There was a fatal traffic accident today on the Stann Creek Valley Road in southern Belize that claimed the life of a seven-year-old Dangriga student. Around eleven-thirty this morning, Janey Bailey and her grandmother, forty-seven-year-old Jacklyn Jacobs, alighted a passenger bus between miles three and four on the Hummingbird Highway. When Janey tried to cross […]
There was a shooting on Monday night in Belize City in which an eighteen-year-old man was shot once to the right thigh. But that is all we can report tonight because, according to police, the victim is not cooperating with investigators.
Traffic Officer Mario Vernon is tonight spending his first night on remanded at the Central Prison in Hattieville after his twenty-one-year-old neighbor accused him of pulling a gun at him and pointing it in his face, following a misunderstanding over missing money. The incident reportedly occurred on Tapir Street in Belize City, last Friday. This […]
On Monday, the Government of Belize, through the Ministry of Works and Transport, signed a multimillion-dollar road rehabilitation project for Santa Elena Town. Valued at fewer than seven million dollars, the construction contract was successfully won by Belize Roadway Construction Limited to carry out drainage and pavement works on the George Price Highway between Three […]
The Ministry of Health has confirmed two further cases of suspected ciguatera poisoning, reported by persons who ate barracuda fish from the Turneffe Islands. A release states that this fish has been the sole carrier of the ciguatoxin or poison, but warns that the contaminated fish does not have any odor or taste and the […]
A new ticket purchasing procedure comes into effect on August twenty-eighth, for visitors wanting to experience the Nohoch Che’en and Altun Ha archaeological reserves. As of Monday, all tour groups, those consisting of eight or more guests, as well as groups of fifteen, visiting Nohoch Che’en and Altun Ha, respectively, will have to pay for […]
The number of manatee fatalities annually continues to rise and despite conservation and awareness efforts by Sea to Shore Alliance, in particular Jamal Galvez, the population continues to be threatened by boaters along the coast of Belize City. So far, there have been twenty-eight deaths since the start of the year. News Five’s Duane Moody […]
It’s wait and see for the Belize Network of Non-Governmental Organizations regarding government’s announced intention to place in law an indefinite moratorium on activities leading up to offshore oil exploration in Belizean territorial waters and the exclusive economic zone. The BNN points to its own resolution which additionally calls for the matter to be taken […]
September ninth’s Carnival Road March will be returning to the Marion Jones Sporting Complex for the first time in many years, but it will take a new route to get there. The Belize City Council and the Carnival Association hosted the press at City Hall this afternoon to provide an update on their plans along […]
And what will Carnival itself look like? We took the opportunity to ask the Association’s president, Patrick Thompson, about the run-up to the event and he says it will be bigger, brighter and more colorful than ever. We also spoke to the appointed grand marshal of this year’s event, Stanley Lizama. Patrick Thompson, Vice […]
The National Song Competition takes place this Saturday in Dangriga and preparations are underway for Belizean artists to showcase their musical talents ahead of the annual September Celebrations. The event, says Neil Hall, will see the participation of singers from across the country. Neil Hall, Communications Director, NICH “That’s going to be in Dangriga. […]
Last week, it was singer’s choice, but tonight, the final five contestants in the quarterfinal round of KTV the Remix will be taking on classic tunes from one of the most respected music empires in U.S. history – Motown Records in the 1960’s and ‘70s. Tonight, the audience at the Bliss and viewers at home […]
Another violent weekend across the country has ended with three murders being reported. Two men were shot and killed in Belize City and San Pedro on Sunday, while another man was hacked to death down south. The most recent of those killings happened on Neal’s Pen Road shortly after nine p.m., when gunshots rang out […]
On Sunday afternoon, in the heart of San Pedro Town, gunfire erupted inside a bar, just a stone’s throw from the Central Park. Thirty-four-year-old Armando Lopez, who was originally from Corozal, was the target of at least one gunman who pounced on him as he had a beer at the bar. News Five’s Duane Moody […]
Four days prior to Lopez’s murder, his friend Scott Charles was targeted inside his home in the Bayside neighborhood. Charles heard a knock and when he opened the front door, a barrage of bullets would be unleashed on him. The twenty-four-year-old was airlifted to the K.H.M.H., but died just after one on Thursday afternoon. But […]
The gun violence on the island began one week ago in the San Pedrito area of town. On August twelfth, Lloyd Tyndall was shot multiple times to the abdomen and left leg and remains in a critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. During that attack at the Easy Does It A and A […]
Over two hundred rounds of ammunition and six firearms were taken off the streets during operations conducted across the country. A significant amount of those came from San Pedro, for which eighteen-year-old Aureliano Pascual and a seventeen-year-old female have been charged for kept unlicensed and prohibited firearm and ammunition without a gun license. ACP […]
There was also a murder in Santa Cruz Village over the weekend. On Sunday morning, shortly before ten o’clock, Independence police were called out to the roadside community where they observed the lifeless body of a Hispanic man. He was later identified as Juan Jose Ortega. The Salvadoran laborer was seen with several chop wounds, […]
A countrywide law enforcement operation which began at the stroke of twelve last Wednesday morning has resulted in a number of seizures, including contraband alcohol, illegally harvested seafood, firearms and ammunition, as well as illegal immigrants. POSE, short for Police Operations Simultaneous Everywhere, concluded over the weekend, but not before a significant haul on the […]
A Salvadoran national is under police guard at the Western Regional Hospital where he is receiving medical attention for a gunshot wound he sustained on Saturday. Twenty-four-year-old Juan Jeremias was shot by officers attached to the Mobile Interdiction Team after being chased into a citrus orchard off the Hummingbird Highway. According to police, Jeremias and […]
They were first mentioned to Prime Minister Dean Barrow a few weeks ago, at which time he claimed not to have seen them. But one hundred and eighteen leaked documents from the Lands Department reveal another land grab by members of the family of former minister Gaspar Vega on Ramsey Caye and the Spanish Creek […]
And perhaps in acknowledgement of the continued problems in the Ministry of Natural Resources, Prime Minister Dean Barrow brought three bills to the House on Friday for first reading. The Land Utilization Amendment Bill strengthens the membership of the Land Subdivision and Utilization Authority; a second amendment to the Registered Land Act establishes the Land […]
The Belize Airports Authority was featured in a patronage scandal in 2014, when then-Minister in charge Edmond Castro was discovered to have used its funds for work in his Belize Rural North constituency. While in that instance the entire board resigned and control was transferred to Manuel Heredia Junior’s Tourism Ministry, the authority is back […]
Cayo South Area Representative and Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, Julius Espat, is anticipating next Monday’s meeting of the committee in Belmopan to examine, consider and ultimately report on the Auditor General’s Report for 2012-2013 tabled in the House on Friday. But Espat wants to go much further than that. He has questions of […]
Former president of the Public Service Union Eldred Neal has handed over the reins to a Belmopan-based public officer, Doreth Cayetano Obermayer, who was elected over Gerald Henry Junior by delegates at Saturday’s ninety-fifth annual general meeting at the National Agriculture Show Grounds in Belmopan. Following a mediation meeting last week, Neal apologized for incendiary […]
