On Wednesday we told you about a group of four, two adults and two minors, that was detained by police, after a loaded firearm was found on one of the adults in the group. Three of the four individuals have been released and today eighteen-year-old Jadaey Williams was formally arraigned on a firearm and ammunition […]
Six months after the government lotteries – boledo, ordinary lottery and jackpot lottery – were put on pause, the Briceño administration is resuming sales. Late this evening, a release from the government says that the decision was made to resume the sale of government lotteries on December first, with the first drawing date being December […]
On Wednesday, High Court Judge Genevieve Chabot granted leave for Deputy Commissioner of Police Bart Jones to seek judicial review of a decision taken by the Security Services Commission to approve the promotion of Doctor Richard Rosado to Deputy Commissioner of Police. That decision was handed down in a twenty-two page document pertaining to a […]
We also asked attorney Lindo if the decision to promote Doctor Rosado retroactively would have any bearing on the appointment of a new Commissioner of Police when that time comes. Here’s how he responded. Isani Cayetano “Is that decision affected by the appointment of a new Commissioner of Police somewhere down the road to […]
November twentieth will make three years since Prime Minister John Briceño has been in office, elected by the people of this country. For the past two days, the PM has been on the ground engaging not only with voters and residents, but he’s also having pep talks with students in Toledo and Stann Creek, as […]
The prime minister’s tour of the south is currently in the Dangriga constituency, which includes Hope Creek and Sarawee. There have been significant developments in this division that residents have been clamouring for. Prime Minister John Briceño and Doctor Louis Zabaneh say that they are spending the money wisely and that the people can expect […]
We’ve been reporting on the citrus industry being on life support; the once booming sector that, at its peak, was exporting millions of boxes of juices annually. It has been holding on by a thin thread, producing less than a million boxes yearly. The industry was hit by citrus greening years ago and has never […]
The Prime Minister also reacted to the record sugar cane price that stakeholders in the industry realised this year. On Monday, A.S.R./B.S.I. announced that all cane farmers’ associations with whom it conducts business received eighty-six dollars and twenty-eight cents per ton of cane. It’s the highest in eight years, which the PM says is good […]
If you’ve been going to major supermarkets in several municipalities, including Belize City, you would find that there is no sugar on the shelves. As early as the beginning of October, residents had been complaining of a sugar scarcity, despite the millers saying that there is no shortage of plantation white sugar. It is because […]
On Monday, an official statement was issued by the Cordova and Rodriguez families who laid their loved ones to rest over the weekend. Three-year-old Amari Rodriguez, her father Delmar Rodriguez, and Carlos Chi were murdered and four others injured in a callous attack in the island town of San Pedro. In the statement, the families […]
Christian Espat and Michael Brown have both been arraigned and remanded to the Belize Central Prison for three counts each of murder, three counts of attempted murder and three counts of use of deadly means of harm. The accused men handed in themselves within days of each other, but before he surrendered in the company […]
It’s been exactly one week since the bodies of farmer Joel Andrews and his workman were discovered in a pond on his farm in Hattieville. The farmhand was chopped multiple times while Andrews was shot. Investigators believe that the double murder was motivated by a robbery. In an update today, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams […]
It’s been fifteen days since a leased Maya Island Air plane was stolen from the Placencia Airport and crash landed seconds after taking off, killing a Venezuelan and an Argentinean pilot in the process. The Belize Police Department continues to work with its counterparts in those relevant countries, as well as the DEA, as the […]
The border dispute between the communities of Yemeri Grove and Laguna is arguably one of the most publicized land disputes in southern Belize. Following their press conference in Belize City on Thursday, leaders from Yemeri Grove invited the media to their village for a tour of some of the disputed areas. Today a News Five […]
The National Meteorological Service is keeping a watchful eye on an area of low pressure that is forming over the eastern Caribbean Sea, several hundred miles south of Puerto Rico. According to Chief Met Officer Ronald Gordon, there are several models being followed, including one which indicates that the system will gradually head west towards […]
According to the Chief Met Officer, while the system is being monitored, Belize is not in any emergency. Should the system become a threat to the country, the National Emergency Management Organization, NEMO, will be activated and a state of emergency will be declared. On the phone: Ronald Gordon, Chief Meteorological Officer “The bottom […]
While Belize is monitoring a possible tropical depression that can form in the eastern Caribbean Sea in the days ahead, Jamaicans are recovering from an earthquake that shook the island nation this morning. The epicenter of the seismic activity that measured five point six on the Richter scale was located roughly ten kilometers south of […]
The American Sugar Refinery/Belize Sugar Industries Limited (A.S.R/B.S.I) issued a press release today, informing of a record cane price that was distributed to all the cane farmers’ associations with whom it conducts business. The price of eighty-six dollars and twenty-eight cents per ton of cane is a new record for B.S.I. The last record high […]
But while the profit margins are bigger this year for cane farmers, there are quite a few areas where those added funds could be used to improve the quality of the cane they produce. Chavarria encouraged the cane farmers to give consideration to putting the profits to use so that the problems they face collectively […]
There has been a lower supply of over a hundred and sixty-four thousand metric tons of sugar. Chavarria says that the drought in 2019 impacted the 2020 crop significantly, but they believe the lower supply also had more than one contributing factor. Another reason was that some of the fields needed to be replanted. But, […]
The two men who are accused of the gruesome Sunday night triple murder in San Pedro were arraigned today in Belize City, due to the absence of a magistrate on the island. At 9:55 this morning, police escorted Christian Espat and Michael Brown inside Magistrate’s Court number three, where they were read nine indictable criminal […]
A trio of American visitors was busted in San Pedro earlier today under suspicion that they were shoplifting from a store on the island. The matter quickly turned into an immigration investigation, before it was later discovered that one of them was the alleged mastermind behind the theft of a million-dollar catamaran stolen from Fort […]
Twenty-five-year-old Evander Usher appeared unrepresented in the magistrate’s court this morning where he was charged in connection with a robbery at a grocery store in La Democracia last weekend. Usher, a maintenance worker employed with the Leadership Intervention Unit, was read a single charge of robbery after it was alleged that he stole two thousand, […]
It’s been about a month since the P.U.P. endorsed Belize City Mayor Bernard Wagner to run for that position in next year’s municipal elections. And while the murmurs leading up to and immediately following that endorsement were critical of the party, which had accepted applications from other candidates, no one has officially asked Deputy Mayor […]
But while Pollard will run on the P.U.P. ticket as a councilor under Wagner as the mayoral candidate, he also has his eyes on Queen’s Square, hoping he’ll be elected in the General Elections a year later in 2025. Pollard, who is a relative newcomer to politics, came within striking distance of the incumbent Area […]
