Prime Minister Dean Barrow met with the gangs on Sunday and hammered out a truce. It was said that all gangs had been invited to the negotiating table. On our newscast on Monday, the Minister Doug Singh singled out the South Side Gangsters, saying that they wouldn’t benefit from government assistance. Well, the SSG is […]
The Belize sugar Cane Farmers on Monday disclosed that they had secured financing to acquire the controlling shares in the Belize Sugar Industries Limited. They also said that B.S.I. had not provided them with the pertinent documentation to complete the buyout package and they asked government to intervene. The issue was discussed in today’s Cabinet […]
Tonight’s question is: Should the Prime Minister negotiate directly with the gangs? 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.
Last Friday we first exposed information on Belize coming from WikiLeaks, an organization that publishes private, secret, and classified data from anonymous news sources, news leaks, and whistleblowers. It claims to have more than a million documents from the first year it was launched in 2006. An encrypted version of WikiLeaks’ archive of U.S. State […]
There was a second contract that came out on Miles Tropical Energy. The principals of that company were Oren Miles and Allen Saum. Saum is the man that the Prime Minister’s nephew Kimano Barrow had a falling out with over contracts for Paradise Energy Limited. But in the years before the fallout between Barrow and […]
In another cable, the US Embassy was briefed on the nationalization of B.T.L. The meeting was held on December fifteenth, between Financial Secretary Joseph Waight, B.T.L. board member Allan Slusher and the current US Ambassador Vinai Thummalapally as well as the Deputy Chief of Mission J.A. Diffily. According to the Wikileaks cable, Waight and Slusher […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow rushed back to Belize last Friday to meet with gang leaders. They agreed to hold the peace until after the September celebrations; the carnival road march went without incident. Friday’s meeting was followed by another at the ITVET on Sunday where all Belize City gangs sat around the table with the […]
While the gang truce held in the old capital, in the nation’s capital a notorious figure was killed in a robbery. The body of twenty-seven year old Michael Young, a resident of Hattieville who goes by the street name of Ham, is tonight inside the morgue at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where it awaits […]
The Belize Sugar Industries (B.S.I.) has until the end of September to pay at least thirty million dollars in debt that matures with the ING and FirstCaribbean Banks. Time is running out and a strategic investor has still not been secured to prevent insolvency. The Prime Minister is on record to say that the ninety […]
According to Ortega, while financing can be secured the problem is that the owners of the shares are not willing to sell to them. The B.S.C.F.A. claims it still does not have all the data to complete their buy-out package. They are asking the government to intervene. Alfredo Ortega “We have our technical team working […]
Belize won three-nil over two-time World Cup qualifier Grenada in St. George on Friday. But the national team, which returned to the country over the weekend, had no time to celebrate that victory. The local boys were back on the green today, gearing up for a tough game against Guatemala who over the weekend beat […]
The Football Federation of Belize (F.F.B.) has also been preparing for the Belize/Guatemala showdown. Even the Ministry of Sports is asking fans to root for the local boys. F.F.B.’s Senior Vice President, Bernaldino Pech, has travelled with the team and witnessed the win against Grenada. Pech says that the FIFA certified stadium in Belmopan is […]
According to team captain Shane Orio, the Belize National Selection has been doing its best to remain above water despite previous obstacles at the start of the World Cup pre-qualifiers. Orio further noted that his team was studying today Guatemala’s moves. Shane Orio, Goalkeeper, Belize National Football Team “What we have been doing for the […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow cut short his trip to St. Kitts and returned to Belize to diffuse the ongoing tension between the gangs and the Gang Suppression Unit. Last Friday, the GSU mounted a violent confrontation with the George Street Gang following the funeral of Charles Woodeye and in the process many innocent persons were […]
It’s been a violent week of murders and shootings. At least five persons were murdered and another five were injured in separate shootings. This morning, at around nine-thirty, two minors were shot and had to be rushed to the KHMH for treatment. Fifteen year old Samuel Logan and seventeen year old Nirisie Mejia are the […]
But there is some good news to report; team Belize continues to perform well on the road to World Cup 2014 in Brazil. The national football selection played its third pre-qualifying match-up at the St. George’s Grenada National Stadium today and took down the Grenadian team on its own turf with a final score of […]
The Gang Suppression Unit has been taking flack following a recent clash with members of the George Street Gang in which innocent bystanders were also harmed. The incident prompted this week’s question to our viewers; we asked if the GSU is contributing to the lawlessness on the streets. Hundreds of persons voted and the results […]
Belize had generally remained under the Wikileaks radar, but now hundreds of classified cables on a wide range of activities here, have been disclosed in a trove of uncensored US diplomatic cables made public today by Wikileaks. The website released its entire archive of about two hundred and fifty-one thousand, two hundred and eighty-seven documents […]
A number of robberies have been reported in the past twenty-four hours. On Thursday night between eight fifteen and nine forty-five, Body Image store on Albert Street was burglarized. Owner, Anil Harjani, says this is the first time in his ten years on Albert Street that his business has been burglarized. He lost cash and […]
The illegal extraction of rosewood in seven Maya communities in the Toledo District has become too rampant to ignore. The Maya Leaders Alliance is taking on the fight to stop the extraction because the precious wood is under threat of extinction. The MLA alleges there is official facilitation to the illegality. News Five’s Isani Cayetano […]
The gangs are not known to issue statements; in fact they are known not to want to appear on camera. So we found a release they purportedly sent out today to be unusual. It comes in the aftermath of a violent shakedown by the Gang Suppression Unit against alleged members of the George Street Gang […]
There were two shooting incidents on Wednesday night. A Belize City woman was shot in the presence of her children. According to reports, thirty-one year old Tiffany Cadle was standing in front of her home at the corner of Victoria and Yorke Streets when a lone gunman approached her. At seven p.m. Cadle, in the […]
Earlier in the night another shooting incident occurred but luckily no one was injured. It happened on Iguana Street at a home behind the Raccoon Street Police Station. According to forty-eight year old Francine Coleman, she was standing on the verandah of her bungalow house when she heard several gunshots coming from Morrison Alley which […]
The public hearings for the Ninth Amendment were held on Wednesday night in Orange Walk Town. Of the three held so far, it was the biggest and lengthiest going well past the midnight hour. The views expressed were overwhelmingly against the proposed change to the constitution. The sea of blue washed across the multi-purpose centre […]
There is tension on the streets over the recent confrontation between the Gang Suppression Unit and the George Street Gang. Police are claiming that the gangs are threatening to use grenades during Celebrations. While the cops have their hands full, two more lives were taken on Tuesday night. Around seven o’clock, Guy Fuller, was […]
