A twenty-two year old was executed on Monday evening in the unending cycle of violence in the city. Nicasio Zuniga was ambushed by a duo on bicycles on Complex Drive not far from his house on Jones Street in the Saint Martin’s area. One of the gunmen pulled out a firearm and delivered the fatal […]
Late this afternoon, the family also granted News Five an interview saying that Zuniga was never affiliated with any gang, nor does he have a criminal record. The bullet, according to his family, penetrated his cheeks and exited through the back of his head. His sister Keisha says that her brother never complained of his […]
There were two other shootings overnight; the first exactly one hour after the execution of Zuniga. Around seven-thirty p.m., shots rang out on Racecourse Street in Belize City. Another youth, twenty-one-year-old Adrian Dyer, a resident of George Street, was shot multiple times to the thighs by two men on a motorcycle. The gunmen rode up […]
On Monday, we reported that thirty year old Tyrone Davis of Sandhill was murdered, shot in the throat and arm while in a hammock at his home. Police were already baffled as to a possible motive for a murder but according to Regional Commander for Eastern Division South, ACP Edward Broaster, their investigation has led […]
Melissa Ferguson, out on bail for the attempted conspiracy to commit kidnapping of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas and another, is reporting an alleged burglary at the residence she shared with incarcerated accused murderer and kidnapper William Mason in the Mountain View area of Belmopan. She has been living at the ranch at mile thirty-one on the […]
The fate of Dorian Pakeman as Director of the Government Press Office was the subject of a discussion in Cabinet this morning. News Five understands that the issue of his employment was raised in today’s meeting, following the results of a toxicology test conducted on specimen he submitted. That sample was given after a fatal […]
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At least thirteen U.D.P. ministers and former ministers are being named in the Special Immigration Audit for being involved in irregular practices as it relates to the issuance of passports, visas, and nationality certificates. The Auditor General points out that the law does not provide for ministers to intervene in the process. On both sides […]
News Five returns tonight to a review of the Office of the Auditor General’s Special Audit Reports on Visas, Nationality and Passports which are now before the House of Representatives and may soon be the subject of an investigation by the National Assembly. In the following story, correspondent Aaron Humes takes a look at tie-ins […]
Back in 2013, a Belizean from Camalote appeared to lose his passport and sought to get another one. A typical process – so why is his name in the Immigration Audit Report? Correspondent Aaron Humes traces the strange case of Floyd Emmanuel Neal. Aaron Humes, Reporting The Immigration Audit Report on Passports cites media […]
As we reported on Monday, the government of Guatemala has flatly rejected the report of two independent experts, commissioned by the O.A.S., on the shooting death of fourteen year old Julio Rene Alvarado Ruano. The minor was killed in the Chiquibul where a joint patrol found him with his father and brother hunting and gathering […]
Guatemala was the first to call for an O.A.S. led investigation and had agreed to the appointment of the experts. But now the tables have turned since the report exonerates the B.D.F. and in fact notes that there was interference with the evidence on the part of the Guatemalans. In the interview this morning, the […]
Five taxi associations in Benque Viejo Del Carmen are protesting a similar initiative by foreign, specifically Guatemalan nationals, to muscle in on their profits. The sixty drivers appeared in front of the Benque Town Council office this morning, asking the politicians to intervene in stopping Melchor vans and taxi drivers from making runs into Belize […]
The People’s United Party is hosting a national protest this Wednesday in the city. The party says enough is enough and that the government has been reeling from scandal to scandal on a number of national issues. The P.U.P. has not recently organized a mass protest, so the numbers and muscle will be interesting factors. […]
The P.U.P. has also organized a petition to have Belizeans sign on or to ask and encourage—either individually or organizations that they belong to—to write their area reps or directly to members of Government to have a senate select inquiry, which is the mechanism under the constitution to investigate the immigration scandal. Valerie Woods, […]
The Belize of Chamber of Commerce’s Expo was held over the weekend at the ITVET in Belize City. The private sector was out in full force offering deals upon deals on a wide range of products or services. The most popular item was really the deals on phones and there was an abundance of options. […]
