In Orange Walk Town, a robbery was averted at La Popular Bakery and indications are it was an inside job and the watchman was reportedly held at gunpoint. Thirty year old Danny Gonzalez says that just after midnight on Saturday, he heard a knock on the window of the security booth. He further reports that […]
Today, thirty-four stevedores working with the Port of Belize refused to board the boat which would take them out to offload the sugar barge, anchored seven miles out. They have a gripe, and on the face of it, it’s a simple one – as simple as H-two-O. Stevedores are traditionally given the popular shilling bags […]
Vasquez says that if its fresh water that’s the problem, he’s willing to provide it every day. But is there another agenda at play? Currently a collective bargaining agreement with PBL is still being worked on, though Vasquez says he hasn’t been able to get CWU officials to the negotiating table since last year. […]
This morning, before Justice Shona Griffith, a battery of lawyers representing various parties, including the Government of Belize, the Belize Sugar Industry, the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association, the Sugar Industry Control Board and Lucilo Teck, met in session. The substantive hearing followed a successful application several weeks ago by attorneys Audrey Matura-Shepherd, Anthony Sylvester […]
According to Senior Counsel Michael Young, the claimants got off on a wrong foot when they filed the application erroneously. Despite being granted permission to proceed with the claim, another mistake had been committed and that was what Courtenay pointed out in court today. Furthermore, the exercise, says Young, was irrelevant since a date for […]
Lucilo Teck, a canero himself, initiated the legal process by seeking from Matura-Shepherd and proceeding with the suit. He expressed disappointment with the outcome of the case. Lucilo Teck, Claimant “I cannot go against the ruling of the court. I support the court’s decision and it must be fair for the court to take […]
This morning, preliminary inquiries determined that a minor along with Clive Geban will stand trial for the January nineteenth, 2013 murder of Ervin Moralez, a Maskall villager, who was hacked to death inside his home. The PI occurred in the courtroom of Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith. Corporal Christopher Smith relied on caution statements given […]
In its fresh approach to tackle crime, the top brass of eastern division was out in the city last Friday night. But instead of hauling in persons who were breaching the law albeit for petty offenses, police officers were playing good cops. Duane Moody joined the police operation which caught many folks by surprise. […]
Good Evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. 24 watercrafts lined up for Saturday’s start to the pre-season La Ruta Maya race at Henderson Bank inside Burrell Boom as the preparatory work for the mighty event draws near. Today, it’s a perfect start. Immediately into the race, the rivalry between OCB Wavemakers […]
Steven Buckley – he’s the man who became the poster boy of police brutality in 2010 after he was shot to the head by a cop while he was sitting inside a parked vehicle off Fabers Road. That incident left him with limited use of some of his limbs, and his long legal battles to […]
Here at News Five we can’t remember any time when so many politicians have seen the inside of a Courtroom on such a variety of charges…serious and frivolous. In Orange Walk, two politicians from the P.U.P. side were charged criminally two weeks ago, and this morning it was U.D.P. mayoral candidate, Yvette Lui Torres, who […]
A government-commissioned report which has suddenly become public information has been making the rounds of social media since Thursday. We can tell you that it has unleashed a storm of response from government political functionaries, including multiple threats of lawsuits. It’s a report on proposed cost saving strategy, and was conducted in 2014 by six […]
A small wooden structure went up in flames at about two o’clock this morning. Thirty-nine year old Darrel McClaren was asleep when he heard the crackling sounds of the fire devouring the wooden building that houses his small business adjacent to his home. Despite best efforts from the community, the small grocery shop was completely […]
A Belize City resident got bail today for charges relating to the traffic fatality that took the life of seventy year old well know educator, Maria Knowles. At around one-thirty on Tuesday afternoon, Knowles was hit by a vehicle at the corner of Water Lane and Baghdad Street in Belize City. After spending two nights […]
After living in Belize for five years, Haitian national, twenty-five year old Obed Lewis, was found without valid documents to ascertain his status in the country. He was today before the courts to answer to a single immigration offense of Failure to Produce Documents when Requested by an Immigration Officer. The King’s Park resident wasted […]
Shark Ray Alley, Cangrejo Caye, Bacalar Chico and the Hol Chan Marine Reserve have been designated as protected areas on Ambergris Caye. This past Tuesday, cabinet finally moved to approve the expansion of the Hol Chan Marine Reserve. For years the management of the reserve has proposed the expansion which would include a forty acre […]
Earlier this week we told you about a drug bust in Placencia. The drugs were discovered in a package sent from Maria Chan in Corozal to one Diego Moralez in a box of vegetables on a domestic flight from Tropic Air. Well tonight, there is yet another drug bust to report from the peninsula. Between […]
Earlier this week, the top brass of the police department met with the media to build on relations and to improve the flow of information. And today, officers rolled up their sleeves in a clean-up campaign to tidy up neighborhoods. According to Officer in Charge of Community Policing at Precinct Two Sergeant Brent Hamilton, the […]
U.D.P. Mayoral Candidate Yvette Lui Torres says that she is the victim of a political attack, timed to affect her run up to municipal elections in just two weeks. Torres and her team want to unseat Kevin Bernard and his team which were installed in Town Hall just three years ago. Bernard controls one of […]
There is a group of young people that is busy doing good works and actively seeking to influence other youths to lead positive lives. The group is made up of primarily high school students, with input from different local influencers. Today, they gathered to celebrate and make a statement. Andrea Polanco was there. Andrea […]
Today, six business entrepreneurs graduated from a six-week intensive training program in San Ignacio. The initiative is one aspect of annual programs delivered by the Nancy Marin Youth Foundation, and it was facilitated by business coach from the UK Karen Carter. The graduates will benefit from unique skills learned through workshops and one on one […]
OCEANA will be celebrating three years since The People’s Referendum. It made history back in 2012 and this year they will celebrate in grand style with a free concert called Rock The Vote on Sunday, March first. Director of Communication, Alyssa Carnegies tells us more. Alyssa Carnegie, Director of Communication, Oceana “February twenty-ninth 2012 […]
A man who was in the custody of Ladyville Police pending charges of rape was allegedly found dead in his cell at around seven-thirty on Wednesday night. The version given by Ladyville Police is that eighteen year old Otto Palma was alone in his cell when he hung himself with his white t-shirt. Official News […]
There is another police investigation ongoing…Two men from the Corozal District who relocated to the island of San Pedro in search of a better life were found murdered on Wednesday morning. Their bodies were buried in a shallow grave, eleven miles north of the town, which has become a hot bed for narco-trafficking. When police […]
Northern Ambergris Caye, despite a handful of high-end, luxury resorts, has become the stomping grounds for beach combers who roam the largely uninhabited expanse in search of drug deposits. Criminal activity in the vicinity is being attributed to an ongoing turf war among playadores who are reportedly feuding over territory believed to be the drop-off […]
