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The office of Mayor of Belmopan Khalid Belisle has confirmed this evening that Belmopan Police have detained City Councilor Gene Briceño Lopez based on a report of alleged forgery. Mayor Belisle personally made the report, in which he alleges that Lopez forged his signature and used his official stamp illegally on a document which was […]
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And our question for tonight is: Having resigned from Cabinet, do you think Minister Gapi Vega should remain in G.O.B.? Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones to 8686 or post your vote on our e-poll at channel5belize.com. You can also send an email with your comments to questions@channel5belize.com
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Land scandals are popping up everywhere. Earlier today, in Santa Elena residents of the Bradley Bank area were up in arms because the property to which they had titles for since 2014 actually belong to the Cayo Development Company Limited since 2002. But why were titles issued to different entities? News Five’s Duane Moody went […]
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Monday’s bombshell announcement was that former Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega had tendered his resignation as a member of Cabinet with immediate effect. His departure from government follows information revealing that his son, Andre Vega, was compensated to the tune of four hundred thousand dollars for a parcel of privately held land near the Haulover […]
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The new Minister of Natural Resources, Vanessa Retreage presented PM Barrow with overwhelming proof that there was, at the very least, a questionable land transaction involving Vega’s son. In many quarters, it seems that the former Minister of Lands merely got away with a slap on the wrist. Isani Cayetano “This is in reference […]
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So, did PM Barrow smell a whiff of corruption in the Ministry of Natural Resources prior to the November fourth general election and waited until afterwards to reshuffle his Cabinet? Prime Minister Dean Barrow “After the last election, after reflection, consideration and consultation, I appointed the Cabinet in a way that I thought would […]
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Still on Vega….his political opponent in Orange Walk North is P.U.P. standard bearer Ramon ‘Monchi’ Cervantes Junior. Both politicians have a history of enmity which includes a lawsuit filed against Cervantes Junior for allegedly defaming Vega’s character. In the wake of Vega’s fall from grace, the media turned to Cervantes Junior. Cervantes says that if […]
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A fire destroyed a home shortly after eleven last night in Belize City. Shantel Gill wasn’t at home on Iguana Street Extension when fire engulfed the wooden house and completely destroyed it. When we visited the scene today, the owner wasn’t at home but her neighbor told us that he was awaken by the heat […]
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Caroline Hamilton, the mother of eleven year old eleven year old Aaron Gabourel who was killed in a fire on October fifth, is pleading with those who have information on the arson to come forward. The mother says she is desperate for closure and feels that the case is stalling. It has been two weeks […]
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For the past two weeks, we have been telling you about the proposed multi- beam and seismic testing that will be taking place in Belize’s offshore. Last week, G.O.B. issued a release that Cabinet has approved the survey that is merely part of a larger regional initiative. Local conservationists were quick to point out major […]
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Chief Environmental Officer Alegria gave a little bit of details about the methodology being employed. He explained that it is an acceptable form used across the world. Alegria said it is non-intrusive and doesn’t necessarily require an E.I.A. Here’s how he explained it: Martin Alegria, Chief Environmental Officer “I can’t go into the details […]
The Belize City Council is preparing to introduce long-awaited trade license reform in the commercial capital which should see business owners getting some relief in the area of trade licenses. That announcement was made on Monday by Mayor Darrell Bradley who told the media that the process is the result of the work of a […]
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Two good cops were today recognized for their work and commitment to the Belize Police Department. Every month, the Department awards an officer with the “Officer of the Month” award. News Five stopped in today’s ceremony to speak with the officers for the months of August and September who are attached the Tourism Police Unit […]
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Speculation was rampant all morning that once powerful Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Natural Resources and, more recently, Minister of Agriculture, Gaspar Vega, had resigned this morning. The conjecture followed a story that News Five broke last Tuesday and later picked up by other media houses. This afternoon, PM Barrow confirmed that after meetings […]
Vega has been in cabinet since 2008 and was first named Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Natural Resources. According to the Prime Minister, “his personal friend,” is not demitting office as area representative for Orange Walk North. PM Barrow was rather circumspect, curt even, in responding to the question of the dubious land transactions […]
The entire transaction outlining the initial acquisition of the property in question, as well as its allotment and subsequent purchase by Pitts and Vega was presented in great detail by Lands Minister Vanessa Retreage, corroborating our reports last week. In the case of Pitts, there were missing documents from the file. But Retreage admitted that […]
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Both Pitts and Vega were compensated by government more than eight hundred thousand dollars over the course of seven months. In the case of Pitts, payments commenced in March 2015 and concluded in September. Andre Vega’s compensation similarly began with a bulk payment of one hundred thousand dollars in September 2015 and was completed in […]
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Even as the Prime Minister was announcing the resignation from Cabinet of Gaspar Vega, additional information was surfacing about land deals that stink to high heaven. The following has to be the mother of all land deals. In April 2012, one point six acres of land was transferred by the former Minister Gaspar Vega to […]
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There is another instance of compensation paid for land in the peninsula. In February 2012, unknown to the residents of Placencia, who had been agitating for a reserve, land was parceled off within a designated reserve in the Placencia area to four individuals. A total of four parcels located on two islands were granted to […]
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On Friday, the Belize National Teachers’ Union had declared that its strike action would go into a third week. It insisted that this was because the critical labour issues, including the proposed deferral of a three percent salary adjustment, were not being addressed to time by Government and Prime Minister Dean Barrow. The Prime Minister […]
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The B.N.T.U.’s representatives rushed out of the Biltmore to their meeting without speaking to the press. However, the heads of the Public Service Union and Association of Public Service Senior Managers briefed the press for the first time as the other two-thirds of the Joint Union Negotiating Team. Both unions have promised to begin consulting […]
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According to Senior Magistrate Frazer, it is important to note that the P.S.U. and A.P.S.S.M., unlike the B.N.T.U., do not believe there is presently an industrial dispute because negotiations have continued. Sharon Frazer, President, Association of Public Service Senior Managers “The thing about it is that the issues of good governance have been on […]
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When the William “Danny” Mason affair exploded in July, the man most affected was then-Minister of National Security John Saldivar. It didn’t take twenty-four hours after his arrest for Saldivar to disassociate himself from the shady Canadian/Guyanese with many names and many doings. But News Five has obtained documents showing that Mason was a shareholder […]
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Of eighteen persons initially charged in connection with the December home invasion at the house of Sarkis Abou-Nehra, twelve have been freed of charges. In an update, police said that all twenty-one DNA results are still not back. Today, Regional Commander of the Rural Eastern Division, Assistant Commissioner of Police Edward Broaster reassured the media […]
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Who excluded the Dorian Pakeman cocaine positive forensic lab test from the file that went to the D.P.P.? This is in connection with the fatal traffic accident in which the Director of Government Press Office Pakeman was driving a vehicle that knocked down and killed Dean Dawson in March earlier this year. It was later […]
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