It may not be classified as police news but one Belize City mother believes that if not a crime, it’s at least a shame the way her son is abused at school. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Anna de la Fuente?s 11-year-old son is a student of St. Ignatius Middle School but on Wednesday, the young mother […]
Marion Jones is fighting back against allegations that she took banned performance enhancing drugs during the Sydney 2000 Olympics. On Wednesday the track and field star, who holds both Belizean and U.S. nationality, filed a twenty-five million dollar lawsuit against Victor Conte, head of a San Francisco laboratory who claimed in a television interview that […]
The gift has nothing to do with Christmas, but for Orange Walk’s Escuela Secundaria Mexico the donation of two thousand dollars will go a long way in establishing a new activity at the school. This morning the Mexican Ambassador to Belize, Arturo Trejo, presented the cheque to Principal Juanita Lucas. Arturo Trejol, Mexican Ambassador to […]
With the meaning of the word “mail” increasingly defined as that long list of unsolicited offers that find their way onto your computer, it seems that fewer and fewer Belizeans require the services of the post office. But as Patrick Jones discovered, the facts say otherwise…and until someone figures out how to send a black […]
If you’ve tried to drive through downtown Belize City this week you’ve already discovered that holiday shopping is reaching a crushing crescendo of activity. But Albert and Queen Streets are not the only places clogged with shoppers. As is usual at this time of year many Belizeans are also heading across the Mexican border, some […]
The first hearing in the Senate Select Committee investigation of possible financial and procedural irregularities involving Social Security funds was held today at the National Assembly building in Belmopan. Chairing the meeting was Senator Godwin Hulse who was flanked by Senators Dickie Bradley, Moises Chan and Rene Gomez. In all, seven witnesses were sworn in […]
Next to take the hotseat was Governor of the Central Bank, Sydney Campbell, to walk the Senators through the securitization process as well as to explain the Bank’s role in handling monies and transfers between various institutions including the SSB and the Royal Merchant Bank of Trinidad and Tobago. Sydney Campbell, Governor, Central Bank “Through […]
Intimately involved in the securitization process with the Social Security Board was the Development Finance Corporation. Today, its Chief Executive Officer, Troy Gabb, appeared to answer questions from the panel about the loans that the institution had put forward to be bundled with various SSB loans for sale abroad. As was pointed out to him […]
But perhaps the most interesting fact disclosed by CEO Gabb was the revelation that during the securitisation process the mortgages were handled by a company registered in the Cayman Islands. Its owners? The same DFC directors, who Gabb named only after persistent prompting, being Glenn Godfrey, then Chairman of DFC, his deputy, David Courtenay and […]
Shakespeare’s adage about scorned women was amply demonstrated in the Ladyville suburb of Lord’s Bank last night as a jilted lover’s hellish fury has left her ex-boyfriend dead. News 5’s Patrick Jones reports from the scene of the crime. Patrick Jones, Reporting The domestic dispute erupted around ten thirty on Tuesday night inside this house […]
An armed robbery near Benque Viejo has resulted in a shootout with police. Around eight Tuesday night police responded to a report of a robbery in progress at the Casa Maya Resort near mile sixty-eight on the Western Highway. The proprietor reports that he was held up by two masked men, one holding a shotgun […]
Belizean George Herbert, who was kidnapped by Belizean police officers and turned over to the U.S. government, has been convicted on four counts of conspiracy to import cocaine. The verdict on the federal drug charges came Tuesday afternoon in a Manhattan courtroom. Just to make it official I will read verbatim from the U.S. prosecutor’s […]
It was to have been Innovative Communications CEO Jeffrey Prosser facing off with the Belizean press corpstoday, but this afternoon we were informed that “scheduling conflicts” would prevent the BTL boss from the sit down. In his place appeared the company’s Washington lawyer Lanny J. Davis. Davis’s claim to fame is a two-year stint with […]
Police have ruled out foul play in the death of a Toledo man that occurred over the weekend. The body of Alfonso Che was found near a roadside in San Antonio Village Sunday afternoon. He had been drinking heavily with friends before leaving them to walk home. Initial investigations led police to believe that he […]
It may not be a new story but it is a good story: the creation of another new Belizean homeowner thanks to the diligence, hard work and common sense of a programme organised by Habitat for Humanity. Today News 5’s Jacqueline Woods was both reporter and presenter. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Today thirty-three year old Carlene […]
It is an increasingly important source of news for Belizeans at home and abroad…but of course we’re a little bit biased. What I’m talking about is our own Channel 5 website. And if you’re in the habit of logging on, tonight you’ll find a new look…and the makeover is not just cosmetic. Patrick Jones, Reporting […]
It’s one of the last remaining vestiges of the official past but now the venerable TD4 form used for filing income tax for over thirty years, may be on its way out. The form has been in existence since 1971 when the Pay As You Earn system was introduced. But those were the days of […]
On Friday UNICEF officials in Belize released their annual report on the State of the World’s Children. That the venue of the press launch was the Toledo District was no accident: Toledo, as most Belizeans know, is as poor as it is ruggedly beautiful. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The United […]
He is a popular musician, poet and songwriter, but if Kenny Morgan has his way, Belizean History will remember him as the man who sparked a mass rejection of the PUP Government. Morgan managed to make the transition from artist to frontline activist by his actions in the gallery of the National Assembly on Friday. […]
Belize’s tourism industry has received an early Christmas present, just in time for the holiday rush. On Saturday, Delta Airlines made the first of what will hopefully be many scheduled arrivals at the Philip Goldson International Airport. Experiencing the traditional inaugural wetting from the Fire Service, the Boeing 737 brought close to a hundred passengers […]
A twenty-year-old man from Georgeville in the Cayo District is dead, the victim of an apparent hit and run accident over the weekend. The body of Leonard Waight Junior was discovered around ten thirty Friday night along the side of the Western Highway just outside his village with severe injuries to the head and body. […]
The death of a Toledo man is being investigated and may be a case of murder. On Sunday afternoon, the body of forty-nine year old Alfonso Che was discovered near a bus stop in San Antonio Village. Reports are that Che had been drinking heavily with friends earlier in the day and had left the […]
Top prize in the latest Courts Gold Rush promotion climbed to fifty thousand dollars this weekend as Efrain Gomez of Ladyville stepped up to the wheel for his big spin. Here’s how it went at the Northern Highway store on Sunday morning. Rafael Martinez, Host, Courts Gold Rush ?Could you believe it? He spun and […]
James Adderley, Reporting Good evening, I?m James Adderley with this latest dish of Sports Monday. It?s championship time inside the Central Division Secondary School Basketball playoffs. So we turn to the City Centre for Friday night?s where the Anglican Cathedral College found itself in a must win situation to keep its title hopes alive having […]
Our style of democracy, modelled after the British, has many positive features and by and large continues to serve us well. But at its most basic the Westminister system is essentially a dictatorship of the ruling party. And while that enables Government to act quickly and decisively, it also means that when Government governs badly, […]
