On last night’s newscast we reported the eleventh hour compromise between the Belize City Council and Belize Tourism Board over the City’s demand for a piece of the Head Tax on cruise passengers. Today, while the crisis may have been averted, it is clear that no one is about to kiss and make up. News […]
While former mayor Jose Coye discussed the City Council’s finances, Health Minister Jose Coye had more current wounds to heal … like government’s proposed takeover of Universal Health Services. According to Coye, the government is now in the process of settling debts and negotiating with the existing shareholders. Jose Coye, Minister of Health
What it is that has Belizean men so crazed may never be known but it is with a sense of profound sadness that I must report yet another case of extreme domestic violence. That’s right, tonight one more woman lies hospitalised with stab wounds and her attacker has not yet been apprehended. Ricardo Tzul, Uncle […]
Meanwhile in Belize City, a woman who found herself in the middle of a domestic disturbance was unharmed, but the same could not be said for the police officer who came to her aid. On Sunday, a police patrol responded to a call from Diana Trujeque that her common-law husband, Lincoln Green, was intoxicated and […]
A Belize City businessman who shot a would be burglar to death over a year ago has failed to show up in court. Thirty-nine year old Ben Bou-Nahra had been charged with manslaughter in the September seventeenth, 2005 killing of Shawn Copius at Bou-Nahra’s Belize City home. Today that charge was supposed to be upped […]
In 2005, his murder trial ended in a deadlock and the D.P.P. vowed to re-file the charges … but tonight it looks like Mark Vega will not face a return bout in court; his paperwork, it seems, has gone missing. According to court reports, Vega was supposed to be arraigned today for the 2002 murder […]
Today, the family of Raymond Simon remains hopeful that soon they will be reunited with their loved one. This follows an encouraging phone call Florence Martinez received about the possible whereabouts of her common law husband. Martinez says after our news report on Monday night, the Orange Walk police contacted her to say a vehicle […]
The Ministry of Natural Resources has released its year end report on petroleum and despite a recent decline in world oil prices, the treasury is beginning to feel some impact from the four producing wells at Spanish Lookout. The figures show a total of over eight hundred eleven thousand barrels of light sweet crude pumped […]
With multiple televisions found in most Belizean homes the idea of going to the library for a book sounds almost ancient. But libraries are changing and reading will never go out of style. Today News Five’s Kendra Griffith attended the opening of a very special library in Ladyville. Luciano Choc, Chair, Ladyville Village Council
