A boat ride up the New River in Orange Walk shows large scale stagnation and discoloration of the waters along a seventeen-mile stretch from the villages of Carmelita to Trial Farm. The condition of the river, which is a main source of income up north, has deteriorated to a point that it has become lifeless […]
For the past two weeks, we have been reporting on the dengue outbreak in Belize and tonight the situation continues to spiral as the number of confirmed clinical cases has increased by ten percent when compared to a week ago on Monday. There are now seven hundred and eighty-nine known cases based on the data […]
While we were with the Director of Health Services, we asked him for an update on the status of the morgue at the Southern Regional Hospital. On Friday, residents from Dangriga and neighbouring communities were informed that the morgue at the regional health facility was not functioning again and that it would be out of […]
Last week, Caribbean Shores Area Representative Kareem Musa travelled to Shanghai, China. Musa was along with Belize City Deputy Mayor Oscar Arnold and Councilor Michael Noralez. Now, Belize does not have diplomatic relations with China, but with Taiwan so the visit by a parliamentarian and the deputy mayor and councilor raised eyebrows. Sources inside the […]
P.U.P. Leader John Briceño was released from Northern Medical Plaza over the weekend and is tonight at home recovering from injuries he sustained during a traffic accident on Friday morning in Rhaburn Ridge Village, Belize District. Briceño was being driven by Edwin Hill when his Toyota Prado SUV flipped several times near mile thirty-seven on […]
Thirty-four-year-old Belize City resident Darwin Rocke was callously murdered. His body was found dumped far away between Burrell Boom and Hattieville, last Thursday. Rocke was partially decapitated and one of his hands was severed. While it is believed he knew his killers, there have been no arrests so far in Rocke’s murder. News Five Isani […]
Sanctuary Belize is back in the news tonight. The actions by the Federal Trade Commission against the defendants in the massive Sanctuary Belize real estate scam continue, as well as its investigations. On August second, a federal judge in Maryland, U.S.A. supported the F.T.C.’s application for a preliminary injunction against the defendants, “ruling their allegedly […]
For the umpteenth time, consumers are being hit in their pockets with fuel increases. Premium gasoline will increase by as much as forty-nine cents going from ten dollars and sixty-three cents to eleven dollars and twelve cents per gallon. At midnight, the price of kerosene will also go down slightly by eight cents, from seven […]
The matter of N.H.I. funds for the construction of a one point six million-dollar Central Medical Stores Building in Belmopan is still in the news tonight. Last Friday, different explanations were provided by the Financial Secretary and the C.E.O. of the Social Security Board which manages the N.H.I. funds about the grant for purposes not […]
Over the weekend, disturbing photographs surfaced on social media showing a tourist exposing himself at an archaeological site in Belize. It is against park rules for visitors to be imbibing on the grounds, but to have the tourist urinating in open court near a monument is seen as a clear disrespect to the cultural heritage […]
Just last year, there was a murder committed at the Cahal Pech Archaeological Site in San Ignacio. Unknown to rangers, the site was accessed via paths at nights by residents who converge to drink and socialize. According to Communications Officer Neil Hall, NICH is looking at the protocols in place to ensure that incidents like […]
Why was Manuel Barrera, an elderly Guatemalan national, killed in Young Bank? It’s a question that investigators in the Cayo District are still trying to have answered. The seventy-eight-year-old met a vicious demise when he was attacked and killed inside his residence in that area of Camalote Village. Barrera’s decomposing body had what appeared to […]
A formal report is yet to be filed with the Belize Police Department, following an incident on July twenty-sixth in which a vehicle driven by Brandon Mejia was reportedly shot at on Jasmine Street. According to Mejia, while driving along that carriageway in Lake Independence he came under gunfire from police in the area. The […]
The land dispute between the Department of the Environment and seventy-six-year-old Primrose Gabourel and her son, Dion Zabaneh, has been languishing before the courts. It involves a property on Seashore Drive on which the Government has halted work. This morning, attorney Emil Arguelles, on behalf of Gabourel and Zabaneh, asked the lower court to stop […]
Saul Perez, a former Assistant Quarantine Officer with OIRSA-Belize, is out of a job after he lied to his boss and the police when he claimed he was robbed of money belonging to the company. Perez later admitted to stealing a total of two thousand two hundred and fifty-nine dollars belonging to OIRSA. In court […]
The Directorate General for Foreign Trade, with support from the World Trade Organization, is hosting over twenty government officials in the ‘Advanced Trade Negotiations Simulation Skills Training’ this week. The purpose of the training is to deepen the participants’ understanding of how the concept works in practice. It will provide them with the skills and […]
Forty-six-year-old Antonio Chacon, a Honduran landscaper, was reported missing over the weekend when family members could not locate him. He was last seen on Friday morning around five a.m. when he set out from home on Antelope Street Extension with a weed whacker on his bicycle. With so many missing persons ending up killed, the […]
Last month the Stabroek News of Guyana published an article outlining the challenges in the sugar sector for CARICOM states. The article headline reads that the, “extensive tax evasion sinking struggling sugar industry.” As we’ve reported in the past, the E.U. market changes from 2017, along with the low global commodity prices for sugar during […]
The countdown is on for the 2019 September national celebrations. Among the first events is the national song competition which takes place this Saturday at the Civic Centre in Corozal Town. A total of nineteen performers, fourteen adults and five minors, will compete in both the senior and junior categories for the Belize song and […]
Communications Officer Neil Hall also spoke on a concern that was expressed over the theme selected for this year’s September Celebrations. If you add the words in the chosen theme for 2019: “From Maya Grandeur to Modern Glory, Together Let’s Shape the Belizean Story,” there are twelve and not ten words as announced in the […]
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