Importers of butane have now agreed to a new price formula depending on the grade of the gas. On Wednesday, however, representatives from the Liquid Petroleum Gas importers, at a press conference, alleged that their competitor, Belize Western Energy Limited, was selling inferior quality butane because the company mixed imported product with the cheaper product […]
So why wasn’t BWEL a part of the press conference called by the importers? Via Phone: Jose Mai “We felt that this movement was headed by the two local companies which are Belize Gas and Western Gas, owned by a father and son. They were being premature in threatening government with a strike for today […]
In the courts, Acting Chief Justice Samuel Awich today dismissed an application for judicial review filed by brothers David and Tony Novelo in November, 2008. In his decision Awich cited that the Transport Board was not given sufficient notice of intended action by National Transport. The proprietors of National Transport were seeking a revision of […]
Tonight’s question is: Given the stand taken by Carnival Cruise Lines in respect of the cost per head to ferry visitors to shore, should the cruise line be allowed to continue calling in Belize? Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones to 8686 or post your vote on our e-poll at channel5belize.com. You […]
It’s not unusual to hear about problems with Belize City’s drainage system, but today we met one resident who has been constantly affected by poor drainage for years. Dona Cayetano lives at the corner of Oleander and Zacaranda Streets and she says that whenever it rains, her house floods. Cayetano’s frustration reached boiling point after […]
Turning to the Magistrates Court, a local musician has been charged for allegedly raping a fourteen year old girl. The minor alleges that she was playing video games at the home of twenty-two year old Kevon Bardalez when he offered her a ride at around three p.m. last Friday. She says she went with Bardalez […]
If the rape case did not already raise your brows as to the level of depravity in society, the following story from the court may be too much for you to bear. It is a case of rape, but in this case, the victim, though female, is an animal. In Orange Walk District, two neighbors […]
Eighty-one year old US National, Gordon Stout, got a mixture of good and bad news in court today. Stout, who has been living in Corozal, appeared in the Belize City Court before Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer on three charges relating to a fatal traffic accident in November 2009. The preliminary inquiry was to start this […]
A university student is facing criminal charges after she was caught not with books; but one pound of suspected cannabis in her sling bag. The eighteen year old, Idolly Neal, was detained on a bus heading from Orange Walk to Belize City on Wednesday. The bus was stopped at the Crooked Tree checkpoint at around […]
It’s one week since sixteen year old Khadisha Saragosa, a student of Maud Williams High School disappeared from Mahogany Street where she reportedly got into a dollar taxi with a female friend. She has not been seen or heard from and so far a number of persons have been questioned but have not led to […]
When you hear about a Cross Country race, the Holy Saturday cycling classic likely comes to mind. But there’s another major Cross Country event in Belize and the rest of Central America but it involves track and field. Following a local competition, six runners have been selected to travel to Tela, Honduras for the Central […]
Local entertainers, promoters, and fans are getting ready for the first annual Belize Music Awards, which takes place at the Bliss this Saturday night. The event, coordinated by Flavas Entertainment, is geared at bringing together Belizean artists, both seasoned and newcomers, while recognizing those who have contributed to the growth of the industry. Over the […]
For the next month the gallery at the Image Factory will house the artwork of a UK and Placencia based photographer. Some of Boyarde Messenger’s art can be considered taboo, but she has received some rave reviews in London. News Five’s Jose Sanchez got an early preview of the art that literally strips away shame […]
The five senses are some of the most important yet least regarded gifts of the human body. Sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste guide us every day in what we eat, where we go and even warn us of when we are in the presence of danger. The thought of losing just one sense can […]
A house fire broke out at G.S. Street off Jane Usher Boulevard; normally the story is about a family that needs a place to stay since beds and furniture are often lost. But sadly this fire ended tragically for an elderly woman. Eighty-one year old Olivia Supal lived alone in a small green wooden two […]
Cooler heads prevailed today and a scheduled shutdown of butane depots did not take place after all. Instead four major importers, Grupo Tomza, Z Gas, Western Gas Company and Belize Gas Company met with the Belize Natural Energy and government representatives. This follows a meeting in Cabinet on Tuesday where it was agreed that the […]
Mark King, the former Belize City Councilor who got into trouble with his own party, may be in the U.D.P.’s bad books once again. King was out of the spotlight and could not participate in the last Belize City Council elections because he was sanctioned for talking boldly about the problems of mismanagement and corruption […]
The debate on the retail of butane gas is raging. So does the public prefer to purchase butane directly from B.N.E. or the importers? The difference is over the price which can be had from B.N.E. for at least thirty percent cheaper. On our poll, by a wide margin most consumers prefer to get their […]
Arguments in two appeal cases on the nationalization of Telemedia continued today. British Caribbean Bank and former BTL Chairman Dean Boyce filed suit against the Attorney General and the Minister of Public Utilities. The BC Bank and Boyce are challenging a July 2010 ruling by Justice Oswell Legall that government’s compulsory acquisition of BTL was […]
Oceana has scored a major victory in its battle to preserve the Barrier Reef. There have been about seventeen companies which have been granted concessions to explore for oil on land as well as deep in our terrestrial waters. But today the N.G.O. announced that the second largest holder of a concession has backed off […]
Orlando Wade, a thirty-two year old Sandhill resident, was convicted of murder last Monday and reappeared in court today for sentencing. And it wasn’t good news for Wade because Justice Adolph Lucas decided on a sentence of life imprisonment. Attorney Kevin Arthurs had asked for mercy on Wade’s behalf, requesting a sentence less than twenty […]
A Honduran babysitter has been fined ten thousand dollars for three marijuana plants. On September third last year, the eighteen year old baby sitter, Absternia Alvarez, was accused of cultivating marijuana after police found three weed plants at her Antelope Street home. Police say that when they went to her house to execute a search […]
A twelve year old and four other occupants of a house on Castle Street were arraigned in court today. The minor, a standard six student was emotional throughout the proceedings. Early this morning, police searched the home of Belize City nurse Judith Rocke. The search yielded a nine millimeter pistol and thirteen live rounds of […]
The Belize Council for the Visually Impaired recently lost its Gabourel Lane Office in a fire that is suspected to have been arson and now they’ve suffered another hit. “Stealing from blind children” is how the B.C.V.I. is describing a break-in at their office on the lower flat of the Red Cross Building. Equipment and […]
A retired American physician Doctor Robert Wyckoff has been in the news in the past days in a case of fraud by no less than a pastor. When we caught up Wyckoff today he said he is moving ahead with a lawsuit against Pastor Hector Mar of the Cayo District, who allegedly scammed him out […]
