A group of police officers, who were sidelined and not promoted will firstly be seeking direct intervention by the Commissioner of Police, Crispin Jeffries. And for now, court action will not be the first route; at least not yet, says Attorney Anthony Sylvester, who is the legal representative of eight police officers ranging from the […]
A San Pedro resident has been missing for over two weeks. Ervil McCauley, a father of two daughters, one seven months old and the other two years old, has not been seen since October fourteenth. McCauley, better known as Pecans, left home to go on a fishing trip with friends. One of his sisters, Wendy […]
Badih “Bob” Bou-Nahra departs Belize over the weekend for Las Vegas for the World Series of Poker. He is among eight other finalists competing to take home the pot of more than eight million US dollars. Locally, excitement has been growing and a large contingent of Belizeans will accompany Bob to the grand event at […]
Back in January a little over three hundred police officers of various ranks sat a promotion exam and the results were very poor. Despite the unsatisfactory performance many of them, including those who actually passed the test, eagerly anticipated the publishing of a promotional list with the names of officers who will ascend in rank. […]
A giant in the agriculture industry has passed. Jamaican-Belizean Pat Polack passed away on Monday of this week in the Cayman Islands after a short illness. Polack, known by most as ‘Sheriff’ a name he got years ago because of his love for boots and a Stetson hat, was one of the biggest citrus growers […]
If your attention has been drawn to some dramatic television ads of three young women on a top secret mission, it really has to do with Smart upgrading to its new 3G service. The new service has been in the making for SpeedNet for some time and now with all the legal hurdles finally behind, […]
The three thousand plus residents of San Pedro and Caye Caulker who left their homes for higher ground when Hurricane Rina threatened the coast returned home today. During evacuation, NEMO footed the bill for the boat rides on San Pedro Belize Express, Caye Caulker Water Taxi and the Belize Bus Owners Cooperative, which also ferried […]
The Senate met on Monday in Belmopan. The urgency was for the ratification of the ninth amendment. That did pass, though with a small majority. But there were other issues to deal with. In his Independence Day speech on September twenty-first, Prime Minister Dean Barrow announced that he was forgiving sixty-million dollars in housing loans […]
The post of the Auditor General that became vacant on August thirty-first when Edmund Zuniga reached retirement age has been filled. But while the new appointment of Dorothy Bradley on September twenty-fourth comes highly recommended, some Senators believe that the former auditor general’s reports should have been clarified and vetted before he retired. In the […]
The nationalization of Telemedia has led to the ninth amendment and just when the Government thought the litigation was dying down, another lawsuit has landed at its doorstep. On Friday, whilst the ninth was being debated in the House, Fortis filed a constitutional challenge against the nationalization of Belize Electricity Limited which took place on […]
While the Court of Appeal was hearing submissions on behalf of Vaughan Gill and Ricardo Castillo, in Belmopan the Senate was meeting as scheduled. By midday the Ninth was ratified albeit with a slim majority. Here is how that happened. Two senators did not make it to the Belmopan and a third seat was vacant […]
Senator Henry Gordon on behalf of the Council of Churches also abstained from the vote siding with business senator Godwin Hulse. Senator Liza Shoman was the only opposition representative in the Senate. She did not support passage of the Ninth saying that there is danger when parliament is given absolute power. Lisa Shoman, Senator “More […]
Up north, the house of prominent Corozal doctor and former P.U.P. area representative, Gregorio Garcia and his wife Narda, came under attack early this morning. At around two-thirty a.m. the caretaker was alerted by the barking dogs that policemen from the Anti-Drug Unit who were outside the yard. The officers reportedly barged into Garcia’s property […]
Just after the four o’clock this afternoon, the ninth Amendment Bill to the constitution, which was touted around the country in a highly politicized road show, came to pass. The governments super majority in the House, all twenty-four voted yah, there were three no’s from the Opposition’s side, and one abstention from Orange Walk East […]
The P.U.P. held a meeting at Independence Hall in Belize City in which it was decided that Fort George Area Representative Said Musa would appear as Leader of the Opposition for today’s House Meeting. But Musa did not receive a majority support from three of the elected parliamentarians and so today there was no Leader […]
The new Leader of the P.U.P. will be Francis Fonseca. Fonseca will be officially installed on October twenty ninth. But the Freetown Area Representative, even though he only had the company of Said Musa and Florencio Marin Junior, rose to give his perspective on the ninth. Unlike the trashing that Barrow eventually gave to Musa, […]
The House meeting could not have concluded without the usual mudslinging. As we said earlier in the newscast, Barrow was kind to Fonseca but saved his trashing for Fort George Area Representative Said Musa and the unaffiliated Marcel Cardona. It was vintage Barrow as he pointed out that the three absent P.U.P. representatives did not […]
The injunction to stop the ninth amendment from becoming law until after a referendum was rejected this morning by the Supreme Court. We’ll tell you more on this later, including a last minute attempt to reverse that ruling. There was also another move to take the bill to a referendum before it is passed and […]
Smith also told News Five that despite the changes made to the wording of the Ninth, there is still the danger that it gives too much power to the House of Representatives to alter the constitution, which in essence give rise to parliamentary supremacy. Godfrey Smith, Attorney “I am aware of the deletions and the […]
At the heart of the ninth amendment is the nationalization of Telemedia. The company was acquired twice by the government, which has now entrenched its ownership in the constitution. Compensation, however, has not been paid to its previous owners. Barrow told the House today that he had acquired an economic consulting firm, NERA, to value […]
While the government conducted the business of the day inside the House, outside, hundreds of supporters were mobilized to show solidarity for the passage of the Ninth Amendment, which Prime Minister Dean Barrow says is the ultimate policy statement of his administration. Opposition this time around was virtually non-existent as the few supporters brought in […]
Going back to Friday’s House meeting, the report from the Constitution and Foreign Affairs Committee on the Ninth Amendment bill has been cleaned up. News Five has seen a copy of the recommendations submitted after the ninth amendment was taken on a countrywide road show. A quick read of what you will see on Friday […]
The government is organizing a massive show of support at Friday’s House sitting when it will pass the Ninth Amendment. We’ve just told you the major changes that after the consultations the government is making. Since its introduction before the House of Representatives on July twenty-second, various organizations, including the Belize Chamber of Commerce & […]
Paul Perriott has been absent from the senate for a few months and now that absence is permanent. Perriott, who has been in the US with his wife, Christine, in recent months, was sent an email days ago, that he was being replaced as Senator. News Five spoke with President of the N.T.U.C.B., Dylan Reneau, […]
Irene Garcia and Alfred Avilez of St. Matthews Village are the proud parents of three healthy baby girls. The identical triplets were delivered by caesarian section at the Western Regional Hospital in Belmopan. The family and doctors are ecstatic over the bundles of joy. Today News five’s Andrea Polanco visited with the mom and the […]
