A Canadian woman and her U.S. boyfriend were strangled to death in the Corozal District. The couple was reported missing since last Wednesday, her SUV was first found on Sunday and then on Monday, their bodies were found off the road in the area of Chan Chen. The double murder is still under investigation and […]
As police grapple with the double murder up north, there is another homicide that is baffling authorities. Early this morning, a burnt vehicle was found on the George Price Highway. It went up in flames at about two-thirty this morning in Gracie Rock and when police searched the heavily tinted vehicle, they found the charred […]
Three-year-old Lindsey Babb lost her life this morning during a horrifying traffic mishap in Orange Walk Town. The toddler was being transported on a motorcycle driven by her father, thirty-three-year-old Eulalio Babb, when he was overtaken by a Bowen & Bowen delivery truck in the vicinity of Liberty Avenue. The sudden impact upon being passed, […]
A baby was also killed in a fatal road traffic accident over the holiday weekend, this time the mishap took place on the George Price Highway near mile nine. Seven-month-old Esmay Ferguson perished when a Mitsubishi Endeavor driven by twenty-three-year-old Darrel Jackson. The vehicle was headed in the direction of Belmopan when Jackson lost control […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow has dropped his largest hint yet that he will, sooner rather than later, be stepping down before the end of his term in 2020. Back on Independence Day last September, he had vowed not to leave office without solving the Superbond. That was accomplished just before the Budget, so time may […]
There were some sweets offered to the businessmen by Prime Minister Barrow in his address, which he couched as offering a listening ear and helping hand to the business community. Foremost among the plans is what P.M. Barrow calls a targeted tax cut for producers paying import duties on packaging and labelling materials. The Economic […]
The recently passed General Revenue and Appropriation Bill prescribed increases in taxes totalling eighty million dollars to cover a shortfall, while limiting cuts in expenditure. Prime Minister Dean Barrow pointed to his statement in the Budget presentation of a ‘bold, Belizean recovery’ in addressing the Chamber. He pointed out that Belize’s economy had grown steadily […]
There is lingering disquiet at the Corozal Commercial Free Zone where meetings were held today to quell concerns of the business community. We have been reporting since last week of sick-outs by staff members who want the new C.E.O. Valentino Blanco removed because of allegations of nepotism and inefficiency. Blanco was installed at the Free […]
On Friday, we told you of plans by Dario’s Bakery to lift prices for meat pies from a dollar to a dollar twenty-five beginning today, Tuesday. Tonight, our viewers in Belmopan and San Ignacio/Santa Elena should note that beginning today, there are no more sixteen-ounce loaves of bread from Casa Pan Dulce Bakery, which are […]
Two young persons lost their lives on Sunday in separate drowning incidents in the West. On Sunday, April thirtieth, Police visited an area in the Banana Bank road where they saw the lifeless body of a girl. According to Police, Armando Lopez of Valley of Peace reported that he and his children were at the […]
Twenty-four-year-old Timothy Thurton was arrested and charged last week with the murder of seventeen-year-old minor, Brandon Randy Bradley. He appeared unrepresented before Magistrate Carlon Mendoza for arraignment this afternoon. After being read the charge, no plea was taken and Thurton was remanded to prison until July fourth, 2017. The ITVET student and Lords’ Bank village […]
After five months behind prison bars awaiting his fate, thirty-one-year-old Lorenzo Smith Junior, accused of the murder of his prison inmate, Alfonso Eck, was found guilty of the crime today. Justice Troadio Gonzalez has deferred sentencing for May fifth, 2017. Smith Junior was accused of murder after Eck who found dead inside his cell on […]
There is a disturbing report from San Pedro, Ambergris Caye. A minor in the island is accusing her father of incest. Because of the sensitivity of the case, we will not reveal identities, but we can say that the accused father is a construction worker. The minor claims that he had unlawful sex with her […]
Seven thousand, one hundred and forty-three hopefuls sat part two of the Primary School Examination countrywide today. As hard as they studied, as thorough as their preparations were, there is nothing quite like facing the Math Paper Two or problem-solving section of the examination. Certainly there were no complaints about the multiple-choice Paper One or […]
On Easter Sunday afternoon, fire personnel were called to put out a fire inside a room at an unpainted wooden bungalow house belonging to domestic Dawn Faber of Racoon Street Extension. Damages were limited to a few items. But News Five was called back this afternoon to the same residence, to find the scene of […]
The Football Federation of Belize has suspended the chairman of the Corozal Football Association after it was discovered that Frank Sutherland had been misappropriating funds used to pay the monthly rent. Sutherland was reportedly presenting fraudulent receipts to the federation purporting that the rent was being paid in a timely manner. When the landlord queried […]
Do you know how to contact the emergency response authorities if you come across the scene of an accident? The number to call is 223-3292, but many people don’t do that immediately. In this age of technology, they take pictures and upload them to online social media networks. And while in many instances that is […]
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