There has been a full week of solid coverage of the bizarre murder of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas. Five persons including the man alleged to be the murder mastermind, William Mason, have been arraigned and are behind bars. The companion of Mason, Melissa Ferguson, is allegedly the subject of an intense countrywide search. The investigation continues, […]
Before coming to Belize William Danny Mason, using multiple names, was known to be a grifter, a con man, and a scam artist without scruples. In Belize he was a great friend of highly placed politicos and Police, but his schemes took on a violent tone. He is believed to have extorted several persons in […]
The birth certificate in question, obviously fraudulent, was actually issued by the Vital Stats Department which comes under the Attorney-General’s Ministry. That occurrence, we can tell you with certainty, is nothing out of the ordinary. For many years that department has been rife with corruption, seemingly unchecked. Hulse told News Five he is as frustrated […]
News Five also got the opportunity to speak to Minister of State in Economic Development Tracy Taegar-Panton. It seems that just about every other U.D.P. Minister hung out with William Mason, so did she? Tracy Taegar-Panton, Minister of State, Economic Development “I will respond to your question, but let me say very clearly that […]
Just when you thought that the B.T.L. acquisition fiasco had been settled, the Ashcroft Group and the Government of Belize are headed back to the courts for an interpretation of the arbitration award. Both parties are to appear before the Caribbean Court of Justice in the days ahead to get a clarification on the dollar […]
Frank ‘Papa’ Mena received ten thousand dollars from Mason toward his by-election campaign. At least he says it was only ten thousand. According to Prime Minister Dean Barrow, no other Cabinet minister received any monies, or at least they say they didn’t. There’s really no way of telling. For example, John Saldivar has admitted that […]
After nine this morning, there was a traffic accident on the Phillip Goldson Highway in front of Enrique Martinez and Sons Limited. It involved two government vehicles, a Ford Ranger Pickup registered to the Fisheries Department and a grader for the Ministry of Works. Both vehicles were traveling into the city and collided when the […]
Now the last time we spoke with Senior Superintendent Flowers, traffic accidents were a perennial problem in the precinct four area. Today it still remains the most prevalent issue officers find themselves policing in that zone. Flowers told News Five that a mobile patrol will soon be installed along the stretch of highway from Save […]
Up north, there is trouble in the sugar belt. Will sugar cane farmers in the north bear the brunt of financial losses from spoiled molasses? Caneros are tonight incensed over the suggestion that they will have to absorb sixty-five percent of the total cost of the wasted syrup. That works out to about twenty-two cents […]
An elderly homeless man is spending his first night of a five-year prison term in jail tonight for causing damages of four hundred dollars during a break-in. Sixty-year old Codrington Carter entered the Mercy Kitchen here in our neighbourhood on Mercy Lane looking for food. To ease his hunger, Carter burglarized the facility, and for […]
Two persons were injured in separate shootings on Thursday night in Belize City and San Pedro. In the Old Capital shortly after nine o’clock, gunshots rang out in the vicinity of Central American Boulevard near its intersection with Jane Usher Boulevard. When the gunfire subsided, a seventeen-year-old male had been shot to the right shoulder. […]
Today the Ministry of Economic Development and stakeholders launched the National Trade Police Framework. That structure signifies approval by Cabinet to implement a comprehensive review to find common and fertile ground between multi-lateral and regional trade rules and the development needs of domestic producers, exporters and stakeholders. News Five’s Mike Rudon was at the launch […]
Summer camps have been providing an outlet for those energetic kids who are on holidays. In the city, students from numerous schools participated in a free summer program that entertained and educated them on values that will hopefully make them good citizens. The Belize City Council has been holding the summer camps for four years; […]
Another summer camp dedicated to the expressive arts concluded today in Belize City. Hosted by the Institute of Creative Arts, the participants enjoyed sessions in arts, drama, dance and music. And for those who are interested in other forms of art, they pulled out their hook and yarn for sessions on the techniques of crochet. […]
Green also told News Five that after four years in the making, in the next school year, the creative arts curriculum will be piloted in primary schools. Leroy Green, Creative Arts Coordinator, Ministry of Education “In a week’s time, we will be training teachers in regards to the first completed draft of the new […]
Calypso Rose will be bestowed with the WOMEX 16 Artist Award in October of this year in Santiago De Compostela, Berlin. At age seventy-six, the legendary singer and composer from Trinidad and Tobago has recorded hit calypsos and has been dubbed the Grand Lady of Calypso. For half a century she has been at the […]
The Cellula Band of Panama is in the country; the band arrived late this evening and will be performing two free concerts in Orange Walk and San Ignacio. Established in 2011, the six-member band plays pop and roots reggae. The band’s visit is organized by Embassy of Panama in Belize in partnership with the Ministry […]
