The target of the protestors’ ire returned to his office just before they arrived. He had been at court for an unrelated matter and spoke briefly in response to the idea of the protest. Having been on the frontlines a time or two himself, he appreciates the importance of free speech and free will, although […]
The Government and the United Democratic Party are on a campaign claiming that Senator Eamon Courtenay is a textbook case of conflict of interest since he sits on the senate for the People’s United Party and represents the Ashcroft Group of Companies as its attorney. But Courtenay today cited many cases, including that of the […]
Courtenay says that the Crown Proceedings Amendment Law, which was passed at the same time as the Central Bank International Immunities Law, is not only unconstitutional, but a direct attack on his profession. Two lawsuits have been filed against both pieces of legislation. Courtenay explains that his firm is counsel in one of them, on […]
On Monday during the People’s United Party’s press conference, the party’s legal adviser, Senior Counsel Andrew Marshalleck, gave reporters a primer on the issue of legal immunity. As he explained, the new legislation passed by the Government concerns enforcement of the judgments, and for the most part have no effect as the U.S. Foreign Sovereign […]
In a release issued last Friday, government claimed that Courtenay aborted the senate inquiry to travel to Washington on another case against Belize even though an important witness was to testify. The case in DC was in relation to the Universal Health Services (UHS) loan from the Belize Bank. While addressing government’s claim, Courtenay says […]
But when all is said and done is the senator being used as a scapegoat to deflect from the major financial problems of the country, including a proposed increase in taxes that is to come in the new budget? Courtenay says that the people must not be distracted from the real issues the country is […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow is headed to New York City again on Superbond business. The Government last week extended the time for response to its consent solicitation offer to February twenty-fourth, 2017, four days past the due date for the interest payment due on the current iteration of the U.S. five hundred and thirty-seven million […]
The Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Doctor Carissa Etienne, is on a working visit to Belize since Monday. She has been meeting with a number government officials, as well as with Senior Ministry of Health Officials and various stakeholders. As a part of her visit, Belize signed the country cooperation strategy on […]
Inclement weather on Monday did not stop the Belize Territorial Volunteers from making another trip down Belize’s southern boundary, the Sarstoon River. Belize is still without a protocol regarding trips up the Sarstoon except for military personnel, and in the past Guatemala has shadowed and occasionally harassed civilians visiting the area; under the guise of […]
In a brief ceremony held on Monday, February thirteenth, at the Belize House in Belmopan, Ombudsman of Belize Lionel Arzu, accompanied at the ceremony by his family, was sworn-in for a new one-year term. This follows the Prime Minister’s announcement of Arzu’s re-appointment at the January twenty-seventh sitting of the House of Representatives, which was […]
There was a mix-up at the Lord Ridge Cemetery over the weekend and the body of Louise Foreman had to be buried twice—first on Saturday and then on Sunday. The family of Foreman came to News Five’s studios to report that Louise was to be buried in the grave of her predeceased son, Victor Foreman. […]
According to Cemetery Administrator Wayne Usher, the employee from Coye’s Funeral Home has since admitted to the mistake. But this afternoon, Usher met with City Council attorneys to see if charges can be brought against the persons responsible for the incident. On the Phone: Wayne Usher, Cemetery Administrator “It gets worst. You do not […]
Doctor Rob Horwich, an American primatologist and the founder of community co-management with the establishment of the Community Baboon Sanctuary in 1985, has died at the age of seventy-seven. The Sanctuary is the first example of community conservation co-management with the joining of Bermudian Landing and seven surrounding villages to manage the sanctuary and build […]
News Five has been reporting on the case of Orange Walk resident Janine Vega and Laura and Julio Blanco of Pay Day and EZY Loans Pawning. Vega attempted to satisfy repayments in full for two separate loans totalling three thousand, five hundred dollars, for which collateral was a thirty-acre cane field property in Indian Hill […]
The People’s United Party has rallied support behind its leader in the Senate, Eamon Courtenay, amid calls for his removal by the United Democratic Party and the Government of Belize. The U.D.P. and G.O.B., which in this case are identical but not one and the same, charge that Courtenay has been working for the companies […]
At a press conference this afternoon, the P.U.P. also spoke of the party’s positions on various issues including the nationality rush prior to the 2012 elections. We will have that for you shortly, but the P.U.P. has revealed information of an alleged plan to cover up a deficit of two hundred million dollars and a […]
Turning to the latest in the party’s ongoing fight to redeem itself for its unexpected and stupefying loss in the 2012 general elections. The party secured fourteen seats to seventeen for the U.D.P., and came within sixty-one votes of two more that would have given them power: Cayo Northeast, and Cayo Central. In December, party […]
Senior Counsel Andrew Marshalleck has been advising the People’s United Party as its legal adviser on the question of the Central Bank (International Immunities) Act and Crown Proceedings (Amendment) Act, passed in the National Assembly at the end of January. The former was intended as a further shield to the national reserves from the assault […]
The Opposition People’s United Party did not expect to be consulted by the Government, as they have the social partners, for ideas on how to fix the shortfall in the 2017-2018 budget due in March. But that doesn’t mean they don’t have ideas of their own. For months, the P.U.P. has railed about the Government’s […]
News Five has obtained copies of a Belizean nationality certificate granted to David Nanes Schnitzer, the former fugitive caught a few days ago in Mexico after several months on the run after he skipped Belize on bail on a minor charge. Nanes was wanted in Mexico in relation to the multi-billion dollar Allen Stanford Ponzi […]
A decade-old murder case has ended in a plea of manslaughter in the court of Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin in the Supreme Court. Danny Elvis Ku was alleged to have butchered his wife, Nurse Anna Marie Magdalena Vasco to death in 2006, slashing her throat with a blade and stabbing her in the chest as […]
Last Wednesday, an attempt was made on the life of twenty-three year old Alrick August; he has since been hospitalized inside the Intensive Care Unit of the K.H.M.H. after undergoing surgery for eight shots to the neck, chest and arm. There is good and bad news coming from the family today who says that while […]
A school on the Southside got their dream playground courtesy the Rotary Club of Edmonton. Through an ongoing partnership with the Rotary Club of Belize, three other schools have received their playgrounds and Unity Presbyterian joined those lucky schools today when their own little park was opened on their school grounds. This playground will not […]
A mother and her five children moved into their brand new home over the weekend. The deserving mother got the gift courtesy the Rotary Club of Belize. The house valued around twenty five thousand dollars will serve safe space for the family. News Five’s Andrea Polanco stopped in on Hibiscus Street to speak with the […]
Last month, we showed you a report done by ABC7 on the one-year anniversary of slain TV Producer Anne Swaney. In that report, the F.B.I. was offering a ten thousand U.S. dollar reward for information surrounding Swaney’s murder. Well, now they have doubled that offer and are giving twenty thousand U.S. dollars or forty thousand […]
