Even as Castillo is in court waging war for a piece of land, she is also in a battle for her political life in Belize Rural Central. Castillo wants to become the next U.D.P. Standard Bearer in that area, and while there are six in the race, it is common knowledge that she has the […]
The House of Representatives will meet on Wednesday. At its last sitting, representatives of the N.T.U.C.B. protested and were escorted out of the gallery by Police. The unions’ issue is the Occupational Safety and Health Bill, which they say has been written, reviewed, revised, vetted and discussed for years now, and still hasn’t been placed […]
While the OSH Bill is high on the list of priorities, there are other matters for which the unions, with the B.N.T.U. on the forefront…are agitating. The PSU has taken some criticism for what is seen in some quarters as a stand-off stance when aggressive agitation is called for. PSU President Blades says they support […]
This morning News Five caught up with Toledo activist, Will Maheia, who leads the Belize Territorial Volunteers. The group has made visits to border points from north to south to send a message to Guatemala and to Belmopan. Maheia has also been monitoring activity in the Chiquibul and the Columbia Forest Reserve down south. He […]
Maheia reiterates that the incursions continue because our borders are not properly marked and properly patrolled. Wil Maheia, Founding Member, Belize Territorial Volunteers “The evidence speaks for itself, you look at the Belize border and the number of troops you see in the border, we probably have the least number of troops on the […]
The much anticipated opening of the B.T.L. Park took place this morning after a delay of about a month due to the persistent rains in December. The cost of transforming the public facility is in the range of two million dollars. The Belize City Mayor Darrell Bradley says the ambitious project provides an important outlet […]
As we told you Friday, News Five has obtained a copy of an internal report compiled on the Won Hong Kim immigration scandal. Kim, A South Korean national imprisoned in Taiwan, got his nationality certificate and Belizean passport in September, 2013. It was subsequently revealed that both documents were obtained through fraudulent means, since Kim […]
The surfacing of the report is a somewhat public resurrection of former Minister of State Elvin Penner, who has gone to ground since the scandal broke in September. As we told you, Penner has escaped all scrutiny from multiple alleged investigations, despite clear evidence that he facilitated the fraudulent nationality certificate and Belizean passport for […]
Following confirmation by Minister of Immigration Godwin Hulse that Director Maria Marin had indeed recommended the termination of three passport officers suspended since September, the Public Service Union has come under sustained fire from certain quarters. Despite every indication that the scandal which affected the three public officers was instigated and facilitated by former Minister […]
And to show that they might not be loud, but they are getting the job done, the PSU stated today that it is working to get the public officers reinstated, since the Commissions Regulations state that public officers cannot be suspended on half-pay for more than thirty days. And while that is in the works, […]
Attorney Antoinette Moore was sworn in on Friday as a temporary judge of the Supreme Court. Moore is assigned to the Belmopan criminal session which deals with cases from Belmopan, San Ignacio, and Benque Viejo del Carmen. There are a reported seventy cases that the temporary judge will be dealing with. Among the cases on […]
After fighting extradition and exhausting every legal option at his disposal for more than fifteen years, Rhett Fuller is a free man. Minister of Foreign Affairs Wilfred Elrington decided on Thursday, January sixteenth, that extraditing him to the US for a 1990 murder would be oppressive. That decision means that as long as Fuller remains […]
Institutes of Technical and Vocational Education and Training have been set up strategically across the country, but enrollment numbers do not reflect the investment in those centers. There is a growing belief that the problem is poor marketing, and with the assistance of the CARICOM Education for Employment, a Regional TVET Marketing Strategy has been […]
There is confirmation by Minister of Immigration Godwin Hulse of a story we broke on Wednesday that Director of Immigration Maria Marin has recommended the termination of three passport officers – Sharon Neal, Erwin Robinson and Omar Phillips. But tonight, there is evidence that the corruption goes much deeper and higher than those three public […]
The unions have promised that 2014 will be the year of the worker, and agitation has been ramped up since the beginning of the New Year. The Belize National Teachers Union has implemented a countrywide strategy of peaceful industrial action, starting with Orange Walk and Corozal last week and touching down in the Belize District […]
As we told you earlier in our newscast, it has been reported that three public officers – Sharon Neal, Omar Phillips and Erwin Robinson are on the chopping block based on a direct recommendation from Director of Immigration Maria Marin. Those public officers are perceived to be the scapegoats for corruption in immigration which goes […]
The Minister of Education Patrick Faber came under fire from the teachers for criticizing the industrial action, the union and them. Faber is often outspoken, and defends his comments as just plain-speaking. But he isn’t the only one capable of plain-talk, and there was plenty of that today. Ian Mariano, Teacher, Excelsior High School […]
Following the signing of an interim agreement between B.S.I. and the B.S.C.F.A. early this week, the 2013 – 2014 sugar cane crop was to have gotten underway on Monday, January twentieth at ten am. But it won’t. It has been delayed until Friday, January twenty-fourth. That’s because work on the very critical sugar roads has […]
Eighteen-year-old Joseph Sanchez was fatally stabbed by two men at about two o’clock on Sunday morning while en route to a party. The teenager was dressed as a woman, clad in a white blouse and green short skirt, and was walking along Elston Kerr Street when he was attacked and mortally injured. In the wake […]
While a throng of teachers from the Belize District converged on Battlefield Park this morning to make known their demand for a salary adjustment, its social partner, the Belize Chamber of Commerce & Industry, was busy tying the loose ends of a press release issued in support of the Belize National Teachers Union. Although the […]
There are two reported incidences by the Social Security Board of identity theft under the names Carmen Cantun and David Cruz. The S.S.B. said today that the cases remain under investigation. In respect of another purported case, in which it was stated that a US fugitive had been given a social security card; that has […]
Rayford Benguche, a Belize City resident turned Good Samaritan, is on a mission to assist women who are experiencing hardships because their loved ones have been caught in the vicious cycle of violence. Benguche’s initiative was prompted by a personal experience last Monday when a close friend was sentenced on the day his child was […]
His legal struggle against extradition to the United States lasted fifteen years, but tonight, Rhett Fuller is finally a free man. Following a decision handed down by Minister of Foreign Affairs Wilfred Elrington, the Belizean businessman walked out of the Minister’s chambers at Whitfield Towers in Belize City without shackles or police escort. Attorney Eamon […]
The decision by Minister Elrington was based on a submission to him by attorney Eamon Courtenay, which made the case that Fuller’s family would have disintegrated without his presence. He is a father of two sons and an autistic daughter, who during his incarceration, were in the care of his wife, Ann Marie. And today, […]
The Citizens Organized for Liberty through Action, better known to as COLA, held a press conference today at the Radisson Fort George. The briefing had dual purposes and started with the organization putting its full support behind Russell Roberts, an activist advocating for the removal or the revision of the gun law….that is coming up […]
