Tonight’s question is: If the government wants to nationalize utilities do you think it should remove people’s rights under the Belize Constitution to challenge such nationalizations in court? 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 […]
There have been recent downgrades of Belize’s credit rating by two U.S.-based financial-services agencies, that’s Moody’s Investors Service and Standard and Poor’s. The latest demotion came last week from S&P. The news is a blow to the already weak economy and may have been lost in debate on the ninth amendment. S&P says that the […]
The lowering of S&P credit ratings on larger economies such as Italy, Greece, Spain and most notably the United States have caused havoc; in fact in the US, it created panic and the worst plunge in years in the stock market. That is expected to have immense far-reaching impact. The ripple effect will undoubtedly be […]
The judgment on the Rhett Fuller appeal was handed down in London, but in the local jurisdiction up north, a judge delivered the sentence in the case of a female employee of the Commercial Free Zone in Corozal. She was brutally beaten and left for dead on a feeder road in February 2010. Twenty-four year […]
A twenty year old student from the IT-VET in the west has been shot and killed. His family heard gunshot blasts around midnight but did not imagine that Jorge Agustin was the target. He had visited with his mother on Sunday night but she woke up to the horrible news early this morning. Agustin’s body […]
The ninth amendment by which government proposes to alter the constitution to give parliament supremacy is the hottest topic of discussion in most quarters. Public consultations are scheduled to commence on Wednesday, but already a number of organizations including the Bar Association and the Chamber of Commerce have weighed in, objecting to government‘s position to […]
Commissioner of Police Crispin Jeffries was involved in a traffic accident last Friday; he was unscathed. It happened at about one-forty at the junction of Fabers Road and the Western Highway. Commissioner Jeffries was in his Isuzu D-Max pick-up, coming from Hattieville to Belize City. According to Jeffries, a red and black Meilun motorcycle driven […]
There’s another disturbing case of child molestation to report tonight and the victim is a ten year old girl. Thirty-eight year old Salvadoran national, Jose Cortez, is celebrating his birthday behind bars after being charged this morning with Aggravated Assault of an Indecent Nature. Cortez was detained on Sunday following a report by the minor […]
Two brothers, who have had a charge of drug trafficking hanging over their heads for more than two years, walked free today. Stephen and William Leiva were charged in February, 2009 with drug trafficking for over sixteen pounds of marijuana that was found at their business, Amelia’s DVDs, which was located on the Northern Highway. […]
The Cayo District is trailing the Belize District when it comes to violent crime. And though murders are the hallmark of misconduct in the Belize District, assaults on United States citizens are on the increase in the Cayo District. Three disturbing incidences have gone under the radar in the past month. The first incident was […]
The proposed ninth amendment to sections sixty-nine and two of the constitution should go back to the House of Representatives in October following ninety days of public airing. This Wednesday night, the first round of consultations will take place in the nation’s media center. It begins at seven o’clock at the Holy Redeemer Parish Hall […]
A third confrontation between Belize Defense Force Soldiers and Guatemalan loggers in the past fourteen days took place on Thursday making the unwelcome intrusions into the vast expanse of the Chiquibul National Park, commonplace. The frequency with which border patrols have been threatened by the illegal tree cutters in the area, is also sounding alarm […]
There’s more opposition to the proposed ninth amendment to the constitution and its coming from the People’s United Party. The P.U.P. is the most recent organization to come out against the amendment. While the P.U.P. acknowledges the government’s power to entrench control of utilities in the constitution, it says that the remainder of the bill […]
In defense of the ninth amendment, the government this week released a series of ads attempting to change public opinion. But still, public concern grows. On Wednesday the business community also asked the government to withdraw the amendment. Today the President of the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Kay Menzies, explained why the business […]
Still on the ninth amendment, we asked our viewers earlier this week: Do you agree that your rights are being eroded if constitutional amendments are unchallenged in the courts? The rejection of the proposed bill is evident in the results of our online poll. Seventy-four percent of the persons who voted said yes; that’s a […]
In June of this year the Investment Committee of the Social Security Board approved a fourteen point nine million dollar loan request by Nature Fresh Belize Limited. Nature Fresh is a company owned by the Mena Group which also owned Fresh catch, a tilapia farm that was taken over by its creditors last year. The […]
The office of the Prime Minister announced this afternoon that he will be traveling to Los Angeles, California on personal time. PM Dean Barrow leaves this Saturday and will be away for a week during which the DPM Gaspar Vega will be acting as prime minister. Barrow returns on the thirteenth.
Scouting has been around for decades; it is one of the oldest movements that started back in 1907 in the United Kingdom. In Belize, it is celebrating a century of existence this year. To mark the milestone, the local Scout Association is spending a week at Camp Oakley, its national training and camping ground. The […]
There’s dire economic news tonight. The warning came shortly after the nationalization of Belize Electricity Limited and today Standard and Poor’s officially decreased Belize’s credit rating. The foreign currency credit score was downgraded from a B to B minus. According to S&P, by acquiring a seventy percent stake in the financially distressed utility company, government […]
There is another murder in the City to report tonight, it’s the second for this week and it happened less than twenty-hours after the first. On Wednesday evening sometime around six, a gun man fired several shots fatally wounding twenty year old Justin Roches. He was getting ready to play a game of basketball at […]
There was another shooting in the city on Wednesday night, three hours after the murder of Justin Roches. This time the target was a minor. Shortly after nine, seventeen year old John Pascual was riding his bike when a man pulled out a gun and shot him multiple times. It happened in a St. Martins […]
Glenn Tillett has been a prominent member of the media for eons. He has worked over the past years as a radio show host and is a former editor and newspaper journalist. Tillett is also politically linked to the PUP’s Joe Coye, a former government minister. But it’s his family affiliation that resulted in the […]
During his sit-down with the media at Everyday Gourmet Restaurant on the Northern Highway, a police pickup stood by on hand as his attorney Arthur Saldivar and supporters such as Joe Coye, Moses Sulph, and Dickie Bradley arrived. In the presence of those supporters, he related that during his incarceration he had to be rushed […]
The Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Wednesday sent out one of its strongest releases, condemning government’s proposed ninth amendment to the constitution. The proposed bill intends to alter the constitution, thus enabling government to supersede the role of the courts to what the Chamber calls parliamentary supremacy. The Chamber’s position was explained today […]
Just after eight o’clock on Tuesday night, a stevedore, Sydney “Smokey” Richards Junior was shot and killed in one of the city’s most dangerous neighborhoods. The young man was heading home but diverted to pick up food when two men approached him on bicycles. One pulled the trigger and delivered the fatal shots, one to […]
