Today marks the first day of a two-day hearing before the Caribbean Court of Justice involving a constitutional dispute from Belize. The appellants—the Controller of Supplies, the Minister of Economic Development, and the Attorney General—are challenging a Court of Appeal decision that found that the
57-year-old Carlos Pinto’s unexpected journey at sea left his family in shock. His daughter, Dayna Pinto, told News 5 that she believes he was trying to get home after growing tired of working as a security guard on an island. Without hearing from his boss,
The Ministry of Health & Wellness (MOHW) is warning the public about tainted dietary supplements circulating in Cayo, Orange Walk, Stann Creek, and Belize districts. The advisory follows alerts from international health agencies, including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Mexico’s COFEPRIS, and Spain’s
A fire broke out early this morning at a two-storey wooden building located at the intersection of Victoria and Castle streets. The blaze started around 6:00 a.m., and fire crews responded and managed to extinguish the flames shortly after. Footage from the scene shows the building
Police are investigating a fatal road traffic accident that occurred on the Hummingbird Highway on Monday night, which claimed the life of 26-year-old Michael Daniels. Daniels and his friends had just finished football practice in Saint Margaret’s Village and were heading home to Valley Community when
On Monday, the Belize Coast Guard rescued a man approximately 17 miles south of Belize City, near Blue Field Range, in the Caribbean Sea. The man was calmly sitting in a bucket on top of a round metal makeshift raft. The Coast Guard appealed to the
Tonight, the Dangriga community is grieving the loss of Charles 'Cutch' Bradley. The forty-nine-year-old fisherman was outside his home in Dangriga Town, socializing, when two men on a motorcycle drove by, and one of them opened fire, hitting him multiple times. News Five’s Britney Gordon
[caption id="attachment_39590" align="alignright" width="300"] Floyd McFadzean[/caption] Last Friday, twenty-one-year-old Floyd McFadzean was tragically shot and killed while driving on Cemetery Road. Thanks to swift police action, eighteen-year-old Shenyon Levi Barrow, a fisherman from Belize City,
The McFadzean murder, like many others, was carried out by men on motorcycles. Williams informed the media that he has directed his commanders to take strong measures to deter crimes committed by motorcycle riders. He emphasized that commanders have been instructed to "remove the capabilities"
A tourist has come forward with allegations that she was raped by one of the two people she was socializing with over the weekend. Commissioner Williams explained that the incident took place in San Pedro and that the woman might have trusted the accused due
