A fire at the Belize Youth Hostel at mile twenty-one on the Western Highway late Saturday evening totally destroyed the female dorm of the facility. One of the employees, Mary Rivera, told police that she was supervising the group of girls when she smelled smoke. When she checked the building she detected fire coming from […]
Further west, eighteen year old herbalist, Mark Guy, was killed at the start of the past weekend. He did not make it back from the football game he attended because his car slammed into an oncoming bus near Running W Meats on the Western Highway. His family is devastated at his tragic death which is […]
While Mark Guy was killed instantly on Friday night, sixteen year old Ethan Neal, was more fortunate. He made it to the finishing line of a cycling race on Saturday morning, but unfortunately he crashed into a pick-up truck. His family is distraught but the injured cyclist says he will be back on the road […]
We have not been keeping score on the number of suicides because the incidents are personal and extremely sensitive. But a spate of suicides over the past two years in Benque Viejo del Carmen, and more recently the number of attempts in the past month has sparked concern among the community that either something is […]
We told you about the unusual spike in suicides in the western town of Benque Viejo. Well, the last person who attempted to take her own life is eighteen year old Daisy Cerda, a fourth form student. With her throat still in pain and showing the scars of the rope she used less than a […]
Tiffany Fortune, a grief-stricken mother of two, today waived the post mortem examination of six year old Ardel Reneau who died following an epileptic fit over the weekend. According to the twenty-seven year old mother, after doing laundry in the backyard, she went back inside her house around eleven a.m. on Friday and found her […]
A robbery that occurred this afternoon could have turned fatal for the victim. It took place cross from the Belize City Center on Jude Street after three-thirty and when we got behind the gates of the Belize Recycling Company, officers were combing the scene for clues. Apparently only one person, thirty two year old Myra […]
The five men who are on trial for allegedly plotting to kill businessman, Jose Shoman, and his family were back in court for the umpteenth time. This morning, Justice Adolph Lucas instructed the nine member jury to acquit Eswin Rozalez, Carlos Juarez and Jose Cordova of two counts each of Kept Firearm and Kept Ammunition […]
We reported last Friday that a Mexican soldier from the state of Tabasco had been picked up at the Corozal Free Zone with US currency, a point twenty five caliber pistol as well as live ammunition. Jose Luis Beltran’s case is somewhat intriguing because he was processed through the court system at the blink of […]
A Belizean, who moved to the US, became a citizen and served in the army, was wrongfully imprisoned for seven months. While that’s time he won’t get back, Rennison Castillo’s lawsuit won him four hundred thousand US dollars. Fox News Latino reports today that Castillo, who was living in Washington State, had been locked up […]
There is still trouble in the sugar industry. After the 2011 cane crop got off to a late start, the Belize Sugar Industries factory had to be temporarily shut down due to malfunctioning turbines at the BELCOGEN plant. Late last week, things were looking up and the farmers were expecting to resume business early this […]
Last week, supporters of Leonard Chavarria came to Belize City to protest the leadership of John Briceño because Chavarria claimed he was disqualified from running against deputy party leader Mike Espat for Toledo East constituency for the People’s United Party. A member of the Order of Distinguished Service, Hector Silva, has now resigned from the […]
It’s a gift that will dramatically change the life of many persons with physical disabilities. This morning, they received their personal energy transport, a hybrid wheelchair. The donation was facilitated by CARE Belize and the carts are compliments of Pet International. News Five’s Delahnie Bain captured the emotion of the recipients in the following report […]
The House of Shotokan Karate Academy was victorious in a tournament against Mexico at the Belize Elementary School Auditorium last week. And this past weekend, there was a rematch but this time on Mexican soil. The Belizean delegation was not deterred and beat the Mexicans on their own turf. Twenty-four fighters, ranging from age four […]
Good evening I’m James Adderly and we welcome you to this jam packed serving of Sport’s Monday. We start off with the opening match of the Belize Bank Super League Football Tournament as the defending champion and now named Raymond Gentle City Boys United hosted Paradise Freedom Fighters of Punta Gorda inside the MCC Ground’s […]
It took a high speed chase on the highway in the north and a barb wire barrier for police and Customs officials to seize two vans containing a massive supply of contraband liquors in the Pine Ridge Area. While the Uncustommed goods were taken into custody, the occupants of the vehicle managed to getaway. But […]
The story of human trafficking victim Jamelia has been in the news since we reported it on Monday of this week. Jamelia was reportedly sold off to a U.S. national and ended up as a forced laborer in Fresno, California. She lived in Belize up to the age of eleven years and is twenty-three. Her […]
The latest contract to surface for oil exploration in Belize was given to Kimano Barrow, the nephew of the Prime Minister Dean Barrow along with Alfredo Acosta as owners of the Paradise Energy Limited. The contract came to light recently and triggered uproar because of the huge area involved, which includes the Maya Mountains and […]
The contract aside, Matura Shepherd says that contrary to government claims, offshore drilling cannot potentially bail the country out of the super bond debt. Audrey Matura Shepherd, VP, Oceana Belize “Our people are being told that if we do offshore, we’ll get big money. And I am saying to the people, even if we find […]
In late December 2010 B.C.B. Holdings, through the Belize Bank, scored a legal victory when Justice John Muria ruled in favor of enforcement of a forty-three million dollar award from the Government of Belize to the bank. Government appealed the decision by Justice Muria and today in the Chief Justice Chambers, a hearing was held […]
A resident of Lord’s Bank Village is recovering from a surgery tonight after he suffered multiple stab wounds to his chest and abdomen on Thursday night. The victim, thirty year-old Michael Usher, was found near the junction of the Lord’s Bank Road and the Northern Highway sometime after eight on Thursday night and dropped off […]
As we reported in Thursday’s newscast, Errol Haynes and Anthony Barrow, both Belizeans on the run from the law, were nabbed by authorities in northern Mexico for possession of an arsenal of assault weapons. The duo, along with Mexican national Juan Miguel Alvarez, was busted inside an apartment in Calle, a city in the state […]
Time is running out on the Belize Social Security Board and the Christian Workers Union to work out the impasse over salaries and benefits for Social Security employees. Since the “sick out” on February fourteenth of over a hundred and sixty employees countrywide, there has been no progress to a resolution. But the Social Security […]
Gonzalez says that despite the S.S.B.’s decision to compensate the members of staff who reported to work with a day off, the Union still wants to flesh out the problem and avert strike action. Antonio Gonzalez, President, C.W.U. “We have been invited by the Ministry of Labor, through the Labor Commissioner, to attend a meeting […]
A Mexican soldier is in custody tonight after he was found with a large amount of US currency on him. Jose Luis Beltran, who is from Tabasco, Mexico was picked up by police at the Corozal Free Zone on Thursday and by this evening he had already gone through the court system. Beltran had on […]
