Despite the individual objectives of the various N.G.O.s, the idea, says Salas, is for members of the community to unite for a common cause which is sustainable human development. Osmany Salas, Senator Elect “When we say that the work is just beginning it means that we have to get our organizational structures in place, […]
Wednesday is the thirty-fifth birthday of the Government of Belize’s chief press officer, Dorian Pakeman. But today, the man accused of causing the traffic fatality that took the life of a Biscayne mechanic, Dean Dawson, back in March of 2016, finally appeared in court for it. Pakeman was read only one charge: causing death by […]
There is a development to report in respect of the judiciary, this time in the Supreme Court, which opens its 2017 session this coming Monday, January sixteenth. Several attorneys tell News Five that one of the stalwart figures of the Court and the Belizean judicial system for many years, Justice John “Troadio” Gonzalez, has quietly […]
The Caribbean Court of Justice today heard arguments in the Bar Association’s final stand against the Government. It regards a case concerning the overturning of constitutional amendments, limiting time of judges on the Court to sit where their instruments of appointment are open-ended. The Sixth Amendment to the Constitution, passed in 2008, sought to close […]
Replying for the Attorney General and Government of Belize, Senior Counsel Denys Barrow noted that at least part of the amendment is no longer of value, and that the Government believes that by establishing a specific term for the judges in question, it would be to their benefit rather than to their detriment. He also […]
The Government of Belize is on the hook for approximately one hundred and twenty million dollars after the United States Supreme Court today declined to hear the petitions for review of two judgments against G.O.B. – one in favour of Belize Social Development Limited (B.S.D.L.) and the other in favour of Caribbean Investment Holdings Limited, […]
Government will have to find a hundred and twenty million dollars even as Superbond renegotiations take place. But is Belize closer to obtaining debt relief from the Belize 2038 Bonds, also known as Superbond Three Point Oh? Credible information to News Five is that the Consent Solicitation to bondholders will be launched on January twelfth, […]
Weeks ago, Alexander Palacio was released from prison on parole for a manslaughter conviction. But his life was taken over the weekend in Punta Gorda where he was seeking refuge following his release from prison. On Friday night, a duo of shooters appear to have monitored his movements and then fired the fatal shots as […]
Six persons are in detention this evening after police stopped an armed robbery in progress at the Northern Fisherman’s Cooperative’s offices on North Front Street in Belize City this afternoon. Police responded to the area based on prior intelligence just after two p.m. and detained the men, including the driver of the van used in […]
A well-known foreman at the Port of Belize escaped death after he was chopped twice to the head on Friday night. In Ladyville, the Nicholas family was having an annual memorial for their son, Barney Cunningham. But later that night, word came to the gathering that Wilfred Nicholas Junior, better known as Chicky Blue, had […]
Police came out to the scene within minutes because the incident occurred just around the corner from the Ladyville Police Station. An injured Nicholas and his wife were escorted to the medical facility at the B.D.F. Compound at Price Barracks. There, they were given a medico form by the police who left the facility. But […]
“Free paper bun” for thousands of students countrywide on this Monday, after schools formally re-opened following a three-week holiday break. The Ministry of Education, with support from managers of schools, had tried to re-open them on January third with limited success. It was an attempt to make up four of six days agreed as having […]
The New Year has been greeted with protests in Mexico against a government price deregulation that sent the price of fuel there up by as much as twenty percent over the weekend. The Mexican government said the deregulation had long been planned, but unfortunately coincided with rising world oil prices. While prices are still relatively […]
Tonight there is a report of a despicable act upon an elderly man in Hattieville. It happened at a time when seventy-eight year old Clinton Belisle was grieving the death of his brother hours earlier on Thursday. He was inside his home at mile seventeen on the George Price Highway when around midnight, four masked […]
After spending two nights on remand at the Belize Central Prison, Japanese national, Asako Solis, who has been living in Belize for over ten years is home tonight. The thirty-eight-year old mother of two children is facing two counts of aggravated assault with a firearm upon her Belizean husband, Elvis Solis. Her husband alleges that […]
The Prime Minister is forced to make good on his promise and a thirteenth senator is nigh. This Tuesday, twenty-eight non-governmental organizations will elect the long anticipated thirteenth senator who is expected to bring meaningful debate and assist in changing the status quo in the Senate, where government appoints six, opposition three and the civil […]
Along with a shortlist of nominees who had been chosen to vie for the senatorial post came information that Froyla Tzalam, executive director of SATIIM, had declined her appointment. Tzalam, who also sits on the Thirteenth Senator Steering Committee as media relations officer, turned down the candidacy because her commitment to the organization is pressing. […]
Following the appointment of the thirteenth senator by the N.G.O.s, the Office of the Integrity Commission will swear in its new members at its first meeting next Thursday, January twelfth, in Belmopan. The Prime Minister recommended the names of attorney Marilyn Williams for Chairman; Armead Gabourel; Lisbeth Delgado; Wilmot Simmons, and Nestor Vasquez; while the […]
Students were away from the classrooms this week and so were teachers and other members of the Belize National Teachers Union. They are expected back in school next Monday as scheduled, long before a dispute between the B.N.T.U. and the Ministry of Education would come to boiling point. This latest salvo in an ongoing dispute […]
Police have cracked the second of six murders that occurred over a four-day period. It’s been two days since the murder of Police Street resident nineteen-year-old Randolph Johnson and tonight, another Belize City youth, nineteen-year-old Elden Edward Flowers, a resident of Croton Lane has been charged for his execution. Late this evening, Flowers appear before […]
There has been a prison break reported, but not in Belize. Ten inmates escaped from a jail in El Salvador on Sunday. Authorities in Honduras and Guatemala are on alert, and earlier this week Police in Belmopan shared the general alert with local media and the public. The inmates are suspected to be part of […]
It may be “maaga season,” but there is money circulating in Belize. Too bad it’s not the genuine kind, according to Belmopan Police. This week they found counterfeit twenty-dollar bills at the automated teller machines inside the capital’s branches of two major banks, after a similar report a few weeks ago. While investigations continue, Officer […]
A final list from which a thirteenth senator will be chosen was formalized on Wednesday, after a steering committee vetted the names of all nominees. That number has since been reduced to five, since the executive director of the Turneffe Atoll Sustainability Association, TASA, has withdrawn his candidacy. Tonight, we’ll introduce you to Janelle Chanona […]
Gay rights activist Caleb Orozco, executive director of UNIBAM, has raised several issues concerning the process being used by the Thirteenth Senator Steering Committee in going about the selection of the remaining parliamentarian. In fact, he points out that the panel should be proactive in its approach to reach out to other nongovernmental organizations, regardless […]
Guatemalan newspaper, Prensa Libre, in its January second issue, carried recent statements made by Guatemalan Foreign Minister, Carlos Raul Morales. According to the article, FM Morales announced that Belize had ratified the amendment to the referendum law, which now allows for a simple majority vote. This, he said, was approved by the Congress of Guatemala […]
