The Chicago Tribune is reporting today that a Belizean was murdered in Chicago on Wednesday. Michael Tingling was protecting his fifteen year old daughter, Masharah, when he was punched on the chest. He died shortly afterwards. The report is that Joseph Firek, a man on parole for residential burglary has been charged with murder and […]
At the northern border on Thursday evening, custom officers busted a group of men returning from Chetumal. Belize City resident thirty-two year old Derrick Thompson was behind the steering wheel of a van with Belize City license plates. Thompson was travelling along with thirty-six year old Keisha Garnett, twenty-five year old James Welch and thirty-six […]
He was accused of shooting at an Orange Walk man back in January 2013 and even though he had fled the jurisdiction, Noel Zetina was granted Supreme Court bail in the sum of fifteen thousand dollars in the court of Justice Herbert Lord. Bail was vehemently objected to by the office of the Director of […]
Citizens Organized for Liberty through Action….The organization says that they are providing the public with the final resort to have former Minister of State Elvin Penner, before a court to be questioned in respect to the immigration scandal that continues to stink to high heavens. On February twenty-seventh, COLA went to the Belmopan Magistrate’s Court […]
The National Trade Union Congress of Belize called for a boycott of Bowen and Bowen products today after the recent termination of thirteen employees from the company. The employees were challenging new terms of employment and absented themselves from work for two days saying they were sick. The boycott, however, did not appear to hold […]
Butane prices are up once again. The Belize Bureau of Standards has approved the increase effective Thursday. The new controlled price for liquid petroleum gas (LPG) depends on the supplier. Butane imported by Belize Gas Limited and Western Gas Company Limited from PEMEX in Mexico will see a one-dollar increase across the board in every […]
A gang of fifteen stevedores on Wednesday pulled off an unexpected strike at the compound of Port of Belize. The gang was scheduled to unload ninety-five containers from Seaboard Marine vessel. The shift should have lasted approximately twelve hours, but the stevedores refused to work because they were fed pasta salad, barbecue chicken and a […]
SATIIM has applied to the Supreme Court for an injunction to stop US Capital Energy from starting pre-drilling operations within the Sarstoon Temash National Park pending a court decision. Today, SATIIM got support from APAMO, the Association of Protected Areas Management Organizations. The umbrella organization is calling on US Capital and the Government to respect […]
A training workshop for fisher folks was held today at the office of the Belize Fishermen Cooperative Association. The workshop is part of a project funded by the Community Management of Protected Areas Conservation Program (COMPACT) to improve the welfare of fishing communities and increase the conservation, protection and sustainable harvest of fishery products. The […]
There is breaking news tonight, and it is a tragedy which is devastating a family from Independence. Less than an hour ago reports circulated that Kayla Pandy had been kidnapped and her family was frantically begging for assistance in locating her. She had allegedly been last seen driving a champagne gold 2005 Kia Sorento in […]
The trial of twenty-two year old Aracely Cahueque continues to grip the nation’s attention. Cahueque, a beauty queen, is accused of being the mastermind behind the murder of eighteen year old Raylene Dyer back in October 2010. The jury was empanelled on March eleventh and after a voir dire, her trial for three counts of […]
While Dyer remained missing, Cahueque presented the infant to her ex-boyfriend. But according to defense attorney, Dickie Bradley, that is because Cahueque told him that she was allowed to (Quote) “borrow baby Ravonn.” (Unquote) That statement has gone viral on social media, but Bradley says it was known by Dyer’s family. Bradley maintains, however, that […]
On Wednesday, we reported on a container of rosewood detected near Trio Village in southern Belize. The operation was suspect because it is widely believed that despite a moratorium placed in April 2013, the plunder of the precious wood continues by Guatemalans and locals. Prior to Wednesday’s operation Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management had […]
Illegal logging, as well as the prohibited trade of rosewood, across both sides of the Belize/Guatemala border has grown to become an international matter for the governments of both countries. While Guatemalan loggers are responsible for the extensive clearing of trees within the department of Peten, they are also encroaching deeper into Belizean territory in […]
On Wednesday morning, eight year old Kyeisha Joseph got on her bus in Double Head Cabbage and headed for school in Ladyville. She got off her bus in front of Our Lady of the Way Primary School, but as she attempted to cross the road she was knocked down by a white SUV being driven […]
Just before Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin ordered the Commissioner of Police to carry out a criminal investigation on the former minister of state, Elvin Penner, for his involvement in the illegal issuance of a passport to Won Hong Kim, there was another move for an investigation. It was started by the feisty and vocal Citizens […]
On Wednesday, News Five reported on the appointment of two new P.U.P. Senators. According to Party Leader Francis Fonseca, the official notification has been sent to Governor-General Sir Colville Young. The official announcement was made today at P.U.P. headquarters, and we’ll have that for you shortly. But first, we look at one potential future landmine […]
With that issue on the political backburner for the time being, the P.U.P. is concentrating on forging ahead in unity, or as much unity as possible in any political party. So today when P.U.P. leader Francis Fonseca made the official announcement of the new senators, it was with a happy heart and smiles all around. […]
News Five has learned that former Chief Magistrate Margaret Gabb McKenzie is hospitalized, and has been so since last Friday. A family member told News Five that McKenzie started having seizures last week, and an MRI discovered that she had suffered a mini-infarction, or mini-stroke. But there is good news tonight, as we understand that […]
A pregnant Honduran woman, who back in December 2013 was charged with using a falsified document, was today before the court for trial after a bench warrant was issued for her arrest. Eighteen year old Rebecca Huete was charged for Using a Falsified Document; she pleaded guilty and ordered to pay a one thousand dollar […]
Early this morning, members of several high-intensity, elite units of the Police, B.D.F. and Coast Guard descended on the island of San Pedro. It is part of an operation to restore order to the island in a hurry, with as much impact to the criminal element as possible. From what News Five has been able […]
The matter of whether the unfounded Guatemalan claim over Belize’s sovereign territory should be adjudicated in the International Court of Justice was to have been decided during joint referenda on October sixth, 2013. However, four months shy of the fixed date, Guatemala rescinded from participating in the vote, stating instead that Belize’s Referendum Act creates […]
Stakeholders in the fight against HIV/AIDS, a cross-section of government, as well as other non-governmental organizations, including the National AIDS Commission, gathered at the Biltmore this morning to review the achievements of the Program for Strengthening the Central American Response to HIV. PASCA, as it is known, is a five-year project spearheaded by USAID. The […]
The Embassy of the Republic of Venezuela held a press conference this morning to update the local media on the current state of affairs of that country, in the wake of an attempt by the opposition to ouster President Nicolas Maduro from political office. The effort to destabilize the government and cause social upheaval through […]
March twenty-first has been proclaimed as the International Day of Forests by the United Nations General Assembly and it is celebrated by bringing awareness to the importance of the various types of forests. This year, the Forest Department along with the private sector and the Environmental Research Institute of the University of Belize is putting […]
