Last Wednesday a team of officers including Belize Defense Force personnel, forest rangers and conservationists came under fire from illegal loggers in the Chiquibul National Park. The men had already cleared quite a number of mature cedar trees, fifty-six in total, for extraction to neighboring Guatemala. While incursion from Guatemalan poachers remains a perennial issue […]
The incidences of Guatemalan poachers and loggers in the Chiquibul were put to the Prime Minister. Dean Barrow says that diplomatic channels have been opened; the Belize Embassy in Guatemala is active on the issue and the B.D.F. patrols on our side of the border will continue as scheduled. Dean Barrow “There was a second […]
Before closing the interview, Lord Ashcroft reflected on the future, saying that he has moved on, and that he is not the enemy in the room. Marleni Cuellar “As we head into the next two elections, 2012 and 2013, do you see yourself becoming more involved in the political landscape in terms of support to […]
Eighteen years ago, a couple from California, USA spent time in Belize teaching at Kings College. The couple did not leave only with photos and wonderful memories; they left the country with two babies they adopted. Don Christian and his adopted daughter, Nettie, have returned to Belize to visit old friends but there is a […]
Orange Walk businessman Zhou Ang Tan was gunned down inside his store, Tony’s, on Friday night during a robbery. According to politician Lee Mark Chan several businesses closed in Orange Walk today while their owners attended the funeral in that district. Edmund Kwan, the President of the Chinese Association said that some businesses had closed […]
Turning to the proposed constitutional amendments that were introduced in the House of Representatives on May thirteenth. The Leader of the Opposition on Monday wrote to Minister Patrick Faber as Chairman of the Constitution and Foreign Affairs Committee. John Briceño says that the P.U.P. is not in support of the amendment on preventative detention and […]
Well-known Belizean entrepreneur Cathy Barothy is among a list of thirteen business owners who the GST Department singled out for over eleven million dollars in unpaid sales taxes. Last Tuesday a team of GST personnel accompanied by a police officer visited Neon Plastics Ltd. in Belize City where they insisted that Barothy pay an outstanding […]
The World Series of Poker is a big sporting event that requires the ability to play cards, lots of luck and of course a poker face. Event number fifty eight is the No Limit Hold ‘Em Championship taking place in Las Vegas and if you are streaming the video on the wsop.com website you may […]
In April we introduced you to a former truck driver who, at the time, weighed in at six hundred pounds. The Cayo resident’s weight spiked due to an underactive thyroid condition. Alberto Neal didn’t know of his condition and needed financial assistance for surgery. Well, we are sad to report that Neal passed away early […]
SMART’s generosity extended to the creative arts today. Along with the Belize Bank, they sponsored awards for both the Belize International Film Festival and the Belize Audio Visual’s high school video Competition. According to SMART representatives, they will sponsor each winning entry to be aired throughout the week. News Five spoke to BAVIA’s Open, Music […]
The Belize International Film Festival has grown significantly in its six years of existence with the addition of workshops, the big red carpet gala on opening night and this year, the Belize comedy tour. But the movies, documentaries and film making on a whole remain at the heart of it all. And while the actors […]
The international filmmakers will also provide advice to BAVIA, which is in the process of selecting a winner for its Show Me video competition. It organized a program with the film festival and Smart that challenged high school students to create a three to five minute movie that shows off their skill level and creativity […]
Just before news time this evening, the Belize Chamber of Commerce ratified a resolution that will land at the prime minister’s office. It follows government’s actions in respect of the renationalization of Telemedia on July fourth. While the floor was open to comments, there were no takers and the matter proceeded to the vote. Of […]
There’s a lot of talking going on at the Ministry of Works… so much so that the Ministry’s telephone bill will make you grasp for some air. We came across some rather interesting information from the last budget. MOW had an approved budget for an actual expenditure of two hundred and ninety-three thousand, seven hundred […]
During the past two weeks we’ve reported on several incidences in which landowners lost their properties to fraudsters who used forgery and a willing Justice of the Peace who signed and placed the JP seal on documents to sell off the properties. The name that kept popping up is Angel Moriera, the JP. Moriera’s name […]
Issues of the Justices of the Peace could have been solved years ago. According to Madrid, a former P.U.P. city councilor, in 2006, the council gave an office to the JP association inside the Commercial Center. He said the association was kicked out and they discussed with the then attorney general the way forward and […]
But there’s other news; twenty Belizean women from across the country are participating in a two day Marketing workshop. The Institute of Mexico collaborated with the University of Quintana Roo to hold its first workshop which was held in March of this year. Building on the success of the first workshop, the second round, entitled […]
Police visited the Western Regional Hospital on July thirteenth where they saw the lifeless body of Manuel Antonio Juarez, a laborer of Camalote Village, Cayo District. Officers observed no signs of physical violence on the body but an ongoing police investigation has revealed that on July eleventh, Juarez was drinking with friends in Unitedville Village […]
On the street, battles are fought with loaded guns, but inside the cold air-conditioned boardrooms, corporate battles are fought with the violent clash of fingers on keyboards. While a paper cut could be the only real damage done, the current Chairman of Belize Electricity Limited and the former Chief Executive Officer are locked in a […]
In Wednesday’s newscast Attorney Fred Lumor revealed that father and son, William and Jimmy Quinto, businessmen of Belize City, held a legal title to a half a million dollar parcel of land in San Pedro while a local bank had a lien on the same property, but with another person listed as the owner. Lumor […]
Government is proposing a raft of anti-crime legislation that requires constitutional amendments. Included are preventative detention measures, trial without jury and implementing the death penalty. But will tampering with the constitution fix the problem of crime? The Human Rights Commission thinks not and says it is alarmed at the frequency with which the government is […]
The crime statistics and staggering, young people are falling by the wayside and the percentage of school drop-outs is high. Still hope springs eternal and around the country there are some youths who are doing the right thing in their communities and schools. Today the Police Department hosted the sixth edition of its program called […]
New Love Foundation will be celebrating their first anniversary in Belize City over the weekend. Founder of the organization, Michelle Wagner, arrived in the country today flanked by some high profile international celebs, who will be pitching together to host a fundraising event to help promote literacy in Belize. News Five met with the stars […]
There has been a flurry of purported fraudulent land transactions involving the Lands Department. It all became public when Israel “Pie” Marin, the manager of Belize Diesel and Equipment found out that an island that he co-owned with Rosella Zabaneh was fraudulently sold off. Bikini Island was sold by a person using the alias Satuaye […]
Over eleven million dollars are outstanding to the Government through the collection of General Sales tax (GST) and a total of thirteen businesses who owe GST were targeted this week for committal. One businesswoman came close to going to jail after she was placed on a prison bus late Tuesday evening and was saved from […]
