There are details available of a late evening robbery on Thursday. Three persons were robbed after five o’clock in the evening of their cell phones and keys by an armed man riding a bicycle. It happened in the outskirts of the City on the George Price Highway where police were on mobile patrol. The cops […]
A tourist collapsed and died while on a diving trip at the Blue Hole Natural Monument. The U.S. visitor, Larry Smith, was along a group of nineteen tourists who left from the Ramon’s Village dock. According to dive master, Marcus Alamina, of San Pedro, the trip started at about six-thirty on Thursday morning. On arrival at […]
One of the events by which you can tell that the national celebrations are upon us, is the selection of the theme that guides the festivities. This year to mark the two hundred and sixteenth anniversary of the Battle of St. George’s Caye and the thirty-third anniversary of Belize’s Independence, a young mother came up […]
There is no shortage of disputes in the work place that involve employers and employees. This morning at the auditorium of the Belize Elementary School, representatives of the private sector gathered for an informational seminar titled Employers and Workers Rights and Responsibilities. A slew of relevant issues were ventilated including the Labor Act, Factories Act, […]
A battalion of four hundred and fifteen volunteer soldiers attached to the Belize Defense Force and the Louisiana National Guard is currently on an annual military training exercise in the Mountain Pine Ridge. Battle Camp 2014, as it is called, is a joint operation in which personnel from both armed forces are conducting mock jungle […]
A historic ceremony was held at court today when Monica Coc was called to the bar. Coc is from the Toledo District and is the first Mayan woman to ever be called to the Bar. The young lawyer studied in the U.S. and qualified in Jamaica to be able to practice in the local courts. […]
A graduating class of fifty-four young men has successfully completed the Southside Youth Success Project. During a brief commencement exercise on Wednesday afternoon at the UWI Auditorium, the Belize Police Department recognized the achievement of the teenagers who have been participating in the program for the past few months. While a majority of the graduates […]
We have been contacted by the Attorney for Sergeant Octavino Victorin of the San Ignacio Formation in respect of a story aired earlier this week. Sergeant Victorin is requesting that we clarify that he is not having an affair and never had one with Violetta Chan. According to the communication from Victorin’s attorney, Chan was […]
On Thursday, we showed you the results of a two-million dollar facelift on the football field and facilities at the F.F.B. headquarters in Belmopan. The works are scheduled to be completed by July second, in time for the Champions League. At the same time, the F.F.B. will be pulling in the National Team for training […]
There was a shooting a few minutes ago on Fabers Road and Whistling Duck Street. According to an unconfirmed report, police were in hot pursuit of two burglars who had broken into a home in the vicinity. From a witness account, the officers detained one of the burglars and were in search of another when […]
Since last September, it came to light that there was gross corruption in the issuance of Belizean passports to person who clearly did not qualify. In the case of South Korean national, Won Hong Kim, there is evidence that he did not meet even the basic requirements, but obtained nationality and citizenship. The former minister […]
The interim report of the Auditor-General Dorothy Bradley was leaked to COLA two weeks ago and handed over to the media this week. It has now made its way before the court, forming part of the disclosure in today’s hearing. The document, or at least the portion we received, is twenty-seven pages long and is […]
As much as three hundred and seventy thousand dollars was siphoned off from the Southern Regional’s Maternal and Child Health account over two years. Administrator Nasley Sommerville has been fingered in the embezzlement of hospital funds in which a subsequent audit found that there was a clear lack of accountability on the part of the […]
US Ambassador Carlos Moreno has hit the ground running. The US head of mission arrived on Saturday and on Tuesday; he was greeted with an anti-homosexual protest as he presented credentials in Belmopan. Another issue that surfaced early this week was the downgrade of Belize by the State Department for human trafficking. The State Department […]
COLA stood against Penner today but the organization didn’t stand alone. Representatives from the recently formed Rod of Correction were on hand. R.O.C. has come under fire from Prime Minister Dean Barrow, who called it a lame and ill-fated attempt to recreate the civil unrest of 2005. So far the group has demonstrated representation from […]
Since chikungunya fever became an emerging threat within Latin America and the Caribbean in April, the spread of the mosquito-transmitted infection has been closely monitored regionally. The number of CHIKV cases has surpassed a hundred and ninety thousand between the two territories, with the Dominican Republic reporting the most instances over the past several weeks. […]
According to Chief Operations Officer Kim Bautista, of the Vector Control Unit, the combination of two particular species of disease-transmitting mosquitoes is responsible for the rapid spread of chikungunya across the hemisphere since December. In Belize, it is expected that members of that department will commence site surveys and vector control in the weeks ahead. […]
A recent study indicates that Belizeans are living longer if they survive the first year after birth. That’s what surveys by the Statistical Institute of Belize are concluding. In the region, the picture is pretty much the same in Mexico and Panama, but way behind as it relates to Costa Rica. News Five’s Isani Cayetano […]
Twenty-two year old Egbert Ferguson was charged today with handling stolen goods. The charge came following allegations that Ferguson was in possession of a Dell Laptop stolen, along with other items, from the house of Jeremy Pipersburgh. The Lord’s Bank resident was detained by Belize City police on Tuesday and today, he was arraigned for […]
The Football Federation of Belize facilities in Belmopan are getting a much needed facelift, to the tune of two million dollars. The upgrade includes a FIFA certified field with certified bleachers and sanitary facilities with team lockers, as well as a complete enhancement of existing buildings. The work started in April 2014 and must be […]
Hard on the heels of the National Elite Basketball League championship, the San Pedro Tiger Sharks are preparing to take on a Mexican delegation of athletes this weekend in Corozal Town. The National Sports Council, through its District Sports Coordinator, and the Corozal Basketball Association have teamed up to organize a weekend of sporting events […]
A closing ceremony was held today for New Horizons Belize 2014 after the completion of two projects in education and health. Personnel from the U.S. Southern Command were here for two months working along with the B.D.F. and the Ministries of Education and Health to improve health and education facilities. On hand was the new […]
The New Horizons initiative is a collaborative effort between both the US military and the B.D.F. One of their projects is the joint operating center, better known as JOC, which allows for local law enforcement agencies to tap into assistance from the US. JOC has been active since April of this year and since then […]
The Caribbean Regional Testing Day was established in 2008 as a designated day in June to promote HIV testing. Throughout the Caribbean, Ministries of Health, Scotiabanks, and other local agencies organize testing activities in their country. Locally, the Ministry of Health, National AIDS Commission, PASMO Belize and Scotiabank Belize have partnered for the last three […]
A twenty-three year old mother of three tragically perished this morning in a massive fire which completely destroyed two large buildings on Newtown Barracks in Belize City. Jacqueline Arteaga, three months pregnant, was trapped in the upper flat of Kimmie’s Bar when the fire started at around four this morning. The blaze was extinguished a […]
