The Christmas weekend was an exceptionally violent four days, where road traffic accidents and shooting incidents claimed multiple lives across the country. There were as many as five RTAs beginning on Christmas Eve in Belize City and spanning the weekend, leaving at least four people dead. A shooting incident in the Old Capital on Friday […]
U.D.P. loyalist Alfonso Noble spent the entire weekend – all of four days in Police custody. But he didn’t spend those days in a cell – instead he spent them in an office at the Raccoon Street Police Station. So, were Police being heavy-handed when they held him for four days or were they offering […]
Twenty-year-old Israel Lopez of Hope Creek, Stann Creek District, met his death unexpectedly on this holiday weekend. On Christmas morning he was on his way home from a night of socializing when a vehicle caromed into him from behind, causing fatal injuries. Intermediate Southern Formation police are now investigating and News Five spoke via telephone […]
The last fatality of the weekend due to a traffic accident took place on Tuesday night on the George Price Highway. Police from Roaring Creek visited an area between Miles forty and forty-one and saw David Alfaro of Peru Street, Salvapan, Belmopan, apparently dead with multiple head and body injuries. Alfaro was pushing a bicycle […]
On Friday night, a man was shot and killed in the City. David Andrews was standing near the intersections of Seagull and Raccoon streets when two men rode up on a motorcycle and one of them shot and killed him. Neighbors told us that they heard at least six shots fired that night. Today, we […]
One hundred and thirty-six murders have now been recorded for 2016, following the death of David Andrews on Friday. And while it is safe to say after a quiet Christmas weekend that the record established four years ago will not be touched, homicides continue to be a significant concern for the Police Department and for […]
A shooting on Christmas Day left a Belize City student with a gunshot wound to one of his feet. He was treated and released from the hospital. Police say that they don’t know the cause of the shooting and nothing indicates that it may be gang-related. ACP Chester Williams, Regional Commander, Eastern Division South […]
Another man was shot in the city. On Boxing Day, Byron Jeffords was on Wagner’s Lane when he was approached by two men on bikes and one of them shot him in the hand. Police have someone in custody and are investigating this matter. ACP Chester Williams tells us more: ACP Chester Williams, Regional […]
Elward McKay joins Alexander Bainton who was charged this past Friday for the robbery of a seventeen-year-old back in September of this year. Bainton was arraigned and remanded into custody at the Belize Central Prison; and today, his accomplice, McKay was brought before the Magistrate’s Court and arraigned for attempted murder, robbery, used of deadly […]
The Belize National Teachers Union has issued a release reiterating its position that classes for the upcoming semester will resume on January ninth, 2017. B.N.T.U., in accordance with the Education Rule, maintains that teachers, as well as students are entitled to three weeks of Christmas vacation. The Ministry of Education is leaning on Rule One-thirty-one, […]
Following the Annual General Meeting of the National Trade Union Congress of Belize in San Ignacio on December seventeenth, the Congress is without a duly elected president. Marvin Mora, who was running for a second term as the incumbent, easily won the vote over Hubert Enriquez of the Southern Workers’ Union. However, according to the […]
Willoughby told us that she is eligible to run for the presidency in her own right, and is “praying” over a decision on whether to do so. But whoever does ultimately take over the presidency of the Congress inherits an organization with a significant voice in the affairs of the nation. They also, some believe, […]
The first Belize International Yoga Festival takes place this weekend on New Year’s Eve near the Harbor View Greens in Belize City from six a.m. to midnight. Titled, “Breathe – In Stillness All Conflict Must End,” the festival will feature multiple local and international yoga instructors and culminates with a concert by MC Yogi, a […]
