Belize has successfully negotiated the Super Bond and the Briceño administration announced late this evening that, “the Government of Belize is delighted that the vast majority of holders of the government’s only international bond have indicated their support for this proposed transaction.” Prime Minister John Briceño went to state, “we are attempting to achieve, in […]
During news time on Thursday night, shots rang out on Simon Lamb Street in north side Belize City. Surveillance cameras in the area captured residents scattering and trying to escape any stray bullets during the shooting. It is believed that the gunman took aim at a resident of the Kelly Street area. Three persons were […]
Commissioner of Police Chester Williams also gave us an update in the murders of two teenage minors earlier this week. On Wednesday morning, fifteen-year-old Niccanor Fermin was executed in the Vista del Mar community in Ladyville after a black SUV was seen in the area. It is believed that the murder is gang-related, but at […]
On Sunday evening, seventeen-year-old Michael Henry was fatally injured during a drive-by shooting at the roundabout near the intersection of Fabers Road and the George Price Highway. He was inside a vehicle along with four other persons when a black SUV drove up and fired multiple shots. Rudolph Gladden was also injured during that shooting. […]
At the start of news tonight, Prime Minister John Briceño addressed the Seventy-Sixth Session of the United Nations General Assembly. The annual, high-level meeting of the heads of government across all member countries is taking place in New York City, where PM Briceño and a delegation of government officials arrived on Wednesday. Ahead of Belize’s […]
There are one thousand, nine hundred and twenty-eight active cases of COVID-19 across the country and majority of those new infections are being recorded in Belize District. Notwithstanding stiffer public health measures to curb the infection rate being experienced during this third wave, the numbers keep increasing. Earlier today, Deputy Regional Manager, Dr. Melissa Diaz-Musa, […]
The mortality rate for persons who have been fully vaccinated is also on the rise, but not as fast as it is for persons who are unvaccinated. While the total number of COVID casualties stands at four hundred and two, only eight persons who were fully vaccinated have succumbed to the deadly virus. According to […]
A mother of four, including a newborn, succumbed to COVID-19 earlier today at the Belize Healthcare Partners Limited. Cindy Flowers, a resident of Placencia, becomes the latest expectant mother to pass away after a bout with the disease. Earlier this week, a GoFundMe page was established in order to raise funds for Cindy. On Thursday […]
On Thursday night we brought you snippets of the Port of Belize Expansion Project’s virtual public consultation. It was the second round of consultations, following a request by the National Environmental Assessment Committee (NEAC) to have the project’s ESIA revisited. An addendum to the original environmental and social impact assessment will see the developers ditch […]
A ceasefire has been brokered between two Belize City gangs with a history of enmity that has seen many lives lost on both sides of that bitter rivalry. On Wednesday evening, the Leadership Intervention Unit, headed by William Dawson, brought together members of the PIV and Backa Lands gangs to iron out a peace treaty. […]
An armistice between those feuding groups in Lake Independence is nothing new. In fact, over the years, we have covered several initiatives undertaken by the Belize Police Department, through the Mahogany Street Precinct, where both gangs have come together at Christmas time to give back to the community. So will a truce between Backa Lands […]
Fifteen-year-old Niccanor Fermin became the latest victim of gang violence when he was executed and dumped in an overgrown area near the entrance to Vista del Mar on Wednesday morning. Police were alerted to shots being fired in the area sometime around ten a.m. and when they responded to the scene, they discovered the lifeless […]
Several months ago, Fermin’s mother had reached out to the Belize Police Department, as well as the Wagner’s Youth Facility to secure a scholarship opportunity for her son. While that did not work out, Director William Dawson did come into contact with the young man. William Dawson, Leadership Intervention Unit “In the past three […]
The Department of Youth Services is critical in providing the kind of assistance that is needed to intervene in the lives of young men who choose a life of crime. DYS has been working closely with the Leadership Intervention Unit to help these at-risk youths. This afternoon, Director Kevin Cadle announced that a Memorandum of […]
On Independence Day, a stabbing incident in Hattieville ended the life of coast guard seaman Elston Morter. His friend, Marcel Gill was also stabbed and remains hospitalised. Today, police formally arrested and charged B.D.F. soldier Leon Perez for the crime of murder. The incident stems from a traffic accident that occurred on September twenty-first. Gill […]
We’ve been reporting on the physical and emotional toll that the COVID-19 pandemic has been having on frontline healthcare workers. Personnel from the COVID-19 units would go hours on end caring for patients – some to their last breath – and then have to do it all over again the next day. The mental health […]
In the COVID-19 Unit at the K.H.M.H., there are twenty-six nurses, seven patient care assistants, six attendants and about ten to twelve doctors who work on a shift basis. Nursing Supervisor Kereen Birch hones in on the struggles that these frontline healthcare workers have been going through and Nurse Casilda Bowman shares how this will […]
Earlier this week, News Five received reports from Crooked Tree Village of staffing issues at its health center. During an interview with the Deputy Regional Health Manager for the Central Health Region, Doctor Melissa Diaz-Musa, we asked her about the struggles of dealing with COVID in rural Belize District. Dr. Melissa Diaz-Musa, Deputy Regional […]
For a second time since the advent of COVID-19, Independence Day celebrations have been subdued, largely in part to an increase in cases across the country. On Tuesday, government officials, dignitaries and other invited guests journeyed to Belmopan where an official ceremony was held in commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of Belize’s political freedom. Among […]
A stabbing incident on Independence Day, in the New Site area of Hattieville, off the George Price Highway at mile seventeen, has left a Belize City resident dead and another in critical but stable condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Coast Guard seaman Elston Morter and security officer Marcel Gill were involved in an […]
There was a mid-morning murder in Ladyville today. Around nine-forty-five a.m., a vehicle was seen driving on Blue Marlin Drive, which is the entrance to the Vista Del Mar community. Shortly afterward, shots were heard in the area. Police responded and found the body of nineteen-year-old Niccanor Fermin. The Belize City resident was on the […]
A San Pedro resident is clinging to life at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, following a shooting incident on the island on Tuesday evening. Noe Nelson Zetina was at the Sacachispas Football Field at the corner of Angel Coral and Buccaneer Streets with a friend when he was approached by man who produced his licensed […]
There was another loss of life on Independence Day, but up north in Corozal. Thirty-three-year-old Constancia Cano was found dead between miles seventy-three and seventy-four on the Philip Goldson Highway near Louisville Village. Constancia was reportedly travelling home from Concepcion Village to Santa Clara in a Dodge pickup driven at the time by Fabio Cano […]
The issue of constitutional reform has been on the table for quite some time and while both political parties have discussed the need to improve the existing laws in an effort to stomp out corruption, the Briceño administration has introduced a Constitutional Reform Commission. It was announced on Tuesday that the task force will be […]
The restructuring of Belize’s external debt has been much talked about since it was first announced on September third by Prime Minister John Briceño. Since then, additional details of an agreement with bondholders, as well as The Nature Conservancy, to streamline the Super Bond payments have been shared by the Government of Belize. In his […]
