The top brass of the police met in emergency and closed door session today, in light of a murder spree since the start of the year. They were not providing details on the recent string of murders and that’s perhaps because they said too much on Tuesday night to incense the criminal elements. By seven-thirty, […]
Hours before Bert Abraham was executed, nineteen year old Randolph Johnson was among a group of friends fishing when he too was ambushed near Belize Waste Compound on the George Price Highway just after two in the afternoon. Johnson’s family believes his movements were being monitored before the gunman pounced on him. News Five’s Duane […]
Since December thirty- first, the six murders have the police working around the clock, but except for one, police are yet to crack the cases. Dillon Grinage did not live to see the New Year; he was killed in Sandhill at the close of 2016. Patrick Harris, a resident of the same village, was arraigned […]
The Forest Department is cracking down on the illegal harvesting of hardwood. Two major busts have been made in recent days in the west and south, which show that the illegal harvest of the precious wood continues despite the signing on to the CITES Convention. A Benque Viejo businessman, Miguel Angel Estala, appeared in the […]
The first hearing of the Special Senate Select Committee for 2017 was hosted at the National Assembly, Belmopan. Sitting before the six-member panel was senior official of the Immigration Department, Maria Marin. Marin, now the Director for the Refugee Department in the Ministry, served as deputy and acting director of the Immigration Department in 2012 […]
According to Marin, she was swamped with research on the Won Hong Kim matter and concurrent investigations of the Department internally and by Police. She asked her subordinates to check with either the Ministry, in some cases, or the C.E.O. to help the auditors get what they wanted to review. But the Audit Report recalls […]
The Committee also tried to question Marin on the various approvals for visas, passports and nationalities in 2012 and 2013, when she was deputy and then holding over as acting director, but she stated that she could only really speak to those done in 2013. She went on to clarify what powers she held in […]
Nominations have been closed for the selection of a thirteenth member of the Senate. The United Democratic Party first proposed it in 2008 as a counter to a fully elected Senate, but Prime Minister Dean Barrow refused for several years to sign the prevailing sections of the Constitutional amendment into law, fearing worsened gridlock in […]
On Tuesday night sometime around eight, there was a shooting in the village of Sandhill; fortunately, no one was injured, but that there was a shooting at the same residence some weeks ago. Now, the man whose life was threatened is in police custody for protection. Today, we spoke with Regional Commander Edward Broaster who […]
Dorian Pakeman and Alfonso Noble are both highly connected U.D.P. loyalists. Pakeman in March and Noble in December of 2016 knocked down and killed two men in separate incidents. Now, these fatal RTAs have garnered just about enough, or too much attention, because of how they have been handled so far. We’ve heard of the […]
In another update…What killed a seventeen-week-old fetus found wrapped in a plastic bag and stashed inside a large coffee bottle and laid to rest along the quiet banks of the Mopan River on New Years’ Eve? A post-mortem examination was scheduled for Wednesday in San Ignacio to determine cause of death. But it could not […]
Nearly one year ago, Chicago, Illinois television producer and journalist Anne Swaney was found murdered at a resort outside of Benque Viejo del Carmen. Local police called on investigators from the U.S. to assist in the case, but the trail has gone cold. It has otherwise been a quiet year for the Benque Viejo Sub-Formation […]
Regional Commander of the Rural Eastern Division, ACP Edward Broaster, pulled out all the stops to reward some of the Police Officers who work under his jurisdiction. Today, he recognized those who stood out above the rest for 2016. They all received plaques and cash. The cash given out was a donation made by businessmen […]
Six murders in four days have taken some by surprise, while others were not so shocked by the spike in the homicides. And on Tuesday night, you heard the top brass in the Police Department talk about what they are going to do for the next few months to curb the gun violence, particularly in […]
Just now you heard Minister of Police Aragon speak on the short term methods they are implementing to cut the sharp increase in killings since the start of the New Year. He told us that his Ministry has undertaken a comprehensive plan which will be a national crime strategy. Aragon said that the plan is […]
