Chief Elections Officer Josephine Tamai today reported on the cleaning-up of the voters list during the still ongoing re-registration process. Now, Stann Creek West pulled out the biggest number of voters to register while the Fort George Division in Belize City had the lowest. Both are constituencies held by the People’s United Party. More women […]
Has the re-registration exercise, which is set to conclude at the end of the month, met its target? According to Chairman of the Elections and Boundaries Commission, Doug Singh, a comparison of the total number of voters who participated in the 2015 general elections against the number of persons who have re-registered thus far, shows […]
The ongoing re-registration precedes a re-districting exercise which is scheduled to take place prior to the next general elections. In two Belize City constituencies, namely: Queen Square and Fort George, the numbers have been particularly low. The outcome in those two divisions begs the question of whether or not the voter population will also be […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow continues to recover from spinal surgery in Havana, Cuba. On Wednesday, he received the President of Cuba Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, who was accompanied by his wife and Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parilla. On the Belize side, was the PM’s wife, Kim Simplis Barrow and Ambassador Annie Burns. Barrow and Canales […]
Minister of Culture, Patrick Faber, who is the chair of the board for the National Institute of Culture and History, says that he is awaiting an initial draft of the findings of an external audit of the statutory body. The audit was sanctioned by Cabinet about three weeks ago; after a report from the Finance […]
A missing person report has been filed by a thirty-year-old domestic of Orange Walk Town who told police that her husband, Julio Estuardo Choc left home on September ninth for work in Belmopan and has not been seen or heard from since. The driver did not arrive at work on that day and there has […]
How did Belize fair off in the 2018 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate, better known as CXC? As we reported a few weeks ago, several schools were not in receipt of their grades, despite the official results having been landed in the country. Some schools are still without their results. But what is causing the delay? […]
Acting Prime Minister Patrick Faber has embarked on a tour across Belize which he says will reconnect him with the citizenry. Faber has visited the Toledo and Stann Creek Districts and will make his way to the Cayo District. The purpose, says Faber, is to identify the state of affairs in the districts with a […]
There is trouble brewing on La Isla Carinosa. A few weeks ago, the Chairlady of the Caye Caulker Village Council released an extensive letter publicly disclosing a number of thorny issues being faced by the council. Enelda Rosado explains that the village council realized that it had a problem with the Transport Department immediately after […]
Caye Caulker Village falls under the Belize Rural South constituency which is represented by Tourism Minister Manuel Heredia Junior. Heredia told News Five that he is aware of the concerns raised by the village council and has discussed the situation with his cabinet colleagues. Manuel Heredia Jr., Area Representative, Belize Rural South “I have […]
Little Junior Miss Belize is returning to the Bliss Center for the Performing Arts with a bang. After taking a two-year hiatus, the children’s pageant show is set to light up the stage at the Bliss tomorrow night. It’s a fundraising event put on by Concerned Belizean Women and according to member, Karen Vernon, seven […]
The annual children’s rally returned to the Civic Centre this morning. Primary school children from schools in the Belize District converged there to show their love and respect for the country. With national celebrations underway, the event was a fitting occasion to encourage patriotism and nationalism at a young age. The day started with a […]
Three Belizeans and two Mexican nationals were arraigned in court this morning on charges relating to a drug plane that landed on September eleventh in Tres Leguas, near Blue Creek, Orange Walk District. The cargo was one thousand two hundred and twenty-six pounds of cocaine, with a value of fourteen million dollars. The arraignment took […]
Forty persons including adults and minors who police have determined are gang members have been transferred to the Hattieville Central prison where they will be locked up until the end of this month. On Wednesday, which marked the seventh day since they had been detained, the group was transported to prison from the holding cells […]
Amid the ongoing public discourse on the state of emergency in parts of Belize City is a fear that upon release, there is potential for aggrieved gang members to retaliate on members of society. It’s a serious concern that may not be allayed by tough talk alone. Earlier today, Deputy Commissioner of Police Chester Williams […]
With a state of emergency in effect for two south side neighborhoods, are other Belize City gangs laying low or is there potential for a flare up elsewhere? When asked that question at today’s press conference, Deputy ComPol Williams revealed that similar documents have been drafted for the entire south side of the Old Capital […]
Tonight we have part two of our report on Sargassum. Aside from San Pedro, residents of the Placencia Peninsula are battling with the awful stench of decaying Sargassum that has piled up along the beaches. Massive amounts of the Sargassum seaweed are covering miles of beach, posing a threat to the local tourism industry and […]
Anke Doehm returned to court today seeking a variation to her bail conditions so that she can travel to the U.S. to visit with her doctors. But even as that application was brought before the courts, Doehm was faced with being remanded after the person who had initially posted bail for her withdrew his recognizance. […]
On Wednesday, Supreme Court Justice Adolph Lucas found twenty-five-year-old Ernest Thurton Junior guilty of a double homicide, but has reserved sentencing until October eighth. Thurton was charged with the murder of forty-one-year-old Frank James and fifty-year-old Robert Young. Both men were fatally shot on October twenty-fifth, 2012 while at a dockyard on North Front Street, […]
Two months ago, Placencia resident Shane Vellos stopped by our office to share his experience of police brutality. Vellos was locked up after he was accused of theft, but later released and never charged. However, Vellos claims that he was badly beaten by an officer who also broke his left arm. Today, his father, Rudolph […]
The landing of a Mexican police plane at the Philip Goldson International Airport caused a stir earlier today. The plane is a Boeing 727 which brought the Mexican Federal Police orchestra to perform tonight at the Winds Orchestra of Mexico Concert hosted by the Mexican Embassy. The size of the band and their equipment did […]
An Asian businessman was robbed at gunpoint on Monday morning in Armenia Village. According to the owner of Yung Xing Store, a duo of men entered his place of business on the tenth of September and relieved him of an unspecified amount of cash. While no arrests have been made, police say they are following […]
A cache of firearms and ammunition was seized in an area of San Ignacio Town last Thursday. The hidden supply of weapons and marijuana was discovered in an overgrown property in the Shawville neighborhood. According to Assistant Commissioner of Police Joseph Myvett, one of the guns traces back to El Salvador where the military had […]
The Belize City Council says that allegations of union busting made by the Christian Workers Union are inaccurate. Earlier in the week, CWU President Evan ‘Mose’ Hyde made the allegation after the council denied the union’s request to be part of a meeting held on Tuesday morning. That meeting was convened after twelve union members […]
The dispute between the Belize City Council and the Christian Workers’ Union is based on complaints made by staff members who said that the council refused to pay them subsistence for works done outside city limits. While that matter, according to Mayor Bernard Wagner, has been resolved, there are several outstanding issues. Mayor Wagner says […]
