Tonight’s question is: Do you support a proposal to reduce the term of government to four years and a fixed date for general elections? 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.
The Vision Inspired by the People (VIP) and the P.N.P. held a joint press conference this afternoon to add their contribution to the ongoing discussion on the recent mass registrations of new citizens and voters. The VIP also told the media that they want the registration list to be cleaned up of what they deem […]
VIP Chairman Robert ‘Bobby’ Lopez also spoke about several issues of national concern. According to Lopez, the recent increase of fuel prices is hitting regular consumers and businesses alike. Robert ‘Bobby’ Lopez, Chairman, VIP “Another thing our supporters are very concerned about is the resent hike in fuel prices that has sent diesel regular and […]
The Conference was held in conjunction with the People’s National Party. PNP’s Candidate for Toledo East, Wil Maheia made the trip from Toledo to show solidarity with the VIP. Wil Maheia, P.N.P. Candidate, Toledo East “We’re here in solidarity with the VIP and the other independent candidates. I think it is important that the VIP […]
There have been enough controversial issues that have sparked heated public debate. And while the rampant extraction of rosewood in the Toledo District lost its spotlight to the immigration and S.S.B. scandals, it was brought back to the front burner today. In fact, rosewood was discussed in this morning’s Cabinet meeting following reports that contracts […]
Even before the Cabinet decision, Maheia contended that the poor Toledo residents who do the actual logging are being deprived of the benefits they could reap, if it was being done in a sustainable manner. He says the people of the south are constantly bullied because they accept the status quo and do not speak […]
Residents of Xaibe in Corozal are up in arms over what they see as a plan to take over land in their community. Chairman Daniel Tzul alleges that since December of 2011 U.D.P. Corozal North Standard Bearer, Hugo Patt and surveyors have been scouting the parcel of land that is on the outskirts of the […]
The Bishop Sylvester Memorial Hall on Regent Street will host the annual General Meeting for Citizens Organized for Liberty through Action (COLA). COLA’s Vice-President, Geovanni Brackett is challenging incumbent President Moses Sulph for the Presidency. Bracket made his case on Monday and in an interview earlier today Sulph told News Five why he should continue […]
A security guard finds himself in prison tonight after being accused of trying to kill Antelope Street resident, twenty-eight year old Ellis Ortiz on Sunday. Thirty-two year old Nathaniel Thomas Junior, also of Antelope Street, was arraigned this morning for Attempted Murder, Dangerous Harm and Use of Deadly Means of Harm. He was unrepresented when […]
On Monday afternoon, an armed man jacked four thousand dollars from the Belmopan City Council Office while they were paying workers. A man dressed in jeans pants, t-shirt and wearing a cap and sunglasses, joined the line of employees and shortly after held up the pay mistress and stole close to four thousand dollars. Hearing […]
Fans of KTV Latino will not have to hold their collective breath any longer. Musicians hoping to be discovered have practiced their favorite Marco Antonio Solis and Ana Barbara songs and they are ready to hit the stage. But before the final artists have been selected, they have to pass a stringent entry-level test. Essentially […]
Last week Tuesday night, aspiring U.D.P. Town Councilor, Severo Guerrero was caught at the Elections and Boundaries office in San Pedro going through election data. The officer in charge, Merilee Squires, has since been suspended for allowing Guerrero access to the computer. On Friday morning, at about four-thirty the alarms were sounded that the Elections […]
The number of persons that received citizenship in the past two weeks is officially put at over one thousand. And Chief Elections Officer, Josephine Tamai, says that in the period December tenth to the nineteenth, five thousand plus new voters made it on the electoral list for the upcoming elections. We have been checking around […]
This week Social Security Board staff members who reportedly reduced their loans to participate in a write-off by the government will be interviewed by the Pannell Kerr Forster accounting firm. Investigations started last week and are ongoing into the insider trading scheme that was stopped when it was exposed in the media. Embattled Social Security […]
P.M. Barrow also stated that the process through which the write-off list was derived was indiscriminate of politics and social status and that his administration proceeded objectively with the settlement of S.S.B. loans under the approved fifty thousand dollar limit. Dean Barrow “To try to be certain as to how that name found itself unto […]
On the other highly controversial topic, we asked viewers last week if they agree with the mass registration and naturalization of immigrants before elections. The participants in our e-poll were overwhelmingly against the practice, with eighty-two percent voting no and eighteen percent voting yes. The question also provoked strong responses on our blog, including one […]
Downtown San Ignacio is famous for its seemingly never ending stream of visitors, mostly overnight tourists, wandering aimlessly through the heart of the culturally diverse community. Interestingly, Burns Avenue, the town’s main thoroughfare, was perhaps also the metropolis of a much larger, exclusive society. A recent discovery of relics dating back to the Late Pre-Classic […]
Awe says that the objects recovered from downtown San Ignacio are likely linked to an average family and will be prominently displayed at a new Welcome Center to be erected on Burns Avenue. Dr. Jaime Awe, Director, Institute of Archaeology “So, as we speak, you know, we have quite a number of people assisting us, […]
The Gang Suppression Unit busted a fellow police officer early Saturday morning at his house. Thirty nine year old Gino Peck is a police corporal of Curassow Street, Belize City and up to news time this evening he had not been arraigned in court. Initially Peck declared his service Glock nine-millimeter pistol and loaded magazine, […]
The mass naturalization that has been taking place prior to the upcoming elections has been widely opposed countrywide. But that hasn’t stopped the Immigration Department from processing and swearing-in over a thousand new Belizeans. This morning, the government went on the defensive and ministers were deployed to the media houses to out the fires. Minister […]
Last week you heard at least one minister say that he was paying half the cost for the naturalization of new Belizeans. But how can they afford it when according to Elrington, Ministers are getting a pittance as salaries. Wilfred “Sedi” Elrington, Minister of Foreign Affairs/Foreign Trade “Let me tell you, I am a minister […]
In the courts, allegations of a brutal stabbing landed a twenty year old female student behind bars on charges of Attempted Murder, Grievous Harm and Use of Deadly Means of Harm. Janine Kelly was arraigned this morning in the courtroom of Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer, where no pleas were taken on the indictable charges. The […]
Another case of feuding neighbors came up in court today, this time before Magistrate Roberto Ordonez. Twenty-four year old Dwayne Anthony Almendarez and twenty-year old Juan Tot, both residents of Mile eight on the Western Highway, have an old beef over the murder of one of Tot’s relatives in which Almendarez was accused. But while […]
The grassroots organization, Citizens Organized for Liberty through Action (COLA) is holding its annual general meeting this Saturday at the Bishop Sylvester Memorial Hall on Regent Street. Over the past year COLA has been vocal on a wide range of issues affecting the country. While the re-election of officers for some organizations means placing a […]
The People’s United Party met on Saturday in National Party Council in Belize City. Two resolutions were approved. The first is for a four year term and fixed date for general elections. The other is on immigration law and policy reform; the P.U.P. resolved to pass a law to stop the issuance of nationality certificates […]
