The teenager remains hospitalized in a critical condition. She has swelling on the brain and remains in coma after she was left for dead. The family says that they don’t want any problems with the driver who hit Monique, but are appealing for assistance with the medical bills which are mounting. Frederic Morey, Father […]
In the southern village of Bella Vista today, a young man was laid to rest after being fatally shot over the weekend. But the circumstances that led to the death of Wilfred Malcolm on Sunday at a shrimp farm are under question. Malcolm was shot by a security guard who claims there have been numerous […]
After a year on remand for a broad daylight murder in the city, twenty-eight-year-old Valentine Baptist was committed to stand trial at the Supreme Court for the murder of nineteen-year-old Devin Adolphus Parham. Baptist, a construction worker and resident of Castle Street, Belize City was arraigned on July eight, 2016, two days after the murder […]
The Belize Sugar Cane Farmers’ Association has officially written to American Sugar Refining/Belize Sugar Industries Limited, announcing that while it supports the investment of twenty-two million dollars for production of direct consumption, value-added sugars at the Tower Hill factory, it wants several amendments to the existing commercial agreement and a chance to negotiate same before […]
At the start of the sugar crop last December, farmer Eloy Escalante was effectively disowned by the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers’ Association. The Association was facing a third suspension in eight years from Fairtrade after it was discovered that a “phantom farmer” – the son of Government minister Edmond Castro – was granted administration of […]
The United States Embassy recognizes youth advocate Diane Finnegan as Wonder Woman for the month of August. As coordinator for the Youth Apprenticeship Program and wife of U.D.P. politician Michael Finnegan, she has dedicated her life to helping at-risk youths. Most recently, she has been instrumental in bringing rival Belize City gangs together to broker […]
As we’ve mentioned, News Five caught up with Finnegan at the Precinct One compound this evening, upon the release of SSG boss Alex Underwood who was detained overnight by Belize City police. Underwood is one of several individuals who are part of the ongoing peace initiative. Dianne Finnegan, Wonder Woman 2017 “I got a […]
Earlier today the Guatemalan Congress approved the holding of a referendum to take its territorial claim over Belize to the International Court of Justice. According to reports in Prensa Libre, a Guatemalan newspaper, the Congress gave the go ahead to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal to poll Guatemalans if they would agree to take the claim […]
The Queen’s Baton arrived in the Jewel today as it makes it way to Gold Coast in Australia in time for the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Here, it was met with much fanfare at the start of a relay covering ground in the City, to Orange Walk as well as the Chiquibul National Park. From here […]
On Tuesday the Venezuelan embassy in Belize held a press conference to issue a defense of the ongoing situation in the South American country. More than eight million Venezuelans of eighteen million registered voters elected some five hundred and forty-five members of a national constituent assembly to address changes to the country’s constitution, but opponents […]
Belize receives regular and diesel fuel through the Petrocaribe program with Venezuela although prices remain high at the pumps. But for some time now Belize has been unable to source premium fuel through Petrocaribe and has had to agree with Puma Energy to supply that fuel. While with Venezuela’s ongoing political crisis the ‘good old […]
There are two deaths of notable personalities to report. Former Central Bank Governor Keith Arnold, who served as head of Belize’s primary financial institution from January 1992 to April 2002, passed away shortly after arriving in country on Saturday. Arnold was also Director of the Financial Intelligence Unit under the Musa administration from 2002 to […]
The Accident and Emergency Department at the K.H.M.H. received a much needed donation from the Social Security Board. Computers valued at five thousand dollars were handed over to help the unit improve efficiency in the processing of patients data leading to improve health care. On Friday the C.E.O. of S.S.B. Doctor Colin Young made the […]
Back in 2015, villages surrounding Belmopan had a spiraling in crime committed by youths. After assessing the issue, the Belmopan Police decided to do a program to engage young people to offer them an alternative to crime. Youth Engaged in Agriculture was piloted last summer as an initiative where youths from Belmopan and surrounding communities […]
The Belize City Council has engaged residents of the Bella Vista development in a one hundred and eighty-thousand-dollar project to pave eight streets in the community in exchange for property taxes. The work is underway and there are plans to expand the project to all of Bella Vista, which is located off the Philip Goldson […]
A new locally produced sitcom that will air on this station is called “Livin’ Mi Life.” It was written and created by Kim Vasquez, who partnered with Thirteen Productions and Steve Berry, a former professor at Howard University. It is the same team that brought you the locally acclaimed ‘No Matta Wat’ and they hope […]
There are more questions than answers in the fatal shooting of a fisherman in South Stann Creek. Wilfred Malcolm was along with a friend when a single gunshot from a security guard at a shrimp farm caused his immediate death. The Malcolm family believes he was murdered when he got lost during a thunder storm […]
There is another fatal shooting that is under investigation. Last Thursday in San Ignacio, Jose Castellanos was at a restaurant when he was fatally shot by Nevis Betancourth. Tonight we speak with the owner of the restaurant, who says that an unsuspecting Castellanos retrieved a machete to defend himself from Betancourth. In the altercation, Betancourth’s […]
The murder of twenty-four-year-old Daniel Sosa in Orange Walk continues to rattle the northern community. Sosa was shot on Saturday morning inside a red Dodge Ram pickup belonging to forty-two-year-old Hilmar Alamilla, who was arrested two hours later at his home for the heinous crime. It is believed that Sosa sat across from Alamilla in […]
Police have released details of a man wanted for the murder of twenty-year-old Samuel Mendez, a resident of Salvapan, Belmopan. He is twenty-two-year-old Angel Antonio Orellano, also known as Weche, who is five feet eight inches in height with light brown complexion and brown eyes. Police also believe Orellano is armed and dangerous. Mendez was […]
A family lost almost half a million dollars of property in a fire on Monday night. Sometime around eight that night, the family had just closed their business ‘Super Tienda Molina’ in the Duck Run Three in Spanish Lookout when they saw the business engulfed in flames. The structure housed a large grocery store, a […]
Mayor of Belize City Darrell Bradley is heading back to private life at the conclusion of his second term in February of 2018. He confirmed the decision not to contest a third term in office at an interview this morning in the Old Capital. For all the rumors about infighting in the Belize City Council, […]
Love him or dislike him, there is no question that Mayor Bradley thought big. The City’s first ever municipal bond helped cement hundreds of streets and improve driving conditions in the Old Capital. Major infrastructure projects have transformed Belize City’s face and lifted its reputation both in the country and internationally. But there were many […]
Attention now turns to August twenty-seventh, when either Dion Leslie or Philip Willoughby will be chosen by United Democratic Party voters to replace Bradley. Already enjoying the open support of at least one U.D.P. area representative, Tracey Taegar-Panton, Leslie became the de facto front-runner when Mayor Darrell Bradley publicly endorsed his candidacy today, and pledged […]
Even if most think Leslie is the frontrunner on August twenty-seventh following that endorsement from Mayor Bradley and Albert Area Rep Panton, the aspirant and three-time councilor has been campaigning on air and on the ground since announcing his candidacy on July seventeenth. Today, he reiterated that he is willing to work with anyone and […]
