It is no secret that there is corruption in the Lands Department…in fact, even the prime minister has gone on record to say that the department is, “a hotbed of corruption.” Well tonight, there is yet another report of fraud at the highest level in Orange Walk and operatives of the Minister of Natural Resources […]
Emir Cruz was issued parcel forty-three-zero-four while Derrick Gillett was sold parcel forty-three-zero-three and plot forty-one-thirty-five was given to Roman Alvarez. Both Gillett and Cruz paid eight hundred dollars for a piece of the Jewel, while Alvarez paid only one thousand dollars. Bernard says that that is just a small portion of the mass land […]
A third cohort of candidates was inducted into the Belize Progressive Party earlier today, ahead of nomination day on Friday. While the BPP is attempting to beat the clock, its addition of seven aspirants brings its present team to twenty-five men and women. The fledgling party intends to fill that void by all means and […]
At the launch of the Belize Progressive Party on October first, an open petition was made for campaign financing from the local business community. The effort to raise the necessary funds has been slow a process; nonetheless, generous contributions, albeit of lesser values continue to pour in from the general public. National Campaign Manager Bobby […]
In the past few weeks, the P.U.P. has rolled out several of the party’s platforms which it plans to implement and stand behind if elected to office. This morning, it was another, comprehensive commitment couched in the form of a Social Contract. Mike Rudon was at Independence Hall for the launch and has that story. […]
Late last week, Chief Elections Officer Josephine Tamai made a rare public appearance to claim that an elections officer in Benque Viejo had been attacked and assaulted. The incident occurred long after working hours when P.U.P. campaigners got suspicious because the office was still open even though the doors were closed. That’s Tamai’s version, and […]
Guerra also had another story to tell from Benque. The Elections and Boundaries Department is controlled completely by the party in power and there have been a veritable legion of complaints in past years – pre, during and post elections. Stories of select officers working very late into the night are commonplace. Tales of files […]
On Tuesday, we took you on the campaign trail with the three candidates who will be battling for the Orange Walk Central seat on November fourth. It’s part of our continuing pre-election coverage across the country. Tonight, we take you to an area which promises to be one of the hot zones in Orange Walk […]
Twenty-eight-year-old Darryl Alvarez, an alleged arsonist, will stand trial in Supreme Court for reportedly torching his aunt’s home in the Gungulung area in August 2014. Alvarez, who was unrepresented, appeared before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith for a preliminary inquiry. During the session, the accused suggested that the Chief Magistrate visit the neighborhood where the […]
Belize City resident, Kendalle Green, who has once beaten a murder charge, was today before the courts accused of escaping from police, obstruction and assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest. When the twenty-three-year-old appeared before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith, he pleaded not guilty to the four criminal offenses. This is Green’s first appearance […]
World Standards Day is celebrated annually on October fourteenth and today, the Belize Bureau of Standards held an expo at the Biltmore Plaza in Belize City. The event follows a regional standards meeting held just last week in Belize. Today, private and public sector agencies participated and showcased how standards are utilized within its systems […]
An early morning fire in Belize City on Monday has left several persons homeless. Sometime around six o’clock, personnel from the National Fire Service were called out to Handyside Street where they met a towering inferno. According to a resident who lived in one of three houses destroyed during the blaze, he was alerted by […]
Alan Gotoy, who has lived in one of the homes since childhood, told News Five today that there was very little he could have done to save his belongings. Everything he owned was destroyed by fire. Alan Gotoy, Fire Victim “I was sleeping, alright, and the girl that stayed next door with me called […]
Twenty-five-year-old Ervin Franklyn was stabbed and killed in Lord’s Bank Village over the weekend. The fatal incident happened sometime around two o‘clock on Saturday morning. According to Ladyville police, they responded to an area off Edwin Park Street where they saw the young man suffering from multiple stab wounds to various parts of the body, […]
A B.D.F. soldier was killed over the weekend in Orange Walk Town. By all accounts, Rafael Rivas was socializing at Panda’s Bar next to the Central Park when he got into an altercation which resulted in him being viciously stabbed. Today, Superintendent Selvyn Tillett told us via phone that officers got the call at about […]
A terrible traffic accident on the Placencia road early this morning claimed the life of nineteen-year-old Kyria Krystelle Campos, mother of three-month-old twins. News Five has confirmed that at around one forty this morning, twenty-year-old Giancarlo Vega was driving a PT Cruiser, heading home to Placencia from Orange Walk when he lost control of the […]
As promised, News Five has been taking you out on the campaign trail where candidates from the two mass parties, the newly formed Belize Progressive Party and independents are working to get your vote on November fourth. Tonight, we take you to Orange Walk Central, the stronghold of the PUP’s John Briceno for more than […]
Briceño is confident of victory at the polls, and as a veteran of consecutive successful battles there is some justification for that confidence. Still, there are issues which certainly must come up on the campaign trail…like the G-eleven, for example. That body of Standard Bearers agitated for change within the P.U.P. before coming back into […]
Just as Briceño will inevitably face questions about the G-eleven, his opponent will have his own to answer. The U.D.P.’s Denny Grijalva was born in Guatemala, and that fact, especially in these charged times, may just impact his run for the Central seat. He told us it isn’t…because he claims only one country, and it […]
Twenty-four-year-old Keyren Tzib, on remand for manslaughter, will have to wait until Friday for a decision on her bail application status to be handed down. The bail application hearing has stretched out over four weeks, as Justice Troadio Gonzalez hears evidence to determine whether Tzib would be a danger to herself or others if granted […]
Meanwhile, Basil Willis, who is currently out on bail for a number of matters before the courts, was remanded to prison today until December twelfth, 2015 for a most despicable act. The forty-seven-year-old Belize City resident is accused of sodomizing a twenty-three-year-old man over the weekend. According to victim, the incident occurred this past Saturday […]
A teenager was injured during one of two shooting incidents that occurred in other parts of the country over the long weekend. The sixteen-year-old came under gunfire in Roaring Creek Village on Saturday evening. When police visited the cemetery near West Star Gas Station they observed the minor suffering from injuries to the right hip. […]
Belize has picked up a pair of prestigious honors as an ideal tourist destination at the 2015 World Awards. The Jewel won both Mexico and Central America’s Leading Beach Destination 2015, as well as Mexico and Central America’s Leading Destination 2015 for Placencia and Ambergris Caye, respectively. Vice Chairman of B.T.B.’s Board of Directors, Einer […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Quiet as it has been kept, the Premier League of Belize has been undergoing growing pains as evidenced by the disjointed schedule of the 2015 season. We caught up with the General Secretary of the Football Federation of Belize, Mister Michael Blease. Michael Blease, […]
Election fever has brought with it a flurry of activities, including a ramping up of door-to-door campaigning by the mass parties, as well as their respective candidates. At the elections and Boundaries offices, public officers are reportedly burning the midnight oil tightening up all the nuts and bolts that make the election machinery run smoothly. […]
