At least nine percent of the population is jobless. The latest figures released by the Statistical Institute of Belize also show that as of April 2017, almost two thousand persons were unemployed. The labour force, however, has increased to one hundred and sixty-four thousand persons. But the most disturbing factor is that only one hundred […]
A team of environmental watchdogs led by OCEANA inBelizeis headed to the site of a waterborne oil spill along theSarstoonRiveron Wednesday. As we’ve reported, a tanker traveling toward Chahal, Alta Verapaz,Guatemalacrashed and overturned while en route to that location. The crude that the bulk liquid carrier was transporting began leaking from the truck and made […]
Effective today, drivers saw another increase at the fuel pumps, this time for premium gasoline. It had gone untouched when the last increase came in for regular gasoline which is now ten dollars and eighteen cents. But this time it was hit for an increase of forty-four cents from ten dollars and fifty-three cents to […]
Friday’s appearance in the House of Representatives broke a personal streak for Orange Walk North area representative Gaspar Vega which dates back to August of 2016. He lost his powerful Ministry of Natural Resources and later Agriculture after a number of scandals involving sale and transfer of lands to his family members were revealed. Vega […]
Two persons were injured following the collision of two motorcycles on the Phillip Goldson Highway. Just after five p.m. on Monday, police were called out between miles eight and nine on the highway at the intersection with the Airport Road where two motorcycles driven at the time by twenty-one-year-old Orlando Cowo and thirty-five year old […]
Ladyville police have one person in custody following a shooting on Monday night. Around nine-thirty p.m., shots rang out on Pigeon Street as a gunman took aim at twenty-seven-year old Elward McKay, who was shot multiple times, to the back and chest. An unsuspecting McKay was riding his bicycle when his assailant rode up from […]
Belize City resident, Everal Gray, was convicted this morning in the Belize City Magistrate for drug trafficking. Gray, who is no stranger to the court, appeared before Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser and changed his not guilty plea to one of guilty. He was sentenced to two more years in prison at the Belize Central Prison […]
From 2012 to 2016, one hundred and thirteen persons died by their own hand, and three hundred and eighty-two others attempted to do so. There have been three more suicides through the first half of this year. Additionally, more than two thousand Belizeans were newly diagnosed with depressive disorders ranging from simple depression to bipolar […]
The Fire Department says that the fire that happened on Holy Emmanuel Street in Belize City seems to be a case of arson. The twelve by fourteen wooden structure was burnt out by fire on Sunday night and the family claimed it was intentionally set on flames by a relative. Benisford Matura of the Fire […]
The Central Bank of Belize launched today a new Automated Cheque Processing, which paves the way for the electronic processing of cheques. It means that clearing time will be reduced significantly, thereby accelerating the flow of money. The automated system will also result in robust business activity, according to the bank’s officials. It kicks in […]
This April’s National Cyber Security Forum, hosted by Packet Clearing House and the Public Utilities Commission, featured a host of participants working to create a National Cyber Security Strategy and Action Plan. But the work is not done, as in the same venue as the Symposium today, the P.U.C. hosted Belize’s major internet service providers, […]
Shortly, we head over to the Bliss Institute for another exciting round of competition in this summer’s hottest entertainment show, KTV the Remix. Fifteen performers took to the stage last Tuesday, and tonight that line-up is down by two as thirteen hopefuls continue to battle. If you viewed the show, you will agree on one […]
A Bangladeshi national who operates a small business was strangled to death over the weekend. This afternoon police confirmed the cause of death after the nude body of Abdush Salam was found in his apartment by a roommate on Saturday afternoon. The motive behind the murder is not ascertained even though it is believed it […]
But there was other violence over the weekend in Belize City. On Friday night on Raccoon Street Extension, several blocks away from the Eastern Division South headquarters. In the cover of darkness, a gunman took aim at a group of men, hanging inside a yard. Several shots were fired, but only one bullet made its […]
Three years ago this week, the Cervantes family of Orange Walk Town was plunged into a personal and political nightmare. Personal, because of losing their patriarch, Ramon Cervantes Senior, to an alleged plot that left him battered and dead in a shallow grave along the Honey Camp Road. Political, because the absconded chief plotter Manuel […]
Orange Walk Police were not available for comment today. Meanwhile, twenty-two-year-old Noe Gonzalez, nineteen year old Angel Cardenas and twenty-eight-year-old Mateo Pott are charged with the murders of Ramon Cervantes Senior and housewife Sonia Abac, who was similarly buried in the same area. As we told you, also accused is Manuel “El Pelon” Castillo. But […]
Thirty-one-year-old Letson Broaster was missing since last Wednesday but over the weekend his body was retrieved from the Macal River, in the area of Branch Mouth in the Cayo District. His seventy-three-year-old mother was at the police station when she was called out to do what any mother would dread. She believes that her son […]
There are reports coming out of Guatemala that there has been an oil spill in the Sarstoon River. The tributary originates in Guatemala and forms the southernmost border with Belize. According to a published account, a tanker transporting oil overturned while on its way to Chahal, Alta Verapaz. A pipe is said to have come […]
Corozal Southeast area representative Florencio Marin Junior rose on the House adjournment on Friday after colleague Julius Espat’s urgent plea regarding crime in his Cayo South. In Marin Junior’s constituency, police shot Richard Garcia dead in Chunox following an eviction attempt, leaving villagers riled up. Marin Junior contended that it can’t hurt to give police […]
Police have issued a warrant for the arrested of one Erwin Dail Santos, also known as Toluck, in connection with two recent murders in the west. Twenty-four year old Santos, who maintains residences in both Teakettle and Unitedville villages, is officially wanted according to a police notice for keeping unlicensed firearm and ammunition and threat […]
Are the skeletal remains found on William ‘Danny’ Mason’s sprawling property near La Democracia Village the bones of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas? That’s what court prosecutors are trying to confirm. This morning, the skull of the deceased Christian minister, who was allegedly decapitated at Mason’s farm in mid-July 2016, was exhumed. News Five is reliably informed […]
A woman claims that a family dispute that started out with threats has gone too far. She alleges it has resulted in arson that wiped out her home on Sunday night. The unemployed, single mother says the fire has hit her hard because she has nowhere to go. She says that moments before her home […]
Sergeant-At-Arms Brian “Yellow Man” Audinett was back at his post during Friday’s meeting of the House of Representatives, having avoided being fired after assaulting several journalists a few weeks ago during a Senate Special Select Committee public hearing. A majority of U.D.P. parliamentarians voted to spare Audinett, only reprimanding him and making him apologize to […]
There are reports that the Barrow administration is cutting a ten thousand dollar education subsidy per constituency, according to members of the Opposition People’s United Party. The matter was raised inside the National Assembly during Friday’s House Meeting in the context of the debate on the Cultural Heritage Preservation Bill by former Prime Minister Said […]
The House of Representatives also dealt with the issue of the recent pitched battle about noise and other lifestyle issues as a result of concerts and other activities in the so-called “entertainment strip.” It is a four-cornered battle between Belize City Mayor Darrell Bradley, his councillors, the various business owners along the Newtown Barracks area, […]
