Police have confirmed late this afternoon that a senior officer has been placed on a five-day administrative leave beginning today pending further investigation into a huge cocaine bust over the weekend. He is Superintendent David Chi, who is the officer in command at the Orange Walk Police Station. Chi has been heading that formation for […]
The suspension of Chi and Anthony follows a fourteen-million-dollar drug bust on Sunday. A small aircraft originating from Venezuela was confiscated by police in the Tres Leguas area, Blue Creek where there have been multiple landings of bigger drug planes found abandoned. It carried an estimated one thousand two hundred and twenty-six pounds of cocaine. […]
Chief Executive Officer George Lovell, of the Ministry of National Security, says that the illegal landing of aircrafts in northern Belize prompted the police department to ramp up anti-drug operations across the country, particularly in the Orange Walk District. The success of this weekend’s bust was, in part, attributed to residents in the area who […]
Is Commissioner of Police Allen Whylie related to disgraced Police Constable Norman Anthony? It’s a claim that he categorically refuted during a press conference earlier today, admitting that while the officer is also from Lemonal Village, he is in fact a very distant relative of his wife. ComPol Whylie also spoke of the quantity of […]
While police were busy in Belize City securing the seizure of the bales of cocaine and detaining the quartet believed to be involved in the landing and offloading of the drug plane, another in-flight aircraft had its coordinates set on the Blue Creek area. The plane hovered over the vicinity but never landed. With all […]
A major heist took place in the wee hours of Sunday morning at the Benque Free Zone at the Western Border. Masked men targeted Kortobacco Belize Limited and stole more than eight hundred thousand Belize dollars. According to police, in a one-hour period, four masked men were captured by security cameras breaking into the building. […]
The carnival road march went off without bloodshed, but around nine on Saturday night, a Crooked Tree resident was shot and killed on Baldwin Drive. Twenty-four-year-old Anthony McDonald was wounded multiple times on his head and shoulders and died on the spot. McDonald had relocated to Crooked Tree to escape the dangerous streets of the […]
In mid-March of this year, reputed Mayflower Gang Leader Kendis Flowers was executed, shot once to the eye on Mahogany Street, not too far from where he lived on Mayflower Street. Six months later, on September ninth, police formally arrested and charged Kevin Bodden for his murder. The twenty-five-year-old was on the lam and on […]
The Police Department may have intercepted yet another illegal drug activity on Friday. Word to News Five is that the department received a tip on the movement of two Benque Viejo residents, who were in possession of a large quantity of money. The men were heading to Orange Walk when they were nabbed at a […]
A twenty-six-year-old Corozal resident was allegedly raped by a friend of her husband. The woman claims that on Saturday night, she was socializing with her family and went to bed around ten-thirty. Her husband and his friend remained outside drinking, but somehow she was awoken hours later by her husband’s friend on top of her […]
There is an update to the brazen robbery of Premium Wines on Newtown Barracks last Friday. More than fifty-four thousand dollars in cash were stolen from the business by three armed masked men, who entered the business just after ten a.m. Three customers were relieved of their phones before the thieves escaped with the loot. […]
Two persons were detained and then released following a stabbing incident in Camalote Village over the weekend. The victim Daniel Sotz was injured when he was attacked and stabbed multiple times. He was hospitalized and is in critical condition. According to his family, Sotz was injured by two men when he used the outdoor toilet […]
A Belizean Chinese national is tonight clinging to life at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital following a shooting on Lovely Lane after the citizen’s parade on Monday. It is believed that the gun violence was motivated by gang warfare on north side Belize City. Police say thirty-five-year-old Jing Wu was not the intended target, but […]
Last week, Belize City Mayor Bernard Wagner told the media that the dispute between the council and the cemetery staff who are a part of the Christian Workers’ Union was resolved. But this afternoon, President of the CWU Evan Mose Hyde accused the council of union busting. The dispute originated after the staff complained that […]
CWU President Evan ‘Mose’ Hyde says it is the duty of the union to represents its members during all disputes or at the request of the members. He says that their presence at any meeting is to look after the best interest of its members. Evan “Mose” Hyde, President, Christian Workers’ Union “Our presence […]
Punta Gorda police are investigating an arson which occurred over the weekend. It happened in the village of Crique Sarco at around three-thirty on Saturday evening. Police say that the thatched house was completely destroyed by fire. Owner of the house, Senaida Canelo, told police that the arsonist is a man with whom she has […]
An additional nine hundred and fifty-one re-registration applications were received by the Elections and Boundaries Office during the period September third to the eight. This is the lowest figure recorded as re-registration continues until the end of September. So far a total of one hundred twenty-two thousand, four hundred and forty-seven applications have been received […]
One of the highlights of the September Tenth Ceremony at Memorial Park was the coronation of Belmopan’s Jenny Lee Cruz as the national Queen of the Bay. This year, the crowning went off without a hitch, following last year’s on stage debacle when the designate and a runner up were crowned as Queens of the Bay. […]
Saturday’s Carnival Road March featured ten bands, five in the senior and the remaining five in the junior category. It started at the corner of Neal Pen Road and Central American Boulevard and made its way to the Marion Jones Sporting Complex. While the parade for the most part was uneventful, the results of the […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of weekend sporting activities….]
