Like on every night since Monday, there is a lot to report in the BML – Belize City Council standoff. We start with the news that government has decided to intervene, bailing out City Hall which is now nineteen weeks in arrears to the sanitation company. According to Prime Minister Dean Barrow, when he heard […]
The agreement between BML and G.O.B. is signed by Financial Secretary Joseph Waight and BML owner Lawrence Ellis. And just in case there is any ambiguity – G.O.B. will only pay the salaries of the workers – estimated at thirty-five thousand dollars a week and not the sum of the contract – seventy-eight thousand dollars […]
With the immediate and future financial concerns of the workers addressed, government has also intervened in the current legal issues affecting them. Individual charge sheets were issued to forty-one BML workers on Tuesday, charging them with loitering, littering and taking part in an unlawful public meeting. Twenty-two of them were arraigned on Tuesday afternoon, and […]
Those comments from the Prime Minister came at a press conference at the Belize Biltmore Plaza this afternoon. But shortly before that News Five spoke to a properly chastened and pensive Mayor Darrell Bradley. Twenty-four hours ago Bradley stood outside a courtroom, with workers at his back, and stated that they would all have to […]
So in a nutshell…G.O.B. will assume payments to all one hundred and seventy BML workers. When the contract expires in January, the City Council will hire all workers. Charges of littering, loitering and taking part in an illegal public meeting will go away. Tickets of five hundred dollars for littering will go away too. All […]
It was an incredible thing to see as many as twenty-two women packed in a holding cell at the aptly named ‘piss house’ in Belize City. Four workers allegedly three garbage in front of City Hall, but even those just standing around were locked down by Police – a total of forty-one workers. Most of […]
Said Musa is the former Prime Minister of Belize, and no stranger to controversy or unrest. But he says that even he was shocked by the detention of workers and the cruel and inhumane treatment they suffered at the hands of Police. Today he was out in front of court on another matter, protesting the […]
As days go by, the disappearance of Hattieville chairman Kevin Carcamo, remains a puzzle for his family. Carcamo, who is employed as a linesman with Discoverseis, did not return home two weeks ago after he set out to work. Numerous search parties have come up empty-handed but there is a glimmer of hope that a […]
The arrival of drilling equipment in Sunday Wood on July twenty-fifth, has brought with it certain discord among members of the Maya communities fringing the Sarstoon Temash National Park. In a recent press release, the elected leaders of Conejo, Midway, Crique Sarco and Graham Creek voiced their discontent with the manner in which discussions concerning […]
Over the weekend the C-NET+ office on Calle Al Mar Street, Belize City was vandalized. On Monday morning when the program coordinator arrived at work, he found that the office was broken into and various office computers and laptops were stolen. Police were called in and further checks revealed that the burglar or burglars gained […]
A pregnant woman managed to trick the police while she was in their custody at the K.H.M.H. Thirty year-old Sandra Thompson, a mother and resident of a Belama Phase Three address, escaped from the hospital while under police watch. This morning, Thompson was brought to court and an hour later, her common-law husband, Richard Smith […]
Today, while attention was on the BML workers in front of court, there was another small protest taking place in Central Park. Small protest – but big motive and big message! The men and women were speaking out against the killing of men, women and children in Palestine caused by the unrest between Palestine and […]
Both Prime Minister Dean Barrow and Belize City Mayor Darrell Bradley have maintained that the City Council will take over the works currently done by BML when that contract expires in January 2015. Barrow has indicated that G.O.B. will be assisting the Council with equipment to assist in that endeavour. And so is the Taiwanese […]
Team Belize arrives in Tegucigalpa, Honduras today ready to compete in the U-twenty-three Central American Female Volleyball Championship. The event takes place from August seventh to August thirteenth 2014. The female athletes have been training for months and although, they are a young team they are ready to bring home the medals. The team will […]
A delegation of youths recently returned from Guatemala where they attended a religious forum for members of the Seventh Day Adventists. While in Guatemala, the group took the opportunity to engage in community outreach, sprucing up parks and playgrounds, as well as schools and other public spaces in Rio Dulce, Moralez and Puerto Barrios. The […]
Chryslin Gladden was murdered at the Lord Ridge cemetery on Friday night in a most vicious fashion and tonight there is a sensational arrest to report. This morning, police confirmed that the motive behind the murder is hatred and jealousy. And after releasing a police officer held for questioning, late this afternoon investigators charged Ashley […]
There is a lot to report tonight from the court, including the all-day arraignment of forty-one BML sanitation workers and a near confrontation between those workers and Mayor Darrell Bradley. The workers were in court to be formally charged with loitering, littering and taking part in an unlawful public meeting – charges which stem from […]
And our question for tonight: Is the police justified in arresting protesting sanitation workers? 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.
As we told you sanitation workers were at court this morning and there, a near-confrontation between angry BML workers and Mayor Darrell Bradley happened in front of Magistrate’s Court number one. Bradley dropped into the courtroom to deal with another matter just before eleven this morning. First the media found him, and then word filtered […]
The media was prepared to grill the Mayor, and the Mayor seemed game until the crowd started getting a little loud. For the sanitation workers it’s a matter of survival, with their jobs on the line. So with tempers threatening to spill over, the Mayor decided to beat a hasty but orderly retreat. Darrel […]
At the heart of the ongoing sanitation crisis is an outstanding balance of one point four million dollars which City Hall owes to Belize Maintenance Limited for eighteen weeks of garbage collection. Despite admitting that keeping up with weekly payments at this time of year is problematic, the Belize City Council is yet to issue […]
Mayor Bradley has maintained his hard line where Belize Maintenance Limited is concerned. BML’s contract is worth seventy-eight thousand dollars a week, and Bradley says that CitCo can take over that work – and do it better, for just a fraction of that cost. But BML’s Operation’s Manager Mitchell Danderson isn’t convinced. He started out […]
The fugitive status of Errol Elrington has come under much scrutiny lately. The doctor is wanted in the US for racketeering and medical fraud. He is accused of defrauding Medicare and Medicaid almost half a million US dollars. And he ran to Belize just ahead of an arrest warrant. Now if he was a normal […]
The driver for the Foreign Minister Sedi Elrington was busted at the U.D.P. Convention on Sunday by police who allegedly found him to be in possession of marijuana. This morning, thirty-six year old Dorain Avilez was before the court to answer to a single charge of Possession of a Controlled Drug. Avilez was arraigned and he quickly […]
Also in court today was Belize City businessman, fifty-seven year old Dennis Gabourel. The tour guide of Antelope Street Extension is facing a charge of Attempting to Suppress Evidence in respect of a rape charge against him. Gabourel is accused of offering his alleged victim five thousand dollars to drop the rape charge against him. […]
