Thursday’s meeting of the Senate was the last for Vanessa Retreage, who steps down at the end of the year from her powerful portfolios of Attorney General and Minister of Natural Resources. In the former, she is to be succeeded by Michael Peyrefitte, who leaves the Speaker’s chair in the Lower House to join the […]
During Thursday’s meeting, the Opposition People’s United Party questioned additional government spending for work by Belize Infrastructure Limited, the special purpose vehicle designed by Government to spend Petrocaribe monies on sports and other infrastructural projects countrywide. Of the fourteen point three million dollars spent in the Supplementary Appropriation Bill, approximately seven million is for BIL […]
Four employees of the Vital Statistics Unit have been sent home on suspension by the Public Services Commission, for two months. Their offense…? Major misconduct in allegedly causing the preparation and issuance of a fraudulent birth certificate to one William Alexander Mason, better known as Danny Mason, Rajesh Ouelette, Ted Ouellet and many other names. […]
News Five was informed this morning just after nine-thirty of a burglary in progress at a home in the Western Pines area of Western Paradise Village, Belize District. We arrived on the scene to find Police speaking with the owners of the home and five young men being held in their pick-up truck. According to […]
According to San Pedro Police, sixty-two-year-old Maria Nagy Sandorne Dobria, also known as Maricska, was handed over to Hungarian police by Special Branch Division of the Belize Police Department on December seventh, after months of investigation in conjunction with their Hungarian counterparts and Interpol. She now faces millions of dollars in fines in connection with […]
Golf carts are the hot items for thieves on San Pedro and police say that drivers need to ensure that they lock up their carts. When we spoke with Assistant Superintendent of Police Henry Jemmoth earlier this week we asked him to share some safety tips for islanders and visitors for this holiday. He says […]
In early September we told you about the preliminary findings on the St George’s Caye Battle from the Spanish perspective. A local team made up of historians, Archives and NICH personnel and researchers and educators from Quintana Roo have been transcribing 18th century manuscripts that provide first-hand account of the Spaniards’ activities surrounding the 1798 […]
Primary school students from across Belize City were treated to a special Christmas treat earlier today, thanks to the Florida Caribbean Cruise Association. The F.C.C.A. hosts an annual Christmas party for children in the Old Capital and today the kids had a grand time partying with Ozzie the Clown and Santa and his elves. News […]
Jesus of Nazareth admonished his followers during his time on Earth to never forget the least of us, saying, “Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” As we approach Christmas season, organizations are finding ways and opportunities to share and to give. For […]
The body of a woman fished out of the Belize River on Wednesday, remains unidentified tonight. No one has come forward to verify her identity despite very distinct features on the body. It is believed, however, that in life she was homeless who wandered the streets of the City. The body had cut wounds to […]
There’s another murder to report tonight. About two miles off the Buena Vista Road in the Cayo District a body of a middle-aged man of Hispanic origins was discovered. According to police, the body was found lying face up in a pond of water on a ranch in Buena Vista Village. We are unable to […]
With Christmas just around the corner, criminals are on the loose. This afternoon, they are targeted Belize Electricity Limited in broad daylight. Police are investigating the hold up of a security guard that happened shortly before three this afternoon. Two assailants made their way to the entrance of B.E.L. Headquarters at mile two on the […]
In the Capital, the Senate hosted its final session for 2016 at the National Assembly. It reviewed and passed nine bills brought back from the House and several motions. Of these, the most important are the motions asking for ratification of the Special Agreement between Belize and Guatemala formalizing a potential settlement of the unfounded […]
The Opposition contends that there has been a rush to judgment and that the Government need not have acted with such haste. They say their view is bolstered by an admission from the Foreign Minister that the ratification of the Agreements is not and has never been needed to hold the referendum. That, combined with […]
One thousand six hundred acres of prime farm land gobbled up by a powerful family in five years, at great loss to the Government and people of Belize. That, in brief, is the story of the land grab in Carmelita village, Orange Walk, broken by News Five and spurred on by the People’s United Party. […]
Among the bills considered by the Senate today is the Treasury Bill (Number Three) Amendment Bill, which juggles the limits that Government can raise on treasury bills and treasury notes. There is a net increase of a quarter billion dollars which should adequately cover the second B.T.L. Arbitration Award payment. But it brings its own […]
Belize Rural South Area Representative, Manuel Heredia Junior, according to the Auditor General’s report, received fifty-two visa foils that were to have been delivered to the Officer in Charge of the Immigration Department in San Pedro. On Wednesday, Supervisor of Audit Carla Faber testified before the Senate Select Committee that Heredia was not authorized to […]
According to Heredia, acting as a courier to convey documents, including passports and visas foils, from San Pedro to the respective departments within the Ministry of Immigration is simply part of the services he provides to his constituents. Manuel Heredia Jr., Area Rep., Belize Rural South “Ever since I was mayor of San Pedro, […]
Who is leaking inaccurate suggestions of private deliberations of the Senate Special Select Committee on Immigration to certain sections of the media? That question came up in the full meeting of the Senate during debate on the Supplementary Appropriation Bill. According to the United Democratic Party’s organ, the Guardian newspaper, Senator Mark Lizarraga is at […]
A News Five crew was on Harvest Caye today at the invitation of Norwegian Cruise Lines. It is the first time the media was invited to experience the cruise port in southern Belize. We can say that NCL has developed a world-class tourist destination and we’ll have that report on Friday. But in Belmopan, member […]
Minister of Tourism Manuel Heredia Junior also took on Federation of Cruise Tourism Association of Belize for their allegation that visitors who booked with NCL to call on Belize, did so because they had already made arrangements with independent tour operators in Belize City. According to Heredia Junior, NCL disagrees with FECTAB and that all […]
Since NCL launched its Harvest Caye destination on November seventeenth, there have been concerns among local tour operators that their counterparts in Placencia aren’t getting a slice of the tourism pie. According to Colin Murphy, Senior Vice President of Destination Development for NCL, a number of shore excursions are presently being offered to guests which […]
Over a hundred and twenty persons are new Belizeans. The group of persons took the oath making them citizens of the country in Belmopan on Wednesday. They come from as close as Central America and the Caribbean and as far as Mynamar, formerly Burma, and Bangladesh in Asia. The Minister of State of Immigration welcomed […]
Interdicted police officer, Darren Evan Martinez who was accused of committing a heinous act on an eight year old child in February of this year, will have to stand trial at the Supreme Court for the offense of sexual assault on the minor. In the Belize City Magistrate’s Court, his case was committed to stand […]
There was yet another robbery on the George Price Highway near miles twenty. A pair of robbers, pretending to be commuters, boarded a Shaw bus en route to Belmopan and would soon hold up the driver and the conductor at gunpoint. The alert conductor would switch the moneybag unknown to the robbers who then got […]
