SATIIM co-manages the Sarstoon Temash National Park and according to them, they were intercepted by the GAF recently when they were on a patrol of the area. The N.G.O. says illegal activities have been ongoing inside the national park and along that area in the Sarstoon. These activities include illegal logging, hunting of endangered species […]
Hurricane Matthew hit Haiti over a month ago and the island is trying to rebuild. While hundreds of lives were lost, thousands were left homeless after the hurricane. The Caribbean region has rallied around Haiti and the relief has been going their way for the past couple weeks, but the damage and destruction were significant […]
A major decision was handed down this afternoon by the Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin. The Belize National Teachers Union, led by President Luke Palacio and Adelaida Guerra, took the government to court seeking to stop a decision by the Ministry of Education to dock the salaries of teachers who went on strike for eleven days […]
B.N.T.U. returns to court on December sixteenth, when it is expected that the substantive matter, a claim that the decision to deduct teachers’ salaries is unconstitutional, will be argued before the Chief Justice. The teachers union is challenging the validity of that decision made by the Ministry of Education. It is also prepared to argue […]
Before the decision was handed down, Leader of the People’s United Party, John Briceño wrote to Prime Minister Dean Barrow asking him to reconsider the Government’s position on deducting from salaries of teachers. According to Briceño, the letter is a result of last week’s meeting with the Union’s executives, held before they filed for an […]
The Prime Minister disclosed two weeks ago that the superbond is being renegotiated for the third time because the economy had underperformed. There were not much details available, but today, we spoke with the Special Advisor to the Coordinating Committee of Bondholders via phone. Charles Blitzer says that stockholders are uneasy going into a third […]
A security guard went missing at sea after the boat he was traveling in capsized near Tobacco Caye. Around two-thirty p.m. last Thursday, a skiff transporting Corporal Carlos Galvez, Police Constable David Mejia, George Lopez as well as Linsford Joseph Locayo, and his common-law wife and their nine-month-old daughter capsized one mile from the Tobacco […]
The Guatemalan Armed Forces continue to operate freely in the area of the Sarstoon River, within Belizean territory. Ernesto Vasquez, who works out of the office of the Prime Minister and is a co-host of Love FM morning show, confirmed to News Five his recent experience in the area. He visited the Cadenas post, run […]
In the late 1970’s and 1980’s, Carlton Bowers was Belize’s welterweight boxing champion. He was a local hero and entertained hundreds in fights at the Bird’s Isle for many years. It has been some time since we’ve last heard from the popular Belizean boxer since he retired from the sport and he now sells paletas […]
The monthly salaries of almost two thousand primary and secondary school teachers hang in the balance tonight, as they anxiously await a decision to be handed down by the Supreme Court on Monday. Earlier this week, an application for an injunction was filed on behalf of the Belize National Teachers Union. The formal request for […]
According to Palacio, government insists on punishing teachers who took part in industrial action last month. While there is currently no figure to determine the overall deduction, government has began the process of docking the salaries of over one thousand, five hundred teachers ahead of the Christmas Season. Luke Palacio, National President, B.N.T.U. “We […]
The Belize Police Department welcomes another attorney into its ranks. This morning, well-known officer Bart Jones was officially called to the bar. Jones, who has diligently worked his way up within the hierarchy of the law enforcement agency, joins Assistant Commissioner of Police Chester Williams as inductees of the Bar Association of Belize. In a […]
On hand for the induction of attorney Bart Jones was Minister of Police Elodio Aragon Junior. He spoke about the role of the police department and the relationship it shares with the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, as it concerns the pursuit of legal action in criminal matters. Elodio Aragon Jr., Minister […]
Chief Executive Officer of the state-owned Belize Telemedia Limited, Anwar Barrow, is on his way out of that post. But he has not yet formally stepped down, according to a statement issued by B.T.L. The company states that Barrow holds the post going into the New Year, 2017; however, B.T.L. has started the succession process […]
As requested by the Government of Belize, representatives of key holders of the U.S. Dollar 2038 Bonds, the Superbond, have agreed to form a committee to discuss the restructuring of the more than five-hundred-and-thirty-million U.S. dollar package. A statement on behalf of the bondholders notes that the restructuring completed in 2013 has provided more than […]
Hundreds of residents—youths and adults—including the grieving mothers from the Hamilton family and other concerned Belize City residents, gathered at the B.T.L. Park for a candle light vigil organized by Shakera Young, the mother of another slain child, Tyler Savery. The seven-year-old student at Saint Joseph Primary School was murdered in cold blood exactly one […]
For the second time this week, a man accused of murder has been set free. Again, it is due to police coercing a confession out of a suspect without supporting evidence. Jordan Cayetano joins Charles “Bundy” Herrera, who was set free on Monday of the murder – by stabbing – of Ezekiel Nicholas Medina in […]
During a meeting with the press this morning in Ladyville, Belize District, reports started coming in to Police that a foreign-born couple living in Belize had been kidnapped. Police recovered a grey Patriot SUV, reported to have been stolen during the alleged attack, which was said to have been committed by several armed men who […]
An Orange Walk cop is tonight out on bail after he was charged and arraigned for the wounding of a Guinea Grass resident. In a most recent allegation of police brutality, twenty-one year old construction worker Hugo Noh accused the police officer of the village of beating him to a pulp in front of a […]
After four years, Belize’s first cruise ship port, Harvest Caye in southern Belize, was formally opened for business today. It is not known why the press was not invited to cover the event of this huge investment in the tourism industry. We can say however that at the onset of the project there was huge […]
And while NCL opened its port down south and will no longer be calling at the Fort Street Tourist Village here in the City, tour operators here are getting ready for European cruise visitors. For the first time German-based cruise line TUI made a call to Belize. This new market means that big tour operators […]
A fisherman remains lost at sea tonight after a vessel he was traveling in capsized near Tobacco Caye. The Dangriga resident has been identified only as Mister Locario. According to Senior Superintendent Ralph Moody several others, including a woman and a toddler, were rescued at sea. Despite a search effort conducted by members of the […]
Businessman Albert Jerry Guy appeared in court on two separate this week where he pleaded guilty to possession of drugs and undersized conch. GSU were on patrol on Water Lane on Wednesday morning when then they saw two men loading a black bag into a vehicle. They proceeded to search the vehicle where they found […]
It’s a sad week when the loss of innocent children in a vicious crime wave continues to shatter families. The Hamiltons of south side Belize City have lost a third family member in a month. For Melissa Hamilton, it is her second child to perish following an arson at a house on Aloe Vera Street […]
An already bruised nation continues to reel from the double murder of seven year old Tyler Savery and twenty-one year old Porshan Pipersburgh last Friday afternoon. There is a growing movement to make a numb society alive, to create solutions rather than cast blame. That is the hope of Tyler’s mother, Shakera Young, and his […]
