Belize Defence Force soldiers are back on city streets, thanks to a surge in violent crime. They were taken off in May when things calmed down somewhat…and deployed to the border which is the primary priority area of the force. But it was the calm before the storm, and they’ve had to be called back […]
The San Pedro Water Taxi Platform is a recent construction spearheaded by the Ministry of Tourism. The terminal which was completed not long ago, will be used by stakeholders in the local transportation industry and is being operated by the Border Management Agency. This morning around eleven o’clock, a meeting was held on the island […]
The Belize Film Commission is celebrating a milestone today. At a press conference held this afternoon, Commissioner Nigel Miguel announced that the commission is partnering with ArDoMi Media Group from Los Angeles, California. The partnership will allow Belize to promote itself as a film location internationally. ArDoMi produces content for all media platforms and provides […]
According to ArDoMi representative, Jeff Pogue, Belizean cameramen, audio technicians and other skilled individuals will be trained and employed in the new ventures. Jeff Pogue, Rep., ArDoMi Media Group “What we do is we do production services. I am not a cameraman, I don’t have a bunch of cameras….it’s not what we do. I’m […]
A Belize City father is desperately looking for his missing fourteen year old daughter. Raymond Avilez says that Jada left home on Wednesday morning and has not been seen or heard from since. It is not the first time that she has left home, but her father is concerned because it is the longest that […]
Both the Magistrate Court and the National Committee for Families and Children have raised concerns on the airing of information on the identity of a suspect in the murder of Chryslin Gladden. The suspect was charged jointly in court with an adult earlier this week. In a release this afternoon, the Magistrate Court cites that […]
In February we told you about B.D.F. Corporal Norman Rodriguez, a thirteen year veteran of the B.D.F. who was diagnosed with an arterio-venous malformation on the brain. It’s a condition that required surgery and Rodriguez was complaining bitterly that he felt mistreated and pushed around by the B.D.F., at least where his medical treatment was […]
Miss Mexico is the new La Reina De La Costa Maya 2014. Elisa Espinosa Gomez was one of the eight delegates from the seven Central American countries and Mexico to compete in the international pageant. She came out on top after several rounds of competition on Thursday night in La Isla Bonita where the pageant […]
For the most part, the BML – CitCo bomb has been defused by a timely intervention by, and a very large infusion of cash from the government of Belize. As we told you on Wednesday, BML workers will be rehired, littering tickets torn up, charges dropped and future employment secured. With central government cleaning up […]
As we’ve told you, part of the sweet deal being offered to workers is that in 2015, when BML’s contract expires, they will be assimilated into the Council. The Council will then be taking over the work of cleaning up the city. It’s clearly not a deal that would have been countenanced by Bradley, since […]
In all the deals being struck, BML is perpetually owed staggering sums of money by City Hall. When it comes to payment for sanitation companies, both BML and Belize Waste Control, the Mayor focuses on dry periods, peak periods and the alleged gorging at the public trough by these companies. It’s been extremely difficult to […]
With an agreement on finances being brokered, and current workers’ issues resolved, the crisis is officially over. But there’s still some unpleasantness hanging over the matter. That stems from the treatment of workers by Police. Prime Minister Barrow claimed ignorance on the lockdown of workers for twelve hours on Monday. But they were – in […]
And for final word on the matter…at least for now, News Five spoke to Audrey Matura-Shepherd, the attorney for the BML workers. She worked all day Monday to get them out of lockdown, and all day Tuesday to get them processed in court. But with those legal issues in the past, she says that the […]
It is one of the most sensational cases in recent times. It involves attorney Arthur Saldivar and a very large sum of money. Saldivar has been the attorney of record for the Coye family, accused of laundering millions. He got them acquitted, and got government to give them back all the money that had been […]
On July seventeenth, a Crooked Tree woman was sentenced to three years and a ten thousand dollar fine for one point two grams of crack found on her. She was given until November to pay the fine, in default of which she would serve another three years. With that done, she was taken away to […]
The Caribbean Court of Justice handed down a six-page decision today in respect of an application by the Ya’axche Conservation Trust which sought special leave to appeal a March fourteenth decision by the Belize Court of Appeal. The C.C.J. refused the application ruling that the N.G.O. had failed to meet the required threshold to proceed […]
The Gang Suppression Unit is reporting a significant drug and ammo bust. The Unit carried out an operation in a bushy area near mile twelve on the George Price Highway. They found a red sack with the markings “El Quetzal Guatemala, Centro America Zona La Terminal.” The sack contained twenty-three point five kilos of suspected […]
While the dust has settled on the dispute between sanitation workers and city hall, there is another storm brewing. That’s because Mayor Darrell Bradley wants to convert the commercial center into offices for City Hall. That move would leave small entrepreneurs, who have been at the commercial center for years without a place to conduct […]
In the hours following the grisly murder of sixteen-year-old Chryslin Gladden on Saturday, Belize City police arrested and detained a person of interest whom they believed could have assisted in their investigation. Forty-three-year-old Phillip Cattouse was held in detention for almost three days, under suspicion that he was involved in the brutal stabbing of the […]
Four days after the brutal slaying of sixteen year old Chryslin Gladden, a group of family members, former classmates and others who have endured the pain of losing a loved one to the madness on the streets, symbolically paraded through some City streets. The candlelight vigil was held on Wednesday evening, and the message was […]
With the success of Wednesday’s vigil held in memory of Chryslin Gladden, today activist, Micah Goodin, announced that another vigil is to be held. It is planned for Friday August eight, 2014 beginning at five-thirty p.m. at the corner of Trinity Street and Central American Boulevard. He says that violence will continue if the community […]
The University of Belize issued its annual scholarships for qualifying students today during a pre-semester ceremony at its main campus in Belmopan. Dozens of students gathered at the auditorium where they signed contracts for the upcoming academic year, a majority of them received athletic scholarships for football, volleyball and cycling. News Five’s Isani Cayetano reports. […]
And in a programming note stay tuned to this station for the following: La Reina de la Costa Maya Pageant airs at eight-thirty this Friday, August ninth, and repeats on Sunday August tenth at two o clock in the afternoon. And only this coming week; our show If You can Sing it Bring, moves from […]
World Breastfeeding Month is being celebrated globally to encourage new and expecting moms to give their newborns the best start in life with breastfeeding. The overall aim is to have mothers exclusively breastfeed their babies from birth to the first six months of their lives. It means no formula, no water, no anise seed, no […]
The gruesome murder of a sixteen year old at the Lord Ridge Cemetery has dominated the newscast since the beginning of the week. Chryslin Gladden, a promising Wesley High School student, was stabbed multiple times; her body was found inside the cemetery on Saturday morning. Immediately following the murder, reports surfaced that a […]
