The latest crime wave is threatening to flood Belize City’s streets in blood. But one group of young people have come together to offer a lifeboat to their peers. News Five’s Marion Ali explains. Marion Ali, Reporting Pageants are the unofficial Belizean past time but one such event scheduled for tonight is organised to communicate […]
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Less than a week after it was formally denied a fifteen percent rate increase, Belize Electricity Limited has submitted a new price hike request to the Public Utilities Commission for a slightly lower amount. Whereas B.E.L. had asked for an additional six point five cents per kilowatt hour as part of its Threshold Event Review, […]
Those are the technicalities, but what about the politics? The Barrow administration talked big, saying it intends to decrease electricity rates by as much as fifty percent and will make legislative amendments to achieve that objective. It’s an assertion that begs the question: “Is the P.U.C. a consumer watchdog or a government lackey?” Roberto Young, […]
Police have made an arrest in last month’s shooting of Delroy Matura. Nineteen year old Carl Reneau of Belize City has been charged with Attempted Murder, Use of Deadly Means of Harm and Dangerous Harm. He was also hit with a charge of committing Aggravated Assault on Tiffany Burgess. Matura was shot on the morning […]
We have another sexual assault on a minor to report. This time the victim is a fifteen year old Belize City girl who told police that in December she went to visit her aunt in a Belize District village. Although her aunt was not home at the time, her common-law husband was … and he […]
A customs officer from the Corozal district is in serious trouble tonight after he allegedly abused his authority on the job. According to court reports, forty-one year old Floyd Robinson was one in a team of officers that visited the home of Vidali Riveroll in Halls Layout to search for contraband. But when the officials […]
The question of official searches also came into play this evening in Belize City, as Police/B.D.F. anti-drug, anti-firearm teams raided homes at various hot spots. The raids, which included dogs from the Canine Unit, started as early as five this morning and should continue into tonight as part of security forces’ efforts to combat the […]
We won our first World Cup qualifier in football, and U.B. is the top Central American University in basketball. But tonight we’ll turn the skill level down a bit to follow the Belize City Primary School softball tournament. News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports from Rogers Stadium. Kendra Griffith, Reporting The fans were boisterous…. The players […]
When Belize’s economy was dominated by mahogany, this was a busy time of year with the quiet of the forests replaced by the hum of saw blades and thumping blows of axes. And while the timber industry is now an also-ran in terms of economic impact, the nation’s forests are still being logged … although […]
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As the request for higher electricity rates by the country’s monopoly provider continues to dominate public debate, today the Government weighed in on the matter. During a press briefing this morning, the Prime Minister’s Press Secretary, Delroy Cuthkelvin, announced that the Barrow administration has already revoked SI 141 of 2007 which had allowed the company […]
On April Fool’s Day a popular prank was to trick the gullible into believing that former Prime Minister Said Musa had been arrested. But the rumour, which was spawned by the repeated assertions of P.M. Barrow that a team of attorneys is investigating the diversion of millions of dollars in donations from Venezuela and Taiwan, […]
John Briceño was today sworn in as Leader of the Opposition. The event took place at Belize House in Belmopan where the Governor General hosted Briceño, other officials, family members and supporters. John Briceño, Leader of the Opposition “I John Briceño do swear that I will bear true faith and allegiance to Belize, I will […]
Dr. Alvaro Rosado, the man in charge of the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital since 2001, is on the way out. Information reaching News Five indicates that the new K.H.M.H. board, chaired by Dr. Ricardo Fabro, did not see eye to eye with Rosado and made it clear that his services would be terminated. When contacted […]
Belizean cable TV viewers who are just now getting used to last month’s early switchover to Daylight Savings Time in the United States, should note that this weekend it is Mexico’s turn to “spring forward”. At two Sunday morning clocks in Quintana Roo and points north will be reset to three o’clock. That means Chetumal […]
It has yet to be determined whether the large number of sexual assaults on children by their own family members represents a new phenomenon or simply a greater willingness to report the crimes … but either way, the frequency of child incest cases cannot help but make us question the sanity of the society we […]
On yesterday’s newscast we presented the issue of rising violent crime through the eyes of a street leader and the mother of a murder victim. Tonight we look at the problem from the perspective of Director of Public Prosecutions Lutchman Sooknandan, who says the failure to achieve more convictions can be laid directly at the […]
It may not be as intellectually stimulating as “Jeopardy” or as dramatic as “Deal or No Deal” but the quiz competition that took place this morning at the Bliss had contestants and audience on the edge of their seats. News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports. Ernesto Vasquez, Quiz Master “When was the Museum of Belize inaugurated?” […]
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It is not yet classified as murder, but tonight the family of a Georgetown Village resident is asserting that their loved one was burned to death by her enraged common-law husband. Around eleven o’clock on the night of March twenty-fourth, twenty-two year old Avett Augustine and her common-law husband Alvin Guzman, both suffering from burns, […]
And while police will eventually determine whether Augustine’s death is classified as a homicide, there is no such question regarding the twenty-seven murders recorded during the first three months of 2008. That’s three more than last year’s record pace and while virtually everyone acknowledges we’re in the midst of a crisis, there is little consensus […]
And that pain is acutely felt by Lovine Herbert, who lost her only son, Leonard, to gun violence over three years ago. Lovine Herbert, mother of 2004 murder victim “Some day when I think bout ah I just feel like do something bad out ah di way. Just because I believe eena God and I […]
On Monday, we reported that a warrant was out for the arrest of twenty year old Edwin Bardalez and it did not take long for him to be taken into custody. This morning Bardalez appeared in Magistrates’ Court to answer to charges for the Sunday shooting of fifty-seven year old Glen Rivero. Bardalez was arraigned […]
Police have also made arrests in another weekend crime. This morning twenty-one year old Alwick Olivera and nineteen year old Cordel Flowers were taken to Magistrates’ Court and charged with Murder and Conspiracy to Commit Murder in the death of Tyrone Castellanos. The twenty year old was on Central American Boulevard around forty-five a.m. on […]
