Following introductions of the members of the Government side of the National Assembly to President Fox…and of the Mexican delegation to Belize’s Prime Minister Said Musa, the Mexican head of state made time for a meet and greet with the students of La Escuela Secundaria de Mexico. The President’s official motorcade would then travel to […]
Following the announcement of plans by the Mexican oil giant PEMEX to open a gas station in Belize, this afternoon Prime Minister Said Musa was upbeat on the prospects for competition in the fuel sector. Prime Minister Said Musa ?As you know, the oil price situation is a very difficult one for our countries, not […]
Next on the itinerary was a business luncheon at the George Price Centre. Speaking on behalf of Belize’s private sector was Dr. Louis Zabaneh, Chairman of the Board at the University of Belize. Dr. Louis Zabaneh, Chairman, U.B. Board ?Even though our imports from Mexico were four point four times that of our exports to […]
President Vicente Fox’s final official act in Belmopan was at the National Assembly as he addressed a joint sitting of the House of Representatives and Senate. Welcoming the President was Prime Minister Said Musa, House Speaker Elizabeth Zabaneh, Senate President Phillip Zuniga, and Leader of the Opposition Dean Barrow. Prime Minister Said Musa ?Mr. President, […]
One of those Belize City meetings would be with Opposition Leader Dean Barrow, whose party decided not to boycott today’s sitting of the National Assembly out of respect for the Mexican President. But while Barrow put on a good face for Vicente Fox, he told News 5 that peace talks held on Monday with the […]
Searchers continue to comb the banks and bays of Placencia Lagoon in an effort to find Clifford Atherley. Atherley and his son were among six people thrown out of a skiff Saturday night following its collision with another vessel. Four people were rescued, but the body of Atherley’s five-year-old son, Nigel, was discovered yesterday afternoon […]
He was acquitted of murder almost a year ago, but twenty-two year old Avondale Trumbach will once again face a jury of his peers and the possibility of the hangman’s noose. The reason is a ruling by the Court of Appeal that the Supreme Court’s rejection of a written statement from a witness who died […]
In other court news, forty-five year old David Dakers, charged with murder, has been found incompetent to stand trial due to mental illness. On Monday, the jury of twelve men and women heard the testimony of psychiatrist Dr. Roy Lopez who described Dakers as suffering from bipolar disorder. The defendant, he said, is prone to […]
Tonight, someone you know is one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars richer… even though he or she may not even know it. The money was won in last Wednesday’s lotto draw and since then no one has come forward to claim the hefty prize. So, if you remember buying tickets for June twenty-second, you are […]
It was a huge crowd that descended on the Michael Ashcroft Stadium in Independence for what proved to be the final game in the national professional football championship. And while rain made that field a soggy mess it also made the post-game boat ride across the lagoon for hundreds of fans from Placencia both uncomfortable […]
The crash of two boats at Placencia was not the weekend’s only fatal accident. A collision around seven-forty Sunday morning on the Western Highway claimed the life of a Belmopan woman and severely injured her child. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Police say forty-three year old Roy Alex Bennett, a Guatemalan National, who was driving this Prado […]
A Belize City man was shot to death over the weekend, the victim of an apparent robbery. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Forty-three year old Cleophus Lambey had just left the Lion King Club on King Street and was making his way home sometime after midnight on Friday night when it […]
A man convicted of stealing a bag of chips has been sentenced to five years in prison. Thirty-seven year old John Hernandez of Tigris Street pleaded guilty to charges of burglary which arose from an incident on the night of June fifth when he stuck his hand inside a louvered window at Grace Primary School […]
He stands to lose two hundred thousand dollars in bail money, but that prospect did not stop Hassan El-Sayed from missing his date as a defendant in the Supreme Court. El-Sayed, charged with one hundred and seventeen counts of various forgery-related crimes connected to the passport scandal, failed to show this morning before Justice Adolph […]
The sale of government’s shares in B.T.L. to Michael Ashcroft may have to wait a few more days as today the Chief Justice granted an injunction applied for by the B.T.L. Workers Trust which prevents the sale of any shares until the court decides the merits of the substantive case, which begins on Tuesday. That […]
His last trip to Belize was way back in August of 2000, when he had just been elected president, but had not yet donned the sash of office. Come tomorrow, however, Vicente Fox will arrive on Belizean soil as President of Mexico. And while his first and likely only official visit to this country will […]
Their big Surprize draw was delayed due to inclement weather, but that did not stop the folks at Courts handing out some “good ting.” Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Today five charitable organisations received some much needed supplies from Courts Belize Limited. The donation is part of the furniture and electrical store?s tenth […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley with this week?s serving of Sports Monday. Game two of the Regent?s Cup three-game championship series between Juventus of Orange Walk and defending champion Sagitun moved to Independence Saturday night. As you look at your picture we must inform you that this is not a weather update, but the actual […]
All motorists in Belize are feeling the weight of exorbitant fuel rates due to the high percentage of tax being paid into the government’s coffers every time they fill their tanks. But now Belize City taxi drivers report they are facing yet another tax, this time on the use of city streets. News Five spoke […]
Although they were informed in March that the Court of Appeal was dismissing their appeal, it was not until today that the notorious duo, Leslie Pipersburg and Patrick Robateau were told why. The majority decision of Justices Elliott Motley and Boyd Carey read “We are satisfied that despite the duration of the trial and its […]
A woman who thought her trouble with the law was over, will have to return to court for a new trial. Delita Chavez, who was charged along with her mother for her role in the 2004 chopping of Kimberley Myers, had her abetment to dangerous harm charge dismissed earlier this year by Justice Adolph Lucas. […]
The Police Department has destroyed over one thousand exhibits from concluded cases. The exhibits, which date back over five years, include sacks full of marijuana, several bags of cocaine, over one hundred crack pipes, and parcels of white marl disguised as cocaine. All were burned in a furnace in the Cayo District this morning. Witnessing […]
Twelve years after the second largest national park in the country was established, a plan to better manage the forty-two thousand acre tract of land has been signed. The agreement is between the Sarstoon Temash National Park and the Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management in the Toledo District. It is intended to enhance the […]
It’s a story that made international headlines: an apparently respectable New York City businesswoman accused of smuggling thousands of Chinese immigrants into the United States, holding them hostage, and laundering the ransom money. Even worse, Cheng Chui Ping was accused of participating in the 1993 ill-fated Golden Venture that left ten Chinese nationals dead in […]
Today Ladyville police released Jesus Aguirre, the farm worker from a cattle ranch where four-year-old Rudy Misael Lopez disappeared five days ago. Aguirre had reported receiving a phone call sometime on Monday night from a man who claimed to be holding the child and saying the boy was still alive. This information led police to […]
