There were two explosions today in Belize City and in the Cayo District. We go first to Santa Elena where this afternoon dynamites were set off to break a boulder of rocks at a quarry. Word to News Five is that up to fifteen houses were damaged in proximity of the blast, but there is […]
In the city…a fire, this morning at an apartment complex on Iguana Street gave way to an explosion that rocked the community. As a loud bang was heard and plumes of smoke were seen, neighbors rushed out of their homes and unto the street. A family of five had completed their routine morning devotion when […]
Last week we told you the story of an inmate allegedly sodomized inside a cell at the Belize Central Prison. The young man was reportedly twice raped on separate occasions – the twenty-fourth and twenty-ninth of November. As we reported, a doctor classified the twenty-year-old inmate’s injuries as harm and the prison informed us that […]
The alleged perpetrator is expected to be taken to court on Wednesday where he will be charged with two counts of an unnatural act. The alleged victim says that he is speaking out because what happened to him in prison was wrong. He feels that he was put in the “hole” to be intentionally punished […]
And as you heard, the young man was not allowed to see his family. His father also spoke with us off camera today to say that it was until after they started to investigate the matter that prison officials met with them. The father says that he was told in very clear terms by prison […]
Thirty-four-year-old Israel Chuc, a resident of Santiago Juan Layout in San Ignacio was discovered dead on Sunday morning in the vicinity of Branch Mouth Road. There was a trace of blood on the nose and his throat appeared to be inflamed, but even so police initially reported that the case was being treated as a […]
A three-year-old boy perished in a fatal road traffic accident along the Southern Highway this morning, while his father was driving a sports utility vehicle towards Hopkins Village. The incident took place shortly after five a.m. in the vicinity of Bladen. According to police, thirty-four-year-old Jose Oscar Sanchez Junior, was en route to the coastal […]
The following story is about the 2017 murder count. Soon after it was calculated at one hundred and thirty-three, the count went up this afternoon by one with the murder of Israel Chuc. It means that there are four less than last year with nineteen days more to go to the end of 2017. The […]
Just before midday today, the Special Assignment Team attached to ACT made a significant bust. The initiative, ‘Addressing Crime Together,’ seeks to tackle the spiraling urban violence related to gang activities, and today while conducting searches in an abandoned building on Aloe Vera Street, the officers discovered a whopping twenty-five cases of assorted canned beers. […]
Operation ACT was in full operation on Monday in the city and turned up cocaine and weed. Around eleven in the morning, the Special Assignment Team searched an abandoned barrack on Flamboyant Street where they discovered nine small transparent zip-lock bags containing eight point zero grams of cocaine and a black plastic bag with almost […]
Belize Electricity Limited has managed to keep electricity rates steady for the past few years, and consumers can go into 2018 expecting no changes in the base cost of electricity. The company made its bi-annual submission to the Public Utilities Commission as part of the annual tariff review on Friday. It asked to keep the […]
The new Civic Center on Central American Boulevard is scheduled to be launched this Wednesday, two years and three months after the old facility was broken down to make way for the new state-of-the-art facility. The government says that the price tag is thirty-two million dollars, but in other sectors, it is said that that […]
One of the exchanges in Friday’s meeting of the House of Representatives came on the adjournment between Minister of Health Pablo Marin and Cayo Northeast area representative Orlando Habet. Habet queried for an update to the planned expansion of the Western Regional Hospital in Belmopan among other health issues. That hospital, built over forty years […]
The saga of the Public Sector Workers Trust continues, following a claim filed by retired public officers Sheila Genitty, Ruth White and Darrel Gardiner as beneficiaries and representatives of the trust. The beneficiaries have been at odds with the trustees of the group for quite some time and are responding to claims made last week […]
According to Genitty, the trustees have been saying all along that they cannot ascertain the names of all the beneficiaries. She says that one call placed in the media has resulted in over five thousand names of public officers who were affected by the wage freeze during the mid-nineties. Sheila Genitty, Claimant “We made […]
Team Belize is still on the hunt for its first gold medal in the Central American Games taking place in Managua, Nicaragua. But the athletics team has been carrying the Sub Umbra Floreo so far, accounting for seven of Belize’s eight medals – the other is in men’s basketball. On Monday the relay teams took […]
The Belize City Council was sharing the Christmas spirit in the city this morning. The holiday cheer took them over to Regent Street West at the Calvary Temple Primary School where they hosted the entire student population of about one hundred and fifty students for lunch, gifts and goodie bags. We stopped in at the […]
The Belize City Council’s twelve days of charity continues across the Old Capital. Today the municipal body’s workers focused on two overlooked sectors of society – children and the homeless and impoverished. While their Christmas may not be on par with others, it was made a little brighter by the daily bread and clothing provided […]
