In its daily news release, the Government gives all credit to the Prime Minister for cutting a deal which it say puts the country in a much better position to be able to service the debt. A press conference by Prime Minister Dean Barrow to provide further details, but Government is already saying savings will […]
The cost of fuel has increased for the second time in less than one week, particularly for premium fuel. At midnight Friday, a nineteen-cent increase went into effect for premium fuel. This takes the price from ten dollars twenty-five cents to ten dollars forty-four cents. This followed a one-cent increase for diesel to nine dollars […]
The U.S. State Department has issued its annual country report on Human Rights practices, focusing on policing and sex orientation issues as the major human rights violations committed locally for the year 2016. Those were followed by corruption by government agents; lack of protection for refugees; domestic violence; discrimination against women; sexual abuse of children; […]
Rising attorney Philip Palacio passed suddenly following a mostly private battle with cancer and a brain tumor, for which he was undergoing surgery in the United States. He started out in journalism but subsequently went to law school and returned as an advocate for the poorer classes, taking on several cause celebres. His last major […]
There is another death of a prominent Belizean to report tonight, this time in Orange Walk Town. Dental surgeon Doctor Carl Meggs was active in the medical community up north and was an advisor to the Orange Walk Town Council. He was found dead Friday evening at his dental clinic by his common-law-wife after she […]
The All Party Parliamentary Group for Belize has been reactivated. The group, whose purpose is to encourage and foster relations between the UK and Belize, has become dormant over the years, so an annual general meeting was held today to get the group going. Members of Parliament and Members of the House of Lords attended […]
Another highly competitive race in the Belikin La Ruta Maya Challenge concluded on Monday in Belize City near the Bottom Dalla Store. Two new teams went on to place in the canoe race which kicked off in the twin towns of San Ignacio/Santa Elena on Friday. News Five’s Duane Moody followed the race from start […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. {Feature on weekend sporting highlights….}
There are still more questions than answers in the manhandling of a B.D.F. recruit videoed on cell phone during a training program on January eighth. The images of recruit Michael Rivas crying out as he is pushed into a trench has stirred controversy on whether or not the tactics used went too far. B.D.F. commander […]
Following the airing of our story on Thursday night, News Five obtained copies of interviews conducted over the past three days with officers of the Bravo and Alpha Platoons involved in the training program. For the most part, those interviewed do not place themselves near the trench where B.D.F. recruit 2-2-9-7-0-2 Michael Rivas was thrown […]
The annual La Ruta Maya River Challenge kicked off bright and early this morning in the west. The waters of the Macal River provided the perfect setting for the start of the race. But this year, less than fifty canoes manned by three paddlers each will be competing over the extended holiday weekend as they […]
On Thursday, Mayor Khalid Belisle launched the Belmopan City Council’s municipal bond for six point five million dollars – a venture he hopes will help to cement his place in the Capital City, especially as the Municipal Elections approach in 2018. Belisle also answered questions about his party’s purported involvement in corruption – particularly as […]
The first round of the National Tertiary Debate sponsored by the Social Security Board kicked off this morning in Belmopan at the George Price Center. In the morning session, Independence Junior College squared off with San Pedro Junior College, taking the first of four slots available in the semi-final round. News Five was on hand […]
The National Pre-School storytelling competition got underway at the Bliss today in Belize City. The event, which has been taking place for more than ten years, saw the participation of two finalists from each district today. The Bliss came alive with teachers and students participating in creative ways of story-telling- from using props to a […]
Horizon Academy went global today – right on their school grounds. Students transformed themselves and their spaces into countries as far as Egypt, Japan and India. Today’s efforts are a part of celebrating culture day at the school and so for their annual open house they decided to showcase cultures outside of Belize. News Five […]
Are you scratching your head about the many twists and turns in the Senate Special Select Committee’s public hearings over the last month or so with regard to eight visa foils that disappeared in December of 2012? We are, too even though the missing foils pale to the illegal issuance of nationalities and passports. The […]
If you are interested in cell-phone repairs and want to learn how to do it, Ahmadiyya Jama’at Belize is inviting you to their free two-week course that will be taking place in Belize City and Belmopan. The course starts on March seventh in Belize City at the Ahmadiyya offices. According to the organizers, the aim […]
Ahmadiyya Jama’at Belize teamed up with the City Council for an ongoing basketball league and they want your support. Ten teams and a hundred young people are participating in league here in the City. Tonight they are hosting an all-star game but the league continues with games every Sunday morning. Naveed Mangla explains why it […]
Belizeans are bracing for the 2017-2018 Budget, which is expected to be presented to the House of Representatives on March thirteenth, and to take effect April first. The presentation to the House is later than past budgets, because G.O.B. is looking everywhere to come up with revenue. Financial Secretary Joseph Waight has said that higher […]
Two disturbing videos of recruits training for the B.D.F. have been obtained by News Five. The first, in its entirety, captures the rigorous and extreme training program, including tear gassing for those aspiring to join the force. The second video contains the images of a young man being shoved into a trench even as he […]
Did the Immigration Department try to sweep the visa foils affair under the rug and turn on the man who instigated an investigation of the matter? Immigration Officer Mark Tench said as much at Wednesday’s public hearings of the Special Senate Select Committee, where he accused the Department of attempting to make him a scapegoat […]
Tench continued to enumerate his version of events at the Public Service Commission hearing for the Senators on Wednesday. He emphasized that the former C.E.O. had nothing to do with the process of argument against his continued employment with the Department and that the Commission agreed that further investigation of the matter should have been […]
In the afternoon, there was further discussion of the visa foil issue. As one of the senior men at the border during the incident, one would have expected that Vernon Leslie would have personally informed the then-Director of Immigration after being unable to gain a satisfactory response from immediate boss Edgar Cano, but no one […]
As noted, a decision was taken, later endorsed by Cano, to basically pretend as if the visas had never gone missing. It involved receiving payment from legitimate travellers seeking a visa. They were issued the numbers corresponding to the missing visas and the money went into the Government Treasury with none the wiser. Vernon Leslie’s […]
Manuel Estuardo Roldan Barillas, Guatemala’s ambassador to Belize, has quietly returned to the country, eleven months after he was recalled for “consultations” with his bosses. It is not clear under what circumstances he has returned, but it could signal a return to normalcy. But we do know that Guatemala has asked the Organization of American […]
