There are thousands of voters in Port Loyola. It’s one of the largest constituencies in Belize City and every vote counts for P.U.P.’s Gilroy Usher and U.D.P.’s incumbent Anthony Boots Martinez. Boots won the division hands down in the last elections and this morning, the P.U.P. standard bearer, flanked by supporters, took on the Elections […]
Belizean businessman Rhett Fuller, wanted for extradition by U.S. federal agents, appeared before Minister of Foreign Affairs Wilfred Elrington in Belmopan this morning. Fuller, who surrendered to local authorities on August twenty-second, was escorted from the Belize Central Prison to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by armed officers. The latest turn of events in Fuller’s […]
According to Fuller’s wife, Ann Marie, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, with whom the power to extradite her husband rests, exercised tremendous objectivity during the hearing. There were several issues of concern for Elrington, including what is being considered an act of bad faith on the part of the U.S. Government. In August 1998, a […]
The calendar for September Celebrations is filled with activities this month. Central America and Mexico are also celebrating their national days in this month. The festivities are causing a shift in consular activity and most Belizeans who travel north to Mexico will face a change in working hours of the embassy. News Five spoke to […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow met with the gangs on Sunday and hammered out a truce. It was said that all gangs had been invited to the negotiating table. On our newscast on Monday, the Minister Doug Singh singled out the South Side Gangsters, saying that they wouldn’t benefit from government assistance. Well, the SSG is […]
The Belize sugar Cane Farmers on Monday disclosed that they had secured financing to acquire the controlling shares in the Belize Sugar Industries Limited. They also said that B.S.I. had not provided them with the pertinent documentation to complete the buyout package and they asked government to intervene. The issue was discussed in today’s Cabinet […]
Last Friday we first exposed information on Belize coming from WikiLeaks, an organization that publishes private, secret, and classified data from anonymous news sources, news leaks, and whistleblowers. It claims to have more than a million documents from the first year it was launched in 2006. An encrypted version of WikiLeaks’ archive of U.S. State […]
There was a second contract that came out on Miles Tropical Energy. The principals of that company were Oren Miles and Allen Saum. Saum is the man that the Prime Minister’s nephew Kimano Barrow had a falling out with over contracts for Paradise Energy Limited. But in the years before the fallout between Barrow and […]
A post mortem examination on the body of twenty-seven year old Michael Young, also known as Ham, was conducted this afternoon at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. According to a police press release issued on Monday, Young was shot multiple times in the right knee, left leg and behind the left ear when he came […]
The University of Belize Alumni Association is hosting its first alumni ball this Saturday night at eight. The event is a fundraiser to assist students with everything from books to tuition. Invited to attend are graduates of all amalgamated institutions including: University College of Belize, the Belize Teachers College, the Bliss School of Nursing, the […]
Dubbed the region’s premier tertiary institution, The University of the West Indies has produced countless Caribbean leaders and pioneers in different fields. Annually, the UWI honors graduates of its institution who have contributed significantly to their alma mater or territory at their Pelican Awards. This year, for the first time, UWI Alumni Association Belize Chapter […]
For the past seven years, Belizean youths have been participating along with others from Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico in a program called GOJoven. It provides training opportunities to develop the leadership skills of young people, who can then educate their peers about sexual and reproductive health. Today a two year pilot focusing solely on Belizean […]
The Belize Sugar Industries (B.S.I.) has until the end of September to pay at least thirty million dollars in debt that matures with the ING and FirstCaribbean Banks. Time is running out and a strategic investor has still not been secured to prevent insolvency. The Prime Minister is on record to say that the ninety […]
According to Ortega, while financing can be secured the problem is that the owners of the shares are not willing to sell to them. The B.S.C.F.A. claims it still does not have all the data to complete their buy-out package. They are asking the government to intervene. Alfredo Ortega “We have our technical team working […]
A recent study shows that Belizeans are seriously overweight; in fact most women are obese. So an enterprising Belizean with assistance from the Youth Business Trust has made that statistic a business opportunity. A new store has been opened on Douglas Jones Street in Belize City to cater for plus size women. News Five’s Jose […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow cut short his trip to St. Kitts and returned to Belize to diffuse the ongoing tension between the gangs and the Gang Suppression Unit. Last Friday, the GSU mounted a violent confrontation with the George Street Gang following the funeral of Charles Woodeye and in the process many innocent persons were […]
Belize had generally remained under the Wikileaks radar, but now hundreds of classified cables on a wide range of activities here, have been disclosed in a trove of uncensored US diplomatic cables made public today by Wikileaks. The website released its entire archive of about two hundred and fifty-one thousand, two hundred and eighty-seven documents […]
The most recent hearing on the Belize Constitution (Ninth Amendment Bill) took place in Orange Walk on Wednesday night. The exchanges and passion of the public was very clear and though both parties brought out their supporters, the event was much more respectful than the first consultation at Holy Redeemer Parish Hall. The event went […]
News coming out of Faber’s Road has often been touched by tragedy. But some residents of Faber’s Road are showing that good in the old capital doesn’t have to start with official intervention. The winds of change are literally blowing at the upper flat of the Dena residence on Faber’s Road extension. Brian Dena had […]
There is another set of youths who were equally treated with goodwill prior to the opening of the September session of school. Citizens Organized for Liberty through Action (COLA) has been working with about seventy-five youths for the past couple weeks. According to Moses Sulph, COLA’s President, the school supplies given out today will help […]
The illegal extraction of rosewood in seven Maya communities in the Toledo District has become too rampant to ignore. The Maya Leaders Alliance is taking on the fight to stop the extraction because the precious wood is under threat of extinction. The MLA alleges there is official facilitation to the illegality. News Five’s Isani Cayetano […]
The gangs are not known to issue statements; in fact they are known not to want to appear on camera. So we found a release they purportedly sent out today to be unusual. It comes in the aftermath of a violent shakedown by the Gang Suppression Unit against alleged members of the George Street Gang […]
The public hearings for the Ninth Amendment were held on Wednesday night in Orange Walk Town. Of the three held so far, it was the biggest and lengthiest going well past the midnight hour. The views expressed were overwhelmingly against the proposed change to the constitution. The sea of blue washed across the multi-purpose centre […]
The Bak to Skool trimming program was started last year by two enterprising young men who wanted to do something positive in their community. It was an immediate hit among young students who needed a free haircut in time for the school year. The program is going beyond young boys this year; young girls are […]
Earlier we told you about the statement issued by gangs, saying they do not intend to disrupt the celebrations. The largest mass event for the celebration is this Saturday when citizens will be lining up the streets to view the spectacular Carnival road march. The junior and senior bands are mostly ready for the grand […]
