Belize is facing plenty trouble from the European Union over illegal fishing in the high seas and an even more dangerous threat from the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force because Belize has failed to address deficiencies in CFATF laws. The task force is threatening to disrupt the commercial banking industry if Belize doesn’t comply with […]
Today, the woman who reportedly went to a high school and attacked a student over her younger sister was arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court. She is twenty-five year old Shandi Tillett. Tillett, who is also known as “Chucky,” was charged for a single charge of wounding. Allegations are that just before four o’clock […]
There is a new publication, a children’s book, to add to your home library. It took approximately a year to put together by the gifted Cayetano Family. Artist Pen Cayetano and his wife, Ingrid, launched the book, “Wanaragua.” It is authored and designed by Ingrid and her children, who are currently living in Germany. The […]
The Taiwanese Embassy today hosted its annual end of year Christmas luncheon with its partners in tourism to express its appreciation to the good relations with stakeholders. Although both countries are miles apart in culture, size and economy, there are some similarities in the tourism product. According to Ambassador of Taiwan to Belize, David Wu, […]
Every year the Florida Caribbean Cruise Association partners with the Belize Tourism Board and the Ministry of Tourism to bring cheer to needy children. About two hundred children headed up the House of Culture for the 2013 party. Santa was present and bearing gifts and by all accounts children thoroughly enjoyed this year’s event. Duane […]
Tyson Rodriguez was killed in Placencia on the twenty-second of November. At the onset, police issued a dubious bulletin saying that Rodriguez’s body was found floating in the water. This is after he had been handcuffed and placed in the pan of a police vehicle. Tonight, a high ranking police officer has been charged and […]
There is also a development in the case of another resident who was killed by the cops. Last Wednesday, a Ladyville resident was shot at about four o’clock in the afternoon. Police took twenty-four hours to confirm they had fired the deadly shot on Travis McKay. Police also claimed that McKay was shot following a […]
Audrey Matura-Shepherd is also representing the family of twelve year old Sabrina Almendarez. She is the young girl who died mysteriously. Her family told News Five on Monday that they were suspicious of her death because following a tetanus injection administered at her school in Independence, Sabrina became gravely ill and on the twenty-ninth of […]
On September seventh, Belmopan Police were called to a nightmarish scene in the village of Teakettle. In the trunk of a taxicab which had been parked on a deserted stretch of road, they found the charred remains of a human body. The taxi belonged to Daniel Aguirre, one of KTV Latino’s most memorable champions. A […]
The 2013 Corruption Perception Index is an annual measure of the apparent levels of public sector dishonesty in a hundred and seventy-seven countries and territories. The list scores each country on a scale from zero to a hundred, the former being highly corrupt and the latter very clean. Not surprisingly, two-thirds of all countries scored […]
We reported last week that single mother of two children, Sharie Muschamp, is back at her desk at International Business Companies Registry. Muschamp was on sick leave that ran into maternity leave when the registry was taken over by the government and she was not rehired. But when Muschamp returned to work, she was notified […]
World AIDS Day is celebrated on December first every year. That fell on a Sunday, so the US Embassy in Belize planned an internal event to commemorate it today. Staff members were treated to a display and education campaign within the Embassy, carried out by the Pan-American Social Marketing Organization, PASMO. It’s an important occasion […]
Dolphin Street resident, Alwin Gabb, who has been on remand for the past six years, was on trial for more than a week for murder. Today, he learned his fate in the Belize City Supreme Court of Justice Troadio John Gonzalez. Just after one o’clock, a jury of twelve stepped into the deliberating room to decide […]
Children with diverse abilities, as they are called, got a special tour of the Belize Zoo today. Even though they cannot see or hear, they captured the sounds of nature of the Zoo. The outing was held as part of the activities of World Disabilities Day. News Five’s Isani Cayetano was hand for the event. […]
Acclaimed Belizean novelist Zee Edgell, author of the perennial classic Beka Lamb, is back in the Jewel for the holidays. Her Christmas vacation, however, is not all rest and relaxation. The former professor in English will be participating in an upcoming event called Meet the Author, where book collectors and fans of Edgell’s literary works […]
Edgar Hill, like Richard Parker in the Life of Pi, is a problem cat. Prior to being held captive at the Belize Zoo, the jaguar roamed freely in the forest near Pine Hill, a Mennonite community in Toledo. What drove the big wildcat to terrorize its residents can be attributed to any number of reasons, […]
Tonight there are many more questions than answers in the tragic death of a student from Independence in southern Belize. Twelve year old Sabrina Almendarez was discovered by her father in her bedroom at around four-thirty Friday morning, foaming from the mouth and bleeding from the nose. She was rushed to the Southern Regional Hospital […]
This morning, an unidentified male person called in a bomb threat to the Belize Biltmore Plaza just before midday. Normally that wouldn’t make the top of the news because they happen relatively frequently and are never real. But it is headline material today because when the call came in, Prime Minister Dean Barrow was in […]
December fifteenth, 2013 has been set as the deadline for the start of the 2013-2014 crop season. After that point there is a very real risk that the season would be cut very short by rains in June 2014, and that means serious losses for all stakeholders. But with only two weeks to go, the […]
To avoid real, dire repercussions, the 2013-2014 crop season will need to get underway by December fifteenth. The primary obstacle is of course the impasse between the BSCFA and B.S.I., but even if the relationship was all happiness and smiles, farmers would still be stuck. That’s because many of the sugar roads in the north […]
Tonight News Five takes to the visa trail again as we continue to assemble the pieces in a massive visa scheme. Our investigation so far has revealed the involvement of various senior U.D.P. ministers who facilitated the procurement of Belizean visas for Chinese nationals on a weekly basis. This scandal broke in September with the […]
A heated land dispute between the Young family and the Prime Minister’s law partner, Attorney Rodwell Williams, over a small plot on Cemetery Lane, has landed in the courts. In late October, the two families became embroiled in a bitter argument when Williams consented to have a food shack placed on the parcel of land. […]
According to Matura-Shepherd, it came as a complete surprise to her clients that Williams also had title to the property. Furthermore, it wasn’t until 2007 that he had applied for ownership of the land, unbeknownst to the Young family. Audrey Matura-Shepherd, Attorney for Yearwood Family “Interestingly, in 1998 Mr. Rodwell Williams Senior, the father, […]
While cane farmers in the north stayed away from making deliveries to Tower Hill last week, twenty-four employees attached to the Cane Growers Project at Belize Sugar Industries Ltd. were summarily relieved of their respective duties on Friday afternoon. The mass termination came without due notice, amid ongoing negotiations between the Belize Workers Union and […]
The workers, says Gongora, were released without being given a sufficient reason. Thankfully, he says, the situation was resolved amicably. Ramiro Gongora, President, Belize Workers Union “We were not given a specific reason but they just said that their jobs had finished, you know, because these persons that were instructed that there are no […]
