Punta Gorda Police are trying to determine who may have lured a taxi-man to his death on a remote feeder road on the outskirts of that community. A we reported on Tuesday, a passerby found sixty-one year old Elridgeville resident Antonio Rodriguez barely alive on the ground next to his vehicle at about midday. He […]
An ex-police officer, who was out on parole, is back behind bars tonight. Ronald Ragan Sutherland was convicted of wounding his ex-girlfriend back in 2014 and sentenced to two years, but while out on parole, he committed another offense which has landed him in jail again. This time, Sutherland is accused of trafficking weed after […]
The names are in and the battle for leader of the People’s United Party is officially on. Past P.U.P. leader John Briceño got in his nomination first, on Monday, along with endorsement signatures from eight constituency chairmen from the northern caucus, except for Corozal South East where the area rep is Florencio Marin Junior. Outgoing […]
Two thousand seven hundred and ninety-three delegates will vote at the National convention – one for every twenty-five P.U.P. votes cast in the November fourth general election. As we told you, immediate past leader Francis Fonseca reportedly submitted a complete slate for all open positions. It’s not yet clear how that will work out at […]
For days, we have been reporting on the attempts by businessman Jack Charles of Xtra House and RC Imports to import rice from Guyana into the local market. The rice, he says, is to be sold at a price lower than it is currently retailing. Sounds good for consumers, especially at this time of the […]
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Details are sketchy at this point, but News Five has been able to confirm that the body of a very well known P.G. resident was found in his vehicle on a deserted feeder road. According to reports, just before midday somebody passing by saw the body of sixty-one year old taxi-man Antonio Rodriguez, a resident […]
While consumers and industry stakeholders anxiously await the outcome of an ongoing scenario involving the proposed importation of Guyanese rice, the Government of Belize earlier today announced a decrease in the cost per pound of Grade C rice. Loose rice, as it is otherwise known, is seventy percent whole grain and thirty percent broken, in […]
According to Stanley Rempel, C.E.O. of Circle R Products, the decrease in the cost of Grade C rice is the result of lengthy discussions with government on the issue. Grade C rice, says the producer, is widely consumed by Belizeans. Isani Cayetano “There is a sense of timeliness with regards to a government release […]
There have been four murders in the Corozal District this year, but that count went up to five as a result of a stabbing on Saturday night when a village dance was taking place in Paraiso. Twenty-two-year-old Alberto Briceño was stabbed multiple times by a pair of siblings who were known to be his friends. […]
There were other serious crimes committed over the weekend. In San Pedro Ambergris Caye, police have arrested a deliveryman after he allegedly took a woman to a remote area of the island on his motorcycle and raped her on Friday. The thirty-four year old victim was allegedly looking for employment when twenty-three year old Arlen […]
And from rape to attempted rape, also on San Pedro, Police have arrested and arraigned a teenage male after he was positively identified by two of his victims. Salvadoran Fabio Hernandez Cuellar, an eighteen year old construction worker, is suspected to have brutally beaten a seventy year old woman as she walked home on the […]
There is also a report of sexual abuse from the south. The incidents happened back in November, but are only being reported in the police blotter. Three young boys, two who are twelve years old and one who is eleven years old, allege that they were sexually assaulted by a seventeen-year-old relative. Their mothers say […]
Turning to politics….At news time, there is only one confirmed name in the leadership race for P.U.P. Party Leader. The deadline is Tuesday, December fifteenth, but John Briceño was officially nominated today via letter to PUP Secretary-General Henry Charles Usher. Briceño’s nomination included endorsement signatures from the executive committee chairmen of four constituencies in Orange […]
On December eighth, an American dentist was detained in San Pedro after his name came up in the most bizarre story. Doctor John Hall had already been granted a license to practice in Belize when reports surfaced that he had injected semen into the mouths of several patients in North Carolina, U.S.A. We hadn’t heard […]
A shipment of rice is sitting at a Guatemalan port and is scheduled to be unloaded at the Big Creek port this Thursday. At least that is the plan of businessman Jack Charges of Xtra House who says he can bring in the staple at a lower price to retail locally. But there is a […]
Last Friday in the House of Representatives, the Prime Minister bid farewell to Francis Fonseca as the Leader of the Opposition in the House. Well tonight, the outgoing P.U.P. Leader has made an about-turn and is now an aspirant for new Party Leader. In the wake of general elections Fonseca announced that he was stepping […]
A US Coast Guard Officer is reportedly in critical condition after she was stabbed three times on the beach in San Pedro. Twenty-six year old Jennifer Smith, reportedly on vacation on the island, was walking back to her room at the popular Ramon’s Reef Resort at around midnight on Thursday when she was attacked and […]
The United States Embassy in Belize is reaching out to the injured naval officer. While details of the near-fatal attack were sparse this morning, Ambassador Carlos Moreno told the media that the Military Liaison Office is looking into the incident. Carlos Moreno, U.S. Ambassador “I just learned about that this morning when you probably […]
Dangriga police, meanwhile, are reporting tonight a disturbing case of the alleged rape of a pregnant woman. The victim is a nineteen year old resident of Stann Creek District. She claims that on Thursday afternoon, at around three o’clock she was at a bus stop at mile six on the Hummingbird Highway when she was […]
There have been more arrests and charges laid in the high-profile and very brutal home invasion on December third in Burrell Boom. At around seven that night, eight men stormed the home of Lebanese Consul Sarkis Abou-Nehra. Abou-Nehra and his wife were out of the country, but the men viciously beat the caretaker, raped his […]
Jeffery Buller was arraigned this afternoon for abetment to commit aggravated burglary and was denied bail. Mark Pitts and Paul Jex were arraigned for handling stolen good and both pleaded not guilty. The duo claimed that the police placed and a bag over their heads to coerce them to talk. They were all remanded until […]
The fate of approximately four thousand Cuban migrants marooned in Costa Rica continues to hang in the balance as countries along their intended route to the United States decide on whether to allow them transit north to the U.S./Mexico border. Nicaragua and Guatemala have refused them passage through their countries and on Tuesday, the Government […]
A strike is called off and after four days off the job at the port, stevedores finally went back to work this afternoon. Vessels bringing hams and turkeys as well as other items being imported or exported this Christmas season, will be loaded and offloaded. The Pagola from Jamaica which has been moored at English […]
The strike by stevedores has been called off and they are back on the job. But the four-day standoff with the Port of Belize over retirement packages has had dire consequences for businesses large and small. The disruptions in operation were hurting the bottom line for businesses and the livelihood of stevedores. Duane Moody set […]
