Over the past two weeks, there have been several reports of rape of a child in the west, in Belize City and Orange Walk. Tonight, the despicable report involves a fifty-two-year-old man from the island town of San Pedro. On Monday, August eighth, police say a seventeen-year-old minor, in the company of her mother, reported […]
She was supposed to show up to court last Monday, after being out on bail for her alleged role in the murder of an American restaurateur in San Pedro four years ago. Her alleged accomplice, Leon Walford, has been found guilty and is awaiting sentencing, but where is Tracey Betancourt? Tonight, she remains on the […]
It was another deadly weekend and this time, a mother and businesswoman was the target of a robbery and cold-blooded murder. The incident happened at Cocktail Bar and Lounge in Ladyville, at the corner of Perez Road and Woodpecker Street where Vanessa Acevedo lived and operated a bar. And while police have already made an […]
A resident of Orange Walk District lost his life over the weekend when he was reportedly knocked down by a motorist along the stretch of road near San Jose Village. We say reportedly because police are investigating another angle to this tragic incident. Israel Chable was unresponsive when he was discovered on Saturday morning. By […]
According to Chable’s younger sibling, the family is working closely with the police to determine what caused the accident or whether her brother was in fact the victim of something sinister. On the phone: Urbelina Escarraga, Sister of Deceased “So far we haven’t gotten to a conclusion because depending on the autopsy the police […]
A family from Frank’s Eddy Village in the Cayo District continues the mourn the death of Samuel Pop, who lost his life on Sunday night in a vehicle collision on the George Price Highway in Cotton Tree Village. Five other persons travelling in both vehicles suffered varying degrees of injury, but survived the ordeal while […]
The Briceño administration has made its position official on what public finances will not be spent on, now that it has reinstituted the ten percent salary that had been withheld from teachers and public officers for a year. A circular sent out by the Ministry of Finance on August third, makes it clear that government […]
In a memo that was circulated by the Financial Secretary on Wednesday, the subject is adjustments and cost-saving measures. While government has returned the ten percent that was taken away from teachers and public officers last year, it is also reinstituting housing, telephone and entertainment allowances for ministers and other senior officers. Earlier today, News […]
According to the P.S.U. president, a thousand dollars as monthly allowance for telephone calls and services is exorbitant. He says that a better financial plan could have been implemented for those expenses. Dean Flowers, President, Public Service Union “In this day and age, there is absolutely no reason why a thousand dollars in telephone […]
The news of Sunday morning’s mass shooting in the Garifuna community of Hopkins cast an air of fear over the village and shock across a country that had only seen that level of terror play out once in 2008. Today, the media caught up with Prime Minister John Briceño at an event at the Best […]
While these undertakings are being done to reduce the prevalence of gun violence, in the Lake Independence area, a State of Emergency has taken effect. This means that for thirty days, at minimum, thirty-one individuals believed to be affiliated with gangs in that community have been locked up to quell the tension that had been […]
Is government reneging on the appointment of Moises Cal as chair of the Public Service Commission? While it is yet to be made official, P.S.U. President Dean Flowers alluded to the likelihood of another individual being appointed to that seat. It comes after strong objections from the Public Service Union which questioned the integrity of […]
The news last week was that the ongoing trade dispute between the American Sugar Refinery/Belize Sugar Industries Limited and the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association had still not been solved and that neither side seemed willing to move beyond their present position. A.S.R./B.S.I. has said that it can’t pay more for the bagasse to the […]
A News Five team was back at Price Barracks for the conclusion of two events. The first was a proud moment for hundreds of men and women of the Belize Defense Force who received land certificates, following a two-day land clinic hosted at the military base by the Ministry of Natural Resources. News Five’s Duane […]
Micro, Small and Medium-sized businesses will be given a seat at the proverbial table in the coming months and will be allowed to engage with government on a contractual basis. This, according to a new effort by the government, is to give those categories of businesses a chance to further develop. The impetus behind this […]
A joint statement was released late this evening from the Government of Belize and the churches regarding the issue of the Writ of Referendum. This follows the churches’ request for the Governor-General to defer issuing the Writ until a date to be set. The joint statement mentions, in part, that the Government of Belize recognizes […]
During its regular Tuesday meeting, the Cabinet discussed the National Micro, Small, and Medium-sized Enterprise, or the M.S.M.E. Policy and Strategy for 2022-2025. The new policy and strategy were approved along with key recommendations and efforts to strengthen M.S.M.E.s in Belize. This national effort compliments the recent strategy to appeal for support for Belizean businesses […]
As a part of the Government’s effort to keep its expenditures under control, it has announced that it will suspend all new hirings, creation of posts, filling of vacant posts, and approval of salary advances, new allowances, workshops and non-essential purchasing of supplies. The decision to hold back on these undertakings follows the reinstitution of […]
A state of emergency came into effect on Saturday morning in a portion of south side Belize City. The S.O.E. is in the wake of numerous incidents of gun violence amongst feuding gangs in the Lake Independence area, which is the division of Deputy Prime Minister Cordel Hyde. During an interview with the media today, […]
So what is the solution for the situation in Lake I? DPM Cordel Hyde says that there are many factors over time that have led to the current state of affairs and that the solution has to be methodical. Minister Hyde says that mediation should be done in the short term. Cordel Hyde, Area […]
Since 2021, the Ministry of Natural Resources has been going across the country setting up land clinics. For years, residents have been complaining about the delays in processes at the Lands Department in Belmopan and the mobile clinic has been established to address just that. Day one of a land clinic was at the Price […]
The Ministry of National Defence and Border Security, along with a team of engineers, visited the Sarstoon Forward Operating Base in the Toledo District on July twenty-ninth. The visit follows reports concerning the integrity of the FOB due to erosion. During the trip, engineers conducted a site survey and collected data with a view to […]
When twenty-three-year-old Micah Miguel took her own life last week, her grieving family did not expect that they would have to forego a proper sendoff for the Belize Defense Force soldier. Suicide is not an issue that is often covered in the media, however, the circumstances surrounding the treatment of the woman while enlisted raises […]
When asked about the tragic incident, Minister of National Security Florencio Marin Junior told the media that there are ongoing efforts to seek psychiatric assistance, as well as help with financial literacy for B.D.F. personnel. Minister Marin refrained from responding to questions regarding the family’s concerns. Florencio Marin Jr., Minister of National Security “We […]
This afternoon around two-thirty p.m., four suspects were paraded to the magistrate’s court in Dangriga by armed police and B.D.F. officers. Prior to their arraignment, they were being held in police custody after being apprehended along the Southern Highway near Silk Grass Village on Monday evening. It is alleged that the men are responsible for […]
