The Ministry of National Security has issued a release essentially rejecting a claim by the BTV’s Wil Maheia in respect of his attempted visit to the Sarstoon on Thursday. According to Maheia, three Guatemala gunboats were blocking Belizeans from entering the Sarstoon. Maheia also said that there was no presence of the Belize Coastguard or […]
So while that plays out, the People’s United Party has reacted to the ministry’s release on the incident at the Sarstoon. Party chairman, Henry Charles Usher, told News Five that it not only shows Guatemala’s aggression, but shows the GAF violating international law. Henry Charles Usher, Chairman, P.U.P. “Again, it’s just another case in […]
While the Government has set May eight as the new date for the I.C.J. referendum, there are several related cases pending before the courts. On Monday, the Chief Justice is expected to hear substantive arguments in a case brought by the People’s United Party which is challenging the validity of the 2008 Special Agreement. The […]
While we had the P.U.P. Chairman, he was asked about the party’s preparedness for the upcoming I.C.J. referendum. May eighth is twelve days away and it will be a battle of mobilization between the two major political parties which have taken opposing positions in what should have been a non-political issue. Usher says that the […]
A pickup truck was totally destroyed by fire on Thursday in Belize City. The incident happened at a gas station so it caused alarm because of the potential risks to life and property. Fortunately, the matter was dealt with safely; still there are lessons to be learnt. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. Duane Moody, […]
Back in February, a fire in Belize City destroyed two structures that housed a family of twelve, including Virginia Garnett and her triplets. The family lost everything in the fire and they have not yet been able to fully pick up the pieces. Today, the family is living in a small building that also serves […]
Going into the Easter holidays, last Wednesday, the pump price for premium gasoline increased by forty cents; it took the cost up to a whopping eleven dollars and thirty cents per gallon. Well, there is a third increase in two weeks because today, the Ministry of Finance is announcing yet another hike, this time in […]
Earlier this month, on April fifteenth, we reported that the Guatemalan Armed Forces attempted to block the Belize Coastguard from travelling on the Sarstoon. Wil Maheia of the Belize Territorial Volunteers was leading a team of Belizeans on the trip on the Belize side of the river. Maheia is the point man in Punta Gorda […]
A fire was reported this evening at the Shell Gas Station at the corner of Central American Boulevard and Cemetery Road at the entrance of the George Price Highway. A vehicle dangerously went up in flames while fueling at the Shell One Stop gas station. According to reports, attendants noticed smoke coming from the vehicle’s […]
The situation involving the Commissioner of Police, Chester Williams and the President of the Belize Police Association, Corporal Eldon Arzu has attracted the attention of the Caribbean Federation of Police Welfare Associations. The ComPol is not seeing eye-to-eye with Arzu, who was elected to another term as president in January, just before the ComPol deemed […]
Earlier this week a three-year-old baby boy and his father were injured in a shooting. Jose Navarette and his junior were shot in front of their home in Saint Margaret’s Village on the Hummingbird Highway on Sunday night. Fortunately, both survived the shooting and have been treated and released from the hospital. Police say that […]
Police found two and half kilos or about five and a half pounds of weed in San Pedro. Around nine this morning, they were called out to the cemetery on the island and while making checks in the area, officers discovered the drugs wrapped in a single package. ASP Alejandro Cowo shares the details of […]
A well-known boat owner is the latest victim of the theft of an expensive boat engine that was luckily recovered by police. One of six persons believed to be involved in the theft has been charged. Twenty-eight-year-old Michael Andrews was arraigned on a single charge of theft before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford. Allegations are that […]
From an engine thief to a cell phone robber. Pink’s Alley resident, twenty-eight-year-old Michael Usher was before the court today for the theft of a seven hundred-dollar cell phone stolen from Michelle Brooks. On April thirteenth, Brooks’ phone was stolen while she was at a birthday party at Saint Mary’s Parish Hall. Brooks told the […]
A letter to standard bearers by P.U.P. leader John Briceño has been getting maximum publicity on social media and other sectors. In the letter, following the Easter holidays, Briceño states that P.U.P. has sought to work with the government on the issue of the I.C.J., but those attempts have not had any success. In this […]
A final report is still not ready in the inquiry by the Senate Special Select Committee which held hearings between 2016 and 2017 on the findings of the Auditor General’s Special Audit Report of the Immigration and Nationality Department 2011-2013. But there is a recent news report circulating that between 2013 and 2015, Belize was […]
A seventy-two-year-old retired Belizean was freed today of a charge involving an unmuzzled ferocious dog that attacked a young school girl. Mario Sandoval was charged in April 2018 after his dog attacked and bit the eleven year-old Hummingbird Primary School student, gripping her hand and then dragging her. Today in the courtroom of Magistrate Emmerson […]
There is a land dispute brewing in San Pablo Village, Toledo District where residents of that southern community are at odds with the principals of A&E Trading Company. Earlier today, Marie Lou Serto came forward with an allegation against businessman Antonio Zabaneh, whom she claims, is trying to eject her family from land they have […]
Where is Corporal Eldon Arzu and why hasn’t he shown up to assume his new post at the police headquarters in Belmopan? It’s the latest twist in the saga of the embattled president of the Belize Police Association who was transferred to the office of Planning, Performance, Review, Inspection and Implementation at the end of […]
According to ComPol Williams, the reason for Corporal Arzu’s transfer to that area of the department is because he displays an interest in the wellbeing of officers on the job. The post, he says, would also have allowed for him to become eligible to move up in rank. On the Phone: Chester Williams, Commissioner […]
The militant Belize National Teachers Union has taken pause from its advocacy to clean house. The last time they met was in Belmopan where they held a rally on the I.C.J. Tonight, teachers are meeting in Corozal Town for their forty-ninth annual convention. The B.N.T.U has four seats to be filled, but three are uncontested, […]
There were a number of traffic fatalities over the Easter holidays, but we start with the report of a shooting of a father and his infant son, which has shocked the community. Jose Navarette Senior and his three-year-old son received gunshot injuries at their home over the weekend. Police say that the farm manager of […]
There were three fatal accidents over the extend weekend. In Belize City, George Baptist was well-known to commuters who use the Novelo Bus terminal. But on Sunday afternoon, the handyman met an untimely death. In between tending to clients, Baptist went to a nearby restaurant where something went wrong inside. A witness says Baptist was […]
There was further loss of life. A resident of Valley of Peace perished in a hit and run accident on Saturday night. Andruse Choc lost his life in the area of La Democracia on the George Price Highway. His family says he was speaking to his wife by phone when he was knocked down by […]
There were also two accidents over the weekend in Benque Viejo in which one person perished and the other remains in a critical condition at the Western Regional Hospital. The police department has embarked on a motorcycle safety campaign, but over the weekend, Benque Viejo resident, Marco Tulio de la Rosa perished when the motorbike […]
