Tonight, there is some extremely welcome news for motorists and commuters who frequent the George Price Highway between Belize City and the capital. That stretch of road has been responsible for many road traffic fatalities and mishaps, and for years there has been a public outcry to address proper road resurfacing. The Government of Belize, […]
Around one p.m. on Thursday, the body of sixty-four year old Brian Townsend, a former missionary living in Valley of Peace was exhumed in Flores, Peten. Townsend’s body was found floating in the river near Arenal in Guatemala on the twenty-seventh of December after he had gone missing on Christmas Eve. But it was not […]
Samuel Nicholson, a high school teacher at E.P. Yorke, is the lucky winner of a 2014 Toyota Hilux. He won the annual Rotary Christmas Raffle after purchasing a single ticket to enter the draw. Nicholson found out that he had won the prize on December twenty-third but did not receive the keys to vehicle until […]
Today representatives of the eighteen branches of the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association met in Orange Walk. The only item on the agenda for today’s session was a look at the letter sent by B.S.I. on December thirty-first and the formulation of a response. The response will be to invite BSI back to the table, […]
According to Ortega, the Prime Minister has told the BSCFA that if negotiations break down he would be willing to intercede. Well, for all intents and purposes negotiations have crumbled, but how practical is it to expect that the Prime Minister will intercede to coerce B.S.I. to make a firm, written commitment to farmers. The […]
And even as the gods seem to be frowning on the crop season, with more rain, less sucrose, impassable roads and the bagasse impasse prevailing, there is more bad news. Unofficial indications are that there has been some equipment malfunction at B.S.I., which would make milling at this time impossible, even if everything else had […]
Residents along the Old Northern Highway are tonight up in arms, following the destruction of the road at the hands of a construction company. They contend that M&M Engineering Ltd. is responsible for its deplorable state since their trucks are constantly up and down the road. The incessant rains aren’t doing much to help the […]
B.T.L. Park remains under construction after several months of diligent restorative work. The relentless rains, however, have caused major delays in the reopening of the recreational space. Despite an initial launch date being set in early December, the Belize City Council has had to postpone grand event. Mayor Darrell Bradley, in an interview with the […]
In May of 2013, a bacterial outbreak at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital flooded the airwaves when some seven babies reportedly died after they were infected with enterobacter cloacae within the confines of the hospital. The scandal broke after a reported thirteen premature babies within the neonatal intensive care unit died within twenty days under […]
On Tuesday, Belize Water Services Ltd. applied to the Public Utilities Commission for an Annual Tariff Review for the period April first, 2014 to March thirty-first, 2015. The company is seeking an increase in water rates of sixteen and a quarter percent. If approved, consumers will incur an increase of two dollars and sixty-five cents […]
Miss Trifinio Mundo…the pageant was held this weekend in Honduras and features some seven delegates from the Central American countries including Mexico. The pageant promotes the point where the borders of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras meet. This is the first year that the pageant has been open to country outside of the aforementioned three […]
Controversy surrounding the issuance of a piece of prime land in the Belama area persists, despite an injunction from the Supreme Court on Monday to halt construction on the property. Earlier today, the Ministry of Natural Resources, via the Lands Department, issued a release on the forfeiture of a lease granted to Bernadette Pickwoad for […]
As we announced on New Year’s Eve, the petition to recall disgraced former Minister of State Elvin Penner has been rejected. That disappointing news is still being analyzed by the P.U.P., which handed in two thousand and two signatures on November twenty-eighth. According to the Elections and Boundaries Office, some of the signatures were duplicated, […]
With a new year comes new life and this morning at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital there was a celebration of new births to the Jewel. The first three babies born at the K.H.M.H. for the year 2014 were all girls. The first baby girl was born at six-twenty on January first to her twenty-year-old […]
Special Envoy for Women and Children Kim Simplis-Barrow, wife of Prime Minister Dean Barrow, has been named Woman of the Year 2013 by Complexd Woman. The UK publication chose Simplis-Barrow, along with pediatric Surgeon Dorothy Kufeji, after being featured in a 2011 issue of the magazine. Her courage and determination in fighting breast cancer and […]
A trio of outstanding Belizean men, in various areas of service to the country, has been appointed to the Order of the British Empire. They are: Rafael Manzanero, Dr. Adrian Coye and Rodney Neal. The nominations were announced on New Year’s Day by the Office of the Governor General. Manzanero, Executive Director of Friends of […]
The People’s United Party has received some less than welcome news to bring in the New Year. The petition to recall former Minister of State Elvin Penner has been rejected out of hand by the Elections and Boundaries Office. Two thousand and two signatures from voters in the Cayo Northeast Constituency were handed in to […]
Our last newscast of 2013 brings no good news to family and friends of Canadian national Brian Townsend, missing and believed murdered on Christmas Eve. Reports early this afternoon suggested that his body had been found, but tonight Benque Viejo Police investigators are unable to confirm if that body, found by Guatemalan authorities four days […]
For the first time in history, the year will end without the start of a sugar cane crop season. In fact, at this point there is still much uncertainty and tension between the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association and Belize Sugar Industry and American Sugar Refinery. On B.S.I.’s part, there is the reluctance to sign […]
Now, eight days ago, the Belize Sugar Industries and the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association came to the negotiating table for the first time since late September. As the fiery release from the BSCFA indicates that much was discussed, but little was resolved with any clarity. Just after that meeting, B.S.I.’s Financial Controller, Belizario Carballo, […]
While BSCFA and B.S.I./ASR battle semantics, legalese and bagasse, the rains continue to pour down over the north of the country. Generally rain is a blessing where agriculture is concerned, but in this case, the old adage – too much of a good thing – is holding true. Unprecedented rains which show no signs of […]
Late this evening, News Five received a copy of a letter from B.S.I.’s Chief Executive Officer, Joey Montalvo, dispatched earlier today to BSCFA Committee of Management Chairman, Leonardo Cano on the longstanding bagasse dispute. Montalvo reiterates B.S.I.’s position without budging an inch, stating that on the basis of those points, which the BSCFA fundamentally disagrees […]
New Year’s resolutions are annual vows taken after a sober look at one’s life over a twelve-month period. The pledge often precedes an approaching calendar and is usually honored well into the New Year. But, for most of us, resolutions are simply expressions of wishful thinking and seldom become manifest beyond the second day of […]
Spanish Adventurer, Álvaro de Marichalar, has left the jewel. He left Florida on the twelfth of December en route to Panama and is expected to complete the journey on January ninth. After docking on our shores on Saturday, Marichalar was to depart the country on Monday, but had to make repairs on the water scooter […]
Belize City Mayor Darrell Bradley hosted a press conference this morning during which he updated the media on three major projects that are being concluded for 2013. Those initiatives include the construction of streets, as well as the rehabilitation of B.T.L. Park. Mayor Bradley also commented on payments being made to Belize Waste Control for […]
