A U.S. expat Clifford Kirk remains hospitalized in the United States where he was flown to for emergency medical treatment following an attack on his life. Kirk’s house is located about ten miles from San Pedro and last Thursday, he was gravely injured during a home invasion. Today, a trio of alleged robbers was taken […]
No one has been detained, but police on Sunday afternoon made a massive bust of drugs, firearms and ammunition for the AK forty-seven rifle in northern Belize. The police proceeded to the village of Chan Chen which is located off the Philip Goldson Highway and not far from the northern border, an area known for […]
Two months later, police have cracked the murder of Jason Sutherland which occurred on May third. Twenty-nine-year-old Sutherland was in his yard on Cemetery Road when he was shot by a man who monitored him from a nearby store. Veris Ventura, a resident of Hopkins is facing murder charges after police picked him up a […]
There are two issues that appear to be in conflict and are consuming the national debate on the ongoing re-registration. There is the issue of how the law treats Belizeans living overseas and the issue of Guatemalans who can register and vote. BUFERHD, a group representing Belizeans living abroad, has written to the Prime Minister […]
Another bone of contention relates to naturalized Guatemalans who are allowed to re-register and vote. The group says that allowing them to so do is in violation of the constitution of Belize. Minister Godwin Hulse also commented on that matter. Godwin Hulse, Minister of Immigration “With respect to registering people who were former Guatemalan […]
Since last week Monday, sixteen thousand, six hundred and seventy applications have been received by the Elections and Boundaries Department as part of the mass re-registration exercise. A release from the department says that the figures of the first week show that the re-registration exercise continues to proceed on target. With an eight million-dollar budget, […]
A string of fires has been affecting the island of San Pedro. Over the weekend, another erupted on the island of San Pedro and left yet another person without a roof over his head. The homeowner is Leo Martinez, popularly known as Coconut Leo, is tonight homeless after a fire around ten-thirty p.m. on Sunday, […]
A shooting took place in the City early on Friday afternoon and luckily two persons who were injured were treated and released from the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. It happened at about one-thirty at the house of thirty-seven year old carpenter, Kenrick Sanchez, on Lakeview Street. Sanchez was hanging out with friends when a pair […]
An unsuspecting bus driver was chopped as he let off a passenger. Late last week, twenty-five-year-old Arnulfo Muñoz, a resident of Armenia was transporting employees from Santander Factor to the village of Amentia on the Hummingbird Highway. Munoz claims that around mile fifty, one of his fares asked to be let off near the Funez […]
Belize City police have nabbed two suspects whom they believe were involved in a robbery on King Street on Friday. Twenty-year-old Sherwin Santos was arrested and charged for the daring hold up of New Fortune Restaurant, along with a minor. The heist was perpetrated by a trio of thieves who were caught on surveillance camera. […]
The office of Belize Solid Waste Management Authority was crow-footed recently when it failed to respond to several letters written by attorney Naima Barrow on behalf of Vision Architects. Since winning a lawsuit against the statutory body back in May, BSWaMA had been expected to compensate the firm with a hefty sum of five hundred […]
The Friends for Conservation and Development says that xaté stocks are recovering in the Chiquibul. An assessment done this year shows that eighteen thousand seven hundred and fifty xaté plants within thirty plots are from five different species. Of those five species, the F.C.D. found evidence that only three were being harvested in the forest. […]
It’s been just over a week since Superintendent Reymundo Reyes took over as Coastal Executive Officer of the Police Department with responsibility for La Isla Bonita and La Isla Cariñosa, but stationed as the commander at the San Pedro Police Station. Gun violence and drug trafficking have been hitting hard the prime tourism island. With […]
The Cuban Embassy hosted a farewell event for students who are leaving Belize to study medicine in Cuba. The scholarship programme started some twenty years ago, under the leadership of late Cuba President Fidel Castro, to build capacity within CARICOM member states. And so far about two hundred students have graduated and almost a hundred […]
In June, the multimillion-dollar international company, Santander was slapped with financial fines by the Export Processing Zone Committee. This was after it was discovered that Spanish company had been selling sugar in the local market without the proper authorization. The discovery sent the three cane farmers association in the north into a frenzy. The northern […]
An extension of the Accident and Emergency Unit at the Western Regional Hospital officially opened today to receive patients. The new wing, worth more than two hundred thousand U.S. dollars, came as a result of an increasing number of persons needing emergency services. The unit was built and equipped using funds made possible through the […]
Two Honda motorcycles were donated to the City Council Traffic Department by Fantasy Five winner Hernan Serrano. Today, the generous bus owner was in his home village to handover two more cycles, this time to the Ladyville Police Station for crime fighting initiatives. A News Five team stopped in at the handing over where Serrano […]
Belize is hosting the fifty-fourth annual Meeting of the Caribbean Food Crops Society. The five-day regional conference started today with the participation of various international and regional organizations. Stakeholders will be exchanging information on research and technology and in keeping with the theme, members are also tasked with advancing Caribbean food production, processing, and distribution […]
United States President Donald Trump believes that climate change is a hoax started by the Government of China. The Trump Administration has proceeded to cut back on domestic and international efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This poses a huge risk to many Caribbean countries which are impacted by climate change. So while news that […]
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Twenty-five-year-old Akeem Vargas was shot multiple times early on Thursday night as he headed to his Wagner Lane’s house. He is the first murder victim in the city in seven days in an area that has been relatively quiet for years. A gunman emerged near Simon’s Alley and opened fire; two bullets hit the young […]
Sixty-year-old Clifford Kirk is on his way to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland in the U.S. for medical attention following Thursday’s shooting in San Pedro. A local non-profit called “Triple R” short for ‘Rickilee Response and Rescue’ works with Charity Air to help transport victims and coordinate transfers for extreme emergencies. Kirk was shot […]
A system has strengthened to become the first hurricane for the 2018 season; Beryl is not heading this way and expected to weaken before landfall. But on Thursday evening, a freak storm damaged at least one house in its direct path. It happened during the downpour in Ladyville caused by two tropical waves crossing over […]
Belize signed on to the United Nations Convention Against Corruption, UNCAC, on December ninth, 2016, becoming the hundred and eighty-fourth signatory to that agreement. Earlier this year, a scheduled visit by a team of experts from Tuvalu and Haiti to conduct an assessment of the country was postponed at the eleventh hour, eliciting sound criticism […]
Despite the disparaging remarks made by the N.T.U.C.B. against the island nations of Tuvalu and Haiti back in March, a meeting with the UNCAC representatives has also been scheduled. According to Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte, he is steering clear of the consultations in order to avoid the perception of influence by his office. Michael […]
