The final proposal for a purchasing agreement between the B.S.C.F.A. and B.S.I. remains to be endorsed, despite an amendment to a controversial term in a previous draft. Earlier this week, Chief Financial Officer Belizario Carballo expressed serious concerns about the National Trade Union Congress of Belize’s involvement in ongoing negotiations between the two parties. The […]
As we mentioned earlier, the N.T.U.C.B.’s role in the current process has been met with questions from B.S.I. concerning its agenda. While he did not speak openly, Carballo alluded to an interview last Friday in which the N.T.U.C.B. representative was purportedly misinformed of the facts of the matter pertaining to the purchasing agreement. Belizario […]
CARSI, the Central American Regional Security Initiative, is a program particularly designed to help create a more responsive police force, enhance public police cooperation, improve the judicial sector, modernize correctional facilities, and to assist with anti-gang programs with a focus on youth at risk. Today the media was invited to witness the presentation of a […]
The crime statistics for 2014 are out – well, not exactly because 2014 isn’t done yet and all those figures are subject to change. But at the request of the media, there is an interim stat sheet. We won’t look in-depth at all the figures until the end of the year, but we did take […]
At least by our unofficial stats, murders in Belize City have gone way down, which is good news. But murders in the districts have gone up, which is bad news. And it gets worse. Murders in the city, particularly due to gang violence, can be addressed, and have been addressed, proactively. But many of the […]
There was a traffic accident just before eleven this morning on Princess Margaret Drive near its intersection with A Street in the King’s Park Area. Twenty-five year old David Gonzalez, an employee of Home Protector Insurance Company Limited, was running errands for the company when he slammed into a Toyota Hilux registered to the Guatemalan […]
On Tuesday morning, shortly before three o’clock, the body of twenty-year-old Juan Menjivar was discovered by police in an area between miles forty-two and forty-three on the Southern Highway, in the vicinity of the Monkey River Junction. Menjivar, a resident of Water Side Area in Independence Village, was observed in an unconscious state lying in […]
Belize City fisherman Giovanni Murrillo is tonight without a boat, following a theft on Tuesday during which his fishing vessel and equipment were stolen. Sometime during the evening, Twista, which was moored at the Lakeview Street Canal, was taken. The eighteen foot, green and red vessel, valued at four thousand dollars, contained two pairs of […]
We’ve all heard the derogatory but very accurate description of the holding cells at the Queen Street Police Station, and truth be told, the others across the country aren’t in much better condition. For those of us just passing through, it’s unpleasant…for the persons detained there, and even the Police officers working in the proximity, […]
And while the Ministry is looking at the holding cells, it has also looked at the living conditions of Police Officers stationed in Caye Caulker. A few months ago News Five showed you the dorm room where officers working on the island must live – we use the term live loosely. It was a mess…dilapidated, […]
A removal ordered requested by the Belize Immigration Department was granted for the expulsion of thirty-two-year-old Timothy Joseph Eales from Belize. On Friday, December nineteenth, Eales was picked up by police and handed over to the Belize City Immigration Department when he was unable to produce any documents to show his immigration status allowing him […]
A Honduran national is convicted of two counts of sexual assault upon a mother and her eleven year old daughter. Carlos Perez Sanchez, who is originally from Dangriga but was living in Sand Hill, is now a resident of the Belize Central Prison, after he was convicted late Tuesday evening in the Belize City Magistrate’s […]
Earlier in the newscast, we showed you the presentation of a diplomatic note through the CARSI initiative, to the tune of four point one million dollars U.S. This program has been used to fund things like the big Police pickups used all across the country – thirty-eight of them so far. Those vehicles have been […]
Downtown Belize City is bustling with residents doing last-minute shopping for one of the most exciting seasons of the year. Although Christmas is all about the traditional trimmings of turkey, ham, the exchanging of gifts and the like, it is primarily seen as a time for family and a time of spending the season with […]
In the spirit of sharing the love for Christmas, residents also sent heartfelt greetings to friends and family here in Belize and the Diaspora. {Christmas Greeting from residents…}
