A single mother with nine children needs assistance tonight in finding accommodation after her house crashed this morning. The family was at home when the wooden structure caved in. News Five’s Jose Sanchez reports spoke to the distressed family to find out how they’re coping without a roof over their heads. Jose Sanchez, Reporting This […]
A release issued this afternoon by the Belize Electricity Limited on the status of power supply over the next few days was withdrawn within minutes. And while B.E.L. is remaining mum on the long term situation of the countrywide blackouts, it has confirmed that at least in the next few days it can meet the […]
It’s one week since Prime Minister Dean Barrow dropped a bombshell that police would be making arrests over missing monies at City Hall. Well there still have been no arrests. This week the Financial Regulator appointed to City Hall by Barrow, Patrick Tillett, told News Five that after having gone through the first batch of […]
The financial woes of the Belize City Council continue to mount. There is the complaint from the Financial Controller, Patrick Tillett, that close to twenty five thousand dollars are missing from the CITCO’s coffers for which arrests are said to be expected. The debt to Sanitation Enterprises Limited is still not resolved and last week […]
Shortly before two this afternoon, reggae group sensation, Morgan Heritage and its fourteen member entourage touched down in the jewel for a second time this year. And this time around the threat of the influenza A H1N1 will not stop this reggae band. News Five caught up with the artists at the Radisson who say […]
If you had not heard him lately, that is because Herman ‘Chico’ Ramos was busy working on his latest release. Born the fourth son of Carl and Claudina Ramos, ‘Chico’ was involved in music from an early age and recorded his first album ‘Scratch Up Mi Back’ in 1990. Since then the locally and internationally […]
This weekend is packed with hot summer activities. Safiyyah heads west to a unique hotel on the spiraling hills of San Ignacio. And there is the annual Benque Viejo del Carmen fiesta which promises to be a fun family affair. But if you prefer a musical weekend, Morgan Heritage will rock the City Centre. So […]
Two women; one a government employee, are expected to be charged this Friday in the case of the missing funds the pension fund administered by the Treasury Department. The missing monies, amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars, were reportedly deposited in an Atlantic Bank account sporadically since 2007 to present. News Five has confirmed […]
And while the missing monies are rife with scandal, News Five is also closely monitoring the City’s Traffic Department where a similar case is said to be developing. Impeccable sources tell News Five that ticket books and monies have also mysteriously gone missing. Both the Deputy Mayor, Dion Leslie and the Councillor in charge of […]
The Development Finance Corporation was a major government lending institution that went belly up when it lent less to the poor and more to big interests. When it folded, a commission of inquiry revealed that by the end of December 2004, the total book value of non-performing loans had increased one hundred and twenty million […]
If you bought butane gas today from the delivery trucks or the depot, you already felt the pinch. But if you haven’t, you should know that government has approved a five dollar hike in the price of a hundred pound cylinder of the cooking gas. The Belize and Corozal Districts have seen an increase from […]
The Teacher’s Commission that the Ministry of Education is proposing to implement is still getting mixed reviews from stakeholders. There have been poorly attended public consultations throughout the country and last Wednesday different managing school authorities, including the clergy, were invited to a sit down with the ministry. It appeared that the clergy was on […]
The wounds are still raw at the K.H.M.H. and the four week dispute over inflated prices paid for medical supplies, has been overshadowed in recent days by the revelations of more corruption at various public offices. This Friday morning, the B.M.D.U. and the K.H.M.H. board will sit to review a new document which is really […]
In early January, police nabbed Ernest Raymond Jr., as he headed home in a vehicle believed to be owned by a member of the Coye Family, the former operators of MoneyGram, who that at the time had been arrested for money laundering. Police found a nine millimeter Luger brand pistol in the car’s glove compartment. […]
In day four of the trial of Christine Perriott vs. Belize Telemedia Limited, the final witnesses were called to testify today. After another round of cross examination of defense witness, Winston Aspinal, Ramon Carcamo was called to the stand on behalf of Perriott. Under cross examination, Carcamo conceded that under the Trade Unions Act, no […]
He is accused of attacking a Maxboro resident with a machete and today, twenty year old Marlon Alfred Taylor was found guilty of Attempted Murder. It was a unanimous decision from the jury because Taylor did not deny chopping twenty-six year old Leon Leslie, but claimed it was an accident. But Taylor will have to […]
US President, Barack Obama’s nominee as Ambassador to Belize, Vinai Thummalapally, says he is proud to be nominated as the first Indian American to serve as United States’ envoy to Belize. The Colorado-based Indian American businessman, appearing today before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for his confirmation hearing, said he would work to strengthen US […]
New faces are expected to join the Senate. The first has been named as Omar Figueroa, an environmentalist from Cayo who will replace the UDP appointed Deborah Mencias-McMillan. The outgoing senator has announced that she will be moving on to take up an appointment as Associate Director of the Intensive English Institute at Ball State […]
The name Yasser Musa is synonymous with art, in many forms. This Friday on his birthday, Yasser will put on display twenty years of his accomplishments – a repertoire of his works as an art activist, poet, publisher, teacher and promoter of the arts. The multitalented artist takes a look back at his journey in […]
Bob Dylan’s, “When you got nothing, you ain’t got nothing to lose,” was the inspiration for the most recent release of a local literary piece. The author: sixty-seven year old Ray Lightburn says that ‘Nothing to Lose’ is a recollection of the history of Belize through his eyes. Lightburn, who was once a successful union […]
Later in this newscast we will report on the missing monies at the offices of the Border Management Agency at the western entry point. But first there is yet another case of funds gone missing, and in this latest instance, the B.M.A. case pales in comparison. News Five can confirm that hundreds of thousands of […]
Cases of missing monies are popping up everywhere as millions of dollars are unaccounted for in white collar crimes from the government coffers. We reported at the top of the newscast that hundreds of thousands are missing in pension funds. Marion Ali headed west today to find out more about a huge amount also missing […]
Belizeans are on edge on the question of whether there will be countrywide blackouts. And that’s what the Public Utilities Commission attempted to answer at its press conference this afternoon. Consumers use up to seventy-four megawatts of electricity during peak hours and loss of power from Hydro-Maya, B.E.L.’s gas turbine and Mexico can put the […]
Though many say there are no available plots of land in Belize City, there have been developers who have somehow found occasional lots within city limits and pay anywhere from thirty to over a hundred thousand for a hundred by seventy five lot. But Jitendra and Leena Chawla have been able to buy nine point […]
The Southside Poverty Alleviation Project kicked off with a bang back in 2007 with infrastructural improvements proposed for the Collet, Port Loyola, and Lake Independence areas. This includes: the paving and upgrading of roads and sidewalks, improved drainage, and the filling of residential lots. And the current phase of the project, which involves home repairs […]
