It is the body essentially responsible for running the country … and today Prime Minister Dean Barrow announced the composition of his sixteen man Cabinet. As expected, due to the large size of his party’s majority, every minister comes from the House of Representatives and none from the Senate. With a relatively untested field of […]
A cabinet meeting has been scheduled for Tuesday afternoon in Belmopan. But some of the Ministers designate are more prepared than others. One of them is Patrick Faber, as his Ministry of Education portfolio had been promised to him well in advance of the elections. Patrick Faber, Minister of Education “Certainly I want to get […]
And in an additional note on the election, while the balloting went smoothly, the official results have been a long time coming. The statistics issued last week have been revised several times and it was only this afternoon that the Chief Elections Officer issued the final tally. Those numbers show that nationwide, the United Democratic […]
Belize City is no stranger to gang violence but in the wee hours of Saturday morning that cycle of murder and fatal retaliation reached a new level of insanity that left two dead and thirteen wounded. It also left a community, already wary of going out at night, locked down in fear. News Five’s Marion […]
Bullets weren’t the only violent objects flying over the weekend as a machete was also used to seriously hurt a Belize City man. According to investigators, around eleven on Friday night forty-four year old Kirk Craig was at the corner of St. Joseph and Nurse Seay Streets when he got into a fight with another […]
Meanwhile, a police officer is tonight recovering from serious injuries sustained in a traffic accident in the Spanish Lookout community. Around five on Saturday evening constable Dayton Lewis was riding his motorcycle on Centre Road when he broadsided a Toyota Four Runner that suddenly pulled out of a driveway. Lewis suffered serious head and body […]
Most Belizeans who grew up in what we like to think were simpler times agree that with all the dangers and pressures out there, childhood can be a challenging experience. This morning News Five’s Janelle Chanona looked at what one Belize City school is doing to help students avoid the pitfalls. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re locked into this first post-election issue of Sports Monday. We take you back to last week’s historic 3-1 win by the National Football Team of Belize over their St. Kitts and Nevis counterpart inside the Mateo Flores Stadium, Guatemala City. We must mention it because it is the […]
