Belize and holders of the Superbond have hammered out an agreement to restructure the terms of the notes for the third time in a decade. After months of negotiations, a committee representing the majority of bondholders has endorsed a revised proposal from Belize that reduces the interest rate on the note and shortens its maturity. […]
In its daily news release, the Government gives all credit to the Prime Minister for cutting a deal which it say puts the country in a much better position to be able to service the debt. A press conference by Prime Minister Dean Barrow to provide further details, but Government is already saying savings will […]
Three persons were brutally murdered over the weekend in the Belize District. Deliverymen Albert Wade and Godwin Panting Junior were the first casualties of the weekend’s gun violence. Sometime after one p.m. on Saturday, their mutilated bodies were discovered on a dirt road off mile twelve on the George Price Highway. A pastor and his […]
The bloodshed spilled into the city over the weekend. A construction worker standing in front of a church on Jasmine Street was ambushed by a gunman on Saturday. Marvin Flowers was shot multiple times and tried as he did to flee, he did not get too far and succumbed two hours later. The general area […]
Police in Belmopan have arrested and charged eighteen-year-old Shemar Santos of Teakettle village, Cayo District for the murder of fellow villager, seventeen-year-old Ernesto “Jun” Wiltshire. Official details reveal that Ernesto’s mother reported to police that her son had gone swimming with two male friends in the Belize River around nine-thirty Tuesday morning and did not […]
A woman is in the Intensive Care Unit of the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after she was shot in Caye Caulker in the early hours of Monday morning. Twenty-eight-year-old Camille Munnings, her common-law husband twenty-nine-year-old Akeem Garcia and thirty-four-year-old Raul McFarlane were on a golf cart on Xocol Street around twelve-twenty-three a.m. when a man […]
Gun violence continued well into this morning. Personnel from the Scenes of Crime Unit were summoned to Electric Avenue shortly before eleven o’clock this morning, following an incident several hours earlier during which an unidentified gunman opened fire on a house. According to officers on the scene of the shooting, the concrete bungalow was targeted […]
The cost of fuel has increased for the second time in less than one week, particularly for premium fuel. At midnight Friday, a nineteen-cent increase went into effect for premium fuel. This takes the price from ten dollars twenty-five cents to ten dollars forty-four cents. This followed a one-cent increase for diesel to nine dollars […]
Glenn D. Godfrey’s GDG Acquisitions LLC has had a judgment of twenty-two million US dollars plus in its favour against the Government of Belize upheld by a U.S. Court of Appeal. The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal, with jurisdiction in Georgia, Alabama and Florida, upheld the decision of the U.S. Court for the Southern District […]
Mark Seawell is not headed home tonight, but the Supreme Court has opened a lifeline in his long-running extradition case. With his brothers Gary and Duane, he has been fighting to avoid extradition to Ohio, U.S.A., to face charges of ran a marijuana and cocaine business involving so-called “shoe mules” between 1994 and 1997 in […]
On Friday afternoon sometime after two, twenty-four-year-old Brandon Bennett was shot in the stomach as he rode his bike on the Belcan Bridge. The gun man identified in that shooting is Lindburgh Clarke, but he remains at large up to news time. Clarke was accompanied by another man who has since been identified as the […]
The U.S. State Department has issued its annual country report on Human Rights practices, focusing on policing and sex orientation issues as the major human rights violations committed locally for the year 2016. Those were followed by corruption by government agents; lack of protection for refugees; domestic violence; discrimination against women; sexual abuse of children; […]
Rising attorney Philip Palacio passed suddenly following a mostly private battle with cancer and a brain tumor, for which he was undergoing surgery in the United States. He started out in journalism but subsequently went to law school and returned as an advocate for the poorer classes, taking on several cause celebres. His last major […]
There is another death of a prominent Belizean to report tonight, this time in Orange Walk Town. Dental surgeon Doctor Carl Meggs was active in the medical community up north and was an advisor to the Orange Walk Town Council. He was found dead Friday evening at his dental clinic by his common-law-wife after she […]
The All Party Parliamentary Group for Belize has been reactivated. The group, whose purpose is to encourage and foster relations between the UK and Belize, has become dormant over the years, so an annual general meeting was held today to get the group going. Members of Parliament and Members of the House of Lords attended […]
Another highly competitive race in the Belikin La Ruta Maya Challenge concluded on Monday in Belize City near the Bottom Dalla Store. Two new teams went on to place in the canoe race which kicked off in the twin towns of San Ignacio/Santa Elena on Friday. News Five’s Duane Moody followed the race from start […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. {Feature on weekend sporting highlights….}
