There is controversy brewing tonight in Dangriga where a young woman’s job as a teller is reportedly in jeopardy after being reprimanded by her superiors for speaking her native language when greeting and transacting business with customers of the bank. News Five understands that an employee of Garifuna extraction at CIBC First Caribbean, whose name […]
Earlier today, CIBC First Caribbean issued a statement in which it says that the use of official language is encouraged within the working environment as a courtesy to all its customers and employees, particularly for conversations that are held in earshot of other ethnicities. We do note however, that while English is Belize’s national language, […]
Two cousins were remanded to prison today after they were charged in connection with a tire shop burglary. Ninety-six tires were stolen from Quality Used Tires on Central American Boulevard on August fifteenth and sixteenth and police believe that Henry and Rodrick Pitts are the persons responsible for the brazen burglary. Today, when they appeared […]
The Football Federation of Belize has been overwhelmed by internal sparring, a lack of organizational cohesion, management crises and allegations of financial mismanagement…so much so that some members of the Executive Committee had been alienated and we are told that all decisions were being made only by President Ruperto Vicente. It’s an unsustainable position for […]
So with everybody on the local front on the same page, it was on to this morning’s very early meeting. F.F.B. President Ruperto Vicente says he also felt compelled to call in CONCACAF to advise them of the challenges, so he called that organization’s president and asked for assistance. CONCACAF sent in Rafael Salgero – […]
Now we turn to Belize’s national team which has been working out at the Isidoro Beaton Stadium in Belmopan. The nation’s A Selection is preparing to head to the U.S. next week to participate in the Central American Cup. Our News Five team was in Belmopan today and found some new faces, some familiar faces […]
For years, in fact for more than a decade, Greg Ch’oc was the head and face of SATIIM, the Sarstoon-Temash Institute for Indigenous Management. Earlier today, flanked by Maya community leaders, Ch’oc officially announced thathe has stepped aside. After facing a myriad of challenges with the government, in particular on the issue of oil drilling […]
Last Tuesday, the District Association of Village Councils, led by president Gabriel Edwards, convened a meeting with residents of Midway, in the Toledo District, to discuss the issue of oil exploration within the Sarstoon Temash National Park. Midway, which falls under the representation of SATIIM, is one of six buffer communities fringing the protected area. […]
Tonight, one man from the Gungulung area has confessed to starting the fire which completely gutted his aunt’s forty by thirty foot wooden home on Holy Emmanuel Street. The blaze was spotted just after midday, and burned bright and hot, but the destruction was contained by the swift response of the National Fire Service. Belizean […]
Urban violence continues to plague the Old Capital and tonight one of two persons injured in a late night shooting on Monday remains hospitalized. Around nine-twenty p.m., eighteen year old Rodrick Williams and nineteen Aleem Richardson were at the corner of Elston Kerr Street and Iguana Street extension when a lone gunman came from the […]
Tonight, our Channel Five family is pleased to announce that we have onceagain made Belize proud of our regional accomplishments as a national station. This year, we won the most awards in television in the Caribbean. As a member of the Caribbean Broadcasting Union, this station has always strived to maintain its high broadcasting standards […]
And that was the good news, but now to crime…Last week, the A and R Enterprise Limited was robbed of almost thirteen thousand dollars in cash. And this morning, robbers staged a brazen heist at the Provident Bank Limited located at the corner of Barrack Road and Craig Street. There were two of them, dressed […]
The peace and quiet of a sunny afternoon in the small village of Lemonal was shattered by the gruesome discovery of a body in a shallow grave, just behind the community school. It wasn’t a random discovery, but the result of a search for missing villager, twenty-seven year old Denvo Banner. The young man, an […]
In the Supreme Court, a major decision has been delivered about a sitting justice. Justice Courtney Abel handed down a decision last Friday on two claims: claim eighty three of 2013 filed by Dean Boyce and claim eighty five of 2013 filed by British Caribbean Bank Limited and Lord Michael Ashcroft. The claims challenged the […]
Justice Abel found “that the evidence put before the JLSC was capable of amounting to and therefore could have amounted to misbehavior. Likewise the question of inability to discharge the functions of the office related to the office of the Court of Appeal.” It is good news for the Claimants, says Attorney Magali Marin Young, […]
And in the Magistrate’s Court… A security guard of the A and R Store on the Phillip Goldson Highway was arraigned for conspiracy to commit robbery before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith. Twenty-eight year old Leroy Ciego is the first to be charged for the robbery, but it is believed he assisted in the […]
Robert Jeffries is tonight commencing a two-year sentence for handling stolen goods after being caught in possession of a laptop computer which was stolen from a law office in Belize City. Robert, who is the nephew of former Commissioner of Police Crispin Jeffries, is also the subject of a lengthy rap sheet for mostly offenses […]
On Saturday, there was a terrible road traffic accident near Succotz on the George Price Highway. Two vehicles were involved, one a small taxi and the other a Nissan SUV. In the taxi were fifty-four-year-old Yolanda Valencia and her cousin, Yanie Cu. Valencia died on the spot, and her cousin was badly injured. The other […]
It’s been a couple weeks since the clash between the workers of Belize Maintenance Limited and the Belize City Council. Things came to a head after City Hall went into arrears for nineteen weeks, which amounts to about one point five million dollars. The company couldn’t continue to pay the workers, and the workers demonstrated […]
There was an armed robbery in Orange Walk Town on Thursday afternoon. According to Vicente Bol, a customer service representative of Carmelita Village, shortly after one o’clock, while outside of Reimer’s Feed Mill on Lovers Lane, he was accosted by a duo of thieves. Upon entering the establishment, one of the men, armed with a […]
There is an ongoing rift between the Belize Tourism Board and the Fort George Tourism Zone Tour Operators and Taxi Union to report on tonight, following a meeting held today to discuss the current state of affairs at the Fort Street Tourism Village. According to the executives of the union, decisions have been taken by […]
According to the union’s secretary general Jimmy Robinson, the initial agreement was for them to be involved in the fine-tuning of those decisions. Instead, the matter has been dealt with in haste, leaving the membership discontent. Jimmy Robinson, Secretary General, Fort George Tourism Zone Tour Operators & Taxi Union “The BTB representatives have been […]
On Sunday, a barge belonging to Belize Sugar Industries capsized off the coast of Corozal. Sinking along with the faulty vessel was almost a hundred and twenty-five tons of sugar destined for the global market. While the value of the loss has not been disclosed, it is estimated to be in the thousands. The sinking […]
The Citizens on Patrol Program, COPS, is an initiative by the Belize Police Department designed to enhance community participation and foster better communities. It’s by no means a novel idea or a first of its kind program in Belize – we’ve seen different incarnations in different districts over the years. But it’s always fizzled out. […]
There was a major drug bust in Orange Walk on Wednesday night. Police are reporting that while on an anti-drug operation in the town, the unit intercepted a black Toyota Camry with Orange Walk license plates. When the driver and his passenger caught wind of the officers, they sped off towards Liberty Avenue. As it […]
