This morning News Five caught up with Toledo activist, Will Maheia, who leads the Belize Territorial Volunteers. The group has made visits to border points from north to south to send a message to Guatemala and to Belmopan. Maheia has also been monitoring activity in the Chiquibul and the Columbia Forest Reserve down south. He […]
Maheia reiterates that the incursions continue because our borders are not properly marked and properly patrolled. Wil Maheia, Founding Member, Belize Territorial Volunteers “The evidence speaks for itself, you look at the Belize border and the number of troops you see in the border, we probably have the least number of troops on the […]
Late last week, the top brass of the Belize Defense Force and the Coast Guard concluded a visit to United Kingdom. Brigadier General David Jones and Rear Admiral John Borland were in London on an official visit. Top on their agenda was a meeting with the Ministry of Defense Minister, Doctor Andrew Murrison, as well […]
The much anticipated opening of the B.T.L. Park took place this morning after a delay of about a month due to the persistent rains in December. The cost of transforming the public facility is in the range of two million dollars. The Belize City Mayor Darrell Bradley says the ambitious project provides an important outlet […]
As we told you Friday, News Five has obtained a copy of an internal report compiled on the Won Hong Kim immigration scandal. Kim, A South Korean national imprisoned in Taiwan, got his nationality certificate and Belizean passport in September, 2013. It was subsequently revealed that both documents were obtained through fraudulent means, since Kim […]
The surfacing of the report is a somewhat public resurrection of former Minister of State Elvin Penner, who has gone to ground since the scandal broke in September. As we told you, Penner has escaped all scrutiny from multiple alleged investigations, despite clear evidence that he facilitated the fraudulent nationality certificate and Belizean passport for […]
Following confirmation by Minister of Immigration Godwin Hulse that Director Maria Marin had indeed recommended the termination of three passport officers suspended since September, the Public Service Union has come under sustained fire from certain quarters. Despite every indication that the scandal which affected the three public officers was instigated and facilitated by former Minister […]
And to show that they might not be loud, but they are getting the job done, the PSU stated today that it is working to get the public officers reinstated, since the Commissions Regulations state that public officers cannot be suspended on half-pay for more than thirty days. And while that is in the works, […]
At least one person, a twenty-seven year old woman Shahera Bodden, has died of complications of H1N1. But with the flu season in full swing, the Ministry of Health today sent out an advisory to remind the public that is in heightened surveillance for any Influenza or Severe Acute Respiratory Illness. According to the Ministry, […]
A Belize City man was detained on Wednesday for a robbery and released from prison on Friday but by Sunday night, Eaton Eamon Carr was a dead man. Carr was known to be involved with the gangs, but no one knows why he was ambushed on Banak Street, the base of a rival gang. The […]
There is a second murder to report tonight. The body of Marlon Balona was found under shrubs off a feeder road in an isolated area by a resident of the village of La Gracia on Sunday afternoon. It showed signs of strangulation and a strap and his bicycle were found nearby. Balona was a suspect […]
The third death of the weekend was reported as a burglary/attempted robbery in San Pedro Town. The victim, Michael Wallace, was allegedly one of a trio who tried to rob a San Pedro resident after burglarizing his home. It didn’t go quite as planned, and instead of getting away with some green, Wallace was paid […]
On Christmas Eve, a man was gunned down during an attempted robbery in the Kontiki Area in the Cayo District. The death of Fredy Lopez launched an intensive manhunt for two suspects identified as Kevin ‘Midget’ Manzanero and Alex ‘Cat’ Reid. Because of a similarity in MOs, the Police believed that those two men were […]
Attorney Antoinette Moore was sworn in on Friday as a temporary judge of the Supreme Court. Moore is assigned to the Belmopan criminal session which deals with cases from Belmopan, San Ignacio, and Benque Viejo del Carmen. There are a reported seventy cases that the temporary judge will be dealing with. Among the cases on […]
An eighteen year old youth, Alrick Lamb, is serving his first night of a fifteen-year jail term after he pleaded guilty to possession of prohibited firearm, ammunition and an extended magazine. The items were found in a car in which as many as six occupants were travelling in. The men were busted by the GSU […]
Also appearing in court was a man who was remanded to prison this morning after he was charged for attacking his own nephew on January twelfth. He is fifty-four year old Frank Garcia, of Oleander Street in the Saint Martin’s de Porres area. Garcia appeared unrepresented before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith and was arraigned […]
After fighting extradition and exhausting every legal option at his disposal for more than fifteen years, Rhett Fuller is a free man. Minister of Foreign Affairs Wilfred Elrington decided on Thursday, January sixteenth, that extraditing him to the US for a 1990 murder would be oppressive. That decision means that as long as Fuller remains […]
Institutes of Technical and Vocational Education and Training have been set up strategically across the country, but enrollment numbers do not reflect the investment in those centers. There is a growing belief that the problem is poor marketing, and with the assistance of the CARICOM Education for Employment, a Regional TVET Marketing Strategy has been […]
The Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital will now be offering a full range of cardiology services. The K.H.M.H. partnered with the Carolina Healthcare System’s International Medical Outreach to establish its first fully-equipped echocardiography laboratory. The program was inaugurated today and the K.H.M.H. is benefiting not only from equipment but also training for doctors and nurses. Representatives […]
Good Evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The Belikin Cup Post Season blasted off over the weekend with all 4 playoff teams seeing action over the weekend and we have both matches. Let’s jump into it with Saturday night’s mighty clash at the Isidoro Beaton Stadium where the #3 seed Belmopan […]
There is confirmation by Minister of Immigration Godwin Hulse of a story we broke on Wednesday that Director of Immigration Maria Marin has recommended the termination of three passport officers – Sharon Neal, Erwin Robinson and Omar Phillips. But tonight, there is evidence that the corruption goes much deeper and higher than those three public […]
The unions have promised that 2014 will be the year of the worker, and agitation has been ramped up since the beginning of the New Year. The Belize National Teachers Union has implemented a countrywide strategy of peaceful industrial action, starting with Orange Walk and Corozal last week and touching down in the Belize District […]
As we told you earlier in our newscast, it has been reported that three public officers – Sharon Neal, Omar Phillips and Erwin Robinson are on the chopping block based on a direct recommendation from Director of Immigration Maria Marin. Those public officers are perceived to be the scapegoats for corruption in immigration which goes […]
The Minister of Education Patrick Faber came under fire from the teachers for criticizing the industrial action, the union and them. Faber is often outspoken, and defends his comments as just plain-speaking. But he isn’t the only one capable of plain-talk, and there was plenty of that today. Ian Mariano, Teacher, Excelsior High School […]
Following the signing of an interim agreement between B.S.I. and the B.S.C.F.A. early this week, the 2013 – 2014 sugar cane crop was to have gotten underway on Monday, January twentieth at ten am. But it won’t. It has been delayed until Friday, January twenty-fourth. That’s because work on the very critical sugar roads has […]
