I n July of this year, the Customs Department caught an Orange Walk businessman with an assortment of uncustomed vegetables and flour. Sergio Chi pleaded guilty and was fined three times the value which means he was to pay more than thirteen thousand dollars. Chi agreed to settle out of court but did not and […]
There is unprecedented infrastructural works ongoing across the country, projects funded through the Petrocaribe bounty and others through monies from various lending agencies. It was a major platform of the government’s campaign to successfully win a third term in office – that infrastructural push from north to south, east and west…across every municipality and in […]
Mayor Bernard has his own infrastructural problems in Orange Walk Town, similar to municipalities countrywide. There is little money for the upgrading and maintenance of all streets in town, and it shows. Bernard has implemented a comprehensive works program – paving or cementing the worst and most heavily trafficked streets, and he is hoping that […]
The Inspiration Calendar is now in its fifth edition. The latest publication was launched today by the Office of the Special Envoy for Women and Children along with McNab Design. The calendar continues to feature the artwork of children living with disabilities as a way of promoting awareness to reduce discrimination. Isani Cayetano has a […]
Three female minors, one-fourteen and two-sixteen years old lost their lives tragically in a fire at the Youth Hostel on Saturday at Mile twenty-one on the George Price Highway. Tonight, there are still more questions than answers in the heartbreaking death of the girls. They had been locked inside a room as a form of […]
The news of the tragedy spread like wildfire across social media as families and friends of Arnold, Carlos and McKoy expressed outrage at the senseless loss of life. Residents are placed in the care of these facilities for rehabilitation purposes and it is not expected that they would be mistreated, much less die. The tragedy […]
As we said, there are many unanswered questions, but a criminal as well as an independent investigation are currently underway to determine if there is negligence in the death of the three minors. Executive Director of the National Committee for Families and Children, Margaret Nicholas, who is also former Director of the Family Court and […]
The terrible, senseless deaths of three young girls entrusted to the care of the state are tragedy enough. No matter what any investigation indicates, or reveals, the primary victims are gone. But there is another tragedy, and other victims. As the fire burned on Saturday at the Youth Hostel, the frustrated, angry and grief-stricken screams […]
The curious tale of international fugitive David Nanes Schnitzer is one of those things that make you go hmmm – repeatedly and very loudly. Wanted by Mexico for fraud to the tune of tens of millions, Nanes was apprehended in San Pedro with the help of US Marshalls. He was found with every form of […]
Bail for such a fugitive as Nanes is one thing…one very strange thing. But then there’s the matter of Police scrutiny. How is it that Nanes was allowed to just skip merrily away, with the Police none the wiser until he didn’t show up for his court-ordered check-in? PM Barrow said the media needs to […]
Last week, during the tenth anniversary celebration of the Belize National Coast Guard, Minister of national Security announced that on December ninth ground will be broken on the new and very controversial Sarstoon Forward Operating Base. The announcement is consequential but activist and Belizean Territorial Volunteer Wil Maheia says that’s all it will likely be…just […]
A traffic accident has claimed the life of a housewife from the south. On Friday afternoon, fifty-five year old Nelly Lopez from Steadfast Village tragically died when she was flung from the pan of pickup truck driven by her nineteen year old son, Edgar Lopez. The accident happened in the Stann Creek District, between miles […]
A near-fatal assault during which an eighteen-year-old was stabbed multiple times in Armenia Village has left one person hospitalized. Sometime before nine o’clock on Saturday morning, Daniel Edaldo Esevado was accosted by a pair of men while standing near a store in the village. One of the men, wielding a sharp instrument believed to have […]
Late last week, we aired a story about Kremsont Commercial, a company operated by Syrian born Russian national Mudalal Khuri and registered in Belize. The US sanctioned Khuri and Kremsont for acting on or behalf of the government of Syria, and for conducting business with terrorist-designated ISIL, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. […]
And from matters of state to matters of party politics – rapper turned politician Jamal ‘Shyne’ Barrow announced last week on his Facebook page that he would be running in the Mesopotamia division when his uncle Michael Finnegan steps down. Political observers believed that former U.D.P. Mayor Zenaida Moya would be making the attempt to […]
For many Belizeans, perhaps a sad testimony of our times…Christmas isn’t Christmas without Christmas Cheer. It’s a program in which politicians hand out money to some of their constituents to help tide them over and to gain favour during this season. To some it’s distasteful, to politicians it’s necessary and to those few who benefit, […]
The University of Belize is playing an integral role in the management of our natural resources, terrestrial and maritime, through its Environmental Research Institute. Since officially launching the program a few years ago, students and researchers have been utilizing a field station on Calabash Caye where they have been gathering data on fish species, mangroves […]
The Austrian Embassy in Mexico is asking the assistance of the Belizean public to locate forty-seven year old Austrian national Josef Trajer. Today, News Five was contacted by an attorney assisting the Embassy, who claims that Trajer travelled from Vienna to Belize in mid October for a two to three week vacation. The only contact […]
We open tonight’s show with the showdown in Central Secondary Schools Sporting Association Male Basketball play featuring the 2 powerhouses from inside Belize City—Wesley College and St. John’s College, two perennial rivals. Kyron Samuels gets Wesley College going early attacking the run to go glass and he would lead Wesley College with 12 pts. Kirkland […]
Another Belize City man was gunned down on Thursday. This time the targeted assassination took place in Ladyville, in an area known as Japan. Kevin Peters, alias Breast, was an infamous figure in the Taylor’s Alley neighborhood. He met his bloody end in a hail of gunfire while celebrating Thanksgiving with his family. Police have […]
But will there be retaliation for the coldblooded murder of Peters? Regional Rural Commander Senior Superintendent Edward Broaster told the media today that there have been several threats made against members of the Taylor’s Alley Gang, with whom Peters was known to have associated himself. So, will there be reprisals for his murder? Commander for […]
There was also another murder on Thursday in Belize City in which a well-known businessman was killed at his establishment on Vernon Street. As we reported, two gunmen on bicycle shot and killed Ruben Perez during a robbery at his construction supplies business just after three p.m. on Thursday. Perez was shot once to the […]
This morning stakeholders in the sugar industry met at SICB headquarters in Orange Walk. For the first time in three years, the crop season is set to start when it should, but there are critical issues which need to be resolved including the first payment for sugar. That and other matters were on the table […]
There has also had to be some tweaking where deliveries to the factory are concerned. A most recent survey estimates that farmers have one point seven million tons of cane in the fields to deliver. BSI, best case scenario, can mill about one point three million. That means if all goes exceptionally well, about four […]
It went mostly under the radar until very recently, but the shrimp industry has taken a major hit and it hasn’t recovered. We’re talking all shrimp farms in the country but one completely closed down…six hundred employees laid off and production down to almost zero, a loss of about thirty million dollars so far. Today […]
