American Tourist Arrested for Not Properly Wearing Face Mask
La Isla Carinosa may not have been so loving to an American tourist over the weekend. A video went viral of a female American tourist arrested by two police officers [...]
La Isla Carinosa may not have been so loving to an American tourist over the weekend. A video went viral of a female American tourist arrested by two police officers [...]
There was another caught-on-camera moment with police revealed over the weekend. The video shows a police officer using a chokehold on a civilian. The incident reportedly happened in Santa Elena, [...]
In the north, a police officer has been charged with the crime of manslaughter. He is Police Constable Leenart Cajun. The incident happened in 2018 at the house of Ariel [...]
Another police officer is making the news, this time for sexually assaulting a nineteen-year-old woman three times. Police Corporal Edgar Teul stands accused of sexually violating a woman while she [...]
The criminal case against former U.D.P. Works Minister Rene Montero is active. His successor Minister of Infrastructure Development and Housing Julius Espat has forwarded documentary evidence to the Commissioner of [...]
The government is soon to announce new quarantine measures, which will take effect on February first. But what will those restrictions look like? Since December, there has been a curfew [...]
Ministry officials are still unsure whether the new UK or South African strains of the novel coronavirus are in Belize. The UK variant has been detected in neighbouring Mexico. As [...]
Thieves targeted another school in the Saint Martin De Porres area. Last Friday morning, the criminals broke into Sadie Vernon High School and stole ninety-six tablets. The electronic devices were [...]
On Monday, January fourth, detainee Gregory Bowen was found dead in his cell at the Queen Street Police Station. Police reported his death as an apparent suicide. In an interview [...]
Elrington added that the unfortunate incident is similar to the tragedy that befell the Vasquez family when their loved one, Nestor Vasquez Junior – also known to have mental health [...]
The National Forensic Science Services assists the police department with carrying out post-mortems on about five hundred bodies. These are in the cases when a person’s death is classified as [...]
More than one thousand young men and women from across the country performed successfully in the police exams. The next step to becoming a police officer is passing the interview [...]
Over the years, we’ve reported on the transboundary threats to the Chiquibul Forest – the illicit activities that were carried out exclusively by Guatemalans. Those activities include illegal logging, cattle [...]
The Caracol Road Project was always a divisive issue in the House of Representatives. The road is being done in phases – and the current administration has shared that they [...]
Commissioner of Police Chester Williams also spoke of the ongoing investigation concerning Wilbert Vallejos, the former Lands Commissioner. Viewers will recall that Vallejos residence in Patchakan Village was raided, and [...]
This morning in Belize City, many persons gathered at the office of the Lands Department near the Cemetery Road roundabout. News Five understands that those individuals were all applicants for [...]
Tensions between the Valley of Peace Farmers Association and Valley of Peace Farms Limited got high last week. The farmers are blaming the company for damaging their crops. Chairman of [...]
But the tensions got higher over the weekend when two separate parcels of cane fields belonging to Valley of Peace Farms Limited were set on fire. Less than ten acres [...]
There were zero COVID-19 deaths recorded over the weekend, and today the Ministry of Health and Wellness reported three deaths from Covid-19. The recent statistics show the daily positivity rate [...]
The Ministry of Health and Wellness today handed over a million dollars worth of equipment to improve the COVID-19 services at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The equipment was acquired [...]
The Belize City Center was inaugurated with much fanfare when it opened its doors on April thirtieth, 2018. That was at least two years before COVID-19 became a reality. In [...]
Going digital is the new direction that the Government of Belize plans on taking. It is expected that this administration will introduce significant changes during their five-year mandate. The Minister [...]
As for CITO, government’s Central Information Technology Office, it will be the digital hub for delivering those internet-based services. The idea, says the Minister of e-Governance, is to convert ninety-five [...]
