The Rod of Correction met at the offices of the Belize National Teachers Union today to determine the leadership structure of the organization and to take a position on three national issues. For some time now, the media has been airing the concerns of various associations and organizations on issues from land to immigration and […]
It’s been seven and a half months since the executive of the Christian Workers Union has been reconstituted with Audrey Matura-Shepherd as its President. Former president, Antonio Gonzalez and his General Secretary James McFoy were booted from the organization over alleged mismanagement of the organization’s funds. In December of last year, despite being expelled from […]
Almost twenty acres of rice have been cultivated in the north by children from Belize City who are participating in the annual Harvest for Kids initiative. In collaboration with Circle R’s Rice in Orange Walk they harvested sixty tons of rice for the local market. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. Duane Moody, Reporting Harvest […]
Seventy-one-year-old Ramon Cervantes Sr. has been missing since Tuesday. Early that morning, the Orange Walk Town businessman, cane-farmer, former senator and mayor left home for his farm, located on the San Roman road in the Mamayal Area. His family hasn’t seen him since, and his vehicle was found abandoned on the cane-field. Today, Orange Walk […]
While the Cervantes family is convinced that Ramon Cervantes Sr. was taken against his will, the police are treating the matter as a missing person report – but not just any ordinary missing person report. By ten this morning, there were checkpoints set up in at least three different locations, a call for reinforcements and […]
The concern over the disappearance of Ramon Cervantes Sr. has been overwhelming. As we told you, the family believes that the elderly man was overpowered at his cane-field and then taken away by unknown persons. Cervantes is a prominent businessman in Orange Walk Town, and also served as Mayor of that municipality from 1989-1991 and […]
Vehicular traffic along the BelChina Bridge on Youth for the Future Drive came to a brief standstill around nine-thirty this morning when Belize City police were called out to bank of the Haulover Creek. Floating nearby was the lifeless body of an unidentified female. With the assistance of residents in the area they were able […]
Corozal police are seeking public assistance in identifying the body of a middle-aged man who succumbed at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital on Tuesday morning from injuries he received almost one month ago. The individual of Hispanic descent was found along the Xaibe Road on June ninth in an unconscious state and was subsequently transported […]
Late this evening, arguments concluded before Supreme Court Justice Courtney Abel in the case of the Belize Tourism Industry Association (B.T.I.A.) and the Department of the Environment and National Environmental Appraisal Committee (NEAC). The B.T.I.A. is challenging separate decisions of NEAC and D.O.E. in relation to the environmental impact assessment for Harvest Caye, a project […]
Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith has sentenced convicted police officer Ronald Sutherland to four years two months in prison after finding him guilty of wounding, aggravated assault with a machete and threatening words upon his estrange common-law wife Tanisha Ortiz. Ortiz testified that on the night of September 26th, 2013, an irate Sutherland came home and stoned […]
The 2015 municipal elections are right around the corner and across the country; political parties are putting together their respective slates to contend in the elections. The P.U.P. has had a minor glitch with its Belmopan slate and we’ll have that coming up. But what about its Belize City team that will have to take […]
The immigration scandal that has seen the removal of former Minister of State Elvin Penner has also reached members of the People’s United Party. In a leaked copy of the Auditor General’s Report on the immigration scandal, P.U.P. political aspirant Martin Cal’s name was called in the facilitation of Belizean birthrights to foreign nationals. The […]
The latest Fair-trade audit of the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association turned up four major areas of non-compliance, three of them centred on the touchy topic of child labour. Auditors found that there are children working in cane-fields in the north, and that is a no-no where the certification body is concerned. It’s also something […]
The 2013-2014 crop season that almost wasn’t, will come to a close on Tuesday, July eighth. It started two months late, a delay caused by a combination of incessant rains, impassable roads and a near-strike situation over bagasse payment to farmers. But better late than never…and today we can report that this year farmers actually […]
The crop season started with an uneasy truce between BSI and the BSCFA, based on commitments in good faith to immediately commence negotiations on bagasse payment. Those negotiations were to have concluded by the end of the season. Now the season ends in a few days, so that will not happen. The farmers asked for […]
The Belize Youth Movement, which is the youth arm of the People’s United Party, today held a high achievers forum at the Best Western Belize Biltmore Plaza. The meeting saw the top performers from secondary institutions throughout the city being brought together to voice their opinions, share their ideas on issues affecting the country including […]
At the beginning of June, the Ministry of Health, through its National Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and other STIs Program, released its 2013 report for the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in the country. The results were damning. It showed that over the past three years, the number of new cases of the virus has remained almost constant. Two […]
A two-day cancer consultation concluded today at the Radisson Fort George Hotel. Stakeholders from various agencies and ministry officials convened to look at the cancer plan that was developed in 2013 and to create the medium-term and long-term actions that need to be implemented given the limited renounces in the country. Along with the Pan […]
On Tuesday night, the first live show of “If You Can Sing It, Bring It!” was put off at the Bliss Center for the Performing Arts. The new set was revealed and taking center stage were fifteen of the twenty persons that made it past the audition round of the competition. Bring It, our brand […]
On Friday night a resident of Independence was savagely mauled by vicious dogs while coming home at around eleven thirty from a fishing trip. The attack happened on a deserted stretch of road which connects the lagoon to a residential area known as Malacate. Twenty-three year old Jeffery O’Brien was bitten all over his body. […]
Three days, three murders in the city…The killing of Malcolm Wagner and Samuel Miguel was followed by another homicide in the dangerous streets of south side Belize City. Shortly after eight on Monday night, a minor, Myron Smith, was gunned down on Brown Street in the Lake Independence. Smith was riding along with two other […]
Police are reporting another loss of life to violence. Lloyd Augustus was attacked back on April sixteenth in Belize City. He was badly beaten and sustained numerous injuries and had to be hospitalized. His attacker, Sherman Rodney, who is no stranger to the law, was charged with Attempted Murder a few days after the incident […]
There was a frightening home invasion a few days ago. Just before nine o’clock on Sunday night, a thirty year old woman was held up at gun point at her house on Faber’s Road Extension. The woman was with her six-month old baby when an unidentified masked man entered her house. Scared and fearing for […]
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Twenty days ago, baby Laureny Pena was born to Corozal resident, Laura Pena, by cesarean section. She was past the due date by a week, but nothing seemed amiss and the mother and newborn were discharged from the Northern Regional Hospital in Orange Walk Town. All seemed well until Saturday night when the couple had […]
