After years of record-high fentanyl seizures at the US-Mexico border, US authorities are now seeing a noticeable and unexpected decline. According to US Customs and Border Protection, average monthly fentanyl seizures have fallen from 1,700 pounds in 2024 to 746 pounds so far this year. The
Residents of the Kings Park area in Belize City are being urged to stay indoors after a swarm of bees attacked and killed at least six dogs in the neighbourhood. The incident occurred early this morning along Sixth Street in the Kings Park Area. Local resident
Thirteen new weather stations are being installed across rural Belize to strengthen climate monitoring and improve support for the country’s agricultural resilience and emergency response capacity. According to a statement by the Ministry of the Public Service, Governance and Disaster Risk Management, six stations have been
A family of five lost their home and all belongings after a bushfire destroyed their wooden house during a three-day blaze in Trio Village, Toledo, on Thursday. "This has hit the family members very hard… as they lost their house and everything that they had
A couple from Ladyville was arrested on Friday night after they were caught transporting over eight kilograms of cannabis on a public bus. The incident occurred during a routine bus trip from Orange Walk to Belize City. While the bus was refuelling at a 24-hour gas
The call for pensions is growing louder. Today, workers from the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital took to the streets of Belize City, demanding the government honor their years of service with a proper retirement plan. The K.H.M.H. Workers Union says employees who served between 2000
As the Belize National Teachers’ Union continues to push for an eight-point-five percent salary adjustment, the government is now facing added pressure from another front. The Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital Authority Workers’ Union is demanding that retiring staff receive pensions, a benefit they say is
News Five has learned that the Public Service Union and the Association of Public Service Senior Managers have joined the Belize National Teachers Union in rejecting the government’s proposed three percent salary increase. Union leaders are expected to formally notify the government of their members’
BNTU President Nadia Caliz is pushing back against the Briceño administration’s claim that teachers and public servants are already getting a fourteen percent raise over three years, more than the eight-and-a-half percent adjustment they requested. Caliz says that the argument misses the point. She believes
Union leaders are expected to officially notify the government’s negotiation team tonight that their members have rejected the proposed three percent raise. BNTU President Nadia Caliz confirmed the update and says the unions are ready to return to the table, ideally as soon as Monday,
