On Wednesday, two teenagers from Santa Elena, Cayo were detained for the vicious and sensational murder of Canadian filmmaker Matthiew Klinck. Klinck’s body was found at the house he lived in at Selena near Spanish Lookout. He had been stabbed fourteen times in his face and upper body. Early this morning, based on confession statements, […]
There is another looming crisis within the agriculture sector to report on tonight, involving vegetables, particularly carrots, being imported from neighboring Mexico. The importation of produce from across the northern border is placing local farmers in the Orange Walk District at a great disadvantage. They complain that acres of root vegetables are rotting in fields […]
Harrison says that while there are approximately ten acres awaiting harvest in the north, there are other communities producing vegetables in various parts of the country. The issue, he concludes, is one of supply and demand, despite farmers controlling upwards of ninety percent of the market for carrots. On the Phone: Roberto Harrison, Chief […]
Is Jack Charles gearing up for another wave of attacks on the local rice industry? News Five can confirm tonight that the businessman has lodged a formal request to import ten containers of Guyanese rice into the country. This time however, it is presumed that all I’s will be dotted and T’s crossed, ahead of […]
Developer Michael Feinstein, the man behind the mega-million dollar Stake Bank Tourism Project, today told News Five that as far as he is concerned the project is on indefinite hold. Feinstein told us that unless he has the assurance that G.O.B. will give exclusive support to the venture which represents an investment of hundreds of […]
A fire swept through a mobile home on Thursday night on Boots Crescent, Belize City. In the blink of an eye, the Flowers family lost everything as the flames quickly raged through the trailer, home to as many as fifteen family members. Fortunately no one was hurt as they were able to quickly evacuate the […]
In twenty-three days, the People’s United Party will have a new leader or a new old leader, as the case may be. Two of the men vying for the position, John Briceño and Francis Fonseca, have been leaders of the P.U.P. – Briceño from 2008 to 2011, and Fonseca from that point until he stepped […]
A Tropic Air pilot is said to be missing and efforts are underway to locate him. He is Guilherme Duarte from Portugal who was last seen in San Pedro at about midnight on Thursday after he had drinks at a local bar. This morning, alarm bells rang when he failed to show up for his […]
Today, two cops at the center of allegations sexual abuse were granted Supreme Court bail by Madam Justice Antoinette Moore of the Supreme Court. San Pedro Cop, twenty-six year Kyle Hubert Serrano, is also on interdiction until the outcome of his case. On December thirty-first, 2015, Serrano was arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court […]
Also from the courts today, five of six men, all tour guides, accused with the beating of Vitalino Reyes Junior in May 2014 are free of the charge of harm. Jimmy Cortez, John Frazer, Christopher Williams, his older brother, Evan Williams and Keith Vairez walked after the charge was withdrawn against them. But a sixth […]
The elderly resident of Fern Lane in Belize City, Patrick Grant was left comatose for days after a home invasion on December twenty-seventh. Grant has miraculously recovered and is back home where he’s settling back into his daily routine and from the looks of it, Grant has a new lease on life. Today, he was […]
There have been two senate meetings since the new government took office last November, but the senator to represent the unions and civil society has been conspicuously absent. The unions have been unable to name its senator because they have been unable to put in motion the proper appointment process. The former union senator, Ray […]
Mora, as Secretary General of the Belize Energy Workers Union, also addressed the issue of the Guyanese rice sitting at the Big Creek Port in Independence. He says first, that as a consumer of the staple and given current economic conditions, the rice could be put to best use by humanitarian organizations and for feeding […]
There is major news and cause for celebration today in Mexico where the world’s most wanted man is back in the hands of the police. At a predawn operation around four o’clock this morning, the notorious drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo’’ Guzman was recaptured in the town of Los Mochies, in Sinaloa, his home state […]
