Two weeks ago you heard the Prime Minister warn that this financial year is going to be the hardest for his government. But judging by this week’s issue of the government’s newspaper, GOB will shortly be seven point five million dollars richer. The newspaper reported that the new board of directors of Telemedia would be […]
In an update to a story we ran on Wednesday on the beating of sixteen year old Carlos Zelaya Jr. News Five understands that the police department has still not brought any charges against the person accused of beating the student. According to Carlos Zelaya Sr., on the day complaint was filed police told him […]
The condition of nineteen year old Ahmad Nah remains much the same; Nah is breathing through life support equipment at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Police are treating the shooting of the Camalote resident, as a sensitive case – partly because no one knows for sure what happened when he was shot, and because the […]
A police officer and a Belize Defense Soldier are sitting behind the bars of the Hattieville Prison tonight. They are accused of assaulting a minor and robbing a resident of San Pedro while asleep on a boat in an old football field in the island. The officer is not attached to the San Pedro Police Formation […]
A prominent Belize City cardiologist is said to be embroiled in a huge scandal that has to do with the romantic relationship between his daughter and a high school student. It is not the type of story that would make the news, but it does because it involves a highly respected doctor. Since last week […]
Carlos and Sarli Zelaya say their son has been dating Gough’s daughter for the past two years and that he was well acquainted with her family. It is alleged that the neighbor saw Carlos Jr. hopping Gough’s back fence minutes before the doctor arrived home. Both men then pursued Zelaya and proceeded to assault him. […]
Another night in the old capital and another Belize City resident has been shot. This latest act of violence occurred on the south side of the city, on a street behind the Salvation Army School. According to the acting police press officer, Bart Jones, the man was shot three times. Bart Jones, Acting Police Press […]
The Senate met for part of the day in Belmopan to consider the Seventh Amendment to the Constitution that went through its second and third reading in the House on Friday. The most controversial part that dealt with persons holding dual nationality to sit in the House or Senate was stripped from the bill. But […]
A nineteen year old resident of Camalote Village is tonight clinging to life after being shot in the head by a minor. The family of Ahmad Nah has reported that he was shot in the head from close proximity with a pellet gun while at a friend’s house over the weekend. He was rushed to […]
We have been following the legal battle between a civilian and the government over a property in Benque Viejo del Carmen. The trial inched one step closer to completion today when the trial judge, Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh, headed west to visit the location in question. Last month Benque Viejo businessman, Samuel Bruce, got an […]
The government’s attorney, Priscilla Banner, argued that the motive for acquiring the land is reasonable since it is for the improvement of education. But Musa countered that Benque Viejo is well-endowed with land and taking over Bruce’s was not necessary. As for Bruce, he says that he had gotten the verbal consent of Area Representative, […]
Parliamentarians from both sides of the House got into feisty debate over corporal punishment last Friday. While the debate in the Senate was less emotional, Senators from across the aisle raised concerns about the removal of corporal punishment in the classrooms and sided with the union asking for more time to put in place an […]
A very successful music executive from New York arrived in Belize this evening. About four thirty this evening, Antonio ‘L.A.’ Reid, a Grammy Award winning songwriter and record producer, emerged from his jet to meet Shyne, the rapper who has become more bankable since his deportation to Belize. Reid is responsible for signing and taking […]
A large explosion sounded throughout Belize Sunday night. A few minutes after nine, people from all over the country were calling radio stations claiming it might have been a grenade attack or even comets falling from the sky. In truth it was the space shuttle Endeavor returning into earth’s atmosphere. While traveling at speeds over […]
The Department of Civil Aviation closely followed Endeavour’s re-entry into earth’s atmosphere as it headed for landing at Cape Canaveral. The shuttle moved directly over Belize’s path but by the time the boom was heard, it was already further north over Cozumel. Brian Dominguez, Operations Officer, Department of Civil Aviation “The Sonic boom is the […]
A taxi driver is recovering and is in stable condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after a traffic accident on the Northern Highway this morning. Police say the taxi driver, Daniel Itza, was injured in a collision involving his minivan and a Honda Passport, heading in the same direction and driven by Dion Robinson. […]
The Senate meets in Belmopan this Tuesday and it is expected to ratify the Seventh Amendment to the Constitution that was passed by the House of Representatives last Friday. Of the three changes to the amendment package, government proceeded with the two less contentious. Firstly, it passed the Caribbean Court of Justice as the final […]
The amount of money paid to the law firm of the Prime Minister’s ex-wife was also at the center of a feisty debate in the House. The Opposition has consistently raised questions about the amount of money Lois Young’s law firm has been collecting since the change of government. The issue was brought up in […]
It was a busy day in Belmopan today. Teachers demonstrated outside the National Assembly, while inside the parliamentarians went head to head over the Education and Training Bill. The contentious article in the bill deals with corporal punishment. And while it will not come into effect immediately, the B.N.T.U. had asked for a delay to […]
It is one of the largest demonstrations against this government, and the ire of the teachers had been building up for some time. Estimates are as high as two thousand strong but by and large the teachers were orderly and peaceful. A News Five team was stationed outside the House from where Isani Cayetano has […]
While all the action was in Belmopan, where teachers from all branches of the Belize National Teachers Union marched on Independence Hill, in Belize City some schools closed their doors for the day while classes continued at others. Downtown at Holy Redeemer, the gates and classrooms were locked up and neither students nor teachers were in […]
It is one of the biggest drug busts in recent memory. On Thursday, police seized a whopping twenty kilos, that’s over forty-five pounds of suspected cocaine. San Ignacio police, acting on a reliable tip apprehended their suspect, Carlos Gibson, a resident of Alta Mira, Corozal. He was nabbed while traveling along the Western Highway and […]
Four men have been charged in connection with two murders this week. In the first instance, Dwayne Evelyn was arraigned before Chief Magistrate Margaret Gabb this afternoon for Wednesday’s shooting murder of twenty-two year old Peter Myvett on Kutt Avenue. Myvett was washing a bus near his house when he was shot by gunmen on […]
Meanwhile for the stabbing murder of Nigerian security guard, Kaluru Oloungududu early Monday morning, cops have brought a joint charge of murder against three men, two of who were his work colleagues. They are twenty five year old Jamal Jackson, nineteen year old Daniel Myvette and twenty-one year old Kareem Stevens who was once employed […]
Three employees of a gas station on the Northern Highway were terrorized today by a thief that made away with thousands of dollars in cash and valuables. It is the second time that the business has been jacked and today’s heist took place before noon. The thieves used duct tape to tie the three employees […]
