Employees helping themselves to company cash is not a particularly unusual occurrence, but when someone walks away with more than half a million dollars, something is wrong, very wrong. That’s apparently what has happened at the Mount Carmel Credit Union in Benque Viejo. The missing money’s whereabouts are uncertain but at least one employee has […]
Earlier this month Governor General Sir Colville Young informed Supreme Court Justice George Meerabux that he has been removed from office based on several allegations of misconduct during his tenure as a judge. On Thursday Meerabux’s attorney, Kirk Anderson, called News 5 to say that his client will file an application for judicial review and […]
On Friday evening Belize’s largest and most profitable publicly held company holds its annual general meeting. This one may spark some fireworks as BTL’s directors are considering withholding a portion of the year’s expected dividends and issuing loan notes instead. No one from the company would speak on the record, but the issuing of interest […]
Four vehicles were involved in an accident that has left one man hospitalised in the K.H.M.H. The accident took place around 10:00 this morning near Nargusta Street on Central American Boulevard. According to police this dump truck, driven by twenty-four year old Arthur Emmanuel Stevens, a labourer of Lords Bank Village, crashed first into a […]
Cashew, that pricey delicacy sold on the main streets of every Belizean city and town, is slated to emerge from a cottage industry into a major source of income for farmers in the Belize District. Cabinet on Monday approved a project, spearheaded by the Ministry of Agriculture, which aims to have two thousand, two hundred […]
The media in Belize has at various times come under fire for its alleged lack of sensitivity to issues involving women and children. To remedy that perceived shortcoming, many of us involved in the news business will take part in an educational programme that aims to upgrade skills and change attitudes. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The […]
In news from San Pedro a woman from that island town is looking for an explanation for the mysterious appearance of what she says is an image of the crucifixion, which has appeared in her house. Elena Lara told News 5 that on September eighteenth she decided to wash some pillows sewn in the shape […]
Two weeks after the biggest peacetime terrorist attack in modern history, Belize tourism officials are still holding their breath to see just how hard the industry here will be hit. According to Director of Tourism Tracy Taegar, the enormity and unprecedented scale of the acts make it difficult to predict the effects on Belize. Tracy […]
The cloud on the world’s tourism industry will hopefully not affect several big projects now underway in Belize. Three weeks ago groundbreaking ceremonies were held for the new Avalon Reef Resort on Northern Ambergris Caye. At two hundred and forty-two units, the hotel will be the country’s largest. The forty million-dollar investment will employ over […]
September celebrations may have come and gone, but Belizean artists continue to put out their latest efforts. Louie Ganzie better known as The Emperor, has released his first album. The CD, “Fire Storm” was produced in Kingston, Jamaica and has a total of twenty tracks. Ganzie says the songs, which speak about the troubles in […]
Earlier in this newscast, we reported on a new initiative to develop a modern cashew industry in the Belize District. Over a decade ago our production team looked at the traditional business of cashew growing as practised by Eric Burns of Crooked Tree. Host of the report, as seen on the show “Belize All Over”, […]
