The community of San Pedro is still reeling and outraged at the death of a thirteen-year-old girl, one of four girls adopted by American parents. Faye Lin Cannon was found dead since Monday; she had signs of physical and sexual abuse. Police are now looking at her parents as suspects in her death. David and […]
Today in Belize City, People’s United Party Leader John Briceño weighed in on the tragic case. In addition to expressing a hope for justice against the perpetrators, he noted the recent comment by Immigration Officer Ady Pacheco during a public hearing of the Senate Special Select Committee. Pacheco claimed that the Cabinet had decided to […]
We’re following the heartbreaking story in San Pedro where a young girl was found dead with physical and sexual injuries, but we’ll start with a developing story of Orange Walk police who are keeping a tight lid on an ongoing criminal investigation. News Five can confirm tonight that authorities in the north have seized an […]
A team of coastguard officers was busy at sea on Thursday evening off the shores of Punta Gorda Town. An operation led by coastguard personnel and TIDE rangers responded to a distress call shortly before six o’clock when they were informed that a boat had overturned somewhere east of town. Fortunately for the four occupants […]
According to Lieutenant Soberanis, the occupants of the fleeing vessel had managed to toss their catch into the sea before being found with gill nets onboard the boat. Lt. Greg Soberanis, Belize National Coast Guard “As it relates to products, once a vessel is found to be engaged in illegal fishing, upon the sight […]
Erwin Santos, briefly the most wanted man in the West after police linked him to two murders in Unitedville and Teakettle villages, was captured earlier this week in Unitedville, Cayo. Today Belmopan police took him to court on a charge of possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition, specifically a point-two-two rifle for which other […]
Today, another bail application was heard on behalf of convicted prisoner, Orlando Vera, who was convicted and sent to prison on June first, 2017 on a single count of abetment to pervert the course of justice. Vera was jailed for two years after he was recorded telling Belmopan businessman Michael Modiri that he could help […]
On Wednesday afternoon, the People’s United Party in a statement strongly condemned what it called the contemptuous and disrespectful behavior displayed by Ministers Anthony “Boots’ Martinez and Edmond Castro during the Senate Special Select Committee earlier in the day. According to the Opposition, their behavior showed a complete lack of respect for the Senate and […]
Ministers Rene Montero and Manuel Heredia Jr. are headed to the inquiry next Wednesday. But will they follow the example set by their fellows this week, and is it possible that following from the disruption of May seventeenth propagated by Alberto August, the U.D.P. Cabinet has decided to show open contempt of the Senate Committee? […]
As to the testimony of the worth of a Minister’s recommendation for a visa application, which is not strictly required, it seems to be a case of taking the word of the various public officers who have testified openly to how Ministers of the current administration behaved against the Ministers’ own denial. Former Ministers of […]
Senior Counsel Michel Chebat, attorney-at-law, is standing in for the incumbent P.U.P. representative on the Senate Special Select Committee, Eamon Courtenay. Wednesday’s attacks on Chebat and Senator for the Business Community Mark Lizarraga by Minister Edmond Castro went even further. Castro openly mocked Chebat’s political pedigree and accused him of wrongdoing concerning use of public […]
Lieutenant Greg Soberanis, an upstanding officer of the Belize Coast Guard, recently completed a one-year program at the United States Naval War College. Soberanis graduated in June, after successfully completing the Naval Staff Course in Newport, Rhode Island. As the first Belizean to attend the extended version of the program, he was elected class president, […]
This week, Senior Superintendent Marco Vidal has taken over the post of Regional Commander for Eastern Division South, replacing Assistant Commissioner Chester Williams. Vidal has publicly committed to continuing the community policing approach adopted by Williams, although he will leave the senior officer to continue mentoring gang members presently under a truce. Meanwhile, murders and […]
Late on Thursday afternoon, Chief Justice, Kenneth A. Benjamin, dismissed a constitutional motion filed by three prisoners convicted of different murders but later saw the charge reduced to manslaughter. The CJ dismissed the motion in a thirty-seven page ruling and affirmed their convictions and sentence. The three convicted prisoners are Kenneth Garcia, along with former […]
Por esto, a Mexican news outlet reports that a Belizean has been arrested and remains behind bars in Isla Mujeres, for robbery. Police detained the individual after he forced himself into a house in the island and stole credit cards which were recovered by the police and returned to its owner. The robbery report was […]
Forty-nine year old Mark Pollard remains missing tonight. He has not been seen since he left home to go on a morning run to the Haulover Bridge on Monday. Family and friends have searched the northern area of the Old Capital since then to no avail and only one clue has been picked up in […]
We caught up with leader of the People’s United Party John Briceño this afternoon on a walking tour of the Port Loyola constituency, flanked by the party’s standard bearer Gilroy Usher, Senior. Usher lost the 2015 general election to Anthony “Boots” Martinez by seventy-three votes, substantially reducing the margin from previous elections and surprising political […]
The Belize District Queen of the Bay Pageant takes place at the Bliss on Saturday, with three contestants vying for the regional title. Organizer Joan Arnold says the pageant aims to level the playing field since there have been concerns that the national competition was not fair to some contestants. That has prompted them to […]
