If you thought Tuberculosis has been wiped away, well not so. The experts say that the disease was brought under control but that with the spread of HIV/AIDS, the number of TB cases is on the rise. The two diseases have in common, weak immune systems and there are eighty nine persons infected. In this […]
Harold Crooks, the man who wrote the famous Crooks Report for the Belize Police Department, is still in hiding. On Tuesday, we reported that Crooks was wanted by law enforcement in Jamaica for sex related offences and today it is now known that Crooks has absconded from the island. Today’s issue of the Jamaica Observer […]
The Prime Minister introduced the Sixth Amendment Bill to the constitution on April twenty-fifth of 2008. In that bill fundamental rights and freedoms that are shared by Belizeans would have been altered. The bill in its original form would have also characterized serious crimes as terrorism and additionally would have seriously eroded the rights of […]
Shoman also spoke about the property rights issue. It was an issue that was challenged in court by a group of landowners, an effort heralded by Sir Barry Bowen, who recently passed away. On the twenty-eighth of July 2009, the Supreme Court ruled that there should have been a referendum, but according to Shoman, a […]
The Barrow bond and budget debate gets underway in the House of Representatives this Thursday morning. Sparks flew between the current and former prime ministers during the presentation a week ago when Prime Minister Dean Barrow bestowed on former PM, Said Musa, the “J” word taken from Khaled Hosseni’s A Thousand Splendid Suns. While the […]
On Tuesday we posed the question: Do you agree with Minister Heredia that Creoles should be profiled before visiting San Pedro? An overwhelming number of persons who answered generally thought that they could not support that stance. One response by IMS said that the Minister needs to apologize and others opined that he should tender […]
His name was at the center of controversy when a questionable incident occurred while he was with the Police Department. In fact, Aldo Ayuso stood trial and was later cleared of a Manslaughter charge following the shooting death in February of 2005 of twenty-one year old Leslie Rogers Jr. He never denied shooting Rogers, but […]
But while Ayuso has won this round, it is not the end of his problems. As he told us outside the courtroom, he still wants to return to work as a police officer, but knows that is a far way ahead. Aldo Ayuso, wins decision against Police Department “In all honesty I wanted reinstatement, not […]
Parents Lovina and Mario Canto and their twenty-six year old son Jason walked out of Magistrate Edd Usher’s courtroom today free of criminal charges. A search conducted at their Warrie Street address in Belize City on April 1st last year led to the discovery of a point thirty-eight pistol, a nine millimeter pistol, a twelve […]
Billie Miller, she is a power house among women in the Caribbean and she is here in Belize in connection with an initiative by the National Women’s Commission, called Women in Politics. Miller is among a small group of women that have made it to the upper layer in public service having served as Deputy […]
They excelled in a range of subject areas from language to math and for that they got recognition. The award program is the second for this year for students at the Anglican Cathedral College and already it is showing that recognition leads to motivation. News Five’s Delahnie Bain attended the award ceremony. Delahnie Bain, Reporting […]
Eye care patients crowded the conference room of the City Center, luggage in hand and ready to board a flight to Venezuela for treatment. They are the first set of beneficiaries of Operacion Milagros or Mission Miracle, which offers them the opportunity to have corrective surgeries done free of cost. Screening was done on February […]
We also spoke to a few excited patients who are grateful for the opportunity and have high anticipations for the gift of good sight. Niurka Nunez, Mission Miracle Patient “I have a condition in my eyes named pterygium and it’s a growing that is caused mainly because of the sun and it grows to your […]
Early this morning hundreds of kids and supporters of the Special Olympics took part in their annual sporting event that concluded at the Stella Maris School compound on Princess Margaret Drive. They were joined this morning by the organization known as One World Running, which donated tennis shoes to the kids. Open Your Eyes broadcast […]
You have heard of Landings One, Two, three …all the way to nine, and now there is Landings Ten. The project Zero, at its completion, brought together the international artists that had participated in the exhibitions for the Landings project. Landings Ten is really a graphic text, the final work in the series of the […]
Most people would recognize the name Harold Crooks, he is the man who gave a damning report and recommended over a hundred ways to fix the police department. In fact the Minister of National Security, Carlos Perdomo, and the police hierarchy often pull out the report when questioned about how to deal with the rampant […]
But will the allegations have any bearing on the famous Crooks Report? The Commissioner of Police, Crispin Jeffries, was busy most of today, but the Police Press Officer, Sergeant Fitzroy Yearwood says Crooks’ problems should not affect the credibility of the report. Sergeant Fitzroy Yearwood, Police Press Officer “If he is being sought in Jamaica […]
There’s another suspect on the run but here in the city. He is wanted for a shooting that has ended in murder. Shots rang out on Ebony Street just before ten on Monday night and one man was wounded. Hours late he succumbed while at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. But witnesses say Anthony Burgess, […]
And in the south, an accident on the highway Monday night left three persons dead and five others hospitalized. It happened around eleven p.m. at mile two on the Southern Highway when a white pickup and a grey sport utility vehicle collided. At the scene of the wreckage it seems as if it was a […]
Our segment on questions and reflections has picked up considerable steam from our viewers who have been texting and writing in their comments in reaction to the issues of huge national importance. The questions are aired on Tuesdays and Thursdays and the response is presented on Wednesdays and Fridays. This week’s question is: Do you agree […]
Just before news this evening a bomb threat was called in to Scotia Bank Albert Street Branch. Bank employees were already leaving work when someone called in a bomb threat. The bomb expert arrived on the scene shortly after and the threat turned out to be a prank. A thorough search of the building yielded […]
The increase of twenty-five percent on GST will hit consumers on April first. And if you are bracing to now pay twelve point five percent in the sales tax, hold on because fuel prices have just gone up again. That’s despite a promise made by the government to keep prices below the seven dollar price […]
In Belmopan, Cabinet met in regular session today and discussed a matter that has been on the airwaves since the beginning of the week. Three weeks ago News Five reported that thirty-eight families that had now taken up the land had been given the consent by a U.D.P. elected representative. The matter has been boiling […]
A jury of nine convicted a bad cop for extortion today. According to Hytklin Kelat, on November thirtieth, 2008, Police Constable Marlon Harris, stopped him at the checkpoint located four miles outside of Belize City on the Western Highway. Kelat was found to be driving without insurance. But the following day, officer Harris visited him […]
A man faced an embarrassing period before the court because his ex-common law wife has accused him of touching her inappropriately. Thirty-two year old Preston Reynolds is charged with Aggravated Assault of an Indecent Nature and Common Assault upon the twenty seven year old woman. The allegation was made since January twelfth but Reynolds was […]
