Two people were killed in a shooting that police had described as murder-suicide on Friday night. The shocking incident occurred inside the offices of AAA Security on the Philip Goldson Highway. The well-known business owner, Robert Godfrey, killed his long time employee and manager, Delsie Smith, before turning the gun on himself. According to Smith’s […]
There was more bloodshed in the city. Twenty-four hours after the murder-suicide at AAA Security, fifty-one-year-old Santos Miguel Bernardes was executed. The sanitary engineer was playing domino at his neighbor’s yard on Laura Dunn Street off Antelope Street Extension in Belize City, when a gunman would interrupt the game. One bullet hit Bernardes to the […]
As the weekend progressed, party goers at an event in Buttonwood Bay scattered in fear of their lives. Among the guests was Belize City resident Aaron King. One of two hit men called out his name and when he turned to respond, King was met by fire. He fled from the scene, but the gunmen […]
On the prime tourism island of San Pedro, residents in the area of San Mateo escaped grave injuries when a high explosive fragmentation grenade was thrown beneath the house of Amancia Martinez. It’s the first attack using a hand-thrown bomb to be recorded on the island, and many in the popular tourist destination are tonight […]
Commander Jones says the fragmentation grenade sent shrapnel flying across a fifteen meter radius, shaking a number of houses in the immediate area of the blast. Brig. Gen. David Jones, B.D.F. Bomb Expert “I went out to the area afterwards where when I visited the area, I saw the crater at the bottom of […]
Chief Justice of Belize Kenneth Benjamin has set a timeline to clear up the backlog of close to thirty overdue judgments on his desk. Reports to News Five are that the first two of those judgments were handed down today, with two more due on Friday and at the rate of two per week, the […]
But what is behind the situation? Is it simply that the Chief Justice, contending with a court operating on a slender thread of resources and facing an increasingly litigious society, has become overworked? The Bar says it allowed for that and it is now up to him to lessen that work with the schedule he […]
Over the weekend, Belizeans were harassed and turned back from traversing the Sarstoon River and circling the island during an organized canoe race at Belize’s southern boundary. The Belize Territorial Volunteers’ second-annual Eco-Challenge canoe and kayak race was threatened to become an international incident this past Saturday. Guatemalan gunboats manned the entrance of the river, […]
This, of course, is not the first time that the B.T.V., or even the Belizean military and press including this station, have encountered Guatemalan military actively seeking to stop Belizeans from traversing the Sarstoon. Prensa Libre claims that Wil Maheia led a group to Sarstoon Island to install the Belizean flag and sing the national […]
Just after eight o’clock on Saturday night, some two hours before the execution of Santos Miguel Bernardes, several shots rang out near the corner of Pitter and Elston Kerr Streets, in the Antelope Street Extension area. Tonight, thirty-year-old Scheffield Ysaguirre remains in critical condition at the K.H.M.H. after he was hit multiple times to the […]
There were a total of five shooting incidents over the weekend in which three persons were killed and three others remain in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The fifth shooting was a brazen attempt on the life of Haitian national Joseph Ducey on Sunday morning. As Ducey stood inside his yard on […]
The Judicial and Legal Services Commission has appointed Sharon Fraser as the new Chief Magistrate effective September first, 2017. Magistrate Fraser is now tasked with the administration of the ten magistrate courts countrywide. Fraser entered the Public Service in October of 1988 as a Customs Officer. In 1998 on the completion of her LLB […]
On Friday, Senior Superintendent Marco Vidal was served with a letter from attorney Andrew Marshalleck on behalf of Assistant Commissioner of Police Chester Williams. Williams and Vidal are at odds over recent comments that the Eastern Division South commander made about his predecessor. Those statements implied that Williams may have given preferential treatment to some […]
Another near brush with the law for Wasani Castro; he was picked up by police on Sunday at the ITVET compound where he was attending the annual expo. According to reports, the elder son of Transport Minister Edmond Castro got into a verbal exchange with a police officer during which threats were reportedly made. He […]
There was a near fatal hit and run on Saturday near our offices on Coney Drive. A forty-seven-year-old construction worker was knocked off his bicycle by a driver, who never stopped to render assistance. The impact sent Noel Reyes to the pavement causing head and body injuries. The Salvadoran national was rushed to the K.H.M.H. […]
The long-awaited upgrade to the Tower Hill sugar factory is to get underway despite misgivings from a major corner of the industry. After a record-breaking crop year, and ahead of the point where they could opt out of a seven-year commercial agreement with American Sugar Refining/Belize Sugar Industries Limited, the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers’ Association […]
A fire in the city has left a family of four on Sunflower Street homeless. On Saturday night, two members of the family were at home when a fire erupted on the verandah of their thirty-five by twenty-five wooden home. The fire spread quickly and the family lost everything. The family believes that someone intentionally […]
And a man is also missing in the south. Thirty-five-year-old Shaun Bennett left his home in the Wageirale Area in Dangriga on September sixth and hasn’t returned since. His common-law-wife Valerie Williams told police that Bennett left for an unknown destination and she hasn’t had contact with him ever since. Bennett is of dark complexion, […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend sporting activities…]
