Police moved swiftly against two suspects from Roaring Creek and have charged them with the murder of Corwin Mendoza. Mendoza went missing on Sunday after an altercation with his girlfriend. After days of searching, his body was found this morning floating in a creek; it had injuries to the face and upper body. Both suspects […]
There have been four murders in the past five murders, including that of Corwin Mendoza. This afternoon the violence continued with a brazen shooting on a busy street in the Old Capital. Shortly after two o’clock, gunshots rang out on North Front Street near the Image Factory. The mid-afternoon shooting has left two persons hospitalized […]
Much as it did last year, a sense of unease and hostility pervades the sugar-cane industry and the 2014-2015 crop season, scheduled to start within a month. On Monday, ASR-owned B.S.I. held a press conference to announce that since no agreement could be reached, it had decided to bypass the B.S.C.F.A. and attempt to sign […]
It is not far-fetched to speculate that the mandate from the farmers may include agitation of some form, leading up to industrial action. The industry is volatile, the labour intensive, and the farmers passionate about the lifeblood of the north. At the start of the last crop, BSI gave an undertaking in good faith to […]
Even as we left Orange Walk following that press conference at the B.S.C.F.A., News Five received word that unknown persons had torched cane-fields in Libertad owned by B.S.I. We were unable to get comment from factory representatives, but reliable sources tell us that a total of nine acres of mature cane, approximately three hundred and […]
While industrial action is contemplated in the north, the People’s United Party is tonight castigating the Barrow administration for dragging its feet on one of the major industries and the lifeblood of the north. According to Party Leader Francis Fonseca, the United Democratic Party government has been slow to intercede in the ongoing dispute. Fonseca […]
Speednet Communications Ltd., the parent company for Smart, filed an application for an injunction against Belize Telemedia Limited in the Supreme Court of Belize earlier today. The application for a court order became necessary after B.T.L. served Speednet with a notice of termination of service via certain links to take effect as of Friday, November […]
No one was injured in a fire that erupted before midnight in the Old Capital, but several families were left homeless. The blaze spread quickly completely destroying the contents of the two small houses. The fire victims lost everything without and need assistance from the public. News Five’s Isani Cayetano reports. Isani Cayetano, Reporting […]
The House of Representatives is meeting next Tuesday in a special session where it is expected that the ruling United Democratic Party will be tabling the Petrocaribe loan motion for a second reading. Government is seeking the house’s approval for loans totaling approximately two hundred and forty million dollars from the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. […]
On Tuesday, we reported that Orange Walk East Area Representative Marco Tulio Mendez had formally announced his resignation from electoral politics. Mendez will not be contesting his seat in the 2017 general elections, having cited medical reasons for his inability to run again. Today, P.U.P. Party Leader Francis Fonseca expressed his disappointment in the recent […]
At the press conference today, the P.U.P. leader was also quizzed about campaign financing and if any was forth coming from Lord Michael Ashcroft. According to Fonseca, there is none and his approach is to the P.U.P. from contributions from ordinary folks. Fonseca also said that the nationalized company, B.T.L., will remain as a public […]
On July fifth, 2014, the battered body of Ramon Cervantes Sr. was found buried in a shallow grave on a farm outside of Orange Walk Town. He had been kidnapped a week before and then beaten to death. Three men were arrested for the crime. One other man, Manuel ‘Pelon’ Castillo, was suspected of masterminding […]
This afternoon, bail was denied to a thirty-three year old woman of Belize City who is being accused of stealing from an elderly woman she befriended. Tiffany Lamb appeared in court accused of stealing over five thousand dollars from the senior citizen by swiping Joyce Goff’s ATM card. Lamb had confessed to the crime but […]
A father along with his teenage son and two other Belize City men will stand trial at the January 2015 session of the Supreme Court for Attempted Murder and Dangerous Harm. The group is accused of attempting to take the life of Christian Martinez on January sixteenth, 2014. Ten months ago in Belize City, police […]
A massive rally is being organized by the United Democratic Party to coincide with Tuesday’s house meeting. The demonstration to be held at the foot of the Assembly Building is being billed as a show of support for government’s Petrocaribe loan motion which will be presented for a second reading during the special sitting. The […]
Earlier in our newscast, the B.S.C.F.A. spoke about an agreement which B.S.I. is trying to sell to farmers. There are five critical points in that agreement which has raised the ire of the B.S.C.F.A. and which the Association refuses to accept. Primary among those is an assertion by B.S.I. that once the cane is delivered […]
The second point of contention in the new agreement is of course one that has dominated the sugar industry scene for the past year – payment for bagasse. In B.S.I.’s proposal, there is no mention of bagasse…just fibre, and a formula which the factory proposes to use to pay farmers for the fibre taken from […]
Earlier we told you about the arraignment of two Roaring Creek residents for the murder of twenty-four year old Corwin Mendoza. Mendoza had been missing since Sunday following an altercation that ended with him being stabbed multiple times, bashed in the head and his body dumped in the creek. But there is some good news […]
The Mexican Embassy through the Institute of Mexico in Belize City has an annual cultural exchange program that showcases the cultural heritage as well as the creative art of Belizean and Mexican artists. Tonight, the works of wood carver, Orlando Canto Montalvo from Chetumal, will be on display at the opening of an exhibit entitled […]
