On Wednesday the Government of Belize met with social partners to review the country’s economic performance. The Joint Union Negotiating Team has requested a separate meeting and reports are that the Joint Unions are saying it’s time for their members to get back that ten percent that was cut at the onset of the 2021/2022 […]
That meeting with the Government of Belize and the Joint Unions Negotiating Team has been proposed until December eighth. But, how reasonable is the expectation of a return to full salary for public servants and teachers? Minister Fonseca commented. Francis Fonseca, Minister of Education “I think we have come a long way in one […]
This afternoon, police formally arrested and charged Brian Castillo for the double murder of his common-law-wife and step daughter, which occurred on Sunday. Castillo had been on the run for three days, but was captured on Tuesday in Peten, Guatemala before he was handed over to Belizean authorities overnight. News Five’s Duane Moody reports on […]
First Doctor Manza and now C.E.O. Doctor Deysi Mendez. Today, word spread like wildfire that Doctor Mendez is no longer with the Ministry of Health and Wellness. Last week, we had reported that there may have been some head bucking within the leadership of the ministry. Today that seems to have ended with Mendez being […]
Shawn Steven Hertular, a construction worker of a Belize City address, has been arrested and charged for the crime of murder. He stands accused of the stabbing death of Miguel Zaiden who was fatally wounded on Racecourse Street Sunday night. Zaiden was in the neighborhood with several other persons when an argument ensued. During that […]
Canadian Jasmine Hartin is still awaiting trial for the shooting death of Police Superintendent Henry Jemmott, as well as for cocaine possession and common assault. But her name has surfaced again. This time in connection with a young man who died on Sunday. Police found twenty-six-year-old Joel Young dead in the Bahia area of Caye […]
The next sugar crop is set to commence on December twentieth, but ASR/BSI is still at odds with the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association. This is over an existing cane purchase agreement which the representative body of cane farmers in the north argues should be terminated. While three other cane farmers associations are in agreement […]
BSI’s Chief Financial Officer Shawn Chavarria explains the benefits that farmers are enjoying from the manufacture and sale of direct consumption sugars to the external market. Shawn Chavarria, Chief Financial Officer, BSI “Farmers are already seeing as well the benefits of that investment, the increased production of direct consumption sugar. We’ve highlighted to them […]
According to the C.F.O., approximately half the total population of sugar cane farmers in the north is in favor of a long-term cane purchase agreement. Shawn Chavarria, Chief Financial Officer, BSI “We have fifty percent of the cane farmers signing up for a long-term agreement. I think they see the benefits of continuing with […]
Police officers Nelson Middleton, Elmer Nah, Delwin Casimiro and George Ferguson have been granted Supreme Court bail in the sum of forty thousand dollars each. The four were arraigned on November eighth in connection with the landing of a drug plane on the Southern Highway near Bladen, as well as the seizure of twenty-three bales […]
Seven-year-old Darwin Castillo has been safely reunited with his mother and family. Earlier today police confirmed that Guatemalan law enforcement located the child in Melchor de Mencos. A relative told News Five that he is in good health and without any physical injuries. Late this afternoon, Noticias de Peten was reporting that his father, Brian […]
A police officer for more than a decade, Police Constable Kieron Carlos lost his life while driving home from work on Tuesday morning. Carlos reportedly lost control of his motorcycle and collided into a concrete wall between Miles fifty-nine and sixty. A large culvert is situated in the area where he crashed and his body […]
As we reported on Monday, our News Five crew witnessed a fatal accident on the George Price Highway near mile nine that claimed the life of a woman and a ten-month-old baby. The child’s mother survived the ordeal and today chronicled to News Five’s Duane Moody the traumatic experience of losing both her baby and […]
Last night we told you about the Sunday morning traffic accident on the Hummingbird Highway, just outside Belmopan, that claimed the life of Kimberly Griffith and Elmar Avila. Police have since arrested and charged Armando Pastrona with two counts of manslaughter by negligence, two counts of causing death by careless conduct, driving without due care […]
The lifeless body of thirty-three-year-old Lucas Robert Hoare was recovered from a cane field in Xaibe Village, Corozal District this morning. Hoare was reported missing by his sibling on Monday. According to Phillip McCauley, he heard someone over at his brother’s residence in the Sosa Layout of Corozal Town on Monday evening around six-thirty. This […]
A ten month old child and a forty year old woman lost their lives in a fatal road traffic accident earlier this evening on the George Price Highway near the Mile Eight Community. A News Five team was caught in the middle of it all as they were heading back into the city from an […]
And two people lost their lives on Sunday morning in a fatal traffic accident in Belmopan City. The victims have been identified as Kimberly Griffith and Elmer Avila. Griffith is known in her Corozal Town for her hand crafted jewelry business and her efforts to teach others the trade. Recently she and the Director of […]
In another horrifying incident of domestic violence, a woman and her daughter were killed at their home in San Ignacio over the weekend, and her son was taken by his biological father. Tonight Bryan Castillo and the boy are on the run, and may have already crossed over into Guatemala. News Five’s Paul Lopez has […]
Police have since issued a wanted poster for Bryan Castillo. Assistant Superintendent Fitzroy Yearwood briefed the press via zoom on police’s investigation so far. ASP Fitzroy Yearwood, Communication Director, Belize Police Department “Police responded to a scene on Zericote Street. This is where inside a room they found the motionless body of the females […]
There was a murder in Belize City on Sunday night. Miguel Zaiden was stabbed multiple times while he was out socializing with several others on Racecourse Street. Despite attempting to ride away on his motorcycle, Zaiden collapsed and was transported to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where he later passed away. According to Assistant Superintendent […]
The decomposed remains of a male person was discovered in the Belize River near Iguana Creek on Saturday afternoon. The unidentified body was lodged in a bamboo patch. It has since been taken to the Central American Health Science University where a post mortem examination has been scheduled. It is the police department’s hope that […]
A mother is tonight desperately trying to find answers following the death of her son over the extended holiday weekend. Maria Rios, a resident of Rhaburn Ridge, Belize District, was expecting a visit from her son, Daniel, who had called sometime earlier on Saturday to inform that he was traveling by bus en route to […]
A retired police officer is in hot water with the department he used to serve. Police say their search of a vehicle being driven by retired police officer Inez Castillo unveiled a kilo of cocaine in the back seat. The retired officer was detained and this morning he was formally charged for the crime of […]
So, if the kilo of cocaine did not originate from the Bladden landing, where did it come from? Police believe the cocaine is a parcel from the drug plane that mysteriously disappeared off the cost of Placentia several months ago. As for Castillo, A.C.P. Grinage says he was a highly committed officer during his time […]
Former Director of Health Services, Doctor Marvin Manzanero, may be headed for retirement from public service since his role as Director of Health Services in the Ministry of Health and Wellness has been made redundant. This follows the splitting of his former responsibilities which will now be shared by two senior health officials. But it […]
