There has been an alarming increase in carjacking in the west in recent days. The stolen vehicles are quickly transported over the border into Guatemala. Another such case occurred on Monday morning. The victim, fifty-five-year-old Santiago Molina recounted to police that at around eleven-thirty that morning he was driving out of his residence on the […]
Revised figures have been released by the Statistical Institute of Belize. They show that there has been a contraction in the economy by point four percent in the third quarter of this year between July and September. It follows a shrinking of the economy of point eight percent in the second quarter of this year. […]
Belize is in the process of establishing a hemp industry. The announcement was made by Prime Minister Dean Barrow during his Independence Day speech this year. According to the PM, there is a global fascination with hemp which is thought to contain almost magical healing properties. This says the PM, means that Belize with ideal […]
The Government of Belize remains under sustained fire from the N.G.O. community after announcing on December fifth that it will not ban the use of gillnets. OCEANA was first to respond to the disappointing news, issuing a release on the heels of that statement last Thursday. The organization made clear that by refusing to prohibit […]
Earlier today, the Protected Areas Conservation Trust, PACT, announced that a pair of programmes under its Climate Finance Portfolio has been approved through international climate finance mechanisms. Support for these initiatives follows the Trust’s recent accreditation by the Green Climate Fund and re-accreditation by the Adaptation Fund in 2018 and 2019, respectively. On Monday, the […]
In November, NICH launched its second annual Christmas Card Competition. Last year they received fewer than five submissions but this year a whopping eighty-five entries were submitted. A young student in Belize City captured the prize and now her winning design will be used for NICH’s 2019 Christmas Card. According to NICH, the winning image […]
The children of Stella Maris School headed to the Radisson today for their anticipated Christmas Party. Every year, the Belize Bank throws a party for them to celebrate the season. And what a party it was. Spiderman and the L.O.L. rainbow character were on hand as a special treat to the group of children. Here […]
El Festival Del Pueblo or the people’s festival has gained momentum since it started eight years ago in San Lazaro, Orange Walk. It is the brainchild of Hugo Carrillo, a resident, who has been working towards the preservation of the Maya/Mestizo culture, including the history of his village, San Lazaro. Cultural leaders and groups from […]
The Ministry of Education broke ground for three new schools in the south. Last week, Minister of Education Patrick Faber, ministry officials and village went to the villages of Bella Vista and San Juan-Cow Pen to the proposed sites of the projects. Reporter Andrea Polanco reports. Andrea Polanco, Reporting Bella Vista, through funding from […]
A woman is one of two murder victims of the weekend. In Dangriga, the community is stunned at the shocking killing of a thirty-six-year old woman who was killed and dumped in the sea where her body was found early Sunday morning. The well-known resident Jasmin Garcia, known around Dangriga as “Min-Min or Minaz,” was […]
Well-known Dangriga artist, Elsworth ‘Vida’ Magdaleno, spoke with News 5 this evening to condemn the killing of Jasmin Garcia. Garcia, as we told you, was killed and her body dumped in the sea in Dangriga. She is Magdaleno’s first cousin and today the artist says that while this killing has hit home for his family, […]
Police say that they are now looking for one person who may be able to assist in the murder investigation of thirty-six-year-old Jasmin Garcia. That person, according to police, is a resident of the town. Not much else is known about Garcia’s murder except that she was seen out socializing before she was found floating […]
Further south in Punta Gorda, Glenford Hines Junior was killed on Sunday morning. The latest murder victim was on Prince Street where his family lives. He was outside his house when a gunman opened fire. The Hines family believes that the bullets were meant for another person who was walking by. That person, Albert Valentine, […]
Earlier this year, Albert Valentine and another man identified as Adwan Usher were both arrested and charged for attempted murder, in the wake of an incident that occurred in Punta Gorda back in February. It is alleged that the pair of men had let loose a barrage of gunshots at a home on Queen Street. […]
There is a new case of police brutality to report. The violent incident was caught on camera and the images released on social media. It shows a police officer put a chokehold on a Belize City resident who was in front of a store on Faber’s Road. Another officer is seen holding down Anthony George […]
The Belize Peace Movement and Vision Inspired by the People were back in court this morning before Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin where they are seeking leave to commence a judicial review challenging the Government of Belize in respect of a re-districting exercise. The disparity between the various constituencies as far as the number of registered […]
The Belmopan Supreme Court recently freed two men who had been charged with the murder of Canadian Matthiew Klinch. The filmmaker was stabbed to death in January 2016 outside his house in Selena, Cayo District. Twenty-two year old Brandon Anderson, and a minor were charged with his murder and conspiracy to commit murder; both were […]
The issue of the continued usage of gillnets in Belizean waters remains a heated debate among fisheries stakeholders, following government’s recent decision not to outlaw the destructive fishing gear. On Friday, only two days after G.O.B. sent out a press release stating that it will not prohibit the use of gillnets, a large commercial fishing […]
On Friday morning, the remnants of a burnt twin-engine aircraft with the markings “N-five-four-six-one, were discovered west of Chan Chen Village in the Corozal District. As is customary, no one was found in the area and neither was any cargo. However, a police find included eleven small aluminium buckets, four portable rechargeable led lights and […]
The tables have turned for two men, twenty-seven-year-old Wilmer Polanco and twenty-seven-year-old Manual Sacul, who alleged they were held at gunpoint and robbed on Saturday night. The employees of Recinos’ Imports told Roaring Creek police that at around ten o’clock they were in the company’s white freight liner truck traveling from Belize City to the Cayo […]
The Deputy Mayor of Benque Viejo del Carman, fifty-six-year-old Alvaro Gongora was carjacked on Friday morning. Gongora, along with two of his employees, was on the Arenal Road in his 2015 Ford Explorer when they were held up at gunpoint. The masked Hispanic men demanded the keys to the vehicle. Gongora complied and the robbers sped off […]
Police in the Cayo District are investigating a scary home invasion which occurred on Saturday night during which another vehicle was stolen. Thirty-six-year-old Alvin Chi was enjoying a peaceful night with his family in the village of San Jose Succotz when three masked men gained entrance inside their house, terrorizing the Chi family. The assailants […]
Belize celebrates its third year having signed on to the United Nations Convention Against Corruption, UNCAC. Since 2016, when government was brought to its knees during an eleven-day strike effected by the Belize National Teachers Union, there hasn’t been much in terms of progress. There still isn’t a functional Integrity Commission, neither is there a […]
Two persons died in separate fatal accidents over the weekend. A man was killed in a hit-and-run on the Southern Highway on Saturday. The fatal accident happened near the Kendal Village around four in the afternoon. Dangriga police responded to the scene where they found the victim, a resident of Maya Center, already dead. […]
In another traffic fatality, fifty-year-old Epifiano Chan lost his life on Sunday evening. The San Narciso Village resident was driving his pickup truck on the San Narciso/ San Victor Road when the incident occurred. A.C.P. Myvett says that Chan lost control of the vehicle and died on the spot. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National […]
