The newly established guidelines, according to Minister John Saldivar, who holds the national security portfolio, sets out the means by which the respective agencies, including the Forestry Department, will conduct operations in the Chiquibul and Vaca forests. Saldivar says that it is an initiative that the FCD has been clamoring for all along. John […]
Hopes are dimming tonight for the family of Anisha Young; they are offering a reward of ten thousand dollars for concrete information on her whereabouts. The twenty-three-year-old disappeared on Sunday morning after she left a popular nightclub with her boyfriend in a taxi. Both shared a house on Nargusta Street in Belize City. Her boyfriend […]
On Tuesday around two p.m., a Belizean truck driver from Orange Walk was shot inside a water truck he was driving in the Gungulung area of Belize City. Two men approached and shot him in the leg before escaping with a fanny pack containing an undisclosed amount of money. Police in the area set chase […]
On Monday night, Corozal police came across an abandoned white van in an isolated area of Baeza Layout of the town. On the passenger side of the vehicle was the body of well-known businessman, Michael Arnold. The fifty-eight-year-old had been shot twice to the head with a nine millimetre pistol. Police investigation led to the […]
While police have no leads in the murder of Michael Arnold, they say that they have one person detained in connection with the murder of Asher Saunders in Belize City. The twenty-year-old was executed as he socialized at Pier One Bar at the B.T.L. Park last Friday night. ASP Alejandro Cowo confirmed today that they […]
Two persons drowned in separate incidents earlier this week in Belize City and Corozal. On Monday evening, a boat incident in the vicinity of the Cerros Maya Monument ended fatally for a well-known bus company owner. Forty-one-year-old Rudy Morales perished when the skiff he was travelling in, along with several other persons, began taking in […]
The other victim was an eleven-month-old baby who drowned in a bucket of water inside her family home in Belama phase two. Marianne Vasquez is believed to have tried to retrieve a piece of paper inside a bucket of water when she drowned while her family was in the kitchen. Today, ASP Alejandro Cowo was […]
The mills at the A.S.R./B.S.I. factory at Tower Hill cranked up this morning to give way to the 2018-2018 sugar cane crop. Production is expected to be in the range of one hundred and forty thousand metric tons for the export market where there is already a surplus of sugar. The millers last year invested […]
There was a home invasion this morning in Guinea Grass Village, Orange Walk. Three masked men broke into the house of Veronica Quetzal and stole an assortment of jewellery; the thieves also got away with an undisclosed amount of money. Quetzal was unable to recognize any of the robbers and fortunately she was not injured […]
An Armenia villager is in critical, but stable condition at the Western Regional Hospital after he was chopped multiple times to the head and body as he slept in a hammock underneath a house in the village. The incident occurred sometime before two o’clock on Tuesday morning and while police have one person in custody, […]
There are also two missing person reports from the national crimes investigation branch. A Mexican national was reported missing on Monday. Teresa Gomez says that her farm caretaker, seventy-two-year-old Arturo Gomez, has been missing since last Friday from the property located in the San Luis area of Orange Walk. Police say searches have since been […]
Tonight we have another report on COP 24 in Poland where negotiations are expected to go into the weekend since not much progress has been made in creating the rules for how the Paris Agreement will be implemented. The agreement recognises that to cut emissions to lower global average temperature well below two degrees and […]
Millions across the world tuned in this morning for the preliminary competition at the Miss Universe pageant in Bangkok, Thailand. Here, Belizeans woke up early to view the pageant that started at six a.m. Since the line up is in alphabetical order, the wait to view Jenelli Fraser, Miss Belize Universe, didn’t take too long […]
The Jingle Boxes are ready for distribution to deserving families courtesy of Bowen and Bowen Limited. Each box of goodies contains treats to make Christmas for the families a happy occasion. The first set is for children living with HIV/AIDS. Here’s that story with News Five’s Isani Cayetano. John Palacio, Communications, B&B Ltd. “It […]
As many as four hundred children from communities across Belize City received Christmas toys today through an initiative led by the Belize Police Department. The gift-giving effort is a partnership between Region One of Eastern Division and the diplomatic community. Ambassadors from five countries gathered at the Raccoon Street Headquarters this evening for the ceremony. […]
For many of us Christmas feels like a time of indulgence. There’s lots of food, lots of drinks and lots spending. We’re sure many of you are still struggling to complete your shopping lists. So, in tonight’s healthy living we’ll showcase a few options for your health conscious loved ones or for those who are […]
Belizeans woke up this morning to the sad news that the iconic Miss Jane Usher had passed away peacefully at her house on the Philip Goldson surrounded by her loved ones. Miss Jane was known and loved by thousands of grateful Belizeans whose lives she touched. The founder of the credit union movement spent most […]
The beloved credit union pioneer was also a politician and former parliamentarian. She had represented the Pickstock Division under the People’s United Party from 1989 to 1993. Today, the House of Representatives took a moment of silence to remember her as a former member of the National Assembly. In a rare occasion Prime Minister Dean […]
Tragedy struck a Belize City family on Tuesday night. Eleven-month-old Marianne Vasquez fell and drowned in a bucket of water at her home in Belama. According to the family, baby Marianne was playing with a piece of a paper which dropped in the bucket containing about six inches of water. That bucket was inside the […]
Tonight police in Corozal are trying to figure out who killed Michael Arnold and why. Arnold, a very popular businessman in the community, was found with two gunshot wounds to the head on Monday night. His body was on the passenger side of his white Chrysler van in an isolated area of Baeza Layout of […]
Just before News Five, the family and friends of missing woman, Anisha Young, congregated at the Queen Street Police Station when word spread that her boyfriend was being released from custody. He has been held for forty-eight hours following the disappearance of the twenty-three-year-old woman. Anisha went to a Christmas party on Saturday and left […]
Wesley Primary School on Albert Street was broken into on Tuesday morning by two thieves who arrived at the school well armed to carry out the crime. Surveillance footage shows the duo jumping the fence before creeping towards the principal’s office. Once there, they proceeded to steal over a hundred dollars plus a laptop. It […]
The last sitting of the House of Representatives for 2018 took place in Belmopan and generally, the members were in good form. A number of issues came up, but we start with the rising cost of fuel, which remains a concern for Belizeans, particularly those in the productive sector where the existing cost per gallon […]
In responding to Briceño’s concerns, PM Barrow attributed the fluctuating cost of fuel acquisition to prices on the international market, anticipating that the next shipment of fuel to Belize may see a decrease at the gas pump. In respect of B.E.L.’s request for another rate increase, the prime minister says the Public Utilities Commission will […]
The Vital Statistics Unit remains under intense public scrutiny, following the termination of four employees last week who were found to have aided in the falsification of a birth certificate for alleged murderer William ‘Danny’ Mason. Notwithstanding that black-eye, the office which falls under the Attorney General’s ministry faces harsh criticism from the opposition. Today […]
