Were it not for the stunning results of well-timed legal hurdles placed in the way of government, Belizeans across the country would have been anxiously anticipating the results of a referendum this evening, having voted Yes or No to go to the International Court of Justice. An interim injunction granted by the Chief Justice a […]
On Tuesday, a student was tasked to draw a map of Guatemala in a village school. At the request of Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales, the primary school boy complied in front of his classmates, but President Morales provocatively told him he missed two very important things. One of those things was Belize. President Morales was […]
As the House prepares to meet on Friday and the Senate on Monday, it is still not clear what specifically government will be doing to ‘fix’ the problem that was flagged by the Supreme Court in respect of the writ of referendum. Attorneys for the government are said to be busy drafting legislation, which when […]
The vast Chiquibul Forest in the south-western region of Belize stretches across more than four hundred and twenty-three acres of land. The tropical rainforest includes the largest cave system in Central America, the Caracol Mayan Site, and the Chiquibul River. It is an invaluable natural resource, but the Chiquibul continues to be raped by Guatemalans […]
Thirty-three-year-old Fabian Laurie, twenty-five-year-old Pedro Colomer and two others identified as Kevin Hernandez and Jerille Laurie remain locked up in a Guatemalan prison tonight after appearing in court in Puerto Barrios earlier today. The men, all Belizeans, were busted on Saturday in Livingston where they were found in illegal possession of weapons and ammunition. Fabian […]
The same cannot be said for Pedro Colomer, a coast guard officer from Dangriga. His fate is entirely up to the Guatemalan justice system and his bosses here in Belize aren’t lifting a finger to go beyond wishing him well. That’s because Colomer failed to show up to work in Belize City last Friday; neither […]
Police in Hopkins Village wasted no time on Tuesday when they promptly acted upon information that a drug deal was about to go down in neighboring Silk Grass. At around midday, the residence of sixty-year-old Jose Nolberto was stormed by a team of officers. Inside the house at the time of the raid was forty-four-year-old […]
Up north, four men are in police custody following a drug bust at the northern border. Corozal police were called out to the Corozal/Mexico border today where customs officials handed over a male person and a bag containing marijuana. Police report that three other persons were caught after they attempted to escape into the bushes. […]
Thirty-six-year-old Belizean Jermaine Belgrave remains incarcerated in the U.S. Reports from Erie County in Pennsylvania suggest that Belgrave’s possible long criminal history and gang affiliation here in Belize was factored in a judge’s decision. Belgrave made a request to reduce his bond to ten percent of one hundred thousand U.S. dollars. The sitting judge denied […]
Police have arrested and charged a fifteen-year-old boy with attempted murder, aggravated assault, deadly means of harm and dangerous harm. The charges are in connection with the shooting of twenty-five-year-old Keith Courtenay Junior. Around eight-thirty on Monday morning, a group of persons were standing outside a residence on Sibun Street in Belize City when a […]
The family of fifty-eight-year-old Theresita Chan is claiming that negligence at the K.H.M.H. has led to the amputation of one of her arms. Today, Chan’s son Thomas Garcia stopped by News Five to tell his story because he says that K.H.M.H. is trying to put the blame on an old, unrelated health issue. He says […]
Robbers hit two gas depots on Tuesday. The first robbery happened at the BWEL gas depot just after two-thirty on Tuesday afternoon. Police were called out to mile fifteen on the George Price Highway where twenty-six-year-old Delroy Buckner reported a man with a gun approached him at his workplace and proceeded to rob him of […]
Fuel prices are taking a hike at midnight on April eleventh. This evening the government confirmed that regular gasoline will increase by thirty-nine cents from ten dollars and twenty-one cents to ten dollars and sixty cents per gallon. The price for diesel will increase by three cents from ten dollars and twenty nine cents to […]
Commissioner Chester Williams concluded a countrywide tour of the police department in Belize City this morning where he met with officers of all ranks to discuss their wellbeing as men and women of law enforcement. Coming out of that session is a dire need for a recruitment of additional officers since there are emerging and […]
So what becomes of the monies that the Police Association has been collecting from its membership over the years? Officers often fall sick and, in some cases, pass away without receiving financial assistance from the department. ComPol Williams has suggested that those funds be offered as grants to paying members of the association to help […]
There’s a proposal on the table for long-serving police officers to be able to purchase land at a reduced cost if they are doing so for the first time. It’s an initiative that will be fielded to the Minister of Natural Resources to make land acquisition in each of the six districts possible for officers […]
If you like conch fritters, conch soup or conch ceviche, you may want to enjoy these dishes before the end of this month. That is because the conch season is closing two months early. The Belize Fisheries Department says that this is because the quota for the queen conch fishery has been met. So, what […]
One of the concerns that have been raised about the harvesting of the queen conch is the use of the shell size to determine maturity. The Fisheries Department says that while some believe that lip thickness may be a better way to indicate maturity, the method used in Belize is considered sustainable because the conch […]
The University of Belize is hosting its counterparts from Central America and the Dominican Republic this week. A two-day event is discussing the quality and standards of education offered by the various universities that form part of the body. The thinking is that regional integration strengthens higher education at the universities. One area of particular […]
