This just in…There was a major shakeup at the Protected Areas Conservation Trust today. At one o’clock this afternoon, staff members were individually called into an unscheduled meeting and notified that the PACT offices will be closing immediately due to a “restructuring exercise” as government conducts the standardization of statutory boards. Fourteen staff members including […]
A son killed his mother in cold blood this morning and tonight he is on the run. Police are looking for twenty-five-year-old Andy Rhaburn for the matricide of fifty-four-year-old Braulia Pech. It appears that Rhaburn visited his mother’s house where she lived alone and operated a small shop in the Spanish Town area of Carmelita […]
A murder in San Pedro shortly after midnight has rocked the community because the victim had predicted his demise. Twenty-six-year-old Alfredo Cowo last week Tuesday told News Five’s Duane Moody that he felt his life was under threat following a case in which two police officers, who he took to court for firing at him […]
Twenty-three-year-old Tevin Aranda has been charged with manslaughter, following the shooting death of Mario Vernon Jr. in Punta Gorda Town on Saturday night. The arraignment of the police constable in the Dangriga Magistrate’s Court earlier today, is perhaps little or no comfort to Vernon’s grieving family. They strongly believe that despite his many run-ins with […]
San Carlos is a collective, cooperative farming community of twenty-four farmers. It has running water and a small school but no electricity. Nonetheless, it has been extremely productive in past years, owing in no small part to the ingenuity of its farmers. It has in the past faced severe losses in production of onions, carrots […]
While vegetables and staples may pay the bills, sugar cane is still king in the North. The sugar industry, which came off one of its best years in memory in terms of cane milled and tons produced, is now starting to move into direct consumption sugar production and sales. And the early figures from Tower […]
You probably grumbled a bit recently when it was announced that prices for kerosene, premium and diesel fuel and butane went up. But while most urban Belizeans get butane for their houses on average every month or so and gas up when they can, it’s a different story for farmers in the North. There, butane […]
The Government of Belize recently promised as much as three hundred thousand dollars to fix sugar roads in the North. These roads provide access and transportation from many of the remote villages for farmers bringing crops to market, or sugar to the mill. But quite a few are in poor condition, and in the case […]
Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars – that is what twenty-two-year-old Jenny Bonilla received from a medical negligence case that left her without a womb and left ovary. Bonilla was twenty-years-old when she started with an abdominal pain and she went to the southern regional hospital from where she was transferred to the Western Regional […]
Over the weekend, police made a significant bust of contraband goods down south. According to their report, they pursued an SUV that ran a check point at Pomona Village. When they caught up with the vehicle in the village of Hope Creek they detained two persons: Alvarine Burgess as well as Milton Palacio. Inside the […]
It has been two years since ABC producer, Ann Swaney, was cold-bloodedly murdered in the west. Swaney was vacationing in Belize when she lost her life; her body was found floating in the Mopan River near the Nabitunich Resort in San Jose Succotz, Cayo. An investigating team from the Federal Bureau Investigation United States has […]
Crown Counsel Jackie Willoughby abruptly resigned from the Public Service Union on Monday as we reported in our newscast. Willoughby sent a letter to PSU President Doreth Cayetano-Obeymayer in which she states, (Quote) “With great pain, I have come as far as I can go with P.S.U.” (Unquote) In the letter, Willoughby says that attempts have […]
The detonation of explosives at a quarry in a residential area of Santa Elena Town last December resulted in the loss of life of seventy-year-old Ronald Sutherland, general manager of Tiger Aggregates. Aside from the many residents whose homes were damaged by the missiles from the blast, there is also the issue of who is […]
Now, based on a 2014 Environmental Impact Assessment on the rehabilitation of the George Price Highway, an environmental compliance plan was agreed to between the Department of the Environment and Ministry of Works in 2016, which dictates certain terms and conditions for carrying out the project. As it relates to roadwork material sourcing, the Ministry […]
The government will be spending in the range of three quarters of a million dollars for a feasibility study and design to improve the Crooked Tree Road. The contract was awarded to the Caribbean Civil Group Limited of Nassau, Bahamas. When completed, it is expected that the stretch of four miles of road will bring […]
