The overnight carnage began in San Pedro and within a span of five hours, four persons were murdered and four injured in the madness making Tuesday night, one of the bloodiest nights in the country. We start on the island, where Paul Jex, a reputed street figure who had moved to the island and has […]
Within hours of the execution of Paul Jex, a double murder around seven p.m. rocked the Ladyville community. Casey Lozano and Marlon Spain were gunned down on Marage Road in the Japan area of the village. Two other persons were injured and lived to tell the tale of the deadly ambush by two gunmen who […]
The fourth murder on Tuesday night occurred in Roaring Creek Village at about ten-thirty. Thomas Henry was gunned down inside his house less than a month after relocating to the village. Henry and his common-law-wife Kimberly Smith heard shots in the yard and when she looked out of her window, the gunman fired several shots […]
Just now you heard about the tragic killing of Thomas Henry in Roaring Creek Village. He was murdered in the presence of his common-law-wife and their three children. The family in Roaring Creek says the gunmen wanted Orlando Smith and he acknowledges as much. That is their account of the story and today police say […]
An unidentified body, reportedly in an advanced state of decomposition, was discovered in Dangriga earlier today. News Five understands that the corpse was found in an area off the highway and that arrangements were being made for an autopsy to be conducted onsite. It is unclear whether the unnamed individual died as a result of […]
This morning, prior to the press brief at the Raccoon Street Police Station in Belize City, the top brass of the police department including, ACP Chester Williams, the Commissioner of Police Allen Whylie and Operations Commander ACP Edward Broaster held an intervention session with the families and close friends of the recent victims of Tuesday’s […]
It’s only twenty-four days into the New Year and already there are ten murders; two are double murders and that number does not including the shooting death of Mario Vernon Junior in Punta Gorda. Police already have their hands full following the year 2017 as one of the most murderous years in recent times. Commissioner […]
There was a single bill brought from the House of Representatives for passage through today’s meeting of the Senate, the first for 2018. The General Revenue Supplementary Appropriation 2016-2017 Bill proposes to formally appropriate some thirteen point nine million dollars already spent in 2016, apparently on relief in the aftermath of Hurricane Earl. Quite apart […]
Senator Courtenay requested that Financial Secretary Joseph Waight be called into the Committee of the whole Senate after debate on the second reading of the Bill, which he was. But before that the Government’s senators tried to insist that it was all much ado about nothing. Both Senator Stephen Duncan and later Godwin Hulse admitted […]
Wrapping up the debate, Senate leader of government business Godwin Hulse conceded that the bill was perhaps out of time, but he pointed out that there are other means of assessing the figures involved. And, he added, the value received on the ground was the most important factor of all. Godwin Hulse, Leader of […]
Six and a half years after the execution of Edward Lord, Junior on Mahogany Street, murder accused twenty-eight year old Nelson Henry was today found not guilty by Supreme Court Justice Adolph Lucas. Lord was shot in the early evening, still in daylight, not far from the Mahogany Street police substation. The main witness for […]
Three Mexican nationals are behind bars at the Hattieville prison for scamming the Atlantic Bank of more than a hundred thousand dollars. The three residents from Cancun, including a couple, were charged for the fraud of the ATMs in Corozal and Orange Walk Towns and police are yet to press further charges for additional theft […]
An internal investigation continues into the shooting death of Mario Vernon Junior, which occurred in Punta Gorda on the night of January thirteenth. Vernon was shot by Police Constable Tevin Aranda in a most callous way and his body dragged several yards before it was dumped into the back of a police pickup and taken […]
There is a back and forth tonight between the Protected Areas Conservation Trust and the Public Service Union over the fate of six PACT employees who are also members of the Union. PACT closed its offices last week as part of a “restructuring exercise” following years of review, and invited employees to accept new contracts […]
The public hearings of the Senate Special Select Committee on Immigration concluded last December after thirteen months of witness testimony interspersed with lots of drama and theatre. Now, the hard work of compiling its results into a comprehensive report with recommendations to the Immigration Department and others begins. We got an idea of what to […]
This morning at the Radisson in the city, a pair of strategies was formally introduced by the Forest Department for sustainable forest and forest fire management. The launch coincided with the presentation of SMART Technology, short for Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool. Funded by the Global Environmental Fund, both documents are geared towards promoting the […]
The Building People Movement and Belize Women’s Political Movement held their first annual policy conference. The two organizations brought women leaders together from a number of schools and organizations to discuss how they can get women recognized for their contributions and included in the historical accounts on they have shaped Belize. Dorla Bowman says that […]
Back in December, the Ministry of Works and M and M Engineering signed a contract for eleven million dollars to rehabilitate the Roaring Creek Bridge connecting the village to the capital, Belmopan, on the George Price Highway. It is part of a four-part series of rehabilitation works intended to cover the highway from Belmopan to […]
Residents of the north, particularly the villages of San Estevan, Chunox, Copper Bank and Progresso, can expect further delays as the ferries connecting the villages are still down for repair. The San Estevan Ferry which connects to cane fields in the villages of Caledonia, Buena Vista and surrounds has been down since December but according […]
