The death of thirteen-year-old American national Faye Lin Cannon has sent shockwaves across the country. The teenager was found dead and a post mortem exam determined that she was physically and sexually abused – allegedly at the hands of her adopted parents’ business owners David and Anke Doehm. The couple has been in police custody […]
Another round of protest as held over the weekend in the San Pedro where police have not yet been able to pin murder charges in the case of Faye Lin Cannon. The thirteen-year-old Chinese-American girl was reported dead last Monday by her own adopted parents, a U.S. couple. But there have been inconsistencies in their […]
As the island continues to reel over the death of Faye Lin, the Department of Human Services is coming under fire for a purported inaction in respect of complaint made against David and Anke Doehm. The department confirmed today that reports of what it calls improper supervision and inadequate parenting of the Cannon children of […]
We showed you the protests on the island where San Pedranos are angry over the death of Faye Lin. Residents have taken to the streets to express their regret and anger because they believe the teen’s death could have been prevented since the authorities never properly followed up the reports made about the suspected abuse. […]
Crime in the prime tourism destination has spiked; three murders were recorded in three days. Even as police continue investigating the death of Faye Lin Cannon, on Saturday night, a minor was shot and killed on Sea Grapes Drive. Sixteen-year-old Julian Tun arrived on the island on the same day death came knocking at his […]
The sensational case of forcible abduction, sexual assault and harm against Bert Vasquez, involving a sixteen-year-old minor back in May 2011 came to an end just before news time. At about four-twenty this afternoon, the jury retired to deliberate after more than six hours of summing up of the evidence of the case presented by […]
Police on the island are also investigating the unusual death of a Honduran national. Fifty-six-year-old Plutarco Noralez relocated to Belize from La Ceiba, Honduras years ago – first living in Dangriga before taking up residence in San San Pedro five years ago. But on Wednesday morning he arrived at the polyclinic complaining of chest pains; […]
The Court of Appeal of the Eastern Caribbean began sitting today in the British Virgin Islands. It did so with a newly appointed judge – Senior Counsel Eamon Courtenay. News Five understands that Senator Courtenay was recruited by Dame Janice Pereira, the Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean, to sit as a temporary Judge on […]
Two Guatemalan carjackers were shot by police over the weekend; one died on the spot in Calla Creek, Cayo. On Saturday, the robbers lay waited Omar Jimenez and his son and strong-armed their vehicle at gunpoint, but Jimenez would alert family and the police. A team of officers from the Special Patrols Unit set chase […]
Police continue to investigate a fatal road traffic accident in Belize City. Thirty-seven-year-old Anthony Humes was driving a Wingle pick-up truck into Belize City from Ladyville on Sunday morning around four-thirty a.m. upon reaching the area in front of Caribbean Tires on the Philip Goldson Highway, around mile three and a half; he hit a […]
A night of socializing at La Cabana Night Club in Belmopan has left three men suffering from varying degrees of injury after gunfire erupted at the establishment. According to Belmopan police, Berthran Bermudez was shot to the left and right upper thigh, while Ismael Trapp was hit to the right index finger and left foot. […]
A Belize City family is out of house and home tonight after their residence on Zacaranda Street was gutted by fire. The twenty-by-twenty-five foot wooden structure was, according to fire personnel, deliberately set on fire and its residents lost all they owned. But the question tonight is, did someone conspire to burn out the Flowers […]
On Friday, we reported that Orange Walk police had arrested and detained a trio of men, including a Mexican national, found in possession of discarded military uniforms and outboard engines that were once the property of the Belize Defense Force. The stock of worn battle dress uniforms, along with mechanical parts from the motors, raised […]
The Belize Defence Force Air Wing was hard at work over the weekend, responding to an emergency situation in the Toledo District. The Ministry of Defence reports that three children between the ages of ten and sixteen went on a fishing expedition and wound up stranded on the far bank of the San Benito Poite […]
Police are reporting less major crimes across Belize in the first half of 2017. Official statistics have the figure tallied at eight hundred and sixty-six in total from January to June compared to one thousand and seventy in the same time period in 2016. The murder count stands at seventy as at the end of […]
For four years, the Image Factory Art Foundation has opened its space to new and established artists during the summer months for what it calls free and open experimentation, where those in the creative field are invited to perform, install or project work in the space for a maximum limit of twenty-four hours. The concept […]
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