Following the signing of an interim agreement between B.S.I. and the B.S.C.F.A. early this week, the 2013 – 2014 sugar cane crop was to have gotten underway on Monday, January twentieth at ten am. But it won’t. It has been delayed until Friday, January twenty-fourth. That’s because work on the very critical sugar roads has […]
A family in Belize City was devastated today by the news that their loved one would not be coming home from court with them. Thirty-three year old Darrell Henry has been behind bars since December on firearm charges, but his case is far from typical. Henry was charged in December for possession of a firearm […]
In July of last year, twenty-eight-year-old Deon Bruce was arrested by Belize City police and held in detention at the Queen Street Precinct pending what his family believed would have been a summary extradition to the United States. Bruce is wanted in Chicago for a murder in which U.S. authorities say he was the alleged […]
His legal struggle against extradition to the United States lasted fifteen years, but tonight, Rhett Fuller is finally a free man. Following a decision handed down by Minister of Foreign Affairs Wilfred Elrington, the Belizean businessman walked out of the Minister’s chambers at Whitfield Towers in Belize City without shackles or police escort. Attorney Eamon […]
The decision by Minister Elrington was based on a submission to him by attorney Eamon Courtenay, which made the case that Fuller’s family would have disintegrated without his presence. He is a father of two sons and an autistic daughter, who during his incarceration, were in the care of his wife, Ann Marie. And today, […]
But while the Fuller family has every good reason to celebrate, a family up north is grieving the loss of one of their own. On Wednesday night, there was a three-car pile-up involving a ten wheeler truck, a minivan and a pick-up truck in a dark stretch of the highway, not far from the northern […]
Consumers of butane, that’s just about every household, restaurant or hotel in the country, are bracing for an additional increase in the cost of fuel. Earlier today, the Belize Bureau of Standards, through a press release, announced a spike in the controlled price of liquid petroleum gas. The increase is countrywide and varies according to […]
The Citizens Organized for Liberty through Action, better known to as COLA, held a press conference today at the Radisson Fort George. The briefing had dual purposes and started with the organization putting its full support behind Russell Roberts, an activist advocating for the removal or the revision of the gun law….that is coming up […]
On Friday, teachers from the Belize District and the Cayes will march in Belize City before holding a rally in Battlefield Park. That move is part of a series of planned industrial actions countrywide under the banner of the B.N.T.U. Last Friday, hundreds of teachers in Corozal and Orange Walk marched under the B.N.T.U. banner. […]
On December sixth, Belize’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom hosted an LGBT party at the official residence in London, Belize House. The event was reported recently in the media, and drew scathing criticism in some quarters. While sexual orientation or preference is not the issue tonight, at least at News Five, the LGBT bash […]
Back in September, the immigration scandal shook up the government, but it is almost four months later and there is little information on the status of three simultaneous investigations. But we can say tonight that we have been reliably informed that a recommendation has been made by the Director of Immigration, Maria Marin, to terminate […]
Since the scandal broke involving the illegal issuance of passports, nationality documents and visas, a number of foreign nationals have been caught by alert immigration officials with fake immigration documents. On Tuesday, a Tanzanian woman was promptly detained when she visited the Immigration department in Belize City posing as a Belizean from up north. Teena […]
The H1N1 also known as the swine flu has resurfaced in the Caribbean, Central America and Mexico. But there is no need to panic, there is need for caution, because in Belize, only one person, a female, has died from the Influenza. That was confirmed by the Ministry of Health this morning at a press […]
At this time of the year, there is increased influenza activity so there is need for caution by the public. Back in 2009, there was a scare due to an outbreak of swine flu in neighboring Mexico and other parts of the world. The virus caused many deaths throughout Central America, the Caribbean and the […]
It is well known that prevention is better than cure. The ministry says that easy practices and good hygiene such as the covering of mouths when coughing can assist to prevent the spread of the influenza. But the ministry stresses that if after seventy-two hours with symptoms and no signs of recovery, persons must seek […]
Another suspected case of H-one N-one, Influenza A virus, has been reported in the north. While it remains to be confirmed by the Ministry of Health, News Five understands that a resident of Paraiso Village, who was reportedly diagnosed with swine flu in Mexico, succumbed to the illness recently. That information, we are told, has […]
In politics….National and political icon George Price died on September nineteenth, 2011, following a fall in his Belize City home. The man hailed as the father of the nation would have turned ninety-five today. In tribute to his memory and in keeping with his legacy, the political party he served faithfully for more than six […]
Police have reviewed video surveillance of the murder of eighteen year old cross dresser, Joseph Sanchez, but there are no arrests so far even though police believe the motive is armed robbery. The video footage, which has no audio, reportedly shows that he was frisked and then stabbed by one of two men who fled […]
Elizabeth Artiga and her mother, Maria Elisa Artiga, locked up their small grocery shop on the Palmar Boundary Road in Orange Walk Town and headed home on Friday night. It is a daily routine for the mother and daughter, but on that night a nightmare waited for them. Home invasions have become increasingly common, and […]
A storm has been brewing since last year over a parcel of prime seafront property in the Caribbean Shores Area. Belize City Mayor Darrell Bradley says that the Council has been maintaining the property for over ten years and wants to develop it further for recreational use. But it has now come to the attention […]
The Ministry of Health will be hosting a press briefing on Wednesday in which it will be releasing the results and the management of the recent H-one N-one Influenza cases across the country. Five cases were being tested at CAREC. From what News Five has learnt, there is reason for concern because the influenza has […]
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The sugar-cane standoff is officially at an end. Late Monday evening representatives of both the B.S.C.F.A. and B.S.I. met in Orange Walk and signed a seven point interim agreement. That agreement will provide guidelines for the 2013-2014 crop…pending the penning of a new agreement governing future crops. It’s been a long, hard road getting to […]
The critical necessity of government’s intervention where sugar roads are concerned cannot be understated at this point. Now that the signing is done, the cane-farmers need to get their product to the mill, but in many branches of the B.S.C.F.A. that is just not possible at this time. Access roads to fields and even main […]
The Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association has finally signed an agreement with the Belize Sugar Industries and its parent company, the American Sugar refinery. The parties penned the deal at about five this evening at the B.S.I. Staff Club in Orange Walk Town. We can report that while in principle, farmers will be getting payment […]
