News Five has confirmed that four men, believed to be involved in a Monday evening home invasion in Hopkins, have been captured in Belmopan. The four men were taken in a pre-dawn operation mounted by units of the Belmopan Police Department this morning. On Monday, forty-seven-year-old teacher Josephine Augustine was beaten and stabbed in the […]
Early Saturday morning, at around three am, Unitedville resident Victor Vargas was stabbed to the neck and bled to death shortly after. Since then Police have been looking for a teenager believed to be responsible for the vicious murder, and tonight he is in custody. Police believe that nineteen-year-old Steven Gomez, who has been missing […]
There was a land dispute in the western community of Unitedville in March. In a nutshell, the Ministry of Natural Resources issued title to Bernadette Fischer for five acres of land in the community. Not a problem, usually, except that this particular piece of land was occupied and had been for years…some of it for […]
That seems pretty clear enough, but now we’re confused. Somebody seems to be misinformed in this land equation. On Monday, News Five was in Unitedville and we were given this piece of paper by a resident of the community, who has lived on her parcel for many years. The document is an eviction notice, dated […]
Former administrator of the Southern Regional Hospital Nasley Sommerville appeared before the Public Services Commission, finally, on August fourteenth, one week ago. Officials from the Ministry of Health have refused to provide any details, but News Five understands that three witnesses were called by Yadira Cantun, acting as a representative of the Ministry of Health. […]
On Tuesday evening, residents of Midway, one of six buffer communities bordering the Sarstoon Temash National Park, met with representatives of the District Association of Village Councils to discuss oil exploration in Toledo. While much has been said on both sides of the polemic issue by SATIIM and U.S. Capital Energy, respectively, residents have remained […]
While some residents contend that they have been misrepresented in the past, they are prepared to negotiate with government, should oil be discovered, to determine benefits. Midway Resident “We clearly understand as a community, you know, and me, personally, that you cannot stop oil drilling, that we have nothing against the government, for one, […]
Dengue is on the rise in Belize City…that’s the news coming out of the Public Health Sector. The Central Health Region is reporting that since July there has been a spike in the number of cases of persons affected with dengue hemorrhagic fever, specifically in south side Belize City. As a result, the Vector Control […]
According to the Health Unit, the spike, in most cases, is due to the lack of maintenance of property in south side Belize City. District Supervisor of the Central Health Region, Egner Lalin, says that prevention measures remain the same and gave additional advice to the public when they go around spraying. Egner Lalin, […]
Two Haitian nationals carrying passports with fake Belizean visas were busted by Immigration authorities at the Phillip Goldson Airport on Tuesday. The men, thirty-two-year-old Donald Gedeon and thirty-six-year-old Choubert Senat, arrived in Belize on the Avianca flight from El Salvador with Haitian passports. They attracted attention because they seemed to be lingering at the back […]
Today, Gilroy Usher Junior walked out of court after charges of aggravated assault and harm brought against him were thrown out. Magistrate Dale Cayetano did so because the complainant in the matter, Gabriel Casey took the stand and declined to testify. That would likely have been enough, but to make matters worse, the witness, a […]
The National Youth Orchestra and Choir of Belize is collaborating with a team of professional musicians from MusAid to put off a concert this coming weekend at the Bliss Center for the Performing Arts. The team, based in the US and Canada, arrived in Belize over the weekend and on Tuesday began training and mentoring […]
A Theatre Arts Training session concluded today at the Bliss Center for the Performing Arts. Primary, high school and itinerant teachers took part in the three-week program by the Ministry of Education through the Creative Arts Unit. The purpose is to teach the participants both theoretical and practical aspects of theatre, including dance, drama, arts […]
Chanelle Parks, Marlyn Vansen and Clifford Hoare are the finalists for If You Can Sing It, Bring It! after nine weeks of singing in various genres of music, the trio received maximum votes and were named as the top three contenders for the grand prize of ten thousand dollars, a music video and a contract […]
In Succotz this morning, heated protestors set fire to used rubber tires along the George Price Highway. The blockade was the result of residents demanding justice in the case of Yolanda Valencia who perished in a traffic accident which left twenty-eight-year-old Yanie Cu clinging to life at the KHMH. The tragedy involved an intoxicated Deputy […]
Hopkins Village in southern Belize is a peaceful, picturesque seafront community, a thriving but laidback tourism destination. But the community has been devastated by a seemingly senseless and brutal home invasion on Monday evening, just before dark. Dangriga teacher Josephine Augustine and her husband, retired teacher Dudley Augustine, were at home when they were attacked. […]
The private prosecution of Elvin Penner, brought by COLA representatives Geovannie Brackett and Nedal McLaren, was thrown out at the Magistrate’s Court level on July twenty-fourth. Penner walked out of court a free man, but the party bringing the claim against him had twenty-one days to appeal. It went somewhat under the radar, but that […]
The best case scenario for the claimants would result in the summoning of Commissioner of Police Allen Whylie, along with his file containing all evidence gathered from the alleged investigation of Elvin Penner. The evidence would include all statements from witnesses, as well as files from the Immigration and Nationality sections. And if the claimants […]
Well-known attorney and political aspirant Arthur Saldivar appears to be a magnet for publicity, all of it negative, lately. Tonight, he is in trouble with the law in Placencia, and News Five has been able to confirm the Police are contemplating his arrest on a charge of assault. Reliable sources tell us that the alleged […]
It never gets any easier to report on stories involving sexual assault, and it is particularly disturbing when minors are involved. Tonight there are two such incidents, both in the Corozal District. A ten-year-old student from Copper Bank, accompanied by her guardian, visited the Corozal Police Station to report that on Friday, she was assaulted […]
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Camp Belizario, for the past two weeks, has been the site of a training facility for at risk youths. A total of thirty teenagers are presently enrolled at the camp where interventions are ongoing. But the news tonight is that the initiative got off to a rocky start with an all-out brawl involving rival groups […]
For two fiscal years, from 1995 to 1997, increments for all public service workers were frozen. As compensation, the unions were given four hundred and eighty thousand shares in B.T.L. by the government of Belize. The dividends from these shares were to be placed in a trust and the proceeds from the trust available to […]
Clearly stated in the agreement between both the unions and the government is that the monies be used to fund projects. But Castillo and National President of the Belize National Teachers’ Union, Luke Palacio, say that they were seriously disturbed by the release issued by the government because public officers are of the opinion that […]
Castillo and Palacio have been doing media rounds this week to sensitize public officers as well as the various unions and the general public about the types of projects that would satisfy the criteria for monies being disbursed. According to them, there must be in place a sustainable mechanism that will allow them to provide […]
