Mayhem in the city, where two late evening shootings have left one man dead and another injured. But tonight, we go first to a major drug bust early this morning near the Haulover Bridge; it netted drugs and cash, as well as the apprehension of the big fish. The Financial Intelligence Unit has been called […]
Police are currently at the corner of Mosul Street and Cemetery Road processing the scene of a late evening murder in the Old Capital. News Five has confirmed that a forty-four-year-old businessman of Vernon Street was shot and quickly rushed to the K.H.M.H. for treatment, but soon after succumbed. In the mayhem in the city, […]
There was also gun violence in Sand Hill, Belize District, where a resident was injured and recovering at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was shot inside his bathroom. Around ten o’clock this morning, Ivan Hyde, who is a labourer of mile nineteen on the Phillip Goldson Highway, was shot multiple times to the […]
But there is a spike of violence in the village that the police are trying to mitigate. It appears outside of rivalry in the area; there is a person of interest, who ComPol Chester Williams says is the ringleader. That person was recently released from prison and he is believed to be involved in the […]
While it is believed that the lower half of a young male body, discovered on Monday morning in the river behind Sand Hill Village, is believed to be that of sixteen-year-old Doren Grinage, police maintain that until the results of a DNA test, will they be able to positively identify the body. Denise Grinage and […]
Attorney Oscar Selgado made headlines on Monday evening after being arraigned for the crime of abetment to commit murder. It is alleged that the well-known criminal lawyer contracted the services of a so-called hired gun to do away with a woman who reportedly filed a complaint against him before the Judicial and Legal Services Commission […]
While it is the second time Selgado has been pursued by law enforcement, the ComPol says that the attorney is not being targeted. In fact, he says that there is sufficient proof that Selgado ordered and conspired to have Barnes murdered. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “It is not a matter, as some people […]
Tonight, we pick up the Sanctuary Bay story and show you images of what has been billed as a multi-million dollar development in southern Belize, which ended up as the biggest scam to be investigated by the Federal Trade Commission. The project goes by many names, has many angles and has exposed serious allegations against […]
Thirty-nine-year-old Joseph Budna is a free man after being released from police custody in Belmopan on Saturday evening. His release comes after Budna was grabbed on Thursday by a team of officers in Camalote Village after escaping from a Guatemalan prison a few weeks earlier. In his own detailed defense on Monday, Budna explains why […]
According to Budna, he was subjected to severe abuse at the hands of prison authorities in Guatemala. He went as far as showing his scars from stabbings and chopping incidents that left him injured. Joseph Budna, Escaped from Guatemalan Prison “I wouldn’t wish this for any Belizean, soh unu be careful when unu go […]
A San Pedro resident is a free man tonight after his murder case which had kicked off before Justice Colin Williams fell apart in the Supreme Court. Forty-five-year-old Rafael Ramirez Calderon was accused and arraigned in 2015 for the May third, 2015 murder of San Pedro taxi-man, Dionicio Trujillo. Calderon was on remand for more […]
Corporals Leonard Nunez and Hallet King are tonight spending their time behind bars, in a cell at the Belize Central Prison. The cops were found guilty of manslaughter on Monday by a jury of nine for the death of eighteen year old Hilberto Sotz. During the trial, the jury was taken to the police station […]
Also in the court, a man accused of murder pleaded guilty to manslaughter. An argument between a security guard on the job and a hustler ended fatally for the guard who was ambushed, slashed in the head and repeatedly hit by his attacker and died days after. Today, Kevin Jex, accused of murdering forty-nine-year-old […]
The annual awarding of scholarships by the Belize Bank was held today. As many as eighteen students will now continue their studies in high schools and sixth forms across the country. The Belize Bank is making it possible for them to fulfil their dreams of earning higher education. Beaming with pride, the recipients received the […]
Persons carrying out transactions via cheques are paying an additional service charge for its processing. Commercial banks have been laying that cost at the feet of their customers. As we reported two weeks ago, the new fees are linked to the Automated Payment and Securities Settlement System which came into effect on July first. But […]
Robert McNealy, a resident of Placencia, was knocked down and killed on Friday night as he was riding his bicycle along the highway. The body of the elderly American national was discovered a distance away from the bicycle and not far away was the driver of the pickup truck that fatally struck him. According to […]
The Small Business Development Center partnered with the US Embassy Belize to coordinate an entrepreneurship workshop hosted Doctor Philip Harding, Co-Founder of Impact Junkie. Harding is a speaker and former White House Advisor who teaches about social entrepreneurship, startups, business, investment, and development. Through his organization’s work, he empowers entrepreneurs around the world. At today’s event in […]
A group of sixty-young children and youths are attending a camp where they are learning to take care of their blood sugar levels with the support of their parents. The more exposed they are about living a healthy lifestyle, the better they manage their condition. For the type one diabetics, social inclusion is also a […]
A three-day workshop to train climate change personnel in the data management for national Greenhouse Gas inventory in Latin-American and Caribbean kicked off in San Ignacio on Monday. The training is to introduce the participants to professional good practices in data management, including governance, quality, archiving, and stakeholder engagement. Chief Climate Change Officer of the […]
With all the crime affecting the City, there is some good news tonight. Two beach volleyball athletes were victorious over the weekend and came home with the bronze medal and trophy from the twelfth Central American under-twenty-one Beach Volleyball Championship, which was held on the sand courts of Campo Marte in Guatemala City. Francis Hauze […]
The family of a missing minor made a shocking discovery this morning. A body was fished out of the Belize River in the area of Sand Hill and the Grinage family believes it to be sixteen-year-old Doren Grinage who was last heard from almost a week ago, on Tuesday. The Grinage’s had conducted searches in […]
