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Belizean Law Student Shot in Guyana

A Belizean law student is clinging to life tonight after being shot to the chest and arm in Georgetown, Guyana on Thursday night.  Thirty-one-year-old Glenfield Dennison, a resident of Cummings Lodge at the University of Guyana, was injured sometime around nine o’clock Guyanese time, while standing on the roadside near his home.  A newspaper report […]

Will Titanic Supreme Court Ruling be Appealed by G.O.B.?

In a judgment which must have given Prime Minister Dean Barrow a world-class migraine, the Government of Belize has been ordered to pay Titan Securities eight point nine million dollars. In 2014, the Financial Intelligence Unit descended on Titan’s offices at the Matalon Building and seized all documents, computers and equipment, closing down operations. Titan […]

Port Loyola Cruise Port Debated in Belmopan

There is new interest in revisiting an ill-fated and never realized project in Belize, the Carnival Cruise Ship Terminal in Port Loyola. The news came two weeks ago from Prime Minister Dean Barrow. He told News Five that he would be more than willing to meet with two parties who had expressed interest. That matter […]

P.M. Says No Exclusivity for Stake Bank Developer

Talk of a cruise port in Belize received new life after Stake Bank developer Mike Feinstein indicated that he would be pulling out. Feinstein told News Five that he would need exclusivity from G.O.B. to ensure that he could recover his mega-million dollar investment. The developer has actually asked the Prime Minister for just that, […]

A Political Debate for P.U.P. Leadership, Will it Happen?

Next week Sunday, a new leader will be elected for the People’s United Party. Candidates Francis Fonseca, John Briceño and Cordel Hyde continue with their countrywide campaigns ahead of the leadership convention on January thirty-first.  While the three are busy meeting delegates, a group of supporters are organizing a political debate where issues affecting the […]

Debate Organizers Say Public Can Submit Questions

With the debate scheduled for January twenty-eight, there are a number of questions concerning the planning and moderation of the event.  Tillett says it is an open process where the public is being asked to submit questions prior to the debate.   Glenn Tillett, Organizer, Political Debate “We are soliciting questions from the general public […]

2 Students Offered Bail for Possession of Stolen Firearm

After three nights on remand for a stolen firearm from the police, two students were granted Supreme Court bail. Stradni Cassasola, a resident of Faber’s Road Extension, along with his classmate, Demrey Emaury Lewis was granted Supreme Court bail today by Justice Antoinette Moore for the offense of kept unlicensed firearm and ammunition.   Lewis and […]

A Father is Charged for Beating Up His Teen Daughter

Forty-five year old Alexander Garcia, a father and resident of Belize City, appeared in court today on a charge of harm upon his sixteen-year-old daughter. According to the minor, her father was violent towards her on Thursday evening. She claims he woke her up asking about her mother’s whereabouts and when she told Garcia she […]

U.D.P. Convention, Will Status Quo Remain?

While all eyes are on the P.U.P.’s leadership race, set for January thirty-first, there’s another looming political event. The U.D.P. will have its own National Convention on March twentieth, and the top positions are up for grabs. There are undoubtedly those who are chafing at the bit, including Gaspar Vega, John Saldivar and Patrick Faber, […]

Where is Christopher Guild?

Where is Christopher Guild? The thirty-two year old unemployed of a Barrack Road address has not been seen or heard from since January tenth and the family is fearing that something terrible has happened to him. Christopher, who is the brother of Karate Sensei Leon Guild, was last seen two weeks ago by his mother […]

Sustainable Fishing Program Completed in Belize

A program for sustainable fishing has successful completed. Pride Campaign for Managed Access was launched back in July of 2013 and after thirty months of groundwork and research in fishing communities. The industry contributes three to five percent in revenues to the local GDP; last year, a total of twenty point five million dollars was […]

Relocation Has Artisans Up In Arms on La Isla Bonita

Tourism is the main industry on the island of San Pedro and among the top revenue generators for the country. Residents on the prime tourism destination depend on it for their livelihood; from hoteliers to restaurateurs, tour guides, vendors and small entrepreneurs thrive from the tourism dollar. But tensions have been bubbling since the beginning […]

4 Belizeans Convicted of Mail Fraud in Las Vegas

Belize has been in the news for all sorts of wrong reasons lately – from murder to fraud. The Las Vegas Review Journal is today reporting the conviction of four Belizeans in Las Vegas for their roles in stealing money from the US Government. According to the Journal, Frederick Vernon Williams and his sister Jacqueline […]

Jonathan Zetina Viciously Attacked with Machete Near Belmopan

Of the ten murders so far reported in 2016, five have been terrible deaths from wounds inflicted by machetes or knives. Tonight one youth is lucky to escape being a murder statistic, but wasn’t lucky enough to escape some nasty wounds. Eighteen year old Jonathan Zetina, a Ladyville resident, showed up at the Roaring Creek […]

Will There Be a P.U.P. Leadership Debate?

Three days before a national convention to be held in Belmopan, Francis Fonseca, John Briceño and Cordel Hyde, the three men who want to be leader of the P.U.P., will be squaring off in what has been dubbed a historic debate to be held at the Radisson Villa Wing. Or at least that’s the plan. […]

FOPREL Meets in Belize to Discuss Regional Issues

A meeting of high level policymakers is taking place in Belize to discuss ways to tighten up on money laundering, human trafficking and private security, which are perennial issues in the region.  The Forum of Presiding Officers of Legislative Assemblies of Central America and the Caribbean Basin, FOPREL, convened a meeting to present proposed legislations […]

Proposed Legislation for Human Trafficking and Money Laundering

The proliferation of guns and ammunition into the country is forcing lawmakers to take a critical look at existing measures, as well as alternative means of dealing with persons found in possession of illegal firearms.  While the method of gathering ballistics information was introduced several years ago, Peyrefitte says that other options are being explored […]

Titans Awarded Millions in Damages or Unlawful Raid

The Government of Belize has been ordered to shell out a total of four and a half million U.S. dollars to Titan International Securities after losing a major case in court last Friday.  As we’ve reported, a massive raid on the offshore company’s Coney Drive office in September 2014 was ruled unconstitutional by Justice Courtney […]

COLA Says PM Barrow is Singing a New Cruise Port Sankey

Prime Minister Dean Barrow has gone on record recently to state that he is considering a proposal for a cruise ship harbor in Port Loyola, should a feasibility study indicate that developers can successfully build a facility at that location.  In fact, he says that the possibility would be absolutely welcomed.  While that may be […]

Is Another EIA Necessary for Cruise Port in Port Loyola?

According to President Geovanni Brackett, the initial assessment to determine the feasibility of a cruise port in the designated area was done with smaller ships in mind.  With the advent of Oasis Class vessels another EIA would have to be conducted.   Geovanni Brackett, President, COLA “When the studies were done, they were done with […]

2 New Patrol Boats for National Coast Guard

The Belize National Coast Guard, along with growing its strength in numbers, is also looking to expand its fleet of naval vessels.  On Wednesday, it was announced that the maritime law enforcement agency will procure a pair of patrol boats through a loan from the Central American Bank for Economic Integration.  The CABEI loan, as […]

Fisheries Offenses: Business Owners Charged for Undersized Lobsters

A U.S. businessman who is the owner of The Split, a restaurant located on Caye Caulker, could not make it to court but sent an employee to enter a guilty plea on his behalf for three fisheries offenses including possession of sixty-five undersized conch, possession of two undersized lobsters, and possession of one soft shell […]

What’s up with Dengue in Belize?

Later on in the newscast in our Healthy Living segment, we’ll be taking a comprehensive look at vector-borne illnesses including Zika. Every year, the vector control unit of the Ministry of Health fights a mighty battle to control the spread of these diseases which are rampant in certain areas of the country. But are residents […]

Project Hope Belize Gifts Prosthetic Leg to Ricky Cunil

An outstanding young man from Benque Viejo del Carmen has received an extraordinary gift through an organization called Project Hope Belize and the Community Policing Unit in San Ignacio. Ricky Cunil lost his leg in 2012 due to a tumour, but the youth never allowed it to hold him back. He has been a Police […]

Orthopedic Clinic Set for this Weekend in Belize City

This weekend at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital the annual orthopedic clinic of the World Pediatric Project will take place.  Every year, some eighty patients are seen at the clinics with fifteen surgeries being performed annually. Patients with severe cases are sent overseas to the U.S. Chapter of the World Pediatric Project for surgery. Project […]