It seems that where the price of fuel at the pumps is concerned, it’s all bad news. We wish we could tell you different tonight, but we can’t. News Five has confirmed that at midnight tonight the price of Premium Fuel will go up by a whopping fifty-four cents at the pump, taking it to […]
Foreign Ministers Wilfred Elrington and Carlos Raul Morales met in Washington today. The start of the meeting was somewhat delayed because the permanent council of the Organization of American States was debating developments in Venezuela. There was no representative from the Opposition at the meeting since the P.U.P. announced last Friday that it would not […]
Tonight, thirty-five year old police constable Urbie Alamilla is on the other side of the law and on remand at the Belize Central Prison. This evening, he was denied bail for the offense of discharging a firearm in at Green Jade Restaurant located between miles eight and nine on the Phillip Goldson Highway on Saturday. […]
A well-known Belizean family within the local Muslim community was the subject of a predawn raid on Monday at their house in Hattieville. Former Superintendent of the Belize Central Prison Taheera Ahmad and her sibling Fareed, proprietor of the Real Barbershop, along with seventeen other relatives, were rounded up in an operation conducted by the […]
Audibaldo Monima Junior – he left the Coast Guard to take up a post as the Regional Health Manager in the North. It’s a post that calls for a Master’s Degree in Public Health Administration and five years of experience in health administration. Monima only has an Associate’s Degree in Business. Still, as happens so […]
The case against former C.E.O. in the Ministry of Health, Dr. Peter Allen, wrapped up this afternoon in the Supreme Court where submissions were made on behalf of Chief Pharmacist Sharon Anderson. The defamation suit was brought against Allen and Procurement Manager Arik Lima, of Central Medical Stores, following the circulation of an email containing […]
It is almost six months into the year, and the murder count continues to grow. The Belize District continues to be plagued by the most violent crimes. This past weekend, two other persons were murdered. In the south, another person was chopped to death. There was further loss of life due to drowning and a […]
But prior to the Hattieville murder, the life of Edison Williams was cut short in Belize City for motives unknown. On Friday night, the thirty-three-year old resident of Kraal Road was at his own yard when he was fired upon by a shooter who emerged from the nearby alley. The brazen gunman approached and spoke […]
There was a third murder over the weekend – this one in the remotest area of the Toledo District, in San Benito Poite. Sometime Saturday night Francisco Ack, a resident of that community was brutally chopped to death and left in some bushes near the school in the community. According to officer commanding the Punta […]
Late this evening, a fifteen-year old minor was arraigned in court for Friday’s Queen Street shooting involving a police officer and three other persons. The minor is facing a slew of charges, fourteen in all. Four are for attempted murder upon forty-four old Elroy Saldano of Pink’s Alley, thirty-four year old school warden Graciela Castillo […]
A police officer attached to the eastern division south tonight remains in custody after he discharged a firearm in a restaurant, wounding a patron at a Ladyville restaurant. According to Rural Eastern Division Commander, ACP Edward Broaster, on Saturday, at Green Jade Restaurant at the corner of Poinsetta Street and the Phillip Goldson Highway, an […]
Now, this is the second shooting incident involving the same police officer. One week prior to Saturday’s shooting; the officer was detained by police following reports that he discharged his firearm on Perez Road. His licensed firearm was retrieved following that initial incident and it is not known how he was in possession of another […]
There are three new cases of Zika in Belize, bringing the total so far to five. The news came via Ministry of Health press release this evening confirming the presence of the vector-borne disease in Caye Caulker. According to the release, “These cases stem from an investigation of fever and rash cases reported earlier in […]
Belize City resident, Elroy Perdomo Junior, was murdered on Thursday afternoon during a funeral procession four hours after he was released from police custody. If that brazen murder sent shockwaves, today, a shooting in front of the Queen Street Police Station at eight-twenty this morning caused tremors in one of the busiest commercial areas. Business […]
Officers attached to the Gang Suppression Unit were immediately dispatched to the scene and have also joined in the investigation on the incident that appears to be as a result of warfare between two rivaling gangs from south side Belize City. Supt. Mark Flowers, Commander, Gang Suppression Unit “We operate in uniform, in concert […]
There’s also political news coming out of Queen Street. As you know, Guatemala military forces are maintaining a heavy presence in our side of the Sarstoon River. The situation has exacerbated to the point that Belizeans can no longer enter into the river. So far, despite statements by the government to the effect that Belizeans […]
The O.A.S. General Assembly concluded its yearly meeting in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic last Wednesday. The General Assembly passed a resolution and we will come to that later, but days prior to that regional meeting, the opposition representative to that meeting, Lisa Shoman, was told she was no longer required. But the P.U.P. says its […]
At the press conference this afternoon; Party Leader John Briceño also spoke of the resolution that was passed earlier this week at the General Assembly of the O.A.S. That declaration endorsed by member states, urges both Belize and Guatemala to take the territorial, insular and maritime dispute before the International Court of Justice. According to […]
Is the P.U.P. reacting to government’s decision to call them off from the O.A.S. delegation? Well, Briceño says there can be nothing farther from the truth. He told the media this afternoon that its representative will not participate in the Washington trip because the party has been disrespected. Briceño also says that the P.U.P. the […]
Immediately following the Istanbul talks, the government made the infamous public statement that Belizeans have untrammeled access to our side of the Sarstoon. The ink was barely dry on that release when Guatemala declared not so. In fact, Guatemala wrote in a diplomatic note on May twenty-eighth, that there was no agreement of that nature, […]
Can Belizeans go into the Sarstoon – at least on our side of the river? That’s been the million dollar question since our news team was stopped on May twenty-seventh. Our government says that we can based on an informal understanding reached in Istanbul, Turkey. The Guatemalans have said that there is no informal or […]
Late this evening, the Government issued a release about this morning’s incident in the Sarstoon. It reads in part: “G.O.B. is investigating this incident in an effort to verify all its particulars including that the media vessel was in Belize’s waters. In the meantime, Guatemalan authorities have communicated that they attempted to stop the vessel […]
As we’ve shown you, our news team traveled south to the Sarstoon River where they were turned back by the Guatemalan Armed Forces. While that was taking place this morning, another team was at the P.G.I.A. awaiting the arrival of Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington who returned today from the O.A.S. General Assembly in the Dominican […]
Is Guatemala taking the ongoing bilateral discussions seriously? It is a question that we’ve put to Foreign Minister Elrington in light of the recent happenings at the Sarstoon. On May twenty-seventh, our news team was turned away from the area; three days after government announced that, “there will be untrammeled traffic for Belize’s military and […]
Today, there was further violence in the south side of Belize City. Elroy Perdomo Junior was executed on Vernon Street as he attended a funeral. Perdomo Junior was held for forty-eight hours as the prime suspect in the murder of Marlon Bonner on Sunday at the basketball court on Faber’s Road. He was released from […]
