The truth about fad diets and super foods. Fad diets are targeted at people who want to lose weight quickly without exercise. Some fad diets claim that they make you lose fat, but it’s really water weight you’re losing. In tonight’s Healthy Living segment, we look at the promises of quick weight loss through what […]
Those tuning in to Channel Five this morning expecting to see our live coverage of the Senate Special Select Committee’s public hearings will have been disappointed to see that they weren’t on. We can tell you tonight that the reason for that is an apparent dispute over the relevance of today’s witnesses, members of the […]
The Senate Select Committee is now scheduled to go on break for the entire month of August. Chairman Salazar told reporters that their visit to the department is scheduled for the end of August, following by public hearings in the first two weeks of September – those dates would be the sixth and thirteenth of […]
The Senate Special Select Committee has been watercooler talk across Belize since hearings resumed at the end of April. For better or worse, it has been dominated by the behavior of the ruling party, whose members have consistently disparaged the hearing both inside and outside of the National Assembly, and staged a violent insurrection at […]
Will there be an increase in the amount of money that comes out of your paychecks for social security? That is yet to be seen, but on Tuesday, S.S.B. C.E.O. Doctor Colin Young confirmed that by next year, there will be an increase in the value of contributions per employee to the S.S.B. Early this […]
According to Doctor Young, the investment income of the S.S.B. in the utility companies, the private sector and the agricultural industry has been keeping the fund buoyant over the years. But in the case of agriculture, that too is unstable based on several factors. Dr. Colin Young, C.E.O., S.S.B. “It is that income that […]
The story of the used B.D.F. uniforms…everyone has weighed in from the respective government ministries, including home affairs and defense. Those worn military garbs were all listed for destruction by the Ministry of Finance and a contract was subsequently awarded to a private citizen, who did not dispose of all the items. A joint operation […]
It’s now official: Mayor of Belize City Darrell Bradley will not run for a third term in office. A decision not to contest the coming internal convention for the United Democratic Party brings to an end six turbulent, but productive years for the attorney-turned-politician and the city he transformed. Prime Minister and U.D.P. Leader Dean […]
Over a million and a half Belize dollars in forensic equipment was handed over to the Ministry of Home Affairs today. The donation, gifted by the US Embassy, is to assist the National Forensic Science Services in its work to properly analyze evidence handed over by the Scenes of Crime Unit. As a part of […]
There have been reports that some sixty thousand dollars were unaccounted for from the GSU’s budget. But today Junior Minister Elodio Aragon says that the funds are not missing from the GSU’s information gathering account. He says that what happened was just a routine check to account for the monies, but nothing was taken or […]
Over two hundred children, ages five to seventeen, registered with Kaina Martinez’s annual track and field games held over the weekend in Seine Bight Village on the peninsula, catering to children from neighboring communities and as far as Mahogany Heights in the Belize District. The children, who are aspiring athletes, are training in various disciplines […]
Is Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin’s job under threat for outstanding delivery of court judgments? For now, no because at a meeting of the Bar Association of Belize on Friday night, the attorneys postponed a decision on confronting the top jurist until a meeting after the court returns from vacation later this year. One year ago […]
Former GSU Commander Glenn Caliz…his name has been mentioned on two occasions last week in respect of an investigation reportedly being carried out by the Ministry of Home Affairs into monies that are unaccounted for at the office of the Gang Suppression Unit. A letter from the office of C.E.O. George Lovell dated June seventh, […]
One year ago, the Government of Belize began making payments to Dunkeld International, the B.T.L. Employees’ Trust and British Caribbean Bank Limited for the settlement of costs for the double acquisition of Belize Telemedia Limited in 2009 and 2011. The first payment, delayed after a dispute over the currency to be paid, rang up to […]
The European Union has been implementing its Accompanying Measures for Sugar program in Belize for some time now. While one of the key targets has to do with road construction in the North, there are other measures taking residents out of the Sugar Belt. One of those has to do with finding persons willing to […]
Belizeans United For Equal Rights at Home and the Diaspora – it is a group that is aiming to create a movement under one banner that will bring about the unification of Belizeans at home and abroad. In short term they go by the acronym BUFERHD. They say BUFERHD intends to end the divide that […]
Another matter that the movement hopes to see change is the matter of dual citizens in parliament. It is a controversial topic – but BUFERHD maintains that they will not rest until Diaspora Belizeans can offer themselves to represent in the democratic process and still maintain their dual status. Doctor Morgan spoke briefly on the […]
This morning, the American couple accused of cruelty and neglect of thirteen-year-old Faye Lin Cannon appeared before Supreme Court Justice Denis Hanomansingh, seeking bail. David and Anke Doehm got it after a lengthy hearing and as of this evening, they are out on bail of ten thousand dollars each and a surety. Despite the heavy […]
For those upset with the decision of the court, Bradley offered a timely reminder that bail is not a privilege, but a right, and that a person’s liberty cannot be taken from them except in extreme and documented circumstances. Richard “Dickie” Bradley, Attorney for David Doehm “Bail is not to be used to punish […]
While the bail hearing was taking place before Judge Denis Hanomansingh, outside the Supreme Court, a group assembled to protest against David and Anke Doehm. The group travelled to the City from San Pedro where the Doehms lived and where Faye Lin was found dead. Residents of the island are both saddened and enraged and […]
Bradley also addressed the protestors outside the Court in Battlefield Park, saying he empathizes with the situation, but upholds the right of his client to be free while awaiting trial. He makes no pretenses as to whether his clients were innocent or not, but he contends that any suppositions ought to be saved for trial. […]
On Thursday, News Five broke the story of an ongoing investigation into missing monies from the Gang Suppression Unit’s headquarters on Newtown Barracks. The funds were initially set aside for the payment of informants who provide the taskforce with credible leads, as well as information resulting in the arrest of criminals. Those monies, under the […]
The discovery of a dead baby, its umbilical cord still attached, found floating in East Canal on Thursday morning, has stunned residents of Belize City. The baby boy, discarded inside a black plastic bag, was fished out of the waterway by a sanitation worker who was cleaning the area. Julian Jimenez immediately alerted police who […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow is on personal leave in the United States, according to a release from his office. The PM departed the country today and is scheduled to return next Tuesday. Minister of Foreign Affairs and Home Affairs Wilfred Elrington is acting as Prime Minister until the PM returns.
The most expensive public building in the country is located on Central American Boulevard, across from Belize Water Services. On a tour on Wednesday, the media was shown the impressive state-of-the-art facility that can accommodate as many as four thousand five hundred persons seated, but can hold up to five thousand. The Belize City Center […]
