Belize City Police are investigating a stabbing incident that left thirty-six-year-old Orlette Sanchez hospitalized. On Sunday morning, before six o’clock, officers were called out to Sanchez’s residence on Guadalupe Street in Belize City. There they found her suffering from a single stab wound to the chest. Sanchez alleges that she was attacked and stabbed by […]
In fourteen days, the new social security contribution and pension scheme is set to take effect. The People’s United Party, however, is not happy about it. Cabinet has approved the new rates which are yet to be legislated. Those new rates will be rolled out in three phases. On July first, the new rate will […]
An employee of the Belize City Council was abducted at gunpoint on Saturday morning by a pair of thieves dressed in camouflage and later released in an area along the Hummingbird Highway, but not before being robbed of a rented vehicle. Despite a subsequent report of being taken against his will by armed bandits on […]
Worries are mounting over the sudden disappearance of two men on northern Ambergris Caye. Twenty-seven-year-old Silverio Cal and twenty-six-year-old Melvin Montesino have not been seen or heard from since last Thursday. They were together en route to the northern part of the island. Several searches have proved futile as the family clings to hope that […]
Corozal police continue their investigations into the kidnapping of fifty-year-old Kiran Kumar Solanri. The businessman of Palmar Village in Orange Walk was robbed at gunpoint on Thursday morning as he drove into the Corozal Free Zone. He told police that he was intercepted by another vehicle, kidnapped and robbed of three thousand U.S. dollars and […]
A Guatemalan man is in police custody facing firearm charges. His name is Romeo Cardona Zepata who, on Saturday afternoon, was spotted in the parking lot on Belize’s side of the western border. A search of his person resulted in officers discovering a nine-millimeter pistol and a shotgun. Offices also found ammunition for both firearms […]
Sandra Torres, Guatemala’s former first lady, is leading in the Guatemalan elections, following the release of partial results today. Torres, who has ties to Belize, successfully won the first round of the presidential elections. According to online reports, Torres garnered more than twenty-five percent of the vote while her opponent conservative Alejandro Giammattei garnered fourteen […]
Dion Bruce, wanted by the United States government for a murder he reportedly committed in Chicago in July 2010, continues to fight an extradition request, despite being locked up at the Belize Central Prison. He was picked up by Belize City police six years ago and since then, Bruce’s case has been meandering through the […]
An armed robbery in Saint Margaret’s Village in Cayo has police searching for two men. The robbery was captured by security cameras which show the duo barging into Ping An Shop at around three-forty on Saturday afternoon and holding up the owner and two employees. The robbers escaped with two cell phones, a gold chain, […]
Late night food vendors in Belize City are being shut down at midnight on the south side and by two a.m. on the north side. From what we are told, this is a directive from Commissioner of Police Chester Williams in an attempt to curb crime. But for vendors, this policing strategy is threatening their […]
The Embassy of the Republic of China – Taiwan has teamed up with the Inspiration Center to sponsor a number of projects this year. These projects will provide community-based rehabilitation, public education and awareness, as well as capacity building opportunities for staff. For the first time in Belize, these children have access to speech & […]
A grant of five hundred thousand U.S. dollars to improve Belize’s capabilities in managing solid waste has been signed by the government and I.D.B. Country Representative Doctor Cassandra Rogers. The agreement is for the implementation of a non-reimbursable grant for technical cooperation to promote the reduction and recovery of municipal solid waste generation and contributing […]
OIRSA has partnered with the Ministry of Education to combat an invasive pest in the north. Beekeepers in Corozal and Orange Walk will get much needed help in the form of traps to control the presence of the small hive beetle. It is a pest that is native to the African region but made its […]
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Brothers Delson and Tionne Paguada, as well as thirty-seven-year-old Timothy Carcamo, will be tried in the October session of the Supreme Court for the January 2018 murder of Paul Jex Jr. The trio is accused of orchestrating and carrying out the execution of the notorious street figure in the San Mateo area of San Pedro […]
In the Court of Appeal this morning, incarcerated sex offender Bert Vasquez represented himself before the bench in an attempt to appeal a conviction that was handed down in November 2018 for attempted rape. Vasquez, who is serving a ten-year sentence for forcible abduction, sexual assault and harm against a sixteen-year-old minor, took the stand […]
The results of the Primary School Examinations for 2019 were released on Monday and while we have been able to speak with the top performers across the country, we did not get a chance to hear from the Minister of Education on the outcome of the P.S.E. That was until this afternoon when we caught […]
The situation at Belmopan Comprehensive High School, where teachers and students have been protesting the participation of several fourth form students in this year’s graduation, despite not meeting the requirements, is not as grave as it appears to be. That’s according to Minister of Education Patrick Faber, who says that the practice of allowing students […]
The Belize City Council is facing cash flow problems. It’s a recurrent financial hurdle that all municipalities go through and it is caused by the ‘seasonal nature of tax collections’. During this time, because tax collection is low, the councils are tasked with exploring alternative options to alleviate such short-term seasonal cash flow challenges. This […]
Belize City Mayor, Bernard Wagner, also updated News Five on the municipal bonds. According to the mayor, investors in all tranches of both Series one and Series two bonds have already received their principal investment. The Belize Municipal Bond is also comprised of Series Three which contains three separate issues totalling more than nine million […]
Village council elections are scheduled for this month. Elections will take place between June twenty third and the twenty-eighth. Village councils across the country have been dissolved and while not much attention is given to these elections, this year’s result can serve as a glimpse into the political future of Belize. Thousands of voters living […]
At the beginning of the month, the Public Service Union which represents tens of thousands of public officers held its annual general meeting. During the meeting, an election took place and Gerald Henry bested Doreth Obermayer by more than one hundred and thirty votes for the post of president. Henry is joined by Trisha Perez […]
It has been more than a year and three months and a report on the Senate Special Select Committee’s inquiry has yet to be produced. The committee drilled and interrogated several witnesses and key experts as it delved into the findings of the Auditor General’s Special Audit Report of the Immigration and Nationality Department 2011-2013. […]
Soca Dan Dada TR Shine has made it to the semi-final round of Yello International Bashment Soca Monarch Competition with his most recent track “Dip and Split.” The Belizean artist teamed up with regional award-winning music producer Kendoyll Simpson for the 2019 competition among the giants in the industry and made the cut. Of the […]
June fourteenth is recognized annually as World Blood Donor Day. In Belize, it is used to create awareness on the value of blood, as well as encourage voluntary donations to the National Blood Bank in the country. Today at the Central Health Region Compound in Belize City, the Belize Red Cross, in collaboration with the […]
