One of the country’s most outspoken kidney patients and activists, forty-one year old Jose Cruz, has died. Cruz passed away at around nine-fifteen this morning in Santa Elena Town, Cayo. Cruz became widely known in the media a few years ago when kidney failure prompted him to speak out about a very lacking health system, […]
Who will be the next Chief Justice? That’s the question that is being tossed around for months since the departure of the former Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh and the temporary appointment of Justice Samuel Awich as acting CJ. We don’t know the answer, but we do know who is not likely in line, and that […]
Christopher Bowman has lived with a tumor on his chest for most of his life. He has taken two surgeries in the United States to have it removed. However, he has about eighteen more to go. And the bill is in the hundreds of thousands. Bowman contacted News Five because time may be running out […]
It was more of the same on Day Two of the Sustainable Tourism Program which involves the controversial zoning of the Fort Street Tourism Village. Thousands visitors disembarked the four cruise lines, but those who ply their trade to put bread on their table, were not happy campers. Under the new rules they must wait […]
It was Day One of the new zoning project at the Fort Street Tourism Village. But instead of having the desired effect of bringing a semblance of order to the otherwise chaotic tourism village, there was more confusion than usual. Tour guides, vendors and other industry players were unable to access visitors from four cruise […]
Edmund “Clear the Land” Castro was stripped of his ministerial portfolio as Minister of State for Works on November twenty-fourth, but his woes are from over. A Belizean living abroad, Althea Grant, recently provided documentation to the Prime Minister Dean Barrow that she was scammed out of forty-eight thousand dollars in a land deal. She […]
But aside from the land scandal, the residents have their own grievances against Castro. At today’s press conference, several allegations were raised that the fired area rep has also been deceiving other constituents in similar fashion. As we said they are allegations, and numerous were made including one for a million dollars for road repairs. […]
As we told you, there was confusion today in the Belize City Fort Street Tourism Village. In the south, since the Placencia Tourism Board introduced the idea for cruise tourism on the peninsula, residents of the area have expressly rejected any project to accommodate that kind of tourism there. That is being followed up with […]
A new judge took the oath this morning in the chamber of Acting Chief Justice Samuel Awich. Judge Denis S. Hanomansingh, turned sixty-seven on Monday and has been appointed for a six month period. There was no fanfare and present during the proceedings were the Registrar, Velda Flowers and judges of the Supreme Court, Oswell […]
Just before six this evening the government announced a breakthrough in the sugar dilemma and that is that the Belize Sugar Industries has received waivers from both the ING and FirstCaribbean International Banks. It means that the ten million dollar bailout loan approved by the House on November twenty-fourth for BSI can now be drawn […]
Fire authorities have removed an accelerant bottle and rags that were used to set on fire the Belize Red Cross Society’s headquarters early Thursday morning. But up to news time, police have been unable to crack who was behind the arson. The fire was reported shortly after three on Thursday morning and the bottle of […]
The Belize National Coast Guard moved into its new home today. Its address is Mile four on the Western Highway, where the new headquarters sits ideally to keep watch on the territorial waters and the ever present threat of transnational narco-trafficking and other crimes. The new headquarters was built with the assistance from the US […]
It’s down to the wire in the Caribbean Shores constituency, where a mix of both the affluent and poor reside. It’s the constituency where the former and sitting prime ministers live, which was once represented by a former prime minister, but which also includes a large number of low income families. This Sunday its current […]
The two politicians have been going toe to toe and they have also looked for support from heavyweights within the party. News Five caught up with Minister of Works, Anthony “Boots” Martinez who says he is publicly supporting Perdomo, who has worked with him since their election in 2008. Anthony “Boots” Martinez, Minister of Works […]
The first ever Queen of the Jewel was crowned at the Bliss by a panel of judges. Going up against nine other delegates, Annlyn Apolonio made it all look easy as she strut her stuff in swimwear, did an elaborate Chinese cultural presentation and modeled an elegant evening gown, to secure her place in the […]
The People’s National Party base may be in the southern most district, however, their message and call for good governance is one that is expressed everyday on the streets. The recent firing of the Minister of State Edmund Castro and the immigration scandal which includes human trafficking of Chinese, Sri Lankans, Somalis, and Nigerians are […]
Under pressure, the government announced today that it has disbursed a million dollar grant to the Belize Sugar Control Board to assist farmers with urgent financial obligations. The government, via a release, also chided the opposition for calling for an immediate disbursement of a ten million dollar loan to BSI for third payment to farmers […]
Belizeans for Justice, the organization formed by relatives of murder victims, has been at the forefront of social causes while pointing to corruption in the police department. The organization was invited to a Central American Integration System meeting in San Salvador earlier in the week. Founding members of the group Joan Sutherland and Yolanda Schakron […]
While Belizeans for Justice’s founding member Yolanda Schakron was in San Salvador, her children faced a harrowing experience at the hands of police officers. Her seventeen year old son and fourteen year old daughter were pulled after classes and searched by cops. Schakron says this is the ninth time her family has been harassed by […]
The American fugitive who was hiding out in Belize during his birthday was sent back on Wednesday. After being told he might spend twenty-five years behind bars for manslaughter back in 2008 in Boca Rotan, Florida, he tore off his ankle monitor and hid out in the Jewel. An ABC affiliate WPBF caught up with […]
Renowned Belizean personality Carrie Fairweather-Belgrave is tonight launching a book of poems at the Bliss Center for the Performing Arts. Fairweather, better known for her role as Gran Tomasa in ‘Noh Matta Wat, is struggling with a terminal illness. The presentation of her lifework in literature comes at a time when her legacy is being […]
In the House of Representatives last week both sides gave their support for a bailout loan to the Belize Sugar Industries. The government and the opposition both recognized that the Sugar Industry is vital for the survival of farmers in the north. Because of the “turkey weekend” in the United States, the prime minister indicated […]
A US fugitive was captured in Belize today. The details are just coming in but the wanted man was hiding out in the old capital. James Donald Baker, described as being red haired, hazel eyes, weighs one hundred sixty pounds, and is five feet nine inches in height. His US address is 3737 North West […]
Edmund “Clear the Land” Castro was fired from his post as Minister of State in the Ministry of Works, since last Wednesday but he has been unable to escape the spotlight. New details are surfacing as to one of the reasons why the Prime Minister felt it necessary to clear Castro as a Minister of […]
There is no end to the immigration scandal. Our investigations have taken us to far away countries whose nationals are willing to spend mightily and take risks to get to the United States. Along the way, they are facilitated by a well organized ring of human smugglers who earn mega bucks to get the human […]
