While the search continues for three missing Cubans, a US National was safely pulled out of Belizean waters, also near Caye Caulker. Four men set out on a snorkeling expedition on Saturday. Fifty-five year old American, Jack Burnette, who now resides in San Pedro, took his friends Kenneth Cox, Gary Paumgargmar and Eric Resse, to […]
Earlier we reported on the murders in the Old Capital. The crime wave spread to the west where a watchman was stabbed to death while on duty at a bar. When the body of the elderly Julian Lara was found just past midnight on Sunday, his arms and legs were tied up. The owner of […]
While police are yet to make arrests in the weekend’s homicides, a fisherman was brought to the Belize City Magistrates Court for a crime he allegedly committed in San Pedro Town. Twenty-one year old Jamie Young is accused of raping a thirty-eight year European woman on March seventeenth and he was arraigned “en camera” today […]
Armed thieves broke into a business establishment not far away from the Mesopotamia police sub-station. The late afternoon robbery on Tigris Street in Belize City netted the three brazen robbers an undisclosed sum of money from Plastic Packaging Supplies Company. Shortly after three o’clock three men entered the business and held up two employees at […]
While the police look for the suspects in the Plastic Packing Supplies robbery, a female constable was arraigned for Theft following a report from a Belize City woman that her personal belongings were stolen. Theft is a common crime but this crime allegedly happened while her jewelry was in the possession of officers at the […]
The Maya land rights case was initially won in June 2010 by thirty-eight southern villages. The Supreme Court legally allowed communal land rights which has been the traditional way of life practiced by the Mayas. But the government resisted and took the case to the Appeals Court. The Mayas are united in their right to […]
On Tuesday we broke the story that pandemonium erupted at a Progresso school under construction. A family who is squatting on a piece of land where the Seventh Day School is being built got into a brawl with the workers over an access road. The badly needed building is being funded by US missionaries; who […]
Mahogany Street vendors are being asked to move from their current location because it is smack where the main transmission line for electricity runs. On Wednesday we asked the question of whether the viewers thought that the vendors should be compensated for losses to be incurred in their relocation. The polls went sixty-six percent in […]
The annual San Jose Succotz Fair is an anticipated event in the calendar of activities in the west. It is a culturally enriching experience that attracts visitors from all over the country and across the border, who make the trip to the village situated across from the Xunantunich Maya site. The event takes place this […]
We told you on Thursday night that the report has been completed on the controversial issue of cruise ship tourism for southern Belize, specifically the Placencia Peninsula. In a nutshell, the consultants recommend that Belize should not approve a new port of call due to the environmental impact and because southern communities are not ready […]
Representatives from Maya communities converged at the Battlefield Park in downtown Belize today for day one of an appeal by the Government on a Supreme Court ruling handed down last year. That ruling affirmed ancestral Maya land rights for thirty-eight villages in southern Belize. The case was a major win for the Maya Leaders’ Alliance […]
The men implicated in one of the biggest drug seizures ever in the country were taken to court this morning. Four police officers and a Customs boatman were hauled to the Chambers of Chief Magistrate Margaret Gabb McKenzie under the protection of heavily armed escorts. Sergeants Jacinto Roches and Lawrence Humes along with Corporals Renel […]
The report on cruise ship tourism in the south is in. Last October the Belize Tourism Board held public consultations with residents of Placencia, Dangriga and Punta Gorda to discuss the introduction of cruise tourism to Southern Belize. From the get go, the opposition was strong, in particular among the Placencia based businesses and environmental […]
The headline on Wednesday was that twenty-three vendors and their families may soon have to close down their businesses on Mahogany Street if they can’t find a suitable relocation area. Belize Electricity Limited contends that there is danger to vendors who operate immediately below the transmission line that brings power to Belize City. B.E.L. claims […]
It’s common for prisoners to be transferred from the districts to Belize City or the Central Prison, but when it happens in the dead of night, well that’s a different story. And that was the case with former Mexican Soldier, Jose Luis Robles Beltran, who was in the custody of the Corozal Police until a […]
An American visitor, who went jet skiing with her husband and a group of friends had to be rescued out of the waters near Ambergris Caye. Police are collecting statements on what transpired out at sea. After she was pulled out of the water, Cara Bray was taken to the San Pedro Polyclinic and quickly […]
Also in court news, two interdicted officers attached to the Ladyville Police Formation will stand trial at the Supreme Court for a shooting death in Lord’s Bank Village last year. Thirty-three year old Corporal Jorge Lemus was charged with Manslaughter while twenty-eight year old PC Lazaro Catch was charged with Abetment for the killing Jamaican […]
Twenty-three vendors along Mahogany Street have come under pressure to move from their current locations. Belize Electricity Limited has written to the vendors justifying the directive on the basis that it is concerned about the safety of the vendors who are positioned dangerously close to the city’s main transmission line. The electricity company has given […]
The vendors on Mahogany Street aren’t the only people being affected by the one hundred and fifteen kilovolt power lines. There are other parts of the country where lines are in dangerous proximity to buildings. B.E.L. is looking at a similar instance of vendors operating under power lines in San Pedro. But in the old […]
For weeks, it has been reported that Allen Saum, is on the police’s wanted list. Saum is the man who is being accused of tampering with legal documents filed at the Company’s registry in Belmopan, naming him as one of the super majority shareholders in Paradise Energy Limited. The others are Oren Miles first and […]
Tonight’s Question is: Should Mahogany Street vendors be compensated for losses incurred from their relocation to a yet unknown venue? Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones to 8686 or post your vote on our e-poll at channel5belize.com. You can also send an email with your comments to questions@channel5belize.com.
A group of over fifty persons, including students and contractors from the Monterrey Bay Academy Seven Day Adventist High School, arrived in Belize today. The purpose of their visit was to construct a new Seven Day Adventist School in Progresso Village, replacing the current one which is congested and not up to scratch. But the […]
Two men were arraigned this morning in court for the weekend murder of a market vendor. But even before the two suspects were hauled to court, there was another round of deadly gunshot blasts on Monday night. Hours later, while hospitalized, Reymundo Quinote died on his twenty-seventh birthday. The shooting occurred on Faber’s Road in […]
Progresso Village in the north is known for its pristine beaches and tranquility, but on Monday hell broke loose in the village over the perennial trouble of land. And unlike the use of gunfire in the urban warfare gripping the old capital, the weapons of choice were machetes, shovels and anything that a group of […]
The Public Utilities Commission won a suit brought on by Belize Electricity Limited. It was a big win for the P.U.C. that has been in an out of court in a number of cases with the electricity company. Earlier today the Supreme Court dismissed B.E.L.’s appeal was based on thirteen grounds against the P.U.C.’s final […]
