While the big boys sort out their multi-million dollar differences, consumers on the ground still face the uncertainty spawned by the February first tax increases and their subsequent–perhaps temporary–repeal. Today I went out on a shopping trip and found that while most prices have returned to January levels, some people have been left holding the […]
The Ministry of education has announced that, due to the disruption of classes over the last two weeks, the Primary School Examination has been rescheduled. The new dates are Monday, April eleventh for English Language and Science and Monday, May ninth for Math and Social Studies. Registration deadline is Friday, February eleventh. Today Minister of […]
He may be tied up all this week trying to negotiate a settlement in the dispute between Government and the unions but that doesn’t mean GOB negotiator and Minister of National Development Assad Shoman will have a restful weekend. In fact he’ll be heading to Miami, this time for negotiations with Guatemala. According to a […]
A Belize City man who was shot in the neck five days ago has succumbed to his injuries. Stanley Coleman died early Tuesday morning at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. He was shot in the neck last Thursday afternoon during an altercation with another man in the area of Welch Street. Police say they initially […]
And while Belize City figures heavily in the recent crime wave, the seaside municipality is not the only hot spot. Incidents that were left unreleased by the police press office–but were reported in the U.S. media–involve the robbery of tourists who rent canoes on the Macal River in the vicinity of San Ignacio. One highly […]
In the mood for a celebration? No, not Valentine?s but an equally symbolic occasion, especially for those Belizeans of Chinese extraction. It?s the start of the Year of the Chicken, and as Chinese around the world prepare to ring in the New Year, President of the Belize Chinese Association Lee Mark Chang says this time […]
The temperature in the old capital, the new capital and many other parts of the country dropped several degrees today….and it had nothing to do with any passing cold front. With teachers and government workers back on the job and members of utility unions labouring to provide service instead of disrupt it, the tensions of […]
And back to those negotiations. Just before newstime Patrick Jones reported that government and union negotiators, seen here entering the Central Bank shortly after one this afternoon, were still trying to hammer out the final wording of a nine-point agreement. According to a release yesterday from the NTUCB, despite his expressions of willingness to personally […]
Police have arrested two people in connection with separate shootings late last week that left one man dead and another fighting for his life. Twenty year old Kenneth Dobson is accused of shooting to death twenty-three year old Jermaine Barrow last Friday afternoon. According to police reports, Barrow was hanging out at the corner of […]
Separate shooting incidents over the weekend in Belize City sent two people to the hospital, a businessman to police lockup and authorities searching for one of the trigger men. Thirty two year old Robert Buckley of Castle Street in Belize City told authorities that around five thirty on Sunday evening, he went to a shop […]
It was one of many stories lost in the rush of last week’s events, but on Friday afternoon, while government negotiators were explaining their position to the press, across town a family was losing its home. Patrick Jones caught up with that tragedy this afternoon. Patrick Jones, Reporting Brenda Augustine could only stand and watch […]
James Adderley, Reporting Good evening I?m James Adderley right back at you with another fresh portion of Sports Monday. Week III of the Regents Cup Tournament brought the long awaited Belize City Southside derby to the MCC Grounds as newcomer, Kremandala Lake, played host to former champion Kulture Yabra yesterday and we certainly advise you […]
If it is clarity you are seeking in tonight’s newscast please be forewarned; the situation is as confused as ever. The bottom line is that no agreement has been officially signed to end any industrial action by any of the nation’s labour unions and to our knowledge no new negotiations are scheduled. Add to the […]
With the militant core of the teachers union clearly out of sync with its leadership and the prospect of schools opening on Friday melting like an ideal dropped on a hot pavement, the stage was set this morning for union members and their supporters to take to the streets. Patrick Jones reports that the march […]
The plague of deadly violence that has infected the city–particularly its south side–shows no signs of coming under control. Once again today, like a number of times earlier in the week, I was called to witness the bloody aftermath. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Twenty-three year old Jermaine Barrow was at his usual hang out spot at […]
Twenty-five year old Marlon Fisher remains in a critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Fisher, who is unable to breathe on his own due to gunshot wounds to the chest and lower back, is being assisted with a ventilator machine. As the Fisher family hopes for the best, Belize City police have arrested […]
On Thursday, a twelve-year-old girl walked into the Orange Walk police station and told the authorities that since November twenty eighth she has been living and having sex with twenty five year old cane cutter Ernesto Magana. No, it was not a case of a run away child falling into a premature romance. According to […]
One holds an impressive resume with stints as a politician, historian, diplomat, cabinet minister and Prime Minister’s best friend. The other is an expert in public finance and administration, former Deputy Secretary General of CARICOM and current financial secretary. Together Assad Shoman and Dr. Carla Barnett form Government’s frontline negotiating team in the current dispute […]
This morning, there appeared to be some light at the end of the tunnel for those hoping for a resolution to the nation’s ongoing labour and civic turmoil, but as the afternoon wore on clarity was in short supply. Here’s a running diary of the day’s events. Janelle Chanona, Reporting It was a fish bowl […]
While union members were reading the fine print of a proposed settlement and callers to Belize’s many radio talk shows exchanged verbal barbs, young men on the streets of Belize City were settling some disputes of their own…News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting We are not certain if it was a bench […]
A fifteen-year-old boy from San Antonio village in Cayo has drowned in the Macal River. According to Benque police, Elias Tzib and his twenty six year old cousin Aniceto, went on a fishing trip near Duploy’s Resort on Wednesday morning. On the return journey, however, Elias complained of cramps while they were swimming across the […]
He was financial officer for the Western Border Management Agency in Cayo, but tonight twenty nine year old Edwardo Raul Ayala is settling into the comfort of Her Majesty’s prison in Hattieville. Ayala was arrested this week after a report from his former employer that over thirteen thousand dollars went missing under his watch in […]
While Belizeans at home and abroad have been focussed on events in the streets and around the negotiating table we have not failed to notice the achievements of our favourite NBA player. Last night was a big one for Belize’s Milt Palacio. the backup guard who has started the last two games for the Toronto […]
Belize recently witnessed an outpouring of financial support for a young man in need of a kidney transplant. And while such spontaneous efforts are testimony to the community’s generous spirit, a regular programme for heart patients has been saving lives for years. News 5’s Patrick Jones reports from the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Alberto Young, […]
The ante has been raised in the ongoing dispute between Belize’s labour movement and the government as the Christian Workers Union has joined the strike and the National Trade Union Congress of Belize has given Belmopan an ultimatum. That ultimatum says that if the demands for a rollback of new taxes and the granting of […]
