A fire destroyed a wooden house in Belize City on Thursday night. It happened on Aloe Vera Street, a few minutes before nine. The house was engulfed in flames for thirty minutes before firefighters extinguished the blaze. Neighbors told News Five that they heard crackling sounds just before they saw smoke and flames inside the […]
The Ministry of Natural Resources issued a press release today to clarify the land issue in La Gracia. The release states that last month, the ministry gave a Superintendent of Police and other Belizeans permission to survey land in the village. The surveyors in La Gracia were private surveyors carrying out the surveys on those […]
Forty-three young men and women today officially entered into an agreement with the Social Security Board for financial assistance to achieve higher education. The eighteenth annual Social Security Board Scholarship Award ceremony took place today in the Old Capital where students from across the country are seeking to pursue their high school, sixth form, vocational-technical […]
The Digi Signature Store was officially launched this afternoon in Belize City. The Digi outlet is located at the Mirab building along the Philip Goldson Highway. In 2018, Belize Telemedia Limited launched its campaign to reinvent itself under an attractive brand that would pull new customers. The new Digi Signature Store forms part of that […]
A body was found this morning at entrance of the Burrell Boom, Belize District. The upper part of the body was covered with a plastic bag and covered with a tarpaulin. Soon after the discovery, family members were able to confirm that it was one of their own, Darwin Rocke. He had been killed and […]
Police are also investigating the murder of an elderly man in the village of Young Bank, Cayo District. On Wednesday afternoon, police were called out to the village located along the Valley of Peace Road. There, they found Guatemalan national Manuel Barrera dead inside his house. The family believes Barrera was eating lunch when he […]
So, what are police saying about this murder? They say that they don’t know what the motive is as yet. The investigation is in its early stages and they are still interviewing neighbours and friends. At this time police are looking for one person they believe that can assist them with this investigation. Here’s more […]
While two persons were found dead in less than twenty-four hours, in Belize City, twenty-seven year old Rafael Usher survived a shooting. Usher was on Central American Boulevard on Wednesday night when he came under fire from two gunmen He was shot multiple times and remains hospitalized at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Prior to […]
A memo dated July twenty-ninth, 2019 has been leaked and is making its rounds on social media. It is signed by Artemio Osorio on behalf of the Financial Secretary and has to do with a huge grant to be drawn from the N.H.I. Reserve Funds. The memo states that the Ministry of Finance has no […]
An all-points bulletin remains in effect for the apprehension of Rodwell Arzu, the man whom police believe shot and killed his ex-girlfriend on Sunday morning in Dangriga, before turning the murder weapon on her cousin. Forty-one-year-old Geraldine Flowers was fatally injured when Arzu gained entry to her apartment in the New Site area of town. […]
Twenty-four-year-old Yanira Novelo, a mother of two from San Jose Village in Orange Walk District, was murdered on her son’s fourth birthday during a deadly attack that also saw the child injured. It is believed that Novelo was robbed and killed and her son, Alexander, was stabbed in the abdomen but managed to make his […]
The gruesome murder of sixty-four-year-old Porfilio Nino whose remains were found inside a shallow grave in Maya Mopan remains unsolved. Despite rounding up several persons for questioning in relation to the homicide, Belmopan police are no closer to making an arrest. That’s because there was insufficient evidence to tie any of the suspects to Nino’s […]
A Maxboro resident, who shot his former neighbour at a bus shed, is tonight on remand at the Belize Central Prison. Kareem Harvey appeared before Senior Magistrate Tricia Pitts-Anderson and was charged with attempted murder, dangerous harm and use of deadly means of harm upon Jordan Murrillo, a resident of Sand Hill Village, Belize District. […]
There is an alert tonight in the banana industry in the south. The Belize Agriculture Health Authority informs of a suspected detection of Fusarium wilt of bananas in La Guajira Province in Colombia. The disease is devastating and can potentially wipe out the industry. If infected, banana plants die and the disease spreads quickly within […]
A new set of regulations came into effect today for water taxis and those changes have one industry stakeholder up in arms. Beginning August first, all seagoing vessels operated as water taxis are required to provide a passenger manifest, as well as life jackets for all persons onboard the craft. In the next few weeks, […]
Additional regulations that are set to come into effect as of September sixteenth include an approved safety management and emergency response plan, as well as the outfitting of each vessel with safety and communication equipment. They are also required to have onboard a pair of functional engines. Merlene Martinez, Ports Commissioner “There are various […]
According to Martinez, what hurts most is finding out that the victim is the son of a childhood friend. He says that he is preparing to take legal action against the police department. Vince Martinez, Shooting Victim “I feel unhappy because I get fi find out that this guy Major that get shot me […]
The Magic of Disney is an entertainment show for kids and adults alike and will take place this Saturday at the Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts in Belize City at six p.m. It will be filled with a number of Disney characters and there is also a line-up of Belizean artists that will take […]
“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery” – the popular song from Bob Marley is being used across the region today in English-speaking Caribbean as slavery to mark the abolition of slavery on August first, 1834. The day is celebrated as a national holiday in all former British colonies in the Caribbean except Belize. Today, at the […]
World breastfeeding week starts today and continues to August eighth. This year’s theme is “Empowering Parents; Enabling Breastfeeding.” While breastfeeding is often seen as the sole responsibility of the mother, research suggests that successfully breastfeeding a child is linked to the mother’s support system. In tonight’s Healthy Living, we find out more about the impact […]
