Minister of Immigration, Godwin Hulse, has proposed three new pieces of legislation which, if passed into law, will have the Immigration Department running like, in his words, a well-oiled machine. But today, Fonseca dismissed them as all glitter and no substance, calling them band-aid measures to give the impression that much is being done, when […]
Police are saying tonight that Ladyville resident, Travis McKay, was shot and killed in a cross fire, but family members who witnessed the shooting vehemently contradict the police version. Wednesday’s shooting took place after sixty year old Rafael Hernandez, a butcher of Ladyville, reported that his business, Belize Country Products, located at nine miles on […]
As you know by now, the European Union has blacklisted Belize for not doing enough to curb illegal fishing. That is bad, but even worse is the news of the blacklisting by the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force, which describes Belize as one of the countries that have not complied with addressing deficiencies in the […]
Today Prime Minister Dean Barrow held a press conference to discuss what he termed a catastrophe visited by the incessant rains. We’ll have those comments later in our newscast, but first we touch on an issue which after weeks on boil, seems to have gone to a slow simmer. In recent weeks no official information […]
Tonight there is much more to bring you on the visa quota hustle. On Tuesday News Five had an exclusive look at documents which prove that Minister of State Edmund Castro was neck deep in the procurement of visas for Chinese nationals – sending in recommendations to the Director of Immigration almost weekly. But it […]
The impasse between cane farmers and B.S.I. is still holding strong…and latest developments up to Tuesday evening were that Prime Minister Dean Barrow had been asked by the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association to intervene. Whether as a result of that letter or in acknowledgement of the critical nature of the situation, Cabinet met and […]
Councilor Eric Chang returned to Belize on Tuesday after an extended stay in Taiwan but his boss, Belize City Mayor Darrell Bradley, is yet to have a meeting with Chang to discuss the issue of his alleged involvement in the Penner passport scandal. Despite efforts to contact Chang while he was away, the Mayor was […]
The Director of Public Prosecutions has not pronounced on the death of Tyson Rodriguez who was killed in police custody in Placencia late last week. But tonight, another man was killed and family members and neighbors say that it was by police. It occurred just before four this afternoon in Ladyville. Travis McKay died in […]
The family of Travis McKay came to our studios with a compelling report that they saw when the police chased and fired at McKay. According to the Aunt and brother, even after McKay lay wounded on the ground, officers stomped on him and pushed his face in the mud. Aunt of Deceased “I saw […]
Today’s press conference was held for the purpose of discussing flooding and government’s response to infrastructure concerns. The bad news is that incessant rains have negatively impacted many families across the country, and destroyed infrastructure everywhere. The good news is that the Ministry of Works has conducted an assessment, and GOB is releasing almost three […]
Tonight, there is telling information that U.D.P. Minister of State Edmond Castro is involved in the mass procuring of visas for Chinese nationals. One month ago Castro was accused by a whistleblower of accepting money to facilitate visas. He denied those allegations via press release saying there were only five recommendations made by him. But […]
Former Deputy Mayor, Eric Chang, who has been away in Taiwan on an extended leave of absence, returned to Belize today. The councilor departed for his home country along with Belize City Mayor Darrell Bradley in early September on an official visit. While away, Chang’s name was called in a passport scandal, involving erstwhile Minister […]
B.S.I. will not bend or bow where the issue of paying farmers for bagasse is concerned. That is the position coming out of a press conference hosted by B.S.I. and A.S.R. this morning in Belize City. On Sunday in Corozal, cane farmers unanimously voted to suspend delivery of cane to the factory whenever the season […]
Earlier this morning, at a press conference, B.S.I. reps stated repeatedly that they have tried to get BSCFA to the negotiating table with no success. Of course, the bagasse payment won’t be on that table for discussion because B.S.I. says the BSCFA should take their cause to court. B.S.I. wants to discuss the cane purchase […]
Months after the government assumed control of Belize International Services Limited which managed IMMARBE, the news is not good tonight for the now government-owned company. In June this year, the government said it was taking over BISL because of allegations of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing on the high seas by foreign-owned Belize-flagged vessels. But […]
The police are in the hot seat for the death of twenty-seven year old Tyson Rodriguez? Rodriguez died while in police custody on Friday night in Placencia. His relatives say they believe he was murdered and the post mortem results issued to the family and their lawyer, Audrey Matura Shepherd, suggests that it was not […]
But as both a criminal and internal investigation continues, the case of the aggravated burglary that spawned the fatal incident is still very much alive. The Canadian couple, David and Susan Baier, is still traumatized from the aggravated assault by three assailants, who reportedly tried to drown David and before tying them up, viciously attacked […]
An internal police investigation is underway in the death of a Dangriga resident who police detained following the burglary of a Canadian couple in Placencia. And it appears that the official police information is not adding up with the results of a post mortem. On Thursday night, the home of the couple was burglarized and […]
You heard the police version of how they found the body of twenty-seven year old Tyson Rodriguez in the sea near the Chabil Mar Villa Resort in the Placencia Peninsula. But there are more questions than answers surrounding the mysterious circumstances under which the Dangriga resident met his horrific end over the weekend. An autopsy […]
The family has indicated that legal action against the police department will be pursued. Meanwhile, attorney Audrey Matura-Shepherd says that what she observed on Rodriguez’s body is not consistent with the police report. There were no wounds to his lower extremities to indicate that he had jumped out of a moving vehicle. Audrey Matura-Shepherd, […]
There are five thousand three hundred registered cane-farmers in northern Belize. They are divided into eighteen branches which all operate under the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association. On Sunday, a significant portion of those farmers were at the Escuela Secundaria Tecnica Mexico auditorium in San Roman for a general meeting. On the agenda were financial […]
Currently, the ball is in B.S.I.’s court. What they do with it will have great impact on the industry in days to come. Experience has shown that cane-farmers are perhaps the most militant and determined protesters. They haven’t had to demonstrate that militancy so far because the rains and the deteriorated sugar roads have made […]
Twenty-seven year old Sharie Muschamp, a mother of two is today fortunately back at her desk at the International Business Company Registry. Muschamp was scheduled to return to work last Friday, but she was escorted out of the offices located on the second floor of the Marina Towers on Princess Margaret Drive. In a back […]
Belize’s former Minister of State Elvin Penner and current Minister of State Edmond Castro have made it onto the pages of one of the world’s leading news journals, the Economist. The Economist is a weekly magazine of news and opinions which is regarded as one of the most eminent of its kind. It provides coverage […]
The 2013-2014 sugar-cane crop season was to have gotten underway this coming Monday, November twenty-fifth. But that is not going to happen. There are two obstacles in the way – one caused by nature, and the other by a breakdown of negotiations. On one hand, the incessant rains and the dire conditions of the sugar […]
