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P.U.P. Leader Francis Fonseca told the media that any opposition to the decision in the ranks of the Belize Rural North Executive is merely speculation. But it’s actually much more than that. Today members of the Executive stood outside waiting for Saldivar to emerge. When they got the news they were disturbed and enraged, to […]
Blease insists that in meetings with the four member investigating committee, the Executive was told that there was no evidence against Arthur Saldivar. The Belize Rural North Executive claims that the decision taken was instigated by one man in the Executive. They are pointing the finger squarely at the P.U.P.’s new National Campaign Manager, Godfrey […]
Following the decision of the P.U.P. to remove him, Arthur Saldivar spoke briefly to the media at the Radisson Fort George. He says that it’s not about the P.U.P., but about the people of Belize Rural North, and he will still be, in his mind at least, their leader. He also took the opportunity to […]
Just before two o’clock this afternoon, as many as six gunshots rang old in the area of the Saint Ignatius Primary School located near the Raccoon Police Station as well as Precinct One in the Old Capital. A callous lone gunman opened fire on a group of four men who were playing their favorite pastime […]
Written on September 17, 2014 | Posted in
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Bahamian nationals Rohn Knowles and Kelvin Leach remain on lockdown at the Belize Central Prison awaiting extradition proceedings. The US government made a formal request on Monday to have the pair stand trial in a US federal court on a string of offenses related to securities fraud. Knowles and Leach, employees of Titan International Securities, […]
Written on September 17, 2014 | Posted in
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While Elrington spoke candidly on the case against the principals of Titan International Securities in his capacity as Attorney General, he was unaware of Belize’s designation as one of several countries within the Latin American region that have been named as drug producing or drug transit nations. On Monday, the White House issued a press […]
Mark Flowers, the Head of the Gang Suppression Unit, made the headlines recently when he made public comments against the two-term former Prime Minister Said Musa, who at a political convention, called for the disbandment of the GSU. And as you know, the Unit has often come under fire for the use of excessive […]
In Monday’s newscast, we showed you an innovative new underwater subdivision planned in north Ambergris Caye. It’s allegedly the brainchild of Area Representative, Manuel Heredia, and the San Pedro Town Council has disassociated itself from it. As we understand it, forty acres of lagoon and wetlands in an area known as Sunset Cove have been […]
Written on September 16, 2014 | Posted in
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Allegations of securities fraud and money laundering, in recent days placed Belize on the international headlines. Tonight, the issue of drug trafficking is attracting negative attention for the country. On Monday, by presidential determination, Belize was named again by the US as a major drug transit country. Other Caribbean countries such as Jamaica, Haiti and […]
Written on September 16, 2014 | Posted in
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Former employee of CIBC First Caribbean International Bank, Uwahnie Martinez broke the silence surrounding her plight at the Dangriga branch last Tuesday, following her resignation from the institution. According to Martinez, she had been reprimanded by the branch manager for speaking Garifuna in the workplace, particularly with customers doing business. Undoubtedly, it created a firestorm […]
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According to Swaso, the ordeal has galvanized the wider Garifuna community. Efforts are currently underway to explore all avenues pertaining to the matter, including legal options in light of what has transpired with CIBC FirstCaribbean. Gilbert Swaso, Dangriga Mayor “What is important from here, from henceforth because we identified that there is more work […]
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And tonight question is: Do you believe the Minister of Education should be removed from office because of the recent allegations made by his staffer? 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 […]
Written on September 16, 2014 | Posted in
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Seventy-two year old McKesson Garrett was hospitalized since July nineteenth after he was attacked by four vicious Rottweilers. Garnett went to visit his friend, Leroy Woods, who lives at mile four on the Phillip Goldson Highway when he was met at the gate by the ferocious dogs. Since then, Garrett’s condition deteriorated and on Sunday […]
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Tonight, two Bahamian nationals are behind bars pending proceedings for an extradition request by the United States government. Rohn Knowles and Kelvin Leach are accused in a Belize billion dollar securities fraud and money laundering scheme. The two were named among six defendants indicted by US federal prosecutors in a New York court last week. […]
Turning to crime news. Three men were murdered over the weekend, in San Pedro, Belize City and in Cayo District. Early on Sunday morning, a Spanish Lookout resident was killed in a most brutal fashion. Pedro Ariel Diaz, a thirty-four year old Guatemalan national, was chopped to death; his head was partially severed. Diaz’s body […]
Written on September 15, 2014 | Posted in
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The body of forty-two-year-old Paul Morgan, who also goes by the name Paul Rubio, is at the Belize City morgue tonight. Morgan, who has a long rap sheet, was violently attacked on Friday night and shot multiple times to the upper body. Morgan was in the company of a woman inside a vehicle which was […]
Written on September 15, 2014 | Posted in
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There was a murder in San Pedro over the weekend, allegedly the result of an altercation in town. According to the Police report, Bowen and Bowen employee thirty-one year old Moses Coc was with a friend on Swan Street when they were attacked by another man. That man allegedly hit Coc repeatedly to the head […]
Written on September 15, 2014 | Posted in
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Up north, a swarm of killer bees viciously attacked a resident of Paraiso, Corozal over the weekend. Sixty-six year old Gilberto Manzanilla was riding his bicycle in the village just before noon on Saturday when he was attacked by the bees as he approached the cemetery. He was stung multiple times all over his body […]
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There is a developing story tonight out of San Pedro where the government is offering submerged lots in northern Ambergris Caye. As incredible as it sounds, there are numerous pegs in the water in an area known as Sunset Cove. Forty acres of the swampy wetland have been surveyed for residential lots, but no one […]
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The national referral hospital has frequently been mired in scandals; as recent as two weeks ago the K.H.M.H. settled with seven mothers after their newborns died in the neonatal unit in 2013 from a bacteria known as enterobacter cloacae. Today, however, officials put their best forward to mark the hospital’s nineteenth anniversary with the inauguration […]
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A sensational arrest was made this afternoon at the Phillip Goldson International Airport. Bahamian nationals Rohn Knowles and Kelvin Leach, wanted by U.S. authorities for their alleged roles in a string of illegalities related to investment fraud, are tonight in police custody. Sometime after one o’clock this afternoon, the pair was nabbed on behalf of […]
In a most unusual move that is certainly to raise the ire of environmentalists, the Protected Areas Conservation Trust (PACT) has reportedly cancelled a grant of close to two hundred thousand dollars. The funds were awarded for the expansion of the Hol Chan Marine Reserve back on October seventh 2013 to be used for the […]
A retired American couple and a neighbour endured a terrifying home invasion just after midnight in the north side of the island of San Pedro. The couple resides at Cloister’s Apartment in the Tres Cocos area. Just after midnight this morning, sixty-eight year old Douglas Kelly and his sixty-five year old wife, Gail Neal, were […]
Written on September 12, 2014 | Posted in
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The Customs Department is reporting a major bust in the West. Benque and San Ignacio Police went to an area in the Bullet Tree Village where a whopping eighty-three cases of contraband beer were found buried four feet deep in the ground. The authorities also found another batch of beers, sixty-four cases to be exact […]
Written on September 12, 2014 | Posted in
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The senate met on Thursday in Belmopan. It dealt with a number of issues, including three money matters – the write-off for twelve point two million dollars, a twenty million loan motion for improvement of education and governance in education, and the ten million dollar re-capitalization of the National Bank. The three motions were received […]
Written on September 12, 2014 | Posted in
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