The Public Utilities Commission has reviewed a multi-million dollar business plan submitted by the Belize Water Services Limited and has approved a water rate increase of ten point six percent without changes to any current fee structure. Today the P.U.C. explained that it also made changes to B.W.S.L.’S business plan and proposed that operational expenditures […]
The long arms of the law also caught up today with a Belize City man, who lied to the court about his name and court record. Fifty-eight year old Frank Neal appeared before Magistrate Sharon Frazer this morning where he was charged with Attempted Theft. Allegations are that shortly after midnight on Tuesday, November seventeenth […]
He is known as “Clear the Land,” that’s Minister of State Edmund Castro who is the area representative for Belize Rural North. And true to his name, one family that has been residing in Sandhill, is claiming the minister is attempting to do just that, clear their land to give to his constituents. In this […]
From land to water: brace yourselves, because the tough times are about to get worse. Late this evening the Public Utilities Commission announced an early decision on the application by BWS for a rate increase. The government operated utility company had requested an increase of twenty-five percent on water rates and the PUC has now […]
On Monday night we reported a fatal boat accident at sea near White Sands Cove north of San Pedro Ambergris Caye. Police say that their investigation may lead to charges of Causing Death by Careless Conduct and Manslaughter by Negligence. According to the cops, one of the boats did not have lights and they have […]
You will have to live in another planet, not to know that a battle is raging over phones but the real war is over rates. SMART, the other telephone company, has embarked on its own campaign to win over customers. The promotion took off in the northern districts of Corozal and Orange Walk and SMART […]
Representatives of Oceana, the NGO dedicated to protecting the world’s oceans, made the media rounds on Monday to explain their mission as they launched their Belize operations. Today, the renown scientist, Daniel Pauly, made another stop and addressed an unlikely audience. News Five’s Jose Sanchez was at the Gwen Lizarraga High School where marine life […]
Turning to news from the courts, it is a crime that is not often reported but a twelve year old girl of Burrell Boom claims she was raped twice by her father. Fearful after the first incident in March 2008, the girl did not report it until eleven months after the second assault. Her thirty-two […]
Dwain Davis, the former Director of Finance for the Belize City Council, has passed away. Davis suffered a massive stroke on November fifth after he left the Magistrates’ Court in Belize City. He was taken immediately to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where he was placed on a ventilator. The stroke was identified as hemorrhagic […]
It was a major public spectacle when the then youthful area representative, Patrick Faber, was arrested on April twenty-eighth 2005 as he tried to enter a forum at the University of Belize in Belmopan. That forum was organized for the students to address former Prime Minister, Said Musa, about societal issues at a time when […]
Minister Faber was also peeved at how long he had to wait for a ruling. He said today that he fully supports the recent concerns raised by some members of the Bar Association and the Attorney General, Wilfred Elrington, about the problem of delayed rulings. Patrick Faber, Minister of Education “This judgment comes almost three […]
While Patrick Faber’s case was the result of perhaps immature behavior four years ago, Zenaida Moya Flowers is turning to the courts to save her seat in the UDP. On October third, she was removed from her party’s national executive, merely two days after she was criminally charged with twenty-two counts of Uttering a False […]
At Wednesday’s marathon press conference, the Prime Minister covered ground on a long list of issues, including the nationalization of Telemedia. But has he bitten off more than he can chew now that the post nationalization plans are obviously not going his way? Barrow attacked an interconnection and rental of tower space agreements signed between […]
And the government’s windfall tax on the petroleum industry in 2008 has fallen short since the cost of a barrel of oil has gone below the tax threshold of ninety U.S. dollars. But the government still has royalties that it collects from Belize Natural Energy. The Prime Minister announced on Wednesday that revenues are down […]
Dawn Jorguenson tears poured from her eyes when she spoke to News Five on October fifteenth. She was upset that a parcel of land that was in her family’s possession from the sixties was taken away by Minister of National Security Carlos Perdomo. Jorguenson’s lot is across from the United Democratic Party’s Caribbean Shores Office […]
