The Petro Caribe Initiative, under which Belize buys refined fuel from Venezuela under extremely favourable credit terms, appears to be gaining momentum. A release today from the government’s Press Office announces that Venezuelan officials are in Belize to prepare for the building of two ten thousand barrel fuel storage tanks at the port of Big […]
Never look a gift horse in the mouth, goes the old adage, but perhaps because it’s an election year, the filly called free textbooks is being examined from head to tail. With primary schools now getting down to post holiday business, News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports that—for the most part— the new books have finally […]
It’s been out of the headlines for months but tonight the Commission of Inquiry investigating the affairs of the Development Finance Corporation is back in the news. According to co-chair of the commission, Merlene Bailey Martinez, her final report is “imminent”. Martinez has been forced to file a separate set of findings after the commission’s […]
A bicyclist killed in a hit and run has finally been identified, but police have yet to discover who knocked him down. The deceased is twenty-seven year old Wilmer Montoya, an employee of Kerbo Farms near Kendal in the Stann Creek District. Montoya was found lying unconscious on the Southern Highway at two a.m. on […]
It’s a story we cover pretty much every week. But while solutions to the problem seem as far away as ever, one group trying to stem the deadly tide is not about to give up. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Thankfully there are no murders to report in Belize tonight, but with a homicide rate approaching record […]
Belizeans will not soon forget the names Dean and Felix, but for the majority of our population those two category five hurricanes will be remembered only as reminders of what could have been. Not so for residents of the Corozal and Orange Walk Districts. Today News Five’s Marion Ali returned to the scene of August’s […]
