We asked on Thursday, if a commission of inquiry should be named to look into the recent immigration scandal. The results of the poll are in and eighty-seven percent said yes to the commission while thirteen were not convinced a commission would make a difference to get to the bottom of the reputed smuggling ring. […]
As we have been reporting, I.D.B. President, Luis Alberto Moreno, is on a working visit to Belize. Along with, Harvard’s Dr. Ricardo Hausmann, he partnered with the private sector to look at ways to bolster growth, at a time when the economy is in recession. Belize has a foot in both Central America and the […]
Up north, there are more signs that the sugar industry is in trouble. Sugar production dropped significantly this year by twenty percent and it is not known when the next grinding season will start. On the financial side, the Social Security Board has just approved a loan of ten million dollars to the Belize Sugar […]
Kamela Palma, Belize’s High Commissioner to Saint James Court, was fired on Monday of this week with immediate effect. In diplomatic circles and otherwise, that’s sensational news. We broke that story on Wednesday after reviewing an exchange of correspondence between Palma and her principals, Minister Wilfred Sedi Elrington and C.E.O. Alexis Rosado. The background is […]
But what about the allegations of financial improprieties made about Tanya Hulse, the junior officer in the eye of the storm? According to Prime Minister Barrow, there is no currency without evidence. Dean Barrow “Melvin Hulse’s daughter is another matter and there are all sorts of things that are said which I don’t know if […]
During the course of the week, we have shown that the Minister of Defence and Immigration issued directives to the Director of Immigration to grant visas to Chinese Nationals coming through Cuba. As most people are well aware, for years that is the preferred route for human smuggling of Chinese Nationals who are trying to […]
Family members of the murdered Spanish flight attendant, thirty-seven year old Maria Antonia Plaza Gomez, will be transporting her body back home. But the police are still conducting an intense investigation to capture her murderer and bring that person to justice. Plaza, a mother of one, mysteriously went missing sometime after eleven on Sunday morning […]
The office of the Director of Public Prosecutions will determine whether or not there is a case to answer in the death of four year old Hidalia Maldonado. The child was rushed to the Western Regional Hospital last Friday and declared dead. A post mortem later concluded that physical abuse caused her death. The mother, […]
Maria Plaza Gomez, a Spanish flight attendant with Swift Air of Guatemala was holidaying at La Isla Bonita when she was murdered on Sunday morning. As we told you on Tuesday night, she was last seen alive by a fruit vendor in the company of a heavy set man. It was a most heinous murder, […]
On Tuesday night we broke the news that at the top of the Ministry of National Security, directives were issued to the Immigration Department to grant visas to Chinese nationals via the Belize Embassy in Cuba. The Chinese and other nationals stopover in Belize on chartered flights and then make their way to the promised […]
On Tuesday night we asked about the burning issue of the Social Security Board investment in Telemedia shares. The question was should the unions hold off investment until litigation against the company is concluded in the courts. Well, the viewers have spoken and seventy-nine percent think that the fifty million dollar investment for twenty percent […]
The ink had not even dried on the decision by the Social Security Board to invest in Telemedia when a first salvo was launched on the illegality of Tuesday’s decision and the previous recommendation of the Investment Committee. Earlier today, Glenn Tillett, a talk show host, wrote to Lois Young, the Chairperson of the S.S.B. […]
As we told you, the Belize Social Security Board’s decision is already under fire. The vote was taken on Tuesday night because on Friday of last week trade union representatives Dylan Reneau and Elena Smith absented themselves from a scheduled meeting which would have considered the vote. When it didn’t happen, the S.S.B. chairman, Lois […]
Still on the S.S.B. fiasco, Dylan Reneau also says that the unions need clarity on what they consider a veiled threat on the issue of the quorum at board meetings. Dylan Reneau, President, N.T.U.C.B. “I think we need to have some clarity on what transpired last Friday. [Uhm] certainly we notified the board that we […]
On Monday this week, Kamela Palma, was terminated as High Commissioner of Belize to London. It follows written exchanges between Palma, her minister, Wilfred Sedi Elrington and the CEO, Alexis Rosado. From documentation we have viewed, Palma’s fate was sealed over her decision to stand her ground in respect of whom she left in charge […]
Thirty-seven year old Maria Plaza, a Spanish flight attendant, was reported missing in San Pedro Town since Sunday. The tragic news tonight is that shortly before three this afternoon, her badly bruised, half-nude body was discovered at a yard in a busy area of town. Plaza went for a stroll that took her less than […]
Remember the recent immigration scandal? So far only six immigration officers have been charged in a human smuggling ring that was busted on October third at the Phillip Goldson International Airport. They are only the small fish in an international ring that spans Cuba, Haiti, Ecuador, Sri Lanka and China. The September and October chartered […]
Tragedy struck today for five families on Central American Boulevard. They were just beginning to recover from hurricane Richard when a midday fire spread quickly to destroy the landmark house that was situated dangerously close to a cluster of other houses in the same yard. The blaze started from the upper flat of the two […]
Tonight’s question is: Should the unions hold off any investment in Telemedia shares until all litigation relating to the company are concluded in the courts? 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 […]
At news time tonight, a vote has been taken by the Social Security Board on the fifty million dollars in Telemedia shares. According to the reports, the social partners comprising the unions, the Chamber of Commerce and the Business Bureau voted against the investment. The five representatives from the government, however, voted to support the […]
There are lingering questions about the tragic death of a four year old girl from Roaring Creek Village. It was first reported as an accidental death but following the post mortem examination police are investigating the possibility that Hidalia Jomany Maldonado died as a result of child abuse. Hidalia passed away at home on Friday […]
Alleged Guatemalan drug lord, Otoniel Turcios Marroquin, was busted in Belize last week by the police. As we reported on Friday, Otto, as he is commonly known, was wanted in the United States for allegedly importing about one thousand two hundred pounds of cocaine. And from the look of things, there more than meets the […]
Government was halted by the Unions last Friday in its headlong rush to get the Social Security Board to buy twenty percent shares in Telemedia. Under the SSB Act, a meeting of the Board can only take place if the representatives of the business sector and the unions are present. With the union reps absenting […]
Hurricane Richard has come and gone. So far the devastation is more than fifty million dollars and its blast was fatal for at least two persons. For the category one hurricane on October twenty-fourth, it was more destructive than anticipated. The state of homelessness is aggravated by a sense of despair, many are crying out […]
While the Ladyville residents struggle to rebuild a cleanup campaign is taking place in the city. Over the weekend members of the Police Department and Belizeans for Justice literally lent a helping hand by digging into the loads of mud and garbage that washed up in the Cesar Ridge area. The volunteer workers, equipped with […]
