Fifteen thousand dollars for groping and kissing a teenage minor, that’s the bail amount that was set in the Supreme Court earlier today when thirty-two-year-old Freddy Espinosa appeared before Justice Denis Hanomansingh. Espinosa’s appearance follows an incident on July twenty-fourth in Belmopan where it is alleged that he sexually assaulted a fifteen-year-old girl. Represented in […]
Police are trying to puzzle out a strange incident reported on Tuesday afternoon involving three men from Orange Walk. There was a traffic accident reported in front of M-1 Sugar. Thirty-seven-year-old Tiburcio Fernandez and twenty-two-year-old Abdi Aban had been drinking and driver Fernandez lost control of the vehicle. But the story actually starts, according to […]
Tropic Air has suspended three of its international flights to Chetumal and Merida in Mexico and San Pedro Sula, Honduras. About five years ago, the domestic airline further expanded its services outside of Belize and picked up five additional international flights – to Cancun, Merida and Chetumal in Mexico and Roatan and San Pedro Sula, […]
According to Greif, the airline company is constantly looking for new routes and combinations to work. He says that if the current tax structures change, the company will revisit the routes. Meanwhile, its domestic service and the other destinations remain intact. John Greif III, President, Tropic Air “If the situation changes, if some huge […]
On August third, 2016, residents across the central and northern areas of the Belize District braced themselves in anticipation of Hurricane Earl which made landfall in the early hours of August fourth. The category two storm caused severe damage to homes and businesses in Vista del Mar, Ladyville, as it made its way inland. The […]
The Belize City Council, as part of its revenue generating initiative, is selling personalized license plates to motorists. The move has generated quite a buzz among car owners across the city, amid concerns from the Transport Department that the practice may very well be against the law. Despite those apprehensions, City Hall is proceeding with […]
This afternoon, we spoke to councilor Philip Willoughby in the ‘Pink Jungle’ area of Pickstock, where he was donating garbage containers to residents of the hutments, as he did in the Mayflower Street area last week. It was clear that he was still smarting from the ‘double-banking’ he received from opponent Dion Leslie and Mayor […]
According to mayoral aspirant Phillip Willoughby, the slings and arrows of his opponents do not bother him, as he is concentrated on bringing even more services for residents of the Old Capital. One of the things he wants to see more of the council doing is a ‘social side,’ particularly addressing survivors and victims of […]
President Clement Sankat of the University of Belize has assumed the Vice Presidency of Consejo Superior Universitario Centro Americano or what is known in English as the Central American Higher Education Council. Sankat’s Vice Presidency tenure will be for this academic year July, 2017 to June, 2018. Following that term, Sankat will take up the […]
The CASSA program, Creating A Safe Space Agenda, is wrapping up its third year. The project has been running now in its third year at YWCA where kids from high school—both first form and second form—and primary school, standard five students receive lessons in a number of core subject areas. As a part of the […]
Over two hundred children are participating in the YWCA’s annual summer program. It started in July and will wrap up next week. The YWCA says that the children will be putting on a day exhibition to show the public what they did over the summer. Joevannie Collins, Belize City Team Leader, CASSA Project “The […]
Over seventy children at the YWCA were treated to a book fair today. The children received free books through the ‘Alina Gives Back’ foundation. It is a small non-profit started by a teenager who started out in an orphanage. She was adopted and moved away, but for the last few years she has been coming […]
Today at the ITVET, as many as twenty-five gang members from across Belize City filed into the classroom where they spent the better part of the day learning how to be young businessmen. It’s an initiative spearheaded by Diane Finnegan, coordinator of the Youth Apprenticeship Program during the ongoing truce. She tells News Five more […]
A train the trainer workshop for plumbing instructors for the ITVETs countrywide and field supervisors for Belize Water Services Limited began earlier this week and will continue through to August fifteenth. The purpose is to provide awareness on the existence of the Belize Plumbing Code. Director of Water from the Public Utilities Commission, Rudolph Williams […]
Next Thursday, August tenth, marks a full year since Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin struck down Section Fifty-Three of the Criminal Code outlawing sexual acts other than consensual heterosexual intercourse, between man and woman. The matter is being appealed by several church bodies and partially by the Government of Belize. But the United Belize Advocacy Movement […]
After two terms of David Fonseca as the first directly elected mayor of Belize City, the United Democratic Party has been on a run of four successive terms in office – two headed by Zenaida Moya, two headed by Darrell Bradley. And while the U.D.P. is the most successful it has ever been politically both […]
With less than a month to go before polling opens for the U.D.P. municipal convention, mayoral candidates Dion Leslie and Philip Willoughby have been actively campaigning on the ground and on the airwaves. Willoughby in particular has been making personal appearances in battleground communities such as the one we showed you earlier. On Tuesday, Leslie […]
In just a few minutes, the twenty-fifth annual La Reina De La Costa Maya Pageant will begin on La Isla Bonita San Pedro. Eight delegates from across Central America and Mexico will compete on the international stage of pageantry in costume, swimwear, evening wear and final question as they vie for the coveted title to […]
It’s a minimally invasive technique that is becoming increasingly popular in healthcare. And for the past two years it has been offered at the country’s main public hospital. It’s called interventional radiology and it allows for patients to have an alternative to open surgeries. We find out more about it in tonight’s Healthy Living. […]
