The Coastal Zone Management Authority and Institute held a two-day workshop this week. It discussed controversial offshore developments such as the multimillion dollar project by Norwegian Cruise Lines on Harvest Caye and offshore drilling. These mass tourism projects have been receiving the thumbs down from many environmental groups. But what about CZMAI, in whose purview […]
Marine Biodiversity Offsets… it is a concept that when put into principle is to be used as a tool for the private sector and the government to work together to conserve and manage environment while promoting sustainable development. And for the past two days, the Belize Coastal Zone Management Authority and Institute (CZMAI) through the […]
Day-two of the workshop targeted the private sector on how the concept of biodiversity offsets can help the economic status of the country and alleviate poverty; specifically for those living among rich, environmentally-diverse communities. For President of the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Kay Menzies, it provides entrepreneurs and private sector with an opportunity […]
A crocodile reportedly killed a Lord’s Bank resident this afternoon. Police are processing the scene and not providing details at this time, but sources tell us the grisly death occurred at Green’s Estate on the Lord’s Bank Road. Green’s Estate is a proposed housing site with a large pond and residents are fond of it […]
A senseless murder on Friday night has left the Hattieville community in shock and a family grieving the loss of one of their own. The murder victim is a seventeen year old footballer player, well known in the community and a former student of Gwen Lizarraga High School. Both sixteen year old Austin Rhaburn and […]
This weekend, two families in the Corozal District laid their loved ones to rest after a tragic accident on Friday. Fifteen year old Anahi Zepeda and sixteen year old Edgar Puck were on a class trip to the Che Chem Ha Maya Ruin in Benque Viejo del Carmen on Friday. That evening, as the group […]
According to school officials, two students who were on the trip have had to be hospitalized. It is an extremely serious matter, and the parents of Edgar Puck and Anahi Zepeda are holding the school responsible. It is still too early to say whether that will have legal implications, but it is possible. What we […]
A third person lost his life in the west due to drowning. On Sunday afternoon, thirty-three year old Francisco Martin Juan went swimming with his uncle near the Belize Old River in an area near the football field at Santa Familia Village. The Guatemalan national, who resided in the village, was reportedly intoxicated when he […]
Less than five hours after the murder in Hattieville, Rural Belize Police officers responded to a shooting incident in front of Blue House Bar on the Phillip Goldson Highway. Ladyville Police say that they apprehended two persons; forty-seven year old Dennis Burke and thirty-one year old Oscar Perez for the incident that occurred just before […]
Primary school students around the country were up bright and early this morning for day-one of the Primary School Examination. More than seven thousand six hundred sat the exam, for many, anxiety faded once they saw the test papers for English and Science; others felt the tests were as easy as a-b-c. The results won’t […]
The family of thirteen year old Earl Flores Junior continues to reel over his death. The minor was hospitalized since February in a coma after he was injured in a hit and run near his home in the Buttercup community near Burrell Boom. The young boy was found bleeding and unconscious on the side of […]
A routine patrol in the south has yielded a huge catch of salted shark meat and dried shark fins. The Fisheries Department is just reporting the incident that took place on March twenty-second while a patrol was carried out by the Port Honduras Marine Reserve Rangers in the area along the coast from Punta Negra […]
In December 2013 American national John Downard, a Director and someone who was living in Belize and going back and forth to the United States was busted at the PGIA in possession of what authorities say was a controlled drug. It turns out the substance was nothing more than hemp seeds which are used for many […]
There is a case of alleged arson in Santa Elena. Police believe the ex-common-law-husband of Evelyn Estell, is responsible for setting on fire her house located on Carillo Puerto Avenue, Santa Elena Town. Investigations reveal that Estell was awakened by the smell of smoke and managed to escape the blaze. The house was totally destroyed. […]
On March thirtieth, twenty-five year old Henry Pleytes reportedly went to get two of his children from his common-law-wife, Jessica Hernandez, whom he claims, had taken them with her to a bar. But while heading home Pleytes claims the police pulled up on him and he was beaten badly, to a point where he could […]
World Health Day is being commemorated universally today. In Belize City, representatives from the Ministry of Health, as well as the Pan American Health Organization, PAHO, formally recognized the day by hosting a health fair. Under the theme “Small Bite, Big Threat”, the focus of the daylong exhibition was on vector-borne diseases. Chief Executive Officer […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. We take you immediately top the Isidoro Beaton Stadium in Capital City where the Belmopan Bandits played host Verdes FC in PLB football which is rapidly streaking into money time as we enter week 1 of the 2nd round under the 2 round format. Verdes […]
A field trip ended tragically this afternoon; two students from Escuela Secundaria Tecnica Mexico in the Corozal District have drowned in the Macal River. The body of Edgar Pook was the first to be retrieved at around four-forty-five, while the body of the female student was recovered approximately an hour later. The drowning victims were […]
In 2013, the number of murders fell significantly below the hundred mark but since the beginning of the year, crime figures are creeping up. According to our count, there have been twenty-one recorded murders countrywide, including eleven in Belize City. The latest murder victim is Anfernee Romero, who was gunned down on Thursday at […]
Tonight there is much scrutiny of a company called Mytheon Solutions, registered in Belmopan in 2009. The family operated business deals in phone credit. In this case, at least, the dots have been easy to connect. Mytheon was started by U.D.P. Minister John Saldivar and U.D.P. Belmopan Mayoral aspirant Khalid Belisle. John Saldivar then took […]
On Thursday, News Five visited the plight of squatters on Holy Emmanuel Street, many of whom have been there for years. Squatters, Belizeans and immigrants, find a piece of unused government land – usually in some long-ignored swampy area – and they build a home. They are poor and do not have the resources to […]
Residents of the area, all squatters, have told News Five that Area Representative Mark King conducted a survey late last year. They say that they were even given house numbers, and promised title for their pieces of land. And that’s why they feel especially aggrieved by new developments which threaten their homes. They feel betrayed, […]
Mayor Darrell Bradley, in his dual capacity as attorney for the Belize City Council, was back in court this morning where he appeared before Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin in ongoing litigation with Belize Waste Control. Both parties share a history of unease as it pertains to CitCo meeting its debt obligation to the sanitation company. […]
The deadline for entry into the upcoming U.D.P. mayoral convention expired last Friday. While it is expected that Mayor Darrell Bradley would seek another term in office, his candidacy is still very much up in the air. The names that have been mentioned include Deputy Mayor BQ Pitts Jr., former Deputy Mayor Dion Leslie and […]
On Thursday, Justice Michelle Arana handed down a judgment in favor of the Sarstoon-Temash Institute for Indigenous Management. Justice Arana declared that the decision of the Government of Belize to allow oil drilling and road construction in the National Park is irrational and unreasonable since it was made without the free prior and informed consent […]
