On successive days this week we have seen Said Musa present his party’s thirty-one candidates and Dean Barrow introduce his party’s slate of equal number. Today it was the turn of Vision Inspired by the People, a Belmopan based third party that after contesting three consecutive municipal elections in the nation’s capital, believes it is […]
Just in case you had your doubts about the evacuation of Guatemalans from the illegal settlement of Santa Rosa, the Organization of American States has confirmed what our own Foreign Ministry has been saying since last week. That is, on January fourth the first eight families began to move to new homes in Guatemala near […]
Exact numbers are still hard to come by but word out of the capital city tonight is that the wave of people lining up to become Belizeans continued today. According to reporters at Plus TV in Belmopan, the crowd was only slightly smaller than yesterday but we can confirm that the applicants are being brought […]
It may be Belize’s first murder of the year, but for now we’ll wait and see as Corozal police are trying to ascertain the identity of what appears to be charred human remains found in a burnt cane field about a mile north of Xaibe Village. On Monday January seventh, police were called to the […]
Less than two months ago Therese Felix lost her second of five sons to gun violence. Today a third son is recuperating from bullet wounds in the second attempt on his life. The incident occurred sometime after nine last night while twenty year old Kenroy Bennett was at a friend’s house on Jane Usher Boulevard. […]
He was originally charged with extortion and today a second charge was laid against thirty-three year old Lionel Castillo. Castillo, who is the former Investigator in the Office of the Ombudsman, appeared in Magistrates’ Court on a charge of Agreement for Influencing an Officer. The allegation is that on June seventeenth, 2007, Castillo accepted five […]
Thirty-two year old business man Ellington Ottley Sr., who was charged with Drug Trafficking on Monday, was back in court today for a similar offence. Ottley and a sixteen year old minor were charged in connection with four hundred and sixty-seven grams of cannabis that police reported they found at Buy Low Fashion Boutique on […]
Another businessman was reportedly swindled out of a large amount of cash and police are looking for the perpetrator. According to thirty-five year old Yuan Qing Situ, sometime around three on Tuesday afternoon he was at Atlantic Restaurant on the Northern Highway when a man he knew only as “Ali” offered to change Belize currency […]
As we reported, tomorrow is the last day to register to vote in the February seventh General Elections. But if you’re eighteen years old and have not been motivated enough to sign up, you might change your mind after hearing this offer. The University of Belize Association of Student Government has embarked on a nationwide […]
It’s not uncommon to hear about government or N.G.O. sponsored initiatives to provide skills training for young people. What is rare however, is evidence that the programmes are working. Today News Five’s Kendra Griffith dropped in on a project that’s trying hard to get the best advice possible. Eddie Bouloy, Youth Business Trust Mentor “As […]
