There were several road traffic accidents over the weekend and there was loss of life in at least two instances. The life of one-year-old Genesis Teresa Medina was cut short in a tragic hit and run on Sunday. Just before five o’clock, the toddler was knocked down and killed by the driver of a pick-up […]
Today in court, a B.T.L. employee, who pleaded guilty to crashing his SUV, had his license revoked for one year. The traffic accident happened within city limits on Sunday, December twenty-seventh, 2015 and fortunately, there were no fatalities. Twenty-three year old Rasheed Pollard was arraigned this morning before Magistrate Deborah Rogers and slapped with two […]
Tonight, we record the death of a notable personality. Former Attorney General, Bernard Quentin Augustus Pitts, popularly known as B.Q. Pitts passed away over the holidays from complications due to cardiac illness. Pitts served as AG during the period 2010 to 2012 following an amendment to the constitution which removed the requirement that the attorney general […]
If you needed another indication that things are distinctly dread…Fin-Sec Joseph Waight confirmed that the much lauded Christmas Cheer program was handled very sparingly. In years past, U.D.P. Area Representatives were given ninety thousand dollars each, P.U.P. Area Reps forty-five thousand and U.D.P. caretakers forty-five thousand. This year, only U.D.P. ministers were given Christmas Cheer, […]
A San Pedro mechanic is tonight homeless after the wooden structure he once called home was gutted by fire. At about five o’clock on Sunday morning, thirty-four year old Ricardo Valladarez woke up to the smell of smoke and realized that his Escalante Subdivision house was on fire. The twenty-four by twenty-six wooden structure with […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and here’s our closing show for the year 2015. It was 2 days after Christmas and football was at its peak. The best 2 teams in the PLB Tournament were set to meet. Fans would come from far and near…Verdes FC and Police United to greet. Expectations would run […]
On Christmas Eve, businessman Jack Charles was before the Supreme Court in a case he is bringing against the Government of Belize. The importer is seeking permission for a judicial review to legally examine the basis of a decision by the Belize Agricultural Health Authority to detain a cargo of bulk rice from Guyana. According […]
While the shipment of seventy-five tons of prepackaged grain remains grounded in Big Creek, as of Christmas Day the importer will have to start covering the cost of storage. That quantum, if and until released, will be paid forward; however, Jack Charles is positive that it will be recovered in damages. Jack Charles, Proprietor, […]
Former Chief Executive Officer in the Ministry of Agriculture, Sergio Garcia is presently a technical advisor to Jack Charles. As a regional trade specialist, Garcia is familiar with the provisions of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy Treaty. But he has come under fire from current C.E.O. Jose Alpuche for failure to implement measures that […]
On December second a man considered a dangerous criminal escaped from Police custody while he and two others were being transported to the Belize Central Prison from Dangriga. According to reports, twenty-seven year old Dangriga resident Lawrence Bernardez made his escape when the police pickup slowed down for a speed bump in Hattieville. Bernardez apparently […]
As we get set to close up shop and head into the Christmas holidays, there is no significant update in the alleged rape at the San Ignacio Police Station. Four days ago a woman who was detained at the western station told police that she was raped at gunpoint by a Police Constable who removed […]
It’s Christmas Eve and around the city today, residents from across the country were hustling and bustling in the downtown Albert Street area doing last minute grocery and gift shopping. ‘Tis the season to be jolly and Duane Moody hit the street to share in the love of Christmas. While most persons will be spending […]
A report remains on the desk of the C.E.O. in the Ministry of Transport and NEMO today on the misappropriation of approximately ten thousand dollars from the Post Office in Belize City. On December tenth, the supervisor of the Express Mail Section of the Post Office, while doing a routine check, detected discrepancies in the […]
There’s good news tonight for consumers. The Public Utilities Commission has issued a statement in respect of a proposal for a rate increase in electricity. Following the submission from Belize Electricity Limited to increase the Mean Electricity Rate, the PUC says that it will not adjust the existing cost per kilowatt hour from thirty-five cents […]
A sixty-one year old vendor from the village of Armenia died yesterday afternoon from injuries sustained when the motorcycle he was riding was hit by an SUV. It happened between miles fifty and fifty-one on the George Price Highway in Camalote. According to Police, at around three fifteen Marina Vasquez was driving her SUV in […]
There will be peace in the twenty-two thousand square miles of the Rural Eastern Division’s jurisdiction this Christmas, at least if the officers in that division have anything to do with it. The R.E.D. has been in the news constantly of late, as it beefs up its crime-fighting resources and also explores very real interaction […]
Every year we get the traditional messages of Christmas happy tidings and goodwill, of peace and all things holy and joyful. And that’s a good thing because Christmas is a time for joy. But it’s also a time when bad things happen, as they do all throughout the year, and that’s where the very real, […]
With the Christmas holiday weekend just a few hours away, downtown Belize City is alive with activity. While it is easy to get caught up in the commercialism of Christmas, the church is using this opportunity to remind the public that Christ is the reason for the season. News Five caught up with Canon Leroy […]
Christmas will be a lot brighter this year for a Belize City resident. Tropigas officially handed over twelve thousand dollars cash to Keisha Torres this morning at its Belize City branch office at downtown plaza on Albert Street. The “Live Free Raffle” is one of the newest initiatives of the company in which it is […]
The PUC has put the brakes on electricity rate increase, but the employees of Belize Electricity Limited are in the spirit of giving. The annual hamper drive where residents from across the country are lucky recipients of groceries and care products took place over the past two days. For the seventeenth consecutive year, the utility […]
In this, our last Healthy Living segment for 2015, we compile some of the top health tips offered by our medical, mental health and fitness experts during the outgoing year. It is our hope that this flashback will help you to maintain a healthier living over the last few weeks of 2015. Marleni Cuellar, […]
The ongoing logjam between the Belize Agricultural Health Authority, BAHA, and businessman Jack Charles, proprietor of R.C. Imports, over the importation of Guyanese rice will be settled in court. With time running out to the Christmas holidays, this morning, an application for a judicial review of BAHA’s decision to detain the shipment of grain was […]
If granted, a judicial remedy in the form of an order from the superior court will succeed. While Attorney Banner is optimistic that the matter will be heard in the days ahead, the Caribbean Court of Justice has not been considered as the last resort to settle the dispute. Reporter “So it’s an application […]
Three days after an outrageous allegation by a twenty-five year old woman that she was raped by a Police Constable while detained at the San Ignacio Police Station, an investigation is still ongoing. And no charges have yet been laid against the accused. According to the alleged victim, from Bullet Tree, a policeman took her […]
Keyren Tzib will be home for the holidays. After walking up and down the steps of the Supreme Court many times, the court today granted the coastguard officer bail. She is accused of the manslaughter of her common law husband who she stabbed to death at their Lord’s Bank home during a domestic dispute. At […]
