As we bring you the news tonight, Elections and Boundaries officials, escorted by Police, are transporting boxes from six polling areas to the Father Phillip Marin Parish Hall where they will be counted to determine the new area representative for the Dangriga constituency which includes Sarawee and Hope Creek. As is traditional in every single […]
The last figures for voters’ turnout in the Dangriga bye-elections were issued at five this evening, an hour before the polls closed. That figure stood at fifty-three percent and the six o’clock figure will be known later tonight. There are a total of six thousand two hundred and five voters in Dangriga, Sarawee and Hope […]
On Friday, Minister of State Edmond Castro took a devastating personal, if not political blow, when he was advised to discontinue a defamation case against visa scandal whistleblower, Alvarene Burgess, and Great Belize Productions/Channel Five. Burgess had accused Castro of taking two thousand dollars cash for the facilitation of each visa for Chinese nationals, and […]
Of course, that call by the Opposition at this point is nothing more than a rhetorical flourish. Castro’s involvement in a visa scam is a moot point because he recently blew away his opponent at convention for the Belize Rural North constituency. So while the PM has heard Fonseca’s call…he’s certainly not picking up. […]
And since the P.U.P. is on the subject of visas and a visa scam, Fonseca is also taking a hard look at the U.D.P. Dangriga candidate, Frank “Pawpa” Mena. Just like Minister of State Edmond Castro, Mena’s name is on a document which states that he personally facilitated visas for Chinese nationals. The P.U.P. leader […]
On Tuesday night, P.U.P. Leader Francis Fonseca praised Senator Father Noel Leslie and the Roman Catholic Church. Leslie and the Church have called on the government to repeal the controversial Petrocaribe Loan Motion even though last week at the Senate, he voted in favor of the amendment. Later, Leslie explained that his vote represented the […]
On Tuesday night we told you about a recording – another recording – of senior U.D.P. former Minister Melvin Hulse. In that recording Hulse claims that the U.D.P. will need to buy the Dangriga election because Frank “Pawpa” Mena will lose if they do not do so. More than that, Hulse makes very bold allegations […]
Six Honduran nationals have escaped from the Benque Viejo Police Station—only one has been recaptured up to news time. Did they have help from the inside? Well, that’s what we asked police today after six persons got away from under their noses. The men, twenty-one year old Darwin Josue Turcios Caceres, eighteen year old Jose […]
A teen believed to have been involved in the brutal murder of two American nationals in Teakettle more than a month ago was apprehended this weekend in Belize City. Due to an alert which was circulated in the past few weeks, nineteen year old Cardinal Lemott was identified during a routine search in the city. […]
A woman who was accused of stabbing a man once in the abdomen is tonight free of charges of Grievous Harm and Use of Deadly Means of Harm upon Kenrick Pennill. This morning the charges were struck out against Sandra Perez when Pennill could not be located. The police officers connected to the case […]
Will G.O.B. be held liable for the alleged wrongful death of Police Corporal Dean Yearwood, who was shot to death by another cop back in 2013 during a robbery in progress? A hearing in the Supreme Court before Justice Sonya Young will make that determination. Yearwood was shot and killed on September eighth, 2013. Representing […]
The ballot boxes from six polling stations have arrive at the Father Phillip Marin Parish Hall in Dangriga where counting is about to get underway to determine the new area representative for the Dangriga constituency. Mike Rudon and Isani Cayetano are on the ground and have a live report. Isani Cayetano, Reporting “Good evening […]
Will Belize’s manatees get the help that they need? For a very long time we have reported on the cases of manatee injury and deaths. Over the past few years it has become a worrisome issue and this year alone it seems that we will break the record for most recorded manatee deaths. Local proponents […]
Musical content, lyrics and stage performance….the first round, to determine the winners of the 2015 National Song Competition, is in full gear. This weekend, in Belize City and Punta Gorda, artists from these municipalities will take the stage to present their songs submitted for the junior and senior categories of the Belize song and carnival […]
In early June, the government announced that teachers and public officers will be receiving a whopping eight percent increase as a salary adjustment. Some, but not all public officers, are also benefitting from the annual increment of approximately two percent as agreed to in the Collective Bargaining Agreement by the Joint Negotiating Team and G.O.B. […]
The Collective Bargaining Agreement is for a three-year period, but was in the pipeline for six years. Back in 2008, the proposals were for a thirty percent adjustment for teachers and public officers because in the union’s estimation, the value of the dollar had dropped by that same percent. But following the final negotiations in […]
But salaries aside, there is another issue that teachers are confronting. It has to do with licenses, which come 2016 will be mandatory. Those who have not obtained a valid teacher’s license stand to lose their teaching jobs. It is a requirement under the Education and Training Act and B.N.T.U. President, Luke Palacio, says that […]
Both major political parties are in the south right now on the last sprint to Wednesday’s bye elections. News Five will have period reports all day from Dangriga as the voters go to polls to select a representative to succeed former area rep Ivan Ramos. Our coverage begins on Open Your Eyes and we’ll continue […]
Earlier today, the People’s United Party issued a statement on the withdrawal of a lawsuit in the Supreme Court by Minister of State, Edmond Castro against Alverine Burgess and Great Belize Productions. The surprise move by Castro came on Friday when oral closing arguments were to be heard before the presiding judge, Courtney Abel. Throughout […]
Last week Senator representing the Council of Churches, Father Noel Leslie, surprisingly voted YES for the very controversial Petrocaribe Amended Loan Act. We say surprisingly because on May first, when the Act was first passed, the Churches had voted NO. But over the weekend Leslie sent out a release on his own behalf and on […]
Late on Monday evening, four members of the same family were released from the Western Regional after they had been hospitalized following a chopping incident that happened on Saturday shortly before midnight. In the early hours of Sunday morning the family were rushed to the hospital with varying degrees of chop wounds- all caused by […]
It has been over twenty-four hours since the execution-style murder of beloved print journalist Kareem Clarke. At news time tonight, Belize City police are no closer to ascertaining a motive in the deadly shooting. As we’ve reported, Clarke was riding his bicycle in the early hours of Monday morning after reportedly leaving the residence of […]
And tonight’s question is: Do you support the repeal of the Petrocaribe Loans Act? 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.
On Wednesday political newcomer Anthony Sabal, the P.U.P.’s David, will go up against veteran politician and the U.D.P.’s goliath, Frank “Pawpa” Mena. The U.D.P. has boasted that its victory will be massive, and has been on the ground for the past month in numbers. So has the P.U.P., which is chronically cash-strapped, but has been […]
Three weeks ago, there was some doubt that the P.U.P. would contest the bye-election and indeed, without serious internal agitation, perhaps it wouldn’t have. But today, Fonseca says the decision to contest was the right one, and a good one for the party, regardless of the outcome after the last ballot is counted. Francis […]
