The United States Government has dealt another blow to Belize on the heels of a previous decision to rank Belize on tier three of the Human Trafficking Report, which also brought a one-year-suspension for temporary work visas for Belizeans. Earlier today, it listed Belize along with all of its Central American neighbors and Mexico and […]
The P.U.P. has reacted to a statement made by Minister of Foreign Affairs Wilfred Elrington to this station on April fourth. Elrington said that he had been advised that according to Guatemala’s constitution, it must take any result of a case at the International Court of Justice to another referendum. Today, the P.U.P. said it […]
Guatemalan president Jimmy Morales has hit the road in the last lap of his country’s campaign for the I.C.J. before the April fifteenth referendum. On Sunday, he was in Petén, one of two Guatemalan provinces that directly border Belize. Morales had a message for Belizeans: in one breath, he said that Belize has a neighbor […]
As President Morales was touring the Peten area, the Belize Territorial Volunteers attempted to travel to the Sarstoon, where Belizeans now require permission from Guatemala to traverse. This weekend, the BTV hosted members of their allied political party, the Belize Progressive Party, for a strategic meeting in Punta Gorda Town. As part of that meeting, […]
There were no murders recorded this weekend. But in Ladyville, there was an almost fatal stabbing. Douglas Bowen is tonight hospitalized at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital in an induced coma following an incident in the Japan area. Bowen was stabbed on Sunday night after a basketball game. Police say, however, that Bowen does not […]
Just after one on Friday afternoon, police responded to a robbery in progress on Zennia Street in the Cohune Walk area of Belmopan. A cargo truck parked in front of Carrie Four Store was the target of an armed robber, who approached the driver, seventy-year-old Luis Sutherland. The Belize City resident was inside the truck […]
Police quickly got into action and set up a checkpoint between miles thirty and thirty-one on the George Price Highway to intercept the getaway car, identified as a Dodge nitro van. Police set chase after the robbers, who lost control of the vehicle and flipped near the entrance to La Democracia. In the process, the […]
Three candidates vied for the presidency of the Christian Workers’ Union during Saturday’s annual general meeting at the Bishop Sylvestre Memorial Center in Belize City: activist Moses Sulph, media executive Evan “Mose” Hyde, and Wilmore Staine. Hyde won by a wide margin of three hundred and twenty-eight votes to seventy-two for Staine and thirty-nine for […]
A top priority for the new president, as it has been for his predecessors, is settling the long-standing dispute between the Port of Belize Limited and the stevedores represented by the union. Though it may feel like forever, it has actually been twelve years since there was a collective bargaining agreement. Hyde says both sides […]
Anke Doehm was committed last month to stand trial in the Supreme Court on a charge of child neglect in the death of her thirteen-year-old adopted daughter Faye Lin Cannon. The teenager died in questionable circumstances last July, her body a mass of scars and injuries that authorities believe were deliberately inflicted. Anke and her […]
A Belize City mom is behind bars tonight over a stolen cell phone. According to Robert Powell Junior, he visited Alicia’s Shop on Pitter Street to buy on Friday and placed his Samsung Galaxy cell phone valued at six hundred dollars on the counter. He paid for his purchases and left the store but forgot […]
Leray Simon of Punta Gorda Town is tonight hoping someone, anyone, in the Belize Police Department will listen to his complaint of alleged brutality. Information reaching News Five is that Simon was detained on Sunday night by police in P.G., who allegedly beat him while in the cell at the police station. As seen in […]
Eight million dollars is to be budgeted supplementary for the upcoming I.C.J. awareness campaign, nearly all from international sources. But on the ground, Foreign Minister Elrington says it has been low-key ever since the launch in 2010 due to lack of continuing resources. Nonetheless, he says the key groups are being reached, and their feedback […]
Elrington concedes that even if the dispute is settled in the I.C.J., Belize and Guatemala will continue to have issues with border incursions. The difference, he said, will be the established boundaries which must be respected. Wilfred Elrington, Minister of Foreign Affairs “Historically, there have always been cases of migration taking place and countries […]
The Government and the Belize Bank Limited continue to await the highly anticipated Caribbean Court of Justice decision on whether the former must be forced to pay the latter thirty-six million Belize dollars in loan debt, plus interest, originally granted to Universal Health Services and guaranteed by a former Government. Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte told […]
On Friday, we reported on the murder of the Leeroy Haylock which happened in San Pedro. The twenty-two-year-old was out socializing with friends when he was slashed to the throat and left for dead in a bushy, empty lot in the north end of the island. According to reports, Haylock was lured to the area […]
The violence spilled over into Sunday night in San Pedro where a man was targeted for an unknown reason. Armando Trapp reported that he was outside his house around seven-thirty when he was approached by a gunman who fired several shots at him. Trapp was transported to the K.H.M.H. where he is in a stable […]
An internal investigation is ongoing up north in Corozal where a San Andres villager was shot by police over the weekend. Twenty-five-year-old Alejandro Dominguez was reportedly under the influence of alcohol and armed with a machete when he approached the cops in a threatening manner. Police claim one of their own fired a warning shot […]
Police are currently looking for a Belize City resident as investigations continue into reports of an alleged rape on the south side of the Old Capital. A thirty-year-old Canadian woman is reporting that on Wednesday night she was socializing with her boyfriend and some other persons at her apartment on Faber’s Road. She reportedly fell […]
On Friday, we took you to Maskall in the Belize District to see a group of city youths interacting with farmers. They learned much about what it takes to manage a modern farm or agricultural operation. But space considerations meant we couldn’t tell you much about the actual operations themselves. Tonight, we take a closer […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend sporting activities….]
