All hell broke loose in San Ignacio on Tuesday when a knapsack containing one Belizean passport and seven non-Belizean passports were found at a print shop. A known U.D.P. operative for Cayo North East, Charles Cabral, is suspected to have left the black bag behind. When Police were called in, the passports and supporting nationality […]
P.U.P. leader Francis Fonseca also chimed in this morning on the knapsack passports. Fonseca says he fears that U.D.P. operatives may be engaged in tampering with the voters list and in the binders at the Elections and Boundaries Commission. Francis Fonseca, P.U.P. Leader “We are very, very concerned about it. It is absolutely alarming. […]
A protest is planned for this Thursday at Independence Village in the south where over a thousand persons have lost their jobs in the banana industry. The protest comes on the heels of an article in the international press that Fyffes has stopped buying bananas from Meridian Farms in Belize because of its links to […]
As part of our continuing pre-election coverage, today we spoke to U.D.P. Candidate for Orange Walk South Lupe Magaña-Dyck. She’s relatively new to politics and joined the race only three months ago when she defeated two other candidates at a party convention. Politics is no game for a novice, and three months is practically no […]
Since we had the opportunity, we also asked the aspiring U.D.P. area representative about one of her campaign vehicles caught on camera loading up goods at the Customs Department in Orange Walk Town. That building is where Customs personnel store contraband goods confiscated. In the photos you will see it appears that those goods are […]
If the P.U.P. is successful on November fourth, in addition to the manifesto promises there are a number of hot-button issues which remain unresolved. There is the request for salary increases by the Faculty and Staff of the University of Belize, the situation involving First Caribbean International Bank employees who have not tied up their […]
Proper infrastructure is critically important as the flooding and rains showed over the weekend in the city. It was not among the ten priority matters in the P.U.P.’s manifesto so the media asked party leader Francis Fonseca for his take on it. Francis Fonseca, P.U.P. Leader “We obviously believe in infrastructure, we believe it […]
As we told you, the People’s United Party released its manifesto – a much shorter, less glossy version than that of the governing party. Still, it’s full of the usual goodies like free education, reduction in GST and a move toward abolishing income tax. So while the U.D.P. manifesto is certainly a larger, much better […]
Are political manifestos to be taken seriously? Are they more about politicians telling people what they want to hear, rather than a concrete plan of what can and will be done during a term? That’s a question which was put to U.D.P. leader Dean Barrow today, on an assertion that the U.D.P. has not fulfilled […]
Incumbent Area Representative Jose Abelardo Mai has been hard at work well before the date for the upcoming general elections was announced. In the Orange Walk South constituency where he won in 2012 under the banner of the People’s United Party, the struggles of his people are real. Poverty, unemployment and a lack of access […]
Mai is confident that he will emerge victorious in Orange Walk South on November fourth and his party will go on to form the next government. The reception in the constituency, he says, has been warm, a significant difference since he began his political career in 2008. Jose Abelardo Mai, P.U.P. Area Representative, OW […]
On the campaign trail leading up to the November fourth General Elections, tonight we go one on one with Collet Area Representative and Minister of Education Patrick Faber. In that division, the incumbent U.D.P. candidate will be facing off against the P.U.P.’s Yasmin Shoman and the Belize Progressive Party’s Raymond Rivers. Now the rains over […]
The criticism by his opponents is that Faber is one of seven ministers, who are in control of Belize City constituencies, yet these are the most neglected areas. Faber and his colleagues are accused of failing to provide for the needs of residents. Faber clearly took offense saying that he is not fazed by what […]
But P.U.P. candidate, Yasmin Shoman, is neither fazed by what Faber has to say. Shoman has been on the ground in the division for over a year and says she has a good sense of the needs of the division. According to Shoman, Collet is the battleground for a swing division that is projected to […]
For Shoman, the division is traditionally P.U.P. and she hopes to regain the seat for the party after eight years of U.D.P. control. Yasmin Shoman, P.U.P. Candidate, Collet “We are very aggressive and assertive on the ground. We have been targeting that fifty-seven percent of voters that did not come out and vote in […]
Tonight, there is a huge scandal brewing in the west after a knapsack containing passports from various countries, birth certificates, police reports and other documents was found inside a business establishment in San Ignacio. News Five has confirmed that the knapsack was found inside Studio Seven early this afternoon, and was searched by the owner […]
Multiple sources have told News Five that the owner of the bag has been confirmed as a former U.D.P. councillor candidate whose passport was allegedly also found inside the bag. Today a politically charged crowd gathered outside the Police Station, and candidate Michael Chebat told News Five that what the police have in their hands […]
One of the most poverty-stricken communities is Jerusalem; it is located in the outskirts of the Krooman Lagoon in the Antelope Street Extension of the city. The flooding of the weekend has worsened conditions for the families who already had to cope with the hardships and challenges of life in a community without even basic […]
A family of four was among the many left homeless as a result of the flooding over the weekend. The head of the family is a single mother of three school-aged children who says her house could not withstand the flood waters. The crack of the wooden structure woke her up and she scrambled to […]
On Monday, we showed you the deplorable conditions in which residents of Mayflower Street are living. While the situation had been that way well before the weekend flooding, Area Representative Patrick Faber says that help is on the way. During today’s cabinet meeting, Faber was given assurance that immediate relief is coming to that area […]
A digital marketing summit, the first of its kind to be held in Belize, was hosted by the Belize Tourism Board today at the Ramada Belize City Princess. The objective is to build capacity within tourism stakeholders. Currently, the B.T.B. does very aggressive social media and digital marketing campaigns and this event provides hoteliers and […]
Imagine that moment when you’re told that your child, your pride and joy…your beautiful baby has cancer. There’s absolutely no treatment available in Belize, and treatment overseas is prohibitively expensive. The cancer is so aggressive and lethal that you may lose your child. The treatment is also so aggressive that you may lose your child. […]
In tonight’s newscast we start with a report on the health of Lord Michael Ashcroft. Lord Ashcroft has been suffering from a life-threatening illness that left him in intensive care for eighteen days. He was struck down by septic shock that resulted in liver and renal failure, and consequential heart damage. The timing of his illness was particularly unfortunate as it came just […]
The flooding in Belize City has highlighted the very real poverty which existed long before the rains came. The reality is that in certain zones in the Southside, any real crisis was caused not by the rain, but by the living conditions of those in the area. In the Antelope Street Extension Area, there was […]
While the flooding was arguably the worst in recent memory, by today the waters had subsided and, boasts Mayor Bradley, the cement streets held up. According to Bradley, while the situation is a bad one, it could have been much worse. Darrell Bradley, Belize City Mayor “Our concrete roads have held up substantially. So […]
