They have been talking about it for months, but today Belize Telecommunications Limited finally lowered the boom on Belizean consumers. Disguised as a tariff rebalancing, BTL today announced a new rate structure, which will drastically raise the cost of living for both residential and business customers. What the monopoly telecom has done is to essentially […]
The United Democratic Party called a press conference this morning to expose what it claims is a major scandal in the Housing Department. Citing a leaked document from the Auditor General, area representatives Dean Barrow and Michael Finnegan alleged that L and J Trade and Management Company, appointed to collect loan payments on behalf of […]
Forty-three year old Gary Daniel Hart, a Canadian national, remains in police custody in San Pedro after he tried to hold-up the town’s branch of the Atlantic Bank. On Tuesday the police told News 5 that they were called by the bank manager and told that a hold-up was in progress. The police ostensibly arrived […]
It may be a sign of the number of guns on the streets or the ever increasing boldness of Christmas crazed criminals, but robberies at gunpoint are these days as regular as rice and beans. On Tuesday in Dangriga, Tackle Gas station attendant Albert Nunez reported to police that a dark male walked onto the […]
Today is World Diabetes Day and with perhaps as many as twenty percent of the population affected by the disease, Belizeans would do well to take notice. This afternoon a new diabetes centre was opened in Belize City and News 5’s Jacqueline Woods was there. Beth McBride, President, B.D.A. “To have a building we can […]
Belize Electricity Limited has announced that just over a month after Hurricane Iris tore through Stann Creek and Toledo, they have completed their restoration efforts in the south. According to the company, more than two thousand, six hundred customers on the Placencia Peninsula, in Independence and rural communities in Toledo were left in the dark […]
In other hurricane news, On Saturday, members of the Belize Chinese community held a benefit fair for the victims of the disaster. The community sold food and crafts at the Taiwanese Embassy on North Park Street and sales totaled eight thousand dollars. Two thousand will be donated to the police trust fund, while the remainder […]
In news from Cabinet, we are informed that government will enact legislation to conform with recommendations made by the UN to combat terrorism. Among the measures are beefed up efforts to prevent money laundering and make it easier to quickly freeze the assets of suspected terrorists. Notably missing from the proposed action is a decision […]
A university is supposed to provoke critical thought and that’s just what U.B. was doing today at a public forum held in Belize City. Ann-Marie Williams reports. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting Over fifty students from the University of Belize enrolled in the public administration and policy class participated in their class forum titled: “In the Eye […]
Given the serious economic impacts September eleventh will pose for Belize, right now increased trade and investment might seem like an uphill struggle. Within that context, the Belize Trade and Investment Development Service, BELTRAIDE, is conducting a series of workshops in every district to advise the public of its role as well as present investment […]
On yesterday’s newscast B.E.L.’s CEO Lynn Young offered his company’s opinion on the decision to green light B.E.L.’s Chalillo hydroelectric project. Today News 5’s Janelle Chanona travelled west where she spoke to NEAC chairman Ismael Fabro in Belmopan and BACONGO’s Sharon Matola at the Belize Zoo. Ismael Fabro, Chief Environmental Officer “We did not get […]
