A Belize City man was murdered in the wee hours of Friday morning, giving way to the start of a bloody weekend in which police tonight have four murders to investigate. The well-known tour-guide, forty-four year old Dale Anthony Tillett was executed as he walked on Hydes Lane along with friends, one who was injured […]
The murder count continues to climb. In the City, Tillett’s execution was followed with the broad daylight murder of twenty-six year old Emmerson Skyers of Taylors Alley. Skyers was shot to death in the area of Cemetery Road and West Street on Sunday at around one-thirty in the afternoon. He was in front a shop […]
There was a third death in the Old Capital. On Saturday afternoon, Eastern Division South Police were called out to Lawrence Avenue where the body of a Belize City man was discovered around midday. Altreed Williams’ body was reportedly retrieved from a shallow drain and there were no signs of physical injury on his body. […]
The family of a nineteen-year-old is preparing to bury him this Wednesday in Teakettle Village, in the west. Abner Vasquez, who is a known handyman around his village, was killed sometime between Friday and Saturday. He was beaten to death in the center of the village. The family doesn’t know exactly why he was killed […]
The fourth murder in the span of forty-eight hours occurred in San Roman Village in the south. Thirty-year-old Gabino Choc was with a friend at a bus stop in the village around midnight on Sunday when he was killed. The two men, who were reportedly under the influence of alcohol, were attacked by another intoxicated […]
Mum’s the word in Ladyville where a burglary at the residence of B.D.F. Commander David Jones has allegedly netted thieves a whopping thirty thousand dollars in cash. It hasn’t been determined when the break-in actually took place, as Jones was out of the country at the time of the incident. What we can confirm however, […]
San Ignacio Police were called out to the scene of an accident between miles fifty-six and fifty-seven on the George Price Highway on Sunday night. One man was killed after a six wheeler truck collided into another vehicle and pinned him down. San Ignacio police say they have since taken urine sample which was willingly […]
Arguing that the Senate was misled into approving the appointment and “a legal nullity”, lead Senator for the People’s United Party, Eamon Courtenay, has written Leader of Government Business in the Senate and Minister Godwin Hulse. Courtenay is asking to rescind Nestor Vasquez’s appointment to the Integrity Commission. Vasquez was nominated under the Prevention of […]
Today, the 2016-2017 sugar crop in Corozal and Orange Walk began. More than one point three million tonnes of sugar cane are expected to be delivered for processing to the Tower Hill factory run by American Sugar Refining Belize Sugar Industries. There are no outstanding issues between the millers and the farmers, and all that […]
The Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association continues to reel from news received last week that it would be suspended for the third time by Fairtrade managers FLOCERT. Publicly, the Association has blamed one of its own, Eloy Escalante, whom they have kicked out after he admitted to Fairtrade auditors that he sold his quota or […]
Minister Edmond Castro claims to have as much as two thousand acres of sugar cane under production in and around his native Maskall. But the Sugar Act mandates for now that B.S.I. can only accept cane from farmers in Corozal and Orange Walk, unless there is a shortage. Fellow Minister and sugar planter himself, Godwin […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow is tonight in New York City where discussions are taking place on the restructuring of what is known as the Belize Superbond 3.0, by all accounts an unprecedented exercise. News Five has obtained a copy of a presentation that G.O.B. will rely on to convince bondholders. It presents a grim picture […]
The BOOST Program through which needy families receive a conditional cash transfer from government has been cited as a success in the region. This is according to the Caribbean Human Development Report 2016 which was released today by the U.N. But that is this data is well before Belize plunged into a recession. News Five’s […]
Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington has been soundly criticized by many, including the Opposition, for the handling of the Belize/Guatemala territorial dispute. A recent motion by the Government of Belize to amend the Referendum Act, as well as the Special Agreement, is seen as yet another effort to placate Guatemala. So Government is pushing for a […]
Gay rights activist Caleb Orozco is the 2016 winner of the David Kato Vision and Voice Award. The achievement acknowledges the continued efforts of the UNIBAM founder in highlighting the struggles of the LGBT community in Belize. The award is in honor of David Kato, a human rights activist who was murdered in his home […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. {Feature on the weekend sporting highlights…}
