During his New Years Address, PM Briceño also announced that there will be an expansion of the free secondary school initiative. Prime Minister John Briceño “With the reopening of [...]
Diehard fans of megastar Kanye West are still digesting DONDA, his long-delayed body of work that was released on August twenty-ninth, some are still reminiscing about the Old Ye. Others [...]
In regional news, this week the Nicaraguan government took over the embassy used by the diplomatic mission from Taiwan, saying the property belongs to China. This follows the breaking of [...]
It’s that time of the year where revenue collection is a paramount concern for municipal governments. Property taxes are being collected and trade licenses are getting renewed as the country [...]
As 2021 is coming to an end, many have taken this time to reflect on what happened over the course of the past year. There are those who lost their [...]
Mayor Wagner is optimistic going into 2022, saying that at top of the agenda is infrastructural development for Belize City. Bernard Wagner, Belize City Mayor “More infrastructure, really enhancing [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A domestic disturbance in Seine Bight Village overnight has resulted in the stabbing death of a twenty-three-year-old. It is reported that Jorge Triminio, the ex-boyfriend of Linda Vigil, visited her [...]
The sugar crop is set to begin on December twenty-seventh, without a consensus on how the B.S.C.F.A. and A.S.R./B.S.I. will reach a new commercial agreement. In an attempt to start [...]
The Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association, in a release today, says that it finds the Government of Belize’s proposal favorable, with one condition. Their condition is that the interim agreement [...]
The Sugar Industry Control Board says it is confident that an agreement will be met between B.S.C.F.A. and A.S.R./B.S.I. by the end of April. Marcos Osorio, chairman of the Sugar [...]
