The Senate Select Committee has asked for his head, the Prime Minister confirmed he would be fired and today Social Security Board Chairman Yasin Shoman pursued his only honourable option: he resigned. In a letter dated Saturday July fifteenth, but released to the media only this afternoon, Shoman defended government’s securitization initiative and the Board’s […]
We spoke to him in the early afternoon–before learning of the Shoman resignation–but Investigating Committee Chairman, Senator Godwin Hulse did not hesitate to offer his opinion about what should happen next. For him, it’s all about good governance. Godwin Hulse, Senator ?The next stage is of course to have the judiciary also accept and work […]
When we last visited the dispute over who should run the Corozal Free Zone–not to mention the People’s United Party and nation of Belize–P.U.P. Leader Emeritus George Price had put a lashing on outspoken Minister Mark Espat. Today, Espat’s brother-in-law and fellow minister offered his thoughts on the conflict. Cordel Hyde, Minister of Youth and […]
A fourteen month old child of Corozal Town is dead tonight, an apparent drowning victim. According to police reports, sometime around noon yesterday, twenty-three year old Alma Hall went to buy fish, leaving her son, Daniel Hall, in the care of her mother. When she returned, Daniel was nowhere to be found. Hall immediately proceeded […]
Police have been pursuing him ever since the Thursday night shooting of Dangriga businessman Orlando Habet. Now they want the public’s help. Shooting suspect Darren Chiu is accused of attempted murder and is considered armed and dangerous. If you see Chiu, also known as “Dala Coin,” please contact the nearest police station.
Rather than do hard time, tonight two women arrested for beating each other over a man have agreed to keep the peace. Sixty-four year old Ampero Burgos and fifty-seven year old Rose Lino appeared before Magistrate Robert Ordonez today and promised to stop assaulting each other. In default, both will be taken into custody. The […]
Four residents of Belize City received a scare and some cuts and bruises today when the Regent Street veranda on which they were walking, collapsed. For Allen Valdez, it all happened in a flash. Allen Valdez, Victim ?This is a building, a warehouse for Tourist Board. We were offloading some hundred boxes, these boxes right […]
Consumers already forced to cope with certain unscrupulous merchants using the implementation of G.S.T. to price gouge, now face another G.S.T. scam–this time on their electricity bills. As announced long ago, beginning July first the ten percent tax has been placed on all light bills above one hundred and fifty dollars per month. That was […]
It’s been almost one year since the launch of the XChange movement in Belize, and today XChangers from around the Caribbean gathered at the Belize City House of Culture to celebrate their achievements and plan for success. Rana Flowers, Country Representative, UNICEF Belize ?XChange is a positive movement of change for young people across the […]
With so much rain during the last month, there has been no shortage of flood stories. The latest comes from Ladyville. Robert Lightburn, Area Resident ?We are concern because we could see the water backing up in some areas where water never stayed before. So we are concern about what is happening, and we would […]
The suspense is over. After a week of waiting to hear the reaction of Prime Minister Said Musa to the recommendations of the Senate Select Committee on Social Security, this evening the P. M. released an official address to the nation. Minutes into the televised statement, he announced that all eleven suggestions made by the […]
Police have arrested one of a gang of men they believe has been terrorizing tourists in the Cayo District. The break in the case came on Monday when police say thirty six year old Guatemalan Marcus Chiquin Molina was detained by local authorities after he had crossed the border into Belize. Today police commissioner Gerald […]
The arrest of a suspect in the Cayo robberies will go a long way toward easing the fears of visitors to Belize who want to experience the wonders of the west. And while authorities are doing all they can to minimize crimes against tourists, occasionally a tourist is the one committing the crime. That’s what […]
On Monday Minister of National Development Mark Espat blitzed the airwaves with a thorough reaming of his political enemies, namely fellow Minister Ralph Fonseca and Fonseca’s alleged attack dogs, Luke Espat and Winston Smiling. Today the favour was returned in kind, by none other than the father of the nation and Leader Emeritus of the […]
Tonight we regret to announce the passing of former police commissioner Kent Haylock. Haylock died around three this morning at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Last Thursday he was rushed to the K.H.M.H. after being involved in a traffic accident that occurred earlier that day near mile eight on the Western Highway. Reports are that […]
While the Police Department is mourning its former leader, it also took time today to honour those young citizens who have defied the stereotype of disaffected youth. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting You are looking at the faces of some of young Belizean men and women who have been doing the right thing. The students, who represent […]
In the new reality of fuel prices inching uncomfortably close to eleven dollars a gallon, a disturbing trend has been affecting an increasing number of Belizean motorists: stolen gasoline. According to the Police Department, the crime is a persistent problem as victims often fail to report the crime and simply repair their vehicles, keeping fingers […]
Whatever your personal opinion, it would appear that along with those staples of rice ‘n beans, fried chicken, and politics … Belizeans love beauty pageants. Today, News Five’s Janelle Chanona presents the first of what may be many reports on this seasonal phenomenon. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This week eight young Belizean women will begin rigorous […]
For those who may not remeber, there was a time when the most prestigious vehicle a Belizean could ever hope to drive was a Land Rover. No, not a Range Rover, but that big old, slow moving, ugly and uncomfortable boxy Land Rover … the kind George Price rode in for years. But times have […]
It has been over three weeks since anyone has been brought to the morgue due to homicide … and that’s about as close to murder free as it gets in Belize these days. The latest incident to shatter the tenuous peace occurred over the weekend in Hattieville. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Family and friends still cannot […]
A post mortem scheduled for Tuesday should tell authorities what caused the death of twenty-nine year old Damian Recinos. Recinos’s motionless body was found lying next to an electric meter situated outside of the compound where he resided in the St. Martin De Porres area of Belize City. Police say based on their preliminary investigation […]
Details remain sketchy tonight but police reports to News Five are that this afternoon a badly decomposing corpse was discovered on a small caye within the Turneffe Atoll. The deceased has since been identified as thirty-eight year old Francis Longsworth of Castle Street in Belize City, employed as a watchman on Hog Island. Cause of […]
A drug deal gone wrong in Dangriga has left one resident suffering from bullet wounds and the gunman on the run. The official version, according to the police, tells a tale of businessman Orlando Habet being lured out of his St. Vincent Street home late Thursday night, taken by car to Gumagarugu Road and then […]
Tonight a Belize City man remains hospitalised following a hit and run incident on Saturday afternoon. According to police, around one Tyrone Teck was riding a bike down Currasow Street when he was knocked down at the intersection of Raccoon Street. The driver didn’t stop and when police showed up, they found the victim bleeding […]
Viewers of this broadcast are no strangers to the controversy swirling around recent elections for the board of the Corozal Free Zone. Ostensibly a fight over the rules governing proxy voting, the battle is in fact part of the growing war for the heart and soul of the People’s United Party. Today Minister Mark Espat […]
