On Tuesday, the first public hearings of the Commission of Inquiry into the Development Finance Corporation made for hours of must see tv … but tonight critics in Belmopan are trying to pull the plug on the whole affair … or at least its chairman. A press release issued by the People’s United Party secretariat […]
That Belize is in a whole heap of financial trouble is hardly news … but when Belmopan issues a press release admitting that it cannot pay its debts and will go hat in hand to its creditors … well, we better sit up and listen. Today’s release from the Ministry of Finance comes on the […]
There is good news tonight for students at the University of Belize. According to a release from the U.B. Board of Trustees, government has heeded the request of student leaders and will make up the financial shortfall that required the school’s administration to raise a number of fees for the upcoming academic year. The release […]
Eighty-one employees of the Princess casinos at the Corozal Free Zone are out of a job tonight. A release from the company cites, (quote) “a dramatic increase in the costs of doing business,” as the primary reason for the lay offs, referring specifically to higher utility bills, an increase in casino license fees and business […]
Another fugitive from U.S. Justice has been captured in Belize and put on an airplane back to the States. Fifty-nine year old Roger Huskey was wanted by the D.E.A. and U.S. Marshals Service for Conspiracy to Distribute Marijuana as well as Bank Fraud. It is alleged that he operated a major weed distribution ring in […]
Just a reminder: Tonight’s Lotto jackpot has reached a record of one hundred seventy-two thousand five hundred dollars. Buyers have been lining up for tickets all afternoon. You can watch your number play tonight at nine, right here on Channel Five.
A total of twenty-eight students from all over the country have been chosen to receive high school, sixth form, and university scholarships from the Belize Social Security Board. The recipients, who were chosen based on financial need, academic performance and successful entry to the institution of their choice, received their awards at a ceremony held […]
The traditional stalwarts of Belize’s overnight tourism industry for many years looked askance at their more recently endowed colleagues catering to cruise ships, saying that cruising cheapened what should be a high end destination and in any case left Belize with little more than the crumbs from the megaships’ table. Today a new report commissioned […]
A few years ago there was a popular song called “Too Many Guns in this Town.” Well, the passage of time has only made those words more appropriate: so much so that a campaign is being started to get rid of not only real weapons, but toy guns as well. News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports. […]
