This afternoon, police formally arrested and charged Brian Castillo for the double murder of his common-law-wife and step daughter, which occurred on Sunday. Castillo had been on the run for three days, but was captured on Tuesday in Peten, Guatemala before he was handed over to Belizean authorities overnight. News Five’s Duane Moody reports on […]
First Doctor Manza and now C.E.O. Doctor Deysi Mendez. Today, word spread like wildfire that Doctor Mendez is no longer with the Ministry of Health and Wellness. Last week, we had reported that there may have been some head bucking within the leadership of the ministry. Today that seems to have ended with Mendez being […]
Shawn Steven Hertular, a construction worker of a Belize City address, has been arrested and charged for the crime of murder. He stands accused of the stabbing death of Miguel Zaiden who was fatally wounded on Racecourse Street Sunday night. Zaiden was in the neighborhood with several other persons when an argument ensued. During that […]
Canadian Jasmine Hartin is still awaiting trial for the shooting death of Police Superintendent Henry Jemmott, as well as for cocaine possession and common assault. But her name has surfaced again. This time in connection with a young man who died on Sunday. Police found twenty-six-year-old Joel Young dead in the Bahia area of Caye […]
The next sugar crop is set to commence on December twentieth, but ASR/BSI is still at odds with the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association. This is over an existing cane purchase agreement which the representative body of cane farmers in the north argues should be terminated. While three other cane farmers associations are in agreement […]
BSI’s Chief Financial Officer Shawn Chavarria explains the benefits that farmers are enjoying from the manufacture and sale of direct consumption sugars to the external market. Shawn Chavarria, Chief Financial Officer, BSI “Farmers are already seeing as well the benefits of that investment, the increased production of direct consumption sugar. We’ve highlighted to them […]
According to the C.F.O., approximately half the total population of sugar cane farmers in the north is in favor of a long-term cane purchase agreement. Shawn Chavarria, Chief Financial Officer, BSI “We have fifty percent of the cane farmers signing up for a long-term agreement. I think they see the benefits of continuing with […]
Today at the Radisson, a meeting was held between those in the public sector and the non-governmental organizations who work with children. It’s part of the Children’s Agenda launched back in 2017, which looks at the goods and services provided to children that coincide with their basic rights. So what is the state of children […]
2021 has not been a good year for children. So far, ten minors have been killed as a result of violence; the most recent was Sunday night’s murder of twelve-year-old Nitzia Catzim in San Ignacio. A ten-month-old baby also lost his life as a result of a road traffic accident on Monday afternoon. These incidents […]
Over the weekend, on Saturday, a children’s parliament spoke to just that – a bill was presented that called for the protection of young people from violent crimes. Those who rose to support the bill spoke to the factors that contribute to gang membership at an early age and the need for intervention at the […]
The nine months of 2021 looked far better than the same period in 2020, according to statisticians who collected data on the country’s economy, employment and inflation rates, and external trade. Today the data was presented to the media and Marion Ali was present and filed the following report. Marion Ali, Reporting The cost […]
If you have been trying to explain to younger people that a dollar seemed to stretch further or things were simply less expensive “back in the day,” and they didn’t believe you, well now you have some evidence to back up your stories. Figures shared by the Statistical Institute of Belize today showed that since […]
Belize’s economy grew in the first ten months of this year, compared to the same period of 2020. That has been the line that the government has been sticking to since it took austerity measures to salvage what was left of the economy as a result of COVID and what it dubbed as reckless spending […]
The dire financial situation of the government’s flagship hospital, the Karl Heusner Memorial, is public knowledge. But today the Chairman of the K.H.M.H. Authority, Doctor Andre Sosa, provided some background context. During an appearance on Channel Five’s Open Your Eyes, he explained that while the K.H.M.H. did get thirty million dollars in government subvention, the […]
For her part, the K.H.M.H.’s Chief Executive Officer, Chandra Nisbet Cansino says the hospital is a key component of the Ministry of Health and any funds that come to them, are for the people who use this public facility. Chandra Nisbet Cansino, CEO, KHMH “In a lot of cases, for instance the first wave […]
