As we head to the end of the year, the murder count keeps going up. The bloodbath started on Friday morning with the murder of Jaime Pelayo in Orange Walk. That homicide was followed by murders in Independence village in the south, in the capital, Belmopan, and in Belize City. Mark Vasquez, a well known […]
The capital city, Belmopan, according to our archives, has seen no less than eight cab drivers murdered between 2009 and 2017. While each circumstance is different, the coincidence is too pat for residents, who like to think of themselves as a close-knit community. The latest murder victim is close to home, as sixty-nine year old […]
In southern Belize, a twenty-one-year-old student was stabbed and killed in Independence Village. Several men attacked Victor Pau and stabbed him several times on Saturday night. His body was found early on Sunday morning. Police say they are questioning three men in connection with Pau’s killing. His family say they are devastated by his murder […]
As we reported, thirty-five-year-old Jaime Pelayo was gunned down in Orange Walk Town on Friday morning, as he stood outside of a nightclub conversing with two women. The shooting incident also left one of the women injured when she was grazed by bullets. Tonight, police are closer to making an arrest since they are now […]
Is the government in bed with a conman in the case of the multi-million dollar Basil Jones airstrip development project? The project is being spearheaded by the International Airport Alliance Belize Limited who proposes a state-of-the art facility for private charters and select flights to the island. However, questions have been raised about Jorge Abraham […]
The Ministry of Natural Resources has been investigating procedures as it relates to the mining of aggregate for road works at the Santa Cruz quarry outside of Santa Elena Town, where an explosion last week killed one man and wounded several others. Tonight, News Five has confirmed with C.E.O. in the Ministry Sharon Ramclam-Young that […]
There was further violence in the city aside from the murder and cocaine bust. A scuffle inside a popular nightclub in Belize City ended with stab wounds being inflicted on Tariq Tzul. He was injured twice in the stomach by someone he had a misunderstanding with. It is not clear whether the incident was gang […]
A sanitation worker is another victim of violence. This morning forty-year-old Michael Tesecum was inside a parked bus when another worker chopped him twice to the head with a machete. After the first blow to the head, Tesecum fell unconscious but another chop wound was inflicted on him by fifty-three-year-old Dennis Bodden. Other workers in […]
A carefully orchestrated sting operation has proven successful for the Belize Police Department as they were able to arrest a pair of Belize City men who were in possession of over five parcels of cocaine. The duo had reportedly met up at a local restaurant where they planned the drug transaction. According to Assistant Commissioner […]
Dion Bruce is accused of shooting Aaron Carter to death in July of 2010 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. In 2014, then-Chief Magistrate Ann-Marie Smith ordered his extradition to face a long list of charges including murder, attempted murder and possession of a firearm. Nearly four years later he continues to languish in jail pending an […]
After the extradition was ordered and the direct appeal to the Supreme Court by means of habeas corpus was denied as well as an application for judicial review of the lower court decision, Bruce’s attorney Audrey Matura appealed the latter but not the former. Latin for ‘you shall have the body,’ a habeas corpus application […]
In the courts, Keyron Johnson was freed of the murder of eighteen-year-old Christopher Jorgensen that happened back in April 2012. Johnson was the main suspect and was first charged with attempted murder, dangerous harm and deadly means of harm – but that charge was upgraded to murder when Jorgensen died. Jorgensen was shot while he […]
There were two traffic fatalities over the weekend; first, sixty-four-year-old Efrain Alfaro was knocked down and killed around two-thirty on Saturday morning. The Honduran national of Franks Eddy Village was walking a bike between Los Lagos and Nova on the Philip Goldson Highway when a truck driven by Sergio Paredez knocked him down. Police share […]
Another road traffic accident happened later that Saturday but this time on the George Price Highway. Thirty-nine-year-old Leonte Flores of Unitedville lost his life around six o’clock in the evening when his motorcycle collided into a truck driven by Winston Gordon. According to police, the accident happened in Camalote Village. The motorcycle and truck were […]
Love FM’s annual Christmas parade ended in mayhem on Saturday evening when the procession of lights and revelers rounded the corner into Albert Street in the Old Capital. That’s because there was a misunderstanding among onlookers which resulted in bottles being thrown. While that may have been the case, somehow word spread that shots were […]
We have been reporting on the Belize City Council’s twelve days of Christmas. The Mayor, Councilors and staff have been going across the city spreading cheer – giving gifts, sharing meals and treats and other acts of kindness. They wrapped up the twelve days today with three different activities, including a clean-up campaign and gift […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend sporting activities…]
