A field trip ended tragically this afternoon; two students from Escuela Secundaria Tecnica Mexico in the Corozal District have drowned in the Macal River. The body of Edgar Pook was the first to be retrieved at around four-forty-five, while the body of the female student was recovered approximately an hour later. The drowning victims were […]
In 2013, the number of murders fell significantly below the hundred mark but since the beginning of the year, crime figures are creeping up. According to our count, there have been twenty-one recorded murders countrywide, including eleven in Belize City. The latest murder victim is Anfernee Romero, who was gunned down on Thursday at […]
Tonight there is much scrutiny of a company called Mytheon Solutions, registered in Belmopan in 2009. The family operated business deals in phone credit. In this case, at least, the dots have been easy to connect. Mytheon was started by U.D.P. Minister John Saldivar and U.D.P. Belmopan Mayoral aspirant Khalid Belisle. John Saldivar then took […]
On Thursday, News Five visited the plight of squatters on Holy Emmanuel Street, many of whom have been there for years. Squatters, Belizeans and immigrants, find a piece of unused government land – usually in some long-ignored swampy area – and they build a home. They are poor and do not have the resources to […]
Residents of the area, all squatters, have told News Five that Area Representative Mark King conducted a survey late last year. They say that they were even given house numbers, and promised title for their pieces of land. And that’s why they feel especially aggrieved by new developments which threaten their homes. They feel betrayed, […]
Mayor Darrell Bradley, in his dual capacity as attorney for the Belize City Council, was back in court this morning where he appeared before Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin in ongoing litigation with Belize Waste Control. Both parties share a history of unease as it pertains to CitCo meeting its debt obligation to the sanitation company. […]
The deadline for entry into the upcoming U.D.P. mayoral convention expired last Friday. While it is expected that Mayor Darrell Bradley would seek another term in office, his candidacy is still very much up in the air. The names that have been mentioned include Deputy Mayor BQ Pitts Jr., former Deputy Mayor Dion Leslie and […]
On Thursday, Justice Michelle Arana handed down a judgment in favor of the Sarstoon-Temash Institute for Indigenous Management. Justice Arana declared that the decision of the Government of Belize to allow oil drilling and road construction in the National Park is irrational and unreasonable since it was made without the free prior and informed consent […]
Three residents of San Pedro were successfully rescued from the sea earlier today when their small Mexican skiff capsized off the coast of Ambergris Caye. The men were in the area of the San Pedro main channel immediately in front of San Pedro when their skiff went down. The Belize Coast Guard as well as […]
We’ve been reporting in the past few days on the changes in the top management of Belize Telemedia Limited. As you know by now, Anwar Barrow, the son of the Prime Minister, has been named Chairman of the Executive Committee, putting him in charge of the day to day operations of the company. There is […]
Reports that the contraband of cigarettes is big business at the Commercial Free Zone and the Western Free Zone are nothing new. But a Mexican newspaper is bringing it closer to home. According to the outfit, an agency out of Jalisco, Mexico called the Alliance Against Illegal Products says that forty-six percent of cigarettes available […]
The annual Expo Marketplace organized by the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry is five months away. But on Saturday, in collaboration with the Ministry of Forestry, Fisheries and Sustainable Development, BCCI will for the first time host a Forestry, Fisheries and Finance Fair. The booths at the expo will highlight sustainable forestry and fisheries […]
On Thursday, Green Tropics’ Country Representative Beverly Burke, along with Chief Agricultural Officer Roberto Harrison and a team from the media, flew over the acreage of produce near Valley of Peace that has been allegedly destroyed by aerial spraying. While there is yet to be concrete proof that the crops were damaged by the use […]
The 2014 season of the annual Festival of Arts got underway last Monday, as preschoolers from districts across the Jewel performed in dance, music and drama. For the Belize District, the event took place at the Bliss Center for the Performing Arts and went through to Saturday when the three and four-year-olds from rural schools […]
