At least by our unofficial stats, murders in Belize City have gone way down, which is good news. But murders in the districts have gone up, which is bad news. And it gets worse. Murders in the city, particularly due to gang violence, can be addressed, and have been addressed, proactively. But many of the […]
There was a traffic accident just before eleven this morning on Princess Margaret Drive near its intersection with A Street in the King’s Park Area. Twenty-five year old David Gonzalez, an employee of Home Protector Insurance Company Limited, was running errands for the company when he slammed into a Toyota Hilux registered to the Guatemalan […]
On Tuesday morning, shortly before three o’clock, the body of twenty-year-old Juan Menjivar was discovered by police in an area between miles forty-two and forty-three on the Southern Highway, in the vicinity of the Monkey River Junction. Menjivar, a resident of Water Side Area in Independence Village, was observed in an unconscious state lying in […]
Belize City fisherman Giovanni Murrillo is tonight without a boat, following a theft on Tuesday during which his fishing vessel and equipment were stolen. Sometime during the evening, Twista, which was moored at the Lakeview Street Canal, was taken. The eighteen foot, green and red vessel, valued at four thousand dollars, contained two pairs of […]
We’ve all heard the derogatory but very accurate description of the holding cells at the Queen Street Police Station, and truth be told, the others across the country aren’t in much better condition. For those of us just passing through, it’s unpleasant…for the persons detained there, and even the Police officers working in the proximity, […]
And while the Ministry is looking at the holding cells, it has also looked at the living conditions of Police Officers stationed in Caye Caulker. A few months ago News Five showed you the dorm room where officers working on the island must live – we use the term live loosely. It was a mess…dilapidated, […]
A removal ordered requested by the Belize Immigration Department was granted for the expulsion of thirty-two-year-old Timothy Joseph Eales from Belize. On Friday, December nineteenth, Eales was picked up by police and handed over to the Belize City Immigration Department when he was unable to produce any documents to show his immigration status allowing him […]
A Honduran national is convicted of two counts of sexual assault upon a mother and her eleven year old daughter. Carlos Perez Sanchez, who is originally from Dangriga but was living in Sand Hill, is now a resident of the Belize Central Prison, after he was convicted late Tuesday evening in the Belize City Magistrate’s […]
Earlier in the newscast, we showed you the presentation of a diplomatic note through the CARSI initiative, to the tune of four point one million dollars U.S. This program has been used to fund things like the big Police pickups used all across the country – thirty-eight of them so far. Those vehicles have been […]
Downtown Belize City is bustling with residents doing last-minute shopping for one of the most exciting seasons of the year. Although Christmas is all about the traditional trimmings of turkey, ham, the exchanging of gifts and the like, it is primarily seen as a time for family and a time of spending the season with […]
In the spirit of sharing the love for Christmas, residents also sent heartfelt greetings to friends and family here in Belize and the Diaspora. {Christmas Greeting from residents…}
Tonight, the dispute between the B.S.C.F.A. and ASR/B.S.I. remains unresolved. The breakdown in negotiations comes after a long and hard fought agreement in principle by both parties, and from all accounts the bad guy in this scenario is B.S.I. Still, in the past days there have been attempts to bridge the gap caused by a […]
PM Barrow says that in the face of what was happening on the ground, backed up by the Memorandum of Understanding, the new wording introduced by B.S.I. completely bypassed what was in effect the accepted protocol. So in that regard, said the Prime Minister, the B.S.C.F.A.’s alarm and hesitation in signing the agreement was quite […]
We can conclude however, that perhaps the PM was being a wee bit too optimistic in his hope that the directors would sign off on the agreement today. That’s not going to happen because the directors won’t be meeting until tomorrow…and even then it’s unlikely the agreement would be signed because some directors have called […]
The by-laws of the B.S.C.F.A. allows for directors to call together an emergency session of the general assembly, and it will be done though a date has not been decided. That’s not considered good news for any one of the stakeholders who actually want to see the crop season started immediately because however it works […]
Late last week, the government of Belize received terrible news from an arbitration panel of three in Costa Rica. That panel declared that G.O.B. must pay British Caribbean Bank forty-one point seven million U.S. dollars. In addition, attorneys for B.C.B. claim that the decision of the tribunal is final and binding, and government must pay […]
And while the government is quite willing to assume the role of ‘malpago’ where the Ashcroft Group is concerned, it’s taking a lot of heat where a long delayed payment for Janae Matute is concerned. Janae is the inspirational young second form student who was born with cerebral palsy, attributed to medical error. Way back […]
Twenty-seven-year-old Roy Bennett has been convicted of possession of a controlled drug after pleading guilty to possession of point nine grams of marijuana. With less than two days away from Christmas, Bennett, the father of a three-month-old baby girl will spend the holidays, as well as the next nine months in prison. On Monday, […]
Twenty-eight-year-old Samuel Bevans Junior, a resident of Belize City and a sixteen-year-old minor were both found guilty of robbery this morning when they appeared before Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser. The pair was accused of robbing Everald Duncan, a driver for James Bus Line, of a money bag containing one thousand dollars. The incident took […]
The SICA Heads of State Summit was held in Belize last week, and while that’s big news, the nation’s attention has been focused on thirteen agreements signed at that summit. Those agreements, between Belize and Guatemala, cover a wide range of areas…from prisoner and education exchanges to visa waivers for students. The agreements haven’t been […]
Earlier today, the governments of Belize and Japan signed a grant which will see the purchase of equipment, including weather instruments and heavy equipment from areas of the island nation which were ravaged during the last natural disaster. The initiative is one of several ways in which the local economies of those affected areas are […]
Tourists and Belizean Americans wanting to visit the Jewel from Chicago, Illinois can say goodbye to connecting flights when traveling to Belize. That’s because once a week, at least for now, United Airlines will provide a direct flight from O’Hare International Airport to the P.G.I.A. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. Duane Moody, Reporting Chicago […]
Earlier this month, Tropic Air lost an aircraft during a crash landing at the Municipal Airstrip. The single engine Cessna caravan, according to company president John Greif the Third, slid off the runway while landing. The inbound flight from San Pedro to Belize City was carrying several passengers, including a shooting victim, when the plane […]
The month of November has seen a significant decrease in food and fuel prices, lowering inflation to point two percent. The fall, according to the latest figures from the Statistical Institute of Belize, makes up for increases in rent, insurance and medical services. The sharp decline in oil prices on the world market is manifested […]
Mercy Kitchen is a non-profit organization in the Ministry of Sisters of Mercy. The organization, which is located adjacent to Channel Five on Mercy Lane, provides breakfast and lunch as well as clothing to the elderly, poor and homeless; they also deliver supplies to homebound elderly residents across the city. But today, twelve needy families […]
