Officially, according to the Ministry of Education, the million-dollar honorarium for non-striking teachers has not been issued as planned for before the Easter break because it has not gotten the list of teachers that would qualify. But unofficially, News Five has received reports that some payments were made to teachers in an attempt to secure […]
Peace is holding in the streets since last week’s committal to a gang truce among the string of opposing gangs in the city. There are still hurdles to cross, but for the past week there has not been any gang-related murder. The latest gathering of the gangs was held on Tuesday. Deshawn ‘Jawhi’ Morris is […]
This evening, A.C.P. Williams gave an update on the ongoing peace talks and said that while detractors may criticize the effort, the gang leaders have honored their word so far. ACP Chester Williams, Regional Commander, Eastern Division South “We are grateful to the fact that yes, they have kept their end of the bargain […]
Back in late January, the Conch Shell Bay neighborhood was wracked by a spate of fatal shootings which prompted the police department to establish a permanent presence in the area. The feud was attributed to a deadly turf war among rivals within that community. Since then there has been a number of initiatives being undertaken […]
The Commercial Center gate in downtown Belize City was sealed off today and it didn’t sit well with fishermen who use the gate to access their boats that are moored in the Old Belize River to the back of the facility. Fishermen on the ground today told us that some of them have been using […]
In an update to our story aired Tuesday night on persons wanted by INTERPOL, Belmopan police have informed that David Cruz, accused in connection with the Income Tax Belmopan robbery last July, has been captured and is back at the Central Prison. Cruz escaped in October along with another wanted man, Lincoln Bejerano, when an […]
A San Pedro resident met his untimely death allegedly at the hands of a chef under what appeared to have been a love triangle on La Isla Bonita. The fatal stabbing occurred on September eighth, 2016 when Elton Duran Polonio lost his life. Police charged Linden Kelly with Polonia’s murder. This morning, Kelly appeared before […]
The Gang Resistance Education And Training (GREAT) Program is a violence prevention program. The program is being used to fight delinquency, youth violence, and gang involvement through school-based, law enforcement officer-instructed classroom courses. Over thirteen thousand Police officers from across the U.S. and Central American countries have been trained and certified. Belize is one of the […]
The residents of Monkey River in the Toledo District have been facing an eroding shoreline for the past few years. The climate change caused problem is not only impacting the look of the beach, but also residents’ home have been affected. The front street of the village has also been washed away and the Monkey […]
A family day for residents of the embattled Conch Shell Bay community is being organized by the Belize Police Department. The event is set to take place this Sunday in Lindo’s Alley and promises to bring together everyone in the riverside neighborhood. This afternoon, a team of officers, led by A.C.P. Chester Williams, visited the […]
The life of one person was cut short at the start of the Easter holidays in the City and it was a mentally challenged woman. Indira “Princess” Thompson lived her life on the streets when she was not at the Welcome Resource Center located in Lake Independence. Early Friday morning, she was stabbed multiple times […]
There has been a noticeable calm in the streets of the Old Capital since last Wednesday, when leaders of various Belize City gangs took the streets for a first-of-its-kind peace walk. Behind the scenes, a lot has been happening in an attempt to broker a truce, including a series of meetings that have been called […]
Jawhi, along with Brother Nuri Muhammad, has been busy with the leadership of the respective groups hammering out the terms of the peace treaty. While he has chosen, at this juncture, not to elaborate on those specific conditions, he says that the men are firmly committed to putting down the guns. We also spoke with […]
The International Criminal Police Organization, known as Interpol, has fingered six Belizeans among two hundred fifty-seven Caribbean nationals wanted this Easter by the agency, according to website News Americas Now. Boris Vostry is a national of both Belize and the Czech Republic who is wanted by the Czech Republic to serve a sentence for fraud. […]
Weeks ago, we reported that a leaked progress report by a consultant in Guatemala was pushing the idea to officially include Belize as part of Guatemala in that country’s map. The report was done by a consultant who was on contract to perform certain activities for a year. In his report for January, he makes […]
Two brothers perished in a well on their family farm on Good Friday in Tower Hill, Orange Walk. The Coyock brothers were cleaning out an old well when one of them started to suffocate and the other tried to help. Unfortunately, neither of the brothers survived the incident. While the details of the post-mortem have […]
Six-year-old Zaeem Vicente Torres, a resident of San Pedro Town, lost his life over the Easter weekend in a most bizarre incident. The infant was at a restaurant along with his parents around nine o’clock on Holy Thursday when he disappeared from their view. While he had been playing with other kids in the vicinity, […]
Drowning is a common concern in the Easter Holidays as Belizeans travel to sources of water for relaxation. The family of nine-year-old Samaria Azencio Murcia waits by her bedside at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital tonight as she continues to fight for her life. Following a near-drowning at the Miami Beach in Corozal on Good […]
It may have been raining on Easter Monday afternoon, but that didn’t stop fire from once again engulfing the Chateau Caribbean Hotel on Marine Parade. It was previously severely damaged by a massive fire on November twenty-seventh, 2016. That fire was caused by an explosion triggered by a leaking gas line which led to the […]
There was also fire reported on the Southside of Belize City, at a residence on Elston Kerr Street. On Easter Sunday afternoon, fire personnel were called to put out a fire inside a room at residence number seven-three-seven-nine, an unpainted wooden bungalow house belonging to domestic Dawn Faber of Racoon Street Extension. Station officer for […]
Last Monday night, police responded to a report of a fire at Our Lady of the Way Roman Catholic School in Ladyville, where the lower flat of a two-storey building was engulfed in flames. Quick action by the Fire Service contained and extinguished the fire. The fire destroyed the principal’s office and thousands of dollars […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow is off on personal leave. He left the country on Easter Monday, April seventeenth and returns on April twenty-third. During the Prime Minister’s absence, the Hon. Patrick Faber, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Youth, Culture and Sports will act as Prime Minister.
The Belize National Teachers’ Union meets in convention beginning on Wednesday in Corozal Town. The unions use this medium to discuss usual union business for reporting to its membership such as financial reports and talks about the education system. Recently though, attention has been focused on the three-cornered race to succeed Luke Palacio who is […]
Belize is buckling down to the business of paying off Superbond three point oh with interest payments resuming on a semi-annual basis subject to conditions until 2030 when the first of five soft bullets kicks in. This week, Moody’s Investors’ Service gave its thumbs up to the Government’s plans for the Superbond with a series […]
Indigenous women from Belize participated in a three day symposium in Trinidad earlier this month. Cristina Coc, Cynthia Ellis-Topsey, Annelita Garcia and Sandra Miranda, along with Selene Solis of the ISCR, attended the “Indigenous Geographies and Caribbean Feminisms: Common Struggles against Global Capitalism” symposium. They brought together Indigenous and other women in the Caribbean to […]
