Another massive credit card scam has been uncovered in the local banking system and police are on the lookout tonight for a pair of thieves who have withdrawn an undisclosed sum of money from ATMs across Belize City. It’s a high-tech scheme which involves the use of an electronic device that is able to read […]
At this hour, a meeting of the Election and Boundaries Commission is taking place. It was called by Chairman Doug Singh to discuss several proposals related to conduct and practice for general elections. Singh and his Government colleagues are proposing to once again postpone re-registration of Belize’s hundred-thousand-plus voters to after the 2018 municipal elections. […]
The P.U.P. also says that it denounces any attempt by the Commission to carry out a re-districting exercise before a re-registration exercise, since such an exercise, in its view would be giving validation to the out-dated, fraudulent and padded voters’ list. The last re-districting took place before the 2008 general elections and saw shifts in […]
The voter’s identification card carries none of the shine of the passport, or Social Security card or driver’s license. Indeed, its sole use seems to be to identify a voter on Election Day. But that may soon be a thing of the past if the Elections and Boundaries Commission has its way. The Commission is […]
The Opposition People’s United Party is planning a press conference on Thursday of this week. On the agenda is a frank discussion of the revelations coming out of the Senate Special Select Committee and in particular from former Director of Immigration, Ruth Meighan. The most damaging of those statements is her admission that of the […]
While the party awaits its turn to address the single biggest revelation coming out so far from the Senate Special Select Committee, deputy leader Kareem Musa offered some general observations of the Committee and its work in our interview with him this evening. For Musa, it is confirmation that the Government was an active participant […]
A custody battle is brewing in Belmopan where a San Martin family is before the courts fighting to regain care of their eight children. According to Santos Fermin Sagastume, back on December nineteenth, he and his wife authorized a US couple from River of Life, Camalote Village, as legal guardian of their eight under-aged children […]
Since his wife’s passing, Sagastume and his daughter have not been able to contact the children and don’t know their whereabouts. But the family has been in touch with personnel at Social Services, and has received little comfort since the department reportedly told them that the children cannot be returned to them. Sagastume and his […]
Since the start of the New Year, Conch Shell Bay, a bustling community which is home to the popular Fish Market, has quickly become a hotspot in the city. The surge in violence is said to be motivated by feuding factions in a drug war. As recent as Monday night, a twenty-one-year-old man was on […]
In the run-up to the presentation of the General Revenue and Appropriations Bill, also known as the Budget, in March; there will be planned consultations with civil society, the business community and others coming up. Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Dean Barrow and his Minister of State, Doctor Carla Barnett, have spoken of “re-balancing” […]
Has the Department of the Environment cleared a planned beach creation on the popular island of Caye Chapel without the benefit of an environmental impact assessment? The question came up on the adjournment in Monday’s meeting of the Senate in Belmopan. P.U.P. Senator Valerie Woods reported that the owners of the project want to do […]
As mentioned earlier in the newscast, the People’s United Party held the first National Party Council meeting of the New Year in Orange Walk. The main resolution which we told you about earlier concerned the Immigration revelations but there were three others. The party inveighed against Super Bond Three; the resignation of Gaspar Vega from […]
A B.D.F. soldier is in trouble with the law for unruly and unbecoming behaviour. Twenty-two-year-old Kevin Chun is accused of touching a female police officer on her private parts on Friday night. Chun is said to have been at a bar in Ladyville where he committed a sexual assault upon the forty-two-year-old officer. The officer […]
On Saturday, Coast Guard officials busted twenty-two-year-old Justin Flowers, eighteen-year-old Elijah Usher, Stanley O’Neil and a minor all of Belize City with eight hundred and sixty two gram of weed in possession of two plastic bags with eight hundred and sixty two grams of weed on Turneffe Island. The men, who appeared unrepresented in court […]
The Chinese zodiac is divided into twelve blocks just like the western astrological calendar, but the major difference being that each block covers a period of one year instead of one month. This year, it’s the Year of the Rooster, the tenth animal in the cycle. People born in the Year of the Rooster are […]
The Hamilton family of Aloe Vera Street, Belize City, continues to look for answers four months after a senseless act of arson of their house. They lost not one, but three children, in the fire in October of last year. Today the relatives of the victims told News Five’s Duane Moody that the investigation is […]
Cops gone crazy over engagement? One woman is alleging that two officers – one attached to Rural Eastern Division and the other assigned to Eastern Division South – made an attack on her son’s life on Saturday night. Nineteen year old Michael Crawford had only just gotten engaged to a young woman on Friday and […]
On Monday night you heard the mother of a thirteen year old boy complain about police actions against her son in Punta Gorda. Today, we spoke with the sister of another minor who says that her baby brother was taken advantage of by police officers in Belize City. Last Friday, twelve-year-old Rhyan Leslie was heading […]
Following the special session of the House of Representatives on Friday, the nation’s upper chamber was convened to further progress the Central Bank of Belize (International Immunities) and Crown Proceedings (Amendment) Bills, 2017. According to the Government, the new legislation is intended to serve as a firewall, protecting Belize’s assets from the imminent threat of […]
The Caribbean Court of Justice’s scathing denunciation of the Accommodation Agreement and Settlement Deed and the actions of their signatories as “malignant tumours,” eating away at democracy has been cited many times by the Government. But the judgment, as pointed out by Senator Eamon Courtenay, also contained advice for the Government about not waiting to […]
As Courtenay pointed out, no one, least of all the Opposition, intended to vote against legislation intended to protect Belize from these and other similar awards. And that spirit of unity – with some misgivings – was in large part led by the Social Partner Senators, who one by one addressed the chamber to say […]
Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte blasted Lord Michael Ashcroft saying that he will ensure that neither Caribbean Investment Holdings Limited nor Belize Social Development Limited gets their hands on the foreign reserves. But as he told reporters following the meeting, the new legislation applies specifically to Belizean companies and individuals – the “vulture funds” that Prime […]
The community of Maya Mopan, located about a mile outside of downtown Belmopan, witnessed tragedy on Saturday afternoon. Eighteen-month-old Edwin Lorenzo Duarte was playing near a well at the back of the family’s residence on La Mux Street, when he apparently fell inside, drowning in the water. He died on arrival at Western Regional Hospital […]
FECTAB is back in the news tonight after an extended hiatus from the media spotlight. This time it is joined by COLA and both organizations are rallying around a common cause, that government has forsaken the Belizean people. The cruise tourism industry, since the opening of Harvest Caye in November, has seen a significant loss […]
And now back to the senate. Osmany Salas, president of the Belize Tourism Industry Association, formally took the oath that marked his ascension to the Senate as its thirteenth member, representing non-governmental organizations. It ends nine years of back-and-forth that started with a campaign promise by the ruling United Democratic Party that gripped the national […]
