Those sections, seventy-eight and eighty of the Constitution, state that even if the Senate does not pass a Money Bill, or non-Money Bill, respectively, the House can still within thirty days send that Bill to the Governor-General for his assent. The P.U.P. so claims that paralysis is certainly not the rationale behind the Prime Minister’s […]
The family of six year old Travis Polanco from Pomona Valley, Stann Creek District, is tonight grieving his death, five days after he was shot to the head by another primary school student. At three minutes past twelve this afternoon, the young boy who had been unresponsive for some days, was taken off the ventilator […]
The shooting of Travis occurred last Thursday and it was until this afternoon that police sent out a release on what transpired. Contrary to the family’s report that the two boys were playing in the yard, the police say that their initial investigations reveal that while Travis was coming from school, he started hurling rocks […]
As the family of Travis Polanco grieves his death, the family of twenty-seven-year-old Denfield Bowen Junior fears the worst. Bowen Junior, known to family and friends simply as LL, has been missing since Thursday of last week when he was last seen leaving his Plues Street address in his vehicle. It has been five days […]
The stevedore was last seen wearing a white tee shirt with R.I.P. Kareem Lopez emblazoned on the front and Robbery on the back. Bowen was also clad in a pair of yellow three-quarter shorts and a pair of green Nike slippers. Isani Cayetano “Describe the vehicle in which he was driving?” Voice of: […]
Tonight San Pedro Police have released three of the five persons detained for the murder of taxi-man Donicio Trujillo on Sunday. Trujillo was found early that morning on the side of the road with his throat cut and stab wounds to the body. Preliminary investigations resulted in the immediate detention of five persons of interest […]
A second suspect has been detained by police in connection with the murder at the National Agricultural and Trade Show Grounds. Shariff Anderson Andrewin of Cotton Tree was taken into custody at the Belmopan Police Station today. His arrest comes on the heels of the detention of Kimal Dawson hours after a Hattieville resident was […]
In April, 2013, the Vital Statistics Department was relocated from Gabourel Lane to the corner of Hyde’s Lane and New Road in Belize City. The official rationale for the move was that service would improve tremendously, and so would efficiency and the convenience to the public. Well that certainly hasn’t happened…but what has, is that […]
There is a disturbing incident to report tonight of a shooting involving two young children in the south. A six year old boy is clinging to life after he was shot to the head by another minor with a sixteen-gauge shotgun. At news time, the family says that the chances of survival for Travis Polanco […]
911 was immediately called by Thomas Polanco, who thought of nothing else, but to get his son to the Southern Regional Hospital to save his life. But there was no response and the family had to rush six year old Travis to the hospital in a private vehicle. But with the clock ticking and a […]
According to Travis’ father, Thomas Polanco, the sixteen-gauge shotgun used in the shooting by the year old, is the weapon utilized by the minor’s family for hunting. Police have since questioned the parents of the boy who pulled the trigger and they have been released. Now, the nine year old is under the age of […]
The San Pedro Police Department is investigating a second brutal murder in less than a week. On Sunday morning, well-known taxi-driver forty-two year old Donicio Trujillo was found stabbed to death on a remote road outside of town; his van was parked nearby. Trujillo’s apparently senseless killing comes just five days after the execution of […]
The national agricultural and trade show was held over the holiday weekend in the Capital….thousands turned out for the event; that story is coming later in the newscast. But on Saturday night at the show grounds, a Hattieville youth was stabbed to death. Twenty-four year old Dernel Brown was socializing with a group of friends […]
Retired Major Lloyd Jones is the new People’s United Party standard bearer for Belize Rural North. The former Ports Commissioner succeeds attorney Arthur Saldivar and was formally introduced as the party’s candidate of choice during a press conference today at Independence Hall. Jones’ spirited introduction was led by Lake Independence Standard Bearer Cordel Hyde. His […]
As we mentioned earlier, Jones is assuming the reins for the P.U.P. campaign in Belize Rural North from former standard bearer Arthur Saldivar. His candidacy was rescinded in 2014, amid a series of scandals involving his profession as an attorney. While Jones admits that canvassing all twenty-seven villages within the constituency will be painstaking, he […]
Former Belize City Mayor David Fonseca is dead. The retired People’s United Party politician, served two terms as mayor and a total of sixteen years in active politics, took his own life sometime around two this afternoon in the bathroom at his residence in Stuart’s Alley. He was the first mayor to be directly elected […]
Treasury Department Second Class Clerk David Enriquez was charged last week for theft. The police say that he diverted monies, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars, meant for Toledo Community College into accounts to which he had access. But tonight the plot thickens. News Five has been able to confirm with Principal of TCC, Harriet […]
Enriquez had been on remand for the bold Treasury theft since last week, but this afternoon he was granted bail by Supreme Court Judge Troadio Gonzalez after the prosecution registered no objection but left it to the discretion of the Court. Another man who was charged for handling stolen goods, Francis Palacio, also received bail […]
It may have cruised under the radar at the Prime Minister’s press conference on Wednesday, but the fact that the churches are getting in on the Petrocaribe bounty is significant. At the last Senate meeting, church representative Father Noel Leslie rejected the Petrocaribe Bill. But Prime Minister Dean Barrow made it clear that notwithstanding that […]
There is some good news for consumers because beginning July first, 2015 to June thirtieth 2016; electricity rates are to go down to thirty-five cents per kilo watt hour to all customers. The Public Utilities Commission announced the reduction in tariffs today after reviewing a request by Belize Electricity Limited. While B.E.L. requested a reduction […]
Two weeks ago, about forty workers at the Santander Green Tropics facility staged a small protest at the compound, citing chronic concerns which they say remained unaddressed by management. Over five hundred Belizeans are employed at the company, so those concerns prompted a visit by the Labour Department. Labour Commissioner Ivan Williams told News Five […]
According to Williams, and this is certainly not the first time this complaint has been ventilated, workers feel that they are not being given access to lucrative employment. They feel that the company favours the hiring of foreigners, many brought in from Guatemala, to do the jobs which pay more. That complaint has prompted the […]
The Prime Minister took on a number of issues this morning at a press conference that started at ten and continued until about twelve-twenty. P.M. Dean Barrow spoke on a myriad of national issues that have been on the headlines for days. There is the Petrocaribe Loan Act, which has become one of the most […]
Now for policy matters, the Bank of America has withdrawn as corresponding bank to the Belize Bank. The PM explained that there has been nothing awry and that the government is in full support of the bank. Furthermore, the Central Bank will be assisting with wire transfer so there is no need to panic. […]
In past three or four years, the large U.S. Banks and some European Banks have been facing some of the largest fines in the history of banking. Those fines, according to Lyndon Guiseppi, the Executive Chairman of Belize Bank, relate primarily to the banks being sanctioned for doing business in jurisdictions or in countries with […]
