Anxiety is building up in Corozal where a couple has not been heard from since Thursday night. Search parties have been combing the area around the village of Patchakan in the Corozal District where the vehicle belonging to Zeidy Orozco was found torched after she and Balthazar Lopez went missing. Just six weeks ago, another […]
Two persons drown over the weekend in separate incidents in the north and west of the country. Just after nine on Sunday morning, the decomposing body forty-four-year-old Acita Flores was discovered floating about half a mile north of Consejo Village in the Corozal District. The Sarteneja villager was among eight other persons from the village […]
The second drowning over the weekend involved a seventy-nine-year-old man from the Cayo District. On Friday afternoon, Eduardo Landero jumped in the river and didn’t come back up. His decomposing body was found on Sunday morning and was buried immediately. But the family says they believe the drowning was not an accident, but was deliberate […]
Twenty-one years for manslaughter….that’s the sentence handed down today by the Court of Appeal to Osmar Sabido Junior. He was convicted in April 2016 of the murder of his common-law wife, Christie Carrasco of Orange Walk. The stabbing incident occurred at the couple’s home where he stabbed her more than once on February twenty-eight 2011. […]
Justice was swift this morning for a father of three in the lower court. Ernie Zelaya was fined ten thousand dollars and sentenced to three years behind bars for the offense of drug trafficking when he appeared in the court room of Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser. On Friday evening, in Hattieville, police made the […]
Less than two weeks ago, someone set fire to boat moulds owned by Bradley’s Boat Yard, previously located in Belize City. It relocated some time ago to a property off the Burrell Boom-Hattieville Road just outside Burrell Boom village. But the move has raised the ire of villagers, who are already complaining that work being […]
Students have been anxiously awaiting the results of the 2017 Primary School Examination, sat in April and May of this year. According to the Examinations Unit of the Ministry of Education, that wait is almost over, as the results should be released sometime this week. Interestingly, the only man who knows what the results are […]
Police have confirmed that there was an armed robbery in Santa Elena Town this afternoon but at news time, they are still investigating. News Five understands that the Nationwide Cash Express office next to Lin’s Supermarket on the George Price Highway near La Loma Luz roundabout was hit by armed robbers. Two men are said […]
The Belize National AIDS Commission and Executive Director Enrique Romero were recognized with the Tenth Anniversary Regional Testing Day Innovative Outreach Award for their contribution to the Regional Testing Day on HIV initiative. The award was given in recognition of the innovative approach that the NAC has taken to promote Regional Testing Day in Belize. […]
Over the weekend, we caught up with Minister Manuel Heredia Junior on South West’s Inaugural Flight to Belize. Now, prior to opening up a small market for local tour operators to ferry cruise passengers from Harvest Caye to mainland Placencia, there had been disquiet within the sector. That uneasiness came in part from FECTAB. The […]
Tourism numbers are expected to grow with the addition of a new route to Belize. Over the weekend, Southwest started flying from Fort Lauderdale Hollywood to the Philip Goldson airport. When it touched down at the P.G.I.A. on Sunday, a water salute greeted the new flight which brought on board an official delegation as well […]
Tourism officials, industry executives, the media, the Caribbean Diaspora, as well as travel agents and consumers are converging on New York City for Caribbean Week 2017. While there they will participate in an itinerary that showcases the best of Caribbean tourism. The event which is organized by the Caribbean Tourism Organization brings together business and […]
The school year is not yet over, but parents are no doubt starting to turn their attention to the plans for the coming new one. Holy Redeemer Credit Union Limited consistently ranks education among the top three reasons given for loans to members. Scholarships are active, but for a reasonable means of helping to pay […]
The provinces of Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick were brought together in 1867 to form what is now known as Canada. Since then, that North American country has expanded to include ten provinces and three territories. In celebrating one hundred and fifty years of confederation, Canada’s diplomatic missions across the world are hosting […]
Residents of Burrell Boom, Belize District revived an old tradition this past Saturday with “Burrell Boom Day,” an occasion to celebrate and recall the history of the village located about fifteen miles from Belize City. Its roots are in forestry, but it shifted to agriculture and much later, tourism. But one thing residents say it […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend sporting activities….]
