Forty nine year old Valda Bodden has been living in Belize for twenty-three years and she has five children born in Belize. So you would think that Bodden, a sanitation worker of BML, would qualify for citizenship. But even in the recent mad rush to naturalize hundreds of immigrants that included Guatemalans, Bodden didn’t make […]
There are over five thousand new voters on the electoral list. From what is known, at least a thousand immigrants received citizenship in the past two weeks to be able to get on the voters list for the upcoming elections. Today, the Elections and Boundaries Commission was put on notice that the Revising court will […]
With the costs for conventional medical treatment skyrocketing, many in rural communities are turning to traditional healing. Locally, the practice is rooted with the Mayans so NICH today gathered traditional healers from the Cayo, Toledo, and Belize Districts as part of activities of the Maya Calendar. News Five’s Delahnie Bain found that there is a […]
The Belize Rotary Club has teamed up with the Clovis Rotary Club of New Mexico for an ambitious and exciting project. At Old Belize on the Western Highway, the assembly line is long; hundreds of wheelchairs are being put together for donation to deserving persons with disabilities. News Five’s Jose Sanchez reports. According to the […]
Heavily armed officers conducted a search of a vehicle and retrieved two handguns in the Ladyville area. The handguns were real but the exercise was a simulation in which the cops are receiving training on how to manage a checkpoint. News Five’s Isani Cayetano reports. Isani Cayetano, Reporting A stop and search conducted by police […]
The Vision Inspired by the People (VIP) and the P.N.P. held a joint press conference this afternoon to add their contribution to the ongoing discussion on the recent mass registrations of new citizens and voters. The VIP also told the media that they want the registration list to be cleaned up of what they deem […]
VIP Chairman Robert ‘Bobby’ Lopez also spoke about several issues of national concern. According to Lopez, the recent increase of fuel prices is hitting regular consumers and businesses alike. Robert ‘Bobby’ Lopez, Chairman, VIP “Another thing our supporters are very concerned about is the resent hike in fuel prices that has sent diesel regular and […]
The Conference was held in conjunction with the People’s National Party. PNP’s Candidate for Toledo East, Wil Maheia made the trip from Toledo to show solidarity with the VIP. Wil Maheia, P.N.P. Candidate, Toledo East “We’re here in solidarity with the VIP and the other independent candidates. I think it is important that the VIP […]
Residents of Xaibe in Corozal are up in arms over what they see as a plan to take over land in their community. Chairman Daniel Tzul alleges that since December of 2011 U.D.P. Corozal North Standard Bearer, Hugo Patt and surveyors have been scouting the parcel of land that is on the outskirts of the […]
The Bishop Sylvester Memorial Hall on Regent Street will host the annual General Meeting for Citizens Organized for Liberty through Action (COLA). COLA’s Vice-President, Geovanni Brackett is challenging incumbent President Moses Sulph for the Presidency. Bracket made his case on Monday and in an interview earlier today Sulph told News Five why he should continue […]
The number of persons that received citizenship in the past two weeks is officially put at over one thousand. And Chief Elections Officer, Josephine Tamai, says that in the period December tenth to the nineteenth, five thousand plus new voters made it on the electoral list for the upcoming elections. We have been checking around […]
This week Social Security Board staff members who reportedly reduced their loans to participate in a write-off by the government will be interviewed by the Pannell Kerr Forster accounting firm. Investigations started last week and are ongoing into the insider trading scheme that was stopped when it was exposed in the media. Embattled Social Security […]
P.M. Barrow also stated that the process through which the write-off list was derived was indiscriminate of politics and social status and that his administration proceeded objectively with the settlement of S.S.B. loans under the approved fifty thousand dollar limit. Dean Barrow “To try to be certain as to how that name found itself unto […]
The mass naturalization that has been taking place prior to the upcoming elections has been widely opposed countrywide. But that hasn’t stopped the Immigration Department from processing and swearing-in over a thousand new Belizeans. This morning, the government went on the defensive and ministers were deployed to the media houses to out the fires. Minister […]
Last week you heard at least one minister say that he was paying half the cost for the naturalization of new Belizeans. But how can they afford it when according to Elrington, Ministers are getting a pittance as salaries. Wilfred “Sedi” Elrington, Minister of Foreign Affairs/Foreign Trade “Let me tell you, I am a minister […]
The grassroots organization, Citizens Organized for Liberty through Action (COLA) is holding its annual general meeting this Saturday at the Bishop Sylvester Memorial Hall on Regent Street. Over the past year COLA has been vocal on a wide range of issues affecting the country. While the re-election of officers for some organizations means placing a […]
The community that sprung from a group of Belmopan residents is now known as Harmonyville at mile forty-one on the Western Highway. The organizers of Harmonyville are the Belize Grassroots Youth Empowerment Agency (BGYEA). BGYEA initially decided to squat on land since they grew up with immigrants who eventually owned their own land by squatting. […]
Over a hundred new citizens were sworn in today at the George Price Center in Belmopan. The minister of national security and immigration witnessed the event. We’ll have that story coming up, but first we go to the San Ignacio Elections and Boundaries Office that was swelling today with persons in a last minute effort […]
In Belmopan, another group mostly of Central American nationals were sworn in as Belizeans; they didn’t speak any English so they mostly listened. While the George Price Center was overflowing for the ceremonies, the official count was put at a hundred and eighteen new Belizeans. This is the second round of swearing in for this […]
On Thursday afternoon, the People’s United Party applied for judicial review of a decision taken by the Chief Elections officer, Josephine Tamai, turning down a request by the Corozal Southeast area representative, to peruse election binders for that constituency. According to the Tamai, the request could not be entertained at the time because of limited […]
Well, the matter will not proceed to court. This afternoon, C.E.O. Tamai wrote to the P.U.P. chairman informing that the review of the binders can begin on Monday. But according to Henry Charles Usher time has been lost. Henry Charles Usher, Chairman, P.U.P. “It was an application for an order of mandamus against the chief […]
When we sat with C.E.O. Tamai, we also asked her about a recording aired on this station on Thursday night in which two political operatives persuade a man to illegally register in Orange Walk Central even though he lives in the City. The operatives are employed by the U.D.P. standard bearer Denny Grijalva. Tamai said […]
Four and a half years after his murder, a coroner’s inquest makes a stunning decision in the murder of Richard Hoare who was executed on the night of August first, 2007 in Belize City. No one will be charged for the murder of Richard Hoare. That’s the conclusion of three jurors today at the end […]
`It has been almost two weeks since the Port of Belize Limited went into receivership due to the default of a sixty-four million dollar loan plus accrued interest. And, while the transition initially occurred smoothly, there is some collateral damage in salvaging the company. Over twenty Alliance Security Firm employees attached to the Port were […]
Election officials are maintaining that there is nothing amiss in the hand over fist registration and mass naturalization of hundreds of persons to get them on the voters list for the upcoming municipal and general elections. Director of Immigration, Ruth Meighan, insists that it is all above board, but tonight News Five has obtained a […]
