Prime Minister John Briceño was asked this morning about the investigation into allegations made by attorney Wendy Auxillou against Belize Rural South Area Representative Andre Perez. In August 2023, News Five broke the story of a sitting minister of government being accused of sexual harassment by
Tonight, a businessman from Dangriga is dead after gun violence visited him at his home on Saturday night. And while police say he was party to a few court matters over business transactions, and have detained several persons, they are still looking for the suspect
In another act of gun violence in southern Belize, a Placencia resident was murdered this weekend while sitting inside his vehicle. Reports are that on Sunday, thirty-two-year-old Roy Burgess was giving a ride to an acquaintance, twenty-six-year-old Maya James, when the two were approached by
Joseph Anthony Camp who, late last week, claimed that the police had shot his brother-in-law and then denied him medical attention pleaded guilty to Spreading False News today after the police department alleges that Camps’s claim was totally untrue. The thirty-nine-year-old American national was fined
A fatal road traffic accident claimed the lives of two persons in southern Belize on Sunday. The deadly collision happened in Toledo District near the Jacintoville junction where two vehicles including a pickup truck crashed head-on along the Southern Highway. The massive impact of the
Also this past weekend, an accident involving a pickup truck and a motorcycle, took place near mile forty, along the George Price Highway. It claimed the life of Joel Teck who was riding the motorcycle. According to police, the driver of the vehicle lost control
A police officer has been charged and placed on interdiction after he allegedly shoved his wife out of a moving vehicle over the weekend. Arnoldo Ical and Rosa Bol were traveling along the Southern Highway when they got into an altercation. During the heated argument,
An application for judicial review of the appointment of an administrator at Saint Francis Xavier Credit Union Limited, filed on behalf of the board of directors and general manager, has been dismissed by the High Court. Earlier today, Justice Martha Alexander handed down a decision
According to attorney Marshalleck, of the ten issues that were put forward in the application for judicial review, the claimants were only successful in having quashed a fine of two thousand dollars that was levied against the credit union. The High Court ruled that the
An attempt by former Port Loyola Area Representative Anthony ‘Boots’ Martinez to unseat his successor in that constituency, via recall referendum, has been rejected. In a letter to Martinez from the Office of the Governor General, he was informed that the accepted number of signatures
