Believe it or not there were other events making news today, including an old media staple called crime. Jacqueline Woods chronicles the latest murder in the old capital. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Twenty-five year old Andrew Kelly Young better known as Pancho was only a stones throw away from his house when he was gunned down […]
This morning during a brief ceremony at the Museum of Belize, the Belize Philatelic bureau launched its latest postage stamp issue. The stamp depicts the whale shark and it is the first time in more than a decade that the Belize Postal Service has featured anything from the sea. According to Philatelic Supervisor Emelia Cayetano, […]
James Adderley, Reporting Good evening, I?m James Adderley and here?s the latest version of Sports Monday. The quest for the Regent?s Insurance Cup titled boiled down to a decisive Game III that brought Sagitun of Independence and Juventus of Orange Walk to the MCC Grounds yesterday. Also in town was Otto Mejia flown in from […]
On the day after Prime Minster Said Musa?s public commitment to make serious financial reforms and restructure ?the highest levels of government,? the various players and pundits are busy trying to figure out exactly what that means. According to sources within the ?Gang of seven?, that is Ministers Espat, Courtenay, Coye, Smith, Baeza, Hyde and […]
While controversy swirls over the means by which Glenn Godfrey raised funds to create the telecommunications company INTELCO, last night the incumbent monopoly, Belize Telecommunications Ltd, held its annual general meeting, the first since majority ownership was purchased by Jeffrey Prosser?s Innovative Communications Corporation. It was a mixed year for B.T.L. with record revenues at […]
And while on the subject of money, recall that it has been announced by the government of Taiwan that its president, Chen Shui-bian, will visit Belize, either late this month or early in September. As we reported last week, Chen will attend the inauguration of Panama?s President Torrijos on September first and will also make […]
With only five members, we did expect the Belize delegation at the Athens Olympics to get much screen time…And, sure enough, the T.V. glory lasted for all of about six seconds. Just for the record, the faces you see on the instant slow motion replay belong to athletes Michael Aguilar and Emma Wade, along with […]
While many small countries are almost totally dependent on foreign funding for conservation projects, Belize is fortunate that we generate funds domestically through PACT, the Protected Areas Conservation Trust. And today some of that money was invested in Belize?s most important resource: it?s people. Carla Urbina, Scholarship Recipent ? I think more than anything, exciting […]
Despite the high price, they are a delicacy that is hard to resist. But as News 5’s Patrick Jones reports, if one well known couple has their way, Belizean cashews will one day become as plentiful as bananas and oranges. Patrick Jones, Reporting Cashew is one of the most versatile of our Belizean fruits. Whether […]
As allegations of scandal swirl around his government?s handling of the public purse and each day brings new criticism and demands for full disclosure of financial transactions, Prime Minister Said Musa today took to the airwaves to state his case. The address lasted just over three and a half minutes and we reproduce it in […]
While the Prime Minister?s speech made the headlines, the issue of wrongdoing at Belize?s public institutions has not gone away. The question remains of how former P.U.P. Minister Glenn Godfrey managed to borrow millions of dollars in government guaranteed loans with little collateral for a telecommunications venture that could only be described as extremely risky…all […]
With a team consisting of three officials and only two athletes, and our beloved Marion Jones running under a cloud of doping allegations and qualifying only in the long jump, this does not figure to be a banner year for Belize in the Olympics. But the spectacle of athletic achievement that takes place every four […]
It is an effort that does not always receive a lot of publicity, but as our economy changes so does our system of education. As News 5?s Patrick Jones discovered yesterday, the focus on vocational training is being felt nationwide. Patrick Jones, Reporting The setting up of the nationwide network of centres for employment training […]
Every Wednesday we feature a different chef preparing a tempting taste treat for our hungry bellies. But behind every exotic recipe lies a basic Belizean food product. Today News 5?s Patrick Jones travelled to Central Farm where scientists and other professionals are working hard to make sure that those foodstuffs are both abundant and healthy. […]
Those expecting a bombshell in the Social Security scandal were disappointed. Instead of any new revelations of government misbehaviour, the Opposition United Democratic Party’s Press conference this morning simply sought to consolidate the three streams which, they claim, taken together form a torrent of wrongdoing involving the Development Finance Corporation, Social Security Board and government’s […]
While the U.D.P. was clearly on the offensive, the Social Security Board today attempted to mount a defence, following almost two weeks of being under hostile fire. Unfortunately, instead of providing the full and detailed disclosure requested by the U.D.P., various civil society organizations and members of its own board, not to mention a P.U.P. […]
In Police news, a third suspect has been arrested and charged in the shooting of businessman Phillip Gallaty. Twenty-four year old Aniver Palacio of Neal’s Pen Road in Belize City has been charged with Attempted Murder, Conspiracy to Commit Murder, Robbery, Conspiracy to Commit Robbery, Harm, Use of Deadly Means of Harm and Grievous Harm. […]
It was the original cash for information initiative…and while the 922 hotline has now merged into the Crimestoppers programme, the effort to specifically target illegal firearms is very much alive and well. Mark Lizarraga, Chairman, Cash for Information Programme “This fund goes specifically to the cash for information programme and it’s going to assist us […]
The Belize City Council today added its support for a fund raising radiothon and televised concert to help people affected by HIV/AIDS. During brief ceremonies at City Hall, Mayor David Fonseca handed over a cheque for five hundred dollars to the coordinator of the Living With Hope project, Dolores Balderamos Garcia. Fonseca says that as […]
The graduation season is over, but a group of special students who received their certificates this afternoon were no less proud of their achievement. Eighteen community workers today completed a six week intensive course and graduated as certified Home Health Care givers. Course participant Maria Ellis says the Red Cross training has equipped her and […]
The concept of using the public purse to enrich the governing elite is not a new concept–not in Belize and not anywhere. But it appears that the level of financial impropriety by the Government, Development Finance Corporation and Social Security Board on behalf of INTELCO has become so outrageous that the blue and white wall […]
An Orange Walk man has been arrested and charged with rape. On Saturday, a seventeen-year-old domestic reported to police that on Thursday morning twenty-eight year old Leonardo Patt of Trial Farm forced her into his pickup at gunpoint, drove to a deserted area and engaged in sex against her will.
Two men have been detained after trying to pass a pair of bogus blue notes at a Belize City gas station. According to an attendant at Pound Yard Esso, on Monday morning, a Dodge Ram van pulled up and its driver ordered two hundred dollars worth of gasoline. After handing the attendant two rolled up […]
There were hundreds of applications, but in the end only twenty five boys and girls from all over the country were chosen to receive high school scholarships from Belize Telecommunications Limited. The scholarships are part of B.T.L.?s stay in school campaign and since its inception in 1991, the company has given over two hundred and […]
It poses no immediate threat to Belize, but when it comes to hurricanes or tropical storms, we have seen too many times that forecasting is still a very inexact science. That is why meteorologists in Belize and the region are keeping a close eye on Charley, the season?s third named storm, which is tonight swimming […]
