On Monday, Supreme Court Justice Sonya Young rejected an application filed on behalf of businessman Jack Charles who was seeking judicial review of BAHA’s decision to confiscate his cargo of Guyanese rice. As we have reported, a shipment of three containers of prepackaged rice is sitting in Big Creek since arriving in Belize on December […]
Businessman Jack Charles’ attempt to bring in the Guyanese rice for retail started months ago; tonight he is seeking to stop the destruction of three containers of the staple. In the following report, News Five’s Isani Cayetano takes a look back at how the issue of introducing cheaper rice into the local market evolved and […]
The government announced today that it will be passing on to consumers some savings on diesel. And we say some because on December twenty-eighth, the price of diesel shot up by eighty-one cents per gallon and it is now going down forty-two cents. It means that there is a thirty-nine cents difference from where the […]
A Belize City Mechanic of Evergreen Street, Lake Independence, is on remand at the Belize Central Prison in the wake of an allegation against him by a fifteen year old that he had been having unlawful sex with her since mid-2015 and as recent as Boxing Day 2015. This morning, thirty-seven year old Denfield Davis […]
The girlfriend of a prison inmate is in trouble with the law tonight. That’s because she tried to smuggle weed for him to take back to prison. Meagan Leslie was nabbed when she went to the Belize City Magistrate’s Court requesting permission to give Ryan Alvarez a medication. While the request was refused, authorities saw […]
Fifty-eight year old Charles Davison, a US livestock exporter and importer of Ontario Village, Cayo District has suffered significant financial losses. Davison was overseas during the Christmas holiday when thieves got busy at his farm. He returned on December twenty-eighth to find that he had been robbed. Among the missing items are a horse cart, […]
There are fifty-six types of snakes in Belize, eight of which are poisonous. But before you go killing every snake in sight, there are ways to tell the toxic from the harmless ones. They are distinguished by the shape of the head and locally one man who is known to have mastered that is Gilbert […]
The health of the Belize District population is at risk. Indicators show that far too many residents are severely over-weight and that in the younger population, more newborns died last year than they did in the same period in 2014. That is the information compiled in a biannual health bulletin released by the Central Health […]
The report also looked at the top five communicable and non-communicable diseases. Interestingly, dengue and malaria did not make the list of most prevalent communicable diseases for the first ten months of 2015. Doctor Javier Zuniga explains. Dr. Javier Zuniga, Regional Manager, Central Health Region “The top five communicable which means transmissible from person […]
In February of 2015, the Founder of World Famous Hummingbird Highway Tamales, Bertha Lisbey passed away at age seventy-eight. But business continued as usual as her daughter, Aurora carried on the tradition at the well known location. But less than a year after, tragedy struck once again because on New Year’s Eve, the popular shed […]
It was a bloody weekend on Belize’s highways. There were four separate accidents, three on the Phillip Goldson Highway and one on the George Price Highway, leaving multiple persons injured and four dead. The first terrible accident happened on Saturday night between mile forty-nine and fifty, on the outskirts of Carmelita Village in the Orange […]
A near fatal road traffic accident along the Phillip Goldson Highway on Saturday morning preceded a deadly crash moments later. Andre Gordon and Marvin Ramirez were traveling in opposite directions when they collided into each other a stone’s throw from the Haulover Bridge. Fortunately, neither motorist suffered any life threatening injuries. That pileup, however, may […]
While there was no loss of life in that accident, another RTA occurred in the same vicinity near the Haulover Bridge on January second. Two persons perished instantly; money lender Pamela Bennett and Alfredo Navarette were traveling in separate vehicles when they were involved in a head on collision. Bennett’s husband was also injured and […]
Even in death, controversy seems to surround Pamela Bennett. Late this afternoon, police were summoned to the businesswoman’s residence where irate members of her family were gathered. Their bone of contention is that attorney Audrey Matura-Shepherd, along with someone considered a stranger to Bennett’s siblings, had entered the house on Caesar Ridge Road and removed […]
The first murder for the year took place minutes after five o’clock on New Year’s Day. A young man was accompanying two females from the neighborhood on Jane Usher Boulevard in the old capital when he was accosted. One of two men opened fire hitting him multiple times. Kieron Shaquille Moss of a Freedom Street […]
In the Supreme Court earlier today, businessman Jack Charles lost his only option to legally examine the rationale behind a decision taken by the Government of Belize to confiscate a shipment of Guyanese rice. The consignment of a hundred and fifty thousand pounds of prepackaged grain arrived via freight at the port in Big Creek […]
While Senior Counsel Eamon Courtenay, who represents the Mennonite community, maintains that Jack Charles acted in open disobedience of the law. As a result, the Customs and Excise Department, according to Courtenay, has indicated that the illegal cargo must leave the country sooner than later. Eamon Courtenay, Attorney, Belize Agro-productive Sector Group “The rice […]
The importation of Guyanese rice was an issue that was in the headlines for the most part of December. The premise on which the shipment of rice was being imported to Belize and introduced to the local market is affordability. Previously, Jack Charles proposed that he could retail a pound of Guyanese rice for as […]
Tonight, forty-four year old Goldburn Adolphus, aka “Easy Glen” is in trouble with the law again for allegedly beating up and then threatening to kill his baby’s mother and then escaping from police custody by claiming he needed his seizure medication. This morning, Adolphus who appeared before Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser was read four criminal […]
We’ve told you about the shooting death of Kieron Moss, but there was another shooting that happened prior to his murder on New Year’s Day. Just minutes after the clock struck midnight, thirty-one year old Ryne McKenzie and twenty-one year old Ryan Foster were riding on separate bicycles on McKay Boulevard, in the Saint Martin […]
An eighteen-year-old woman was sexually assaulted a little over a month ago in Ladyville. A report of the incident was not filed until New Year’s Day. According to Rural Eastern Division Commander, Senior Superintendent Edward Broaster, the suspect is believed to be a Guatemalan national. While he could not explain the delay in reporting the […]
The Orange Walk’s Quick Response Team made a very large drug bust on Sunday, and it is believed that it was part of a cartel shipment. That’s because the marijuana, all one hundred and eighty pounds of it, was tightly compressed, neatly packaged and all those packages were labelled with a ‘J.’ The surprising and […]
Just a few hours after the Quick Response Team, acting on information received, made another discovery – this time a weapon. No ammunition was found with that weapon, but it is still one more gun off the streets of Orange Walk. Supt. Selvyn Tillett, Officer Commanding, Orange Walk Police Formation “At about four p.m. […]
An Asian couple, proprietors of Amy’s Restaurant in Ladyville, came under attack by a pair of armed robbers on New Year’s Day. According to Xiao Zheng Lo, she was inside her place of business when the duo stormed in. During the invasion the thieves made off with seven thousand dollars in cash and other items. […]
So far we have reported on the road fatalities, murders and other crimes. But there is some good news that prompted celebrations over at the K.H.M.H. The birth of babies is always a joyful occasion, so when we headed out to the hospital to meet 2016’s firstborn; we also had opportunity to meet the proud […]
