After seven nights in lock down at the Belize Central Prison, twenty-four-year-old Shikell Nunez, aka “Cross Di Nitro,” is out on bail granted to him by Supreme Court judge, Denis Hanomansingh in the sum of five thousand dollars. Police say Nitro made a four-minute and forty-one second video and went live with it on social […]
A week ago Saturday, fifty-four-year-old Ryan Swift died after suffering a seizure at his home on Central American Boulevard. On Thursday, police confirmed that he was poisoned after consuming a toxic substance. Ryan, an exterminator by trade, and his brother sixty-one-year-old Steven Swift had been socializing early on Saturday at his residence after earlier handling […]
Belize’s LGBT community is seeking to get to the bottom of a reported act of discrimination against guests it is welcoming for an event next week. The Executive Director of the United Belize Advocacy Movement, Caleb Orozco, wrote to C.E.O. in the Ministry of Immigration, Edmund Zuniga, alleging that several visitors from Haiti were denied […]
This week at its press conference, the National Evangelical Association of Belize spent much of its time condemning the plan to introduce decriminalization of up to ten grams of marijuana on private property, including expungement of criminal records. But it raised a total of six concerns about issues of family values that it feels have […]
But Minister of Education Patrick Faber says that the ministry not allowing Christian values to be taught within the classrooms is far from the truth. In fact, it is encouraged in all church-state schools. Patrick Faber, Deputy Prime Minister “The government has never intervened in terms of the religious instruction that churches give to […]
The National Aids Commission in collaboration with the United Nations Development Program engaged the youth population in dialog and program development given the HIV/Aids statistics in the country. Today at the Biltmore Plaza, thirty youth leaders from different organizations and schools participated in the forum, which is expected to foster awareness within communities among members […]
Acting president of the National Youth Council of Belize, Dominique Noralez, also participated in the forum. Despite the fact that Noralez sits as the youth rep on the Commission, in her presentation today, she says that it is one of the Sustainable Development Goals that will be addressed at the upcoming World Youth Conference. The […]
The far end of Albert Street this morning was rocking with the sounds of Garifuna drumming. The annual battle of the drums moved to Belize City this year in anticipation of the upcoming Garifuna Settlement Day. Sixteen competing high schools gathered at Birds Isle where the event was taking place. In the end, it was […]
While Birds Isle reverberated with drumming, over at the Saint John’s College gymnasium the pounding was on the basketball court. Teams from around the country were on hand for the national championships of the junior basketball competition. In the end, Belize District teams Saint Joseph R.C. School and Saint Martin De Porres won as overall […]
The Belize City Council led the charge toward online payments for property taxes a few years ago, and much of the government apparatus at national and local level are rushing to follow suit. One of Belize’s richest statutory bodies, the Belize Tourism Board, joined the charge with the launch of a new online portal on […]
For some time, the government has been locking horns with the Belize National Teachers Union. The eleven-day strike last October took them to the brink and while tensions appeared to have eased, the Minister of Education, Patrick Faber today launched an attack on the B.N.T.U. Faber says the leadership of the union is neglecting its […]
This evening, News Five spoke to B.N.T.U. National President Elena Smith for a response on that charge as well as other related issues. Essentially, her response is ‘bring it on!’ Smith believes that this unexpected move from the Education Minister to target the Union is as simple as wanting a fight – a fight, she […]
The minister responded to a letter from PAC Chairman and P.U.P. Deputy Leader, Julius Espat, saying that cabinet ministers did not boycott a meeting of the Public Accounts Committee last Wednesday. Two of the four ministers on the committee contracted conjunctivitis and a third the flu, ruling them out of the meeting in which Auditor […]
In regards to the Teaching Services Commission, Smith told us that it was the Ministry that brought the issue to their attention and only one meeting has been missed as a result. A replacement for Smith – Union secretary Ruth Shoman – has been named and will be attending the November meeting. But the bigger […]
The charred, skeletal remains of an unidentified person were discovered off the Coastal Road on Sunday. Since then the Belize Police Department and forensic pathologist Doctor Mario Estradabran have been working to determine the cause of death and the identity of the individual. Five days later, investigators have confirmed that the bones are those of […]
Violence has sparked up in Corozal where an elderly couple was viciously attacked in an early morning home invasion on Monday. This Wednesday, a woman was shot in the abdomen while she was at home. Tonight, twenty-two-year-old Brenda Jandrez is in a critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Jandrez was at home along […]
So far for 2017, there have been a staggering one hundred and twenty-three murders across the country. Belize City has taken the majority with fifty-two homicides, that’s over forty-two percent of the murder count. According to our records, Cayo District is registering twenty-one homicides, two of which occurred in the Capital City Belmopan. Both Toledo […]
An aggravated burglary took place in Camalote Village two weeks ago, where an individual known as Ryan Hyde reportedly made off with several items, including a pair of laptop computers. Details of the incident are scarce, as the incident never made it to the daily police blotter. According to ASP Alejandro Cowo, charges have been […]
A major arrest is being reported in Honduras on an issuing plaguing Belize and neighboring countries. No less than an employee in the Ministry of Health in Honduras was arrested for trafficking in persons in the forms of forced labour and commercial sexual exploitation. Honduran authorities picked up Denia Syuapa Ochoa in San Pedro Sula […]
Earlier this year, Belize was ranked in Tier Three by the U.S. State Department as one of the worst offenders in the region for trafficking persons. Considering that Belize was previously in tier two as late as four years ago, it was a long hard fall fueled by persistent reports of high-level complicity in the […]
Since last week, photos began surfacing on social media of a heavily tinted, white van without license plate spotted in several communities in the city and the west. It caused a frenzy among parents and residents because of an allegation that the driver of the van was abducting students. Earlier this week, Assistant Commissioner of […]
Prison inmate, Carl Reneau, an electrician of Iguana Street in Belize City will have to stand trial for the murder of fifteen-year-old Jaheem Mahler, a student gunned down during a spade of murders in the city earlier this year. A prima facie has been established against Reneau so he will have to stand trial at […]
The driver of a delivery vehicle that fatally knocked down Melissa Andrews, as she rode on a motorcycle along with her husband from Sittee River to Silk Grass Village last Saturday, has been arrested in Belmopan. Julio Choc faces multiple charges stemming from the hit and run incident and police informed the media earlier today […]
Since an outbreak of pink eye almost two months ago, schools, as well as workplaces, have seen a considerable decrease in the population of students and employees. While missing classes due to sickness comes at the detriment of the student, workers with infected pupils need to be compensated by the Social Security Board. Today, S.S.B. […]
The third annual ‘Father Marion Ganey Quiz Competition’ finals took place in Belize City today. Winners from the six districts competed to answer questions about finance and credit union knowledge. Four students went on to the reserve round and at the end of the competition, Xander [Zander] Avelar walked away with first place. News Five’s […]
