Roaring Creek this morning was the scene of an execution style murder. Just after eight o’clock, a resident was executed within minutes of leaving the police station. The gunman appeared to have been following thirty-four year old Nigel Neal as he headed to his mother’s house. A hail of bullets was unleashed on him immediately […]
Twenty-four year old Arthur Baptist and his uncle, forty-four year old Melvin Baptist, were gunned down on June first in Belize City. Both men were socializing inside Melvin’s Barbershop on Neal Penn Road when two men rode up, entered the establishment and unleashed a barrage of bullets. Arthur Baptist was shot to the left side […]
A young woman accused of killing three of her children will appear in court on September seventeenth to stand trial on three counts of murder. On April twenty-seventh twenty-two year old Felicia Chen allegedly walked her four children into the sea at Belizean Beach and held three of them underwater until they were dead. The […]
On Wednesday, the Clerk of the National Assembly sent out a schedule and agenda of hearings of the Public Accounts Committee. That committee, mandated to scrutinize and report on government spending, is now run by four members of the Cabinet. Minister of National Security John Saldivar was appointed pro-tem Chairman of the Committee after opposition […]
The Chiquibul National Park continues to be a major draw for Guatemalans who want to farm, or pan for gold or cut xate or cut timber or exploit any of our resources that they wish. Between these looters and their bounty stand a few brave rangers of the Friends for Conservation and Development, joined on […]
The Central Campus of the University of Belize received a bomb threat at around five-forty Thursday evening. All students were evacuated by the security of the national university. Police and the MIT Unit as well as the bomb dog of the K-nine Unit searched all eighteen buildings as well as the rest of the compound. […]
Literacy and numeracy…together with comprehension are all hallmarks of learning. Today, primary schools across the country celebrated International Literacy Day with activities geared towards reading and writing in various forms including storytelling and poetry. News Five’s Isani Cayetano caught up with one school making the most of the special occasion. Isani Cayetano, Reporting International […]
The Football Federation of Belize is currently not on its most stable footing. After a marathon session of fundraising which fell short and a less than spectacular showing at the Gold Cup, the F.F.B. now finds itself unable to pay Team Belize players for their participation in that international competition. That’s cause for concern enough…but […]
A report earlier this week in Caribbean Insight suggests modifications in respect of the Petrocaribe oil debt by governments of the region to Venezuela’s state owned oil company known as PDVSA. Under the program, Venezuela sells petroleum to a number of countries at concessionary prices at annual interest rates of between one and two percent. […]
The ALBA Bank is owned by Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua. News Five also questioned Ambassador Perez Marcano if any changes were contemplated in the medium to long term period in respect of the interest rates which stand at between one and two percent to beneficiary countries, as has been speculated in international media. […]
The family of six-week-old Alyssa Aguilar, born with a rare cardiopulmonary condition, is tonight appealing to the Belizean public to assist in raising much needed funds for corrective surgeries abroad. The procedures will be conducted in Guatemala on September twenty-third and the family is trying its best, with the assistance of the medical community, to […]
The Landings Project, a powerful body of work in visual and literary art, was launched in Belize City today. The repertoire, a product of curator Joan Duran, dates back to 2004 when it was first introduced as the cultural definition of fifteen participating countries. The latest publication is a volume of essays, quotations, writings and […]
Four mas camps were judged on Thursday night; it’s all leading up to the vibrant Carnival Road March on September fourteenth that starts at the Yarborough Green. But if Thursday night is a preview of what can be expected, then this year’s road march will be an explosion of colour, artistry and energy. Duane Moody […]
