Businessman Yhony Rosado is recognized in the tourism industry for pioneering cave-tubing activities at Nohoch Che’en. He is also an outspoken social activist who has stood up to the government whenever he has felt jilted by the so-called system. His latest fight is with the Department of General Sales Tax. The Commissioner of GST has […]
Having been denied an opportunity to explain to the department where they are purportedly mistaken in their calculation of his taxes, Rosado turned to Chartered Public Accountant Cedric Flowers. According to Rosado, several discrepancies were immediately identified by the reliable accounting firm. Yhony Rosado, Tour Operator, Cavetubing.com “With this bill that GST has sent […]
So, how will Rosado’s mounting debt be resolved? According to the tour operator, he is headed to court and the judge’s decision on a final dollar amount will determine how much he pays. Yhony Rosado, Tour Operator, Cavetubing.com “We’re taking this to court because there is plenty of room. I haven’t, just like how […]
Seventeen-year-old Aurora Sanchez, the lone survivor in a fatal crash that killed her mother and stepfather over the weekend, remains in stable condition and is recovering from injuries received during the deadly collision. The driver of the other vehicle, thirty-five-year-old Delmar Ortega of Santa Familia Village, is also listed in stable condition. The accident between […]
Two police constables attached to the Placencia Police Substation are in big trouble and their fates lie in the hands of the Commissioner of Police tonight after multiple reports from minors accusing them of perverse actions. The Police Department has been strict when it comes to dealing with children, but over the weekend, two officers […]
Tonight, the Ministry of National Security says four officers who have reached retirement age are well within the law to remain in the Belize Defence Force. Late last week, documents were leaked questioning the status of the officers. But the C.E.O. in the ministry states that a change in policy two years ago, now allows […]
There were no murders reported over the weekend, but this afternoon, the body of a man was discovered this evening sometime around four in Armenia village, just outside of Belmopan. Photos of the scene show a body of a shirtless Hispanic person wearing long pants. While we have received a report that it is a […]
A fatal traffic accident on the Southern Highway claimed the lives of two well-known residents of Placencia. The couple was returning home along with their teenage daughter in anticipation of a birthday celebration when the collision occurred. Mark Leslie and Myrna Vasquez were travelling in a small car when an SUV driven at the time […]
In another accident in the south, a Belize Defense Force soldier has been charged in connection with a fatal hit and run incident that occurred near the outskirts of Dangriga on Friday night. Forty-two-year-old Donald Enriquez failed to stop and render aid after knocking down a cyclist along the Hummingbird Highway sometime around seven-forty-five p.m. […]
Damage on the roads was not contained to the south this weekend. On the Philip Goldson Highway near mile fifty, forty-year-old Nigeria Matura of Carmelita village, Orange Walk was driving north when she lost control of her Ford Probe and collided with a Ford Edge vehicle driven by Bella Vista resident and businessman Ray Hohenkirk. […]
There is a disturbing report coming out of Independence tonight. The troubling incident reportedly involves at least two cops attached to the Independence Police Station. Two females were allegedly raped inside the station sometime over the weekend. Sources say that the women were taken into the station where a female police officer allegedly orchestrated the […]
Chinese Yuanran Zheng was today confirmed to have left the country after being served with an official Order to Leave by the Immigration Department on Friday. He first arrived in Belize on Sunday, November fifth, in possession of a Belize nationality certificate. On Monday the sixth, he showed up at the Belmopan office of Social […]
On Friday, some fifty-seven new citizens were sworn in at the George Price Center in Belmopan. Their nationality certificates are of a different kind than the one found on Yuanran Zheng – they contain additional and new security features to protect against counterfeiting and con artistry. Minister of State Beverly Williams made note that in […]
Gunfire and explosions at Saint George’s Caye crash a wedding party in progress as armed soldiers storm the beach. It happed on Thursday night as a group of twenty-six guests, who have been staying at the St. George’s Caye Resort for the past several days, were in the middle of the wedding party. Sometime after […]
The leadership of the Belize Defence Force is under fire tonight, but not from Guatemala. Internal information forwarded to News Five indicates that several senior officers may be in violation of their mandatory retirement ages from the force. This includes the man holding over for retired Brigadier General David Jones. The top leadership is said […]
The House of Representatives’ Public Accounts Committee’s last two meetings wound up canceled. One was by its chairman Julius Espat because Auditor General Dorothy Bradley was not able to attend. The other happened after three members who are Government ministers caught the flu and viral conjunctivitis within days of each other. At that time the […]
One of the contentions raised by Espat and echoed by the social partners is that Public Accounts Committee meetings should be held in public as the name suggests. But Patrick Faber contends that there are pitfalls to such a plan – namely worries that some will cherry-pick what is said and use it against the […]
This evening, we sought a response from the Committee’s Chair, Julius Espat. For the most part, he said, the meeting was an education in the role and responsibility of the Auditor General’s office and its relationship with the committee, which in Belize’s case is for the most part non-existent. Espat says the entities must work […]
Espat told us that with respect to the past absences, he has made it clear to his fellow parliamentarians that he will tolerate no excuses for future absences from meetings. The issue is important enough that a united bi-partisan front is critical to solving the myriad issues with the government and public service. And while […]
A primary argument for those opposed to the recent decriminalization law is that Belize already has high rates of students smoking marijuana fairly regularly. They argue that decriminalization would increase that rate and make it more attractive. While the law does allow that no marijuana can be carried onto school properties, today Minister of Education […]
Earlier this week on Wednesday, the Financial Secretary promised that consumers can expect a decrease in fuel prices. He didn’t say there would be an increase, but as of midnight tonight, you can expect one. Regular fuel is going up by twenty-seven cents, but the good news is that premium goes down by eight-five cents. […]
There’s another commitment that government has met. As ordered by the Caribbean Court of Justice on November first, G.O.B. has complied with a payment of about a hundred and sixty million dollars as a final payment for the 2009 and 2011 nationalization of Belize Telemedia Limited. The government today made the transfer of funds of […]
A major sting operation in Honduras last week, resulted in the arrest of Denia Suyapa Ochoa, believed to be the ringleader in a human trafficking organization that extends to Belize. She is the Ministry of Health employee in San Pedro Sula, Honduras who is accused of smuggling as many as seventy young women into the […]
A pair of Asian men, one a Taiwanese/Belizean from Camalote, Cayo and the other a Chinese businessman, pleaded guilty to falsifying immigration documents when they appeared in the Belmopan Magistrate’s Court. The duo has been in detention since Monday after being busted while attempting to apply for a Social Security Card using a bogus Belizean […]
There are still no arrests to be made in a heist that saw thieves make off with ten thousand dollars in cash from a Western Union branch in Corozal Town on Monday morning. As we reported, twenty-eight-year-old Doris Montejo was held up at gunpoint and relieved of a substantial amount of cash at her place […]
