A man was executed in Belize City before the start of the curfew hours on Wednesday night. A Chinese business man was shot and killed outside of his business in Belize City after six o’clock on Wednesday evening. And tonight police are digging into the investigation to find out why. The killing, which happened in […]
The murder count went up by two today. The latest victim was executed at around midday as he drove a ‘busito’ on the George Price Highway, heading to Saint Mathews Village. Oscar Vasquez, a resident from Belmopan, has been covering that run for some time, so it is believed that whoever wanted him dead, knew […]
A further relaxation of the state of emergency will be announced when Prime Minister Dean Barrow speaks to the press on Friday morning. Belize continues without new cases of COVID-19, but the state of emergency remains in place until the end of June. The National Oversight Committee, co-chaired by the PM and the Leader of […]
The country of Belize remains under threat for a second wave of the coronavirus though no new cases have been reported in past forty-six days. Notwithstanding, the Ministry of Health continues to prepare for the eventuality that new imported cases can pop up. A further relaxing of the state of emergency will be announced on […]
On Wednesday, the Ministry of Finance sent out an addendum to a circular that had been previously released in respect of increments owed to eligible public officers for the fiscal year 2020. The memo from Financial Secretary Joseph Waight goes over the position that government has taken where those salary adjustments are concerned, that if […]
The executive of the P.S.U. also met virtually on Wednesday night where they held the first of a series of online conversations with its membership regarding various matters, including the increment. According to Flowers, the wider membership of the union is in agreement with the addendum. Dean Flowers, 1st Vice President, P.S.U. “What occurred […]
There is an update to the double murder in Hopkins which occurred last Friday, May twenty-second at a house on the Hopkins Road. Police in Dangriga have made progress in the investigations. Three persons are believed to have been involved in the murders of fifty-five-year-old tour guide operator Quintin Espinosa and seventy-year-old U.S.A. citizen Roland […]
There is still no official information on the re-opening of schools, but the rest of the academic year will likely continue as is with students doing at-home studying. It is also graduation season, but because of COVID 19, the much anticipated occasion is not going to happen in the traditional form. Various high schools are […]
Students will be sitting CSEC and CAPE examinations in July. That was the decision coming out of the First Emergency Virtual Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development earlier this month and since then, schools across the region have been preparing students for these tests via virtual classes and other forms of study. […]
Saint Catherine Academy in Belize City has notified its parents that they are closing off the school year on Friday, May twenty-ninth. This will allow for the school to continue with its CSEC preparation for its fourth form students, but also to allow the institution to develop its strategy going into the new school year […]
But will the new school year begin earlier in August rather than later? News Five confirmed today that a meeting with education officials and stakeholders will be held next week to determine the road ahead, given the COVID-19 situation and the possibility that by then, the country may be experiencing a second wave of the […]
A group of men, including four Chinese businessmen and two Punta Gorda residents, was released from custody on Wednesday after being busted near Orange Point in the Toledo District. The men were found in possession of an icebox filled with shrimps that were purportedly purchased from Guatemalans whom they met with in the vicinity of […]
The Prime Minister will on Friday measures that will give more freedom of movement during the state of emergency. But while ComPol says that the department is doing the best it can, he feels that some officers are not doing enough to enforce the S.O.E. regulations. Williams says that they may be more focused on […]
Chetumal is locking up shop at five every evening and this is what it looks like at this time. This latest measure was taken by our neighbours in the north. Mexican media reports that Othon P. Blanco’s mayor has called on businesses in Chetumal to close at five to slow down the spread of COVID-19, […]
The body of a woman was discovered in Bullet Tree Falls in Cayo District earlier today. The woman who has been identified as an American national was found motionless this morning and her cause of death was still under investigation by police officers who responded to the scene of the discovery. Up to news time […]
Whether it’s curfew hours, face masks, no graduation, no travel, COVID-19 has drastically uprooted all that was normal in our lives. And yes, these measures are meant to keep us all safe. But for some vulnerable populations, the adjustments have been harder than others. We hear about one such story in tonight’s Healthy Living. […]
A horrible video surfaced on the internet on Tuesday night; its contents sent chills all around. Three men are seen brandishing a high powered firearm and a handgun and then heard making sinister threats. The live images caught the attention of the police and the trio and the firearms were traced to a house in […]
According to Commissioner of Police Chester Williams; while the guns turned out to be fake, the fear instilled by the men on the public is very real. He says that policymakers will need to take a closer look at retracting the importation of imitation firearms as these are also used to terrorize members of the […]
Six persons, including four Asian businessmen, were taken into custody on Tuesday morning after being busted by a coastguard patrol near Orange Point, in the southern waters of Toledo. Xueen Ma, Jianfu Huang, Ivan Pena, Leslie Williams and two others were spotted by B.D.F. personnel not far from the Sarstoon Forward Operating Base where they […]
According to Soberanis, the men were in violation of a number of laws; including the fact that boat captain Leslie Williams was driving the boat with an expired license. The substantive charges, he says, will likely fall under the state of emergency regulations. Commander Gregory Soberanis, Vice Commandant, Belize Coast Guard “They were in […]
Turning to COVID-19…tonight the news is that there are still no new cases of the virus, but the repatriation of Belizeans is running into trouble as soon as it started. Over the weekend, ten Belizeans made it back home after spending seventy-two days at sea on a Royal Caribbean ship. But a number of other […]
So while many Belizean repatriates are trapped in neighbouring Guatemala and Mexico, fifty-seven persons who crossed into Belize in recent days are in quarantine. The list includes the ten Belizeans who work in the cruise ship industry and returned to the Jewel over the weekend as well as those persons who were caught illegally entering […]
Earlier today, Financial Secretary Joseph Waight sent out a circular reiterating government’s position on the forgoing of increments for public officers. In the bulletin which was issued to the Office of the Governor General, Chief Justice, the Auditor General, C.E.O.s and heads of department, the FinSec reminded that the increments will be forgone until retirement […]
COVID-19 has not only overwhelmed health systems and claimed the lives of one hundred thousand people, but it also continues to halt economies. An IMF Blog post in April states that the growth in the region is projected to contract by six point two percent in 2020, stating, “This would be the deepest recession in more […]
The tourism industry collapsed in a matter of days as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. As far as it is known, one major airline, Southwest is not scheduled to fly to Belize until next year. When Belize closed its border points and the P.G.I.A., the visitors stopped coming and the hotels have had to […]
