A nineteen year old housekeeper cleaned out her boss’ jewelry box when she allegedly stole expensive pieces of jewelry from inside her Bella Vista home. Earlier today, Jessica Beeks was arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court on a single charge of Theft after she was accused of stealing over eleven thousand dollars worth of […]
A resident from up north has reason to celebrate on the eve of the start of the New Year. Rogelio Alcoser went back to his home in Caledonia with ten thousand dollars in his pocket. Alcoser won the popular SMART Fantastic Fridays raffle and has plans to spend it wisely. Isani Cayetano reports. Isani […]
On Monday, we reported on the sudden death of a Guatemalan laborer at his Eve Street house. The decomposing body of thirty-nine year old Walter Humberto Melendez Ortiz was discovered by police just after midday lying face down on his bed. The report was made by tenants, living in the lower flat of the two-storey […]
A group of women from Kentucky, U.S.A., has been in the Jewel since Monday…their mission – to empower women of all ages. The group, called Building the Sisterhood for Christ Mission, comprises a team of four women led by Belizean American, Therese Wright. They are here to share the gospel, encourage and inspire women and […]
Although there are systems in place to empower women, for Wright, some disenfranchised women have slipped through the cracks. Friday’s women conference and revival entitled “Daughters of Virtue” will be held at the Nazarene Church on Princess Margaret Drive and according to Wright, everyone is welcome, regardless of their religion. Therese Wright, Building the […]
As the clock ticks away to welcome 2015, we caught up with a charming centenarian. Mary Tate has lived a century and will turn one hundred and one in February. But far from being weak and feeble, we found her to be energetic and full of life. Her experiences are many and varied; she was […]
The constant story for this year remained about murder, which according to the statistics, continued on a constant upward trend in 2014. Tonight, there is one more to add and it happened in southern Belize. On Saturday, a minor made a gruesome discovery in a house in the Lakeland Area of Dangriga, where the body […]
In Belize City, just after midday today, police visited a house on Eve Street in the vicinity of the Ice Cream Shoppe. In the upper flat of the concrete and wooden structure, the decomposing body of Walter Humberto Melendez was discovered face up on his bed. The Guatemalan construction worker had been living alone and […]
Tonight, the outspoken chairman of the Stann Creek Fishermen Association, Mark McKenzie, stands accused of embezzling thousands of dollars from an associate in what is being described as an unsuccessful fisheries venture. According to NeNe Abraham, a Nigerian businesswoman, she was approached in early November to partner with McKenzie as an investor in Carib Prince, […]
The New Year may yet turn out to be a good one for cane-farmers in the north, as there is word tonight that the signing of the agreement is likely, sooner rather than later. It’s been a complicated back and forth between the B.S.C.F.A. and ASR/B.S.I., but last word to News Five is that the […]
Like we said, the industry and players are volatile. That interview with Chairman Cansino was done this afternoon, and about an hour after, we got word that parties had filed for an interim injunction to halt the signing of the agreement. It gets pretty complicated, but in a nutshell, cane-farmer Lucilo Teck is claiming that […]
Four of the eighteen directors under the B.S.C.F.A. signed a petition last week to go back to the general assembly. They were outvoted by the majority. So now those directors, and the cane-farmers who support them, made the decision to take the fight into another arena. They feel that the farmers have not benefitted from […]
That brings us to the industry bottom-line, which is that for all stake-holders from factory to field, the crop season needs to get underway. And it can, according to those we spoke to this afternoon. They state that the Sugar Industry Control Board, government’s player in the industry, has the authority and the obligation to […]
A pair of siblings, seven year Herber and ten year old Diana Yacab were the victims of a traffic accident on Boxing Day. The duo was hit by an SUV heading towards Belize City as they crossed the highway to welcome their mother home last Friday. The vehicle was driven at the time by Rodolfo […]
The by-election in Cayo North is scheduled for January fifth, 2014. On December twenty-second, 2014, three days before Christmas, the Registering Officer for that division, Jerrylyn Bruce, received a letter from the Elections and Boundaries Department informing her of her transfer out, effective December twenty-third. Now even without the looming by-election, the sudden transfer of […]
Traditionally, by mid-December every year all attention is focused on things Christmas-related…and that lasts up to the day after New Year’s. That’s been pretty much the case this year, even though in just a week there’ll be a significant by-election in Cayo North. For the P.U.P., their candidate is the underdog, trying to pull off […]
On December eighteenth, Antonia Cal got the news that no mother wants to get. Police came to her workplace in Ladyville to ask her to identify the bones and clothing believed to be those of her son, Marvin Bul, found in the Dewdrop Estate in Ladyville. His Social Security card was also found inside the […]
A twenty year old Belize City student has been charged for the December twenty-first attempted murder of twenty-eight year old Tyron Scott of Unity Street, who was stabbed twice to the back area on Kraal Road, Belize City. This morning, Musa Smith was arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court and read three indictable offenses […]
A Belize City businessman, Kevin Pandy, his girlfriend, Elmarose Cabral, and his cousin, Jomo Avila, were all jointly charged with one count each of drug trafficking for three point two grams of crack cocaine which was allegedly found at his New Road house, Belize City on December twenty-sixth, 2014. This morning, the trio was brought […]
There is also a report of an alleged rape which is under investigation by the cops. A twenty-two year Belize City woman claims she was raped around midnight on December twenty-sixth as she was heading home on Antelope Street. The young woman says her attacker was dressed in a warm cap, shirt and pants, all […]
Good Evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The PLB season continued into Week 4 with a monster showdown at the Isidoro Beaton Stadium as the Belize Defense Force marched against the Belmopan Bandits as the post season heats up. Folks, the B.D.F. could have gotten on to the scoreboard in the […]
The final proposal for a purchasing agreement between the B.S.C.F.A. and B.S.I. remains to be endorsed, despite an amendment to a controversial term in a previous draft. Earlier this week, Chief Financial Officer Belizario Carballo expressed serious concerns about the National Trade Union Congress of Belize’s involvement in ongoing negotiations between the two parties. The […]
As we mentioned earlier, the N.T.U.C.B.’s role in the current process has been met with questions from B.S.I. concerning its agenda. While he did not speak openly, Carballo alluded to an interview last Friday in which the N.T.U.C.B. representative was purportedly misinformed of the facts of the matter pertaining to the purchasing agreement. Belizario […]
CARSI, the Central American Regional Security Initiative, is a program particularly designed to help create a more responsive police force, enhance public police cooperation, improve the judicial sector, modernize correctional facilities, and to assist with anti-gang programs with a focus on youth at risk. Today the media was invited to witness the presentation of a […]
The crime statistics for 2014 are out – well, not exactly because 2014 isn’t done yet and all those figures are subject to change. But at the request of the media, there is an interim stat sheet. We won’t look in-depth at all the figures until the end of the year, but we did take […]
