According to the Opposition Leader, Prime Minister Dean Barrow has not responded to his letter last Friday that outlined his demands with regard to the land issue. But that does not mean that the pressure is off, or that the P.U.P. is willing to give up. John Briceño told News Five this afternoon that there […]
On Monday’s newscast, we questioned why Andre Vega would be compensated with public land on a private caye in the extreme north of Belize for privately-owned land in which a transaction did not go through on Caye Caulker. It has not been established how Vega approached the Ministry of Natural Resources, but Opposition Leader Briceño […]
Opposition Leader John Briceño has taken a firm position in the latest round of the Vega scandal, condemning unreservedly the land grab and compensation scheme involving relatives and friends of the beleaguered politician. Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte, on the other hand, is tasked with investigating the participation of Darlene Padron in the endorsement of what […]
About twenty employees of the little known “United Association for Healthy Living” are claiming that they are owed salaries for two pay periods. The call center located on Mercy Lane in Belize City is foreign owned but has a local manager. The local employees say that for several months they have had to go around […]
An elderly citizen was knocked down and killed this morning as he rode his cycle in Buena Vista village, Cayo District. Just before six-thirty a.m., twenty-year-old Jessica Miller, a U.S. citizen, told police that she was driving a SUV on the Buena Vista Road heading towards Spanish Lookout in a heavily foggy area when she […]
The Senate Special Select Committee on Immigration resumes on Wednesday after a month-long break. However, the public hearing will not be held at its usual morning time slot, but in the afternoon. The reason for that is according to our sources, the Committee’s members will be meeting in private in the morning with a witness. […]
A land dispute involving the Belmopan City Council, St. Michael Roman Catholic Primary School and residents of Las Flores has taken an unexpected turn, as members of the community have rejected an agreement that was struck between Mayor Khalid Belisle and Father Jordan Gongora of the Belmopan Catholic Mission. Late Monday evening, City Hall announced […]
This morning, stakeholders from the public and private sectors, as well as members of the environmental community, gathered at the Radisson to present on the strengthening of Belize’s oil spill response capabilities. On hand for the meeting were officials from the Department of the Environment, Oceana in Belize and other invited guests. News Five’s Isani […]
On Friday following a confrontation with police and special constables of the Belize City Council, proprietor of the ‘Chicken Dread’ fast food franchise Paul Ferguson had agreed to sort out his peddler’s license with the Council. But when his crew set up again outside of Edward P. Yorke High School this morning around eight-thirty, special […]
A few years ago a special group of women from across the Caribbean gathered to launch a campaign against teenage pregnancy. They are the spouses and partners of the Caribbean’s heads of state and government, and thus very close to the center of power. After successive meetings, today in Belize City, led by Belize’s Special […]
With the Carnival King and Queen 2017 determined on Saturday night, the mas camps got underway on Monday night in the north and south sides of the city. The bands are getting ready for this weekend’s road march and gave us a peak look at what can be expected. While judging is on originality and […]
The revelry aside….the Northern Lesser Antilles and Florida are bracing for a category-five hurricane to make landfall over the next few days. This morning, Hurricane Irma was upgraded from a category four to five and according to the National Hurricane Center it is the strongest hurricane ever recorded outside the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. […]
She was born Jane Ellen Mary Price, but she is known across Belize District as Jane Usher. Today, the founder of the credit union movement and former minister of government as well as mother of twelve children celebrates a milestone and well wishes have been pouring in to mark her one hundredth birthday. Bright and […]
“Free paper bun” for thousands of our nation’s students, most of whom returned to the classrooms on Monday for another year of classes. Parents paid the tuition fees, bought the books, pressed the uniforms and offered prayers for their children’s success, not to mention posted photos on Facebook and Instagram. But if one school News […]
The finale of KTV, the Remix, takes place tonight and we are surely counting down for the moment. Just for tonight, the venue has been shifted to the spacious Saint Catherine Auditorium. All the action begins with a red carpet event that guests will be strutting just prior to the opening act. Now, the line […]
Did purported titleholder Amy Forte lie to Prime Minister Barrow and the media about the fraudulent use of her signature in the latest Andre Vega land scandal? And how would she benefit from being untruthful? It’s a fluid situation that has many baffled, including Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte who is in receipt of a letter […]
The Attorney General’s Office is not in a position to investigate the alleged criminality involving the use of the signature, but can it investigate claims that public funds were used to compensate Vega for a private land transaction? That’s what we asked Peyrefitte earlier and his response is that, on the surface, the business deal […]
While the Attorney General has very little to work with in order to investigate the nature of the reported transaction, he also says that it does not appear to be a conflict of interest for Padron, who at the time worked in the Lands Department and who Andre Vega has claimed is a family friend, […]
Since this story broke last Tuesday with Amy Forte’s letter to Prime Minister Dean Barrow, there has been one largely unanswered question: why would the Ministry of Natural Resources, under then Minister Gaspar Vega, facilitate Andre Vega with compensation for land he thought he had acquired privately? And why would he just as easily give […]
There are more documents from the Ministry of Natural Resources coming out tonight, concerning parcels of land in the village of Carmelita in Orange Walk District. As revealed last November in the House of Representatives, German Vega and Sons Imports Limited acquired up to one thousand seven hundred acres of land along the Philip Goldson […]
Get ready for higher gas prices once again sometime this week, although this time there is some explanation from the government. The last increase came just last week for premium and diesel fuel, with recent increases also reported for regular fuel and even kerosene. This time the increase, the extent of which is not yet […]
The Military Tattoo was back this year to display the readiness of the Belize Fence Force and the Police Department. Hundreds headed over to the Marion Jones Sporting Complex on Friday evening to view the exercise. All was going according to precision, when something went awfully wrong. Today, both agencies provided explanations as to why […]
A dangerous explosive used in seismic testing activities was recovered from the streets of Belize City on Saturday. The charge, complete with a battery and accompanying wires, was found in the vicinity of Vernon Street. The only piece missing from the device is a detonator, which bomb expert, Brigadier General David Jones believes is still […]
According to Commander Jones, the lethality of the device should it have been detonated in proximity of civilians, would certainly leave a body count. Brig. Gen. David Jones, Explosives Expert “The charge is complete, is intact. There is a battery that is used as a power source to set off a detonator that would […]
One more issue on the ongoing investigation into the land scandal involving Andre Vega…This morning, Acting Commissioner of Police Noel Leal fielded questions from the media in respect of the allegation made by Amy Forte regarding the forging of her signature. While he admits to having assigned an investigator to the case, the police department […]
