Guatemalan national Anibal Avila is wanted by Belizean authorities, following an incident at the western border this morning during which he reportedly opened fire in the direction of the customs building at the Benque Viejo crossing. Avila, according to customs and immigration officials, has been denied entry to Belize on previous occasions after being arrested […]
A string of automotive fires in Punta Gorda on Wednesday morning has residents on edge and investigators working diligently to crack these most recent cases of arson. Vehicles belonging to Christon Foster, Patrick Avila and Burlington Jones were all destroyed by fire just before dawn on February sixth and police are now trying to determine […]
The case of Dion Zabaneh continues to play out in the news. He is the businessman, who along with his mother, Primrose Gabourel, was taken to court for offenses relating to a property of one point three acres in the Caribbean Shores area, specifically parcel number 4670. Zabaneh and Gabourel were taken to court by […]
The topic of gillnets is one that we have covered extensively on the news. As you know, the fishing gear has sharply divided sectors of the fishing industry and conservation groups. Gillnets are described as indiscriminate and destructive because it traps just about every species in its path. The Ministry of Fisheries has gone as […]
The Belize Federation of Fisheries is at odds again with the Turneffe Atoll Sustainability Association. The B.F.F. fired off a press release on Wednesday to call out TASA’s board for its ‘illegal’ composition. According to the federation, their reps have been removed from the board, which now only has two members. Nigel Martinez of the […]
The B.F.F. fired off a press release on Wednesday about monies TASA received from PACT because it feels that TASA’s board doesn’t have the right composition and should not have been granted project funds. The federation has since written to PACT and the Financial Intelligence Unit voicing their concerns about the disbursement of monies. They […]
A fire erupted inside a storeroom at the Civic Center shortly after midnight on Thursday. When police responded to the scene, they met personnel from the fire department in the process of extinguishing the flames. According to Assistant Superintendent Alejandro Cowo, the cause of the fire may have been some old drums stowed inside the […]
Primary school teacher Marilena Mortis was knocked down and killed on Monday morning, as she attempted to cross the busy Phillip Goldson Highway near DK Supermarket. The mother of two had just left her mother’s house on Dolphin Drive in Buttonwood Bay and had hopped over a barrier to get across the other side of […]
Sixty-one-year-old Carlos Galvan, a resident of Xaibe Village, Corozal District, lost his life in the wee early hours of Monday morning during a hit and run incident. The accident happened not too far from San Joaquin Village where the farmer was fatally ran over by an unknown vehicle. In the wake of the mishap, a […]
Tonight political and economic tensions continue to grow in Venezuela. According to online reports, Venezuelan soldiers have blocked a crossing with trucks and shipping tankers ahead of an aid delivery arranged by opposition leader Juan Guaidó, who has declared himself interim president. President Nicolás Maduro, who has the support of the army, is not allowing […]
Opposition Leader John Briceño also joined the Public Service Union in condemning a request for advice for a recommendation made on behalf of Paulette Elrington, the daughter of Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington. As we have been reporting, a leaked memo has raised eyebrows because Paulette, who is a contract officer in the Ministry of Foreign […]
Opposition Leader, John Briceño, also weighed in on the concerns raised by potato farmers in San Carlos Village. Farmers have complained that they cannot sell their locally grown, red potatoes because the local market is saturated with imported white Mexican potatoes. On Wednesday, C.E.O. in the Ministry of Agriculture, Jose Alpuche, explained that permits issued […]
On Wednesday, C.E.O. in the Ministry of Agriculture, Jose Alpuche, told News Five the ministry is attempting a new approach to assist farmers. Alpuche says they are finding ways to educate the farmers in San Carlos and teach them methods on how to effectively operate in the local market. Jose Alpuche, C.E.O., Ministry of […]
The Orange Walk Town Council is getting a new garbage compactor truck courtesy of the Japanese Government. The cost for the truck is more than one hundred and sixty thousand dollars and the funds were made available through the Grassroots and Human Security Programme of the Embassy of Japan. News Five’s Hipolito Novelo was in […]
Bishop Martin High School was also a recipient of a financial grant from the Japan Embassy through the Grassroots and Human Security Programme. In 2017, the Japanese Embassy and the school signed a contract valued more than two hundred thousand dollars. The monies were used for the construction of a news concrete school building. An […]
In 2014, we featured the Belize Family Life Association for the work they were doing in detecting and treating cervical cancer in women. It was a novel step of introducing a new test that was aimed at reducing the impact of intense sickness and possible death in women in their reproductive years. Since that time, […]
Coney Drive here in the city was in mayhem and traffic backed up this afternoon after a shootout between police and two men known to the law. Police were on hot pursuit of a duo of men on motorcycle when the shootout occurred. The duo appeared suspicious to the cops and when they reached the […]
There was another shooting just before nine o’clock on Tuesday night in Belize City. Twenty-five-year-old Keshawn Dennison was among a group of men gathered at the corner Laura Dunn Street and Antelope Street Extension when a gunman opened fire. He was hit in both legs and is listed in critical condition at the K.H.M.H. […]
The head of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas was found inside a bucket in the pan of the truck of the notorious William “Danny” Mason in the parking lot of Barrio Fino in Belmopan. The shocking discovery was met with disgust and anger in 2016. Mason and four other men are facing charges for the pastor’s murder […]
Private developer Dion Zabaneh is free to proceed with filling lot number 4670, after charges against him for infractions that were purportedly committed in defiance of the Environmental Protection Act were withdrawn by the Department of the Environment. In early January, both parties became embroiled in a heated dispute over Zabaneh’s intent to build on […]
A package of allowances and salary to the tune of one hundred and ninety-one thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars annually was requested for approval from public funds on behalf of Paulette Elrington, the daughter of the Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington. Paulette, who has been making that sum while at the United Nations for eight […]
Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington departed the country on Tuesday for Uruguay, along with Ambassadors Daniel Gutierrez and Lou-Anne Burns as well as former O.A.S. Ambassador Lisa Shoman to participate in the international contact group meetings on the situation in Venezuela. The governments of Mexico, Uruguay and CARICOM have proposed the Montevideo Mechanism. According to CARICOM, […]
So while the statement at the O.A.S. by Belize was sanctioned, according to DPM Faber, Belize will not support any type of intervention or interference from any international superpower, such as the U.S. He says that Venezuela has the right to self-determination without political, economic or military interference from other world states. Patrick Faber, […]
On January twenty-sixth, the United Democratic Party’s National Party Council decided that its leadership convention will be held in February 2020. Up to date, there are only two known candidates who have made their political aspirations public. There is Deputy Party Leader Patrick Faber as well as John Saldivar, the area representative for Belmopan and […]
While we had the minister, we asked him about another statement from cabinet colleague Elrington in an interview with this station. When asked to respond to the P.U.P.’s umpteenth call for his removal, Elrington said that the demand was futile. According to Elrington, people very close to the Prime Minister and in the U.D.P. camp […]
