It made headlines back in mid-January when a group of South Americans was arrested and taken into custody here in Belize but tonight that case is quickly falling apart. A trio of men, including Peruvian national Luis Marroquin, was nabbed in Dangriga on January seventeenth, under the suspicion that they are ATM scammers. During the […]
Marroquin’s bail application was denied when he appeared before Justice Herbert Lord, who upheld objections made by Crown Counsel Riis Raymond Cattouse that the Peruvian was a flight risk. Attorney ‘Dickie’ Bradley explained the judge’s reluctance. Richard ‘Dickie’ Bradley, Attorney for Luis Marroquin “The judge is a judge who is reluctant to give foreigners […]
The criminal trial of William “Danny” Mason and his fellow accused murderers continues to grip the nation as it plays out in the Belmopan Supreme Court. Mason, along with Terrence Fernandez, Ashton Vanegas, Keiron Fernandez, and Ernest Castillo, was marched into the courtroom of Justice Antoinette Moore this morning. The men are being tried for […]
A family of four is today picking up the pieces after a fire totally destroyed their house located on Faber’s Road Extension in Belize City. The blaze erupted after five o’clock on Tuesday evening. The house owner, Melanie Adolphus, was outside when she detected smoke coming from inside her house. While attempts were made to […]
The late evening fire that eviscerated the home of Melanie Adolphus has displaced her family, but if there is a silver lining on that dark cloud it’s the fact that she will be relocated to a property of her own in the weeks ahead. That’s because, like two other homes on that strip of land, […]
The Belize Coast Guard has issued a statement with the details surrounding a sail boat that ran aground on the Sapodilla Caye Marine Reserve. According to the Coast Guard, they were aware of the incident that happened in the early hours of the morning of Thursday, March fourteenth. The Hunting Caye F.O.B. received a distress […]
The Government has secured an additional twenty million US dollars loan from the Kuwait Fund for partial financing of Phase Two of the upgrading of the Caracol Road. In Phase Two, twenty-six miles of the Caracol Road will be upgraded from a dirt and gravel road to an asphalt road consisting of two lanes accompanied […]
The second loan motion which was debated in the Senate today was one for thirty-six point five million U.S. dollars. Those monies have been secured from the Caribbean Development Bank for the rehabilitation of thirty-four miles of the Coastal Road. Like the Caracol Road Rehabilitation Project, the Coastal Road project has attracted naysayers including several […]
A Belize City resident claimed in court that he lost it and threw himself into a police door at the Raccoon Police station to break it and escape because police were conspiring to kill him. But that cost George Barrera a grand in fines. The teenager was charged with four charges on Tuesday and today […]
An Orange Walk resident, who was caught red handed burglarizing the home of B.E.L. Administrative Assistant, Andrea Badillo, is tonight serving his first night of a four-year sentence handed down by Senior Magistrate, Aretha Ford this morning. Claudio Gongora was convicted for entering Badillo’s house on Eve Street where neighbours saw him and alerted the […]
Small tour operators who work outside of the Fort Street Tourism Village in Belize City complained that they are being squeezed out by large operators. The operators claims that they have been experiencing some rough months because they are not selling their tours. According to the operators, it is because the system at the tourist […]
On Tuesday Primrose Gabourel and Dion Zabaneh were back in court because the Department of Environment slapped them with new charges. The D.O.E. had withdrawn the six charges against the seventy-six-year-old mother and her forty-three-year-old son earlier this year when they were charged for not adhering to stop orders for a development being carried out […]
The phase out of plastic and Styrofoam is expected to come into effect at the end of this year. Next month, on April twenty-second, the D.O.E. is looking to have the draft legislation passed. And so to prepare the public for this transition to a plastic free Belize, the D.O.E. is embarking on a national […]
Seven days ago News Five reported on the extremely unhealthy circumstances that students and teachers of Holy Angels Roman Catholic School in Pomona Village have been experiencing. For many years they have been battling with a rat bat infestation and dilapidating school buildings. It’s the responsibility of the school management to properly address those issues […]
It is difficult to imagine Belize without the queen conch. But that threat is real because the conch population is under pressure due to over fishing. Elsewhere in the Caribbean, the situation is dire; Belize exports more than seven million dollars of conch yearly and the livelihood of hundreds of fishermen depend on this. Now, […]
On Tuesday the National Trade Union Congress of Belize fired off a press statement in support of the Police Association against what it describes as the heavy-handedness on the part of the recently appointed Commissioner of Police, Chester Williams. The Association has filed a legal claim against ComPol Williams for shortening the president’s tenure through […]
The case brought by the Police Association against Commissioner of Police, Chester Williams is expected to come to the courts later this week. But, before that happens the internal affairs of the department are spilling all over the media. While the N.T.U.C.B. and the B.N.T.U. President are blasting the ComPol, today three members of the […]
It has been more than a year since the Senate Special Select Committee ended its inquiry into the findings of the Auditor General’s Special Audit Report of the Immigration and Nationality Department 2011-2013. The committee questioned numerous witnesses who testified for hours of key witnesses and government officials as it delved into what was taking […]
