Prime Minister Dean Barrow rushed back to Belize last Friday to meet with gang leaders. They agreed to hold the peace until after the September celebrations; the carnival road march went without incident. Friday’s meeting was followed by another at the ITVET on Sunday where all Belize City gangs sat around the table with the […]
While the gang truce held in the old capital, in the nation’s capital a notorious figure was killed in a robbery. The body of twenty-seven year old Michael Young, a resident of Hattieville who goes by the street name of Ham, is tonight inside the morgue at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where it awaits […]
The Belize Sugar Industries (B.S.I.) has until the end of September to pay at least thirty million dollars in debt that matures with the ING and FirstCaribbean Banks. Time is running out and a strategic investor has still not been secured to prevent insolvency. The Prime Minister is on record to say that the ninety […]
According to Ortega, while financing can be secured the problem is that the owners of the shares are not willing to sell to them. The B.S.C.F.A. claims it still does not have all the data to complete their buy-out package. They are asking the government to intervene. Alfredo Ortega “We have our technical team working […]
Belize won three-nil over two-time World Cup qualifier Grenada in St. George on Friday. But the national team, which returned to the country over the weekend, had no time to celebrate that victory. The local boys were back on the green today, gearing up for a tough game against Guatemala who over the weekend beat […]
The Football Federation of Belize (F.F.B.) has also been preparing for the Belize/Guatemala showdown. Even the Ministry of Sports is asking fans to root for the local boys. F.F.B.’s Senior Vice President, Bernaldino Pech, has travelled with the team and witnessed the win against Grenada. Pech says that the FIFA certified stadium in Belmopan is […]
According to team captain Shane Orio, the Belize National Selection has been doing its best to remain above water despite previous obstacles at the start of the World Cup pre-qualifiers. Orio further noted that his team was studying today Guatemala’s moves. Shane Orio, Goalkeeper, Belize National Football Team “What we have been doing for the […]
A Guatemalan National who was wanted for murder in his country, fled across the border to avoid the long arms of the Guatemalan police. But the suspect was busted over the weekend in Punta Gorda. On Saturday, Garcia was arrested by three uniformed Belize police officers who promptly handed him over to the Guatemalan police […]
It’s not the first time that women have been busted while attempting to smuggle marijuana into the Central Prison. But on Sunday a grandmother was added to the growing list of offenders. Fifty year old Florence Cho of Carmelita Village went to visit an inmate, but was allegedly found in possession of over twelve ounces […]
Police fired a single warning shot in the air in the Gwen Lizarraga High School compound on September second, while pursuing nineteen year old Ellis Meighan into the school grounds. Police say they spotted Meighan Junior in the vicinity and because he acted suspiciously, they pursued him. Meighan fled and jumped over the school fence […]
Down south, police investigations continue into the mysterious death of fifty-five year old Honduran national, Jose Efrain Alvarado Munguia. On Saturday, Independence police found Munguia lying face down apparently dead. He was fully dressed, but had a machete in his left hand. Police say that around one that afternoon, Munguia who is a farmer at […]
Last Friday, September second a thirty year old US national was accosted and raped on the Stann Creek Valley Road. The woman told police that after one on Saturday as she was approaching mile seventeen and a quarter on the Stann Creek Valley Road when a Hispanic man jumped out of the bushes and pushed […]
In San Ignacio, police are investigating a report made by British National, fifty four year old Alan Gobie, that his San Ignacio house was burglarized on Saturday between the hours of four and six a.m. The thieves made off with over forty five thousand dollars worth of items including, a twelve gauge shot gun with […]
Stigma and discrimination are common barriers to mental health. The primary care providers for these individuals must take extra care when dealing with the fragility that comes with their poor mental health. That is why over a hundred health care providers who concluded a training program were honored through a partnership between the Ministry of […]
A recent study shows that Belizeans are seriously overweight; in fact most women are obese. So an enterprising Belizean with assistance from the Youth Business Trust has made that statistic a business opportunity. A new store has been opened on Douglas Jones Street in Belize City to cater for plus size women. News Five’s Jose […]
Saturday’s Carnival Road March was one of the shortest in recent memory, but it was a still a grand showing of vibrant costumes and the latest dance moves to Ernestine Carballo’s hit song. But this year, in the wave of colors that swept through the city streets, the mas bands portrayed messages about social and […]
Good Evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Tomorrow, Tuesday 6th September, the National A Team of Belize will host its Guatemalan counterparts inside the FFB Field at Capital City, Belmopan in its second appearance of this round of the FIFA World Cup Qualifiers. Our Team goes in hype from Friday evening’s 3-zip […]
