But when it comes to his personal decision, Mora says he leaning toward a no. He’s been acquainting himself with past rulings by The Hague on similar cases of territorial disputes. Here’s how he put it. Marvin Mora, President, N.T.U.C.B. “I have not been able to arrive at a decision. I have more leads […]
The pump price for diesel fuel is set to increase at midnight on Wednesday. It will go up by thirty-three cents, from nine dollars and ninety-seven cents to ten dollars and thirty cents per gallon. Kerosene will also see an increase of twenty-nine cents, from seven dollars and forty-five cents to seven dollars and seventy-four […]
Corporal punished has been banned from schools for more than a decade. In 2017, Minister of Education Patrick Faber told the media that corporal punishment in schools will not be allowed. Minister Faber also said that “if at the end of the day it is found that in fact corporal punishment was utilized by a […]
A preliminary inquiry ended today in the murder case against Orlando Salazar, who was charged jointly with Joel Choco for the killing of Windell Neal. The court withdrew the charge against Salazar and he was free to go. The evidence of the prosecution was challenged back in October of 2018 when the P.I. started before […]
Two city youth were arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court on six criminal and indictable offenses. Twenty-one year-old Mark August and eighteen-year-old Avery Bain were read the criminal and indictable offenses including abetment to murder, conspiracy to murder and attempted murder. Allegations are that on February twenty-third, 2019, gunmen opened fire at two brothers: […]
Last week we told you that police recovered about one thousand rounds of ammunition and that five hundred more remain on the streets. The ammo is a part of the stash of weapons stolen from arms dealer Victor L Bryant. The police had major concerns about the storage of these weapons and they have been […]
There are forty-three days left before the April tenth I.C.J. referendum and logistics are still being worked out. The Elections and Boundaries Department is still carrying out preparations for what will be a historic day. According to the department, in an effort to ensure the integrity of the referendum, it is extending an invitation to […]
While on Open Your Eyes, Tamai and Singh responded to concerns regarding the Vital Statistics Unit. As we have been reporting, many electors are complaining that they are being disenfranchised from re-registering because Vital Stats does not have birth certificates for them. According to Tamai a little over two thousand five hundred persons have not […]
Concerns regarding the daily operations at the Vital Statistics Unit have been mounting for years. Those who have visited the Unit go through a hellish and frustrating experience. Today, the experience may have intensified for some after the system at Vital Stats crashed. A release says, “the Management of the Vital Statistics Unit informs the […]
On Monday we reported about thirty-one-year-old William Vasquez who was killed while working on a construction site on the Chial Road. Reports are that Vasquez accidentally made contact with a high voltage wire and was electrocuted, but there are allegations that there is some negligence on the work-site that led to his death. Today we […]
In other news…A reform in the trade license fee is expected to be rolled out across the country in 2020. The legislation has been completed and according to Belize City Mayor Bernard Wagner, it has the full support of all municipalities. Mayor Wagner says that businesses of all types will benefit from the reform. […]
Next Tuesday at eight p.m., Channel Five will be launching “Mapping the Guatemalan Claim: a News Five Flashback.” The series will run through to the April tenth referendum and is part of our coverage of this historic event. As Belize prepares for the referendum, Channel Five is producing a limited season retrospective of our news […]
On Friday night at the Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts, well-known anthropologist Doctor Herbert Gayle delivered a public lecture entitled Failure of Suppression. Breaking down crime and violence into dollars and “sense,” Doctor Gayle spoke of how the system has failed to reduce crime nationally and regionally and looks at ten basics for a […]
According to Doctor Gayle, the region has only one violence reduction success and that is through the concept of community policing. He is of the belief that hard-line policing is failing the region. It is best to focus on education for boys, empowerment for girls and community-based initiatives tied with violence interruption groups. Dr. […]
There is breaking news from the south: just minutes ago, there was a shooting in Punta Gorda. One person is reportedly dead and another injured. We’ll have more on this in Tuesday’s newscast.
The disturbing issue of cyber bullying is finally taking centre stage. Online bullying is not new, but given two well-known recent cases, it is now taking a sense of urgency, prompting legislation as well as awareness. Today, during the lunch hour, a group of demonstrators led by attorney Audrey Matura were on Albert Street in […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow’s statement aimed at Justice Courtenay Abel at last week’s business forum, has been met with dismay. The People’s United Party is first to publicly interpret it as contempt of court. The party equates the statements as a scandalous and contemptible attack against a sitting justice deliberately designed to interfere with cases […]
Councilor Micah Goodin has been benched from his responsibilities with the Belize City Council, following an altercation during which he dressed down City Administrator Stephanie Lindo-Garbutt, before leaving City Hall in a fit of rage. Goodin had gotten a budget green lighted for a pending sporting initiative which he had proposed to caucus the night […]
A fire completely destroyed a family home in Santa Elena on Saturday. The house, located at number seven George Price Highway, just before the Hawksworth Bridge, quickly burnt to the ground and residents say some of the fault may be on an “illegal” structure built in the middle of the alleyway. The concrete structure with […]
Just now you heard the August family complain that the structure built in the alleyway impeded the fire-fighters’ access to the burning house. It could have been worst had the fire not been contained because there are several homes next to each other. Well, as you’ve seen the residents took action and knocked down the […]
There was a daring mid-morning attack on a residence in Punta Gorda Town earlier today where two men on bicycles opened fire on a home on Queen Street. Police are trying to ascertain whether the incident may be an act of reprisal following the murder of Jordy Flores on January twenty-ninth. According to police, an […]
Hours before that shooting, a pair of men, both residents of San Pedro, Columbia, received gunshot injuries just after midnight, following an altercation during an event in that southern village. Eulalio Chiac and Orlando Choc were rushed to the Punta Gorda Hospital after the two were shot while on their way home from the event. […]
Almost a month ago, the processing plant at the Belize Aquaculture Limited near Placencia caught fire. The inferno created a menacing black, thick cloud of smoke which could have been seen by the neighboring villages of Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa. The fire also emitted traces of ammonia and chlorine into the air, prompting NEMO […]
News Five’s Andrea Polanco and Duane Moody clinched the first and second prizes in a competition by the International Organization of Migration. The results were released over the weekend by the I.O.M. Andrea and Duane were among a number of reporters who attended a training programme by the I.O.M. and went on to submit stories […]
An electrician lost his life on Sunday morning when he was shocked to death while welding. William Vasquez accidentally made contact with a high voltage wire and was electrocuted. According to police, the thirty-one-year-old was in the company of another man when the incident happened in Benque Viejo Town. Here’s more on what happened. […]
