There are two major developments on the illegal landing of a drug plane with fourteen million dollars worth of cocaine. The drug, one thousand two hundred and twenty-six pounds of it, packed in bales, was destroyed today in western Belize in an operation mounted by the police. The other very significant event happened here in […]
Tests confirm that more than one thousand two hundred twenty-six pounds of cocaine were inside bales discharged from a CESSNA aircraft on September ninth. Today, a convoy of heavily armed police transported the drug to a site in Georgeville, Cayo, for its destruction. On arrival, the parcels of cocaine were removed from the transporting vehicle […]
On Wednesday, P.U.P. Leader and Orange Walk Town Central Area, Representative John Briceño expressed shock when he learned that Orange Walk Commanding Officer, David Chi, had been implicated in the cocaine bust. Prior to the seizure on September ninth in Tres Leguas, near Blue Creek, Briceño spoke candidly about previous drug plane landings up north, […]
Ten days after he was shot, a Chinese businessman, Jing Wu, succumbed at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Wu was along with his sideman, who is believed to have been the intended target. A gunman surprised the duo on Lovely Lane where they were making a delivery. Rogelio Selgado from a Majestic Alley address was […]
A Belize City resident is the latest victim of gun violence. Twenty-five-year-old Michael Arnold was shot this morning sometime around ten-forty as he was riding his bike on York Street in Belize City. He received one injury to the buttocks and is now hospitalized at the K.H.M.H. in a stable condition. According to neighbors in […]
Prior to this morning’s shooting on York Street, at about seven p.m. on Wednesday night, shots rang out—some say up to nine blasts—on Neal Pen Road Extension. As the echoes from the blasts subsided, two brothers had been hit. Thirty-five-year-old moneylender, Jermaine Garbutt and forty-year-old deliveryman Everal Neal were hit to the feet. The siblings […]
But was the shooting on Neal Pen Road Extension in retaliation for the stabbing incident at Pier One over the weekend? Coincidentally, earlier on Wednesday, Wayne Leslie, who is the nephew of Garbutt and Neal and resides at the same Neal Pen Road address, was charged for the stabbing of Kenan Faber. Faber was among […]
The shocking bar brawl at Pier One Bar and Grill has some parents concerned over the safety of their children. The park is a place that attracts entire families, especially on weekends. Under the previous town council, concerns were raised as to why a bar was licensed within a family recreational space. Back then, former […]
A man from San Narciso Village in the Corozal District was injured in a scary ordeal in a contraband hotspot in the north. Wilfredo Pott says that on Tuesday night around eight o’clock, he headed in his vehicle from San Victor Village in the Corozal District en route to his home in San Narciso. As […]
Police busted a logging operation in the southern village of San Felipe, Toledo. On Wednesday, a joint patrol between police and the Forestry Department led to the discovery of three thousand feet of illegally logged lumber. Several persons were also detained in the area, and according to Assistant Commissioner of Police Joseph Myvett they are […]
The following is another story involving claims against the Gang Suppression Unit. Seventy-two-year-old Belize City resident Gladstone Brown and Melda Casimiro Valerio say that their house was raided by members of the GSU without due cause. The elderly man came to our studios in a wheelchair. Accompanied by Valerio, he claims that about eight GSU […]
Police have yet to levy charges for the major heist which took place at Kortobacco Belize Limited located inside the Benque Viejo Free Zone. The heist took place in the wee hours of September ninth. The burglars stole only cash amounting to more than eight hundred thousand Belize dollars. Footage captured by security cameras shows […]
A Belize City man and another from Dangriga have been charged in connection with a robbery on Tuesday night in Maya Center Village in Stann Creek. Just before eight-thirty p.m., police were alerted of a robbery in progress at a Chinese store belonging to Jinhong Zhuang. The thirty-one-year-old store owner said that four men, two […]
Police in San Ignacio are investigating an alleged burglary at a jewellery store in that municipality. A businessman, Oscar Cano, is reporting that his business located on Savannah Street in San Ignacio was burglarized sometime between Sunday night and Monday morning and over one hundred thousand dollars worth of jewellery were stolen. There were no […]
Ministers John Saldivar and Patrick Faber have been all over the country rallying support for their bid for leadership of the United Democratic Party. For the past few months, Saldivar has been visiting homes and making public appearances, while Faber recently started a tour as Acting Prime Minister. While the two are seen as the […]
The Referendum Unit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has launched its awareness campaign to educate the public about the territorial claim and taking it to the International Court of Justice. The referendum takes place on April tenth, 2019, but the road to that historic poll is full of uncertainty for Belizeans. So what happens […]
Minister Wilfred Elrington says there will be a lot more effort in the awareness campaign outside of Tuesday night’s town hall meeting organized by Great Belize Productions/Channel Five. He says that a combination of mediums will be used as the campaign is rolled out in phases. Elrington told the media that he has been very […]
Leader of the Opposition John Briceño says he is disappointed with the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Briceño’s comments come after the B.C.C.I. fired off a release eight days ago, condemning the ‘childish’ and ‘petulant’ behavior exhibited in the House of Representatives on August thirty first. On that day the government debated the Appropriation […]
Belize City Mayor Bernard Wagner had some strong words for National Trade Union Congress of Belize President, Floyd Neal. On Wednesday, during the P.U.P.’s annual wreath-laying ceremony for George Price, News Five caught up with the Mayor and asked him about the N.T.U.C.B. statement claiming that the Mayor was union busting. The issue stems from […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow remains in Havana, Cuba, after undergoing spinal fusion surgery. He’ll spend Independence Day recuperating and is expected to return to the country in a few days. This is the first time that we recall, he has missed Independence Day in Belize, but he released a statement to Belizeans. He states that […]
