Ezekiel McKoy is on life support at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The Belize City resident was stabbed multiple times on the neck, back and arms and he was found hemorrhaging on Water Lane on Sunday morning. It took some time for police to identify him and locate his family; that is until today when […]
The Results Management Authority of the Regional Anti-Doping Organisation has confirmed that well-known cyclist Gregory Lovell has tested positive for the In-competition prohibited substance Dexamethasone a Glucocorticoid steroid. The test was administered by the National Anti-Doping Organisation of Belize (NADO) in connection with the twenty-sixth Annual New Year’s Day KREM Cycling Classic. After two hearings […]
After a significant delay, work is about to begin on the transformation of the Cinderella Plaza in Belize City. Mayor Darrell Bradley says that the contract for the four-million-dollar project was granted to R.J.B. Construction Limited, the company that was responsible for the rebuilding of Chetumal Street and a number of other infrastructural projects. Mayor […]
Evangelical Pastor Scott Stirm has come under fire for remarks he purportedly made about the sacred “Dugu” ceremony of the Garifuna on a webcast beamed to the U.S. earlier this month. So controversial were his remarks that during last week’s House debate, Minister of State Frank “Papa” Mena called on him to take the next […]
Indicators of the performance of the economy for the last three months of 2015 and the first three months of 2016 were released today by the Statistical Institute of Belize. It shows that while there was increased economic activity over the same period last year. But as it relates to this year, imports are down […]
Following the arrests of Trevor McFoy and a seventeen-year-old student for allegedly robbing a gas station in Scotland Half Moon, officers attached to Rural Eastern Division have come under fire for reportedly beating up the two suspects. Both young men were arraigned before Magistrate Deborah Rogers on Monday. Immediately after their court appearance, Senior Counsel […]
A Belize Waste Control employee picked up his first conviction for drug trafficking today in the court room of Magistrate Deborah Rogers. Deon Jex was slapped with the mandatory non-custodial sentence and fined ten thousand dollars which he has to pay within a year. Jex was busted on Friday, March twenty-fifth, 2016 on Sittee Street, […]
But there is some good news to report and that is because Port Commander of Immigration and Nationality Department Debra Baptist-Estrada has won the International Women of Courage Award. The award is given annually to women who have gone the extra mile to show leadership in advocating for peace, justice, human rights, gender equality and women’s […]
Built with Petrocaribe funds, a chapel was today inaugurated on the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital compound. It will be used by religious denominations across the board and according to hospital authorities, while it will serve as a place to offer comfort and consolation; it also helps those at the hospital who administer healthcare. News Five’s […]
An initiative to incentivize officers attached to Rural Eastern Division was launched earlier today in Ladyville. The top twenty-five men and women in law enforcement working within that jurisdiction will receive an additional five hundred dollars at the end of the year for executing their assigned duties with utmost professionalism. It’s a partnership between the […]
Three weeks ago, the Department of Youth Services had its Youth Council Elections. Micah Goodin and Stafin Duncan vied for the top spot in the Belize District; the race ended in a tie. On March tenth, a bye-election was held and Duncan came out on top. The results stirred controversy because it looked like party […]
In early March, there was an armed encounter between Belize Defense Force soldiers on foot patrol in the Chiquibul National Park and Guatemalan poachers. At the time, one of the illegal hunters was shot in the leg, in an area known as Cebada, where illegal activities are known to abound. Over the weekend, news quickly […]
This afternoon, COLA issued a statement on the shooting of Lambey. COLA called on the government to undertake an aggressive internationalization of the territorial dispute by Guatemala. COLA’s President Geovanni Brackett told News Five today that government should issue a timely and relevant response to the latest incident in the adjacency zone. Geovanni Brackett, […]
Just after seven p.m. on Holy Saturday, shots rang out on Lopez Street off Mahogany Street Extension in Belize City. It would lead to the first of two murders over the Easter weekend. Twenty-four year old Alwayne Cherrington, an optician, was with his wife and other family members when a gunman walked up the steps, […]
In the capital, a man known to the law was found dead. The family claims Noe Cruz was found in a seated position, but the police point out that Cruz’s body was lying near a vehicle. What is certain is that he was partying at a favorite night spot in Belmopan. He would leave and […]
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The budget for fiscal year 2016/2017 was discussed at length by the Senate this morning, succeeding a two-day heated debate in the House of Representatives a week ago. Dubbed “Stability in a Time of Change,” G.D.P. growth is forecast at one point five percent with a deficit that expanded to five percent. While the proposed […]
The Opposition, for its part, describes the budget as both uninspiring and insipid and therefore the party cannot lend its support to the budget that has ballooned into a massive deficit. Led by Senator Eamon Courtenay, the People’s United Party proceeded to pick holes in the budget, particularly criticizing government’s failure to consult with its […]
With government and opposition senators weighing in on the budget in detail, one complimenting the financial plan and the other altogether condemning it, what is the union’s outlook for the year ahead? The wage bill for teachers and public officers will balloon to four hundred million, but the lack of consultations in crafting the budget […]
Six days after the robbery of Valley Supplies Gas Station, in Scotland Half Moon in the Belize District, an adult and a minor are facing charges. The armed robbery occurred on the afternoon of March twenty-third 2016. The business owner and two patrons were robbed of cash and valuables. This morning before Magistrate Deborah Rogers, […]
There are reports tonight that U.S. immigration agents have arrested more than one thousand suspects and have charged them for attempted murder and witness tampering in an anti-gang sweep. The operation called Project Shadow was aimed at international gangs operating in the Los Angeles, Atlanta, San Francisco, Houston; and El Paso, Texas areas, according to […]
There were two stabbing incidents in the city over the extended weekend…both on Easter Sunday. Sometime after two a.m., police found Ezekiel McKoy on Water Lane; he had been stabbed multiple times to the back, stomach and neck. Officers have since canvassed the area, but the investigation is coming up empty-handed. No relatives have come […]
Notorious street figure, Jason “Soup” Williams, is back in the news tonight for committing an aggravated assault with a deadly instrument and causing grievous harm during an incident at Old Belize on the George Price Highway on March twenty-seventh, 2016. “Soup,” it is alleged, knocked down two persons and stabbed one of the men. Dean […]
There are two traffic fatalities to report, one in the west and the other across the border. This morning on the Bullet Tree Road, Cayo, a Nissan pickup truck driven by forty year old Juan Alvarado of Hillview, Santa Elena, overturned. Along with Alvarado were twenty-four year old John Xol and Byron Bracena. The trio […]
In the other fatality, reports are that sixty-eight year old Lloyd Andrews was killed as he drove to Melchor de Mencos, Peten. There were four passengers in his vehicle: Nora Leticia Sanchez and underage siblings Eva Maria, Jimmy, and Egbert Andrews. Lloyd was flung out of the vehicle and passed away in the impact of […]
