Harrison says that while there are approximately ten acres awaiting harvest in the north, there are other communities producing vegetables in various parts of the country. The issue, he concludes, is one of supply and demand, despite farmers controlling upwards of ninety percent of the market for carrots. On the Phone: Roberto Harrison, Chief […]
Is Jack Charles gearing up for another wave of attacks on the local rice industry? News Five can confirm tonight that the businessman has lodged a formal request to import ten containers of Guyanese rice into the country. This time however, it is presumed that all I’s will be dotted and T’s crossed, ahead of […]
Developer Michael Feinstein, the man behind the mega-million dollar Stake Bank Tourism Project, today told News Five that as far as he is concerned the project is on indefinite hold. Feinstein told us that unless he has the assurance that G.O.B. will give exclusive support to the venture which represents an investment of hundreds of […]
A fire swept through a mobile home on Thursday night on Boots Crescent, Belize City. In the blink of an eye, the Flowers family lost everything as the flames quickly raged through the trailer, home to as many as fifteen family members. Fortunately no one was hurt as they were able to quickly evacuate the […]
In twenty-three days, the People’s United Party will have a new leader or a new old leader, as the case may be. Two of the men vying for the position, John Briceño and Francis Fonseca, have been leaders of the P.U.P. – Briceño from 2008 to 2011, and Fonseca from that point until he stepped […]
A Tropic Air pilot is said to be missing and efforts are underway to locate him. He is Guilherme Duarte from Portugal who was last seen in San Pedro at about midnight on Thursday after he had drinks at a local bar. This morning, alarm bells rang when he failed to show up for his […]
Today, two cops at the center of allegations sexual abuse were granted Supreme Court bail by Madam Justice Antoinette Moore of the Supreme Court. San Pedro Cop, twenty-six year Kyle Hubert Serrano, is also on interdiction until the outcome of his case. On December thirty-first, 2015, Serrano was arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court […]
Also from the courts today, five of six men, all tour guides, accused with the beating of Vitalino Reyes Junior in May 2014 are free of the charge of harm. Jimmy Cortez, John Frazer, Christopher Williams, his older brother, Evan Williams and Keith Vairez walked after the charge was withdrawn against them. But a sixth […]
The elderly resident of Fern Lane in Belize City, Patrick Grant was left comatose for days after a home invasion on December twenty-seventh. Grant has miraculously recovered and is back home where he’s settling back into his daily routine and from the looks of it, Grant has a new lease on life. Today, he was […]
There have been two senate meetings since the new government took office last November, but the senator to represent the unions and civil society has been conspicuously absent. The unions have been unable to name its senator because they have been unable to put in motion the proper appointment process. The former union senator, Ray […]
Mora, as Secretary General of the Belize Energy Workers Union, also addressed the issue of the Guyanese rice sitting at the Big Creek Port in Independence. He says first, that as a consumer of the staple and given current economic conditions, the rice could be put to best use by humanitarian organizations and for feeding […]
There is major news and cause for celebration today in Mexico where the world’s most wanted man is back in the hands of the police. At a predawn operation around four o’clock this morning, the notorious drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo’’ Guzman was recaptured in the town of Los Mochies, in Sinaloa, his home state […]
The rice war between importer Jack Charles and various stakeholders, including producers in three Mennonite communities within the local industry, has been covered extensively since the issue resurfaced in early December and it continues so tonight. At the center of the standoff is whether or not rice from Guyana can be imported into the local […]
Among other issues pertaining to importation are specific conditions that safeguard markets within Lesser Developed Countries from being penetrated by goods being exported from More Developed Countries. Such is the case in Belize where it is being argued that the local rice industry should be protected by government from infiltration by Guyanese rice. Irwin […]
While a resolution in the Caribbean Court of Justice has not been determined, LaRocque says that the present issue is not a trade dispute. Instead, it primarily revolves around the SPS Agreement which deals with sanitary and phytosanitary measures dealing with animal and plant health. Reporter “Sir what is your vision in terms of […]
Police are remaining tight-lipped on the investigation into the shockingly brutal murder of Quebec native Matthiew Klinck. But reliable sources tell News Five that there has been a breakthrough in the case. According to reports, two men were picked up on Wednesday evening and remain in police custody tonight being interrogated. We have been able […]
What should have been a memorable holiday in the Jewel, ended tragically for a U.S. visitor, who arrived early this morning on the Princess Cruise Lines. Sixty-seven year old Janice Mittlelstadt ran into difficulties while she was snorkeling today. She was removed from the water at Sergeants Caye and placed in the boat of a […]
Tonight, the whereabouts of thirty-one year old Caledonia resident, Luis Alcoser remains a mystery and police are nowhere closer to cracking the case. Alcoser disappeared on Monday after he left home about six o’clock that morning from his home in the village. It is not known precisely where he was heading, but around midnight his […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow, as of the first of January, assumed pro tem chairmanship of the Caribbean Community. For the next six months he will preside over a series of CARICOM meetings, including the annual gathering of regional heads of state scheduled for mid-February in Placencia. This is why the Secretary General of CARICOM, Irwin […]
Still on issues impacting the CARICOM states…the explosion of Sargassum, otherwise known as gulfweed, across the Caribbean, is a phenomenon that is believed to be a direct result of climate change. It turns out however, that the spread of the brown macro algae isn’t limited to the tropical waters of the Caribbean Sea. In fact, […]
The special investigation into the fire which claimed the lives of three minors at the Princess Royal Youth Hostel commenced five weeks ago, on December first. To date, no information has been provided on any findings coming out of that investigation. Via text, C.E.O. in the Ministry of Human Development Judith Alpuche told us only, […]
Police are asking the public to be on the lookout for an escaped prisoner. He is twenty-nine year old Shane Bennett, who is described as armed and dangerous and known to carry a firearm. Bennett escaped from the holding cell at the Intermediate Southern Formation police station in Stann Creek just after midnight on January […]
Late this evening, twenty-three year old street figure, Michael Arnold, aka “Teetie,” a Pickstock resident, was arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court before Senior Magistrate, Sharon Fraser. He is accused of robbery by use of force and wounding upon fifty-six year old Maria Pou, the owner of the popular Pou Meat Pie located on […]
Pen Cayetano is an icon in the Garifuna community. Pen, the patriarch, is a prolific musician and artist. His wife Ingrid and children have followed his footsteps in promoting and preserving the richness and uniqueness of the Garifuna culture. Today, at the Image Factory in Belize City, the Cayetano’s officially re-launched Ingrid’s “We Are Free” […]
Over the past weeks, there have been multiple road traffic accidents where lives were lost, and alcohol was involved. Alcohol, unfortunately, is almost as much a staple of Belizean life as rice and beans. That translates many times to drinking and driving, and far too often to traffic fatalities. Can the police do more on […]
