Two minors believed to be affiliated with the Ghost Town Gang are tonight in custody for the brazen attempted murder of a George Street boss, Carlos “Zimbab” Abraham. Zimbab was at a tire shop at the corner of Lakeview and Banak Streets, well within Ghost Town Crips territory, when it is believed that he was […]
It has been and continues to be a practice of the Belize Police Department, whenever queried about the results of an investigation into a serious crime, to state that the file is with the Director of Public Prosecutions. All failure to charge, then, or delay in charging, is laid at the doorstep of the D.P.P. […]
On Thursday, the Belize Chamber of Commerce issued a release on the continued impasse in the sugar cane industry. It’s been criticized in some sectors because it doesn’t seem to take any strong position. Today, Chamber President Arturo Vasquez says that the release is not at all ambiguous and he feels that the chamber has […]
Today is Friday, the deadline given to the Sugar Industry Control Board to call a meeting in an attempt to break the impasse between the BSCFA and BSI/ASR. But tonight we can report that the deadline has been extended to next week Tuesday, the twenty-fifth. The SICB was not able to meet before then, and […]
This afternoon, forty exhausted soldiers who are being pushed to the limits of their endurance completed in day-two of the Coast Guard’s Best Warrior Competition. There are five teams of eight members each, selected from the Coast Guard and the Belize Defence Force, which must undergo an intensive round of exercises designed to test their […]
While the Chamber spoke earlier about the sugar impasse, another discussion which has seen some rebirth is the issue of the thirteenth Senator, a commitment by the United Democratic Party at one point. It was an immensely popular campaign promise because it enhances transparency and accountability and allows the Senate valuable oversight capacity. Along with […]
An employee of A and R Shopping Center was robbed as he was heading to the bank to make a deposit. The employee was intercepted and robbed by two suspects who police escorted to the Belize City Magistrate’s Court today to answer to a single charge of Robbery. The suspects have been identified as Damian […]
The power of one point eight billion….that’s the global population of youths under the age of twenty-five years. The United Nations Population Fund believes that young people have the power in their hands to foster development and curb poverty. This morning, the UN agency launched the State of the World Population Report which that young […]
Recently, the B.T.B. announced that the number of visitors to the jewel had exceeded forecasts and had reached a million even before the tradition spike at the end of the year. That is good news for the industry, because the high season which is about to start, is expected to bring another boost in visitors. […]
Remember Cleyon Marage Junior? He is a fourteen year old who is afflicted with Acute Myloid Leukemia. Since September, Cleyon Junior had been in and out of hospital and doctors had given up on him. Through the assistance of a group of women, Cleyon Junior was taken for medical assistance in Merida where he is […]
For Michelle Rudon, a single mother of two, helping children living with cancer who are from poverty stricken families has become her calling. And so she has branched out to create her own organization in honor of Cleyon. A Thousand Smiles for Cleyon has since garnered the support of several professionals both locally and internationally […]
In one week, eight Belizeans and eight Mexicans will literally bring blood, sweat and tears for the glory of representing their country in a sport that is growing in Belize….that’s mixed martial arts. The Belizeans fighters are from Dangriga, Corozal and Belize City, while the eight Mexicans are from neighbouring Quintana Roo. News Five took […]
A well-known George Street boss, Carlos ‘Zimbab’ Abraham, is listed in stable condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was shot down this morning in rival territory. Police have declined to speak officially on the incident, but News Five understands that a little before ten this morning, Abraham was at the corner of […]
In the Lord’s Bank community, an apartment complex owned by Bert Ramos, the vice chairman of the village, who is also the owner of Ramos Bus Lines, went up in smoke on Wednesday morning. The blaze started from one of the eight apartments and swept quickly through the building. The fire victims lost everything, but […]
Late this evening, the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry issued a release in respect of the impasse in the sugar industry involving a proposal by B.S.I./A.S.R. to bypass the elected Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association and to deal directly with farmers. As it stands tonight, the association has given the Sugar Industry Control Board […]
Tuesday’s Special Sitting of the House of Representatives was crafted for the presentation and passage of what Prime Minister Dean Barrow is calling a validation motion relating to the Petrocaribe monies. As House meetings go, the debate stayed on target on the loan motion, even as the issue of the use of the Petrocaribe millions […]
Leader of the Opposition Francis Fonseca wasn’t buying the PM’s take on the matter, including G.O.B.’s assertion that the P.U.P. in its own time used and abused the Petrocaribe funds without accountability. Fonseca made no apologies for the fact that Petrocaribe came to life under the P.U.P. In fact, he lauded the program, stating that […]
It was a day for spirited repartee, and the Opposition was able to hold its own inside the House, even as thousands cheered and sang and danced in fine political spirit outside. Far from being fazed by the show of U.D.P. fervour and a veritable sea of red, the Opposition made much of the opportunity […]
Bodybuilder Cricel Castillo returned to Belize this morning from Miami, Florida where she rose to international stardom in bodybuilding, clinching the Pro Card Diva Fitness Model Short and Best Costume categories. Her family and fans were on hand to greet her at the P.G.I.A. and staged a motorcade in recognition of her huge success. Prior […]
Following an increase at the end of October, the prices for butane gas are going down tonight at depots across the country. According to a release, the Supplies Control Unit is reporting that effective midnight, the controlled price per hundred pound cylinder of liquid petroleum gas will decrease by six dollars across the board for […]
Fifty-nine-year-old Agustin Carlos, a Belizean cane farmer of Progresso Village, Corozal District, reported that on Saturday at about six p.m. he visited a cool spot across from his house where he saw his nephew twenty-four-year-old Israel Carlos, lying on the ground motionless. In the vicinity, he saw three male persons, whom he knows, armed with […]
A B.D.F. soldier was this afternoon convicted of harming his common-law-wife after a misunderstanding ensued at their home this past Tuesday. Thirty-two year old Rodney Menzies is accused of causing an injury to her left leg. This afternoon, the B.D.F. soldier charged with Harm upon his common law wife, Michelle Benguche who claims that he […]
A Mexican national, who says he is from Playa Del Carmen, Quintano Roo, was caught at the Belize side of the border just minutes after he reportedly paid one hundred and fifty dollars for a canoe to bring him across. The case made against the Mexican national is that he entered Belize illegally, but thirty-three […]
Joeth ‘Chyna’ Pratt has been reported missing since November fourth when she disappeared from work at Cisco Construction Ltd. earlier that afternoon. A dedicated team of colleagues has scoured Medina Bank where the company truck she was driving that day had been discovered sometime later. Pratt, a resident of Lord’s Bank, is a former inmate […]
Honduran beauty queen Maria Jose Alvarado and her sister Sofia were laid to rest near their hometown of Santa Barbara today. The tragic story of jealousy and murder has caught the attention of many Belizeans who watched nineteen year old Maria take to the stage for the Costa Maya pageant in San Pedro in […]
