Three international soccer officials met with government officials on Monday night and early this morning. Raphael Salguero, a member of the FIFA Emergency and Executive committees, along with Rafael Tinoco, President of UNCAF and Venues Coordinator, Andres Portaveilla discussed the future of the Football Federation and Belize in the sport. The FFB is not recognized […]
Orange Walk businessman Zhou Ang Tan was gunned down inside his store, Tony’s, on Friday night during a robbery. According to politician Lee Mark Chan several businesses closed in Orange Walk today while their owners attended the funeral in that district. Edmund Kwan, the President of the Chinese Association said that some businesses had closed […]
Tonight’s question is about crime: Do you believe that the proposed preventative detention measures are too draconian and will rob Belizeans of their personal liberties? 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 […]
Earlier we heard about the prime minister’s law firm doing business for the Belize Bank. The prime minister admittedly continues to enjoy his share from Barrow and Williams. Michael Ashcroft said this morning that the government doesn’t want an independent assessment on the value of Telemedia and that entrenching utilities in the constitution is not, […]
What should have been a peaceful and early start to the work week almost ended in tragedy for many commuters onboard a Cabrera’s Bus. About four-forty a.m., Pedro Cumush, the driver, lost control of the bus on the outskirts of Orange Walk. Several persons were injured and had to be rushed to the Northern Regional […]
Trapp was not the only person to lose his life over the weekend. A store owner was gunned down on Friday night. And while many would assume it happened in a known Belize City hotspot, it actually occurred in a relatively quiet village in the Orange Walk District. By all eyewitness accounts, after the robbers […]
Violent crime is not only being committed by men. The following report has landed two female neighbors before the court. The aggressor is accused of barging into her neighbor’s home, armed with a knife and that is why thirty-three year old Lisa Elizabeth Matute isn’t at her own home tonight. Matute was arraigned before Magistrate […]
Twenty year old Brandon Paz is also behind bars tonight for aggravated assault, but with a firearm. Paz appeared before Magistrate Albert Hoare this morning and was charged in connection with an attack on twenty-four year old Claude Lopez, which occurred on June twenty-eighth. He pleaded not guilty, but a firearm offense automatically lands him […]
Vanessa Peyrefitte The Belize Chamber of Commerce, the backbone of Belize’s business community is by far the group that most represents the lifeline of most sectors of the economy. Its membership has been recently vocal about the government’s acquisition of Belize Electricity Limited and the renationalization of Telemedia. On Friday, the majority of chamber members […]
Our western border is regularly breached by Guatemalans who extract Belize’s natural resources for profit. The incident on July thirteenth where shots were fired between Guatemalan loggers occurred more than four miles inside the dense forest of the Chiquibul National Park. The border infractions are bold since the loggers travel miles into the protected area […]
The Chiquibul Forest has been under attack for decades by Guatemalans who cut and pillage Belize’s resources for profit. As a matter of routine, the illegal clearings and campsites are used by loggers as well as those who harvest xate plants, just inside Belize’s border. But it seems that the situation is flaring up and […]
While the B.D.F. was patrolling in the west, the Belize Coast Guard was called out on a rescue mission. On Thursday morning the Coast Guard responded to a distress call to save three persons whose thirty eight foot vessel hit an unidentified object and started to sink near the Turneffe Atolls. The Coast Guard was […]
The government has now twice nationalized Belize Telemedia, as it says, for public purpose. But will the public really profit from the acquisition? In our last poll we asked viewers if they think the consumers or lawyers will reap the benefits. Seventy-six percent voted that the lawyers on both sides of the legal battle will […]
Just before news time this evening, the Belize Chamber of Commerce ratified a resolution that will land at the prime minister’s office. It follows government’s actions in respect of the renationalization of Telemedia on July fourth. While the floor was open to comments, there were no takers and the matter proceeded to the vote. Of […]
There’s a lot of talking going on at the Ministry of Works… so much so that the Ministry’s telephone bill will make you grasp for some air. We came across some rather interesting information from the last budget. MOW had an approved budget for an actual expenditure of two hundred and ninety-three thousand, seven hundred […]
During the past two weeks we’ve reported on several incidences in which landowners lost their properties to fraudsters who used forgery and a willing Justice of the Peace who signed and placed the JP seal on documents to sell off the properties. The name that kept popping up is Angel Moriera, the JP. Moriera’s name […]
Issues of the Justices of the Peace could have been solved years ago. According to Madrid, a former P.U.P. city councilor, in 2006, the council gave an office to the JP association inside the Commercial Center. He said the association was kicked out and they discussed with the then attorney general the way forward and […]
Three powerhouses in the agriculture industry have sent a stern but emphatic message to the government regarding the state of the citrus and sugar industries. In symphony with the Belize Chamber of Commerce, the message is about government’s slow pace in obeying the rule of law. While it’s not about any nationalization, it deals with […]
A fifteen year old girl reportedly gave birth today at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. She is a minor and that has a police officer in big trouble. The cop, whose name was released in the police blotter, is Yannic Wade and the relationship with the young girl reportedly started when she was thirteen years […]
A high powered FIFA delegation is heading to Belize next week in light of the bad blood between the National Sports Council and the Football Federation of Belize. The NCS has decertified the F.F.B. and declared that it can’t represent Belize, but a national selection is in Honduras to play game two of a World […]
Police visited the Western Regional Hospital on July thirteenth where they saw the lifeless body of Manuel Antonio Juarez, a laborer of Camalote Village, Cayo District. Officers observed no signs of physical violence on the body but an ongoing police investigation has revealed that on July eleventh, Juarez was drinking with friends in Unitedville Village […]
There’s bad news coming from the Cayo District that has pitted the B.D.F. and a group of Guatemalan illegal loggers in the constant incursions by Guatemalans into Belizean territory. The incident happened one mile away from the Caracol Mayan Ruin in the Cayo District during a joint operation on Wednesday by the police, B.D.F., Forestry […]
This week and for years previous to that, Winston Smiling has been fighting to get Steve Nembhard to pay him back six thousand dollars which he says he loaned to Nembhard as far back as 2008. This type of case would not normally make it to the news, but Smiling and Nembhard have high credentials […]
There’s an eighth murder victim for this year in Orange Walk. Just after midnight, a DJ was shot to death behind a supermarket at the corner of Arthur and South Mejiba Streets. Orson Cardona, who also goes by DJ Textro, had just moved back to Orange Walk Town. He was ambushed after going out to […]
Smiling versus Nembhard, their case was back before a magistrate today as tension went up notches between the two ranking members of the PUP. This morning, businessman Winston Smiling headed to court again in another attempt to recover money he claims he loaned to fellow party loyalist Steve Nembhard at the time of the last […]
