The C.P.B.L. had its say earlier in the newscast when Sir Allen Field and Richard Cozier of Banks Holdings said that the dispute in the citrus belt is personal. As we said, there seems to be no light at the end of the tunnel in the immediate future in the ongoing feud that is leaving […]
Anderson also spoke to questions that Sir Allen and Cozier brought up about dividends and the composition of the crowd that protested on Tuesday. Henry Anderson “The concerns we had was when a business plan was presented at the board that showed no dividends were going to be paid through 2013. Our directors reacted against […]
That’s in the valley, but all indications are that this Friday in the capital, the teachers will be facing off with government when the House meets. That’s the word coming from B.N.T.U.’s Belize District Branch President Kathleen Flowers, who told News Five that a unanimous vote was taken just before news time this evening. This […]
Sugar production is still not at its projected capacity; the factory at Tower Hill is expected to mill six thousand tons daily but it is down to just over five thousand tons. The season got off to a slow start due to technical difficulties with the launch of BELCOGEN. But aside from the delays, there […]
If you take a look around the old capital, there is a lot that needs to be fixed. The grass needs to be cut, the buildings need to be painted, the streets need to be paved and the list goes on. But there is another eyesore that has plagued the city and that is open […]
While Henry was documenting the removal of derelict vehicles, his camera caught onto an accident on St. Thomas Street. It involved a KBH security guard and a former Deputy Mayor Yasmin Shoman. He got a good view of the accident and he says that it was the KBH driver who was at fault. Philip ‘Fada’ […]
In the south, the citrus belt has been fraught with controversy for months. The fight is between the Citrus Growers Association versus its subsidiary Citrus Products of Belize Limited. The CGA has majority interest and wants the heads of three of the five directors on its Board: Dr. Henry Canton, Michael Dunker and Frank Redmond. […]
One police officer and two B.D.F. soldiers were asleep on the job when they lost an M-sixteen A-one rifle on Saturday morning. The police have not been heard from but the B.D.F. soldiers have admitted that they failed in executing their duty. The B.D.F.’s Adjutant, Major Alvin Amoa, says that several charges are being brought […]
There were also other crimes committed in the wave of bloodshed over the past weekend. Two men were killed and two others seriously injured to add to the long list the Police Department has in its hands to solve. Firstly, the post mortem for O’Neil Anthony Jones, the fifty-five year old Jamaican national who was […]
The other fatality happened at the Best Western Belize Biltmore Plaza where a Nigerian security guard was attacked and murdered in cold blood by three men. Kaluru Oloungududu was ambushed by the trio, who stabbed him eight times: twice on the back, once to the right side of his chest, once in the buttocks and […]
Early in the newscast, we reported that the numbers at the CGA’s protest were over a thousand strong and you heard the chairman of that Association, Brian Bowman, say that while there is a clear divide between CGA and CPBL supporters, the CGA has a lot of support. But Chief Executive Officer of the CPBL, […]
The Belize National Teacher’s Union has been at odds with government over a myriad of issues; its latest beef is that since 2008, it has not been able to sit with government to negotiate the collective bargaining agreement. And the Prime Minister has said increments are not in the pipeline for the next financial year. […]
Still, the Ministry of Education will proceed with the bill to the House but it may not be smooth sailing because the B.N.T.U.’s membership is said to be organizing to go to the Hill. The union says it needs time, at least six months to review the Bill. Jaime Panti, National President, BNTU “Corporal punishment […]
“Haad pay” City Council was taken back to court today by the Belize Maintenance Limited. This all goes back to November of 2009 when BML secured a clean legal victory against CitCo over monies owed to the sanitation company for street cleaning. The amount owed at the time stood at about one point nine million […]
In other developments at City hall, there is a new deputy mayor for the City and guess who… it’s Philip Willoughby. Willoughby beat Leila Peyrefitte who was aspiring to move up. Mayor Zenaida Moya Flowers called for voting on the matter since the term of Dion Leslie, the outgoing Deputy Mayor, comes to an end […]
Whether or not Kareem Lopez pulled the trigger in the broad daylight murder of Mark Gardiner in 2006 will not be confirmed because his case was thrown out today and Lopez was acquitted of the charge of Murder because the victim’s brother refused to testify. Richard Gardiner, was the witness that the case depended on, […]
Two of three Ladyville residents who were accused of terrorizing the home of five different Vista del Mar residents are spending their first night at the Hattieville Ramada after they were sentenced to a year imprisonment. Twenty four year old Jewel Palma and Oscar Maldonado pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of handling stolen goods […]
The University of Belize handed Stephen Okeke his marching orders on August thirteenth, 2004. But the engineering lecturer wasn’t ready to go and felt that he was wrongfully terminated. So Okeke took the university to court seeking to have his dismissal deemed as unlawful and as such, to be paid damages by UB. Okeke, who […]
The government is facing its second annual budget with a deficit of about sixty million dollars. While GOB is still grappling on how to bridge the budget and keep the economy afloat, an initiative funded by the Inter-American Development Bank and executed by the Ministry of Economic Development is looking twenty years into the Jewel’s […]
Every ten years, the population is counted. The census determines a number of issues and provides updated information on population growth and trends, gender, race, employment and other interesting data on the Belizean mosiac. Census Day has been set for May twelfth, when every household will be visited and tallied. Ann Marie Williams has more […]
The murder statistics continue to rise with the city’s latest homicide at the Biltmore Plaza on Sunday morning; victim number seven for February. That story is coming up, but first we go to the tragic death of a Jamaican national who was killed in Lord’s Bank. The victim intervened to stop an argument at a […]
There are many questions that still remain unanswered regarding the shooting of the Jamaican National. Did O’Neil have a weapon in his possession at the time of his death? Was the police officer who discharged his service weapon under the influence of alcohol? This afternoon News Five spoke to police press officer Clement Palacio about […]
There was more gun violence over the Valentine weekend. On the north side, at the prominent hotel, the Best Western Biltmore Plaza, even before dawn, a security guard was murdered. Three men descended on the Nigerian officer on duty and within minutes he was dead. This latest homicide has distressed the Nigerian community to the […]
Another high powered weapon is missing from the Belize Defense Force and this time it’s an M-sixteen A-one rifle. The weapon had a full magazine of thirty ball rounds of five point five six millimeter ammunition when it went missing. The circumstances of its disappearance are unlike the M-four carbine which was discovered missing over […]
Senior Counsel Godfrey Smith is taking on Prime Minister Dean Barrow. It’s not the usual challenge over politics which he writes in his blog, Flashpoint; it’s about legal and weighty matters. At a press conference billed as his state of the nation Barrow contracted earlier statements that he expected that the economy would rebound in […]
