Following Cabinet’s decision to rescind the highly favourable terms of two oil concessions granted to two local companies, today Minister of Natural Resources Florencio Marin went on record defending Belmopan’s motives. The interview with News Five’s Janelle Chanona took place in the minister’s Belmopan office with Inspector of Petroleum Andre Cho and Chief Executive Officer […]
While the big news out of Cabinet this week was the cancellation of two lopsided oil contracts, that body did manage to make some other significant decisions. According to a press release, a ten percent increase in the minimum pension for retired public officers has been approved. Cabinet has also been advised that the Social […]
The long running Manslaughter case against Ben Bou-nahra ended in shambles today when the four police officers who originally visited the scene said they could not identify the accused. Without that basic evidence the prosecution could not even begin to make its case and an acquittal verdict was directed by Justice Adolph Lucas. The testimony […]
Belize City police believe it was jealousy that caused one childhood friend to shoot another. The drama unfolded around ten-thirty on Tuesday morning outside the home of Elizabeth Martinez. Police investigations reveal that Martinez was sitting in her yard talking with twenty-eight year old Eric Jones when twenty-seven year old Norris Martinez, no relation to […]
Belize City Police are not saying what kind of a mission they believe three suspects may have been on when their vehicle was intercepted by a police mobile patrol but what the officers found inside the car may have caught them by surprise. Authorities say around eight-thirty on Tuesday night they observed a grey Pontiac […]
Another cop is in trouble tonight after he barrelled through a police checkpoint on the Northern Highway carrying a cargo of uncustomed liquor and cigarettes. Off duty police constable thirty year old Andres Hernandez sped through the checkpoint at the Boom cut-off around five-thirty this morning, was chased by Ladyville cops, turned around at mile […]
It’s the guardian of Belizean workers’ retirement and benefit funds, as well as a dominant force in the nation’s economy. And while the Social Security Board has taken its share of public criticism, a new initiative seeks to dispel that image and produce real change in the organisation. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Today, the Social Security […]
We often receive complaints from viewers regarding various shortcomings in the services provided by different governmental bodies or public utilities. In many instances the calls amount to much ado about nothing, but occasionally the grievance is not only genuine but the offence is disgraceful. Such was the case investigated this afternoon by News Five’s Marion […]
There was not an empty seat in the Bliss auditorium and the singers responded with perhaps the strongest set of performances ever given in six years of KTV. Each of the four finalists sang as if ten thousand dollars was at stake … which of course it was. Here’s how it went on stage. [Contestants […]
