The People’s United Party is still reeling from the devastating blow it has suffered in the wake of that announcement. Party Leader Francis Fonseca has gone on record to express dissatisfaction with the manner in which Mahmud went about his abrupt departure. The bitter pill succeeds all previous indications by Mahmud in October that […]
While the date for the upcoming bye-election has been set for January fifth, 2015, opposition leader Francis Fonseca says that the P.U.P. will lead a spirited campaign in Cayo North, despite not having overflowing coffers like the United Democratic Party. Fonseca says he is confident in the credibility of both prospective candidates who have offered […]
Tonight, eighteen year old San Martin resident Wilser Chavarria is being held by Belmopan Police, and we are told he will be charged for murder by Wednesday. Chavarria is the only suspect in the murder of Panamanian diplomat, Jose Rodrigo de la Rosa Stanford, whose body was found on Sunday, with cut wounds on his […]
This afternoon, high level representatives from the Panamanian government landed at the P.G.I.A. to deal with the gruesome murder of one of their own. While they declined an interview, News Five is reliably informed that a meeting between them and the government is set for Wednesday. All indications are however, that it will not be […]
The unceremonious stepping down of Joseph Mahmud on Monday as a duly elected area representative for Cayo North is raising serious concerns about the integrity and unity of the P.U.P. He is the second elected representative to bow out of electoral politics; weeks ago Orange Walk East area representative Marco Tulio Mendez announced his withdrawal. […]
Prior to Mahmud’s resignation, there were reports of contention within the P.U.P. Western Caucus. The rift was said to be between Deputy Party Leader, Julius Espat, and former chairman Mahmud and many believed it escalated to his sudden departure. According to the P.U.P. leader, the western caucus took a unanimous decision to hold a delegates […]
At news time tonight senior P.U.P. officials are in closed door session following the announcement of the resignation of Cayo North Area Representative Joseph Mahmud from the House of Representative. Yes, we know he resigned from the Party in late October – but this time he’s taken the big step of resigning from the National […]
Tonight, police has one man detained for the vicious murder of a senior career diplomat from Panama, and we are told he is a close friend. The bloody body of Charge’ d’Affaires Jose Rodrigo de la Rosa Stanford, was found at a remote location just outside of Belmopan on Sunday evening by a church-goer. His […]
There are arrests in the attempted murder of a George Street boss who was shot in rival territory last Thursday. Twenty-two year old Ellis Meighan, another street figure and a seventeen year old minor were arraigned for the broad daylight attempt on the life of George Street associate, Carlos Abraham, aka Zimbab. The shooting occurred […]
The body of a Canadian newly-wed was retrieved from the Mopan River on Sunday morning. James Searles arrived in Belize on Saturday to reunite with his wife of two months and within hours he was a dead man. When the body was pulled out of the river, it was only clothed with a jacket and […]
Also in the west, immigration officers on routine patrol in the Cayo District arrested five Cuban nationals who illegally entered the country. Reports are that on Sunday, the Cuban nationals were detained on the Santa Cruz Road on this side of the border in the company of Belizean, Clefido Balam. It is believed that the […]
A mortar is a military weapon that fires explosive projectiles or bombs at low velocities, short ranges, and high-arcing ballistic trajectories. For about three weeks now, construction works have been ongoing on the Victor Galvez Stadium in San Ignacio Town and the workmen on site unearthed one such missile within the construction site. The San […]
A fifty-six year old man was before the court today to answer to two criminal offenses after he was accused of committing an aggravated assault with a machete upon his own sister during a family dispute. He is Joel Gordon, who appeared before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith in Court and was arraigned for two […]
After eight months of being in the clear, the first confirmed case of Chikungunya has been recorded in Belize’s public health archives, following a rash of the mosquito-transmitted fever across the Caribbean and Latin America back in April. CHIK-V, as it is otherwise known, has been suspected in several cases in the Belmopan area since […]
The first suspected case of CHIK-V was believed to have been imported into the country since Las Flores is a predominantly immigrant community. While that case was never confirmed, the diagnosis of the woman indicates that she was infected here in Belize. It has been a little over a month however, since the specimen was […]
Two minors believed to be affiliated with the Ghost Town Gang are tonight in custody for the brazen attempted murder of a George Street boss, Carlos “Zimbab” Abraham. Zimbab was at a tire shop at the corner of Lakeview and Banak Streets, well within Ghost Town Crips territory, when it is believed that he was […]
It has been and continues to be a practice of the Belize Police Department, whenever queried about the results of an investigation into a serious crime, to state that the file is with the Director of Public Prosecutions. All failure to charge, then, or delay in charging, is laid at the doorstep of the D.P.P. […]
On Thursday, the Belize Chamber of Commerce issued a release on the continued impasse in the sugar cane industry. It’s been criticized in some sectors because it doesn’t seem to take any strong position. Today, Chamber President Arturo Vasquez says that the release is not at all ambiguous and he feels that the chamber has […]
Today is Friday, the deadline given to the Sugar Industry Control Board to call a meeting in an attempt to break the impasse between the BSCFA and BSI/ASR. But tonight we can report that the deadline has been extended to next week Tuesday, the twenty-fifth. The SICB was not able to meet before then, and […]
This afternoon, forty exhausted soldiers who are being pushed to the limits of their endurance completed in day-two of the Coast Guard’s Best Warrior Competition. There are five teams of eight members each, selected from the Coast Guard and the Belize Defence Force, which must undergo an intensive round of exercises designed to test their […]
A well-known George Street boss, Carlos ‘Zimbab’ Abraham, is listed in stable condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was shot down this morning in rival territory. Police have declined to speak officially on the incident, but News Five understands that a little before ten this morning, Abraham was at the corner of […]
In the Lord’s Bank community, an apartment complex owned by Bert Ramos, the vice chairman of the village, who is also the owner of Ramos Bus Lines, went up in smoke on Wednesday morning. The blaze started from one of the eight apartments and swept quickly through the building. The fire victims lost everything, but […]
Late this evening, the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry issued a release in respect of the impasse in the sugar industry involving a proposal by B.S.I./A.S.R. to bypass the elected Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association and to deal directly with farmers. As it stands tonight, the association has given the Sugar Industry Control Board […]
Tuesday’s Special Sitting of the House of Representatives was crafted for the presentation and passage of what Prime Minister Dean Barrow is calling a validation motion relating to the Petrocaribe monies. As House meetings go, the debate stayed on target on the loan motion, even as the issue of the use of the Petrocaribe millions […]
Leader of the Opposition Francis Fonseca wasn’t buying the PM’s take on the matter, including G.O.B.’s assertion that the P.U.P. in its own time used and abused the Petrocaribe funds without accountability. Fonseca made no apologies for the fact that Petrocaribe came to life under the P.U.P. In fact, he lauded the program, stating that […]
