The opening ceremony of the Twenty-Seventh Intersessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM is about to start in Placencia at the Placencia Hotel. Late arrivals by some heads of government have delayed the launch of the three-day summit. As far as we can tell, the Prime Ministers of Jamaica, St. Vincent […]
While Ysaguirre refrained from divulging specific outcomes from the meeting, respective heads of government will be briefed of a collective position that will be taken in the days ahead. The loss of correspondent banking at the moment is deemed more urgent within the Caribbean than climate change since it has the potential for serious consequences […]
During today’s finance meeting, the committee discussed a number of options, including the possibility of establishing a regional correspondent bank by pooling together resources. While that idea may serve as a long-term solution, the practicality of it is being called to question. Glen Ysaguirre, Governor, Central Bank of Belize “There is also other recommendations […]
In the west, tragedy struck a visiting group of students. A fourteen year old North Cobb High School in Atlanta, Georgia was among thirty-two students who arrived in Belize on Saturday morning and headed west to the Monkey Bay Wildlife Sanctuary where they were to spend five days as part of a missionary program. Their […]
Now the death of Tomari adds to the number of visitors who have lost their lives during aquatic tours throughout Belize. But it is the first to happen in the over two decades that Monkey Bay Wildlife Sanctuary has been operating in Belize at its location off the George Price Highway. News Five asked Managing […]
There was a bold and brazen car-jacking in Benque over the weekend. For one thing it happened in broad daylight in a populated area. For another, the vehicle was in the possession of a senior member of the Police Department when two persons decided to claim it as their own. Officer Commanding the Orange Walk […]
A Guatemalan national is currently hospitalized at the K.H.M.H. after he was chopped to his head, right thumb and knees. His index finger was amputated in an incident on Sunday night near the Salvapan area in Belmopan. Thirty-three year old Fernando Soria was heading home when Edwin Chacon, with whom he had been drinking, allegedly […]
There was no love on Belize City streets this Valentine’s weekend as five persons were shot in three separate incidents. The first happened on Friday night just before seven, when nineteen year old Raheem Bailey was reportedly at home with a friend on Allan Pitts Crescent. Investigations reveal that a man rode up on a […]
Just about an hour after that, police were called out to Boots Crescent by St. John Vianney Primary School where a minor was seen lying on the street in a pool of blood. Preliminary investigations reveal that the seventeen year old male was walking on Boots Crescent, heading towards Rivero Street Extension when he was […]
And then, in the early hours of Valentine’s Day, three persons were shot near the Renaissance Towers on Newtown Barracks. Just before 4:00am, nineteen year old Wilbert Welch was walking near the Renaissance Towers on Newtown Barracks. Police believe that he was the target of three men parked nearby in a white car. One of […]
A laborer from San Pedro is dead, allegedly as a result of too much alcohol leading to a long drop into a shallow creek. The body of Fernando Melendez was discovered in a creek near an illegal crossing between Melchor and Benque. Preliminary investigation suggests the Melendez tried to make the crossing in the dead […]
The opening of the CARICOM Intersessional started a few minutes ago at the Placencia Hotel. In the next two days, the heads of government of Caribbean states will be meeting in closed sessions at the Ocean Club to discuss the pressing issues affecting the region. Speaking at the ceremony was outgoing Chair of CARICOM, the […]
On February fourth, Managing Director of Plus Television Louis Wade was informed by the Belize Broadcasting Authority that his payment for the renewal of his on-air license would not be accepted – meaning his license to broadcast would not be renewed. The BBA claimed that Plus had not been broadcasting over the air which was […]
Doctor Anabel Ford is an archeologist, who having discovered El Pilar in the west, has put in at least two decades of research arguing that the Maya’s milpa cycle is one of the same with the forest. She maintains that the practice of the Mayas in cultivating ‘forest gardens’, involved sequencing an area from a […]
Tonight, the mother of a new born is on remand at the Belize Central Prison after she was accused of stealing a wallet containing cash and personal items from a doctor on duty at the Emergency Section at the K.H.M.H. The theft was caught on surveillance camera last Wednesday and it led police the residence […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The drums of Dangriga sounded the challenge as Dangriga Warriors invaded Belize City to take on the leading Belize City Smart Hurricanes at Bird’s Isle Saturday night. The Warriors came in sporting a 3-2 record after falling to the defending champ Friday night while […]
