Belize Electricity Limited has been in the news consistently and often in a back and forth exchange with the Public Utilities Commission. Late this evening, the utility company announced May fourteenth as the date for its annual general meeting which will present a report to shareholders on the company’s performance for 2008. In an advance […]
Turning to the courts, a fourth person is in custody for the sensational murder of twenty-eight year old John Paul Saldivar that occurred in January in San Pedro, A.C. Today, twenty-three year old Eric Swan, who was shot during a crossfire with police, appeared in Magistrates’ Court in crutches to answer to charges of Murder […]
Belizean Mark Seawell, who is wanted by U.S. law enforcement agencies since 2007, will get to know his fate next week Friday. That’s when Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie will rule on whether Seawell’s attorney, Elson Kaseke has won the arguments on the preliminary points presented in court. Those centered mainly on an Extradition Treaty with […]
After three year old Omar Aguilar perished in flames last December, his mother, thirty year old Pauline McLean, was charged. But today McLean walked free out of Magistrates’ Court after the Director of Public Prosecutions, Cheryl-Lynn Branker-Taitt, ordered that the charge of Causing Death by Careless Conduct be withdrawn. The D.P.P. sited insufficient evidence as […]
In the other Easter murder, San Ignacio police are still trying to put their hands on a motive and a suspect in the shooting murder of fifty-three year old Felix Cocom. Cocom’s body was discovered on his farm in the Lower Barton Creek area, some five miles off the Western Highway in Blackman Eddy, Cayo […]
On Monday night after ten p.m., thirty-six year old nursing student Uwaoma Nelson Onwunali was murdered inside his taxi cab. The body of the Nigerian national was found inside his red Mazda Protégé between Curl Thompson Street and Jane Usher Boulevard. Doctor Hugh Sanchez conducted a post-mortem examination on Onwunali’s body and classified the cause […]
After years of being in poor condition, Albert and Regent Streets were finally paved in December of last year. But while most of the circular loop is now smooth, drivers still complain about the condition of the seven tributaries that connect to downtown Belize City’s most traveled thoroughfare. The portion of King Street that lies […]
If you plan to buy poultry, hold up because as of Thursday, the price of chicken will go down. And you will be glad to know that it is going down by ten cents per pound. According to a release from the Poultry Association, the new price is two dollars and twenty-eight cents per pound. […]
The family of Marsha Smith in Belize City is having their share of unfortunate events. Smith’s son, Sharife, was recently killed and now her daughter, twenty-two year old Rushelly, is hospitalized following a traffic accident shortly before nine Tuesday night. Rushelly was knocked off her bicycle by a vehicle travelling on Vernon Street. Accompanied by […]
News Five has been following case of Enrique Ricardo Magana, a resident of San Joaquin Village in the Corozal District, who was last seen by his wife on March twenty-eighth. Two days later, officers found his van on Consejo Road with his passport and documents still in tact. He has not been heard from him […]
For a week, the person with the winning ticket for the Lotto jackpot of one hundred and forty-five thousand dollars was silent. But finally today, Burrell Boom resident, Adelina Humes, picked up her well-deserved winnings at the Belize City Lotto office. She is a mother of an eight and a fifteen year old girls, who […]
The government of Venezuela has a growing cooperation programme with Belize including the Petrocaribe Initiative, a housing project and cultural exchanges. Today, another initiative got underway. It is known as Mission Miracle or Operacion Milagros and a large crowd descended at the City Center to receive free eye care treatment. There is already a similar […]
Six thousand eight hundred and fifty-six candidates registered to sit the Primary School Examinations on March twentieth which will determine their placement in the different high schools. And while the grades they obtain are one thing, there is another story that is emerging from the P.S.E. tests. It has to do with the state of […]
The Summit of the Americas in Port of Spain is not only the meeting ground for a thousand plus journalists who hope for a chance to interview United States President Barack Obama. It is also the venue where youths from all over North, Central and South America are converging for the Youth Forum of the […]
And still on the summit, the security arrangements are intricate and elaborate for the thirty-four regional leaders and other luminaries, including Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki Moon, who are expected to attend the event. The region has been providing support to Trinidad and Tobago to ensure that the Summit is safe and […]
