After a week of much hesitancy and serious backpedaling, the Belize Police Department has finally confirmed the names of three men, including Jafari Castro, who are wanted for the vicious beat down of a university athlete. But police is still not able to determine Jafari’s whereabouts. According to Minister Edmond Castro, in an interview with […]
So with all the confusion surrounding the whodunit mystery, is the department attempting to protect Jafari Castro and his alleged accomplices? According to ACP Broaster, there hasn’t been any political interference during the course of their investigation, despite the abrupt transfer of Inspector Fitzroy Yearwood. Last Wednesday, it was announced that Yearwood had been relocated […]
This morning, Police Constable Ismael Monima was taken before the Corozal Magistrate’s Court for tampering with evidence. The junior officer is being accused of perverting the course of justice after he removed a urine specimen from the Traffic Office at the Corozal Police Station. According to a Corporal of Police, last Thursday morning around four-thirty, […]
On Friday, Monima was charged with Perverting the Course of Justice and was held in lockdown until today when he was arraigned. Assistant Commissioner of Police Chester Williams says that corruption within the department will not be tolerated. ACP Chester Williams, Commander, Professional Standards Branch “I will tell you from a police standpoint and […]
Superintendent Dinsdale Thompson is on personal leave from his desk at the Queen Street Precinct, amid an ongoing investigation being conducted by the Professional Standards Branch. A probe into the smuggling of an undisclosed quantity of pharmaceuticals is being done internally, after the senior officer was busted in Arenal on August fourth by customs officials. […]
Some twenty thousand U.S. dollars in cash, five thousand dollars in checks and an undisclosed amount of Belizean currency were stolen over the weekend from the Caribbean Tires office in Spanish Lookout, Cayo District. But the money has been recovered through community and police work. Tonight, an employee is detained for questioning. According to Superintendent […]
There’s more crime to report…a trio, including two minors, escaped grave injuries on Saturday night when a pair of gunmen opened fire on them at a woodwork shop in San Pedro. Nine-year-old Jaheem Martinez and twelve-year-old Armando Bernardino Hernandez, both primary school students, are lucky to have survived an armed assault during which Lloyd Tyndall […]
This weekend, there was political activity in two major western municipalities. The incumbent United Democratic Party sought to fill six councilor seats from seven participants in Belmopan, joining an incumbent mayor, while in San Ignacio and Santa Elena it was the other way around for the People’s United Party – three candidates for mayor to […]
In San Ignacio/Santa Elena, the People’s United Party gathered at Sacred Heart College. Former mayor Marconi Matus defeated rivals Javier “Colonel” Castellanos and Arthur Smith to head up the team. He received three hundred and forty-five votes compared to two hundred and sixty-one for Smith and two hundred and forty for the former Belize Defence […]
Last week we told you that Mayor Hilberto Campos of Corozal Town will not be seeking reelection in the upcoming Municipal Elections 2018 and already two U.D.P. hopefuls have put in their bid to replace Campos. Richard Quan and Rafael Castillo are going head to head at the convention scheduled for this Saturday in Corozal. […]
The Belize Network of Non-Governmental Organizations has joined the call for re-registration even though it has been put off to next year. In a press release, the organization says the Election and Boundaries Commission ought to reconsider, considering the importance of free and fair elections and defending the right to vote. The first and last […]
An official mediation between members of the Council of Management of the Public Service Union and its president, Eldred Neal, took place on Saturday in Belmopan. An official statement from the Union issued today confirms that Neal has been reinstated as president of the P.S.U. up to and in time for the ninety-fifth annual general […]
On Friday, we showed documents detailing the transfer of just over an acre of land in the Las Flores area to a resident by the Belmopan City Council. Amy Anabella Chen of a Hummingbird Highway address sought transfer of Block twenty, parcel number eight-seven-one-three in February and the transaction was completed a week ago for […]
While the police department is reeling from a string of infractions conducted by its own, one officer is being commended tonight for apprehending an alleged rapist over the weekend. The incident happened near Maya Center Village in South Stann Creek where a woman was sexually assaulted after hitching a ride with a motorist at the […]
Friends for Conservation and Development have reported the detention of six Guatemalan gold panners over the weekend in the area of the Ceibo Chico creek in the southern Chiquibul National Park. They face charges of illegal entry, mineral extraction without a permit and defacing a protected area. The men have been identified as thirty-eight years […]
There were two separate shooting incidents in Belize City on Friday night. Teenager Alden Lara was on Levi Slusher Street in the Jane Usher Boulevard area when he was shot to the pelvic area. Lara was treated at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Meanwhile, forty-four-year-old Sydney Ellis was shot at on Curl Thompson Street by […]
A teenage girl from the west is missing and police and the family needs help in locating Helen Adolphus. The fifteen-year-old ran away last Tuesday from the area of the government building plaza in Belmopan. According to her foster care parent, Helen was to be handed over to Human Service when she ran away. There […]
The government of Taiwan stepped up to the plate today with a generous donation of cash and equipment. This gift will be used to assist the Ministry of Health in collecting data as well as in the prevention of renal failure; a condition that is prevalent among Belizeans. News Five’s Duane Moody was up north […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of weekend sporting activities….]
