This morning, the Belize Progressive Party gave the media an update on their ongoing People’s Referendum poll on social issues. The poll takes two forms: an online poll being conducted along with the news outlet Breaking Belize News; and a petition being signed by Belizeans to create a mock referendum on several social issues. Both […]
The Progressives are also planning, among other initiatives, a nationwide tour to take their message to the Belizean people. We hear more from the party’s chairman, Paco Smith. Paco Smith, Chairman, B.P.P. “As the only viable solution to the red and blue debacle that has plagued our nation for the last thirty-five years, your […]
Wednesday night was day one of the annual mas camps that leads up to the carnival road March on September seventeenth. A record number of bands are taking part in the revelry hoping to capture the title as carnival champs. The camps started with a visit to four of the bands. News Five’s Duane Moody […]
The first case of Zika in Belize was confirmed in May of this year. The sample which was sent to the CARPHA lab in Trinidad verified that the mosquito borne illness that had been rapidly spreading in this region was present here – in Belize City. And at this point, there have been more confirmed […]
The People’s United Party has not shown its muscle in the city for long years, but today it did and impressively so. The crowd was massive as the national protest snaked from the Constitution Park to B.T.L. Park on Newtown Barracks. Supporters from all corners, as well as from the City came out to protest […]
News Five spoke exclusively with the Leader of the Opposition following this morning’s rally. First on our list of questions was his reaction to the divide among Belize’s churches on appealing the decision of Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin to amend Section Fifty-Three of the Criminal Code to allow consensual private sexual acts between adults that […]
The P.U.P. stepped out of bipartisan bilateral talks with Guatemala for some time now. They said it was in protest of the Barrow administration’s mishandling of the situation and that the party was not being kept in the loop. Months later, with Guatemalan Foreign Minister Carlos Raul Morales now breathing fire at an adverse finding […]
Briceño says the P.U.P. can contribute to the discussion on Guatemala, but the government must come to them in seriousness. He also addressed the question on whether Guatemala would grant an apology, however grudging, for their slurs on the Belize Defence Force and generally on Belize. John Briceño, P.U.P. Leader “We have the people […]
At Tuesday’s Cabinet sitting, a decision was taken in respect of the Director of the Press Office, Dorian Pakeman. Pakeman had hit and killed Dean Dawson, a resident of Gardenia, back in April. Immediately following the incident, Pakeman claimed he was clean of alcohol, but there is one major matter that was kept under the […]
There was a horrific murder in Orange Walk Town just before seven on Tuesday night. A young woman was shot and killed in front of her two children, one seven and the other five years of age. Twenty-two year old Jahida Crawford, who is just recently found out she was two months pregnant, was called […]
An Orange Walk resident was busted on Tuesday with over one point two pounds of suspected cannabis. According to Officer Commanding Orange Walk Police, Superintendent Selvyn Tillett, the accused was acting suspicious and when police conducted a search on him, discovered five hundred and fifty grams of suspected weed in a cooler he carried in […]
In the court today, Jamaal Michael Warrior, a tour guide and resident of Orange Walk, was arraigned on a charge of robbery. There was heavy objection because of the use of a knife and bail was not entertained so Warrior was remanded to prison until this coming Friday when bail will be considered. Warrior was […]
A slightly different perspective on the Battle of St. George’s Caye was the subject of today’s annual National History Lecture in Belize City at the Bliss Center for the Performing Arts. A group of researchers discussed a large number of documents obtained from the Spanish archives in Seville, Spain, which by and large confirm the […]
Other collaborators in the project include the Belize History Association which is the formal host of the lecture; the Institute for Social and Cultural Research; the Belize Archives and Records Service; and the Universidad Intercultural Maya de Quintana Roo in Mexico. But does having independent confirmation change anything? Doctor Cal says the confirmation gives us […]
Blink and you may have missed them, but Geovannie Brackett led members of his Citizens Organized for Liberty through Action and other activist organizations in their own section of the People’s United Party’s rally in Belize City today. We asked Brackett this afternoon in an interview: is he concerned that such a close alignment may […]
One last thing from the Leader of the Opposition…The Barrow administration is beleaguered by a number of successive scandals, the latest being the findings of the Auditor General’s special report on the Immigration Department. The fact that the U.D.P. government is presently overwhelmed by allegations of corruption harkens back to a point in time when […]
Reuse, Recycle and Renew are environmental issues that are well-known in Belize, but it was also the theme that participants expounded on in this year’s Florida Caribbean Cruise Association’s poster and essay competitions. There were hundreds of entries from the Caribbean and Belizean students placed well. Janae Rodriguez captured the first prize in the junior […]
Beginning earlier this week, commuters on the four major bus lines operating in the western corridor – Westline, Guerra’s, B.B.O.C. and J and J – are paying about fifty cents more per run. The price of a trip to Belmopan is now seven dollars and to Benque Viejo is thirteen dollars. It was a joint […]
A twenty-two year old was executed on Monday evening in the unending cycle of violence in the city. Nicasio Zuniga was ambushed by a duo on bicycles on Complex Drive not far from his house on Jones Street in the Saint Martin’s area. One of the gunmen pulled out a firearm and delivered the fatal […]
Late this afternoon, the family also granted News Five an interview saying that Zuniga was never affiliated with any gang, nor does he have a criminal record. The bullet, according to his family, penetrated his cheeks and exited through the back of his head. His sister Keisha says that her brother never complained of his […]
There were two other shootings overnight; the first exactly one hour after the execution of Zuniga. Around seven-thirty p.m., shots rang out on Racecourse Street in Belize City. Another youth, twenty-one-year-old Adrian Dyer, a resident of George Street, was shot multiple times to the thighs by two men on a motorcycle. The gunmen rode up […]
On Monday, we reported that thirty year old Tyrone Davis of Sandhill was murdered, shot in the throat and arm while in a hammock at his home. Police were already baffled as to a possible motive for a murder but according to Regional Commander for Eastern Division South, ACP Edward Broaster, their investigation has led […]
Melissa Ferguson, out on bail for the attempted conspiracy to commit kidnapping of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas and another, is reporting an alleged burglary at the residence she shared with incarcerated accused murderer and kidnapper William Mason in the Mountain View area of Belmopan. She has been living at the ranch at mile thirty-one on the […]
The fate of Dorian Pakeman as Director of the Government Press Office was the subject of a discussion in Cabinet this morning. News Five understands that the issue of his employment was raised in today’s meeting, following the results of a toxicology test conducted on specimen he submitted. That sample was given after a fatal […]
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