Just before the newscast, the anticipated game between Belize and Guatemala ended in Belmopan. All eyes were on the Belize National team at the Football Federation of Belize stadium as it took on neighboring rivals from Guatemala. Expectations were running high and there was impressive support for the local boys. Hundreds of Belizeans turned out […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow met with the gangs on Sunday and hammered out a truce. It was said that all gangs had been invited to the negotiating table. On our newscast on Monday, the Minister Doug Singh singled out the South Side Gangsters, saying that they wouldn’t benefit from government assistance. Well, the SSG is […]
The Belize sugar Cane Farmers on Monday disclosed that they had secured financing to acquire the controlling shares in the Belize Sugar Industries Limited. They also said that B.S.I. had not provided them with the pertinent documentation to complete the buyout package and they asked government to intervene. The issue was discussed in today’s Cabinet […]
Tonight’s question is: Should the Prime Minister negotiate directly with the gangs? Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones to 8686 or post your vote on our e-poll at channel5belize.com. You can also send an email with your comments to questions@channel5belize.com.
Last Friday we first exposed information on Belize coming from WikiLeaks, an organization that publishes private, secret, and classified data from anonymous news sources, news leaks, and whistleblowers. It claims to have more than a million documents from the first year it was launched in 2006. An encrypted version of WikiLeaks’ archive of U.S. State […]
There was a second contract that came out on Miles Tropical Energy. The principals of that company were Oren Miles and Allen Saum. Saum is the man that the Prime Minister’s nephew Kimano Barrow had a falling out with over contracts for Paradise Energy Limited. But in the years before the fallout between Barrow and […]
In another cable, the US Embassy was briefed on the nationalization of B.T.L. The meeting was held on December fifteenth, between Financial Secretary Joseph Waight, B.T.L. board member Allan Slusher and the current US Ambassador Vinai Thummalapally as well as the Deputy Chief of Mission J.A. Diffily. According to the Wikileaks cable, Waight and Slusher […]
The Wikileaks cables did not only upset politicians, but they also struck a chord with the owner of a local university and prompted him to send out a press release. The Chairman and President of Galen University, Dr. Louis Zabaneh said the cables contained false and unfounded statements about his acquisition of the university. The […]
A post mortem examination on the body of twenty-seven year old Michael Young, also known as Ham, was conducted this afternoon at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. According to a police press release issued on Monday, Young was shot multiple times in the right knee, left leg and behind the left ear when he came […]
Edward Buller, the alleged killer of Ella May Pinnance Bennette, was in court on Monday for his murder trial. The crown’s allegations are that on the night of June twentieth, 2009, Edward Buller killed Ella Bennette at a house on Central American Boulevard. The two were living together at the time when Bennette’s body was […]
The truce among rival gangs has held since the weekend, but in the aftermath of the confrontation between George Street residents and the Gang Suppression Unit, alleged gang members are still being arrested. Today Leonard “Ghost” Myers appeared in Magistrate’s Court, represented by attorney Anthony Sylvester, to be read two charges; Assaulting a Police Officer […]
The University of Belize Alumni Association is hosting its first alumni ball this Saturday night at eight. The event is a fundraiser to assist students with everything from books to tuition. Invited to attend are graduates of all amalgamated institutions including: University College of Belize, the Belize Teachers College, the Bliss School of Nursing, the […]
Dubbed the region’s premier tertiary institution, The University of the West Indies has produced countless Caribbean leaders and pioneers in different fields. Annually, the UWI honors graduates of its institution who have contributed significantly to their alma mater or territory at their Pelican Awards. This year, for the first time, UWI Alumni Association Belize Chapter […]
For the past seven years, Belizean youths have been participating along with others from Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico in a program called GOJoven. It provides training opportunities to develop the leadership skills of young people, who can then educate their peers about sexual and reproductive health. Today a two year pilot focusing solely on Belizean […]
It’s getting down to the wire in KTV Duets and tonight’s performances will determine which duos from Group A will be among the six semi-finalists. That means the duets will have to pull out all the stops to outshine their rivals and earn the votes. The show will definitely be exciting from start to finish […]
