A couple from Corozal is claiming that they were victims of a housing scam, but this incident is revealing a bigger issue of alleged corruption at the Housing Department. News Five has been told that between 2016 and 2017 at least six wooden houses were issued to persons who provided two thousand five hundred dollars […]
A Belize City family is enduring another sleepless night after a horrific episode this past weekend. Their three female watchdogs were mauled and stung to death when set upon by Africanized bees who came seemingly out of nowhere from behind their residence on Mex Avenue. And the dogs were not the only casualty as at […]
Tanya Santos is an independent consultant in Natural Resources Management. She’s been a resident of Belmopan all her life; but these days, she is on the campaign trail for the People’s United Party. Were she to turn things around, Santos would become the first female mayor of the Capital. On March seventh, the residents of […]
Last week, there were complaints by the Maya Leaders Alliance and Toledo Alcaldes Association that government or its agents tried to coerce and intimidate Maya leaders and residents of Toledo to support their taking the Guatemalan claim to the International Court of Justice. The Belize Progressive Party today issued a statement objecting to these tactics. […]
A teenager has been sent to central prison after failing to evade police while carrying an unlicensed weapon. Nineteen-year-old Tyree Gentle of Racoon Street Extension was charged with possession of a nine-millimeter pistol for which he does not have a gun license. The pistol carried ten live rounds of ammunition for which he was also […]
There had not been a murder in the city since January twenty-seventh. During that time, police put more boots on the ground to curb gun violence and restore some peace on the streets, following the 2017 bumper murder rate. But early on Friday night, the life of Norman Tyrone Gibson, aka Ty Ty, who had […]
Just twenty-three days from a municipal election, supporters of the People’s United Party descended in the city seven years after its last national convention. The Opposition, on Sunday, took full advantage of the opportunity to galvanize its base and give the Old Capital a show. They came by the thousands, men, women and youths from […]
The National Convention’s primary business aside, the P.U.P. also has a lot to say about the major issues of the day. From crime to Guatemala, the party produced a number of resolutions outlining its plans and pleas to the government. Reporter Aaron Humes has more on this facet of the convention. Aaron Humes, Reporting […]
The P.U.P. is counting on the surge of energy presented on Sunday to prevail less than a month from now. But with the U.D.P. already boasting of sweeping all sixty-seven seats including Party leader John Briceño’s native Orange Walk Town, where does the Opposition think they have a chance? Briceño was not cowed, placing great […]
Lake Independence area rep Cordel Hyde is the acknowledged field general of the P.U.P. in Belize City. It will be his task to shepherd voters to the polls for Bernard Wagner and the P.U.P. slate of municipal candidates, but as he acknowledged on Sunday, it won’t be easy. Wagner and his team face twelve years […]
A new Guatemalan ambassador has taken up residence in Belize, almost two years after his predecessor Manuel Estuardo Roldan Barillas was abruptly recalled. Roldan returned to a new post as Guatemala’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs amid heightened tension between both countries, following the shooting death of Guatemalan teenager Julio Alvarado Ruano in the Chiquibul […]
As you heard earlier the P.U.P. is demanding a greater say in the education campaign on the Belize-Guatemala issue. But as to taking a formal position on the coming referendum on taking the dispute to the International Court of Justice, party leader John Briceño is less concerned. As he himself admits, the party is squarely […]
Breaking News: There is a late evening report of the robbery of three Belizeans—well-known cyclist Darnel Barrow, Albert Leslie and another known only as Mark. Leslie daughter, Elisa, phoned in to our newsroom minutes ago to inform that the trio had just left the Mexican border with the United States en route to Belize. Just […]
The flow of contraband items from across the northern border is brisk. It’s big business, though risky, for contrabandistas to illegally bring in tons of items via various transshipment points. Two items which Belizeans have a huge appetite for are cigarettes and beers. Today, the Customs Department destroyed a stock of these items, among other […]
In April of 2016, the Central Bank of Belize announced plans to liquidate four credit unions across the country. These were the Citrus Growers and Workers’ Credit Union; Mount Carmel Credit Union; Police Credit Union; and Civil Service Credit Union. Mount Carmel grabbed the most headlines at the time because of its history of embezzlement […]
There was a brazen armed robbery on Thursday afternoon in Corozal Town. The mid-afternoon crime was carried out by a trio of thieves, two of whom were armed with guns. Before escaping with over ten thousand dollars in cash and personal belongings, Chinese businesswoman, Hong Su Rong, and her husband were physically assaulted by the […]
Earlier this week Prime Minister Dean Barrow left the country with his family on personal business in the United States. As has become common practice, the local media camped out this afternoon at the Philip Goldson International Airport in Ladyville awaiting his return. We had several questions for him, including when budget consultations with the […]
Overnight, heavy rains came down on Belize City and other parts of the country. The downpour immediately caused flooding across the city and water levels are rising in the Belize River Valley as well as the Macal and Mopan Rivers in the west. A number of communities are not accessible and in the city, residents […]
But even before the heavy rains in Belize City, torrential rains across western and southern Belize caused flooding of bridges and farms. NEMO is reporting that no homes have been impacted, but farms in the flood areas in Toledo, particularly Blue Creek and Crique Sarco Villages, weren’t spared. We spoke with NEMO Coordinator about the […]
These the two men were arraigned this afternoon in the Belmopan Magistrate’s Court for the murder of Immigration clerk, Israel Perez. Cotton Tree residents, Cruz Castillo and Stanley Herrera Junior, were known to the murder victim and Police proceeded to levy charges after they found Perez’s vehicle as well as other items on Castillo. He […]
On Monday, we reported that Canadian national Jordan Bacchus was arrested by police in his home country for possession of drugs. According to the Canadian media, Bacchus will answer to the drug charges in Sudbury, as well as armed robbery and other charges in Toronto and then he will be extradited to Belize where he […]
A stabbing incident earlier today on Gill Street has left a couple hospitalized at the K.H.M.H. after receiving injuries to various parts of their bodies. Thirty-five-year-old Rhonda Burgess and her boyfriend, Erick Tillett, were at home babysitting a three-year-old toddler when they came under attack by an individual who is known to them. According to […]
A four-year contract renewal for Candice Burke to remain city administrator, along with four other directors, has brought outgoing mayor Darrell Bradley under fire. On Wednesday, he confirmed that a new agreement between the Belize City Council and Burke had been signed back in November 2017. Bradley contends that the purpose of the extension is […]
Guyana’s Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo has turned down the nomination of Chief Justice of Belize Kenneth Benjamin to be Chancellor of the Judiciary of the South American country, according to Stabroek News from Guyana. A letter sent to President David Granger indicates that Jagdeo did the requisite due diligence on both the candidates for Chancellor […]
The United Democratic Party remains at the helm of central government until general elections are called. It means that until then, all municipal bodies will be functioning under the leadership of the Barrow administration. At the launch of the U.D.P. manifesto last Thursday, Deputy Prime Minister Patrick Faber hinted that if cities and towns were […]
