The People’s United Party served the United Democratic Party a major defeat in the 2021 Municipal Elections. The P.U.P. went from controlling three full councils to majority control of all nine. The U.D.P. was left with only two seats in the west where the P.U.P., after many years, was able to make dent in the […]
The inaugural meeting of foreign ministers Eamon Courtenay and Pedro Brolo Vila took place on Thursday morning at the O.A.S. Office in the Adjacency Zone. For many years, Belize and Guatemala have had a strained relationship because of the enduring territorial dispute which is presently before the World Court. With a change in government in […]
The Belize-Guatemala Joint Commission is also being reinvigorated and, through the existing Partial Scope Agreement, trade will be expanded to include other goods and services following a meeting with the business community. Eamon Courtenay, Minister of Foreign Affairs “That commission had held meetings and had set up different desks and tables for officials to […]
During the municipal elections, former Minister of Health Pablo Marin came out in support of Hilberto Campos, the U.D.P. standard bearer for the Corozal Bay division. Campos replaced him following his November eleventh defeat in the general elections. News Five caught up with Marin at polling area number forty-one, where he gave his review of […]
Marin is also watching as the situation with Doctor Marvin Manzanero is playing out, as he believes it is political victimization. He says his wife, Danini Contreras-Marin, also employed with the Ministry of Health and Wellness, has been targeted by the new minister. He believes Minister Michel Chebat is sideling talented people, rather than creating […]
In November, political pundits called the People’s United Party’s massive win of national assembly seats the “Blue Tsunami.” Well, just months later, a second wave has washed over the land once more. After the ballots were counted, Belizeans learned that an astonishing sixty-five of the sixty-seven municipal councilor seats and mayoral posts were blue. Only […]
That twinkle of red was Mayor Earl Trapp and U.D.P. councillor Bernadette Fernandez. Fernandez narrowly made the cut by ten votes while Mayor Trapp won over the P.U.P.’s Ramon “Monchi” Quiroz by twenty-four votes. The five other councillors are from the P.U.P. slate. Even before the new mixed council took office today, on Wednesday night […]
There were a number of women who won their bid for political office across the country, as an area rep and a mayor. History was made in the Corozal Bay electoral division on March third when four thousand one hundred and thirty-two registered voters decided that the younger sibling of the now deceased area rep, […]
Turning to the Capital City, the P.U.P. soundly defeated the U.D.P. team after fifteen years of U.D.P. municipal control. Significantly, Belmopan now has its first female mayor in Sharon Palacio. Palacio won three thousand sixteen votes, defeating the other woman candidate, U.D.P.’s Jacklyn Burns, who received one thousand two hundred and ninety-one votes. After it […]
We go back north to take a look at the municipals and we start with Orange Walk Town. A little over sixty percent of the voters went out the polls and at the end of the day, some six thousand one hundred and seventy-one ballots were cast. The night ended with resounding victory for the […]
Just before eleven p.m., the result of the elections at the northernmost municipality was announced. The incumbent mayor Rigoberto Vellos of the P.U.P. and his entire slate came out victorious. News Five’s Duane Moody was at the Corozal Community College for the declaration and victory speech. Doyle Flowers, Returning Officer, Corozal Municipal Elections “Rigo […]
It took the People’s United Party eighteen years to regain municipal government control in San Pedro. But it did so in convincing fashion on Wednesday, snagging all six councilor seats and the mayoral position as well. Although many thought it would be a nail-biting neck and neck finish, with perhaps even a split council, the P.U.P. […]
A well-known resident of San Jose Succotz is dead. Gonzalo Rosado was in charge of the Border Management Agency at the Belize/Guatemala border for a number of years before stepping down from the post. But around seven o’clock Monday night, gunman pounced on him with lethal precision. A woman he had seen earlier that evening […]
There was a sizeable haul of high-grade Mexican marijuana in Yo Chen, Corozal District on Monday morning, despite the suspected smugglers being able to evade capture. Police confiscated almost seven hundred pounds of cannabis found inside a vehicle abandoned by a pair of men who took off on foot after seeing the officers. Twenty-nine bales […]
If you were hoping that a decrease in COVID-19 cases might mean an end to the ten p.m. to five a.m. curfew, think again. The Government of Belize has announced it will be extending the curfew for another thirty days and has amended the Statutory Instrument needed to do it. Additional short term changes have […]
This week, as the limited supply of COVID-19 vaccine doses Belize obtained from Barbados is being used for frontline healthcare workers, you may be wondering when vaccinations will be available for you, your loved ones and coworkers. According to the Ministry of Health’s “Vaccine Plan Belize,” there will be five phases of the rollout when […]
Frontline healthcare staff began receiving their vaccinations today. Among the first this morning were health workers at the Corozal Community Hospital, Matron Roberts Poly Clinic, Central Health Regional, San Pedro Polyclinic, the Integral Clinic, Belize Medical Associates. The simultaneous rollout today also included vaccinations at San Ignacio Community Hospital, Western Regional Hospital, Southern Region, the […]
As the administering of some five hundred doses of COVID-19 vaccine gets underway at the nation’s public health hospitals and clinics, over at the Belize Medical Associates in Belize City, fifteen staffers, including nurses, technicians from the COVID-19 Unit also got vaccinated. Internist Doctor Fernando Cuellar spoke to News Five today about people’s apprehension about […]
Doctor Cuellar also reacted to the information shared by Ministry of Health and Wellness personnel which suggests that a startling thirty-five percent of frontline healthcare workers do not want to take the COVID-19 vaccine. Of note is that a number of healthcare personnel have contracted the virus, several doctors lost their fight with the virus, […]
The vaccine rollout exercise for the country began today. Unlike other countries where government leaders are among the first to be vaccinated, for Belize, it was frontline healthcare workers from COVID-19 units. News Five’s Duane Moody was there for the first shots. Duane Moody, Reporting It was a historic moment today at the House […]
While a larger list of priority groups for the vaccine rollout was shared today, Minister of Tourism and Diaspora Relations, Anthony Mahler told the media over the weekend that eight thousand tourism stakeholders will be vaccinated when Belize receives its first allocation of Astra Zeneca vaccine from COVAX. Minister Mahler says that this will help […]
So many families in Belize have lost loved ones to violence, but for one Belize City mother, the cycle just never ends. Today, News Five spoke with Irene Wallace, who has had four of her sons murdered, with the most recent on Friday night. Reporter Andrea Polanco has more in the following story. Irene […]
What should have been a peaceful sleep early Sunday morning became a nightmare for a couple in the Cayo District when intruders woke them up demanding money. But as News Five’s Isani Cayetano found out, the retired missionaries relied on their faith to survive the ordeal and intend to pray for their assailants. Voice […]
The Municipal Elections are less than two days away and an attempt by the United Democratic Party and its Chairman, Michael Peyrefitte and citizen Melbourne Wade to stop P.U.P. Mayor Bernard Wagner from running a second time will have to wait for a later date. That’s because Justice Sonya Young adjourned the matter after both […]
An angry mob assaulted a team of police officers in Pickstock Hutment on Sunday night. The officers were in pursuit of a motorist who drove his vehicle into the area. When they were finally able to catch up with the driver, residents in the neighborhood became hostile with the policemen, preventing them from carrying out […]
