According to C.E.O. Alpuche, the ministry is working with the O.A.S. and the United Nations to ensure that the BOOST program evolves. Alpuche says the pilot project goes beyond cash transfers to now strengthen family units. Judith Alpuche, C.E.O., Ministry of Human Development, Social Transformation and Poverty Alleviation “Looking at families and what is […]
Two nights ago, we showed you artist’s Katie Usher’s creative approach to highlight how many lives have been taken as a result of the spiking crime. From her records, almost eighty people have been killed since the start of this year. We spoke with Usher today and she tells us that the idea was borne […]
Also as a part of Katie Usher’s Lab-Two installation going on at the Image Factory, several creative minds from across the country have started putting on exhibitions and artistic shows for everyday since Monday. Today when we stopped in at the Image Factory, local artist, Briheda Haylock was showcasing her own eye-poignant piece. Briheda […]
Over the past few years since they opened their doors, we’ve visited the Om Shanti Center for Yoga and Healing arts to share with you the latest addition to its services. Tonight, in Healthy Living, we return to learn more about a new yoga class they’ve added to their menu, one that we think may […]
Is infamous Mexican drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman headed to Belize? While that is the speculation on various Mexican news outlets, there is no indication at the moment that the boss of the notorious Sinaloa Cartel, who broke out of a maximum security prison in Altiplano on Saturday, is indeed traveling this way. Local […]
Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman, or Shorty, as he is otherwise known, was first arrested in 1993, broke free in 2001 by reportedly taking cover inside a laundry cart and remained on the lam until 2014 when he was caught inside a Mexican beach resort. At the time of his arrest, Guzman was worth an estimated […]
But there is another story of national importance. Emotions were running high in Belize following an armed standoff between the Guatemalan military and the Belize National Coast Guard, on the Sarstoon River back in May when the Guatemalans confronted the Coast Guard. Today there is information that Guatemala is attempting to block the construction of […]
Today, Director of the Financial Intelligence Unit, Eric Eusey, told News Five that his department has no knowledge of the circumstances surrounding the arrests of two Americans and a Panamanian in the US for money laundering last week. The men – James Shipman, Kenneth Landgaard and Michael Dodd, were arrested in a sting operation after […]
On Saturday night, twenty-eight year old Hope Creek resident Leopold Myvette was gunned down by Police officers who fired at least eight shots at him. Their story is that when they approached a group of men in front of Fuentes Bar in the community, Myvette pulled out what appeared to be a firearm and pointed […]
The post-mortem examination, witnessed only by the Police, concluded at around four this afternoon. The family still has gotten no answers, however, and say they are prepared to do whatever it takes to get justice – justice for their family member who they say was gunned down like an animal by Policemen who had no […]
About an hour after he was shot, a thirty-nine year old Belmopan resident succumbed at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where he was rushed to for urgent medical treatment. As we reported on Tuesday night, the shooting took place at the Gonzalo Quinto compound in Belize City. A security guard claims he fired at Louis […]
As we told you earlier, the Guatemalan government is yet to respond on a bill from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for damages caused to the reef when its naval gunboat ran aground near Glovers Reef in June. C.E.O. in the Ministry of National Security says they are yet to receive a response from Guatemalan […]
A tragic accident just outside August Pine Ridge in the Orange Walk District has left one man dead, and his wife and two small children injured. Preliminary investigations indicate that Mennonite Johan Knelsen was driving a horse and buggy toward August Pine Ridge, along with his wife, his two year old daughter and seven week […]
Police are also nowhere close to determining who callously murdered Amandala’s star reporter, Kareem Clarke last Monday. Earlier this week at a police briefing, CIB’s Officer in Command, Superintendent Hilberto Romero, told the media that a minor had been detained in connection with the murder. The minor is tonight on remand at the Central Prison […]
As we have reported, twenty-eight-year-old Leopold Myvette was shot and killed by police officers in Hope Creek over the weekend, in what is being described as a case of excessive use of force. According to a police report issued on Monday, Myvette allegedly produced a firearm and trained it at the cops. The officers responded […]
Gregory August, who is now twenty-seven, was convicted on November twenty-eighth 2013 by Judge Adolph Lucas and sentenced to life imprisonment. But August is appealing his conviction and sentence before the Court of Appeal. August was nineteen when he was accused with the May 2009 murder of Alvin Robinson, who was found stabbed to death […]
Former Benque Viejo Mayor Edgar ‘Whitey’ Contreras was detained in Guatemala on Saturday after being found in possession of an unregistered firearm in that jurisdiction. While the handgun is licensed for personal use in Belize, Contreras was well within the boundaries of Melchor de Mencos when a search of his person yielded the weapon. The […]
For the past three days, simultaneous summer camps hosted by the Ministry of Education have been ongoing at various schools across the city. Primary and high school students, as well as parents, have been learning skills and tools in financial literacy. Several representatives and experts from PricewaterhouseCoopers and Peacework are back in Belize partnering with […]
While activities like these strengthen the bond between the Ministry of Education and international organizations, Mace says that the experience for them is even more rewarding. Amy Mace, Teacher, PricewaterhouseCoopers “I think there are a number of reasons. Number one…you may not know this but we have to apply to come. And only about […]
Seventy-eight students from twenty-three schools across the city are in the Primary School Art Skills Training Pilot Project taking place at the Department of Youth Services in Belize City. It’s a project supported by the Department of Youth Services, the Embassy of Taiwan and NICH which seeks to train students to develop their artistic skills. […]
In breaking news tonight, there has been a shooting in the compound of the Gonzalo Quinto warehouse near the Napa roundabout in Belize City. From what we have just learnt, the shooting took place a short while ago and police are currently processing the scene. We can also say that the victim has been rushed […]
Tonight, there is major news coming out of the People’s United Party camp in the wake of last Wednesday’s Dangriga bye-election. News Five was able to confirm today that Godfrey Smith is no longer the National Campaign Manager of the Party, effective immediately. Sources say that Smith had been contemplating leaving the post after the […]
Police have a number of murders to solve, but there is a new case that is baffling authorities in the north. The body of thirty-five year old Vicky Hareshlal Gyanchandani is tonight in the morgue at the Northern Regional Hospital awaiting a post-mortem examination. Police are anxiously awaiting those results to determine if indeed the […]
On Monday, the bloody footage of a man who had been viciously chopped to the face and body made its short-lived rounds on the social media. It was taken off shortly after because of its graphic nature. That footage shows twenty-seven year old Irvin Cantun bleeding profusely with multiple chop wounds to the mouth, head, […]
The island of Caye Caulker has resumed a sense of normalcy in the wake of last month’s public uproar caused by the murder of eighteen-year-old Hilberto Sotz while in police custody on June eight, 2015. Today, his parents are proceeding with legal action against the Belize Police Department. Police constables Leonard Nunez and Hallet King, […]
