The Belize Sugar Industries Limited has announced that it is unable to make the third payment for the 2009-2010 crop, which is due to cane farmers on November eighth. The delay in payment is the result of a decision by I.N.G. Bank not to renew its agreement with B.S.I., which expired on September thirtieth, because […]
A resident of Burrell Boom, twenty-six year old Selvin Seguro was charged today after running wild in his village in the last weekend of September. Seguro was charged in relation to three incidents: a burglary at Royal Palm Estate, another at the home of Fiona Usher and the theft of a canoe; all in Burrell […]
Jamar Gentle’s day started with an early morning walk with his dog and ended with him being sent to prison for two years. Police busted the twenty-five year old with a point thirty-eight revolver and five live rounds. Gentle was walking his dog on Princess Margaret Drive at about six-forty a.m. when he was spotted […]
The culture of herbal medicine and midwifery is still practiced primarily at rural communities. There is one traditional healer who made her mark in Belize and beyond our borders in her sixty-nine years of practicing traditional medicine. Tonight her family and all those she helped along the way, are grieving her death. Hortense Robinson was […]
It’s not coming on line this year, but the Institute of Archaeology has announced an imminent increase in entrance fees to fourteen reserves. Prices at all the sites will be doubled, but according to the National Institute of Culture and History, they will remain the lowest in the region. So if you’re planning a visit, […]
There are many stories of how people were affected by Hurricane Richard. The next interview shows how the hurricane also impacted those that have passed away. Nora Slusher’s father died in 1995 and her mother passed away in 2008. Their caskets were placed in the same tomb but a tree crushed the tomb during Hurricane […]
Good Evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday The 6th Annual Sagitun Cycling Classic was staged yesterday at Independence with a whopping 60 riders suited up for the 66 Mile Open race on a circuit from Senter to PG Junction, through Big Creek and back to Senter for the big finish. And of […]
In the past twenty-four hours, there was a resurgence of gun violence in the city. The first did not turn out fatal and the victims were fortunate to survive. In the other shooting, a well known street figure was violently gunned down. We’ll have more on that shortly but first, it is believed that a […]
There is tension in the streets tonight following the murder of a well-known street figure who reputedly wore a bullet proof vest because he felt his life was under constant threat. Today, who ever wanted him, got Eric Savery dead. Eric, who resided in Ladyville off and on, was shot at twice today; once in […]
San Pedro police have taken into custody a suspect wanted in the vicious murder of Spanish flight attendant, thirty-seven year old Maria Plaza Gomez. The suspect, who was picked up in Caye Caulker, was transported to San Pedro a few minutes ago. Two other men who were detained following the brutal murder have since been […]
A car collided into a school bus last night at mile one and a half on the Western Highway. The car was extremely damaged and luckily no one was seriously injured. The driver of the car, Gaynor Richards was stuck inside the vehicle until officers cut the metal around her and pulled her out. The […]
We asked on Thursday, if a commission of inquiry should be named to look into the recent immigration scandal. The results of the poll are in and eighty-seven percent said yes to the commission while thirteen were not convinced a commission would make a difference to get to the bottom of the reputed smuggling ring. […]
As we have been reporting, I.D.B. President, Luis Alberto Moreno, is on a working visit to Belize. Along with, Harvard’s Dr. Ricardo Hausmann, he partnered with the private sector to look at ways to bolster growth, at a time when the economy is in recession. Belize has a foot in both Central America and the […]
Up north, there are more signs that the sugar industry is in trouble. Sugar production dropped significantly this year by twenty percent and it is not known when the next grinding season will start. On the financial side, the Social Security Board has just approved a loan of ten million dollars to the Belize Sugar […]
Alfredo Ortega was installed as chairman five days ago to the BSCFA’s Committee of Management. On October thirty-first, a special meeting of the farmers was held to elect new members of the committee. That follows a vote of no confidence in July that stripped the former members of their responsibilities and compensation. Before their tenure […]
On October twenty-first, four persons were injured in a shooting incident when a car pulled up on Antelope Street Extension and opened fire on Michael “Ham” Young, whose life has been threatened on numerous occasions. A hail of bullets were released at the intended target but three minors, all students of the Muslin Community Primary […]
A Guatemalan national was sentenced to twelve years today in the Belmopan Supreme Court by Judge Troadio John Gonzalez while another who was found not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter got thirteen years behind bars. Fifty-six year old Wayne Gabb, a resident of Ontario Village, Cayo District was convicted of the stabbing death […]
Every day we come across families that have been battered by Hurricane Richard. Some are on the road to recovery while others have not been able to begin to rebuild their lives. The wellbeing of one Hattieville family is now complicated by the frequent rains. News Five’s Jose Sanchez reports. Jose Sanchez, Reporting There are […]
A number of hurricane victims are struggling to get back on their feet. Many have so far benefited from individuals and private organizations who stepped up to the place to help those in need. Today one more company, SMART, joined in the relief efforts. The telephone company provided, Belizeans for Justice with schoolbags which they […]
One hundred and twenty delegates were hosted at Sanya, a city in the Hainan Province of China. Representing Belize was twenty-two year Jessel Lauriano, who found her love for pageants from an early age. Lauriano has competed in several pageants but Miss Belize World, was her toughest challenge yet. She didn’t make it to the […]
If you’re a food lover then listen up because there’s a new restaurant in town that specializes in exotic dishes from the Middle East. There’s also a full weekend itinerary of activities for the entire family including a benefit concert to aid the victims of Hurricane Richard. Entertainment host Safiyyah has the scoop on this […]
Kamela Palma, Belize’s High Commissioner to Saint James Court, was fired on Monday of this week with immediate effect. In diplomatic circles and otherwise, that’s sensational news. We broke that story on Wednesday after reviewing an exchange of correspondence between Palma and her principals, Minister Wilfred Sedi Elrington and C.E.O. Alexis Rosado. The background is […]
But what about the allegations of financial improprieties made about Tanya Hulse, the junior officer in the eye of the storm? According to Prime Minister Barrow, there is no currency without evidence. Dean Barrow “Melvin Hulse’s daughter is another matter and there are all sorts of things that are said which I don’t know if […]
During the course of the week, we have shown that the Minister of Defence and Immigration issued directives to the Director of Immigration to grant visas to Chinese Nationals coming through Cuba. As most people are well aware, for years that is the preferred route for human smuggling of Chinese Nationals who are trying to […]
Family members of the murdered Spanish flight attendant, thirty-seven year old Maria Antonia Plaza Gomez, will be transporting her body back home. But the police are still conducting an intense investigation to capture her murderer and bring that person to justice. Plaza, a mother of one, mysteriously went missing sometime after eleven on Sunday morning […]
