This evening, the family of Laddie Gillett spoke to the media in San Ignacio about the tragedy. According to the legal guardian, Emil Bradley, Gillett was with friends at a neighbouring property. He received a call from his son saying that they were on their way back to the hotel and decided to jog. That’s […]
Bradley reflects on his son, whose life was cut short at fourteen as he was innocently killed by a police officer. They were to return to their home in Cayo on Friday. Emil Bradley, Guardian of Deceased “…very friendly person, very funny person; he is always the clown in the group. He’s not that […]
Late this evening, the teenager that was with Laddie Gillett during the fatal shooting posted on his Instagram page about the incident. Calling it a senseless murder, he says “the cops and security intercepted us as we were heading back to Chabil Mar resort. The men who caused us to run were dressed in all […]
This morning, News Five caught up with Commissioner of Police Chester Williams in Dangriga as he is accompanying the Minister of Home Affairs on his country tour. ComPol Williams said that the department is investigating the antivaxxer group, Belize Rights and Justice Movement for violating quarantine regulations. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “I blame […]
Also under investigation are several persons whose names have shown up in an audit report of the COVID-19 Unemployment Relief Program under the Barrow Administration. According to information reaching News Five, the public purse was allegedly fleeced and several persons who were not eligible for relief funds received monies from the program. ComPol Chester Williams […]
In an update to the looming labor dispute at the Port of Belize, P.B.L. has reportedly agreed to meet with the Christian Workers Union next week. The union has served the port with a twenty-one-day notice of intended industrial action because stevedores fear they will be losing wages if the company which exports sugar at […]
When asked about the go-slow the stevedores are currently staging and how this affects not only the Port of Belize or A.S.R./B.S.I., but also cane farmers, the union president said they are conscious of the cane farmer’s situation and that the go-slow is one part of the union’s attempt to jump start negotiations. Evan […]
News Five also asked the C.W.U. leader about the right of a business to make changes to become more competitive. He referred back to the Memorandum of Understanding drawn up in the early two-thousands. Paul Lopez “Where do you stand on the right of the company to increase its efficiency by moving to the […]
The Port of Belize Limited called a press conference this evening to address the ongoing matter with the C.W.U. members. According to P.B.L., since April they have been engaging the C.W.U. but talks stalled when the CWU failed to provide feedback following a meeting. C.E.O. Andy Lane says that it was on May twenty-eight that […]
C.E.O. Lane is now hoping that G.O.B. will honor that M.O.U. and keep the sugar shipments in Belize. And he says if that happens, they want to transition into moving the Collective Bargaining Agreement forward with the C.W.U. as soon as possible. But we’ll only know what happens next week and although Lane has appealed […]
The Public Service Union is celebrating its ninety-ninth anniversary. The P.S.U.’s President Dean Flowers and First Vice President Annisa Gomez appeared on Channel Five’s Open Your Eyes this morning. Annisa Gonzalez, 1st Vice President, P.S.U. “I am overwhelmed to be in the union first of all, very proud to be in the public service […]
The A.S.R./B.S.I. group held a virtual launch of the Smart Sugarcane Project today. The three hundred and sixty-five thousand U.S.-dollar project seeks to transform the sugarcane industry through an innovative digital agro-credit, farm service business platform. It integrates the Tower Hill Sugar Mill with credit suppliers and more than five thousand two hundred small farmers […]
This pilot project is being funded by Compete Caribbean Partnership Facility and led by the Belize Sugar Industries Ltd of the A.S.R. Group, in partnership with a number of sugarcane associations and local financial institutions. RIPE.IO is an innovative company which specializes in block chain solutions in agriculture and they have provided the design services […]
The Ministry of Education has inaugurated the new building for the San Juan Bosco Preschool. The project was funded through a loan from the Caribbean Development Bank under the Belize Education Sector Reform Programme Two. The pre-school was previously housed in a building owned by the Baptist Mission in the San Juan/Cow Pen Bosco area. […]
Isani Cayetano, Reporting The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many of us to rethink the way in which we go about our daily lives. In the hospitality industry, the strictures that come along with the many regulatory adjustments, where restaurants and bars are concerned, have prompted business owners to return to the drawing board. News Five’s […]
Tuesday night’s heavy rains and cooler weather might have been good sleeping weather for some, but the deluge caught many in the Toledo District off guard. Today, they were scrambling to secure livestock, figuring out how to get across flooded roads and bridges, or finding themselves cut off from the main road or their neighbors. […]
Fifty-four pounds of compressed marijuana were removed from the streets of Lake Independence this morning during a joint operation conducted by various units of law enforcement. Shortly after seven a.m., elements from Special Branch, the K-9 Unit and the Special Patrol Unit descended on a location on Police Street where searches were conducted on an […]
Crime stats indicate that for over a year, there has been no major crime reported on the island of Caye Caulker. But on neighbouring Ambergris Caye, San Pedro Town is reporting criminal activity over the last few days. Within forty-eight hours, two persons were injured in separate shooting incidents in the San Mateo and DFC […]
The Christian Workers Union issued a twenty-one-day notice of intended strike action to the Port of Belize Limited on Tuesday. The letter, addressed to the Minister of Labour, Oscar Requeña notes that the union has sought to resolve a number of matters with P.B.L., but to no avail. Approximately one year ago, on the eighth […]
And while three unresolved matters are listed in C.W.U.’s letter to the Minister of Labour, the pending move by A.S.R/B.S.I. to transfer its sugar operation from Belize City to Port of Big Creek is, according to Hyde, the issue that triggered the impasse. While C.W.U. is looking to get confirmation on the filling of Container […]
Today New Five joined Minister of Home Affairs and New Growth Industries, Kareem Musa for a leg of his countrywide tour. This morning he was at Caye Caulker. We will have that story for you later in the newscast, but while we were with the minister we asked him for comment on the antivaxxer group, […]
In that same vein, Minister Musa told News Five that during his trip to the northern region, he found an astounding ninety percent of police officers in Orange Walk have been vaccinated. Figures also show a jump for law enforcement country wide, with forty percent of the police department vaccinated. Kareem Musa, Minister of […]
Minister of Home Affairs Kareem Musa and his C.E.O., Kevin Arthurs along with Commissioner of Police Chester Williams and other members of ministry are on a countrywide tour, meeting with officers attached to formations in various municipalities. On Tuesday, they were in Corozal and Orange Walk and today, they headed to the coastal communities of […]
Sunday’s recall convention saw Collet Area Representative Patrick Faber retaining his seat as leader of the United Democratic Party. Despite surviving the recent attempt to have him ousted, Faber’s control of the U.D.P. is not absolute. He is compelled to share the reins with Opposition Leader Shyne Barrow who is the official head of the […]
Former Leader of the Opposition Patrick Faber is on record stating that he has not taken a position on the controversial Eleventh Amendment bill. Despite his name appearing on the letterhead of a release issued by the U.D.P.’s parliamentary caucus on Monday, Faber maintains that he has not come out in favor of or against […]
