On July seventeenth, a Crooked Tree woman was sentenced to three years and a ten thousand dollar fine for one point two grams of crack found on her. She was given until November to pay the fine, in default of which she would serve another three years. With that done, she was taken away to […]
The gruesome murder of a sixteen year old at the Lord Ridge Cemetery has dominated the newscast since the beginning of the week. Chryslin Gladden, a promising Wesley High School student, was stabbed multiple times; her body was found inside the cemetery on Saturday morning. Immediately following the murder, reports surfaced that a […]
Like on every night since Monday, there is a lot to report in the BML – Belize City Council standoff. We start with the news that government has decided to intervene, bailing out City Hall which is now nineteen weeks in arrears to the sanitation company. According to Prime Minister Dean Barrow, when he heard […]
The agreement between BML and G.O.B. is signed by Financial Secretary Joseph Waight and BML owner Lawrence Ellis. And just in case there is any ambiguity – G.O.B. will only pay the salaries of the workers – estimated at thirty-five thousand dollars a week and not the sum of the contract – seventy-eight thousand dollars […]
With the immediate and future financial concerns of the workers addressed, government has also intervened in the current legal issues affecting them. Individual charge sheets were issued to forty-one BML workers on Tuesday, charging them with loitering, littering and taking part in an unlawful public meeting. Twenty-two of them were arraigned on Tuesday afternoon, and […]
Those comments from the Prime Minister came at a press conference at the Belize Biltmore Plaza this afternoon. But shortly before that News Five spoke to a properly chastened and pensive Mayor Darrell Bradley. Twenty-four hours ago Bradley stood outside a courtroom, with workers at his back, and stated that they would all have to […]
So in a nutshell…G.O.B. will assume payments to all one hundred and seventy BML workers. When the contract expires in January, the City Council will hire all workers. Charges of littering, loitering and taking part in an illegal public meeting will go away. Tickets of five hundred dollars for littering will go away too. All […]
It was an incredible thing to see as many as twenty-two women packed in a holding cell at the aptly named ‘piss house’ in Belize City. Four workers allegedly three garbage in front of City Hall, but even those just standing around were locked down by Police – a total of forty-one workers. Most of […]
Chryslin Gladden was murdered at the Lord Ridge cemetery on Friday night in a most vicious fashion and tonight there is a sensational arrest to report. This morning, police confirmed that the motive behind the murder is hatred and jealousy. And after releasing a police officer held for questioning, late this afternoon investigators charged Ashley […]
There is a lot to report tonight from the court, including the all-day arraignment of forty-one BML sanitation workers and a near confrontation between those workers and Mayor Darrell Bradley. The workers were in court to be formally charged with loitering, littering and taking part in an unlawful public meeting – charges which stem from […]
And our question for tonight: Is the police justified in arresting protesting sanitation workers? 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.
As we told you sanitation workers were at court this morning and there, a near-confrontation between angry BML workers and Mayor Darrell Bradley happened in front of Magistrate’s Court number one. Bradley dropped into the courtroom to deal with another matter just before eleven this morning. First the media found him, and then word filtered […]
The media was prepared to grill the Mayor, and the Mayor seemed game until the crowd started getting a little loud. For the sanitation workers it’s a matter of survival, with their jobs on the line. So with tempers threatening to spill over, the Mayor decided to beat a hasty but orderly retreat. Darrel […]
At the heart of the ongoing sanitation crisis is an outstanding balance of one point four million dollars which City Hall owes to Belize Maintenance Limited for eighteen weeks of garbage collection. Despite admitting that keeping up with weekly payments at this time of year is problematic, the Belize City Council is yet to issue […]
Mayor Bradley has maintained his hard line where Belize Maintenance Limited is concerned. BML’s contract is worth seventy-eight thousand dollars a week, and Bradley says that CitCo can take over that work – and do it better, for just a fraction of that cost. But BML’s Operation’s Manager Mitchell Danderson isn’t convinced. He started out […]
The news spread early on Saturday morning that a young woman had been killed at the Lord Ridge Cemetery. She was soon identified as sixteen year old Chryslin Gladden who had left home Friday night to visit a friend. The vivacious and young graduate of Wesley College was brutally stabbed multiple times; the murder weapon, […]
The weekend’s other murder victim is an eighteen year old Corozal resident who was killed execution style early Sunday morning in Orange Walk Town. At around five forty-five Roy Bayliss sat down with a friend to eat tacos at a popular vendor at the Fort Cairns Market Plaza in Orange Walk Town. He didn’t get […]
A twenty-one year old Belize City man has been charged for the gun rampage on Mopan Street which caused the death of two tacos vendors. Fifty-two year old Carlos Mayorga died instantly after he was shot in the back of the neck. Forty-two year old Alida Ascencio was shot twice, and died two days after […]
There is another death to report. Forty-four year old Orange Walk resident Gregorio Medina was pulled out of the New River this afternoon. His decomposed body was spotted floating in the river on Sunday, and was left there under Police guard until a post-mortem examination could be conducted today. The Trial Farm resident was last […]
The U.D.P. held a successful convention on Sunday attracting throngs of voters. That story is coming up, but among those who went out to support Mayor Bradley’s ticket, were employees of the Belize Maintenance Limited. This morning when they presented themselves to work, more than forty employees heard that they had lost their jobs because […]
Outspoken radio personality and well-known P.U.P. stalwart Albert Vaughn was also on North Front Street this morning taking pictures and providing coverage of the BML protest for Vibes Radio when he was arrested and detained by police. Vaughn was following a garbage truck and a BML bus, both of which were being escorted to Precinct […]
Just prior to the firing of the sanitation workers, the U.D.P.’s convention to elect candidates for its city council slate, took place. On Sunday it was not known that the bread and butter of some workers were at risk and by all accounts, the convention was one of the biggest for the U.D.P. News Five’s […]
There are new developments to report on tonight in a mysterious case involving the disappearance of forty-three-year-old Kevin Carcamo. The Hattieville chairman, a linesman employed with Discoverseis, went missing on July twentieth in a densely forested area behind Freetown Sibun. Despite a massive search and rescue effort in the days that followed, no signs of […]
A victim of domestic violence was stabbed at her workplace this morning. Suzette Pavon is an employee of Bowen and Bowen; she was cut at least once to the neck inside the company’s Slaughterhouse Road compound. It happened just before nine this morning when Pavon was talking to Santiago Ricardo Palma, her common-law husband of […]
In June, a twenty-three year old mother of three died in the flames which destroyed Kimmie’s Bar, located on Newtown Barracks in Belize City. Today, the man police believe is responsible for the fire which killed Jackie Arteaga was formally arraigned for her murder. Twenty-three year old Francisco Rodriguez, a Wilson Street resident and […]
