A young domestic from Hattieville, Gertrude Mejia, is on remand at the Belize Central Prison for the offense of maim. Allegations are that on October twelfth, 2019, she intentionally and unlawfully caused a maim to Virginia Logan in Hattieville. Mejia appeared before Senior Magistrate Tricia Pitts-Anderson and was represented by attorney Norman Rodriguez. There was […]
Three seasoned Belize City fisherman, who have been in the fishing business for over fifty years, each appeared in court on fisheries offenses they are disputing. This morning, seventy-five-year-old Oscar O’Brien Mena, seventy-three-year-old Conrad William Daniels, and seventy-two-year-old Edward Meighan were arraigned before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford for partially and fully processed undersized conch […]
The long lines and the slow process at the Lands Department are well known to persons who have to head to the capital to work out land issues. So now, the Ministry is coming to the City to sort out those perennial difficulties faced by land owners. The U.D.P. Port Loyola hopeful was at the […]
Philip Willoughby also wants to host a consultation on the production of industrial hemp. Willoughby says he is in contact with respective ministries and representatives to have the consultation held next month. According to Willoughby, the purpose is to have the residents of Port Loyola interested in hemp production since it could be beneficial. […]
Schools in the Belize District took part in the revived Father Marion Ganey Primary School Quiz Competition. The two winning students are from Hattieville and Belize City. The pair will now move ahead to the national competition in November, which teaches the students at an early age, the benefits of financial literacy. News Five’s Duane […]
Every year, the third Thursday in the month of October is celebrated worldwide as International Credit Union Day. Credit Unions around the globe organized a range of activities today to commemorate the occasion under the theme, “Local Service; Global Reach.” Here in the country, the Belize Credit Union League and its nine member credit unions […]
But with a collective membership of almost half the country’s population, what is the future of the credit union movement in terms of the services it offers to its member-owners? Corrine Robinson-Fuller of the Belize Credit Union League says that they have received their license from the Central Bank of Belize and come 2020, seven […]
The Belize High School is moving robotics up to another level. A national competition is in the works and teams from across the country are encouraged to participate in the event which takes place in January. But even before the National Elementary School Robotics Competition, a team from B.H.S. is heading to Dubai to compete […]
The Museum of Belize is launching a portrait exhibition called “The River of Art Flows Everywhere.” Taiwanese artist Yaoling Lee, who has been living in Belize for over two decades, is showcasing more than twenty paintings featuring water colours, oil and charcoal art. Lee, who has lived in Belize for more than twenty years, has […]
Jogging, cycling, and even walking are considered forms of exercise that can improve your overall health. It is recommended that you should incorporate at least thirty minutes of physical activity five days a week to maintain your health. But if you’re on a weight loss journey, even with a diet, it may not be enough. […]
We start the newscast tonight with developments in the citrus industry which continues to find itself on the brink of collapse. For some time, the once thriving industry has been on the decline and tonight some two hundred and sixty-nine citrus growers are in limbo and their employees face unemployment. At the core of the […]
The Leader of the Opposition, John Briceño is ramping up pressure in respect of a write-off of a loan of forty-thousand plus dollars to the son of the Cabinet Secretary. The write-off was passed in the House and rejected by the Senate last week, but it is not going away. Briceño has fired off a […]
After the House of Representatives approved the write-off without debate, it went to the Senate and seven out of the thirteen senators voted it down including Church Senator Ashley Rocke who called on the Prime Minister to personally ensure that the forty thousand dollars are recovered. But Attorney General and U.D.P. Senator Michael Peyrefitte says […]
Musa reiterated what Briceño has said to the PM, and that is that, if the loan is written off without the Senate’s approval, the Opposition will launch a legal challenge in the form of judicial review. Kareem Musa, Area Representative, Caribbean Shores Division “I want to say this Hipolito that in my opinion this […]
The Belize Youth Movement is calling on all the Belizean youths to rise and demand that their student loans also be written off. The B.Y.M., an arm of the People’s United Party says it is outraged at the actions taken by Prime Minister Dean Barrow to vote in favour of writing off Joshua Perdomo’s forty […]
The P.U.P.’s Standard Bearer for Belize Rural North Marconi Leal is challenging six re-registration applications, believing that those persons gave inaccurate information regarding their place of residence. Originally, Leal was challenging fifty-nine applications but later abandoned fifty-three; the U.D.P.’s Edmond Castro to defend the remaining six. In court today, Leal along with Nathaniel Alvaro testified […]
The Leader of the Opposition John Briceño says that on October fourth he was denied the opportunity to debate the Joshua Perdomo forty thousand dollars write-off motion. Speaker of the House Laura Tucker-Longsworth told Briceño that no one rose to debate the motion when it was first introduced by the Prime Minister at the previous […]
House Speaker Laura Tucker Longsworth responded to Briceño’s letter today, saying that his statements are misleading and the facts are misrepresented. Longsworth tells Briceño that on October fourth, as the five write-off motions were moved on Friday, August sixteenth and should have been debated forthwith. Longsworth continues to say that she looked on both sides […]
Police in Orange Walk are investigating an armed robbery. Thirty-two-year-old Lizeny Marchand told police that at around two-thirty this afternoon, a man entered Zitro Western Union and he was followed by another seconds later. One of the men held the security guard at gunpoint while the other ordered Marchand to hand over the cash. Fearing […]
Twenty-year-old Troy Polonio was shot and killed while holding his infant son at his mother-in-law’s residence on Raccoon Street on Monday night. He was shot twice by an assailant who reportedly fled the scene on foot. Polonio’s father happened upon the shooting while on his way home that night and saw his son’s attacker as […]
The murder of San Lazaro, Orange Walk, resident Basis Hazid Diaz over the weekend is the most recent and most violent crime that has happened within that community in just over two months. Diaz’s body was found by a search party in a shallow grave off a feeder road. The murder follows two home invasions […]
In the south, retired rural development officer Santiago Pop was also murdered over the weekend. The fifty-eight-year-old was chopped to death inside his house sometime between Friday and early Saturday morning. His body was discovered inside his house in Cow Pen Village around six-thirty on Sunday evening. When we spoke with Village Chairman Victor Juarez, […]
Alleged murder suspect Lionel Kelly, walked free on Tuesday after his attorney Simeon Sampson, made a no case submission which was upheld by Justice Colin Williams. The Justice agreed that the crown could not prove the charge of murder against Kelly. The Mayflower resident was charged for the July six, 2016 murder of twenty-year-old Tevin […]
About a week and a half ago, former City Administrator Candice Miller won a case against the City Council for wrongful termination. The current P.U.P. administration believes that Miller was derelict in her duties in three instances back in 2018 when there was a changing of the guard at City Hall. Miller was first suspended […]
But as the issue of compensation to the former City Administrator looms over the council, there is still another elephant in the room. A million-dollar claim by Belize Waste Control is pending and the council is nowhere close to addressing it. Belize City Mayor Bernard Wagner sidelined that question, but stuck to the issue that […]
