Yhony Rosado is a very outspoken tour operator; he has big stakes in the tourism industry as the proprietor of Cavetubing.com. As recent as last Friday, Rosado made bold and compelling statements about decisions taken within the industry that hurt the pockets of tour operators. Fast forward to Wednesday, Rosado was tending to his business […]
This morning there was heightened Police presence at the Benque Viejo Magistrate’s Court and special units on standby at the Police Station around the corner. Based on evidence gathered at a protest held on August nineteenth, Police summoned twenty alleged rioters to court this morning to be charged. Residents of Succotz and Benque Viejo united […]
Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega stands accused of orchestrating a hit on Ramon Cervantes Junior. That very serious allegation was contained in a purported recording of wanted fugitive Manuel ‘El Pelon’ Castillo, who is also believed to have been involved in the murder of Cervantes’ father back in July. The unproved assertion went viral last […]
Cervantes will not apologize nor back down, and neither will Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega. He told the media today that the matter is in the hands of his attorney and that is where it’ll stay. And apart from that, Vega says the situation hasn’t affected his political career in the slightest. Gaspar Vega, […]
Attorneys for telecom providers Speednet and B.T.L. were in court this morning. Speednet Communications Limited filed an application for an injunction against Belize Telemedia Limited on Wednesday to prevent the termination of services by B.T.L. which would affect almost seven thousand Smart users in Toledo District. On July twenty-seventh an agreement was signed between the […]
Senior Counsel Rodwell Williams, representing B.T.L., laid out the fundamental principle behind B.T.L.’s move to terminate the agreement. He says that Speednet purchased the service for private use then turned around and made it available to its subscribers. Rodwell Williams, Attorney for BTL “It is a dispute that has to do primarily with […]
Earlier in our newscast we showed you the protesters who were charged in the Benque Viejo Magistrate’s Court. The act for which they were charged was a cry for justice, a demand that Deputy Commissioner of Police be charged for an accident which resulted in the death of one woman. They were also there on […]
Another resignation was announced today at the B.T.B. where a number of senior officers have demitted office in recent times. Today, Director of Marketing and Industry Relations, Alyssa Carnegie, joined the list resigning from her post after two years of service. Her resignation takes effect as of December twelfth. In a release issued today, Director […]
The B.T.B. announced today that it had reached its one million mark in tourist arrivals in the country. According to the release, one million eighteen thousand seven hundred and five visitors have arrived as of October 2014. Another bit of good news in the industry is that tour operators are tonight breathing a collective sigh […]
A scout leader, who is also a teacher of Forest Home, Toledo, is in big trouble tonight. He is Martin Palma, who went on a rampage sexually assaulting three teenagers and offering them a thousand dollars each for their silence. Palma is also accused of being intoxicated. In the first allegation, a seventeen year old […]
A police officer was served with a notice of intended prosecution after he knocked down a man while driving a Government vehicle within city limits. Thirty-four year old police constable Wilbert Chan from Cristo Rey Village, Corozal District, hit Daniel Grey, on October, twenty-fourth, 2014, while driving a Toyota Hilux at the intersection of Cleghorn […]
There is good news coming out of Panama where Belize’s national U-sixteen male basketball team has won its first game. On Wednesday night, the team faced off against Costa Rica in group B of the COCABA U-sixteen Basketball Championships and beat Costa Rica with a score of seventy-two to fifty-nine. The team left for Panama […]
Business process outsourcing is one of Belize’s fastest growing industries. Thousands of Belizeans have gained jobs from the outsourcing of customer service and other chores of business, primarily from the United States. But tonight, a new BPO abruptly closed its doors and fired thirty employees. Accutel BPO was established in May and hired its first […]
The employees say this turn of events has hurt not only their financial standing, but also their job prospects. And as a check with the Companies Registry reveals, their employment apparently no longer exists. Another person who wants a word with Castillo is Todd Ingram, the proprietor of Zeus International Business Center on Calle Al […]
For three days, educators will be discussing the institutional development of tertiary education in the region with emphasis on quality assurance. The occasion is the annual conference of CANQATE, a regional organization, which promotes three principles: public education and advocacy, synergy and harmonization as well as training and technical capacity building. Duane Moody reports. […]
This Friday, November fourteenth, will be commemorated as World Diabetes Day. The day is spent advocating and building awareness about this very prevalent condition. It is estimated that up to fifty thosuand Belizeans are living with diabetes and, the condition does not discriminate, it affects the young and the old, men and women, rich and […]
Police moved swiftly against two suspects from Roaring Creek and have charged them with the murder of Corwin Mendoza. Mendoza went missing on Sunday after an altercation with his girlfriend. After days of searching, his body was found this morning floating in a creek; it had injuries to the face and upper body. Both suspects […]
There have been four murders in the past five murders, including that of Corwin Mendoza. This afternoon the violence continued with a brazen shooting on a busy street in the Old Capital. Shortly after two o’clock, gunshots rang out on North Front Street near the Image Factory. The mid-afternoon shooting has left two persons hospitalized […]
Much as it did last year, a sense of unease and hostility pervades the sugar-cane industry and the 2014-2015 crop season, scheduled to start within a month. On Monday, ASR-owned B.S.I. held a press conference to announce that since no agreement could be reached, it had decided to bypass the B.S.C.F.A. and attempt to sign […]
It is not far-fetched to speculate that the mandate from the farmers may include agitation of some form, leading up to industrial action. The industry is volatile, the labour intensive, and the farmers passionate about the lifeblood of the north. At the start of the last crop, BSI gave an undertaking in good faith to […]
Even as we left Orange Walk following that press conference at the B.S.C.F.A., News Five received word that unknown persons had torched cane-fields in Libertad owned by B.S.I. We were unable to get comment from factory representatives, but reliable sources tell us that a total of nine acres of mature cane, approximately three hundred and […]
While industrial action is contemplated in the north, the People’s United Party is tonight castigating the Barrow administration for dragging its feet on one of the major industries and the lifeblood of the north. According to Party Leader Francis Fonseca, the United Democratic Party government has been slow to intercede in the ongoing dispute. Fonseca […]
Speednet Communications Ltd., the parent company for Smart, filed an application for an injunction against Belize Telemedia Limited in the Supreme Court of Belize earlier today. The application for a court order became necessary after B.T.L. served Speednet with a notice of termination of service via certain links to take effect as of Friday, November […]
No one was injured in a fire that erupted before midnight in the Old Capital, but several families were left homeless. The blaze spread quickly completely destroying the contents of the two small houses. The fire victims lost everything without and need assistance from the public. News Five’s Isani Cayetano reports. Isani Cayetano, Reporting […]
The House of Representatives is meeting next Tuesday in a special session where it is expected that the ruling United Democratic Party will be tabling the Petrocaribe loan motion for a second reading. Government is seeking the house’s approval for loans totaling approximately two hundred and forty million dollars from the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. […]
