It was a sensational case when it was first reported back in May because the cops claimed they found nine pounds of cocaine and detained a well known businessman loaded with cash. The bust by the anti-drug unit, involved a high speed police chase of two cars through Belize City that came to a crashing […]
The infamous Arthur Young is back on the streets of Belize City after he was granted bail in Magistrate’s Court today. Young was caught at the Mexican airport trying to catch an early morning flight to Mexico City using a fake passport with the alias Edward Roberts. After three months on the run, Young was […]
Luis Fernando Reyes Rodriguez, a fifty-seven year old Honduran National, navigated his catamaran into Belizean waters on September fifteenth. But Luis’ visit has been cut short and he was in court today to face four Immigration offences. The first two counts are for Allowing Crew Members to Disembark a Catamaran without the Consent of an […]
Over a million dollars have been disbursed for environmental projects by the Protected Areas Conservation Trust in the past nine months. Earlier today another quarter of a million dollars were distributed to four agencies. The bulk of the money went to an anti-crime initiative, Restore Belize while the other environmental organizations got the remaining funds. […]
The prospectus for the sale of shares in the BTL will be released on October fifteenth but debate is raging on whether Social Security pension funds should be invested. On Tuesday night we asked if fifty million dollars of the SSB pension funds should be used to buy Telemedia shares. On our e-poll eighty percent […]
There is more on the plane that landed at the Philip Goldson International Airport this past Sunday. Today a team of police officers were at the P.G.I.A. investigating and it turns out that at least three planes may have landed with Chinese nationals over the past few weeks. The first flight arrived on Saturday September […]
Since its launch in June, government’s initiative to tackle crime and violence with an ambitious undertaking known as Restore Belize has been met with a degree of skepticism. The initiative, for the most part, has been overshadowed by the theme song for its I Am Belize campaign which was launched a few weeks later. Well, […]
HIV/AIDS infections in the country have been increasing at an alarming rate over recent years. But over the past six months, the nation’s top tourist destination, San Pedro, with a population of about twelve thousand, has been seeing a steady rise in new cases. That’s according to Medical Coordinator at the island’s Polyclinic, Doctor Javier […]
The Japanese International Corporation Agency is assisting the National Emergency Management Organization along with technical experts from the National Met Service to install a flood early warning system for the Belize River Valley. The area is prone to severe flooding and the equipment will enable the residents to detect when they are in danger of […]
Since the passage of Tropical Storm Matthew, various parts of the country, primarily the west and central regions, flooded. A News Five team encountered a flooded road when we visited Flowers Bank on Tuesday and a river that had risen about twenty feet above its normal level. Gonguez says the flooding will last for another […]
The three trustees of the Belize Natural Energy Trust have called for the resignation of the chairman of the Trust, Orlando Burns, who did not renew the contract of the general manager, Deborah Sewell, and instead chose to advertise the post. The BNE trustees have walked out in protest and the disbursement of funds has […]
In other news from the PUP, the executive of the party met this morning at Independence Hall. From what we gather, the meeting was constructive and cleared the way for a number of contentious issues leading up to what has been billed as the Unity convention set for October seventeenth. Firstly, both Bill Lindo and […]
At the end of last year, the unemployment rate, according to government statistics, stood at twelve point six percent; that’s over eighteen thousand employable persons who are out of work. A group of young people are being trained in computer technology that will hopefully land them online jobs. The Belize City Computer Skills Training Program […]
There are well known fight shows such as Boxing After Dark and even though those programs aren’t held in Belize, pay-per-view versions of those fights have been widely promoted in the Jewel. As a matter of fact, even in our local print media, the results of a Pacquiao, Mosley or a Mayweather fight would be […]
We told you on Tuesday night that two Belizean American pageant queens are in the country on a visit and they are bearing gifts. Well, today the queens stopped in at Saint Luke Methodist School on Mahogany Street to hand out schools supplies and other knick-knacks as well as to provide good entertainment for the […]
There is only one more round of competition and the aspiring duos continue to charm the audience and viewers with their natural talent. On Tuesday night at the Bliss, there was a little of everything that thoroughly please everyone. The rappers opened the show with original lyrics, the Benque siblings brought energy to the stage […]
