In the next few days, a group of attorneys are set to file a constitutional challenge in the Supreme Court. The group will be challenging the validity of the Compromis, signed between Belize and Guatemala to end negotiations and take the territorial dispute between both countries to the International Court of Justice for final resolution. […]
The challenge comes less than two months before the April tenth referendum when voters are to decide on whether or not to take the claim to the I.C.J. It’s been eleven years since the agreement was signed, the document went through an amendment and the referendum delinked with Guatemala. Despite a low turnout, Guatemala held […]
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox was in the country last week. He was not on official business for the Mexican government, but held a brief meeting with Prime Minister Dean Barrow and was joined by Mexican businessmen and potential investors. Now, in 2018, Fox was appointed to the Board of Directors of Khiron Life Sciences […]
Today, the Lemus/Vargas family of Las Flores in the outskirts of Belmopan laid their loved one to rest. Thirty-four-year-old Angelino Lemus was discovered dead on Monday in the river near a golf course in Roaring Creek Village, Cayo. The construction worker, who lived at the corner Florida and Roses Streets in Las Flores area, went […]
The Ministry of Education today hosted its second annual B-TOO Education Expo. High school students from across the country filed into the Belize Civic Center to get first-hand information from several tertiary level education institutions with regards to opportunities and options in furthering their studies. The purpose of the expo was to encourage young men […]
On Tuesday, we reported on the mounting worries of dozens of potato farmers in San Carlos Village, Orange Walk. The farmers are concerned that they will not be able to sell their red potatoes because there is still an abundance of imported white potatoes from Mexico in the local market. The farmers were expecting that […]
A group of fishermen from Sarteneja Village says that they are being targeted by the Belize Coast Guard. According to the fishermen, last year the Coast Guard removed them from a small caye they call Sandbore Caye, which is being used as fishing camp sixteen miles south east of Placencia. They say that the Sandbore […]
When we reached out to the Belize Coast Guard, they had a different version of the story. According to Captain Elton Bennett, they have offered multiple notices to the occupants of the small caye, dating back to last year. Bennett says that the Coast Guard is not targeting a specific group of people, but that […]
The Belize Police Department has taken a number of weapons off the streets in the last few days. Some of the weapons were found in abandoned lots and two were confiscated from persons who have since been charged for unlicensed firearm. Bart Jones, who is the legal advisor for the department, says one of the […]
And while the police department is happy to remove the guns off the streets, they know that it takes more than searching suspicious persons and combing empty lots. So, what is the plan to get more firearms off the streets? Last year, then Commander Howell Gillett was keen on reviving the gun amnesty program, but […]
Commissioner of Police Chester Williams is still settling into his seat as the new top cop in law enforcement and part of his familiarization entails revisiting the sometimes difficult relationship between the media and the Belize Police Department. Today, a cordial meeting was held with representatives of all major media houses in Belize City to […]
Hyde explains from the police’s point of view why the relationship with the media has been strained in the past. Douglas Hyde, Director, Media & Public Relations, BPD “The police, as you mentioned, is a disciplined body. The media is seen not as a disciplined body, to an extent, and so, by us sharing […]
Today, a driver along the Hummingbird Highway captured a flow of garbage near mile forty-nine. The garbage wasn’t litter along the road; it was garbage being transferred to the dump site in a Belmopan City Council garbage truck. The truck didn’t have a tarp or covering to secure the waste material and the Styrofoam, plastic, […]
A trio of brothers, who had been behind bars for the 2011 murder of taxi man Errol Ferguson, was released today on bail. Though they have not been found guilty, they have served eight years behind bars. Justice has been delayed for Michael, Ryan and Adrian Pook who were tried in 2015 and remained in […]
The Government of Belize, via the Minister of Finance, is being sued by Choice Bank Limited after operations were shuttered in June 2018 when its international banking license was revoked. That decision was taken by Prime Minister Dean Barrow, who is also the Minister of Finance, on the advice of the Central Bank. Choice Bank […]
There are still no charges for the driver of the vehicle which knocked down and killed twenty-three-year-old Marilena Mortis. Mortis had just visited with her mother on Dolphin Drive in the Buttonwood Bay area of the city and was crossing the Philip Goldson Highway near DK’s Supermarket when she was struck by a vehicle. The […]
News Five has confirmed that the parents of eleven-week old Dion Woodeye Junior have commenced legal action against the Ministry of Health. The parents have consulted a lawyer and are waiting for reports from the Corozal Community Hospital to proceed with their claim of negligence. Baby Dion died at the Corozal Community Hospital on December […]
For some time, a Belizean has been named as one of the U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement’s most-wanted deportable aliens. He is forty-six-year-old Santos Moriera who has a number of convictions and has been deported a number of times from the U.S., but somehow managed to get back into the United States. But the long […]
At midnight tonight, the prices of diesel and kerosene will take a significant hike. Consumers will be hit with a sixty-six cents increase per gallon in the price of diesel which will be selling at nine dollars and ninety-seven cents, hovering under the ten-dollar mark. Kerosene will increase by sixty-three cents and will now be […]
As many as four legal claims have been brought against the Commissioner of General Sales Tax in the wake of a 2018 decision handed down by the Caribbean Court of Justice in a case against tour operator David Gegg. This morning, attorneys representing individual claimants, including Jaguar Ventures of Belize, Hugh Parkey’s Belize Dive Connection, […]
A resident from rural Belize District was arraigned and remanded for allegedly raping a male child on Monday. Today, a man accused in 2017 of raping a female child was committed to stand trial in the April session of the Supreme Court. He is forty-one-year-old Charles Brown of a Madam Liz Avenue, Belize City who […]
Also in court, twenty-five-year-old well-known repeat offender, Ignatius “Bantan” Williams of Flamboyant Street, Belize City was sent behind bars for possession of a firearm loaded with seven live rounds of ammunitions. Williams was arraigned in the court of Magistrate Emmerson Banner after allegedly being found in possession of a pistol loaded with seven rounds of […]
In January Former Boundary Commissioner Lindsay Belisle made his media rounds voicing his complete opposition in taking the Guatemalan claim to the International Court of Justice. According to Belisle taking the dispute for the I.C.J. to rule on is too risky because the 1859 Treaty does not give a title to Belize’s eight-eight-sixty-seven square miles. […]
“I am; I will” is this year’s theme for World Cancer Day. Every year, across the globe, there is an observance to bring awareness about the importance of prevention, detection, and treatment of cancer. This year, the theme encourages everyone to take responsibility and know their status. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. Duane Moody, […]
Tonight there is growing concern among farmers in San Carlos Village, Orange Walk. Potato farmers are worried that their investment and weeks of hard work will be all for naught because they are unable to sell their products in the local market. Currently, there is a surplus of imported white potatoes from Mexico in the […]
