The deadlock continues at City Hall as the two front runners for the Mayorship are still without the single crucial vote needed to assume office. In yesterday’s newscast we reported that a meeting was scheduled for this morning at City Hall where another attempt to resolve the impasse would have been made, but when we […]
It had been rumored for several weeks, reported in the Belize Times and headlined in the Amandala. Today News Five has confirmed that it’s true. The Pulse newspaper, which published its last issue yesterday, does in fact owe in the vicinity of forty thousand dollars in VAT. The revelation that the U.D.P.’s official organ was […]
While the leader of the Opposition was discovering that VAT was indeed, a killa, the Prime Minister appeared on television to explain how he was going to make good on his campaign promise to abolish the infamous tax. Appearing Thursday night on Channel Five’s “One On One with Stuart Leslie” Said Musa focussed on his […]
In crime news, an armed robbery overnight in Belize City has left one establishment considerably poorer and the police in hot pursuit of four alleged robbers. According to the officer commanding C.I.B. in Belize City, Eli Salazar, around ten thirty last night, four armed men walked into M.J.’s Pool and Bar on West Collet Canal […]
While police search for the guys who jacked the pool hall, their quick work has landed a teenage boy behind bars, charged with robbery. On Thursday, twenty-one year old student Orlando Novelo reported to police that he was the victim of a robbery that occurred around two o’clock on Thursday morning. Novelo told police that […]
While in Belize City it was tennis shoes and jewelry, thieves in Orange Walk preferred livestock. Three people have been arrested on charges of cattle theft. They are thirty-two year old Vicente Monroy, thirty-seven year old Edwardo Aguilar and thirty-nine year old Jose Santana. Their arrest is the result of a report made by fifty […]
One week after they were busted as they tried to cash some stolen Traveler’s Checks, a battery of charges has been laid against two foreign visitors. Thirty-nine year old Italian Karlheinz Gatsher and his thirty-six year old companion Maria Elena Sanz Rodriguez of Spain, have been charged with forgery, uttering a forged document, going equipped […]
It was an innovation implemented in the closing months of the U.D.P. administration and one that the new government has taken to heart. Today the first inmates released under the new parole program were let out of Hattieville to serve the rest of their sentences — provided they stay out of trouble — as free […]
He’s made it to the “Most Wanted” list, but no, punta rocker Aziatic is not being sought by the police. Instead the Los Angeles based artist is preparing to unleash his latest concoction of punta rock rhythms. The fifteen song collection is being promoted as the Punta Rock album of the year and Aziatic says […]
It has become a regular feature of the September Celebrations and one that seems to get better with every passing year. This morning I had the pleasure to bang hooky along with a whole lot of happy kids. Thousands of primary school students from Belize City and Ladyville jammed the bleachers inside the Belize City […]
We know them by their stylishly baggy shorts, new tennis and strange accents. News Five commentator G. Michael Reid, himself a former Belize-American, demonstrates that it takes one to know one. “This year’s celebration has seen by far, the largest return of ex-patriots to the homeland in a long time and for some, it is […]
