Two months after police foiled what appeared to have been a hit on an Orange Walk businessman; tonight it is believed that someone else has finished the job. The body of forty-six year old Alvaro Zetina was found early Wednesday afternoon three miles into the Honey Camp road. Zetina had been shot multiple times in […]
Word out of the Attorney General ministry tonight is that the contract of Solicitor General Elson Kaseke will not be renewed. News Five understands that Kaseke’s agreement with Belmopan expired earlier this month but the Musa administration has declined to retain his services. In a statement to this press today, Attorney General Francis Fonseca maintained […]
The investigation into the case of baby Kimora Leslie continues tonight because the team charged with determining the factors surrounding her death failed to interview the little girl’s family. That’s the word tonight out the Ministry of Health. Apparently the five person panel of government, medical and legal officials submitted their final report to Minister […]
In a clarification to our story regarding the P.U.C.’s decision on B.E.L.’s rate structure, today the company maintained to us that they had not proposed a rate hike. According to B.E.L., they are in full agreement with having current electricity rates apply to customers at approximately forty four cents per kilowatt hour.
As part of its mandate, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) funds a national commission in every signatory country. But for the past twelve years, the Belize chapter has been non existent. Why? Officially, the group just stopped meeting. Unofficially sources tell News Five that one by one, the assets, monies and […]
One of the newly appointed Vice Presidents of the Belize National Commission for UNESCO is Minister of State in the Ministry of Education and Labour, Rodwell Ferguson. Today we took the opportunity to ask him about his position on Ara Macao, the controversial mass tourism project being proposed for the Placencia Peninsula. Rodwell Ferguson, Area […]
Today, the Belize City Council continued with its plans for a traffic makeover at one of the busiest intersections in the downtown area. Today, the council’s traffic coordinator, Glen Rivero, from the traffic department told us that the idea is designed improve the overall traffic flow in the heart of the old capital. Glen Rivero, […]
Our national effort last week in international basketball may be a sad memory but today Team Belize is convinced that the players have gotten their act together and should redeem themselves in games three and four against Mexico. Today our homeboys packed their bags, took a bus ride to the Phillip Goldson International Airport and […]
