All the speculation about the date of general elections will end on Monday. That’s the day Prime Minister Said Musa will finally let the official cat out of the bag. The announcement may come as early as a prayer breakfast to be held Monday morning in Belize City. That meeting with the nation’s religious leaders […]
And in case you were wondering whether government’s election machinery is running properly, a release from Cabinet today says that in its meeting on Thursday that body was briefed on the state of preparedness of the Elections and Boundaries Department to conduct not only the general election but also any proposed referendum on an elected […]
True to its word, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a release today on the relocation of residents of Santa Rosa, a tiny village illegally inhabited by Guatemalans on the Belize side of the border in Toledo. The Ministry confirmed that the relocation of eight families began today to a site twenty-four miles west in […]
They had a great idea to export coffee from Belize to the United States using an energy efficient sailboat, but three Texans who departed San Pedro on Christmas Eve with a cargo of roasted coffee beans had to be rescued on Tuesday afternoon in the Gulf of Mexico. The husband and wife team of Joe […]
A second suspect wanted in connection with the armed hold-up of Tomza Gas has been arrested and charged. This morning twenty-three year old Albert Clother was arraigned in Magistrate’s Court on three counts of Robbery and three counts of Conspiracy to Commit Robbery. Clother pled not guilty and was remanded to Hattieville prison until January […]
A Belize City man will spend two years in prison for punching his sister in the mouth. The sentence was handed down today to twenty-four year old Glenford Grant by Magistrate Roberto Ordonez. On December thirty-first, Grant pled guilty to Wounding his thirty-two year old sibling, Shelmadine Sanchez. The incident in question occurred on December […]
The Colonial Band Association will hold a meeting next week to decide what course of action to take if it is confirmed that a thirty year-old lease they hold on a prime property at the Newtown Barracks has been cancelled and the property sold. In a conversation this afternoon with C.B.A. President, Ellis Arnold, he […]
On Thursday we ran down the candidates planning to run in the Corozal, Orange Walk and Belize Districts. Tonight News Five’s Kendra Griffith lists the aspiring candidates from Cayo, Stann Creek and Toledo. The Cayo district gained two new divisions after the 2004 redistricting exercise. As a result, incumbent United Democratic Party area representative in […]
In putting together the candidate list, two things stand out: one is that despite their brave words over the last year, the so-called third parties and alliances remain poorly organised and unfocused. Both of the major political parties have never seen the newcomers as much of a threat, a sentiment expressed at the last House […]
You have seen him on this newscast on many occasions in a number of different capacities … and today is no exception for Erwin X. News Five’s Kendra Griffith has the latest. Kendra Griffith, Reporting Ghetto Food is just one of the fifty-four poems in Erwin X’s new book of the same name. According to […]
And before we sign off, late word out of Dangriga reports a massive fire in the downtown area. Details are sketchy, but sometime after five this evening the blaze erupted at the Habet residence on St. Vincent Street. At this point, the greatest danger is to surrounding buildings as firemen continue to fight the conflagration.
