Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega stands accused of orchestrating a hit on Ramon Cervantes Junior. That very serious allegation was contained in a purported recording of wanted fugitive Manuel ‘El Pelon’ Castillo, who is also believed to have been involved in the murder of Cervantes’ father back in July. The unproved assertion went viral last […]
Cervantes will not apologize nor back down, and neither will Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega. He told the media today that the matter is in the hands of his attorney and that is where it’ll stay. And apart from that, Vega says the situation hasn’t affected his political career in the slightest. Gaspar Vega, […]
Attorneys for telecom providers Speednet and B.T.L. were in court this morning. Speednet Communications Limited filed an application for an injunction against Belize Telemedia Limited on Wednesday to prevent the termination of services by B.T.L. which would affect almost seven thousand Smart users in Toledo District. On July twenty-seventh an agreement was signed between the […]
Senior Counsel Rodwell Williams, representing B.T.L., laid out the fundamental principle behind B.T.L.’s move to terminate the agreement. He says that Speednet purchased the service for private use then turned around and made it available to its subscribers. Rodwell Williams, Attorney for BTL “It is a dispute that has to do primarily with […]
Earlier in our newscast we showed you the protesters who were charged in the Benque Viejo Magistrate’s Court. The act for which they were charged was a cry for justice, a demand that Deputy Commissioner of Police be charged for an accident which resulted in the death of one woman. They were also there on […]
Police moved swiftly against two suspects from Roaring Creek and have charged them with the murder of Corwin Mendoza. Mendoza went missing on Sunday after an altercation with his girlfriend. After days of searching, his body was found this morning floating in a creek; it had injuries to the face and upper body. Both suspects […]
There have been four murders in the past five murders, including that of Corwin Mendoza. This afternoon the violence continued with a brazen shooting on a busy street in the Old Capital. Shortly after two o’clock, gunshots rang out on North Front Street near the Image Factory. The mid-afternoon shooting has left two persons hospitalized […]
Much as it did last year, a sense of unease and hostility pervades the sugar-cane industry and the 2014-2015 crop season, scheduled to start within a month. On Monday, ASR-owned B.S.I. held a press conference to announce that since no agreement could be reached, it had decided to bypass the B.S.C.F.A. and attempt to sign […]
It is not far-fetched to speculate that the mandate from the farmers may include agitation of some form, leading up to industrial action. The industry is volatile, the labour intensive, and the farmers passionate about the lifeblood of the north. At the start of the last crop, BSI gave an undertaking in good faith to […]
Even as we left Orange Walk following that press conference at the B.S.C.F.A., News Five received word that unknown persons had torched cane-fields in Libertad owned by B.S.I. We were unable to get comment from factory representatives, but reliable sources tell us that a total of nine acres of mature cane, approximately three hundred and […]
While industrial action is contemplated in the north, the People’s United Party is tonight castigating the Barrow administration for dragging its feet on one of the major industries and the lifeblood of the north. According to Party Leader Francis Fonseca, the United Democratic Party government has been slow to intercede in the ongoing dispute. Fonseca […]
Speednet Communications Ltd., the parent company for Smart, filed an application for an injunction against Belize Telemedia Limited in the Supreme Court of Belize earlier today. The application for a court order became necessary after B.T.L. served Speednet with a notice of termination of service via certain links to take effect as of Friday, November […]
No one was injured in a fire that erupted before midnight in the Old Capital, but several families were left homeless. The blaze spread quickly completely destroying the contents of the two small houses. The fire victims lost everything without and need assistance from the public. News Five’s Isani Cayetano reports. Isani Cayetano, Reporting […]
There is a crisis of significant proportions brewing in the sugar-cane industry, lifeblood of the north and one of the country’s largest export-earners. A.S.R.-owned B.S.I. on Monday announced that following a failure to come to terms, it would be bypassing the B.S.C.F.A. completely. The company has now initiated discussions with the leaders of the three […]
Even as B.S.I. was trying to convince farmers to jump the B.S.C.F.A. ship, that body was holding emergency meetings with the eighteen directors of the different branches. Today’s round of meeting ended at just after midday and the media was on hand to get a preliminary response from the B.S.C.F.A. reps. It was a little […]
The People’s United Party has issued a statement in respect of the developments in the sugar industry. The party says the B.S.I./A.S.R. decision to bypass the B.S.C.F.A. is unprecedented and does not augur well for the viability of the industry. The opposition also notes that there is an absence of participation by the government. In […]
Tonight’s question is: Do you think A.S.R./B.S.I. should bypass B.S.C.F.A. and deal directly with cane farmers? 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.
Work on Douglas Jones Street in Belize City came to an abrupt stop this morning. A letter from the Ministry of Works to the Flood Mitigation Project which in turn sub-contracts Medina Infrastructure Limited, informed that health and safety issues of workers were at the core of the decision. About seventy persons were employed; they […]
Tonight, News Five has been able to confirm that at least twenty persons from Benque Viejo del Carmen and Succotz have been summoned to appear in court on Thursday, November thirteenth. There they will be read charges for participating in a protest which turned violent on August nineteenth. The very heated protest was spurred by […]
There is an utterly disturbing report tonight concerning the alleged rape of a ninety-eight-year-old Belize City woman. The incident occurred on Friday night while the elderly woman was asleep at home. It is reported that sometime after one a.m., in the wee hours of Saturday morning, a prowler entered her residence by breaching the door. […]
Breaking news: there is a report tonight from Dangriga that the body of a woman was found in the Havana Beach area. It is believed that she was beaten to death with a blunt object and police are currently processing the scene. We’ll have more on this is Tuesday’s newscast.
The Supreme Court handed down a major decision today on a story that has been in the local and international headlines for months. On September twenty-fourth, the Financial Intelligence Unit froze assets held in Belize by of a group of five companies operating under Titans International Securities LLC. Their offices had been raided and documents […]
The hostilities between Belize Sugar Industry and the Belize Sugar Cane farmers Association will no doubt be ratcheted up a significant notch today after an unexpected announcement by the factory. Starting immediately, B.S.I. will bypass the B.S.C.F.A. and will attempt to deal directly with the farmers in the delivery and milling of cane. It’s an […]
While B.S.I. was dropping their bombshell this afternoon, the directors of the sugar-cane branches of the B.S.C.F.A. were holding their own emergency meeting. They received the letter from B.S.I. today and it took them completely by surprise, so they’re still in the process of coming up with a formal response. Just before news time, we […]
Turning to crime…There was a murder in the Old Capital on Saturday. The lifeless body of a well-known street figure was found in his house on Casaurina Street. Ernel Welcome Junior was shot once to the forehead and left to die in the house. While police are following all leads, there are no arrests and […]
