Government has announced its appointments to the Social Security Board. According to a release from the Ministry of Finance Lois Young is the new chair of the board, wile Ariel Mitchell, Paul Jones, Natalie Goff and Dennis Jones have been appointed as members. Rounding out the board are Trade Union Congress nominees Dylan Reneau and […]
Two of the three candidates vying for the leadership of the Peoples’ United Party have issued press releases casting aspersions on their opponents. John Briceño reacted to reports carried on this newscast last night regarding concessions made by the party secretariat, calling them contrary to the P.U.P. constitution, presumably because the constitution has not yet […]
Tonight a Belize City family is offering a reward of one thousand dollars for information on the whereabouts of a teenager reported missing a week ago. Seventeen year old Anthony Joshua Roches was last seen around eight last Wednesday night, riding the handle bars of a friend’s bike and heading towards a home off Mahogany […]
If you like literature but don’t exactly consider yourself a poet, the Belizean Poets Society is broadening its reach to include you as a member. Established in 2005, the group re-registered at the Belize Companies Registry and is now known as the Belizean Writers and Poets Society. Director of Operations for the Society, Kalilah Enriquez, […]
On Saturday, the Women’s Department will kick off its weeklong celebration and one of their first activities will be a countrywide bike rally. In Belize City, the ride starts at Western Avenue, winds its way down Central American Boulevard and Caesar Ridge Road, Regent Street, over the Swing Bridge to Queen Street, ending at the […]
One day after we aired a story that last week’s lotto winner had not claimed the big prize, the lucky ticket holder has stepped forward … and told us he discovered his good fortune by watching News Five. Javier Hoy showed up at the Tropical Gaming office with his wife and father to collect his […]
When we last left Archie Lee he had just had his entire liquor inventory confiscated and was threatened legal action from a number of quarters. Today, News Five’s Janelle Chanona stayed with the story. Janelle Chanona This morning Belize City businessman Archie Lee was formally charged with common assault and granted bail of three hundred […]
While the Lee case is dominating the headlines, the issue of the Putt Putt Bar and Grill’s liquor license is still simmering on the back burner. But the latest development is that there are no developments in the case. Leila Peyrefitte, City Councillor, External Revenue “Mr. Elrington has given me his word that he will […]
The financial secretary is still waiting for a letter from the Venezuelan government to clear up what thus far amounts to a ten million dollar mystery. Despite a press release issued today which chides the new government for “playing political games”, leaders of the defeated P.U.P. administration have yet to offer an explanation as to […]
The P.U.P. however, has been more forthcoming on the issue of the selection of a new leader. According to the party secretariat, they have not only agreed to circulate the delegate list in advance of the convention, but will do so on March fourteenth, over two weeks before the gathering. That convention will begin at […]
And in news of more government appointments, media reports indicate that the new C.E.O. of the Social Security Board is none other than Merlene Bailey Martinez. Bailey Martinez was in the spotlight for many months last year as a member, then co-chair of the Commission of Inquiry into the Development Finance Corporation. Her legal advisor […]
Thirty-one year old Cruz Seren, a Belizean clothes vendor, charged with Manslaughter by Negligence, pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of Causing Death by Careless Conduct today in the court of Justice Herbert Lord. Instead of giving her a custodial sentence, Lord fined her two thousand, five hundred dollars. He ordered Seren to pay half […]
San Pedro police are questioning the common-law wife of a man who was stabbed to death last Friday night or early Saturday morning inside his yard. Twenty-six year old Rafael Canti was found dead around five Saturday morning by the same woman who told police that she found his body when she opened her door […]
He’s one of Belize’s best known businessmen and a regular contributor to people and causes in need. But these are not good times for Archie Lee and today he’s lashing out. News Five’s Janelle Chanona has the story. Alice Lee, Daughter, Archie Lee “Waste of time. This is waste of time.” Dickie Bradley, Attorney “This […]
It has been celebrated since the 1970s and on Saturday the Women’s Department will once again launch its annual Women’s Week. According to acting department director, Icilda Humes, 2008’s theme of “Women: Equal Partners in Belize’s Development” focuses on the significant impacts the gender has had on all aspects of society. Icilda Humes, Acting Director, […]
With the primary and high school drop-out rate clearly in need of improvement, two non-profit groups from Belize and the U.S. have joined forces to do their part to make a difference in the lives of school-aged children. The newly formed local group, Rhythm of Change or R.O.C., is made up of staff primarily from […]
Someone out there has a piece of paper that’s worth ninety five thousand dollars and may not know it. He or she hit all five numbers in last Wednesday night’s Lotto draw but has yet to claim the prize. Those numbers drawn were: 09,12,18,19, and 33. Holding on to a winning ticket for a few […]
The Mennonites of Belize are often lumped together in the public mind as a monolithic group of pink skinned men and women who wear bib overalls and long dresses and drive around in horse drawn buggies. And while a number of traditional communities in Shipyard, Little Belize and Barton Creek fit that description, the majority […]
It’s a situation that either has a very logical explanation or somebody has a lot of explaining to do. That’s the general feeling in Belmopan tonight as investigations continue into a letter that surfaced late last week from the Venezuelan government asking Belize to give account of twenty million US dollars, not ten as had […]
And while the Barrow administration is calling for an explanation from Said Musa and members of the former Cabinet, the People’s United Party is focusing on internal matters, that is the election of a new party leader. On Friday Francis Fonseca was one of three candidates nominated to succeed Said Musa. Like his opponents, today […]
The Chalillo dam was designed to produce electricity but the project has been a consistent source of legal controversy. In the latest case, a citizens group based in the Cayo district is asking the Chief Justice of Belize to order the Department of Environment to enforce the law. According to the members of the Belize […]
On Friday he was featured in the San Pedro Sun as one the island’s up and coming businessmen but tonight twenty-six year old Rafael Canti is dead. According to investigators, the manager of the newly established Segway of Belize Company was killed by a long, sharp object, quite possibly an ice pick, which penetrated his […]
A security guard is lucky to be alive tonight after he was shot three times in a drive-by shooting. Twenty-four year old Albert Foreman told police that he was riding his bicycle in Buttonwood Bay around four on Saturday morning when he was attacked. According to the victim, a maroon Ford Escort pulled up behind […]
More than a month after a traffic accident claimed the lives of two people, police have arrested and charged one of the drivers involved. Fifty-seven year old Hopkins resident Charles Rubio has been charged with two counts of Manslaughter by Negligence, two counts of Causing Death by Careless Conduct, Drove Motor Vehicle without Due Care […]
A Cayo man who pled guilty to Incest has been sentenced to spend six years behind bars. To protect the victim, the forty year old’s name is being withheld but when the Camalote villager appeared before Justice Herbert Lord he said he turned to drugs and drink when he found out his wife was having […]
