Details are sketchy tonight but News 5 understands that the crash of an ultralight aircraft on Ambergris Caye has claimed the life of a tourist. According to San Pedro Police, around three thirty this afternoon, South African Martin David Walker and an American woman were taking off from the San Pedro runway in their tiny […]
As the press continues to sink its teeth into Social Security saga, this morning the list of civil society organisations to weigh in with their concerns and suggestions expanded to include the National Trade Union Congress of Belize. Complete with representatives from the Belize Energy Workers Union, the Christian Workers Union, the Belize Communication Workers […]
General Manager of the Belize Social Security Board Narda Garcia has been having a tough fortnight. She?s made presentations to several bodies, including Cabinet and the Belize Governance Improvement Commission, in an attempt to explain how it was that the S.S.B. guaranteed millions of dollars in questionable loans to companies owned by former PUP Minister […]
On our newscast of last night Minister of Home Affairs and Investment, Ralph Fonseca, alleged that attorney and UDP politician, Wilfred Elrington, borrowed seven hundred and sixty three thousand dollars from the St. James National Building Society, and that loan formed part of the package of mortgages bundled for securitization by the DFC and guaranteed […]
And while the aggrieved attorney expressed his anger, he also had some interesting things to say when asked about his encounter with Glenn Godfrey. Stewart Krohn “Mr. Elrington, you say you spoke to Mr. Godfrey this morning; now you are a very privileged man because many people in the media have been trying to get […]
While GOB, SSB, DFC and a long list of other alphabetized agencies are having their share of financial woes, there is one woman from Santa Elena, Cayo, who tonight is counting her new found cash. Irene August held the winning ticket in Saturday’s sixty-seven thousand, five hundred dollar Lotto draw…and today she claimed her prize. […]
It’s so far so good for Marion Jones in Athens. Last night she qualified easily for the finals in the long jump, despite a foul on her first attempt. Here’s how it went on the NBC broadcast. NBC Sportscaster “Now Marion Jones received that foul in her first attempt. They only get three to qualify […]
In the week since Prime Minister Said Musa and seven dissident cabinet ministers managed to kiss and make up, not a single member of that body has spoken to the press…until today that is. This morning Minister Ralph Fonseca, a key player in the political drama, as well as the ongoing controversy over the nation’s […]
While it was former Finance Minister Ralph Fonseca who drew us to the Central Bank this morning, he was there for reasons other than a media encounter, namely to speak at the opening of the seventh annual conference of Human Resource Managers of the Caribbean Central Banks. Representatives from eight central banks in the region, […]
Two burglaries and what appears to be a case of con artistry have relieved victims in Belize City, San Pedro and Seine Bight of thousands of dollars in cash and property, and also landed a number of people in police custody. We’ll start in the old capital, where businessman Richard Price reported to police on […]
We have only just received the official press release on today’s first business session of the new sixteen member compromise cabinet, but reports from Belmopan are that most of the morning session was taken up by a presentation from the general manager of the Social Security Board, Narda Garcia. Unless there are some secret transactions […]
Thanks to a joint effort by the community and police of Benque Viejo Del Carmen, authorities have arrested two young men they suspect were the culprits who held up the Clarissa Falls Resort. According to police, around eleven on Friday night the manager of the resort, which lies along the Mopan River between Benque and […]
It was one of those news items that fell through the cracks in the midst of last week’s political turmoil…but viewers should be happy to hear that there is no longer a shortage of Belize passports. A release from the Immigration Department confirms that the first shipment of new passports has been received from the […]
The official list of activities for this year’s September celebrations is yet to be released, but there are a couple of events you might want to pencil into your entertainment calendar for next month. Organisers are putting the final touches on their plans for the third annual Belize Sound Fest and this year there is […]
He is Belize’s most celebrated classical musician, a world class pianist who, between the Belizean classics “Mass in Blues” and “Celebrations”, compiled an impressive list of achievements in England, the Soviet Union and United States. Now, Francis Reneau is back in town, this time to help the next generation of Belizean artists. Patrick Jones reports. […]
If the Athens Olympics just don’t seem to cut it for Belizeans the way the Sydney games did four years ago, the reason is not difficult to find. It’s Marion Jones–or rather the lack of Marion Jones. Sure, she’ll compete Friday in the long jump–and hopefully win–as well as run a leg in the four-by-one […]
All eyes will be on Cabinet tomorrow as that newly enlarged and emboldened group gets set to tackle the problem of government?s finances and the public?s lack of confidence in its leadership. And while we are not sure if the session will be characterised by candour or cover up, there are increasing signs that the […]
In crime news, there was a shooting late Saturday night in Belize City, and while that occurrence can hardly be described as unusual, there are indications that a new element may be creeping into the mix of urban street violence. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has more. G. Micheal Reid, Police Press Officer “We do have […]
Meanwhile, another shooting victim wounded last Tuesday is being slowly nursed back to health at the KHMH. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Fourteen year old Ryan Alvarez has been making steady progress at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he almost lost his life from a gunshot wound he received to the stomach. Dr. Fernando Cuellar, Medical […]
Police have detained two people and continue to investigate a weekend shooting incident that has left a teenager wounded. Around eight thirty on Saturday night, police say a green Ford Explorer pulled up on a trio of young men standing in front of a panades shop on Yarborough road. A man, described only as slim […]
Belize has only two athletes competing at the Athens Olympics and this morning, within eight hours of each other, they both had their shot at glory. Shortly after two a.m. Belize time, Emma Wade eased into the blocks for her qualifying heat in the two hundred metres. Calling the race for the Caribbean Media Corporation […]
There was another Gold Rush at Courts this weekend, this time in Orange Walk. Ironically the lucky customer who got to spin the wheel just happened to hail from the Sugar City…and guess what: for Miguel Vargas, Saturday could not have been sweeter. Raphael Martinez, Gold Rush Host “Put your hands together for Miguel Vargas. […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley with this fresh delivery of Sports Monday. The friendly confines of Double Head failed to propel Excellence in Game I of the Harrison Parks National Cricket Championship. So on Saturday, Game II moves to Flowers Bank where Wicked Eleven ball club hope to seal the 2004 title. It’s Excellence batting […]
It has been a long and eventful week for Belize’s ruling politicians and today that week ended with the first meeting of a new sixteen-member cabinet. That body is the product of compromise and it remains to be seen whether it is the type of compromise that pleases everyone…or no one. Any residual stress that […]
That strategy will have fewer and costlier options, thanks to news out of New York that Standard & Poor’s today significantly downgraded Belize?s credit ratings. According to an S&P release the nation?s long term foreign currency rating has been lowered from “B plus” to “B”, edging into the highly speculative category, while the long term […]
