Officially, Valentine’s Day was two days ago but don’t tell that to local concert promoters who say this weekend’s show at the Belize City Centre will be the music event of the year. What makes their line-up different from the list of international artists to visit Belize is the fact that one of the headliners […]
Since the M and M Tour of Belize started last weekend, participating cyclists have had to deal with blistering heat, blinding fog, driving rain, and of course fierce competition … But as the News Five sports team reports, today the men in tights had to reckon with high speed in the hills. Janelle Chanona, Reporting […]
First the good news: It wasn’t a big commercial jetliner and no one was seriously hurt. But the bad news is that a serious plane crash occurred at the P.G.I.A. just before ten this morning. The Air Traffic Control Tower had just given clearance for the twin engine Beechcraft to land at the Philip Goldson […]
As News Five was covering the plane crash, an ambulance arrived at the airport carrying sixty year old Patricia Tate. Tate is the tourist whose pelvis was fractured in two places on January thirty-first after one of the tourism village’s heavy steel gates fell on the cruise ship visitor. Tate was rushed to Universal Health […]
Around one this afternoon police officers raided the home of Mark Seawell in the Belama area of Belize City. Seawell was taken from the house in handcuffs, along with a number of items including what appeared to be a military style backpack. Police press officer G. Michael Reid confirmed that Seawell has been detained in […]
The Novelo brothers, Tony and David, have a beef with the D.F.C. Commission of Inquiry … and while that certainly isn’t news, what is news is that today they filed a suit in the Supreme Court to shut down the entire proceeding. According to papers lodged today, they are alleging that under statutory instrument one […]
As we reported earlier this week, the task force mandated to review the operations of the Universal Health Services Group has recommended that Government appoint an interim board to assess the viability of the institution. Taking that advice, Belmopan has named Henry Anderson as chairman; Dr. Peter Allen as Chief Executive Officer; and Evelyn Deeks, […]
Today K.H.M.H. Chief of Staff Alvaro Rosado responded to reports that the hospital was out of important medical supplies. Dr. Alvaro Rosado, Chief Executive Officer, K.H.M.H. “I’ve been here for six years and there’s never been a day when this hospital has not been short of one thing or the other. Nothing is different now. […]
A Belizean moneychanger working at the Santa Elena border in Corozal is lucky to be alive tonight following an armed robbery on Wednesday night. According to police reports, twenty-eight year old Wilbert Linares was working at the border around seven last night when a man carrying a handgun walked up to him and demanded his […]
A release from Cabinet indicates that government has now finalised its draft budget for the 2007/2008 fiscal year, which begins on April first. That budget will be presented to the House of Representatives on March second with the debate set for March fifteenth and sixteenth. According to the release, details will be discussed next week […]
In the country this week are tourism representatives from across Central America. The purpose of their visit is to discuss and approve the Tourism Semester Plan, which Belize will be spearheading as part of our responsibilities as Pro Tem President of SICA, the Central American Integration System. This afternoon Minister of Tourism Godfrey Smith officially […]
Seven months after an ad hoc group was formed in reaction to the imposition of G.S.T. on land transactions, today the Association of Real Estate Brokers of Belize held its first annual general meeting. Having successfully formulated a common sense approach on the tax issue, the members are now working together to assist Belmopan in […]
It has often been said that the most important quality needed to compete in the global economy is an entrepreneurial spirit. And while Belizeans are no strangers to hustling for a living, most of us are not necessarily born with all the tools to create and sustain successful business ventures. That’s why one private sector […]
He’s been following the race since last weekend and here’s James Adderley’s latest daily take on the M and M Tour of Belize. James Adderley, Reporting Orson Butler works the early morning on the trainer wheels and in fact the only true Belizean team in the 2007 M and M Engineering Tour on day six […]
The city’s delivery boys were hard at work today, but not all of them carried flowers and chocolate, because as News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports, there was no love in two letters sent by messenger this morning to the D.F.C. Commission of Inquiry. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Today, former C.E.O. of the Development Finance Corporation, Troy […]
The showdown between rival ownership factions anticipated for Friday morning at B.T.L. headquarters will not materialize as scheduled. According to a press release issued by Jeffery Prosser’s Innovative Communication Company, the meeting, called to reassert the minority shareholder’s alleged rights, has been rescheduled for Thursday, February twenty-second at the Princess Hotel. The reason cited for […]
A man who was shot in the head not only survived the attack but has discharged himself from the hospital. Police say that on Tuesday night, they visited the K.H.M.H. where they found twenty-three year old Anthony Crawford suffering from gunshot injuries to the left side of his face and back of the head. Because […]
An armed robbery in the downtown area has resulted in the arrest of a Belize City car washer. According to court reports, this morning thirty-five year old Andrew August was charged with robbery, aggravated assault and use of deadly means of harm. He appeared before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers today where he pled not guilty, was […]
There is also news from the Magistrate’s Court that a man who pled guilty to shooting at another man has been fined and released. According to twenty one year old Darwin Rocke, he was in his yard on Monday night feeding his dogs. At some point he looked up only to see two armed men […]
If you spent what seems like hours stuck in Belize City traffic today, rest assured you were not alone. It seems that a combination of five cruise ships in the harbour, and a whole lot of Belizeans heading out for a Valentine’s lunch resulted in major gridlock on the narrow streets of the old capital. […]
And speaking of traffic, today a memorandum of understanding was signed between the Government of Belize and the San Pedro Town Council in which G.O.B. granted three point eight million dollars for street rehabilitation. According to a government press release, the project was conceived several months ago by members of the business community, and is […]
The Belize City Council may be involved in some hard bargaining with central government over high finance, but there’s actually a softer side to the Mayor and council … and that’s what we saw today downtown. Zenaida Moya, Belize City Mayor “We knew that we always had to remember that many of us cannot always […]
Not a week, or in some cases not even a day, goes by without some politician or other public figure loudly proclaiming the need to do something for Belize’s young people. Today that call was repeated, but the pitch was not for any grandiose government sponsored project … just a little love. News Five’s Kendra […]
He’s not wearing the yellow jersey, but tonight Belizean cyclist Gregory Lovell is feeling on top of the world as this morning his sprint beat out a field of local and international competitors to claim his third stage win in the M and M Tour of Belize. News Five’s James Adderley has been following the […]
What began as a routine termination of employees of Belize Telecommunications Limited is now threatening to deteriorate into full scale industrial action on February twenty-second. Tonight executives of the Belize Communication Workers Union maintain that while B.T.L. can hire or fire at its discretion, it must do so within the terms of the collective bargaining […]
