The deadly shooting of fourteen-year-old Guatemalan minor Julio Rene Alvarado Ruano in the Chiquibul Forest involved B.D.F. soldiers, as well as rangers from Friends of Conservation and Development. The Belize Defense Force has since been cleared of the allegation that its men were responsible for the fatal rounds that cut down the teenager. While their […]
As for another O.A.S.-commissioned investigation into the fatal shooting, Elrington says that government is quite satisfied with the results of the initial inquiry. All things considered, there will not be another probe, despite a recent request from the Guatemalan president and foreign minister for a subsequent investigation. Wilfred Elrington, Minister of Foreign Affairs “I […]
Commissioner of Police Allen Whylie was away on leave for some time; in fact, he was out of the country when the entire saga involving accused murderer William “Danny” Mason was unraveling. Mason was charged for the beheading of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas whose head he carried in a bucket in his truck. In the midst […]
Accused murderer William Mason returns to court in the next few days, but he once boasted that he had a number of officers on his payroll, including members of the Gang Suppression and the Special Patrol Units. In fact, pictures surfaced of the former head of the GSU socializing at his farm. In an extended […]
In terms of the criminal investigation, ComPol Whylie says he was briefed by the Acting Commissioner Mister Blackett, and was assured that the police were on top of the case. Whylie told the media today that the file is being completed. Allen Whylie, ComPol “Well I know that the file is being put together […]
As we reported on Wednesday, bus fares unexpectedly went up in for commuters travelling westbound on Westline, Guerra’s, B.B.O.C. and J and J. The hike in price was as much as fifty cents putting a huge dent on the pockets of travellers. But as it turns outs, the increase was not sanctioned by the proper […]
Following a meeting with bus operators in the west, Minister of Transport Edmond Castro met with the Mopan Taxi Association. For months now, the group has been clamoring for the Transport Department to implement measures that would either prohibit or regulate the influx of Guatemalan bus operators into Belize. According to Arsenio Panti, it is […]
This is the second audit that has been conducting by the Auditor General on the Immigration Department. Given the obvious widespread irregularities committed by persons and all that has been revealed in the most recent report, some are of the opinion that the police should conduct a full fledged investigation into the findings of the […]
The House Meeting held two weeks ago, by all scope of the imagination, was epic. Cayo South area rep., Julius Espat was literally picked up and carried out of the Chambers and, when he further refused, was manhandled by security forces. The Leader of the Opposition was also assaulted in the process and a media […]
This morning, the Belize Progressive Party gave the media an update on their ongoing People’s Referendum poll on social issues. The poll takes two forms: an online poll being conducted along with the news outlet Breaking Belize News; and a petition being signed by Belizeans to create a mock referendum on several social issues. Both […]
The Progressives are also planning, among other initiatives, a nationwide tour to take their message to the Belizean people. We hear more from the party’s chairman, Paco Smith. Paco Smith, Chairman, B.P.P. “As the only viable solution to the red and blue debacle that has plagued our nation for the last thirty-five years, your […]
Wednesday night was day one of the annual mas camps that leads up to the carnival road March on September seventeenth. A record number of bands are taking part in the revelry hoping to capture the title as carnival champs. The camps started with a visit to four of the bands. News Five’s Duane Moody […]
The People’s United Party has not shown its muscle in the city for long years, but today it did and impressively so. The crowd was massive as the national protest snaked from the Constitution Park to B.T.L. Park on Newtown Barracks. Supporters from all corners, as well as from the City came out to protest […]
News Five spoke exclusively with the Leader of the Opposition following this morning’s rally. First on our list of questions was his reaction to the divide among Belize’s churches on appealing the decision of Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin to amend Section Fifty-Three of the Criminal Code to allow consensual private sexual acts between adults that […]
The P.U.P. stepped out of bipartisan bilateral talks with Guatemala for some time now. They said it was in protest of the Barrow administration’s mishandling of the situation and that the party was not being kept in the loop. Months later, with Guatemalan Foreign Minister Carlos Raul Morales now breathing fire at an adverse finding […]
There was a horrific murder in Orange Walk Town just before seven on Tuesday night. A young woman was shot and killed in front of her two children, one seven and the other five years of age. Twenty-two year old Jahida Crawford, who is just recently found out she was two months pregnant, was called […]
A slightly different perspective on the Battle of St. George’s Caye was the subject of today’s annual National History Lecture in Belize City at the Bliss Center for the Performing Arts. A group of researchers discussed a large number of documents obtained from the Spanish archives in Seville, Spain, which by and large confirm the […]
Blink and you may have missed them, but Geovannie Brackett led members of his Citizens Organized for Liberty through Action and other activist organizations in their own section of the People’s United Party’s rally in Belize City today. We asked Brackett this afternoon in an interview: is he concerned that such a close alignment may […]
One last thing from the Leader of the Opposition…The Barrow administration is beleaguered by a number of successive scandals, the latest being the findings of the Auditor General’s special report on the Immigration Department. The fact that the U.D.P. government is presently overwhelmed by allegations of corruption harkens back to a point in time when […]
Reuse, Recycle and Renew are environmental issues that are well-known in Belize, but it was also the theme that participants expounded on in this year’s Florida Caribbean Cruise Association’s poster and essay competitions. There were hundreds of entries from the Caribbean and Belizean students placed well. Janae Rodriguez captured the first prize in the junior […]
Beginning earlier this week, commuters on the four major bus lines operating in the western corridor – Westline, Guerra’s, B.B.O.C. and J and J – are paying about fifty cents more per run. The price of a trip to Belmopan is now seven dollars and to Benque Viejo is thirteen dollars. It was a joint […]
The fate of Dorian Pakeman as Director of the Government Press Office was the subject of a discussion in Cabinet this morning. News Five understands that the issue of his employment was raised in today’s meeting, following the results of a toxicology test conducted on specimen he submitted. That sample was given after a fatal […]
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At least thirteen U.D.P. ministers and former ministers are being named in the Special Immigration Audit for being involved in irregular practices as it relates to the issuance of passports, visas, and nationality certificates. The Auditor General points out that the law does not provide for ministers to intervene in the process. On both sides […]
News Five returns tonight to a review of the Office of the Auditor General’s Special Audit Reports on Visas, Nationality and Passports which are now before the House of Representatives and may soon be the subject of an investigation by the National Assembly. In the following story, correspondent Aaron Humes takes a look at tie-ins […]
