This morning around nine o’clock, a team of officers set out to a remote area of Western Pines where they were led to a shallow grave along a dirt road near the site of the proposed Airport Link Road. There they found a makeshift burial place where a badly decomposed body lay entombed beneath the […]
Fabio Paredes, a resident of Berkeley Street who was shot in both legs over the weekend, has succumbed to his injuries. Belize City police confirmed earlier today that the laborer had passed away while undergoing treatment at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. On Monday, Assistant Superintendent of Police Alejandro Cowo informed the media that Paredes […]
Tensions have been high in the Mayflower Street neighborhood after residents and GSU personnel clashed on Sunday evening, following the burial of slain gang boss Kendis Flowers. The Ministry of National Security has since justified the conduct of the Gang Suppression Unit, denouncing the actions of the residents. Since then, they have gone on the […]
And caught in the Mayflower and Deputy Commissioner Williams crossfire was new Officer in Charge of Eastern Division South Howell Gillett. He was on the meet and greet today – but he says he will not be deterred from carrying out the community policing activities because of high tensions in the community. Howell says he […]
And all the rage and volatility in the Mayflower Community is because of the murder of Kendis Flowers. His family believes he was killed by the GSU and now they are saying that the Police Department is preventing them from viewing a critical piece of surveillance footage that shows the killer. But OC Gillett says […]
As of eleven o’clock this morning, the Belize/Mexico border crossing up north had been blocked by Mexican protestors, impeding traffic to and from the neighboring country. News Five confirmed with Mexican officials in Belize that the blockade was staged by a group of persons known as contraband smugglers who were reacting to efforts by Mexican […]
Information reaching News Five is that some one hundred and thirty boxes of limes have been released from the cargo section at the Belize-Mexico border. The fruit is scarce in Belize and the Ministry of Agriculture had agreed to a pest risk analysis for importation, though it is not clear if it has been completed. […]
Belize Aquaculture Limited has recently announced the retrenchment of a hundred employees at its shrimp farm in the Stann Creek District. The streamlining exercise to reduce its workforce comes amid financial constraints caused by a disease outbreak three years ago. While the company has been prudent in giving notice to the ministries of agriculture and […]
The 2018-2019 General Revenue and Appropriation Bill is headed to becoming law going into the Easter break. Debate in the Senate wound up late Tuesday evening with the Leader of Government Business, Senator Godwin Hulse. Hulse contends that in his sprawling portfolio of Agriculture, Fisheries, Forestry, the Environment, Sustainable Development and Climate Change, and Immigration […]
Senators also touched significantly on the issue of crime during Tuesday’s budget debate, and the funding being put toward fighting it and keeping the streets safe. There was a cross-section of opinions from the P.U.P. to the social partners to the government. Whether the cause is poor parenting, lack of police funding or simply societal […]
“The Attorney General’s ministry will provide quality and innovative legal services to the government and people of Belize and will contribute to its development.” So reads the mission statement of that ministry as provided in the budget book. But in his budget presentation, business community Senator Mark Lizarraga publicly questioned the function and budget of […]
Unless you have family or friends there or had the unfortunate experience to be a guest, the Belize Central Prison at Hattieville is not likely to cross your mind regularly, never mind having a chance to visit. But with the crime issue a hot button in Belize, the police department is seizing the opportunity to […]
Like most establishments in Belize, the Central Prison at Hattieville is for adults only – eighteen and over. Since 2004, when an American couple put up the seed money for its establishment, it has hosted youths charged with criminal activity. It currently hosts twenty-three young men, but due to the ebb and flow of crime, […]
Delford Slusher was today found not guilty of murder by Supreme Court Justice Adolph Lucas after three weeks in trial. He was accused of the shooting death of Corporal of Police Victor Lima on July twenty-fourth, 2012 in Hattieville. Slusher is alleged to have broken into a house in the village where two women were. […]
He is behind bars after being caught out after a court-ordered curfew, having made bail in a case dating back to 2012. But Orel Leslie Junior will not be headed home for the Easter holidays after Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin today denied his request to go back on bail. Representing Leslie, Bryan Neal argued that […]
Two volleyball athletes attached to the Belize National Team are receiving an opportunity of a lifetime. Twenty-three-year-old Bryton Codd and team captain Karym Coleman have been handpicked by a Canadian coach and awarded full athletics scholarships to Briercrest in Saskatchewan, Canada. Today inside the conference room at the Marion Jones Sporting Complex, both athletes signed […]
Seven police officers of the Eastern Division North were recognized for doing good work today. The awardees each received certificates and a small gift to thank them for the performing well on the job. They were honored with a brief ceremony today and we stopped in to talk with the officers on their latest accolade. […]
A family from Burrell Boom was today gifted a house courtesy of the Building for Change program of the Hand in Hand Ministries in partnership with Belize Electricity Limited. News Five’s Duane Moody found out today that the donation changes the dynamics of the family and what needy families require in order to qualify for […]
