Last week News Five showed you a proposed subdivision in the Sunset Cove area four miles north of San Pedro Town. Forty acres have been surveyed for a total of three hundred and nineteen lots. One hundred and fifty persons have paid five hundred and fifty dollars each towards the survey. The only thing is […]
There is some confusion which Minister Manuel Heredia seems unwilling to clear up where the wetlands of Los Bajos are concerned. When News Five spoke to Heredia last week, he blamed the P.U.P. for breaking the news about the subdivision being underwater. And today, he blamed the media cameras for making things look worse than […]
In March 2014, crops planted on thirty-two farms in the Valley of Peace area were destroyed, allegedly by herbicide. The farms, operated by the Valley of Peace Farmers’ Association, were located on lands owned by agriculture giant Green Tropics and the dispute quickly got ugly. The farmers sought compensation because they claimed that it was […]
As many as five persons were before the court in the past two days on charges relating to gang affiliation. Brandon Tillett, the son of Cyril McFoy who was murdered one week ago, was charged for Associating with a Criminal Gang. Also appearing before Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser on Tuesday was Moses Gonguez, who […]
A post mortem examination was conducted this afternoon on the body of twenty-seven year old Guatemalan national, Manuel Ramos, who was killed over the weekend at his home in Los Tambos in the Cayo District. San Ignacio Police say that they are still unable to determine a motive behind this recent homicide in the village, […]
San Pedro on Ambergris Caye is a renowned tourism destination, the favourite of foreign visitors from every corner of the globe. Nestled alongside the world’s second largest barrier reef, and the largest in the hemisphere, the island offers tourists their choice of five star resorts, every amenity known to man and world class snorkelling, fishing […]
The Benque Archaeological Site, an area surrounding Xunantunich, is an archaeological reserve that faces a number of issues pertaining to its preservation. Not only is the Maya monument in danger of collapse, but it is also constantly vandalized by looters. Regrettably, there is also the problem of the illegal dumping of trash in the park. […]
Established in 2000, the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation awards grants for the preservation of cultural sites, objects, collections and traditional forms of cultural expression, including music and dance, as well as language in more than a hundred and thirty countries globally. Ambassador Moreno spoke of the AFCP and its benefits to Belize. […]
Estefan Perera and other residents within the Buttonwood Bay area constructed a Belize sign as an attraction to the Seashore Children’s Park. The brightly colored signage easily became a well-liked public space for locals and since its construction, it has served as an attraction for tourists and tours across the city. Today, Minister of Tourism, […]
There were three murders that marred the Independence weekend. At the start of the holidays, Leslie Logan Junior was murdered in Orange Walk Town on Friday at the start of the holiday weekend. His murder was followed by another in the City on Saturday night which we will have coming up. And on Independence Day […]
There was an unplanned power interruption that plunged the entire country into darkness on Independence eve. It occurred sometime after eight p.m. when in some municipalities celebrations were ongoing. But just prior to the blackout, there was a murder in south side Belize City. Thirty-eight-year-old Glenmore Stevens was shot and killed on Raleigh Street off […]
In addition to the murders in Cayo and Belize City, on Friday, one of two robbers at a Chinese store in Orange Walk Town was killed. The robbers held up the attendant inside the store and stole five hundred dollars in cash and two cell phones. But as they fled the scene, the proprietor of […]
The Carnival Road March in Orange Walk on Sunday was attended by persons from across the country, but the event was not without incident. Around five p.m., a Belize City youth was stabbed to the neck following an altercation with another person as the revelers made their way through the principal street of the town. […]
Aside from the murders, there were also burglaries and robberies over the weekend. Police are investigating a brazen broad-daylight robbery that occurred today inside the parking lot of Pink Boutique on North Front Street. The driver was reportedly robbed of an undisclosed amount of money believed to be the proceeds of two days of sales. […]
Independence Day activities were held across the country on Sunday. In Belize City, hundreds of high school students joined the Belize Defense Force, as well as the People’s United Party and other organizations in the annual Uniform Parade. Incidentally, somewhere along the parade route supporters of the opposition party came under attack from onlookers. While […]
Belmopan Police are currently investigating a distasteful and disturbing allegation of sexual assault of a student. The report was made at the police station last Tuesday by the alleged victim, a five year old boy, in the company of his mother. According to the mother, she noticed blood on her son’s underwear, and when she […]
Belmopan Police are also looking for one man after a shooting incident on Friday night. According to the report, at around eleven fifteen that night Police were called to a nightclub on Hummingbird Avenue where they found thirty-nine year old Belmopan resident Daniel Castillo suffering from a gunshot wound to the chin. Castillo told Police […]
Brandon Tillett, aka B.E.T., the George Street Associate and gang member, returned to court this morning. Tillett is the son of fifty-six year old Cyril McFoy who was gunned down at the corner of Euphrates and Dean Streets and whose murder is believed to have sparked the violence in which two other men were killed. […]
A suspect was today arraigned for a murder which occurred three months ago in Belize City. Taylor’s Alley resident, Keyron Gibson, was before the courts for the June thirteenth murder of Tulio Caceres, a resident of the same area. This morning Gibson, who spent the long weekend in lockdown, was read a single charge of […]
On Friday, the Roman Catholic Diocese was granted an interim injunction preventing Jamaican dancehall artist Alkaline from performing in concert at the Sacred Heart College compound in San Ignacio Town. The application was sought after it came to Bishop Dorick Wright’s attention that the venue had been booked for a one-night event featuring the controversial […]
Inspector Mark Flowers was installed as commander of the Gang Suppression Unit merely two months ago. Soon after he took on the top post for the elite unit that was created to combat organized criminal activities, Flowers came under fire for serious allegations of unnecessary brutality against residents as well as for his back and […]
The ban on Belizean fish stock imports remains in place, at least for now. The matter came up at a recent meeting in Spain of OCEANA’s board of directors and was raised by no less than the European Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Maria Damanaki. She told OCEANA that the decision was not easy […]
Starting a business can be tricky if you don’t know the legal as well as bureaucratic hurdles. But for a number of budding entrepreneurs, it was made easier this morning due to a program with the Taiwanese government known as Integral Development of Entrepreneurship for Central America and Dominican Republic. Representatives from the government investment […]
The annual Independence Day Uniform Parade in Belize City was held on Sunday morning to a spectatorship of thousands who lined the principal streets of the Old Capital to cheer on their family and friends. The Twenty-first Parade, as it is otherwise known, saw the participation of a majority of high schools, as well as […]
From Belize City to Orange Walk…thousands of persons converged to view the carnival. We were there to catch all the excitement and energy of the revelers. There were thirty-one bands as the carnival made its way from in front of the Town Hall through the principal streets of the municipality. From marching bands to the […]
