Turning to other news, on Tuesday the Public Utilities Commission said it had not received any objections to the proposed six point one-four percent reduction in electricity rates that it announced earlier in the month. Well today, B.E.L. stepped in line and announced that the P.U.C. is not to expect any objections, but it wants […]
The body of a Belize City man was found on the Burrell Boom road on Tuesday night. Burthen Garoy left his house on Cemetery Road at about six-twenty and less than an hour and half later he was executed. The motive is not known, but an attempt had previously been made on Garoy’s life. So […]
On Tuesday News Five reported on an incident that involved three women, two Guatemalans and one of Honduran nationality. They alleged sexual misconduct by members of the Belize Defense Force and the Belize Police Department. The Honduran National claimed that she was raped on January fifteenth when she arrived in Belize via an illegal crossing […]
In the north, Corozal police are investigating an early morning kidnapping in Concepcion Village. Shortly before six o’clock a group of five armed, masked men entered the home of twenty-nine year old Marleny Cawich; she was bound and taken hostage. But the kidnappers left behind her newborn baby and a ransom note demanding money from […]
Forty nine year old Valda Bodden has been living in Belize for twenty-three years and she has five children born in Belize. So you would think that Bodden, a sanitation worker of BML, would qualify for citizenship. But even in the recent mad rush to naturalize hundreds of immigrants that included Guatemalans, Bodden didn’t make […]
There are over five thousand new voters on the electoral list. From what is known, at least a thousand immigrants received citizenship in the past two weeks to be able to get on the voters list for the upcoming elections. Today, the Elections and Boundaries Commission was put on notice that the Revising court will […]
For a second time, the panel of jurors was discharged from the case of B.D.F. sergeant Emerson Michael. On January fifteenth, it was discovered following testimony that one of the jurors was acquainted with two crown witnesses in the case. The matter was brought to the attention of the judge and the initial panel of […]
With the costs for conventional medical treatment skyrocketing, many in rural communities are turning to traditional healing. Locally, the practice is rooted with the Mayans so NICH today gathered traditional healers from the Cayo, Toledo, and Belize Districts as part of activities of the Maya Calendar. News Five’s Delahnie Bain found that there is a […]
The Belize Rotary Club has teamed up with the Clovis Rotary Club of New Mexico for an ambitious and exciting project. At Old Belize on the Western Highway, the assembly line is long; hundreds of wheelchairs are being put together for donation to deserving persons with disabilities. News Five’s Jose Sanchez reports. According to the […]
Heavily armed officers conducted a search of a vehicle and retrieved two handguns in the Ladyville area. The handguns were real but the exercise was a simulation in which the cops are receiving training on how to manage a checkpoint. News Five’s Isani Cayetano reports. Isani Cayetano, Reporting A stop and search conducted by police […]
