The news of his passing was greeted with both sadness and respect for the man that has been central in the history of Belize. Many paused today to pay tribute to the father of the nation. News Five’s Andrea Polanco was in the downtown area today and got the views of Belizeans from all walks […]
As the sad news that the first and two-term Prime Minister Price passed away, the official condolences were flowing in from embassies, ambassadors, educational institutions, and political parties. The government sent a diplomatic note to inform the world of Price’s passing. An official period of mourning now begins with flags flown at half-mast through September […]
The poem O Captain! My Captain! was written in 1865 by Walt Whitman. The poem was about the death of United States President Abraham Lincoln. But it was also the childhood poem of a Belizean minister who presented it on stage at the Festival of Arts in the early 1960’s. With news of the imminent […]
The Right Honorable George led the nationalist movement and the country to self-government and then to independence on September twenty-first 1981. While that is considered his crowning glory, his political life spanned more than six decades and his vision continued to inspire his party and the national consciousness. He is viewed as a giant among […]
In its 2008 manifesto, the United Democratic Party promised a senate that would be comprised of thirteen members. The thirteenth seat would go to the Non Governmental Organizations. Since taking office, however, the U.D.P. government has not enforced Section Seven of the Sixth Amendment requiring the appointment of Greg Ch’oc of Sattiim, who the NGOs […]
Since Wednesday of this week, we have been reporting on the condition of former Prime Minister George Price, the Father of the Nation and Leader Emeritus of the People United Party. Following his fall at his home on Pickstock Street, the national hero has undergone surgery for a blood clot to his head. He remains […]
A US couple enjoying their honeymoon in the Jewel was seriously injured at sea. A water taxi ran over them as they snorkeledoff San Pedro at around mid-day. Rob Leonard’s leg was sliced by the water taxi while his wife Dana was also injured. The couple was airlifted to Belize City for urgent medical treatment. […]
The Sri Lankan nationals who arrived in Belize in August claiming to be filmmakers have had an unplanned twist to end their movie. Their immigration scam has unraveled and today eleven of them appeared in Magistrates Court to be charged for Willfully Supplying False Information to an Immigration Officer Upon Arrival. They all pleaded guilty […]
In the danger streets of the city, a hail of bullets was unleashed on Alfredo Rodriquez after eight o’clock on Thursday night. Luckily, only one found its mark on him. The bullet was removed today but his family is concerned that Rodriguez is still in danger from his assailant. News Five’s Andrea Polanco reports. Andrea […]
This week’s question to our viewers was: Should the ninth amendment be put on hold until a referendum is held to determine the people’s will on the constitutional change? Seventy-eight percent voted yes on our e-poll while twenty-two percent said no. On our blog, the comments were also overwhelmingly in favor of a referendum. One […]
A funeral service was held this afternoon at the St. John’s Cathedral for city councilor Andrew Faber, who died along with two other persons in a traffic accident on Tuesday on the Placencia Road. Faber’s funeral drew dozens of family, friends and employees of the Belize City Council and it was attended by a number […]
This evening, major US agencies reported that Belize and El Salvador have been added to the United States blacklist of “major” drug producing and transit countries. One report in the US media says that the State Department officials have indicated that cartels which ship drugs to the US via Mexico are now using Belize and […]
Another report of national importance concerns the health of George Price, the former Prime Minister and Leader Emeritus of the People’s United Party. He is recuperating slowly at the Belize Healthcare Partners in Belize City. Doctors continue to monitor his delicate condition following a round of surgery he underwent on Wednesday. The ninety-two year old […]
The region is not only monitoring the health of Price but also the rise of a CARICOM brother in Belize’s judiciary. In July Guyanese national Kenneth A. Benjamin was selected to be Chief Justice of Belize and the news spread quickly when he arrived in the country on September eighth. Well, today it was finally […]
While the new CJ is at the start of his tenure, the to and fro between the PM, the Attorney General and the Bar has been ongoing for some time. It took a strange turn when on the August twenty-sixth, the AG Bernard “B. Q.” Pitts called on the Bar Executive to withdraw a press […]
In Belize City at the Bliss, three Prime Ministers, past and present shared their perspective of nationhood on Wednesday night. While that forum was taking place another event was being staged in the southernmost district of Toledo. Punta Gorda residents as well as hundreds of villagers were transported to the multipurpose centre for the Ninth […]
It seems that the Sri Lankan movie in Belize will not be made after all. It has been well documented by News Five that Belize has been a springboard for human trafficking of African, Chinese and Sri Lankan Nationals. And recently a group of eleven Sri Lankans was detained for questioning upon their arrival in […]
On Wednesday night we told you about the cold-blooded murder on a citrus farm in Hope Creek Village. Thirty-nine year old Guatemalan, Anival Lopez, was hacked to death with a machete allegedly by another employee. The accused, a Honduran national, has disappeared since the incident. Dangriga police have been combing the area for forty-three year […]
There is concern tonight over the health of the Father of the Nation. First Prime Minister George Price and leader emeritus of the People’s United Party, slipped in his bathtub at his Pickstock Street home. Price sustained an injury to the head and was rushed by ambulance to the hospital. He underwent surgery before noon […]
But shortly at the Bliss, a Prime Minister’s forum gets underway. It is a first of a kind organized by the Institute for Social and Cultural Research. It is also a rare and unique event because we have hardly seen three heads of government on the same platform to reflect about nationhood. News Five’s Jose […]
Family, friends and colleagues are mourning the untimely death of Councilor Andrew Faber. The young councilor was killed in a tragic accident on the Placencia Road at around noon when he was returning to Belize City. The Councilor is the brother of the Minister of Education and Sports, Patrick Faber. Two other persons perished in […]
A mid-afternoon bomb threat at the Atlantic Bank headquarters on Freetown Road earlier today threatened to cancel a high level meeting between representatives of Banco Atlantida and stakeholders in the sugar industry. Shortly before two o’clock employees of the bank, which was already closed for business, were informed that an explosive device had been planted […]
Belize recorded its latest murder in the Stann Creek Valley. The long list is inching closer to a hundred. Around nine-thirty this morning, three Central American nationals were hanging out on a farm in Hope Creek where they work. A quarrel started between two of the men and ended with the murder of Anival Lopez. […]
Three persons died in a horrible traffic accident in the south just after noon today. Belize City Councilor Andrew Faber, the younger brother of Education Minister Patrick Faber, as well as two female passengers who were traveling with him inside his Mitsubishi pickup truck, perished in a traffic mishap along the Placencia Road. Around twelve-thirty […]
Undoubtedly, the tragedy has rocked the families of the accident victims as well as Faber’s colleagues at City Hall and his friends in the United Democratic Party. The loss also hit close to home here at Channel Five where Gianni Taylor was the daughter of a staff member and a regular visitor. News Five this […]
