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Sugar Cane Farmers Block Entrance to A.S.R./B.S.I.

Tonight, we open our newscast with unrest in the Sugar Belt. The latest information coming out of Orange Walk to News Five is that B.S.C.F.A. members are currently protesting outside [...]

B.S.C.F.A. Stalls Sugar Cane Delivery

The Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association refuses to deliver its sugar cane to the mill at Tower Hill, only days after the delayed start of the sugar crop.  This evening, [...]

A.S.R./B.S.I. Firm on G.O.B. Proposed Deadline

As we mentioned earlier, A.S.R./B.S.I. says that by agreeing to the April thirtieth deadline for negotiations, a new agreement to be signed, it is honoring the Prime Minister’s proposal.  Here [...]

B.S.C.F.A. Demands August Extension Date to Interim Agreement

In fact, A.S.R./B.S.I. has already issued an addendum to the existing commercial agreement, to B.S.C.F.A., that stipulates an extension of the current agreement to April thirtieth. B.S.C.F.A. confirmed having received [...]

G.O.B. Still to Deliberate Interim Agreement Expiration Date

On the Government of Belize’s end, a decision has not been reached on B.S.C.F.A.’s request. When we caught up with, Jose Mai, Minister of Agriculture, outside of the B.S.C.F.A.’s office [...]

Sugar Cane Association’s Internal Feud Erupts into Physical Altercation

But, the challenges that the sugar crop is facing does not end there. On the first day of the sugar crop opening, a fight ensued outside the compound of A.S.R./B.S.I. [...]

Steve Patten is Butchered in Sugar City on Christmas Morning

There was a grisly murder in Sugar City on Christmas morning.  Sometime around nine a.m., Orange Walk police were called out to an area on San Martin Street where they [...]

Police Say “Beef” Was the Motive of Monday Evening Murder

The long Christmas weekend did not go without bloodshed. In Belize City, a young man’s life was cut down on Monday evening while he was at home. New Five’s Marion [...]

An Investigation into the Sudden Death of Keenan Young, 16

A family is grieving the sudden death of a minor on Christmas Eve. They are now awaiting the results of an autopsy to determine the cause of death of sixteen-year-old [...]

Thompson is Arrested for Mahogany Heights Murder

Eighteen-year-old Ethan Thompson was mortally wounded when he was shot by a pair of gunmen who accosted him while riding a bicycle near his home in Mahogany Heights.  The unfortunate [...]

Woman’s Ex Boyfriend Charged for Murder of New Lover

Police have filed a charge of murder against twenty-two-year-old Jorge Anderson Triminio of Valley Community in the Stann Creek District, in connection with a fatal stabbing in Seine Bight on [...]

Missing Man Found Dead

An elderly labourer of Succotz Village, Cayo District, who went missing on Boxing Day, was found dead earlier today in the Mopan River, between miles seventy-one and seventy-two, near Nabitunich [...]

Man Knocked Down and Killed in Stann Creek on Christmas Eve

A man was knocked down and killed on Christmas Eve on the Stann Creek Valley Road. The deceased, Josline Hall, was struck sometime after seven p.m. near mile thirteen and [...]

Chief Engineer Agrees: Causeway is Best Solution for Sinking Highway

Last week, we showed you the images of a portion of the Philip Goldson Highway near mile seven that collapsed into the Belize River. A temporary fix has been set [...]

An Update on New Haulover Bridge

If you commute to the city via the Philip Goldson Highway, you would also observe that land has been cleared on one side of the Haulover Bridge. It is the [...]