This afternoon, shortly after twelve p.m., gunshots rang out in the vicinity of Grace Primary School on Faber’s Road Extension. Reports of an assault rifle being fired in succession reverberated across the neighborhood. When the shooting subsided, forty-eight-year-old Jose Matus was observed behind the steering wheel of his vehicle. He was mortally wounded. Also injured […]
Three young men were shot in separate incidents in Belize City between Thursday night and this morning. The victims have been identified as Shemar Smith, Joseph Leslie and Shane Nolberto. It is not certain if all three incidents are related. Fortunately, all three men are recovering at the hospital. Hipolito Novelo reports. Hipolito Novelo, […]
A man who was found guilty for the murder of his wife was today sentenced to life imprisonment. David Gonzalez listened as High Court Judge Ricardo O’Neil Sandcroft sentenced him to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole after he has served thirty-five years behind bars. The judge deducted the time that Gonzalez has already […]
Two youths who are charged with the rape of a fourteen-year-old girl were today arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court. They are eighteen-year-old Ikwan Reneau and a sixteen-year-old minor. The arraignment took all day as the issue of whether bail should be granted to the two accused persons was being contemplated. In the end, […]
The incident for which the teens are charged happened in the Saint Martin de Porres area on Monday inside an abandon house near the riverside. After an intense investigation and three nights in custody, police charged the two youths. The case against the minor and Reneau is set to come back before the court on […]
The leadership of the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association feels that the Prime Minister did not handle the recent sugar cane debacle in the best possible way, with the municipal elections just two months away. In fact, some of the cane farmers who spoke publicly last week even questioned whether or not the prime minister […]
The commercial agreement has been signed between the two parties that were at odds in the sugar belt and the rest is history, or is it? The determining factors at that eleventh hour agreement continued to be terminal charges and throughput fees. But even though the documents have been signed for the two-year agreement, an […]
Although the crisis has been addressed and the mill is back in full swing, there is a school of thought that still believes that the government, particularly, the prime minister took too long to intervene in the process. Some of the cane farmers themselves have slammed Prime Minister John Briceño for not taking decisive action […]
On Thursday, we brought you the ground-breaking and signing ceremony for the access road to the Corozal Free Zone. The portion of road measures two point six kilometres and spans from the foot of the old bridge at the northern border to the entrance of the free zone compound. But aside from boosting the activity […]
Today the Belize Tourism Industry Association hosted its thirtieth annual general meeting. This meeting is where stakeholders convene to review the sector’s accomplishments, shortcomings of the last year, as well the goals for the year moving forward. This year’s meeting reflected on the success of the sector’s remarkable post-pandemic recovery and the association optimistic expectations […]
The Belize Trade and Investment Development Service is a statutory body of the Government of Belize that operates within the portfolio of the Ministry of Economic Development. Its purpose is to enable and facilitate innovative and competitive business development, particularly where micro, small and medium enterprise development is concerned. News Five asked BELTRAIDE’s Executive Director, […]
On Thursday, the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Economic Development held an inauguration ceremony for the installation surveillance cameras across the Old Capital. The equipment was procured under the Belize Integral Security Program, a sixty million dollar project that is funded by the Central American Bank for Economic Integration, CABEI. News Five’s […]
A small demonstration was held in Punta Gorda Town this morning by residents from Columbia Village and other neighboring Maya and non-Maya communities. In light of the Toledo Alcaldes Association’s rejection of the draft Maya Communal Land Use Policy, the Minister of Indigenous Peoples Affairs has weighed in on the provisional document from government’s perspective. […]
This week’s edition of “The Bright Side,” delves a bit further into the heartwarming tradition of meeting the New Year’s baby. While many eagerly await the arrival of the first baby born on New Year’s Day, we decided to visit with the proud parents taking on this new journey. Sauri Robles and Pablo Lara were […]
