The Public Utilities Commission held a press briefing at the its Mahogany Street office this afternoon to explain the method behind the madness of a second price hike in six months for Belize Electricity Limited. While the P.U.C. pushed the usual arguments of fuel costs and more expensive Mexican power, chair Gilbert Canton asserted that […]
Belize’s biggest industry–tourism–is reacting negatively to the newly passed General Sales Tax. In a press release today, the Belize Tourism Industry Association, speaking in support of the hotel sector, said it did not accept the classification of exempt status under the G.S.T. legislation. Exempt status means that while hotel accommodations will not draw the ten […]
Police have made another arrest following the execution style murders of two brothers over the Christmas holidays. Thirty-six year old Levi Jackson of Hattieville was today arraigned on two counts of murder before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers. Jackson was employed as a security guard at Belize Refrigeration on the Western Highway on the night of December […]
A security guard who reported his gun stolen was today himself charged with the theft. David Meighan, an employee of J & B’s Security Service was arraigned before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers. According to the owner of J & B’s, Joseph Meighan, a thirty-eight calibre revolver was issued to David Meighan on January second and he […]
A missing laptop has been recovered and a nineteen year old youth from Belize City has been charged with handling stolen goods. The Dell computer worth over five thousand dollars and belonging to Frederick Sandiford was jacked during a break-in at a house in Buttonwood Bay sometime between December twenty-third and twenty-fourth. Subsequent investigations into […]
Tonight political pundits across the country are strategising their next moves in the bid to contest the March municipal elections. But politics aside, there is a technical aspect to the showdown that will prove crucial to the success of the day itself…that is, the organisation of voting, the counting, and of course the accurate reporting […]
This morning, more than thirty teachers gathered in Belize City for a professional development conference designed specifically to share creative ways of making reading fun. The local initiative will include primary school teachers countrywide. News Five’s Karla Heusner was on hand this morning as officials shared the results of the pilot phase conducted in schools […]
