There was a double murder in Paraiso, Corozal District over the weekend which has all the signs of a crime of passion. The mother of a four-year old child was hacked to death; the twenty-one year old woman who has had a troubled past, was along with her boyfriend of three weeks when they met […]
In San Pedro, there was also a loss of life. Investigations, both criminal and internal, are taking place into a shootout involving the Belize Coast Guard and three civilians in an area known as a hot spot for wet drops. The incident occurred this morning at around ten-thirty twenty-one and a half miles north of […]
The sugar industry impasse has been broken. By Friday, or at least by the weekend, cane trucks from Orange Walk and Corozal should be lining up at BSI to deliver their product. The decision was made by a majority of cane-farmers on Sunday at a general assembly meeting, after members of the BSCFA and the […]
On Sunday a majority of cane-farmers voted to start the crop, accepting the proposals agreed to by the B.S.C.F.A. and B.S.I. As we told you, it’s not a popular decision in all quarters, since many believe that A.S.R./B.S.I. got everything it wanted from the very beginning, while cane-farmers had to bend on every point. Today, […]
Elections in Cayo North will be held on January fifth, as the P.U.P.’s Richard Harrison goes up against the U.D.P.’s Omar Figueroa. The odds are stocked firmly against Harrison, who was endorsed by the P.U.P. and entered the race only two weeks ago. Omar Figueroa has been the U.D.P. caretaker since February 2014, so he […]
In San Pedro, a resident ate evidence to avoid apprehension by the police. On Friday morning, police approached twenty-six year old Juan Ramon Nah of the San Mateo area to conduct a search on him. But an ingenious Nah pulled out a plastic bag from his pocket containing cannabis and began to chew on it. […]
A prisoner is on the loose tonight. He is twenty-five year old inmate, Emmanuel Willoughby, who escaped from the Central Prison over the weekend hoping that he won’t spend the Christmas behind bars. Willoughby ingeniously cut a hole on his cell door which facilitated his break from the prison at around three o’clock on Saturday […]
There is a concord of sorts between A.S.R./B.S.I. and the B.S.C.F.A., but we wouldn’t go dusting off that old cane truck and making merry just yet. Both parties sat down together this morning with Prime Minister Dean Barrow and Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega at the Radisson in Belize City. In a nutshell, A.S.R. representatives […]
As you heard, pending the decision of the farmers on Sunday, the agreement will be for a period of seven years. There is an out for the farmers, but only after three years. At that time, if a strategic development plan for the industry is not developed to the satisfaction of B.S.C.F.A., the farmers can […]
P.U.P. Deputy Leader Julius Espat will not be participating in the Petrocaribe-sponsored Christmas cheer program. Through that political initiative, all U.D.P. Area Reps will allegedly be receiving one hundred and ten thousand dollars. All P.U.P. Area reps should receive thirty-five thousand, which is the same amount collected by unelected U.D.P. caretakers. The P.U.P. made the […]
If you plan on doing any baking or cooking this Christmas Season then you’ll be pleasantly surprised to know that as of midnight the cost per hundred pound cylinder of butane is going down by five dollars. Earlier today, the Supplies Control Unit in the Ministry of Trade and Investment announced that the new controlled […]
Joel Seawell and four other persons were ambushed on Wednesday evening in the Mahogany Heights area on the George Price Highway. Members of the group, including a woman, were headed home through a picado road, when they came under fire. Seawell was the only one to be hit by the barrage of shots fired at […]
The shooting of Joel Seawell was followed by another this morning in Belize City when a bold attempt was made on the life of twenty-seven-year-old Leon Garcia as he made his way down Victoria Street. Reports are that sometime before ten, a pair of men, described as wearing hooded sweatshirts, accosted Garcia and let loose […]
Tonight, the Belmopan Police are reporting the seizure of a sizable amount of marijuana, confiscated during a special patrol just after midnight. Three persons – Jennie Silva and Yolanda Patt from Benque Viejo, and Casey Fitzgerald Smith from Belize City, were in a vehicle which Police stopped and searched. It is believed that they were […]
There is breaking news of a shooting in the Mahogany Heights community at mile thirty on the George Price Highway. News Five has confirmed that one Joel Sewell was shot multiple times and he has since been rushed to the Western Regional Hospital in Belmopan. More details of this shooting will be available in Friday’s […]
At two-thirty today, officials from A.S.R. and B.S.I. met with Prime Minister Dean Barrow and Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega at the PM’s office at Whitfield Tower in Belize City. The meeting was called so Prime Minister Dean Barrow could convey the B.S.C.F.A.’s last position to the company. That position is a decidedly more flexible […]
The Belize Defense Force Bomb Expert was called in on Fabers Road on Wednesday night where another deadly grenade was discovered. The active explosive device was safely removed off the streets of the Old Capital, following an operation led by a police strike team. Sometime around six-forty p.m., a team of officers visited an area […]
Well-known disc jockey, Samir Fernandez, known in the clubbing and music scene as DJ Kid, was discovered dead on Wednesday in the village of Esperanza. Fernandez, a resident of Santa Elena Town in the west, was last seen alive on Tuesday when he left home in a taxi. A day later, his father, attorney Orlando […]
At two-fifteen today, eight year old Kiran Moguel was taken off life support at the K.H.M.H. and pronounced dead. The student from Orange Walk sustained massive head and body injuries in a traffic accident on Monday in Chetumal. He and his mother, Esther Moguel, were in the pan of a pickup being driven by Zacharias […]
On Tuesday, the Government of Belize, through BELTRAIDE, announced the completion of the sale of Caye Chapel to a group of Mexican investors, who own El Secreto in San Pedro. The two hundred and sixty-five acre island which has been in foreclosure by the Belize Bank for a number of years has been sold for […]
Arguments continued today at the Caribbean Court of Justice in Port of Spain where Dean Boyce, the B.T.L. Employees Trust, British Caribbean Bank and Fortis are challenging the government acquisition of the Belize Telemedia and B.E.L. On Wednesday afternoon Attorney Eamon Courtenay presented on behalf of Fortis. Today, Denys Barrow for G.O.B. replied to the […]
There was a brutal and bloody murder in Corozal Town on Tuesday night. It happened at around nine o’clock on College Road as residents of the area were getting ready to turn in for the night. Two men, who are not known to be friends, became embroiled in a violent argument which led to murder. […]
But Mark Massam Junior is no stranger to the law; he received a nine-year sentence back in 2005 for a string of robberies in the Orange Walk and Corozal districts. After serving his sentence, in January of 2013, Massam Junior was remanded for firearm offences for an incident in Corozal. He was released earlier this […]
In mid-January 2015, a contract issued to Belize Maintenance Limited will expire, and one hundred and seventy workers from that company will be hired on by the Belize City Council. Or will they? That’s the million dollar question right now. Prime Minister Barrow has said yes, and Mayor Darrell Bradley has said no. Since the […]
And that’s where the very real, very monumental problem arises. Bradley is the Mayor, and the boss of City Hall. He says he knows without a shadow of a doubt that the Council cannot hire on one hundred and seventy sanitation workers. But Prime Minister Dean Barrow is his boss, and has given his own […]
