There are new damning details that point to financial irregularities and mismanagement at the National Institute of Culture and History. The new president, Sapna Budhrani, is at the centre of the allegations. An internal memo obtained by News Five speaks of a breakdown in financial regulations and missing monies collected from sites managed by NICH. […]
There were a number of shootings in the city on Friday. A Belize City mother of one was one of the shooting victims. She was hit five times just after midnight, but luckily she survived. Police say that they are looking for one person of interest. According to the authorities, Dawn Parchue may have been […]
A vehicle believed to have been used in a shooting on Friday evening has been impounded by the police. Just before six o’clock, a pair of robbers targeted the security guard on duty at the law firm of Senior Counsel Eamon Courtenay, Chris Coye and other partners at number fifteen, A Street in Kings Park. […]
After being postponed twice, the P.U.P.’s Belmopan convention proceeded as schedule on Sunday at the Belmopan Comprehensive High School. Three candidates put their names on the ballot: Michelle Rodriguez, Wiezsman Pat, and Oscar Mira. Arthur Saldivar who fought tooth and nail to be part of the convention failed to convince the courts last Friday that […]
A donation of rice from Taiwan has come under fire from the productive sector. The ten thousand sacks of grain were delivered on August twenty-second to the Minister of Human Development, Anthony Martinez after the three-day visit of President Tsai Ing-Wen. The Taiwanese president was feted at a state dinner, addressed the national assembly and […]
Two men charged for the 2010 murder of Richard and Maria Stuart took the stand today before Supreme Court Justice, Colin Williams. Milton Maza and Eli Avila López both proclaimed their innocence to the court. From the dock, Maza told the court that he was innocent of the crime he has been accused of. Lopez […]
The murders of Junior Triminio and Christopher Calderon remain unsolved, despite investigators impounding a vehicle believed to have been used in the flight of their killers. The deadly shootings took place in Orange Walk Town on Sunday, August nineteenth as the pair was socializing a short distance away from where a football tournament was being […]
Zebedee Martir, who allegedly suffers from mental illness, is facing charges of Aggravated Assault and Wounding. He is accused of injuring a police officer on duty in Seine Bight Village. On the morning of August twenty-third, Martir reportedly inflicted chop wounds on special constable Rafael Caliz. The cop was attempting to appease Martir, who turned […]
Four days are left until the mass re-registration exercise concludes on Friday, August thirty first. Latest figures show that as of August twenty-fifth, one hundred and nine thousand, five hundred and eighty-nine applications have been received by the Elections and Boundaries Department which is a little over fifty percent of the projected total. Between August […]
In the magistrate’s court, the notorious twenty-seven-year-old Nicoli Rhys was sentenced to three years in prison today by Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser. He was found guilty of kept firearm and ammunition without a gun license. Back in May 2015, while on Dean Street, Belize City, Rhys caught the attention of a group of police officers […]
Two men charged with drug trafficking and possession of firearm and ammunition without a gun license were freed of the charges today. They are thirty-three year old Carlos Lopez and thirty-seven-year-old Peter Schmidt. The duo was arrested and charged in December 2017 after they were reportedly busted in Belize City with five kilos of cocaine. […]
On Saturday night, torrential rains caused a portion of the Southern Highway to be impassable. Pictures show the bridge in Jacintoville, eight miles outside Punta Gorda Town, flooded with about five feet of water. Personnel from the Ministry of Works, Department of Transport and NEMO were on the scene monitoring and managing the situation. It […]
Belize has a new beauty ambassador. She is twenty-seven-year-old Jenelli Fraser from Belize City who on Saturday clinched the title of Miss Universe Belize. The beauty queen was crowned after she bested ten other hopefuls from around the country. The new queen was crowned by outgoing Miss Belize Rebecca Rath. Fraser will represent Belize at […]
The official ceremony for the launch of the September Celebrations was held on Sunday in San Ignacio at the Falcon Field. The launch, which kicks off the celebrations for the two-hundredth and twentieth anniversary of the Battle of St. George’s Caye and the thirty-seventh year of Belize’s Independence, was celebrated under this year’s theme ‘Belize […]
Since the launch of the celebrations was hosted in San Ignacio, Mayor Earl Trapp also spoke at the ceremony. Mayor Trapp shared why Belizeans should celebrate the season and defend the eight thousand eight hundred and sixty seven square miles of Belize. Earl Trapp, Mayor, San Ignacio & Santa Elena “As we look back […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend sporting activities….]
