Across the country today, employees of the Development Finance Corporation staged a walk out as part of a union sanctioned move against the Government owned lending institution. According to the Christian Workers Union, the seventy-two employees they represent in Belize City, Belmopan, Orange Walk and Dangriga left their posts to protest cabinet’s decision to discount […]
From his office in Belmopan today, Prime Minister Said Musa responded to the union’s allegations that Government has not kept its part of the bargain when it comes to keeping the union informed. As for the future of the D.F.C., it would appear that the union’s fears of liquidation may be well founded. Said Musa, […]
Just back from a regional summit in Panama, Prime Minister Musa also addressed the issue of the report of the Senate Select Committee on Social Security. Said Musa, Prime Minister of Belize ?I was hoping to have gone through it completely on my recent visit to Panama, on the plane, but I haven?t concluded my […]
Earlier this week we ran a story on meetings being held to establish new protocols for the nation’s search and rescue activities. Tonight we need them more than ever, as police report a fisherman missing at sea. The last anyone saw of Albert Johnson of Cattle Landing, Toledo was Tuesday morning at nine, when his […]
An accused murderer is tonight a free man for lack of evidence against him. According to court reports, this morning, following instructions from the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Magistrate Margaret Gabb ordered that twenty-one year old Errol Haynes be released from custody. Haynes was charged with the murder of Delrick Sankey. In […]
Magistrate Gabb also heard the case of a man accused of stealing almost twenty-five thousand dollars worth of household items. Thirty-one year old Dennis Quilter is charged with burglary, attempted burglary, damage to property and handling stolen goods, all in connection with a break in at the home of Veronica Amoa in Ladyville in June. […]
A Belize City burglar picked the wrong house to teef … and now he’s got five years to think about it. Twenty-three year old Sheldon Lewis was this afternoon found guilty of burglary by Magistrate Dorothy Flowers. Shortly after midnight on the morning of May twentieth, W.P.C. Joan Grinage was awakened by the barking of […]
Don’t bother to check those Lotto tickets you left in your pocket last night because there was no winner. Consequently the jackpot for Saturday’s draw increases to a record one hundred and fifty-two thousand, five hundred dollars.
It’s a long way to go but twelve Belizean athletes and several officials departed the country this afternoon en route to Cartagena, Colombia for the twentieth Central American and Caribbean Games. They will compete with top athletes from around the region in athletics, cycling and karate. Riding for Belize are Gina Lovell, Gregory Lovell, Ian […]
Recently we’ve been devoting a lot of airtime to show viewers the multitude of activities being organised for children during the summer. Today, however, News Five’s Alyssa Noble visited St. John’s College and found that it’s not only the students who are keeping busy during the school holidays. Alyssa Noble, Reporting It?s the fifth year […]
Heavy rains are not unwelcome in the television news business as the resulting flooding is usually good for at least one visually rich story. This week’s adverse weather is no exception, but as I discovered in the Belama Phase Three area of Belize City, there’s more to a flood than just water. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting […]
