A resident of Biscayne Village is in critical condition after he was shot on Tuesday evening in Belize City. Twenty-nine-year-old Evan Cain was walking on Jasmine Street in the Lake Independence area sometime around five-thirty p.m. when he heard a gunshot and realized that he had been hit. Commissioner of Police Chester Williams told News […]
A man who was found guilty of murder has been sentenced to thirteen years imprisonment in the southern session of the Supreme Court. Andre Valle Diaz was convicted of the murder of Kelvin Hernandez on August nineteenth, 2019 in Hope Creek Village, Stann Creek. Hernandez was chopped to death near a basketball court in the […]
Deputy Mayor Micah Goodin has come under severe criticism from the United Democratic Party, following a weekend shooting in which he was involved. Shadow Minister of National Security Mike Peyrefitte maintains that the sitting Minister of Home Affairs, his Chief Executive Officer and the Commissioner of Police should demit office forthwith. He points to Saturday […]
Also speaking on the matter, in his capacity as an attorney representing one of the men involved in the shooting, was OJ Elrington. Contrary to what the Commissioner of Police has stated on record, Elrington says that Micah Goodin was not detained for thirty-six hours. In fact, he says that when he arrived at the […]
The Belize National Teachers Union, in the wake of an emotional social media post shared by a distraught primary school teacher, has issued a statement on an incident that recently took place at St. Luke Methodist School. B.N.T.U. says it will ensure that an investigation is conducted into the allegations made by Joanna Ysaguirre and […]
The proposed Trade License Bill that was introduced in the House of Representatives for first reading on Friday has been met with opposition in various quarters, including the business community and the entertainment industry. This morning, during a press conference held by the United Democratic Party, Opposition Leader Shyne Barrow, himself a former performing artist, […]
In scrutinizing the language of the proposed legislation, attorney OJ Elrington says that persons conducting business at the micro-level in villages will also be affected by the new law once it is enacted. He goes on to share the legal definitions that pertain to villages, as well as entertainers. OJ Elrington, Attorney-at-law “It says, […]
The Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry says that the conversation with G.O.B. on trade license reform started back in 2009 and has evolved over time. Major concerns were ventilated back in 2013, when trade license had increased up to three hundred percent for some of its members in various municipalities. According to the president […]
While the discourse on social media is centered around Article Seven of the bill as it relates to entertainers, peddlers and others now having to pay for a trade license, Policy Analyst Dyon Elliot explains the issues with the trade licensing regime as it has been in place since 1976. Elliot says that the bill […]
The Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry believes that details of the bill remain unclear and need buy-in before being made into law. The bill will be taken to the House Committee level on Monday and the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry says that it will be placing its position on record. B.C.C.I. believes […]
Last Friday during the sitting of the House of Representatives, the issue of the contract awarded to Brads Gaming Company was raised. This was in reference to taxes that should have been levied on the operation. On Monday, Brads Gaming Company Limited filed a suit in the Supreme Court seeking to repeal S.I. Fifty-one of […]
Today, News Five spoke with Principal Public Health Inspector John Bodden about the situation in San Vicente Village, Toledo where six residents had to be hospitalized after ingesting poison that was placed in the water system in the village. As we told you on Tuesday night, one man is in police custody pending investigation. But […]
Anybody exhibiting symptoms such as vomiting, shortness of breath, headache, diarrhea or cramps are asked to access the nearest medical facility for treatment. The principal public health inspector says that public health officers are still out in the village monitoring the situation. At this time, the “All Clear” for residents to resume use of the […]
Last week, the Fisheries Department announced new requirements for fisher folk who are harvesting conch and lobster. The size of their catch increases by half inch for both products. This too has been met with protest from the fishing communities of Caye Caulker and Sarteneja, among others. U.D.P. Corozal Southeast Caretaker Tony Herrera shared the […]
Village council elections across the country began in earnest this past weekend, and of the twenty-nine communities that participated in the vote, eleven of them went to the United Democratic Party. It is a slow and comparatively weak start, notwithstanding that challenges that have beset the U.D.P. over the past two years. Nonetheless, Party Leader […]
The Pan American Health Organization has issued some alarming data about the rise in COVID-19 infections and deaths across the region. PAHO held a press conference today where it sought to inform the region of a significant rise in COVID-19 cases across the Americas and the Caribbean over the past four weeks. According to the […]
Dr. Etienne says the rise in cases should be a wakeup call for countries across the region. She suggests that people remain masked up and keep their social distance practices, which she says have served for the past two years. Dr. Carissa F. Etienne, Director, PAHO “It is time to take stock of these […]
School closure as a result of the COVID pandemic has had a significant impact on the learning capacity of children in the Caribbean. Today, the World Bank joined regional officials in a webinar to share information coming out of surveys done in the region. The studies have shown that learning problems in the Caribbean, which […]
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development informs that there are over fifty thousand merchant ships registered in at least one hundred and fifty countries, and manned by over a million seafarers. There is a vast disparity in the men to women ratio and a need to advance women’s role in that field of […]
While this is the first year that International Women in Maritime Day is being celebrated, already the theme and those in authority are calling for there to be gender-equality for the women in the sector, as well as for more women to be given fair opportunities to join that sector of work. Port Commissioner, retired […]
Last night we showed a few of the training exercises our Belize Defense Force Soldiers have been engaged in on land and in the air during Trade Winds 2022. Tonight, we take you offshore where the Belize Coast Guard, along with its counterparts from twenty-two countries, has been training for the past two weeks. These […]
It was the shot that was heard across the education sector, an emotional teacher suffering a breakdown on social media as she shared her story of alleged victimization at St. Luke Methodist School. For fourteen minutes, a tearful primary school teacher whose Facebook handle is Avella Teresita, detailed her experience about the day-to-day challenges she […]
Deputy Mayor Micah Goodin was cleared of criminal charges by the police department over the weekend, following a shooting incident on Saturday morning that left twenty-year-old Tae Medina with a graze to the neck. Goodin claims that he did not discharge his licensed firearm; however, he has had to surrender the weapon for ballistics testing, […]
Six residents of San Vicente Village in Toledo are hospitalized and are being monitored in Punta Gorda after they began exhibiting symptoms of being poisoned. Today, C.E.O. in the Ministry of Rural Transformation, Community Development, Labour and Local Government confirmed that the water system in the village had been deliberately contaminated by a resident. It […]
Today, personnel from the ministry are on the ground in San Vicente Village monitoring and assessing the situation and providing clean and safe water to the residents. The Ministry of Health and Wellness has since certified that the water system is fit for reuse and that it will return on stream shortly. C.E.O. Valentino Shal […]
