In other crime news, police still have not made any inroads on Wednesday afternoon’s murder of Peter Myvett. The twenty-two year old was gunned down shortly after midday as he washed a bus on Kutt Avenue. Cops say they are following a strong lead that a masked man who emerged from the direction of Tigris […]
And in relation to a shooting that took place on Wednesday night, police have no suspects. The incident happened on Antelope Street Extension in the Collet area around ten o’clock and left thirty-three year old Michael Usher of Faber’s Road Extension with two bullet wounds to his back. News Five visited the scene today and […]
Primary school students will be staying at home this Friday. Most of the week they ‘talked the talk’ and tomorrow teachers will ‘walk the walk’ on Independence Hill. The latest face-off between teachers and the government is over the passage of the Education and Training Bill. The Belize National Teachers Union (B.N.T.U.) has asked GOB […]
While the B.N.T.U. says that it can’t close the schools, it warns that teachers will be away from the classrooms. Parents are advised to make a make an alternative plan for their kids because primary schools are expected to be understaffed on Friday. Jaime Panti, B.N.T.U. National President “What we are telling the public is […]
Panti’s response to the possibility of the B.N.T.U. proposing an alternative to corporal punishment was direct to the school management, who he believes should take up the challenge. Jaime Panti, B.N.T.U. National President “We know that we need to move away from corporal punishment but to the table there has not come and this is […]
A Belize City youth was gunned down at ten minutes past twelve this afternoon. He is believed to be the main prosecution witness in the case of the grenade that exploded on Kraal Road in December of 2009. Fourteen year old Rudolph Flowers was instantly killed when it detonated and in January Lusby Martinez was […]
The Citrus Growers Association organized a massive protest against its subsidiary, Citrus Products of Belize Limited, on Tuesday. Whether or not the protestors were bona fide growers or employees is still unclear, but the demonstration further fuelled the bad blood between the two. Among a long list of issues, the C.G.A. wants desperately to replace […]
The C.P.B.L. had its say earlier in the newscast when Sir Allen Field and Richard Cozier of Banks Holdings said that the dispute in the citrus belt is personal. As we said, there seems to be no light at the end of the tunnel in the immediate future in the ongoing feud that is leaving […]
Anderson also spoke to questions that Sir Allen and Cozier brought up about dividends and the composition of the crowd that protested on Tuesday. Henry Anderson “The concerns we had was when a business plan was presented at the board that showed no dividends were going to be paid through 2013. Our directors reacted against […]
In the south, the citrus belt has been fraught with controversy for months. The fight is between the Citrus Growers Association versus its subsidiary Citrus Products of Belize Limited. The CGA has majority interest and wants the heads of three of the five directors on its Board: Dr. Henry Canton, Michael Dunker and Frank Redmond. […]
One police officer and two B.D.F. soldiers were asleep on the job when they lost an M-sixteen A-one rifle on Saturday morning. The police have not been heard from but the B.D.F. soldiers have admitted that they failed in executing their duty. The B.D.F.’s Adjutant, Major Alvin Amoa, says that several charges are being brought […]
There were also other crimes committed in the wave of bloodshed over the past weekend. Two men were killed and two others seriously injured to add to the long list the Police Department has in its hands to solve. Firstly, the post mortem for O’Neil Anthony Jones, the fifty-five year old Jamaican national who was […]
The other fatality happened at the Best Western Belize Biltmore Plaza where a Nigerian security guard was attacked and murdered in cold blood by three men. Kaluru Oloungududu was ambushed by the trio, who stabbed him eight times: twice on the back, once to the right side of his chest, once in the buttocks and […]
Early in the newscast, we reported that the numbers at the CGA’s protest were over a thousand strong and you heard the chairman of that Association, Brian Bowman, say that while there is a clear divide between CGA and CPBL supporters, the CGA has a lot of support. But Chief Executive Officer of the CPBL, […]
The murder statistics continue to rise with the city’s latest homicide at the Biltmore Plaza on Sunday morning; victim number seven for February. That story is coming up, but first we go to the tragic death of a Jamaican national who was killed in Lord’s Bank. The victim intervened to stop an argument at a […]
There are many questions that still remain unanswered regarding the shooting of the Jamaican National. Did O’Neil have a weapon in his possession at the time of his death? Was the police officer who discharged his service weapon under the influence of alcohol? This afternoon News Five spoke to police press officer Clement Palacio about […]
There was more gun violence over the Valentine weekend. On the north side, at the prominent hotel, the Best Western Biltmore Plaza, even before dawn, a security guard was murdered. Three men descended on the Nigerian officer on duty and within minutes he was dead. This latest homicide has distressed the Nigerian community to the […]
Another high powered weapon is missing from the Belize Defense Force and this time it’s an M-sixteen A-one rifle. The weapon had a full magazine of thirty ball rounds of five point five six millimeter ammunition when it went missing. The circumstances of its disappearance are unlike the M-four carbine which was discovered missing over […]
Senior Counsel Godfrey Smith is taking on Prime Minister Dean Barrow. It’s not the usual challenge over politics which he writes in his blog, Flashpoint; it’s about legal and weighty matters. At a press conference billed as his state of the nation Barrow contracted earlier statements that he expected that the economy would rebound in […]
Also on Wednesday, when a reporter brought up the matter of the Prime Minister’s first wife, Lois Young, being contracted as lead attorney in many of the government’s high profile cases he said he makes no apologies for that. Pointing to Young’s pro-bono legal work for the unions and the Association of Concerned Belizeans before […]
Eight years in jail; that’s what it came down to for twenty-three year old Shian White when she appeared before Justice Adolph Lucas in the Supreme Court today. White is the mother who was found guilty two weeks ago of Manslaughter in the death of her baby who she hit on the head and then […]
The three employees who were detained in connection with funds stolen from City Hall were released after forty-eight hours in police custody, but the investigation goes on. And if you thought sixty grand was a lot, guess what… the projections are that the total amount of missing cash may very well jump the hundred thousand […]
While the council attempts to get back all the funds that were stolen, city Hall is still faced with a cash flow problem. The councils mounting debt with the companies that collect garbage have been the subject of public scrutiny and protests. Currently an outstanding debt of over a million dollars, owed to Belize Maintenance […]
There’s more trouble brewing in the Pomona Valley where a protracted battle is getting nastier and dangerous between the Citrus Products of Belize Limited and Citrus Growers Association over issues ranging from control to finances. CGA is not happy that even though they have fifty-one percent controlling interests in C.P.B.L., they need consent from Barbadian […]
According to Canton, the dispute is regrettable since the problems stem from petty issues that can easily be resolved. And as detrimental as it can be to the growth of the industry, he says it’s all a matter of egos, greed and a thirst for power. Dr. Henry Canton, C.E.O., CPBL “Although a lot of […]
