Gaming Machines Malfunction on First Draw
Boledo and lottery buyers went out en masse on Sunday to purchase their favourite numbers for the Sunday Lottery and Jackpot, but many of them were disappointed and returned home [...]
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- Gaming Machines Malfunction on First Draw
- Retail Cost of Sliced Bread to Go Up to $2.50
- Police Charge Man Accused of Slashing Woman’s Throat
- Thieves Target and Rob Security Guard on the Job
- Police Charge Driver Involved in Multiple Traffic Fatality
- Domestic Dispute Leads to Burrell Boom Mother being Stabbed
- Thieves Target Three ATMs in Six Days Heritage Bank
- Oscar Selgado to Learn his Fate on December 23rd
- Selling of Boledo and Sunday Lottery Resumed Today
- PM Briceño Says Belmopan CitCo Fiasco is an Embarrassment
- Belize Votes for Saudi Arabia to Host World Expo 2030
- Coast Guard Adds Sixty New Sailors to Its Numbers
- Another Multiple Traffic Fatality in Four Days
- Man Who Stabbed Ex Stepfather Found Guilty
- What’s the Delay with Commission of Inquiry into Sugar Industry?
- A.S.R./B.S.I. Launches AgGrowPro
Retail Cost of Sliced Bread to Go Up to $2.50
Belizeans across the country, at all levels of society, are buckling under the weight of severe inflation and, come December eighteenth, things won’t get any cheaper. Earlier today, a press [...]...
Police Charge Man Accused of Slashing Woman’s Throat
Last Thursday, Shona Baptist, a call agent, was callously attacked and her throat slashed while she was on the job at home in the Bryan Estate area of Burrell Boom [...]...
Thieves Target and Rob Security Guard on the Job
A security guard was robbed while on duty at a store in San Ignacio also on Thursday night. Two men, armed with a gun, accosted the guard and then robbed [...]...
Police Charge Driver Involved in Multiple Traffic Fatality
Last Thursday, News Five brought you the tragic story of a fatal road traffic accident the night before that claimed the lives of four work colleagues who were heading home [...]...
Police Impound Van and Look for Heritage Bank ATM Thieves
On Friday, the managers and employees of Heritage Bank woke up to discover that thieves had targeted two of their ATM’s – one in Belize City and another at a [...]...
PM Briceño, “I think the B.N.T.U. should look in the mirror first.”
The Belize National Teachers Union met with its membership this afternoon at various branches across the country. The meeting succeeds a discussion with the Minister of Education late last week [...]...
PM Blames Management for Teachers Not Being Paid
PM Briceño also touched on the issue of some teachers not being paid their salaries for months on end, since the start of the new school year. That, he said, [...]...
Still No Legislation to Replace Flawed Definitive Agreement
A senate inquiry into the Definitive Agreement that was granted to Portico Enterprises Limited by the outgoing Barrow administration in October 2020 begins on Tuesday inside the Assembly Building. While [...]...
PM Briceño Reiterates Position on Sugar Industry Inquiry
The Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association is yet to enter into a new commercial agreement with B.S.I., despite a date for the start of the new sugar crop being set [...]...
San Pedro Mayor, Wally Nunez Endorsed to Run Again
San Pedro Mayor, Wally Nunez was endorsed as the P.U.P.’s mayoral candidate for the municipal slate in San Pedro. During a rally on Saturday night, Nunez received the support of [...]...
Tourism and Health are Critical to Belize’s Economy
The Regional Tourism and Health Program is an initiative that addresses the health, safety and environmental sanitation threats to tourism, with the goal of strengthening countries’ capacities to prepare and [...]...
Tourism, Health and Belize’s Terrestrial Borders
The health of Caribbean economies is closely related to the health of its travel and tourism industry since the Caribbean is the most tourism-dependent region in the world. Doctor Lisa [...]...
Assembly Building to Get Much Needed Sprucing Up
This afternoon in Belmopan, several parliamentarians, as well as representatives of the Republic of China (Taiwan) were on hand for a donation that will see the Assembly Building get a [...]...
Loss and Damage Fund Pledges “Chump Change”
COP28 in Dubai has seen pledges to the Loss and Damage Fund totaling just over six hundred million dollars, a sum dismissed by leaders from small island developing states (SIDS) [...]...
Plans for Mangroves Reforestation in Money River Underway
Established in 2001, the Adaptation Fund initiated project funding in 2009, concentrating on climate adaptation efforts. It extends eligibility for funding to all developing nations and introduced the pioneering concept [...]...
Belize to Participate in IDB’s CLIMA Program
The Inter-American Development Bank (I.D.B.) announced on Saturday its CLIMA program, rewarding countries for achieving environmental goals with a 5% grant of the loan principal. The initiative aims to help [...]...
Climate Change Affects Health
At COP28, Canadian medical professionals protested for climate action, advocating for a just phase-out of fossil fuels. They highlighted the severe health consequences of climate change, including the spread of [...]...
CARICOM Fully Supports Guyana
The United Nations’ International Court of Justice (ICJ) has cautioned Venezuela against taking any actions that could change Guyana’s control over the disputed Essequibo region. This warning comes just days [...]...
Peaceful Ceasefire Protest at COP28 in UAE
In an unusual occurrence in the United Arab Emirates, a peaceful protest unfolded at COP28 in Dubai, calling for a ceasefire in support of Palestine. The protestors, at the Blue [...]...
Domestic Dispute Leads to Burrell Boom Mother being Stabbed
Belize continues to celebrate the annual Sixteen Days of Activism, but tonight we begin our newscast with the unfortunate story of a woman who was attacked and stabbed by her [...]...
Thieves Target Three ATMs in Six Days Heritage Bank
The convenience of having automated teller machines, otherwise known as ATMs in areas where we live, work or have to pass everyday is something that we may have taken for [...]...
Oscar Selgado to Learn his Fate on December 23rd
Defense attorney Oscar Selgado will learn his fate on December sixth, following an adjournment in the High Court this morning. The well-known criminal lawyer, is being tried for his alleged [...]...
Selling of Boledo and Sunday Lottery Resumed Today
Today, for the first time in months, Boledo and lottery enthusiasts returned to their lottery counters to purchase their favourite numbers for the first draw since the games were put [...]...
PM Briceño Says Belmopan CitCo Fiasco is an Embarrassment
The internal debacle that continues to humiliate the Belmopan City Council has gotten the attention of Prime Minister John Briceño. As we reported earlier this week, Mayor Sheran Palacio is [...]...
