has been gaining recognition worldwide as a top tourist destination. Well tonight, there is one more to add as the leading tour operator for the Caribbean hails from Belize. Carnival Cruise Lines has selected H2O-Tierra Ltd, owned by Tom and Ivette Wilson as the top tour operator in the countries where the cruise lines […]
Earlier, we showed you Mayor Darrell Bradley engaged in the very spirited defense of the Council’s finances. But there’s more than that going on at the Council. Bradley is also working on a land deal where CitCo workers will get a piece of the jewel. He told News Five today that the initiative has been […]
It made big news at the end of January when news of child predators on the prowl in the north spread like wildfire. Schools were on alert and so were the Police, hunting for signs of a white SUV allegedly linked to a kidnapping attempt. Things have quieted down somewhat, but today Officer commanding Corozal […]
Residents in the capital city of Belmopan were up in arms about a wooden structure that was erected on reserve land near the market. Somehow, a clerk at the Belmopan city council ended with the land after getting the nod from the mayor and proceeded to put up small kiosk. Well you know elections are […]
Today, senior police officers from formations across the country gathered at Raccoon Street Headquarters for day one of a two-day media workshop. It’s an initiative by Commissioner of Police Allen Whylie to improve the relationship between his commanders and the media where information dissemination is concerned. Mike Rudon was at the workshop this morning and […]
The dust seems to have settled at the Belize Body Building and Fitness Federation, but over at the Belize Boxing Federation, a storm is in the making. Former member of the Belize Boxing Federation, Asad Martinez, says that the federation isn’t functional and it has failed the athletes. Martinez believes that there are critical elements […]
We contacted the President of the Belize Boxing Federation, Moses Sulph, to comment on the state of the executive. He says that it boils down to a few people not willing to follow the rules. Rules, he says, that must be adhered to if the Federation wants to remain a member of the International Boxing […]
