A single mother from Armenia Village on the Hummingbird Highway is taking the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Natural Resources, Gaspar Vega, to court after he cancelled a lease to the land she has occupied since 1997. Four lawyers appeared in court this morning when the case got underway. In addition to Vega, Edna […]
With Witz removed, the remaining defendant is Minister Vega. But while Hubert Elrington will have to wait to how the next ruling affects his client, Joaquina Smith, both Mckoy for Samayoa and Douglas Carr for Vega expressed confidence. Douglas Carr, Attorney for Minister of Lands “We did nothing unlawful or there was no abuse of […]
And on the issue of lands, News Five reported last week on mounting allegations about instances of alleged corruption at the Ministry of Natural Resources where according to one newspaper, quote “the bribes have become substantially bigger for services that should be free.” Unquote. While the response from GOB has been dismissive for most part, […]
A U.S. national who was charged for last week’s attempted robbery of San Hill Gas Station Grocery Store is in more trouble tonight and is now facing a string of additional charges. On Monday the book was thrown at eighteen year old Nathaniel Bowen Jr. and he was slapped with twelve new charges: three counts […]
A father and son appeared in Magistrates’ Court today along with two other accused, and were promptly charged with Aggravated Burglary. Wayne Herrera senior and junior, Leon Yorke and Martin Ramirez all pleaded not guilty to the offence. While Wayne junior, Yorke and Ramirez were offered bail of four thousand dollars and had their case […]
And in crime news up north, a business in the Corozal Free Zone was busted between six and nine this past Monday morning. The store named the Multi Marcas Company is now short of some ten thousand dollars in cash and items. Thirty-seven year old Manager, Alma Quan, reported to police that upon reaching her […]
There is a developing story reaching News 5 that a private house is being built on land that may be the property of a Belize City government school behind the Racoon Street Police Station. The land in question was originally owned by businessman Darrell Carter, who years ago sold it to the government of Belize. […]
Over the weekend, heavy rains in southern Belize caused the Sittee River to swell and last night water levels increased to almost 9 feet above normal threatening to overflow the Kendal crossing. The dangerously high levels bring back memories of last June’s flooding by Tropical Storm Arthur and depression number sixteen when southern Belize was […]
It’s only the second of its kind, the National Height Census, which was carried out today among standard one students across the country. The information gathered from the process will be sent for analysis abroad to determine how malnutrition affects growth patterns among a certain age group of school children. Both the Ministries of Health […]
While thousands participated in the census, hundreds backed up traffic on Albert Street this afternoon as Saint Ignatius students took to the streets in a march for peace. The rallying cry by the entire student body was to end the rampant crime and violence destroying families and communities. Instead, the youngsters are asking the public […]
A thirty-eight year old man was killed during a traffic accident on the Northern Highway. The man left his home to make a purchase at a shop, and it was during the return trip home, he met his death. The man was riding his bicycle when he was hit by a pick-up truck on Saturday […]
The second death that occurred this weekend, happened further north at the Rio Hondo River. A man from Yo Creek Village, who was reveling at a bar in the Mexican village of Botes, drowned when he attempted to swim back to the Belize side. Shortly after midnight on Sunday twenty-eight year old Elias Vargas plunged […]
Also on the Northern Highway, a fire at around two this morning in the Ladyville area has left a family of four homeless. The incident occurred at mile thirteen and totally gutted a one flat wooden structure measuring forty by fifty feet. One of the occupants, Romero Vasquez, says he was awakened by the intense […]
If you are travelling south, you will need to change your plans because since five this evening the causeway at the Kendal crossing on the Southern Highway has been under a foot of water. The National Emergency Management Organization advises that the river is rising up to nine inches every hour and shortly the entire […]
While Belize has not confirmed any case of the Influenza A H1N1, three more samples were sent for testing at CAREC in Trinidad last Friday. Those results were expected this evening, but up to news time tonight, they have not arrived in the Jewel and preparations for the possibility of the flu pandemic continue. It […]
The Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital is the only tertiary level referral hospital in Belize. And while there have been no confirmed cases of Influenza A (H1N1), the hospital is bursting at the seams and patients outnumber beds at the Accident and Emergency area. Marion Ali has more in the following report. Marion Ali, Reporting K.H.M.H. […]
A sentence of three years behind bars was meted out to two teenagers for the crime of Robbery. Nineteen year old Valentine Baptist and eighteen year old David Sutherland re-appeared before Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie today after they were found guilty of Robbery last Friday. The two accused chose to remain silent when they were […]
In another robbery case today, twenty-one year old Jason Joseph pleaded not guilty when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie and was remanded until June eleventh. Joseph is charged in connection with the armed hold up of Jose Ketz on Friday. Ketz is the manager of Creative Marketing on Allenby Street and he had […]
A Fabers Road resident who fell asleep with his front door open became the victim of a home invasion. Amir Reed, an electrician and landlord, woke up in the wee hours of Sunday morning to a thief holding a knife to his throat and demanding money. The robber searched Reed and took over four hundred […]
The second sitting of the Primary School Examinations took place on May fourth. Over the weekend, ninety-two markers, twenty-four table leaders and ten supervisors were correcting the exams at the District Education Center in West Landivar. Yvonne Davis, Principal Education Officer, says the checking will be complete on Thursday. But despite the fact that some […]
On Sunday, the Ministry of Education officially launched Education Week. The week of activities is being celebrated under the theme: “Better Schools, Better Citizens, Better Belize: Whatever It Takes, It’s Everybody’s Business.” Schools countrywide will mark the occasion except for the Corozal District due to the threat of influenza A (H1N1). One of the highlights […]
The National Agriculture and Trade Show is back on the radar and a new date has been set to hold the show. After the Influenza A H1N1 scare caused its postponement earlier this month, the trade show committee and the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries moved the event to the twenty-ninth and thirtieth of this […]
Channel Five has been recognizing and awarding deserving mothers on the occasion of this year’s Mother’s Day. The giving continued today and we went to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, to present a gift basket to the mom who gave birth to the first baby on Mother’s Day for 2009. She’s Kimberly Audinett and she […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re locked into this delivery of Sports Monday. The Mother’s Day weekend brought the twentieth Female Cross Country Cycle Classic to the nation yesterday as athletes, including five foreigners made a bid for the most prestigious title in the sport. An early look at the pelathon shows a compact […]
Allegations of corruption at the Ministry of Natural Resources, have surfaced from time to time but generally have been ignored by G.O.B. But today those charges made it to the editorial of the Reporter Newspaper. According to the edition released today, the act of bribing officials of the Lands Department has become common practice. The […]
