We reported earlier this week that the Belize City Center will be out of commission for a number of activities in this month’s national celebrations. The facility deteriorated over the years and has now been declared unsafe due to structural damages. The Ministry of Words has inspected and deemed that it should be closed off […]
It was back to school for thousands of eager students today. But at one primary school up north, students kept away. Our team found parents taking a stand against the school management. Police presence was visible but not required for the peaceful protest at the Santa Clara Seventh Day Adventist School. The parents are threatening […]
The post mortem results of fifty-seven year old Gregorio Cornejo reveal that he died from drowning. Cornejo has been employed at Mata Chica Resort on San Pedro Ambergris Caye for the last ten years. On Monday night, the staff of the resort held a staff party to celebrate the end of the tourist season which […]
With crime soaring, there is legislation in the pipeline to bring the circulation of illegal weapons under control and off the hands of criminals. One of our viewers, Israel Moran, proposed a question about the protection of the law-abiding citizens. So we asked on Tuesday night: Should the government make it less onerous for private […]
Fire consumed a house earlier today on Wilson Street in Belize City. Twelve family members that occupied the two storey wooden are looking for communal shelter. Before the fire trucks arrived at the scene, the house was engulfed in a blaze. The family lost everything. According to Nicolee Usher, who did not wish to appear […]
Early Monday night, a staff party ended fatally for an employee of a resort in San Pedro. Fifty-seven year old Gregorio Conejo, a father of two, was hit in the face by a guest at the party at Mata Chica where he was employed for at least ten years. He fell off the pier and […]
In the west, the body of an unidentified man was found floating in the Mopan River. According to officers attached to the Benque Police Formation, the deceased was shirtless but was wearing blue jeans. Residents of Succotz Village detected the body at about six-thirty on Monday evening. It was pulled to the river bank, where […]
A severe weather system caused flooding in several areas across the southernmost districts on Monday. Some reports from the south say that on the Santana and Barranco roads, children on buses were stranded by the deluge. The students were evacuated on Monday and have since returned to their villages. No one was injured. Representatives from […]
At the last sitting of the House of Representatives, the government proposed a Criminal Code and Firearms Bill which seeks to impose stiffer penalties for unlicensed firearms as a measure to combat the crime situation. According to one attorney, the legislation is sweeping and would allow for the arrest of all persons in the employ […]
As predicted, two deputy leaders and three other parliamentarians were no shows at the National Party Council meeting of the People’s United Party this past Saturday at Independence Hall. They boycotted the second highest authority of the PUP because they did not agree with the convening of the meeting and were opposed to a rumoured […]
While John Briceño was firmly in control at Saturday’s event leading up to the national convention, what’s the future for his Deputy Mark Espat? Briceño says he’s not running from a challenge and what’s more, he is giving the prescribed notice for any potential threat. As to what started the ruckus last week from the […]
Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh is due back on the bench in the next few days. And when he comes back on September fifth, he will be tying up loose ends before proceeding on retirement. It is known that Conteh had asked to remain until he had concluded the cases before him. That would have put […]
Two shootings in Belize City left three persons injured, two of whom narrowly escaped death. We begin with the latter of the two, which took place this morning and left a man holding onto life after he underwent surgery this afternoon. Jose Trujeque was shot at around ten-thirty this morning not very far away from […]
The other shooting occurred shortly after three o’clock on Saturday morning on Victoria Street also in Belize City. And while the victim is already out of the hospital, the bullet grazed him dangerously close to the right side of his head and upper right side of his back. The twenty-two year old messenger, Justin Longsworth, […]
An entire family was killed on the Western Highway on July tenth but four Fiji nationals and one Belizean were more fortunate and survived a near fatal traffic accident on the highway. They were travelling in a Ford F-150, heading toward Belmopan and at mile sixty-six and half the vehicle slammed into the back of […]
The National Party Council of the PUP will meet this Saturday morning at Independence Hall as scheduled. In fact we have learnt that twenty-nine of the thirty-one constituencies have already sent in the names of their delegates. Interestingly, Said Musa from Fort George and Francis Fonseca from Freetown, two of the five parliamentarians who on […]
The international press has been reporting the massacre of seventy two persons in the City of Victoria in Tamaulipas, Mexico. It is among the worst acts of violence by drug cartels. Soon after the bodies were found, two car explosions occurred; the first was in front of the offices of the Televisa network and the […]
Do you think public schools should be required to pay for garbage collection? That’s the question we posed to viewers on Thursday night and most who voted are against the proposed fee. Seventy-six percent of voters on our e-poll rejected the fees while the twenty-four percent agreed that schools should pay. One viewer commented saying […]
She stole over fifty dollars in goods but will have to pay twelve times the value. Fifty-eight year old Martha Parchue, who was caught in the act, pleaded guilty to Theft today and admitted to stealing fifty-two dollars in groceries from Discount Supermarket on Mahogany Street. Parchue walked into the supermarket on Wednesday, put several […]
Also in court, a Salvadoran national who was once employed as a domestic worker was today remanded to the Hattieville Prison after she was denied bail for a charge of Theft. This afternoon, twenty-five year old Marleni del Carmen Morales was accused of stealing an assortment of jewellery worth over ten thousand dollars from Irma […]
There was a buzz since the beginning of the week that PUP party leader, John Briceño, would be holding the party’s national convention in late September rather than November, when it was originally scheduled. To political insiders, an early convention meant that his leadership was under challenge and any potential contender would then not have […]
A barrage of gunshots was unleashed on a small house which was occupied mostly by children and three adults on Wednesday night in Belize City. It occurred in an unnamed area off Police Street in Lake Independence. Luckily no one was hurt. News Five spoke to a neighbour who said that the children in the […]
It’s been almost a month and a half since Lavern Longsworth, the court personality known as Antichrist, set her common-law-husband David White on fire at their home on Castle Street. Longsworth was charged with attempted murder of White, but he passed away on August second while receiving treatment at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. There […]
Four persons were in court today to face charges in connection with the shooting death of fourteen year old Hellen Yu, but only two of them were charged with murder. The four are Emmanuel Lemott, Wilward Anderson, his nephew Egbert Miller and girlfriend Carmen Jones. Miller and Lemott were read a host of charges: Murder […]
This week, management of public schools and the Belize Waste Control company have been meeting on a new fee to be imposed for garage collection. The schools say they can’t afford to pay, but the company says it simply can’t continue to provide the service for free. A compromise had still not been reached up […]
