According to the Citrus Growers Association, there was deception in the distribution of shares when C.P.B.L. was purchased. According to Director for the Committee of Managers at C.G.A., Denzil Jenkins, he uncovered what he termed as secret deals when he became a member of the CGA board. Denzil Jenkins, Director for Committee of Managers “When […]
Another irritant in the citrus industry is the appointment of Henry Canton, Frank Redmond and Mike Duncker to the CPBL board. According to the CGA, Banks Holdings has prevented their removal since the decision would require the support of at least two of its members. That stipulation in the company’s articles of association, according to […]
The Belize City over thirty-five football competition continues to roll inside the M.C.C. Grounds as the battle for the lead in the standings between Ebony Lake and Kulture Yabra rages. Both teams saw action yesterday with the number one spot at stake. And here’s kickoff time as the cellar dwelling, Northside United, goes up against […]
There have been reports of a downed plane somewhere near the Belize Mexico border in Orange Walk since Wednesday morning. But several fly-overs by the Belize Defense Force and Belize Police Department have yielded nothing. News Five spoke today with the B.D.F.’s Chief of Staff, Colonel Ganey Dortch. Via Phone: Lt. Col. Ganey Dortch, Chief […]
An independent expert has been appointed to analyze the initial decision of the Public Utilities Commission in the Full Tariff Review Proceeding (FTRP) for the Belize Water Services Limited (BWSL). The PUC’s decision was to grant a ten point six percent rate increase as opposed to the twenty-five percent hike that BWSL had requested. But […]
The Belize City Council has been unable to balance its accounts in 2009. There were several protests staged by workers of the garbage companies in front of City Hall after the council fell behind on regular payments. In February of 2009, the council’s overall outstanding debt to Belize Maintenance Limited (BML) alone was estimated at […]
The jury is still out on whether or not the councilors will accept the prime minister’s suggestion of cutting their hefty stipends to minimize spending. However, another issue is literally rising off the pavement and beckoning at the councilor’s feet. And that is the condition of the city’s streets. The major streets in the city […]
Tension was high on Thursday at the Fort Street Tourism Village when around seventy tour guides were suspended from operating on the compound. According to Operations Manager of Fort Street Tourism Village, James Nisbet, the conflict—between the Belize Cruise Ship Tour Guide and Taxi Association and the management of the Tourism Village— started as a […]
Despite the disagreement and the financial cost yesterday, Nisbet says the actions taken were necessary and he is hopeful that when the next cruise ship docks, each and every tour guide, who works on the compound, will have a clear understanding of what they are permitted to do and not do. James Nisbet “Everybody has […]
On Thursday, a salesman found out exactly why they call it a checkpoint at mile four on the Western Highway when police there checked the trunk of his rental car and discovered four one-pound parcels of marijuana. According to police, at around one-thirty on Thursday afternoon they stopped and searched a green Ford Escort occupied […]
A man will spend nine months behind bars after he pleaded guilty to beating his mother. Twenty year-old Ryan Lester Nolberto pleaded guilty to one count of Damage to Property and one count of Common Assault after beating his mother then damaging her household belongings worth more than four thousand dollars. Nolberto told the court […]
Since the beginning of this week the patients who receive dialysis treatment at the Belize Health Care Partners Limited under the Ministry of Health’s Dialysis Programme have raised concerns over the quality of service they have been getting. We heard dialysis patient, Jose Cruz last night as he listed the issues he and other kidney patients […]
Have you ever celebrated Epiphany Day? Do you even know when and why it is celebrated? Don’t feel too bad if you don’t, I am pretty sure you are not alone. Epiphany day, also known as el Dia de los Reyes or la Pascua de los Tres Negros, is a fusion of ancient pre Hispanic […]
Great Belize Productions/Channel Five is known for superior quality programming at home and also in the region, evidenced by the number of honors it has won over the years in the annual Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU) awards. News features by various reporters are submitted to the CBU under various categories to compete against member stations from […]
For your viewing pleasure, we are proud to rewind Nollywood; first aired on July thirty-first, 2008. Jose Sanchez, Reporting From Africa to Belize; a new dialogue within the African Diaspora has surfaced. It is not the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade, but a new relationship among Belize, Nigeria and Ghana has been developed. It consists mainly of […]
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation; it’s a procedure that can turn the average Joe into a lifesaver. It is better known as CPR or mouth to mouth and it is something that, given the opportunity, everyone should learn in the event of an unexpected mishap. But for law enforcement officers, the probability of being in a situation where […]
How do you know it’s “mahga season”? When Safiyyah checks out ways to save money instead of ways to party. She tells us what she found on What’s Happening Belize. Hey I’m Safiyyah and this is what’s happening Belize, the first segment for 2010. As most of you would probably figure there isn’t much going […]
A wave of shootings and murders over the past month culminated with a grenade explosion that killed a minor just before the New Year. Most of the violence is believed to be the casualties of street wars between rival gangs from George Street, Kraal Road, Supal Street, St. Martins and South Side Gangsters. The leaders […]
While the gangs have agreed to a truce, there is still the lingering fear that grenades will continue to pop up in the city streets. Police have arrested and charged their main suspect in connection with the latest grenade blast two weeks ago that claimed the life of fourteen year old Rudolph Flowers. That explosive […]
While the British Forces do their best to secure their weapons cache in Belize, the shockwaves from a verbal explosion by Foreign Minister Wilfred ‘Sedi’ Elrington while at the Organization of American States headquarters in Washington, are still agitating the public. Members of the opposition and others have called on the Prime Minister to remove […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow said today that his Foreign Minister is safe at home and that he did not intend to remove Wilfred Elrington from Cabinet for his use of the word artificial in describing the established borders between Belize and Guatemala. But the Prime Minister conceded that Elrington should have perhaps apologized for his […]
Still on the issue of the border dispute, Senator and former Foreign Minister, Eamon Courtenay, on Tuesday outlined a best case scenario of seven years before the Belize/Guatemala dispute would see the light of day at the International Court of Justice. That timeframe was based on upcoming election cycles in both Belize and Guatemala, which […]
Another hot button issue which has provoked the ire of the public was the decision to grant visa waivers to Israeli nationals. Israel is known is to be a top supplier of arms to Guatemala which is claiming as much as fifty percent of Belizean territory so that move set off a flurry of condemnation. […]
Maxboro is a small but growing community located off the Northern Highway near mile sixteen. But the two hundred residents or so are all but at peace. For the past two years thieves have made the community their playground and now residents are making their appeal public. Marion Ali reports. Marion Ali, Reporting These four-footed […]
Forty six year old Floyd Budd, who says he is homeless and cannot feed himself, was sentenced to six years in prison for burglarizing the Valumed Phamacy. When he appeared in front of Magistrate Sharon Frazer this morning, Budd also said he thinks jail is the best place for him because he will have three […]
