Earlier in the week, Belize Natural Energy’s Marketing and Corporate Communications Manager, Daniel Gutierrez, appeared on Open Your Eyes to discuss the future of the oil industry in Belize. Gutierrez revealed that BNE’s exploration license was about to run dry and the company was hoping for the government to allow an extension or renegotiation. But […]
A twelve year old girl from Ladyville went missing on Monday evening and her mother has walked and searched the entire village trying to find her. Arlene Bainton has turned to neighbors, friends and family but no one has seen her daughter, Jannessa Jones. Jones was last seen heading to the bus stop near the […]
Youth Voices is a two year project designed to mold the talent of the next generation. The project will hone raw talent of poets with writing workshops and slam competitions. Taking youth and their aggression off the street is an important part of the project’s design. But at the zenith of its inception, it is […]
Four hundred and seventy-nine police officers, constables and sergeants took promotional exams on November twenty-seventh in Belize City. The results are slowly coming to light and are considered dismal. The exam is divided into two parts: subjective and objective, each worth a hundred points and the passing mark is sixty-five percent for the objective and […]
Still on the police, the family of a businesswoman from Chattanooga, Tennessee, is accusing the department of corruption. The woman came to Belize in December for a three week Christmas vacation with her family. But she is getting an extended stay because she is facing two charges following a traffic accident at the junction of […]
We asked Minister of Police, Doug Singh, to comment on the matter and he says Boutz cannot expect special treatment just because she is a tourist. “I am not aware of the details of the case. It is something that I am going to get up on. It is my understanding from the information I […]
Twenty-seven year old Honduran National, Cesar Geomar Castro Romero, has been living in Belize illegally for over three years and now he gets to spend an extra five years in the Jewel… but at the Central Prison. And it’s not because of immigration offences; today he pleaded guilty to two counts of Robbery. On November […]
Three men were charged today for a nine millimeter pistol found in an SUV that they were travelling in. But twenty-two year old Brandon Leslie, who was driving when they were pulled over, says he didn’t know the weapon was in the vehicle nor did his friends, twenty-two year old Phillip Smith and nineteen year […]
Belize National Energy is one of about a dozen registered oil companies in Belize. It has the distinction of being the only company that has found oil in commercial quantity. The oil taxes play a significant role in the country’s revenues; in fact BNE is the biggest tax payer to government. BNE has found oil […]
Both Carnival and Royal Caribbean cruise lines have agreed to, for now, to hold back on a new policy on tendering. How long the delay will last is not known, what is, is that there is bound to be displacement after the new policy kicks in. That’s the message Prime Minister Dean Barrow brought back […]
While P.M. Barrow was not sure whether the former CEO knew of the change in policy well in advance, EuroCaribe Shipping Services, the agent for Carnival in Belize, has come forward to say that they only just found out of the changes. Today News Five spoke off camera with the Director of Maritime Estates Ltd. […]
The UDP Corozal Bay Convention was held on Sunday and from the looks of it, it appeared like a race for national elections. Money was flowing and the placards and billboards were visible throughout the constituency. Ministers were at every turn and by and large, they were supporting the incumbent. Three contested the convention including […]
While the race was easily won by Marin and Campos is looking at his options in the party; his campaign manager, Chairman of the Corozal Free Zone Chairman, David Akierman, said that the incumbent had the edge because of last minute registration of voters by the Elections and Boundaries Department on the eve of the […]
While the mercury level at the UDP Corozal Bay convention was running high, in the west, the temperature was much cooler. PUP treasurer Julius Espat was nominated and endorsed as the standard bearer for Cayo South at a convention attended by a respectable crowd of the party’s hierarchy and supporters. Earlier in the week, there […]
Once, twice, and now for the third time, Brandon Smith and Edwin Flowers are facing charges for Randy Coye’s murder. Smith and Flowers were initially charged along with Leon Gray, Deshawn Mena and Kenroy Humes in October 2009, but they were all released in July 2010 by Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie. A week later, all […]
The future of boat tenders hangs in the balance. As we mentioned on Thursday Prime Minister Dean Barrow is heading a delegation of four including Tourism Minister Manuel Heredia Jr., Chief Executive Officer Lindsay Garbutt and Director of Tourism Seleni Matus to deliberate with cruise line representatives in Miami on their new tender policies. Both […]
As we said, talks are going on in to stem a proposal that could affect the livelihood of over one hundred seafarers. The Carnival Cruise Line’s new proposal can be costly for tender operators, who will have to invest millions of dollars to acquire new vessels to transport tourists to the mainland if they want […]
Tonight the unemployment line is getting longer. Employees of National Transport are officially out of jobs. The announcement came today through the Labour Commissioner, Ivan Williams, who said that the Receiver of National Transports and Bel Bus, Kevin Castillo, informed that he would not resume the bus operations. The employees, some of whom had previously […]
She lost her husband less than a month ago and now Mileni Cruz, the widow of kidney patient and activist, Jose Cruz, is facing the possibility of being left without a roof for her herself and her two daughters. Just before the Christmas, Cruz, who lives in a government house in Central Farm, received a […]
As we reported early this week, Justice Manuel Sosa has been sworn in as the first Belizean president to the Court of Appeal. In the meantime, the search for a new Chief Justice continues. Three candidates are in the running with one from the Caribbean being favored by insiders, whilst another candidate from New Zealand […]
We’re fresh into the New Year and if you take a poll, one of the most popular resolutions is to lose weight. Keeping that commitment is not easy and in fact most people will abandon the idea by the end of the month. News Five’s Marion Ali found out today that the best results come […]
As the economic pinch bears down, many are finding it impossible to meet the prohibitively expensive medical costs. Tonight we revisit the story of a young man from San Ignacio who had been battling with a brain tumor for some time. He has had surgery in the United States and is currently back home but […]
Three cruise ships called on port today: Carnival’s Valor and Legend and Aida Luna, a German outfit. Several thousand visitors were transported to shore and back to the cruise lines by the local boat tenders. Business was brisk, but how long will it last? That’s what a top heavy delegation will find out in the […]
Nurse Maria Ack: she has bonded over the years with dialysis patients at Belize Healthcare Partners Limited. So much so that when she tendered her resignation because of working conditions in December 2009, her patients risked their well-being to stage a protest outside the hospital. Ack was the only certified dialysis nurse in the country […]
For months there have been reports that tilapia farms in Belize Rural North have been emanating an unpleasant odor. The farms were set up by the area representative, Edmund “Clear the Land” Castro when he was a Minister of State as a way to create employment in the area. But some residents are complaining that […]
