Belize and holders of the Superbond have hammered out an agreement to restructure the terms of the notes for the third time in a decade. After months of negotiations, a committee representing the majority of bondholders has endorsed a revised proposal from Belize that reduces the interest rate on the note and shortens its maturity. […]
In its daily news release, the Government gives all credit to the Prime Minister for cutting a deal which it say puts the country in a much better position to be able to service the debt. A press conference by Prime Minister Dean Barrow to provide further details, but Government is already saying savings will […]
Three persons were brutally murdered over the weekend in the Belize District. Deliverymen Albert Wade and Godwin Panting Junior were the first casualties of the weekend’s gun violence. Sometime after one p.m. on Saturday, their mutilated bodies were discovered on a dirt road off mile twelve on the George Price Highway. A pastor and his […]
The bloodshed spilled into the city over the weekend. A construction worker standing in front of a church on Jasmine Street was ambushed by a gunman on Saturday. Marvin Flowers was shot multiple times and tried as he did to flee, he did not get too far and succumbed two hours later. The general area […]
Police in Belmopan have arrested and charged eighteen-year-old Shemar Santos of Teakettle village, Cayo District for the murder of fellow villager, seventeen-year-old Ernesto “Jun” Wiltshire. Official details reveal that Ernesto’s mother reported to police that her son had gone swimming with two male friends in the Belize River around nine-thirty Tuesday morning and did not […]
A woman is in the Intensive Care Unit of the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after she was shot in Caye Caulker in the early hours of Monday morning. Twenty-eight-year-old Camille Munnings, her common-law husband twenty-nine-year-old Akeem Garcia and thirty-four-year-old Raul McFarlane were on a golf cart on Xocol Street around twelve-twenty-three a.m. when a man […]
Gun violence continued well into this morning. Personnel from the Scenes of Crime Unit were summoned to Electric Avenue shortly before eleven o’clock this morning, following an incident several hours earlier during which an unidentified gunman opened fire on a house. According to officers on the scene of the shooting, the concrete bungalow was targeted […]
The cost of fuel has increased for the second time in less than one week, particularly for premium fuel. At midnight Friday, a nineteen-cent increase went into effect for premium fuel. This takes the price from ten dollars twenty-five cents to ten dollars forty-four cents. This followed a one-cent increase for diesel to nine dollars […]
Glenn D. Godfrey’s GDG Acquisitions LLC has had a judgment of twenty-two million US dollars plus in its favour against the Government of Belize upheld by a U.S. Court of Appeal. The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal, with jurisdiction in Georgia, Alabama and Florida, upheld the decision of the U.S. Court for the Southern District […]
Mark Seawell is not headed home tonight, but the Supreme Court has opened a lifeline in his long-running extradition case. With his brothers Gary and Duane, he has been fighting to avoid extradition to Ohio, U.S.A., to face charges of ran a marijuana and cocaine business involving so-called “shoe mules” between 1994 and 1997 in […]
On Friday afternoon sometime after two, twenty-four-year-old Brandon Bennett was shot in the stomach as he rode his bike on the Belcan Bridge. The gun man identified in that shooting is Lindburgh Clarke, but he remains at large up to news time. Clarke was accompanied by another man who has since been identified as the […]
The U.S. State Department has issued its annual country report on Human Rights practices, focusing on policing and sex orientation issues as the major human rights violations committed locally for the year 2016. Those were followed by corruption by government agents; lack of protection for refugees; domestic violence; discrimination against women; sexual abuse of children; […]
Rising attorney Philip Palacio passed suddenly following a mostly private battle with cancer and a brain tumor, for which he was undergoing surgery in the United States. He started out in journalism but subsequently went to law school and returned as an advocate for the poorer classes, taking on several cause celebres. His last major […]
There is another death of a prominent Belizean to report tonight, this time in Orange Walk Town. Dental surgeon Doctor Carl Meggs was active in the medical community up north and was an advisor to the Orange Walk Town Council. He was found dead Friday evening at his dental clinic by his common-law-wife after she […]
The All Party Parliamentary Group for Belize has been reactivated. The group, whose purpose is to encourage and foster relations between the UK and Belize, has become dormant over the years, so an annual general meeting was held today to get the group going. Members of Parliament and Members of the House of Lords attended […]
Another highly competitive race in the Belikin La Ruta Maya Challenge concluded on Monday in Belize City near the Bottom Dalla Store. Two new teams went on to place in the canoe race which kicked off in the twin towns of San Ignacio/Santa Elena on Friday. News Five’s Duane Moody followed the race from start […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. {Feature on weekend sporting highlights….}
We begin with breaking news. Just before news time, the Central Bank of Belize released a statement confirming major and extensive revisions to the Government of Belize’s proposal to restructure the Superbond and extending the expiration date for the Consent Solicitation Offer originally issued on January twelfth. This was followed by a release by the […]
A Teakettle, Cayo District family have had to come to sudden grips with the death of a loved one, found fatally chopped in some bushes behind the village early this afternoon. As we come on the air, they are preparing to lay to rest seventeen year old Ernesto Wiltshire, also known as “Jun.” He had […]
Shortly before two-thirty this afternoon a Belize City man was shot in the City. According to police, around two-seventeen, Brandon Bennett was shot to the abdomen while he was on Belcan Bridge. He was taken to the K.H.M.H. where he is receiving treatment. Police investigation into this matter continues.
There are still more questions than answers in the manhandling of a B.D.F. recruit videoed on cell phone during a training program on January eighth. The images of recruit Michael Rivas crying out as he is pushed into a trench has stirred controversy on whether or not the tactics used went too far. B.D.F. commander […]
Following the airing of our story on Thursday night, News Five obtained copies of interviews conducted over the past three days with officers of the Bravo and Alpha Platoons involved in the training program. For the most part, those interviewed do not place themselves near the trench where B.D.F. recruit 2-2-9-7-0-2 Michael Rivas was thrown […]
Were the occupants of a vehicle that caught on fire on the Placencia Road on Wednesday morning the victim of foul play? The Belize Police Department has launched an investigation into the mysterious circumstances surrounding the deaths of two unidentified persons, believed to be a husband and wife couple from Europe. While those details are […]
Aside from superbond payments, government is facing another multimillion dollar payment. Glenn D. Godfrey’s GDG Acquisitions LLC has had a judgment of ten million dollars plus in its favour against the Government of Belize upheld by a U.S. Court of Appeal. The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal, with jurisdiction in Georgia, Alabama and Florida, upheld […]
The annual La Ruta Maya River Challenge kicked off bright and early this morning in the west. The waters of the Macal River provided the perfect setting for the start of the race. But this year, less than fifty canoes manned by three paddlers each will be competing over the extended holiday weekend as they […]
