Will President Lee Mark Chang allow the Senate to reintroduce a motion to vote for a Senate Select Committee? It’s a question that can only be answered at the next session of upper parliament. While PM Barrow refused to speculate on that end, he says that he hopes that the president would grant the opportunity […]
There are major developments to report in tonight’s newscast. But first, the Belize Chamber of Commerce met in an emergency session this afternoon and reversed course on a bicameral investigation into the special audit on immigration. Joining the meeting was the Belize Business Bureau, the other arm of the private sector. The session was called […]
There was another emergency meeting held this afternoon. The ten branches of the Belize National Teacher’s Union met to debate and take decisions on the scheduled delay of Government’s salary adjustment for teachers and public officers. Other national issues, such as the call for a Senate inquiry into the Immigration scandal, were also on the […]
But the Ministry of Education is at odds with the B.N.T.U. over the convening of today’s meeting without following protocol. The Ministry issued a release prior to the meeting, which complains about the lack of sufficient notice following the 1997 protocol, which it says does not contribute to enhancing industrial relations between the B.N.T.U., the […]
President Luke Palacio was asked whether the Ministry’s suggestions affected turnout to the meeting. He said he could not say for sure, but he believed that teachers were ready and willing to make the necessary “sacrifice.” Luke Palacio, National President, Belize National Teachers’ Union “I cannot say with any degree of certainty that it […]
A thirty-two year old unemployed man from the San Mateo area of San Pedro Town, Ambergris Caye is dead tonight. Police in Ambergris Caye told us the evening that the victim has been identified as Elton Polonio. Police have also confirmed that the deceased was stabbed during a confrontation inside a hardware store on Angel […]
A Belize City youth was gunned down in the city on Monday night minutes before the live news broadcast. Today, three days after his execution style murder, Belize City police have levied a single charge of murder against twenty-year old Keon Usher, a resident of a Chancellor Street, Belize City. Usher was duly arraigned before […]
The Auditor General’s special report into the issuance of passports, visas and Belizean nationality names quite a number of elected officials, including Prime Minister Barrow himself. He is cited in the seven hundred page document for recommending citizenship for his brother-in-law who lives in Sweden. The audit also names Speaker of the House Michael Peyrefitte […]
The People’s United Party has not shown its muscle in the city for long years, but today it did and impressively so. The crowd was massive as the national protest snaked from the Constitution Park to B.T.L. Park on Newtown Barracks. Supporters from all corners, as well as from the City came out to protest […]
News Five spoke exclusively with the Leader of the Opposition following this morning’s rally. First on our list of questions was his reaction to the divide among Belize’s churches on appealing the decision of Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin to amend Section Fifty-Three of the Criminal Code to allow consensual private sexual acts between adults that […]
The P.U.P. stepped out of bipartisan bilateral talks with Guatemala for some time now. They said it was in protest of the Barrow administration’s mishandling of the situation and that the party was not being kept in the loop. Months later, with Guatemalan Foreign Minister Carlos Raul Morales now breathing fire at an adverse finding […]
Briceño says the P.U.P. can contribute to the discussion on Guatemala, but the government must come to them in seriousness. He also addressed the question on whether Guatemala would grant an apology, however grudging, for their slurs on the Belize Defence Force and generally on Belize. John Briceño, P.U.P. Leader “We have the people […]
At Tuesday’s Cabinet sitting, a decision was taken in respect of the Director of the Press Office, Dorian Pakeman. Pakeman had hit and killed Dean Dawson, a resident of Gardenia, back in April. Immediately following the incident, Pakeman claimed he was clean of alcohol, but there is one major matter that was kept under the […]
There was a horrific murder in Orange Walk Town just before seven on Tuesday night. A young woman was shot and killed in front of her two children, one seven and the other five years of age. Twenty-two year old Jahida Crawford, who is just recently found out she was two months pregnant, was called […]
An Orange Walk resident was busted on Tuesday with over one point two pounds of suspected cannabis. According to Officer Commanding Orange Walk Police, Superintendent Selvyn Tillett, the accused was acting suspicious and when police conducted a search on him, discovered five hundred and fifty grams of suspected weed in a cooler he carried in […]
A twenty-two year old was executed on Monday evening in the unending cycle of violence in the city. Nicasio Zuniga was ambushed by a duo on bicycles on Complex Drive not far from his house on Jones Street in the Saint Martin’s area. One of the gunmen pulled out a firearm and delivered the fatal […]
Late this afternoon, the family also granted News Five an interview saying that Zuniga was never affiliated with any gang, nor does he have a criminal record. The bullet, according to his family, penetrated his cheeks and exited through the back of his head. His sister Keisha says that her brother never complained of his […]
There were two other shootings overnight; the first exactly one hour after the execution of Zuniga. Around seven-thirty p.m., shots rang out on Racecourse Street in Belize City. Another youth, twenty-one-year-old Adrian Dyer, a resident of George Street, was shot multiple times to the thighs by two men on a motorcycle. The gunmen rode up […]
On Monday, we reported that thirty year old Tyrone Davis of Sandhill was murdered, shot in the throat and arm while in a hammock at his home. Police were already baffled as to a possible motive for a murder but according to Regional Commander for Eastern Division South, ACP Edward Broaster, their investigation has led […]
Melissa Ferguson, out on bail for the attempted conspiracy to commit kidnapping of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas and another, is reporting an alleged burglary at the residence she shared with incarcerated accused murderer and kidnapper William Mason in the Mountain View area of Belmopan. She has been living at the ranch at mile thirty-one on the […]
The fate of Dorian Pakeman as Director of the Government Press Office was the subject of a discussion in Cabinet this morning. News Five understands that the issue of his employment was raised in today’s meeting, following the results of a toxicology test conducted on specimen he submitted. That sample was given after a fatal […]
And tonight’s question is: Do you support a Senate Select Investigation or a Bicameral Investigation? Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones to 8686 or post your vote on our e-poll at channel5belize.com. You can also send an email with your comments to questions@channel5belize.com
There is breaking news: Police are at this time processing the scene of a murder in Lake Independence, Belize City. A few minutes ago shots rang out behind the Complex Building where the murder took place. We’ll have more on this murder in Tuesday’s newscast.
The controversial ruling by Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin on Section Fifty-three remains in the headlines tonight. And this morning, the Belize Council of Churches met in an extended session to discuss a collective position on the decision, among other national issues. The sit-down preceded a scheduled meeting this afternoon with Prime Minister Dean Barrow, who […]
According to the President of the Belize Council of Churches, the call for Senator Rocke’s resignation came from other areas of the religious community but was never sanctioned by the organization. While the Roman Catholic Church individually requested his removal, as a member of the council it stands in solidarity with the collective decision to […]
