While the Prime Minister may just have returned from Trinidad and Mexico, today he saw one of his pet projects from his Cuba visit earlier this year swing into action. Prime Minister Musa had his first glimpse of the Cuban house factory leased from President Fidel Castro, which has been set up in Ladyville. While […]
There was much pomp and circumstance at the police station on Raccoon street as the Minister of National Security and Immigration, Jorge Espat officially handed over thirteen new vehicles to law enforcement agencies. Espat in his address said the vehicles are examples of the governments’ commitment to renew and transform Belize’s law enforcement agencies. Six […]
Following the handing over ceremony, News Five asked Minister of National Security Jorge Espat about the removal of A.I.P. Simeon Alvarez as the officer in charge of the Criminal Investigation Branch at Eastern Division. Espat said the decision to reassign Alvarez was based on a report into the theft of seven guns from the evidence […]
A twenty-seven year a businessman from Belmopan is lucky to be alive after an accident this morning between miles three and four on the Western Highway. News five arrived at the scene moments after the accident. Liji Sen was travelling up to Belmopan when he lost control of the small Toyota car. The car, which […]
Their product is in every government office whether it is the forms you fill out or the gazette and other publications, but now the Printing department is no longer limited to black and white productions. The department has acquired a device for color separation and printing. The first newspaper to hire their services is the […]
New magistrates, a temporary magistrate and two new crown counsels have been appointed to help speed up things in the judiciary. Complaints from the public about slow child maintenance payments have led the Attorney General to provide the Family Court with two new magistrates, Merlene Moody and Alberta Perez. They will help with the backlog […]
Eleven months after the General Elections, the United Democratic Party launched its new Party Constitution Tuesday night. Members at a special conference ratified the document at Birds Isle late last month and according to the UDP it represents a more participatory approach. Aside from the general aims and goals of the party and requirements for […]
If you’re one of those people who have travelled to Belmopan to fill out all the forms for getting a piece of land and were assured that everything was in order only to return the next week and have to repeat the whole process again, don’t lose heart. According to the Minister of Natural Resources […]
