A mother of a two-year-old is dead tonight and another woman is hospitalized following a shooting in Santa Elena, Cayo on Thursday night. Brenda Castellanos, who was carrying the toddler in her arms, was fatally shot while Jennis August received three gunshot wounds. The women were inside their yard on Bishop Martin High School Street […]
Twenty-year-old Kentroy McKoy was paraded this evening before the lower court where he was arraigned on a single count of murder, following the mid-afternoon execution of Arthur ‘Taz’ Flowers on December third. McKoy, a customer service representative, was denied bail due to the nature of the offense and has been remanded to custody at the […]
A forty-nine-year old U.S. national was raped and robbed on Thursday morning at around nine in the morning. The woman lives in Ladyville and has had to be hospitalized. She was sexually attacked when she left her home and got into her vehicle. The alleged assailant was armed with a machete when he committed the […]
Ladyville resident, twenty-three-year-old Jesse Mejia, on Thursday pleaded guilty to unlicensed firearm and ammunition charges in the courtroom of Magistrate Emerson Banner. Mejia was fined three thousand dollars and ordered to pay by February twenty-eighth. If he does not, he will be facing a three-year sentence behind bars. The offences date back to July third, […]
Bail was denied for fifty-nine-year-old San Pedro taxi driver Noel Wiltshire. Having been charged for attempted murder, use of deadly means of harm and grievous harm, Wiltshire appeared today before Supreme Court Justice Marilyn Williams. He is accused of trying to run over his e-common-law-wife with a van in late September. Attorney, Leslie Hamilton, brought […]
Police are investigating a house fire in the southern village of Big Falls. The fire destroyed the house of Angelina Ack, a twenty-eight-year-old bus owner. Fortunately, Ack and her two children were not at home when it went up in flames; they were at her parent’s house nearby. She claims that her common-law-husband, thirty-one-year-old Ken […]
There is a boom in tourism numbers, but the growth is causing unexpected challenges at the main point of entry. The number of visitors arriving by commercial flights has outgrown the space at the Philip Goldson International Airport, causing huge delays in their processing. In anticipation of this weekend’s arrivals, the Immigration Department has taken […]
Becoming a Belizean specialist is now part of the requirement for tourism stakeholders as they prepare for the expansion of the industry in the years ahead. That includes hoteliers and others in the service sector. Today, the Belize Hotels Association held the second of its biannual meetings led by President Ted Tejada. He says that […]
Today, agriculture officials and ministers from SICA’s Council of Central America converged at the Biltmore Plaza in Belize City. Since Belize holds the pro-tem presidency, Minister of Agriculture, Senator Godwin Hulse chaired the meeting. The focus was to discuss regional collaboration in the field of agriculture to strengthen the management of livestock and plant health. […]
Coffee and citrus were also discussed at the meeting, specifically as it relates to the med-fly. But agricultural ministers are also looking at the plan of action in reference to having a standardized regional agricultural policy. This looks at the export opportunities for Belize to the Central American region. As it currently stands, Belize has […]
On November twenty-third, Belize joined the rest of the world in the official launch of the annual sixteen days of activism to stop gender based violence against women and children. The activities come to an end on December tenth, but since the start of the campaign, various organizations have been carrying out events to create […]
Earlier this week, a Belize City resident was shot to the groin by his common-law wife, who had made numerous reports to the domestic violence unit. In fact, police officers have been called out to her residence at the corner of Magazine Road and Vernon Street countless times to intervene, in what neighbours say, was […]
We are five months away from what will be one of the most important days in Belize’s history. April tenth, 2018 will be the day when tens of thousands of Belizeans across the country will decide whether the Belize/Guatemala dispute should be taken to the International Court of Justice for final resolution. The I.C.J. Referendum […]
In late November the House of Representatives passed an amendment to the General Sales Tax Act which would basically close a loophole. The amendment came after the Caribbean Court of Justice ordered the Government to repay businessman David Gegg more than half a million dollars after Gegg’s attorney successfully argued that Cruise Solutions Limited and […]
The International Financial Services Commission has a new home; it is the Gian Gandhi Building in Belmopan. The IFSC was previously in the Sir Edney Cain Building which underwent renovation and is now named after the late Gian Ghandi, who was actually the first director of the Commission. Ghandi passed away a few years ago […]
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Belize is leading a team of young athletes to Chetumal this weekend where they will be participating in a basketball tournament with teenagers from across Mexico. Last year, the athletes placed second in the annual competition and this time around they are taking an under-eighteen selection with them in hopes […]
The grand finale of a week-long of activities to celebrate twenty-seven years of Channel Five ends tonight with a bang. All week, we have treated out loyal audience to prizes and performances. But tonight, we’ll be giving away mega prizes. Aside from a list of items that come in handy for the Christmas season, a […]
