Government Enacts ‘Wil’s Law’ to Prohibit Local Travel to Sarstoon
If at first you don’t succeed, send in the big guns. And if they don’t succeed, just change the law. And they have. Via release issued today, the government informs [...]
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Wil Maheia Says Trip to Sarstoon Still on Despite Last-ditch Legal Obstacle
Those immediately affected by the law, and in whose honor the law was drafted are the Belize Territorial Volunteers. The group had planned an expedition to the Sarstoon on Saturday. [...]
P.U.P. Decries GOB’s Sarstoon Regulations
Maheia isn’t the only one disappointed by the new law. The P.U.P. has been engaged in the Guatemala discussion, and committed to a bi-partisan approach to resolution, but today the [...]
COLA Calls “Knee-jerk” Law a Gross Act of Cowardice
The grassroots activist organization known as COLA, Citizens Organized for Liberty through Action, has been quiet lately. But today it re-emerged with a fiery release condemning G.O.B.’s new law, which [...]
…Grassroots Organization Condemns Temporary Restriction on Sarstoon Travel
Brackett says COLA is prepared to go a couple steps further than condemnation by calling for a national shutdown. He told News Five that “For far too long Belize has [...]
Part Two of Recent Military Standoff at the Sarstoon
On Thursday, we aired the first of a two-part series of amateur footage provided exclusively to News Five showing what transpired on the Sarstoon River between the BDF and the [...]
Two Guatemalans Murdered in Belize, Police say it’s a Drug Deal Gone Wrong
Three men were killed in two separate incidents within hours of each other in the west. The first, a double murder, occurred on Thursday afternoon, in the San Francisco area [...]
A Camalote Resident is Chopped, Shot and Killed Near Cedar Hill Farm
There was also a murder in the wee hours of this morning in the village of Camalote. A father of four was killed near a farm off the George Price [...]
Guatemala’s Sovereignty over Sarstoon River Concerns Maya Communities
As we’ve mentioned in our previous newscast, the immediate effects of the present situation at the Sarstoon are being felt by the indigenous communities within the vicinity. The Garifuna village [...]
How Will the Sarstoon Temash National Park be Monitored Following Restriction?
Of equal concern is that the SATIIM rangers were recently stopped by the Guatemalan military from traveling upstream to conduct routine checks within the Sarstoon Temash National Park. The area [...]
Commonwealth Secretary General Meets the Belizean Press
Baroness Patricia Scotland, Secretary General of the Commonwealth, held a brief session with the media this afternoon where questions pertaining to her visit to Belize were fielded. Baroness Scotland is [...]
Written on April 29, 2016 | Posted in People & Places,Regional / International,Social Issues | No comment
…Baroness Patricia Scotland Talks OAS and Belize and Guatemala Issues
During her stay, the Secretary General will also be visiting the Office of the O.A.S. in the Adjacency Zone, where she will be received by the Chief of the O.A.S. [...]
Written on April 29, 2016 | Posted in People & Places,Regional / International,Social Issues | No comment
A Belizean Movie Debuts in Los Angeles!
True Belizean, it is a U.S. corporation from Los Angeles, California that produces movies, music videos, music and the like. They were featured last year in the Belize International Film [...]
A Firsthand Look at the B.D.F./Guatemalan Sarstoon Encounter in March
There was a double murder today in the west and we will come to that shortly, but events of national importance in the Sarstoon continue to dominate the news. Tonight, [...]
Written on April 28, 2016 | Posted in Defense,Featured,Foreign Affairs,Miscellaneous,People & Places | Comments
9 B.D.F. Soldiers Face Disciplinary Charges Following Sarstoon Standoff
Following that dangerous encounter, nine Belize Defense Force soldiers, including Sergeant Kib and Lance Corporal Zuniga, who were assigned to the construction site where the Sarstoon Forward Operating Base was [...]
Sarstoon Trip Still A Go Despite Official Effort to Dissuade Territorial Volunteers
This afternoon, Ministry of Foreign Affairs C.E.O. Lawrence Sylvestre, with military leaders General David Jones and Admiral John Borland attempted to dissuade representatives of the Belize Territorial Volunteers from going [...]
Written on April 28, 2016 | Posted in Featured,Foreign Affairs,Miscellaneous,People & Places | 1 comment
NTV Won’t Accompany Southern Counterpart to Sarstoon
Today at the meeting the BTV was joined by representatives of the Northern Territorial Volunteers, headquartered in Orange Walk. The mandate of the NTV is to increase awareness of our [...]
Written on April 28, 2016 | Posted in Featured,Foreign Affairs,Miscellaneous,People & Places | No comment
De la Fuente Says BTV Provoking Guatemalans is Absurd
De la Fuente says that where the trip to the Sarstoon is concerned, any aggression from the Guatemalans will be a result of the weakness of government’s position now and [...]
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Double Murder in Cayo, Was it Drug-related?
There was a double murder today in the west off the cutoff to the garbage dump near Misty Meadow Farms. Two Guatemalan nationals were found murdered off a feeder road [...]
Has a Preliminary Report on Chiquibul Been Completed?
The attempt by Guatemala to inspire international outrage against Belize following last Wednesday incident in the Chiquibul continues unabated. In an interview we aired on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Carlos Raul [...]
NTV Won’t Accompany Southern Counterpart to Sarstoon
Today at the meeting the BTV was joined by representatives of the Northern Territorial Volunteers, headquartered in Orange Walk. The mandate of the NTV is to increase awareness of our [...]
De la Fuente’s Two Cents on Guatemala’s Anti-Belize PR Campaign
We also asked De la Fuente to weigh in on Guatemala’s obvious intent to wage a PR war against Belize. The incident in which Guatemalan minor Julio Alvarado Ruano was [...]
Indigenous Communities Affected by Guatemala’s High-handed Sarstoon Stance
The abrupt decision by Guatemala to exercise sovereignty over the Sarstoon River is an infraction which contravenes the rights of the indigenous communities of southern Belize. Barranco, the southernmost village [...]
Threat to Torch Western Border Offices Explained
Following the shooting death of thirteen-year-old Julio Alvarado Ruano last Wednesday, Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales announced that the western and southern borders with Belize would be militarized. As tensions built [...]
Trial of Accused Murderer Ervin Reneau Continues in Supreme Court
The murder trial of Ervin Reneau, accused of the November, 2010 murder of two Belize City men, Security Guard Edgar Ayala and David Longsworth is nearing an end. Both were [...]
Written on April 28, 2016 | Posted in Trials | No comment
