Last Thursday, residents of Caye Caulker voiced their discontentment with the ferrying of sand dredged off the coast of the island for use in neighboring San Pedro. A group of angry citizens proceeded to block the path of several dump trucks, preventing them from offloading sand onto a waiting ferry. The material, they argue, should […]
Our news team is just back from Orange Walk, where they were awaiting the decision out of a meeting between B.S.I. and the BSCFA. The session started at two and ended after five this evening. While there’s a lot to say for the fact that the parties are back at the discussion table for the […]
There seems to be some confusion. As you’ve heard, B.S.I. is waiting for indication from the BSCFA on what it needs to move forward, while the BSCFA is waiting for a letter from B.S.I. before it moves forward. BSCFA says that as soon as they receive the letter from BSI they will be calling a […]
Good evening I’m James Adderly welcome to Sports Monday. Week eleven in the Belikin Cup found the Belmopan Bandits hosting a struggling Police United inside the Isidoro Beaton Stadium Saturday night. Deon McCauley back in Belize after travelling abroad to in an attempt to sign an international contract was greeted most unceremoniously in the opening […]
A little over a hundred thousand dollars has been paid out to residents of George Street who were savagely attacked by members of the Gang Suppression Unit over two years ago. The compensation is the first of two installments, a settlement having been reached between government and the victims. While the lump sum is being […]
The fifth murder for 2013, in the Corozal District, was recorded this morning in the village of Chan Chen. The lifeless remains of twenty-eight year old Darwin Salazar was found with multiple cut wounds to the upper part of the body. The resident of Corozal Town was stabbed multiple times to the neck before his […]
Facebook aficionados are probably old hands at checking out videos of street-fights posted from all over the world, and even from our own little piece of the world. In this day and technological age any event – small, large, or largely private, can be posted on FB in a matter of seconds. Who can forget […]
A cement bungalow located on Dr. George Street in Orange Walk Town was totally destroyed by fire on Thursday night. The Orange Walk Fire Department got the call shortly after ten p.m., and by the time they responded a couple minutes after, the home was engulfed. The twenty-five by thirty foot structure is the property […]
Rhett Fuller has been fighting extradition to the US for fifteen years. He is wanted there for his alleged involvement in a 1998 murder in North Miami Beach. On July twenty-fourth, Fuller appeared before Foreign Affairs Minister Wilfred Elrington, who has the final say on whether he stays or goes. The decision was delayed at […]
A tearful Gregory Knox sobbed before the Senior Magistrate on Monday when he was accused of pulling a gun at a woman. But that did not spare him from being remanded to prison. Knox was charged with Aggravated Assault with a Firearm upon Ashanti Scott after it is alleged that he pointed a gun at her. […]
Also in court, a Belize City Tour guide was today charged for handling stolen goods after police allege that they found him in possession of stolen items belonging to Raymond Matus. Thirty-nine year old Austin Decosta, a resident of Castle Street in Belize City, appeared unrepresented before Magistrate Clive Lino and was read the single […]
Police officers have come under serious scrutiny recently after criminal allegations were made against them. This week, PC Dayton Sacasa was arraigned on charges of extortion. Days before three officers were charged for theft after shaking down a citizen and just before that a senior officer was charged for murder. Some would say it hasn’t […]
Some one hundred and ninety-two persons are registered to the Resource Center here in Belize City. They include those that are mentally ill, the homeless and others. On a daily basis, some fifty persons seek the services of the institution. Well today, at its offices on Vernon Street, a Christmas party was held for the […]
Ham, like turkey, is an essential part of the Christmas cuisine. But there is little known about its preparation and curing. The following feature takes you to Southside Meats where proprietor Mark Lizarraga gave News Five a behind the scenes look at how it is done. {Feature on Ham…}
The recent rains have wreaked havoc on the streets in Caye Caulker, but that problem aside, the situation has been aggravated by another issue which is not being caused by nature but is man-made. For weeks, residents have been complaining that sand from the island is being excavated and transported to San Pedro when it […]
Customs officers at the Northern Border made a huge bust early this morning. It happened at around six-thirty and involved a dump truck. Acting on a tip, the truck was detected and followed as it crossed the border and made its way to a dumpsite about one mile and a half from the border. Three […]
There is danger of a breakdown in the very tentative goodwill between the Belize Sugar Industry and the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association. Last week, following a meeting with Prime Minister Dean Barrow, ASR/B.S.I. agreed in principle to pay for bagasse, with some conditions. That seemed to be a major concession and things looked good. […]
On Wednesday, Minister Godwin Hulse sat with media in an eighteen minute interview on a variety of immigration related topics. But tonight there are still more questions and more speculation. First, we turn to reports of imminent structural changes. News Five has been reliably informed that Cabinet has approved the total shake-up of the passport […]
Turning to the scandal that won’t go away…Rafael Alexander Vasquez Sanchez Medina, or whatever his real name is, is a Salvadoran national who was given nationality in one day, on September nineteenth, 2013, on the same day the scandal broke on the passport issued to South Korean national, Wonhong Kim. Sanchez Medina’s nationality certificate was […]
While a number of procedural changes have been implemented by the Immigration Department in light of the recent passport and visa scandals, an update on subsequent investigations, led by the Financial Intelligence Unit, the police department and the Ministry of Immigration, has not been forthcoming. In fact, there hasn’t been much said by government about […]
A resident of San Ignacio went missing since last Friday but tonight his family has put him to rest. John Albert Tillett was last seen alive at a restaurant on the town but on Wednesday his body was retrieved from the river at Santa Familia. It is not confirmed how Tillett ended in the river, […]
An office assistant with the Christian Workers Union has been ordered to pay the court twenty-five thousand dollars after he took a guilty plea for ten counts of forgery which left a credit union account short of six thousand five hundred dollars. The embezzlement occurred back in 2007. Twenty-six year old Alex Reid was slapped with […]
Shortly before five o’clock on Wednesday evening, Dayton Sacasa, a police constable who is originally from the Benguche Area of Dangriga, but assigned to Belize City, was escorted to the Belize City Magistrate’s Court to be read two charges of extortion. Sacasa is the officer who was guarding the “holding cell” at Precinct two at […]
In 2007, the Providence Energy Group was awarded a five hundred and thirty-one square mile concession area for oil exploration and production rights in southern Belize. The drilling rights cover both on and offshore blocks near the Gulf of Honduras, from Punta Gorda to New Haven, as well as the southeast of Glovers Reef. The […]
The process for offshore exploration, says Cho, involves the use of sound being bounced off the seafloor. The information gathered will then be used to determine if there is a deposit below the surface. Andre Cho, Director of Petroleum “The seismic in the offshore will be done using normal seismic procedures and techniques for […]
