Will the Spanish sugar-producing company, Santander, be fined for violating the conditions of its Export Process Zone certificate for releasing plantation sugar in the local market? We asked that question to the junior Minister Tracey Panton since Tuesday, but tonight, it is still not clear if the company will be sanctioned. Santander Sugar Limited has […]
The Ministry of Health has been closing down pharmacies across the country. Today, News Five confirmed with Director of Health Services, Doctor Marvin Manzanero that four pharmacies in the Cayo and Stann Creek districts have been shut down and many others may face the same fate. The Ministry of Heath has found these establishments to […]
One of the biggest department stores was jacked today in downtown Belize City. The brazen robbery took place during the lunch hour when Hofius on Albert Street was open for business and customers were purchasing inside the store. Two men entered the premier hardware and houseware dealer at twelve-forty-eight p.m.; one was armed with a […]
Twenty-eight-year-old Kyne Gentle was shot and killed in San Ignacio on May twenty-first, as he stood outside of Blue Angels Nightclub. It is not known why the tri-athlete was marked for death, but his killer executed the hit ruthlessly, standing over him and firing a round into his head to finish the job. That individual […]
Thirty-seven-year-old Anthony Bennett is on remand at the Belize Central Prison after being arraigned for murder earlier today. The Mahogany Street resident is accused of fatally shooting Erbin Garrido inside his home in the Gungulung area of Belize City on Tuesday night. Quick police work led to the apprehension of their suspect on Wednesday. While […]
Joseph August, a resident of Esperanza Village, Cayo was recently released from prison where he had been incarcerated after being accused of murder of a relative also from the village. August was on remand since January 2013 for the December 2012 murder of Rene Vera, his cousin. Vera was found lying in a pool of […]
A police officer is in trouble tonight in the wake of a domestic dispute in front of the police station. A verbal exchange between the pair of officers attached to the San Ignacio Police Station last Thursday around four p.m. has resulted in a police constable facing disciplinary charges for brandishing a firearm and pointing […]
Fifteen inmates have completed a five week business development course at the Belize Central Prison. They are preparing for life after lock-up. The prison, through the Kolbe Foundation, carries out a number of programmes to equip prisoners for life outside its walls. It is not often that the foundation gets a lot of outside help, […]
On Wednesday night, we told you about the controversy surrounding the Belmopan constituency for the People’s United Party. Arthur Saldivar and Patrick Andrews were both rejected from running in the convention and that has now left a three-person race. Two relatively unknown figures in the political landscape, Wieszman Pat and Michelle Rodriguez are up against […]
Police are said to be investigating an attempt to set a popular tortilla factory in Santa Elena Town on fire this morning. Rony’s Tortilla Factory is originally from Orange Walk Town but set up shop in the Twin Towns two months ago. Around four a.m., someone threw a device made up of a bottle of […]
The latest economic report is a mix of news, good and not so good. Though as we reported on Wednesday night, fuel prices have gone up seven times since the start of the year and that is a driver of the economy, SIB says it’s costing slightly less to obtain the basic goods and services. […]
A 2014 survey has shown that twelve percent of young people between the ages of thirteen and fifteen have consumed a tobacco product and it is believed that those numbers have grown since then. The Ministry of Health, through the National Drug Abuse Control Council, has been working around the clock with awareness campaigns and […]
On Wednesday you heard the National Met Service say that the climate outlook for the next few months will see below normal temperatures and below normal rainfall. In putting together the forecast, the Met Service also looks at the probability of drought in the country – which we have experienced in the past. In this […]
After thirteen months of testimony from over forty witnesses, close to half a million dollars spent and many Wednesdays full of drama and intrigue broadcast live to a captive nationwide television audience, the Senate Special Select Committee on Immigration has yet to release its report. The last we were told was that the draft was […]
After almost a week of performances in dance, song and drama, the National Festival of Arts today featured the high school competition. Fifteen presentations from schools across the country took to the stage inside the Bliss auditorium for a grueling fight in the creative arts. A powerful monologue on bullying and musical ensembles as well […]
Earlier today, dozens of stakeholders in the education sector gathered in Belize City for the annual Building Bridges Conference. It’s a symposium which focuses on special education and access for children with diverse abilities. A team from UNLV is presently in country to facilitate various aspects of the workshop which is supported by the Ministry […]
It’s a stress reliever that helps you lose weight and teaches you important life skills. Sounds too good to be true? Well you can decide for yourself. Tonight in Healthy Living, we find out more about kick boxing classes available in Belize City. Marleni Cuellar, Reporting Kicking, punching, bouncing and certainly sweating, It’s no […]
A soaring number of murders have taken place in the five months of this year, most which have occurred in Belize City. So far, our archives show a record number of seventy-nine persons killed, making the January to May period bloodier than 2017’s figures when the count stood at fifty-two. On Tuesday night, another murder […]
Jordan Burns had been on the lam since escaping from lawful custody on Friday. That was until this morning when he was recaptured by police and slapped with an additional charge. On May twenty-fifth, he was formally arrested and charged for the murder of thirty-four-year-old Carlton Moreira who was shot and killed in the vicinity […]
A motorcycle collision this morning on Lakeview Street, Belize City, has resulted in serious injury to Jason Moreira. According to reports, he was riding out onto the nearby carriageway when he came into violent contact with an oncoming vehicle. The impact flung Moreira a distance away, while the vehicle that collided into his motorbike crashed […]
Santander Sugar Limited has broken its silence on the debacle it is facing, accepting that it did not comply with the conditions of the Export Processing Zone Certificate. That violation has resulted in a decision by the government to have the Customs Department confiscate a significant amount of plantation white sugar that the company recently […]
A series of contested conventions for the People’s United Party standard bearers are turning out to be thorny. Of five persons, two candidates have been disqualified from putting their names on the P.U.P. ticket in the upcoming convention for the Belmopan division. Patrick Andrews who had relocated overseas and then returned to Belize, as well […]
In the case of the suspension of the former Belize Rural North standard bearer, Arthur Saldivar remains on probation of two years which prohibits him from applying to contest for the party. That is not likely to faze Saldivar, who hosted an ‘online town hall’ session on social media running nearly two hours to respond. […]
Belizeans have endured seven price hikes in transport fuels since the start of the year and the government has warned that more may come as the world price market fluctuates. But how much is outside factors to blame for the recurrent increases? Not as much as the government’s own take according to studies of figures […]
June first marks the opening of the Tropical Atlantic Hurricane Season. An early forecast was issued in April and the most recent forecast issued this month shows that the season will be normal to slightly above normal. There will be between twelve to fourteen systems forming. Now, this is not an unusual prediction, but as […]
