There is still no resolution tonight to a strike in the north where cane farmers are facing lower prices for cane delivered to the B.S.I. Sugar Factory in Tower Hill. The usually long delivery lines did not form and farmers kept away for the most part. All day farmers were asked through the media not […]
City Hall and Tower Hill aren’t the only places where controversy is brewing. Word reaching News Five is that, in an unprecedented move, a student’s family has taken the administration of the all-girls Pallotti High School to court. The matter began in December when a fourth form student was expelled from the school for breaking […]
But that is not the end of things between Pallotti and Matura-Shepherd’s client since today it appeared that the school’s administration decided to keep the students indoors all day but not in regular class. Matura-Shepherd visited our newsroom late this evening to say what transpired during the course of the day and what she intends […]
Harold Crooks, a former superintendent of the Jamaica Constabulary force and former advisor to Jamaica’s Ministry of National Security was in Belize from June to November of 2008 to assess and make recommendations to improve the police department. It has been known from last year that the contents of the report was damning to the […]
But what the top brass of the police did not want to disclose in detail is that Harold Crooks recognized that the National Crime Investigation Branch lacks the infrastructural capacity to investigate and interdict complex organized crime and dangerous criminals. The mechanisms and processes for intelligence- led policing are absent. Investigators use obsolete file preparation […]
A businessman today received for the second time a sentence of seven years behind bars after a jury last week found him guilty of Manslaughter. Thirty-eight year old Edward Reyes, also known as “Mandito” who owns Prime Cut Meats on Central American Boulevard, listened as Justice Adolph Lucas handed down the sentence this morning. His […]
Police have begun an investigation in the sudden death of an infant who apparently died from head injuries. Two month old Vivanni Torres expired shortly before midday on Tuesday morning after being transported from the Progresso Village Health Centre. News Five understands that the child’s mother, Norma Solis, was inside her kitchen which is detached […]
A former Belize Defense Force volunteer soldier is behind bars tonight after he was remanded for a fire that destroyed his brother’s house on Sunday morning. And police believe that forty year old Reynaldo Solano of Pine Street, Dangriga is responsible for the Arson that occurred around seven-thirty that morning. When police and fire officials […]
Dangriga police have launched an intensive manhunt for two men following a report of rape. The victim, a nineteen year old domestic told police that at around eight-forty-five on Monday night she was on Front Street in Dangriga when the two suspects approached her and dragged her into a wooden house and had sexual intercourse […]
A prison inmate who is on remand for a firearm offense has run into additional problems for the possession of a stolen phone. Last Friday police on patrol in the King’s Park area of Belize City stumbled on Stanley Moore with an unlicensed gun. But that was just the beginning of Moore’s dilemma. That’s because […]
Earlier in the newscast we reported on the brevity of the controversial Crooks Report and at today’s conference at the Raccoon Street Police Station, police told the press that the department is turning to a new strategy to combat the alarming levels of crime. And this involves the use of technology that will balance expertise […]
It has been in the news for some time, the damages to the reef caused by the cargo ship Westerhaven which is still under arrest at Anchorage until the dispute is settled. And the news tonight from Martin Alegria, Chief Environmental Officer for the Department of Environment is that Fritz Schroeder, who was captain for […]
But in positive news, at the Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts, we found kids under the age of five testing their locomotive skills. The program has been ongoing for the past three weeks and is targeting four year old kids throughout the country. The Ministry of Education, in collaboration with NICH, says that the […]
One day after the U.D.P. City Council kicked off its municipal elections campaign attempting to show some semblance of unity, Mayor Zenaida Moya finds herself once again at the epicenter of another controversy. This time there is plenty more drama and it surrounds the adversarial Human Resources Director, Christine Perriott who was asked by the […]
We tried to get the Mayor to comment on camera… and were initially told to be at City Hall for three-thirty for the interview. When the press got there, the Mayor was meeting with her councillors and about half hour afterwards, Perriott was called in. When she left, Perriott would not comment as to what […]
And while the temperature between the mayor and Perriott has reached boiling point, the two roundabouts at opposite ends of St. Thomas Street in Belize City continue to be the topic of controversy since their construction in August of 2008. They were donated by a private sponsor following a visit to New Zealand by Mayor […]
Last week, the Government finally announced a two hundred million dollar loan package it called its “stimulus plan” to crank-up the economy that is being affected by the global downturn and the losses in projected revenue from various sectors. But it is still not clear how it will be implemented or if it will provide […]
We know from the P.U.C. that for now light bills are not going down but if you went to fill up on gas this morning, you may have noticed that you are getting less gallons of gasoline per dollar and that is because the cost of fuel is up again. As of twelve midnight, the […]
It is not known what the bill is for new vehicles acquired by G.O.B., but judging from the number of SUVs with blue license plates that are seen circulating, we can hazard that it is in the millions. And now it just went up. According to a release from the Ministry of Works, nine new […]
The final figures for damages caused to Belize’s Barrier reef was officially released today by Martin Alegria, Chief Environmental Officer for the Ministry of Natural Resources. And the numbers have gone up considerably; in fact, almost doubled. The initial damage estimate was fifteen million U.S. dollars and Alegria says that there were other factors to […]
It is one of the largest chain stores around the country, Courts Belize, and it is known for its deals, but still some felt that the best deal was to steal. The Belize City warehouse was burglarized over the weekend and neither the security guards nor the surveillance cameras could deter the thieves who got […]
He went on a rampage after a domestic dispute, but now Jimmy Singh is facing the consequences. The twenty-nine year old appeared in court today, charged with four counts of Aggravated Assault. One count is for pointing a gun to the chest of Kimberly Westby, while the other three stem from shooting at three police […]
Channel Five’s Hit Game Show Tek It or Leave It has offered the opportunity to audience members the chance to win thousands in cash. But the big cash prize of ten thousand dollars is still up for grabs. The seventh contestant was forty-six year old Jesus Aguilar, a salesman of Santiago Castillo Limited who went […]
The customs department has been working overtime with bogus goods coming in from many fronts, and as recent as last week, it busted a container of fake Marlboro cigarettes valued in the millions of dollars. There are many enterprising individuals and businesses that offer contraband goods for sale. Some people feel they are getting a […]
It is political season and around the country both the incumbent U.D.P. and the opposition Peoples United Party, are on the campaign trail for the March fourth poll. As the election heats up, the buzz words of transparency and accountability are resonating as audits of town and city councils are still pending and accusations of […]
