Tonight the future of the strike launched by Belize’s labour movement appears to be on shaky ground as the unions stayed uncharacteristically quiet today, holding a series of closed-door strategy meetings, presumably to plan their next move. But News Five understands that there are currently no public protests or demonstrations in the pipeline for the […]
Meanwhile, Collet Area Representative Patrick Faber was today formally arraigned in Belmopan Magistrate’s Court on two counts of aggravated assault. The charges arose out of an incident in the nation’s capital on Thursday afternoon when Faber scuffled with police as he tried to gain entrance to a forum hosted by students of the University of […]
And in all the confusion, what was lost was the reason for everyone being in Belmopan in the first place: an appearance by Prime Minister Said Musa. Here’s what he had to say about negotiations with the B.T.L. workers and other unions. Prime Minister Said Musa ?And in the past few days those negotiations have […]
In the course of this week we have reported on several occasions that the teachers strike has been largely ineffective as the vast majority of the nation’s educators have reported to work. But while on the surface the school system has returned to normal, a closer look at certain institutions reveal that in many classrooms […]
San Ignacio police are tonight working with their Guatemalan counterparts in connection with the discovery of the body of a man in the Mopan River on Thursday. According to authorities, around two-thirty on Thursday afternoon, officers visited an area of Riverbank near the village of Succotz, where they retrieved the corpse of a Hispanic man […]
And in news of another death, we regret to report that four-year-old Eric Arzu has succumbed to the liver disorder that has plagued him since only months after his birth. On Tuesday, we reported on last-ditch efforts to arrange a liver transplant, and while we received numerous offers to help as a result of that […]
It’s been almost three years since the now infamous passport scandal rocked the Immigration Department. So far only a store clerk from Odette?s, Therese Cabral, has been found guilty of any wrongdoing. But now it seems one of the passport agents is actually headed for trial at the Supreme Court. Today the preliminary inquiry into […]
It was almost a festive mood today at the Customs Department as owners of vehicles confiscated almost three months ago for alleged duty evasion finally drove their cars home. Apparently, whatever difficulties they encountered yesterday in getting a member of staff to sign off on the required documents was overcome. The owners report that in […]
As many of the nation’s students prepare for the C.X.C. and the P.S.E., students from the Pallotti Music School just got the results of an examination they took… and not only did they pass, their high notes brought high marks. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The Pallotti Music School is pleased to announce that not only have […]
As thousands of students from all over the country get ready to graduate and inundate the job market, one local personnel firm is launching a community service project to help the unemployed find work. According to officials of Fusion HR in Belize City, the project called Career Quest will feature several phases. The first segment […]
He’s a veteran of the Belizean music scene, but filled with the energy of someone just starting out. Bredda David, the creator of Kungo music and whose songs are perennial favourites, has added yet another recording to his list of accomplishments. This week he stopped by News Five to give us a little taste of […]
They have largely been silent on the major issues that are so seriously dividing the country, but on May first, one group of religious leaders is coming out and urging all of us to join them. The event is called Belizeans Pray 2005. Coordinator Margarita Quan says it’s an interdenominational effort designed to offer a […]
Due to a public and bank holiday on Monday in celebration of Labour Day there will be no news broadcast. The next newscast will be on Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005.
Who would have thunk it. Peace breaks out in usually boisterous Benque Viejo while the oh so laid back capital of Belmopan hosts a riot. News Five’s Patrick Jones and cameraman Brent Toombs are just back from the wild wild west and report that when it comes to protest, Belize City does not have a […]
Meanwhile in Benque Viejo, a union rally this morning had protesters looking positively well behaved. Anthony Fuentes, President, B.N.T.U. ?Today we are out here to show and let the government of the day know that the National Trade Union Congress of Belize will take back Belize. Belize belongs to Belizeans and we are tired of […]
The British Government has announced today its plans to contribute almost a million Belize dollars to the O.A.S. Peace Fund. That fund was established by the Organization of American States as a means of pooling the financial resources of the international community in order to implement projects along the border between Belize and Guatemala. This […]
It is left to our imagination to determine exactly what happened on a bus travelling through the Stann Creek District, but tonight a U.S. resident of Hopkins is missing a whole lot of money. Lois Chandler told police that she was conned out of fifty-five thousand dollars in cheques, four thousand five hundred dollars in […]
A police officer injured in a traffic accident on Tuesday afternoon lies in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Twenty-one year old Leroy Kerr was off duty when the Mazda he was driving collided with a Mitsubishi Montero near mile fifty-one on the Western Highway. The other driver, Henry Barrera, a Guatemalan missionary, […]
After almost three months of having their vehicles gathering dust in the Customs yard in Belize City, a number of owners had hoped to drive their late model S.U.V.’s and pickups home today. But although the appropriate documents were finally ready, the petitioners were told yet again: come back tomorrow, as no officer wanted to […]
“You’ve got to get in it to win it” is their motto, but with downed telecommunication lines, no one could get it. But the phones are back and so is the Lotto. Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Today, the machines have been ringing at the Lotto office since the announcement that the popular […]
An old Bob Dylan song tells us that you don’t need a weatherman to tell you which way the wind is blowing…and Belizeans certainly don’t need a television newscast to tell them that the country is in the grip of a nationwide drought. What News Five’s Jacqueline Woods can tell you, however, is how serious […]
The destruction that occurred in downtown Belize City last Wednesday night was accomplished in a matter of minutes. The rebuilding, however, has taken longer. This morning I visited Albert Street where the sound of commerce had replaced that of breaking glass. Leopoldo Silva, Owner, Venus Photos and Records ?I?m very optimistic that we will get […]
The nationwide strike called by the teachers and civil servant unions appears to be fizzling as schools across the country were back in full session, and a large majority of public officers were at their workstations. What could be causing the apparent lack of support for the proposed shut down? Union leaders were tied up […]
And while the unions ponder their next move, the embattled government is also trying to figure out how to deal with a protest movement that seems to have more lives than a cat. This afternoon Minister of Foreign Affairs, Tourism, and Information, Godfrey Smith, spoke with News Five’s Stewart Krohn, who asked him what kind […]
The educational forum had been scheduled from weeks ago, but with loud and persistent calls for new elections, today’s presentation by the Elections and Boundaries Department could not have been more appropriate. Janelle Chanona, Reporting After more than a year of extensive fieldwork, and the passage in the National Assembly, this morning the Elections and […]
