The entire operation, a joint effort between police, B.D.F. and coast guard elements, consisted of maritime, terrestrial and aerial surveillance. Shortly after the arrests and seizure, they then observed a vessel leaving harbour in Belize City. The Boston Whaler was the same boat moored at the Princess Marina. The vessel was intercepted by coast guard […]
This morning, ComPol Whylie also debunked rumors that a vehicle reportedly belonging to the wife of a senior police officer was used in the trafficking of the narcotics. While a vehicle was indeed used as part of the sting operation, it does not belong to an officer. The Commissioner of Police also commented on the […]
The killing of five-year-old Samir August and his grandmother, Louise Young, continues as a death and not murder investigation at this time. Samuel August Senior, who rammed a backhoe into Young’s house on Faber’s Road, will undergo a psychiatric evaluation to determine the state of mind that led to the deadly incident. August Senior drove […]
After sitting in a Mexican jail for seventeen months, tonight Yo Creek resident Romario Pech is a free man. News Five has confirmed that Pech is on his way to Belize from Mexico after being released from prison. He was accused of fatally stabbing his cousin, nineteen-year-old Saul Pech in May 2017 at their apartment […]
A pair of thieves struck Midtown Restaurant and Bar on Wednesday evening, robbing a manager of almost twenty-five thousand dollars in jewelry, cash, cell phones and other personal items. According to investigators, the duo entered the popular eatery sometime before six o’clock. The men made a beeline toward the bar where they relieved the employee […]
B.N.T.U. branch presidents returned to their respective districts following Wednesday’s announcement that come November seventh, there will be a national demonstration in the nation’s capital. Today, students were sent home at midday as teachers discussed logistics leading up to next Wednesday’s protest. The union and the ministry are at loggerheads again; this time over Proposal […]
Another bone of contention for which the union says it is prepared to seek legal recourse is in respect of a decision purportedly made by the Ministry of Education to withhold commuting allowance owed to teachers prior to 2017. C.E.O. Domingo says she is not aware of the measure, but teachers are responsible to apply […]
Albert Steven Moreira, believed to be Felina James’ killer, was arraigned for the crime of murder when he appeared in the magistrate’s court on Wednesday. The B.D.F. soldier was reportedly in a relationship with James up to the time of her chopping death. Last week, investigators discovered the charred remains of a vehicle in Steadfast […]
While many were out trick or treating on Halloween night, a group of men decided to use their masks for more than just a scare. They entered El Paso Junior Fast Food in the Farmer’s Market area and robbed two women of their cell phones. According to the owner of the establishment, the men entered […]
This just in…there was a robbery at a popular restaurant on Princess Margaret Drive on the entertainment strip. News Five has confirmed that about an hour ago, two men armed with guns barged into Midtown Restaurant and Bar and held up the employees. They were robbed of monies before the thieves fled the scene. The […]
There are so many questions unanswered in the killing of a young child and his grandmother at the hands of the father of three. The unthinkable tragedy occurred at about two o’clock this morning on Faber’s Road. The father, Samuel August Senior, drove a backhoe belonging to the Belize City Council where he is employed, […]
Aside from Samuel August Senior being the father of three male children whose custodial rights were granted to their maternal grandmother by the family court, little else is known about him. Truth be told, the horrendous act of what appears to be vehicular homicide was committed using machinery belonging to the Belize City Council where […]
Belizeans across the country and overseas have been sharing messages of condolences with the family. Today, P.U.P. Leader John Briceño did the same, expressing sympathy, urging religious leaders to, once again, to go on the ground and get deeper into community life. John Briceño, P.U.P. Leader “It saddens me and it worries me that […]
The Belize National Teachers Union is putting the government on notice that it will demonstrate one week from today, on Wednesday, November seventh in Belmopan. That was the announcement made this afternoon during an impromptu press conference held at its headquarters in Belize City, in the presence of its executive council and members including past […]
According to the union, the minister agreed that two aspects of Proposal Twenty-Two would have been negotiated. It involves all high schools including Ecumenical, Toledo Community College, San Pedro High School and Corozal Community College. These four are under consideration to become government managed schools since they don’t have a proprietor. The second vexing portion […]
National President Elena Smith called out Education Minister Patrick Faber on his recent statements on the negotiations with the union. Smith produced signed documents and minutes of a previous meeting held by the Joint Union Negotiations Team to drive home the point. Another hot-button issue is the hardship designations of schools. Recently, the B.N.T.U. took […]
The B.N.T.U. is also rejecting the decision by the Ministry of Education to withhold commuting allowance owed to teachers prior to 2017. The ministry has said it will not honour those allowances. In true B.N.T.U. fashion, General Secretary, Keisha Young did not mince words. Keisha Young, General Secretary, B.N.T.U. “Recently the B.N.T.U. conducted an […]
Cabinet met today in Belmopan; one of the significant decisions taken was in relation to a surprise announcement on social media last week, to the effect that the Ministry of National Security was organizing excursions to the Sarstoon. As you know, Belizeans were legally stopped from going up the river in April 2016. More recently, […]
The idea that it may be time to legalize marijuana has taken centre stage in the national discourse. It was proposed by the Leader of the Opposition, John Briceño, and immediately became a lightening rod. G.O.B. jumped up with a release blasting Briceño, saying such proposal would have serious implications to the relations with the […]
Police have cracked the case of Felina James, the woman who went missing and was found murdered days later. Twenty-seven-year-old B.D.F. soldier Albert Stephen Moriera has been charged for the murder of James, who was his girlfriend. Moriera is accused of cutting James’ throat and dumping her body in some bushes along the Coastal Road. […]
In December 2017, he was criminally charged for allegedly trafficking eleven pounds of cocaine and in August of this year, he was freed of the charge after the case against him fell apart. Tonight, we report that thirty-four-year-old Carlos Lopez got off another drug trafficking charge. Lopez, along with twenty-seven-year-old Kenrick Gentle, was busted at […]
In the months leading up to the pending I.C.J. referendum, public discourse has been rife with reasons for and against a legal resolution of the Belize/Guatemala issue. There have been few details of a schedule of events should Belizeans vote in favor of having the matter adjudicated at the International Court of Justice. On Monday, […]
Government also announced that it is beefing up its campaign effort to educate the nation on the territorial dispute, as well as the I.C.J. alternative. PM Barrow announced that in the coming weeks three ambassadors, including Lou-Anne Burns, Perla Perdomo and Dylan Vernon, are joining the push toward a national awareness of the matter. Government […]
The Office of the Attorney General has finally responded to the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry, in respect of the UNCAC implementation process. On October twenty-second, the Chamber wrote to Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte regarding the carrying out of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption. The business organization took that opportunity to register its […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow hosted an extended press conference today, following an equally lengthy hiatus from the public eye since his return from medical treatment in Havana last month. This morning’s brief touched on a raft of national issues, from Belize’s economic performance to the pending I.C.J. referendum and all points between. The PM first […]
