A wanted poster was issued today by the Belize Police Department for twenty-five-year-old Kevin Bodden. According to police, he is the prime suspect in the murder of Ghost Town boss, Kendis Flowers, who was executed almost three weeks ago on March seventeenth at the corner of Sibun and Mahogany Streets. Initially, police had withheld the […]
There have been a number of anti-drug operations around the country. Up north at about nine p.m. on Wednesday, Corozal police were tipped about two vehicles at the border heading to Belize City from Chetumal. In one of the vehicles, a Ford Escape, driven by Blancaneaux Maudel and passenger Michelle Benguche, police found twenty-four parcels […]
All four detainees are residents of Hattieville, Belize District, but police say that they are not known as drug peddlers. In this case, the cannabis is coming from Mexico because it is reportedly of a higher grade. Inspector Ferrufino was also asked to explain this dynamic. Insp. Wilfredo Ferrufino, C.I.B., Belize City “We found […]
There were two house fires in Belize City in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Around two-thirty that morning on Flamboyant Street, a fire broke inside the home of a forty-three-year-maintenance worker and his seventeen-year-old son. The electrical fire consumed the entire house and nothing was saved. News Five’s Andrea Polanco tells us more. […]
The Government’s chief financial officer has confirmed that there is no such thing. So what did General Manager of Belize Infrastructure Limited, Christy Mastry, intend to convey when she said on March nineteenth that the Government is guaranteeing eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year to cover the maintenance costs of the Belize Civic […]
Tonight, the Belize City Council has confirmed that City Administrator, Candice Miller has been sent home on suspension. Miller will be at home for one month after being accused of dereliction of fiduciary duty. Leading up to the municipal elections, she was given a substantive contract by the previous administration at City Hall. That contract […]
In July, more than one hundred and ninety-thousand registered voters will take part in an exercise first established in 1997. It has been postponed twice due to both financial issues and, according to Prime Minister Dean Barrow, tackling the thousands who got illegal nationality through the schemes in the Immigration Department prior to 2013. Immigration […]
Also aiding to G.O.B.’s crime fight is a series of bills first introduced in the House during the Budget presentation and passed by the Senate last week. The new Protection of Witnesses Act of 2018 allows a magistrate to grant an order prohibiting the disclosure of the identities of persons who are, or are willing […]
Aside from the two house fires in the city, there was another blaze, but this time in Punta Gorda. A small family home was completely destroyed around four on Monday morning. There was no one at home at the time and fire officials say they are yet to determine a cause. Orin Smith of the […]
….and from house fires to a vehicle fire. Sometime after twelve-thirty on Wednesday morning, fire-fighters were called out to the parking lot of an apartment complex on University Drive, Belize City, where they saw an SUV engulfed in flames. The fire-men proceeded to put out the fire but by that time the vehicle was covered […]
Three Honduran fishers are behind bars tonight after they were charged for fishing illegally within a marine protected area. Southern Environmental Association and Belize Coast Guard were on a joint patrol on Monday night within the spawning aggregation zone at the Gladden Spit and Silk Cayes Marine Reserve. There, they arrested three illegal fishers, seized […]
The 2017-2018 sugar cane season is winding down and targets are close to being met. But the worry for cane farmers tonight is whether they will see any profits. ASR/BSI announced last week that the third estimated average cane price for the 2018 crop is forty-one dollars and sixty-nine cents per ton of cane, a […]
While prices for their sugar are out of the farmers’ and ASR/B.S.I.’s control, Belize still retains a working relationship with Tate and Lyle of the United Kingdom, which continues to sell Belize’s product. ASR/BSI, says Avilez, continues to look for new markets, especially for direct consumption sugar. Olivia Avilez, Cane Farmers Relations Manager, ASR/B.S.I. […]
In the letter to farmers, ASR/B.S.I. makes a conservative estimate that one point two-eight million tons of cane will be milled and they will realize one hundred and thirty-three thousand, seven hundred and fifty tons of sugar and thirty-eight thousand tons in molasses. At the start of crop, the millers projected one point three million […]
Belize’s youth athletes continue to impress on the international stage. Tonight we feature a group of young ballers from the City, known as Future Shock. Their opponents in the recent Campeche Youth Basketball championship felt the shock right away as the team swept to victory and maintain an enviable unbeaten record nationally and regionally. The […]
For the next eleven days in Gold Coast, Australia, the focus will be on sports as the members of the Commonwealth of Nations meet in friendly sporting combat. Belize is in the thick of it with twelve athletes participating in four disciplines. Head of Mission Giovanni Alamilla of the Belize Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association […]
Regional Commander of Eastern Division South, Howell Gillett has hit the ground running. Among the many initiatives he’s undertaking in the city, there is one with the Ministry of Agriculture to start an agriculture programme with three south side schools. Gillett, in his former capacity as O.C. in Belmopan, ran a very successful green garden […]
An eight-year-old boy from Ladyville needs your help. Paul Leal has been sick for about a year. When he started throwing up blood clots, he was taken to doctors and following several tests, he was diagnosed with a likely case of Portal Hypertension with Esophageal Varices, which means that there is an increase in the […]
There’s a new place in town to have an array of vegan and vegetarian foods. Only one month since its opening, Om Shanti Cafe is an expansion of the well-known yoga studio. Tonight in Healthy Living, we visit the cafe to find out what one can expect from an all vegan and vegetarian menu. […]
By News Five’s unofficial count, there have been forty-eight murders in the span of three months and a few days, or on average sixteen per month. One of the more sensational murders was the execution of Ghost Town boss Kendis Flowers, murdered two weeks ago at the corner of Sittee and Mahogany Streets in Belize […]
Police have denied involvement. Senior Superintendent Howell Gillett this afternoon reiterated that the critical surveillance footage in their possession vindicates the GSU and that police had intended to show the video to the family. While he could not confirm whether that has taken place, Gillett maintained that the investigators are trying to ensure that they […]
In the aftermath of a horrifically violent weekend in March, Prime Minister Dean Barrow announced a package of anti-crime measures. Under Section eighteen of the Constitution, the Governor General was to be asked to declare “public emergency areas” under terms to be defined by the security agencies. This, according to the Prime Minister, was intended […]
The Opposition People’s United Party had objected to the calling of any state of emergency or declaration of public emergency areas by the Governor General, accusing the Prime Minister of skirting the National Assembly which has the same powers under section eighteen of the Constitution. But more importantly, the P.U.P. said the Government’s approach fails […]
Attorney Richard “Dickie” Bradley has also weighed in on the matter of emergency zones. He says had the public emergency declaration gone through, the government could have opened itself up to damaging accusations of abuse of process in safeguarding our Constitutionally-guaranteed rights in the service of fighting crime. He urged the Government to very seriously […]
With close to fifty murders so far this year, the new Regional Commander of the Eastern Division South, Senior Superintendent Howell Gillett, is making his rounds – meeting with religious leaders, the business community, residents of the south side and other groups. Gillett has been receiving advice and dialoguing to find solutions for the crime […]
