A family’s worst nightmare was confirmed on Tuesday evening when the decomposing body of nineteen-year-old Belmopan resident Imari Galvez was found. Her body was in some bushes near mile forty on the Hummingbird Highway. She was partially nude. Injuries to her left breast and right leg were observed. Investigators believe she was shot in the […]
The murder trial of thirty-two-year-old David Gonzalez, accused of the shooting death of his wife in San Pedro in October 2020, continued today in the courtroom of Justice Ricardo O’Neil Sandcroft. On Tuesday evening, the Crown’s primary witness took the stand and provided the court with critical evidence of what transpired that fateful night on […]
The infamous Elmer Nah returned to the Belmopan Magistrate Court this morning. He stands accused of murdering Vivian, Jon and David Ramnarace on the night of New Year’s Eve 2022. Unlike his previous court appearance, there wasn’t a visible presence of heavily armed police officers. We are told that Nah’s appearance today was procedural, as […]
The Ministry of Agriculture and A.S.R./B.S.I. are at odds once again. This time it is over what Agriculture Minister Jose Mai says are existing regulations that are now being “operationalized.” As we reported on Tuesday, the government has proposed the Sugar Industry (License to Import/Export) Regulations for 2023. This gives the Sugar Industry Control Board […]
This afternoon, B.S.I.’s Director of Finance, Shawn Chavarria said that the company’s interpretation of the changes made by Statutory Instrument Sixty-two of 2023 is G.O.B. trying to probe into the private commercial affairs of the company. It compels B.S.I. to collect and disburse Fairtrade premium, is a process that is currently being carried out by […]
Responding to A.S.R./B.S.I.’s concerns today was Agriculture Minister Jose Mai. During our sit down with Minister Mai in Belmopan, we asked him if there is a conflict of interest or the appearance of a conflict of interest, since he is also a farmer and a member of the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association. Here is […]
Currently, ninety percent of sugar produced at the mills is exported, and only ten percent is consumed locally. It’s an attempt to force B.S.I. to pay B.S.C.F.A. for Fairtrade premium. The miller will now face a series of red tape, including having to apply annually for a license and then applying for permits for every […]
Minister Mai says it would not surprise him if A.S.R./B.S.I. decides to challenge the regulations in court. He also says that if the company does not like the laws of the country, it can leave. Jose Abelardo Mai, Minister of Agriculture “If you are not happy with the country, the country’s regulations, either you […]
The citrus industry remains in dire straits and is teetering on the brink of failure, despite all attempts by the Government of Belize to bail it out of financial collapse. The unpleasant state of the industry is nothing new, however, the situation has only gotten worse. This morning, News Five also spoke with the Minister […]
Migration is the movement of people from one country, place or locality to another. Fossil evidence suggests that modern humans began to spread across the planet from Africa sixty thousand years ago. Since then, humans inhabit all corners of the Earth, on every continent. Currently, there is at least three percent of the world’s population, […]
Laguna and Yemeri Grove villages are at odds over land. Of recent, tension in the Toledo District has been rising between the neighboring communities. Laguna, a Mayan community, undertook an exercise to survey and demarcate lands that residents say belong to the village. But, residents of Yemeri Grove, a non-Mayan community, are saying that Laguna […]
Harold Usher, the chairman of Yemeri Grove Village, told News Five in an interview several weeks ago that while some people may view his villagers as aggressive, they cannot simply stand by and watch the residents of Laguna continue to occupy lands in the area under dispute. And, like those residents in Laguna, Chairman Usher […]
Sebastian Itch, the chairman of Laguna Village, also spoke up against the Minister of Indigenous People’s Affairs, Dolores Balderamos Garcia. He says that the minister continues to undermine residents of Laguna Village and that she has wrongfully accused villagers of being expansionists. Here is what he had to say about why he thinks her remarks […]
A Belizean woman is indisposed in a Merida hospital bed and is in need of your assistance to clear a huge medical bill in order for her to return home. Kera Leslie has been at Clinica de Merida for the past several days with a rare auto-immune disease that has ballooned her bill to the […]
The Holy Redeemer Credit Union celebrated its seventy-ninth anniversary today and did so by launching a brand new children’s book written by former Chief Education Officer, Doctor Carol Babb. It’s the second in a series of publications geared towards teaching financial literacy. News Five’s Isani Cayetano reports. Dr. Carol Babb, Author/Director, HRCU “The book, […]
