San Ignacio police are investigating a shooting murder that occurred early yesterday morning in Cotton Tree Village, Cayo District. The victim has been identified as Guatemalan national Otoniel Perez Mateo. According to reports, police responded to reports of gunfire around 1:50 a.m. and found Perez
It’s been less than a month since Santa Elena welcomed a new police substation. Tonight, however, police are investigating the death of one of a resident whose body was found in the wee small hours of the morning. He is twenty-one-year-old Korrie Cruz, who was
Kenrick Longsworth, the Belize City resident convicted of the death of his three-year-old stepson, has been sentenced to fifteen years behind bars for manslaughter. He was also given an additional three years for wounding. As we have reported, on January tenth, 2020, Mark Teul’s mother
Earlier today, a man was sentenced to thirty years in prison for the 2022 execution of Owen Tucker. He is forty-year-old Jerome Crawford who was charged for shooting his employer, on November twenty-second, 2022, in front of his coworkers. Owen Tucker was a Belizean American
The Federation of Cruise Tourism Associations of Belize held a press conference today to address the public over concerns it has about the current state of the tourism industry. Earlier this week, the Government of Belize announced that it is compulsorily acquiring twenty-three acres of
Rosado added that Belize is in desperate need of a mainland cruise port. He says that Harvest Caye was proposed as a solution to the industry, but it still does not put cruise passengers on the mainland without booking a tour. He spoke on the
FECTAB’s President, David Almendarez, also spoke at today’s press conference. He chided the Briceño administration over the Belmopan hospital land acquisition. He questioned why the Government of Belize did not compulsorily acquire those two parcels as they did with Stake Bank Island. David Almendarez, President, FECTAB “We
Officials from regional ministries of Economy and Finance are attending the Third High-level Dialogue of the Regional Climate Change Forum in San Pedro today and Saturday. Eighteen countries are represented at the event, during which they will approve the new work plan for 2024-2025 and
Fortis Belize operates three hydroelectric facilities, the Mollejon, Chalillo, and Vaca dams, on the Macal River and produces renewable energy that is sold to Belize Electricity Limited. The water used for power generation passes through unchanged and remains safe for agriculture and recreational use. The
On Monday, primary school students across the country will return to the classes they left behind for summer vacation. With only two days to go, are Belize City residents prepared to send their children back to school? News Five’s Britney Gordon visited a few stores
