In Belize City, the murder count went up by two over the weekend and now stands at more than thirty. According to police an alarming sixty-six homicides have been recorded countrywide since the start of the year, which means that as much as fifty percent has taken place in the Old Capital. Two residents, a […]
The second murder victim in the city is a taxi driver who was murdered at the corner of Mahogany Street and Western Avenue not far from where mechanic, Daniel Guardado, was killed hours earlier. Honduran National, thirty-six year old Sbiero Habib Hajjara was shot three times on the chest and once to his forehead. The […]
In the wee hours of Sunday, the third murder in a period of twenty-four hours was recorded, this time in Saint Matthews Village in the Cayo District. Nineteen-year-old Roni Casasola was shot to the chest shortly after midnight and died before he could get to the Western Regional Hospital. His mother was with him when […]
A fifty-eight-year-old father of eight from Valley of Peace perished on the George Price Highway this morning. Miguel Ayala, a handyman, was heading to Belize City this morning transporting meat; behind him was a second vehicle. Somewhere near mile forty-three, there was a collision with a BATSUB heavy lift vehicle heading in the opposite direction […]
The family of Jason Sutherland is still coming to terms with his murder which occurred last week Thursday. A gunman discharged as many as nine shots killing the twenty-nine-year-old Belize City resident instantly in a city neighbourhood that has become a hotbed for gangs. News Five’s Isani Cayetano reports. Voice of: Sister of Deceased […]
A man was shot on the corner of Central American and Jane Usher Boulevards on Sunday morning around eight-thirty. Thirty-eight-year-old security guard Tyrone Stevens was outside a nearby grocery store when several shots were fired in his direction. While he was hit to the foot, the injuries were not fatal. Assistant Superintendent Alejandro Cowo shares […]
The question everybody is asking now is, what’s driving all these violent crimes, and what can police in Belize City do to contain it? A few weeks ago, the headlines concentrated on the rivalry between Mayflower Street “Ghost Town” and the ‘Back-A-Town’/P.I.V. gangs in Lake Independence. That area has now calmed down some, but further […]
This coming Thursday, there will be a peaceful demonstration in the evening in Dangriga. There were two murders and a shooting incident in a week’s span, sparking action from concerned residents and stakeholders. The decision to hold a demonstration came from a town meeting featuring participation from police, political offices, youth and community organizations and […]
Late on Thursday evening into Friday morning, robbers stole two buses from Romero’s Charter Service in Forest Home village, Toledo District. The thieves took a forty-eight seater and a fifty-two seater Blue Bird bus, driving them as far as Independence village, but one of them was overturned near Bladen village. The residence where the vehicles […]
There is an old claim that nothing is certain but death and taxes. But for the past two years or so, it was virtually guaranteed that Belize Electricity Limited would not request increases in electricity rates – that is, until earlier this year, when it applied to take the mean electricity rate to near forty […]
There are two reasons, according to the P.U.C., that B.E.L. is getting back some six million dollars in what are called “annual corrections” based on the most recent annual tariff review proceeding, from July 2016 to June 2017. One is capacity charges for the mile eight George Price Highway gas turbine which came on stream […]
Residents of Caye Caulker village are powered by diesel generators – one of the few remaining areas in Belize not connected to Belize Electricity Limited’s power grid. The Public Utilities Commission is hoping to change that and in the current annual review proceeding rapped the power company’s knuckles with a one percent reduction in rate […]
Back in January, the Public Utilities Commission issued a preliminary decision to lower rates for water and sewerage by an average of six point three nine percent from April of 2018 to March of 2020. It’s a decrease no one seems to want, although there are no objections from either Belize Water Services Limited or […]
President of the Belize National Teachers’ Union, Senator Elena Smith, has confirmed to News Five that the ten Union branches this weekend voted to withdraw donations and contributions to those school managements who deduct salaries from teachers that protested against violence in March. It comes amid confirmation that school managers have decided to go ahead […]
A Belize City man’s house burnt down on Friday night. Andrew Fuller lost everything when the fire destroyed his home on Price Alley off Victoria Street on north side Belize City. But the fire didn’t start on his property; it originated from a neighbouring derelict building. The Fire Department says it is not clear what […]
There was another fire, but this one was contained rather quickly. It happened around twelve this afternoon today on Central American Boulevard in the lower flat of a commercial building. According to the Fire Department, the shop owner reported that they were cooking before they left the shop and it appears that they didn’t turn […]
A forty-two-year-old fisherman is accused of incest with his daughter, thirteen years old. He was read the indictable charge before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford and no plea was taken. The incident allegedly took place in December of 2017, when the child was thirteen years and four months of age. However, it was only just reported […]
Thirty-six-year-old Luis Velasquez faces judgment in the Supreme Court for a debt owed to a company even as he faces potential charges for alleged fraudulent activity. On the strength of an all points bulletin, police picked up the bartender in Maskall Village on Friday and immediately brought him before Supreme Court Justice Sonya Young. She […]
BELTRAIDE, in partnership with the Belize Intellectual Property Office , Citrus Research and Education Institute of the Citrus Growers Association and World Intellectual Property Organization is hosting a three-day workshop called” Leveraging Intellectual Property Tools for Competitiveness.” Over thirty private sector firms are learning how to use intellectual property to increase their competitiveness for success […]
The Ministry of Health is undertaking a two week survey to measure and report on the levels of iodine in children in Belize. Four hundred school children between the ages of six to twelve from four primary schools in Belize, Stann Creek and Corozal districts will participate in the study. The study which starts this […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend sporting activities…]
