Reports were received of a shooting incident this evening in Belize City for which one man, believed to be a messenger, was injured. Sometime around five o’clock rush hour, the corners of Saint Joseph and Saint Thomas Streets in the vicinity of the YWCA swimming pool was cordoned off by police who responded to the […]
Personnel from Belize Natural Energy worked around the clock to avert any damage to the environment in Spanish Lookout where an oil spill occurred. The spill was caused by a leak in a pipe at one of the wells. That leak led to a gush of an undisclosed amount of water and crude oil into […]
The civil suit against P.U.P. Orange Walk South Area Representative, Jose Abelardo Mai, was back before Supreme Court Justice Courtenay Abel today. Oral submissions were to be heard, however, there was a minor hiccup which favored both legal sides. The parties did not have each other’s physical copies of supporting authorities on the case and […]
The Caribbean Court of Justice held a special sitting today at its headquarters in Trinidad and Tobago. The solemn occasion, the first of two, was held to honour the court’s new president Justice Adrian Saunders who takes over from Justice Denis Byron. Saunders is the third president of the C.C.J. and a distinguished jurist from […]
The month of June saw the lowest number of murders; a fact that the Ministry of Police is recognizing in a release. But overall for the first six months of the year, the aggregate number shows that as many as eighty-eight persons were killed and that figure surpasses the 2017 numbers. The preceding months of […]
Another round of litigation between the indigenous Maya community and Government of Belize is before the high court, despite a consent order from the Caribbean Court of Justice in 2015. On Tuesday, spokeswoman Cristina Coc, who represents the Maya Leaders Alliance and the Toledo Alcalde’s Association, told the media that government has done very little […]
According to the Solicitor General, the process of working through the terms of the consent order is fairly lengthy. He says that while the Maya Leaders Alliance is entitled to an opinion, the fact that the Caribbean Court of Justice is still very much involved in the process means that there is still a long […]
It went under the radar, but two weeks ago, American fugitive Kenneth Collins Dunn was caught in the Philippines with a Belizean passport under the name of Kelsey Brian Dunn. Reports from Manila are that Dunn was intercepted at the airport when he tried to mislead the agents by booking a flight to the United […]
Measures on how to improve and increase the number of Mexicans who enter Belize were discussed today during the second Cross-Border Meeting on Migration between Belize and Mexico. The meeting discussed the shifting nature and challenges faced by migrants and formed a task force to improve migration management at both sides of the border. This […]
A total of sixteen thousand, six hundred and seventy applications were accepted by the Elections and Boundaries Department as part of the first week of the mass re-registration exercise. That figure does not include the applications of Alberto Coc and his wife. On Sunday, July seventh, Coc and his wife walked for three hours from their […]
With re-registration of electors taking place, debate is raging about the registering of naturalized Guatemalans because it breaches the Belize Constitution. Section twenty-nine of the Constitution states that no person shall be granted Belizean nationality if that person is from a country that does not recognize Belize’s independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity. In other words, […]
Persons wanting to re-register must prove that they have been living at their address for at least two months. This is one of the requirements that some Belizeans living overseas are resisting and believe should be amended since it disqualifies them from registering and casting their votes. But there is no indication whether the law […]
Electricity rates increased on July first after an application by Belize Electricity Limited to the Public Utilities Commission was successful. The new rates will be in effect for the next two years. The increase is from approximately thirty-seven cents per kilowatt hour to thirty-nine point five cents for the first year and thirty-nine cents per […]
Representatives from local tourism stakeholders joined international digital marketing experts for the B.T.B.’s fourth Digital Marketing Summit. The one-day event was held at the Biltmore Plaza. Sessions covered four critical areas relating to online platforms that will keep the local industry on top of its game and ahead of the competition. News Five’s Isani Cayetano […]
You know her for her fiery hot habanero pepper sauce, but tonight you’ll know her as an international businesswoman who received a prestigious distinction in Brussels, Belgium. Marie Sharp, owner of Marie Sharp Fine Foods, received the Superior Taste Award by the International Taste and Quality Institute in Brussels. She received the award for her […]
Reports spread like wildfire today that a tapir had been killed on the Boom/Hattieville Road. An investigation carried out by the Belize Tapir Project has since revealed that the young female adult mountain cow was struck by a speeding vehicle sometime between three and four p.m. on Thursday as it was crossing the road. Despite […]
A forty-one-year-old resident of Belize City narrowly escaped death on Wednesday night after a second attempt was made on his life. Michael Tesecum was on Tiburce Street when a gunman came dangerously close to him and opened fire. The shooter then fled leaving the injured victim to die on the street. He was hit three […]
Police have moved swiftly to crack the murder of Alberto Vargas Junior in Orange Walk. A Belize City construction worker was arrested and charged; twenty-four-year-old Nisani Daniel Garcia is believed to be the triggerman in the execution on the Belize/Corozal Road on Tuesday night some-time around eight. Police believe that Garcia was one of two […]
Thirty-eight-year-old Emmanuel Ivan Sosa was fatally shot back in April at the Pasadita Bar in Ranchito Village. Three months later, twenty-one-year-old George Bednarik has been charged for the murder which occurred in the early hours of April fifteenth. The owner of the bar was reportedly closing up when a masked man entered the business armed […]
The expectation is that the charges will be upgraded to murder for Christian Espat, Nigel Williams and a sixteen-year-old minor following the death of Clifford Kirk, an American expat. The trio was charged for shooting and robbing Kirk on Monday; the aggravated burglary occurred at his home on the north end of San Pedro. As […]
A man was stabbed in San Pedro Town sometime on Thursday. He is now in a critical condition at the K.H.M.H. and police say they are now questioning a woman who was detained. ASP Alejandro Cowo says that there is not much known at this time, but the victim has been identified as twenty-six-year-old Adrian […]
Police made two separate drug busts. The first seizure was made about a week ago in a warehouse in San Pedro but the contents of the packets were tablets and they have been sent for testing so the type of drug remains unknown. And just this week, police made a second bust of tablets, this […]
One man has been detained for Tuesday night’s shooting of thirty-four-year-old Ambrosa Bernadez. Bernardez was shot in the vicinity of West Canal and Armadillo Street when a man rode up on a bike to target another person due to an ongoing gang feud. Today, police had a different perspective on the incident and were not […]
Tonight, twenty-one-year-old Grayson Cadle is on his way to Doctors Hospital in Augusta, Georgia in the U.S., to get specialized treatment at the Burn Center. It will be a long road to recovery for Cadle, but as we showed you on Wednesday, his mother is hopeful. And so is Yvette Burks of the Burn Victim […]
The price of premium gasoline decreased by eleven cents at midnight on Tuesday; it now sells for eleven dollars and sixty cents per gallon. It is a small reduction for consumers who have been complaining about the high cost of fuel. The Government has explained that the fuel prices in Belize are as a result […]
