This morning, the San Pedro Town Council was visited by members of the opposition People’s United Party on the island. The meeting, at the invitation of the current U.D.P. Mayor, Daniel Guerrero, was in reference to allegations of misappropriation of public funds at the town hall. It has been quite some time since an audit […]
Two squatters are tonight in detention following a complaint from a reported land owner in the Krooman Lagoon area. The men have been arrested for illegally squatting on private property. According to Officer Commanding Precinct Two of the Belize City Police Department, Superintendent Alford Grinage, the men have not been charged because they are working […]
Danini Contreras is the daughter of U.D.P. Minister Erwin Contreras. She is also the newly appointed Director of the Drug Inspectorate, a post that was created for her. It’s an appointment that has caused no end of discontent, primarily in the Pharmacy Association but also in the Ministry of Health. The situation has gotten so […]
On Wednesday morning, the lifeless body of Andrea Herbert was retrieved from the Haulover Creek near the BelChina Bridge, amid speculation that she may have been killed and dumped into the murky water. It was later discovered that she had a history of mental disorder which is strongly believed to be the reason that Herbert […]
This morning, Minister of Immigration Godwin Hulse was in court for a libel suit he brought against the Belize Times. That matter will not go to full hearing as attorneys are talking settlement which will be determined at a final court session on July tenth. But with that out the way, there’s always plenty to […]
The Puerto Azul project is still months away from serious consideration, according to Hulse. But the Norwegian Cruise Line Project is a definite go. In fact, work has already started on Harvest Caye to clear the site. Notwithstanding Government’s clear support for the project, on Wednesday, Justice Courtenay Abel granted B.T.I.A. leave to apply for […]
The interim Auditor-General’s report was submitted almost four months ago and there is no sign of the final report which, hopefully, will be made privy to the public. Now we know the wheels of government grind slowly, but four months? There are still plenty of unanswered questions coming out of the interim version, which was […]
Minister Hulse also totally disregards some very serious criticism levied at his Director of Immigration Maria Marin. And even more than just criticism, the Auditor-General says that Marin can actually be charged. Marin’s name has come up before during our reports into the Penner immigration scandal and even during investigations into other immigration offences and […]
The Rod of Correction met at the offices of the Belize National Teachers Union today to determine the leadership structure of the organization and to take a position on three national issues. For some time now, the media has been airing the concerns of various associations and organizations on issues from land to immigration and […]
It’s been seven and a half months since the executive of the Christian Workers Union has been reconstituted with Audrey Matura-Shepherd as its President. Former president, Antonio Gonzalez and his General Secretary James McFoy were booted from the organization over alleged mismanagement of the organization’s funds. In December of last year, despite being expelled from […]
Almost twenty acres of rice have been cultivated in the north by children from Belize City who are participating in the annual Harvest for Kids initiative. In collaboration with Circle R’s Rice in Orange Walk they harvested sixty tons of rice for the local market. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. Duane Moody, Reporting Harvest […]
Vehicular traffic along the BelChina Bridge on Youth for the Future Drive came to a brief standstill around nine-thirty this morning when Belize City police were called out to bank of the Haulover Creek. Floating nearby was the lifeless body of an unidentified female. With the assistance of residents in the area they were able […]
The latest Fair-trade audit of the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association turned up four major areas of non-compliance, three of them centred on the touchy topic of child labour. Auditors found that there are children working in cane-fields in the north, and that is a no-no where the certification body is concerned. It’s also something […]
Twenty days ago, baby Laureny Pena was born to Corozal resident, Laura Pena, by cesarean section. She was past the due date by a week, but nothing seemed amiss and the mother and newborn were discharged from the Northern Regional Hospital in Orange Walk Town. All seemed well until Saturday night when the couple had […]
Thirty-one year old taxi driver, Albert Castro remains hospitalized in a critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital following a shooting in the wee hours of Monday. As we reported, Castro was shot on Fabers Road as he approached its junction with Watermelon Street. At least one shooter rode up to his taxi and […]
Police are investigating the discovery of skull seen inside a broken tomb at the Lord Ridge Cemetery in Belize City. It was detected on Monday evening by mourners attending a funeral. They reported a foul smell coming from the tomb, even though the burial date of the person in the tomb was back in 1990. […]
An unsuspecting forty year old Belize City clerk has been badly deceived. She reports to the police that a man she knew conned her with rent money. The woman says that on June nineteenth, she paid six hundred dollars to him toward rent for a house located at the corner of Sixth and Saint Thomas […]
In December 2013 three cops – Special Constable Joslyn Gill, Corporal Reymundo Requeña and Constable Edgar Teul – were arraigned for a now infamous ATM shakedown of Tyrell Hyde. The matter was heard before Magistrate Dale Cayetano and adjourned to April seventeenth. On April seventeenth it was adjourned to Monday, June thirtieth, and on Monday, […]
On January thirty-first a Canadian national living in Benque Viejo was attacked by a man wielding an axe and a machete. Steven Reichert was carrying his two year old daughter in his arms at the time, and in trying to protect her he received deep chop wounds to the neck and arm. The perpetrator, Genaro […]
Tonight there is a significant drug bust to report in the village of Teakettle in the Cayo district. Belmopan Police say that on Monday afternoon at around four-thirty, officers staged a surprise search in an area near the home of a known drug dealer in Teakettle. They found two plastic bags carrying eight hundred and […]
An employee of the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association has been terminated, and five others are in the hot seat after an audit turned up the misappropriation of funds. It happened between the end of 2012 and April 2014. Apparently those six employees worked out a scheme to give themselves extra money every payday, to […]
The Christian Workers’ Union has signed a collective bargaining agreement with the Citrus Products of Belize Limited. It covers only about one hundred workers, but it is an achievement for the union which has shown some movement after a long period of stagnation. Today, President Audrey Matura-Shepherd told us more about the agreement signed with […]
At the top of the newscast, we told you about three traffic accidents, but there is one more to report. A near-fatal collision on Saturday morning, involving well-known Belizean cyclist Byron Pope, has resulted in the hospitalization of the young athlete after sustaining multiple physical injuries. Pope, who is a member of the Benny’s Megabytes […]
Pope says that if it was not for his helmet, a safety precaution mandated for use by all cyclists, he could have lost his life upon impact. There is no certainty whether he will be fully recovered in time to defend his championship for the Krem New Year’s Cycling Classic six months from now. In […]
On Thursday night, we took at brief look at the twenty-seven page interim Auditor-General’s report. The document chronicles an attempt at an intensive investigation into the corruption at the Immigration Department. We say attempt because the team states that they had trouble accessing records and were given the run-around by Director of Immigration Maria Marin. […]
