With all that is taking place or about to take place in the courts; soon after the pronouncements of the Prime Minister establishing his time line for legal challenges of the interim injunction, a copy of a correspondence from Elections and Boundaries appeared on social media. The leaked memo is from the Chief Elections Officer […]
Cable operators in Belize will now be able to legally provide thirty programming channels such as HBO, MAX, Lifetime and SyFy. This comes after the signing of licensing agreements between HBO Latin America Group and the Belize Cable Television Operators’ Association. For years, cable operators in the country have been distributing certain channels without authorization. […]
In less than twelve hours, there were two shootings and a stabbing that left a total of two persons dead and three others injured. It all occurred within a two block radius on Faber’s Road Extension where officers attached to the Gang Suppression Unit have been deployed to avert any retaliation. The violence started on […]
There is a major upset for the government in respect of the I.C.J. referendum that was scheduled for next week Wednesday. In a packed courtroom, a ruling was handed down this afternoon by Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin prohibiting the government from proceeding with the April tenth referendum as scheduled. The C.J. found that the injunction […]
Last Wednesday, during the prime minister’s press conference where he unveiled a revised legal opinion by former I.C.J. President Stephen Schwebel, attorney Lisa Shoman added her two cents to a question posed by a fellow media colleague. That question had to do with a possible outcome in today’s injunction hearing. Not only was the former […]
The monkey wrench that has been thrown into government’s I.C.J. timetable has undoubtedly upset its plans to proceed with a referendum next Wednesday. In fact, while it did not anticipate the surprising outcome, the Barrow administration has been forced to revisit the drawing board and re-strategize a legal approach. Late this afternoon, Prime Minister Barrow […]
PM Barrow has outlined a three-pronged approach to tackling the latest obstacle in government’s path to the I.C.J. referendum. That impromptu plan of action includes an application for a reworking of the order that the Chief Justice has made. Government also seeks leave for the referendum to proceed on Wednesday, but the results of which […]
The Court of Appeal is also an immediate first option in the wake of the Chief Justice’s milestone decision; that application being signed before C.J. Benjamin could properly exit his chamber. But is time still on government’s side, considering the slow pace at which the judicial system works and the tight deadline ahead? PM Barrow […]
Government’s high-speed train to the I.C.J. referendum has collided into an unforeseen blockade and there is no telling what impact, if any, that sudden crash will have on the momentum of the national vote. It’s a question that we posed to PM Barrow earlier, and despite not being able to answer directly, he is of […]
Traversing the Sarstoon is a tense and perilous journey. The Guatemalan Armed Forces are there to impede Belizeans from freely travelling upstream so Belizeans require escort from the B.D.F. and Belize Coastguard on the journey on our side of the river. That is in the south, but in the west, it is a different case. […]
News Five’s reporters have been deployed to various border communities to test the pulse of Belizeans as we prepare for that historic vote on April tenth which will decide if the International Court of Justice is to determine on the boundaries of Belize. We will be reporting from areas far-flung, as well as communities where […]
Next stop: Jalacte, a bordering community of some eight hundred residents. The experience there is much different. People from both sides of the border cross unimpeded; there is no immigration points, just the B.D.F. on duty at an outpost. We found out that the residents are more interested in trade than on going to the […]
Twenty-one-year-old James Emmanuel Gibson was today arraigned in the courtroom of Senior Magistrate Tricia Pitts-Anderson for the weekend stabbing murder of his cousin, Malcolm Emmanuel. The customer care representative was remanded to central prison and must reappear in court on June third, 2019. According to the information, Malcolm Leslie found out that he was the […]
The Morales family of San Ignacio is grieving the untimely death of one of their own. The nineteen-year-old went missing over the weekend and on Monday afternoon; the family’s worst fears were confirmed. Rudy was found dead and his body was retrieved from the Mopan River. There were reports that he had been spotted along […]
There are reports of an aggravated burglary at a resort on northern Ambergris Caye. News Five has received information that four armed, masked men targeted the Sapphire Resort located nine and a half miles north of San Pedro, Ambergris Caye. The robbers reportedly got the property’s security guards out of the way by tying them […]
A well-known mechanic from Corozal is in big trouble with the law tonight after he was busted with over forty-five pounds of cannabis. Police are reporting that on Monday night around eleven-forty, officers conducted a search on a Ford F-150 pickup truck belonging to Joel Recinos. The forty-year-old resident of Calcutta Village in Corozal has […]
A man is in the K.H.M.H. in a critical condition tonight after he was involved in a road traffic accident. According to reports, forty-nine-year-old Jose Cortez of Paraiso village was driving his motorcycle this morning between miles eighty-five and eighty-six when a Silva bus travelling in the same direction from the northern border to Corozal […]
With the April tenth referendum inching closer to the date, the Chief Justice today heard an application for an interim injunction brought by the People’s United Party. This afternoon the courtroom CJ Kenneth Benjamin was packed to capacity as members of the House of Representatives including Opposition leader, John Briceño. The Opposition is challenging the […]
Courtenay also argued that the Special Agreement, read on a whole, is an attempt by the executive to empower the International Court of Justice to amend the country’s constitution as it relates to the territory, therefore, exercising legislature abilities in violation of the “separation of powers.” Shoman, however, argues that Courtenay’s IFs preempts the outcome […]
The attorneys for the P.U.P. did not give comments after the hearing; instead opting for after the decision to be delivered on Wednesday by the Chief Justice. In his arguments to the court, Courtenay also submitted that there is the question of irreparable harm. He contends that his clients’ rights as members of the executive […]
A violent incident in Sand Hill, Belize District, involving two relatives, ended fatally for Malcolm Leslie. On Saturday afternoon, Malcolm was stabbed to the left side of his chest by his cousin James Gibson. Malcolm was at James’ house in the village where a confrontation took place while the two cousins were on the verandah. […]
A B.D.F. volunteer was found dead the morning around six-thirty on the Hummingbird Highway. The thirty-year-old had been chopped to death and left on the roadside in Armenia. Police say some monies, a cell-phone and the man’s documents were retrieved from the scene. Just prior to his murder, Hermelindo Ical was enjoying a night out […]
Eighteen-year-old Rudy Morales went missing days ago and his family and the police had issued a missing person’s bulletin. Well, the news tonight is that his body was found floating in the Mopan River in Benque Viejo. The teenager from Kontiki area in San Ignacio left home on Saturday en route to a party. But […]
Police normally report about drug busts, small or big, contraband beer and the sorts, but tonight, they are tight-lipped about an incident in the south. Since Friday, there have been persistent reports that a vessel was intercepted with a significant amount of cash, forty thousand U.S. dollars. Images were obtained of the bundles of cold […]
The Dangriga community is still reeling over the murder of one of its own; Jordan Lorenzo was killed in Belize City earlier this week. But on Thursday evening, they lost another resident to gun violence. A local fisherman was executed inside his house in the town. It is not known why Carlos Reyes was targeted, […]
