The Belize Police Department has launched a new offensive on gang-related crimes in the city. We will show you what is being done in an attempt to curb the spike in murders on the south side, but first there’s a breaking story to report on in the Lake Independence area, where the three recent murders […]
Police today launched an initiative called ACT, which stands for Addressing Crime Together, to tackle the spiralling urban violence related to gang activities. ACT will boost police presence in three hot spots in the south side where the number of murders is at an alarming upward trend. In fact, up to this point in the […]
Minister of State Elodio Aragon Junior whose office is responsible for the day-to-day management of the Belize Police Department, says the plan of action has the full support of the Ministry of Home Affairs. That branch of government has since acquired fifteen new vehicles to be assigned to the operation. The junior minister says the […]
While police put more boots on the ground in the city, police in southern Belize continue investigations into the apparent murder of thirty-two-year-old Jose Alfredo Majil, a taxi operator based in Dangriga. Majil’s body was found around seven this morning by an attendant at an orange orchard about one hundred yards from the Southern Highway […]
A pair of relatives is being laid to rest this weekend, following a series of murders in the Lake Independence area over the past few days. The family and friends of twenty-five-year-old Shaqwuan Almendarez bade him farewell today, while his killer is still at large. According to ASP Alejandro Cowo, an all points bulletin has […]
Twenty-eight-year-old Cardinal Andrews was shot once in the back of the head on Wednesday and remains in a life-threatening condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Tonight, his attacker remains on the loose and police say they have an idea who may have pulled the trigger that evening. According to Assistant Superintendent Alejandro Cowo, the […]
Seven-year-old Malli Herrera was the unintended target of a gunman who opened fire on a New Road residence on Tuesday night in Belize City. The Saint Joseph School student was shot once to the lower back and remains hospitalized in the I.C.U. at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The daring attack during which the child’s […]
Brothers Alexander Underwood, twenty-eight, and Austin, twenty-four, have made bail on a single charge of possession of prohibited ammunition, to wit, a single five-point-five-six round allegedly found on their property in Belize City on Monday. The elder Underwood is well-known as alleged leader of the Southside Gangsters but had been making recent attempts to reform […]
Following Underwood’s release from custody this evening, News Five spoke with one of his relatives. She says that there is indeed surveillance footage which purportedly captured a team of officers entering Underwood’s property on Caesar Ridge Road in the early hours of Wednesday morning. She also says that the brothers are the victims of constant […]
Judge Herbert Lord today handed down a decision in the bail application of twenty-six-year-old Warren Lewis, accused of the August eighteenth 2009 murder of Albert Braddick Allen. Lewis’ attorney, Darrell Bradley sought bail for Allen on a number of constitutional grounds, but in a twenty-eight page ruling, Judge Lord denied bail and concluded that there […]
The National Meteorological Service and National Emergency Management Organization are advising Belizeans to get ready for a wet weekend. Tropical Storm Selma in the south-east Pacific is expected to move north and make landfall on Saturday near the border of El Salvador and Guatemala or possibly in central and western Guatemala near to but not […]
The General Sales Tax Unit says Yhony Rosado owes over half a million dollars, but the firebrand FECTAB front man says not so! Today, Rosado and his colleagues, along with support from COLA, called a press conference to tell the public that he is being targeted by the powers that be and this time it […]
Are the Belize Tourism Board’s tourist stats bogus? That is what the Federation of Cruise Tourism Associations of Belize says. David Almendarez, a tour operator and member of FECTAB, says that cruise arrivals this year is the worst they have seen. According to Almendarez, the B.T.B. numbers do not reflect the reality on the ground […]
Three persons are tonight in police custody pending further investigation into the armed robbery of a pawn shop in the Capital City of Belmopan. Around nine-thirty on Thursday morning, police responded to reports of a robbery at First Stop Pawn Shop on Constitution Drive. There, the manager, twenty-four-year-old Alexia Neal reported that she was along […]
We don’t generally report on cases of suicide, but it is unusual to have deaths occur in a police station, as this one did. Fifty-one-year-old Mario Herrera of Maskall village, Belize District, turned himself in to police this morning for questioning over a reported domestic dispute. Within ninety minutes, he would be found dead, hanging […]
Four young men and one woman were called to the Bar of Belize this morning at the Supreme Court. It was a grand occasion, featuring the return of Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court Justice and prominent Belizean attorney Godfrey Smith, who sat alongside his colleagues from Belize’s Supreme Court, Justices Michelle Arana and Courtney Abel. We […]
Joining the younger Courtenay on the roll are Magistrate Carlon Mendoza and two young attorneys out of the Marine Parade Chambers founded by Godfrey Smith. Hector Guerra is from San Ignacio and has a passion for helping the poor and underprivileged. Zahira Flores is originally from Big Creek in the south but has practiced all […]
It’s now official: there are no challengers to People’s United Party leader John Briceño or indeed any others on the unity slate for the National Executive. Today, at four p.m., was the deadline for nominations for all available positions on the National Executive with the exception of the Secretary General, Chairpersons of the Regional Caucuses, […]
On November first, at the United Nations General Assembly, the Cuban Government will yet again table a resolution entitled, “Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba.” The embargo by the U.S. goes back almost sixty years; Cuba says the embargo is causing the obstruction […]
Did members of the Government boycott the Public Accounts Committee meeting set for Thursday? The Belize National Teachers’ Union believes they did. The meeting was the first opportunity to question Auditor General Dorothy Bradley on the 2012-2013 Audit Report, but it turned out that two of the sitting ministers came down with ‘pink eye’ or […]
The Ministry of Health, in collaboration with PAHO, is taking on obesity in Belize. Globally, obesity is an epidemic and locally while the data is not updated, the Ministry says that it is a critical issue. Today ministry officials and representatives from a wide cross-section of agencies and partners of civil society and private sector […]
Is Norwegian Cruise Lines’ Harvest Caye crippling the tour operators of the Fort Street Tourism Village? President of FECTAB, Tom Greenwood, says that the NCL ships have taken away about thirty percent of the tourists who arrive at the Belize City Port. Here’s how Greenwood describes the reality on the ground for his members. […]
But Greenwood says that tour operators are also hurting from other decisions made by Government agencies. The FECTAB President made a call to the stakeholders involved to save what he says is an already collapsed cruise industry. Tom Greenwood, President, FECTAB “What happens to us outside? Luckily we have a way of getting our […]
On Thursday night, a Facebook post went viral and the Ministry of Health and Statistical Institute of Belize were in the middle of it. One Facebook user alleges that a woman in a white van who claimed to be from the ministry approached her mother to take a blood sample. She wrote that the individual […]
The first ever Belize Garifuna Song Competition kicks off tonight at the Bird’s Isle. From as many as seventeen entries, five musicians have made it to the finals and the winning song will be announced at tonight’s event. The contest highlights five genres of Garifuna music and the criteria required each submission to be professionally […]
