Prime Minister Dean Barrow’s quarterly press conference was held this morning. The topics varied from hot button issues on Jalacte and the economy, which is where we’ll start tonight. It is no secret that countries around the world are grappling with the economic recession… and Belize is no different. Inflation is up, tourist arrivals are […]
But one issue that is still unresolved is a bodega well within southern Belize. Last week, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent out a press release confirming that the illegally erected bodega near Jalacte is within Belizean territory. And while Belize, Guatemala, and the O.A.S. agree that it needs to be dismantled, the O.A.S. was […]
The paving of Albert and Regent Streets appeared to take forever and it is now less than a month since its completion. But today if you drove downtown in Belize City you would have been shocked to see a deep man sized crater near Delta Store at the end of Albert Street. News Five’s Jose […]
Earlier this month the Public Utilities Commission announced that they had made an amendment to the June 2008 annual review proceeding final decision. This would have resulted in an initial twelve percent reduction in rates for consumers. P.U.C. Chairman John Avery explained at the time that the decreases followed a new rate setting methodology instituted […]
U.D.P. stalwart, Goldburn Adolphus, also known as “Eazy Glenn” could have gotten arrested today after he reportedly threw a rock at a door at his party’s Wave Radio. News Five understands that Adolphus became irate after he asked Mayor Zenaida Moya if he could get back his job at City Hall. The Mayor, who had […]
And while the Mayor was battling with one of her previous supporters, in the PUP there also seems to be no end to the political divisions between the old guard and the new guard. And this goes back to the party assets which the new PUP said it had to buy from the old PUP. […]
Police may not have their main suspects in custody for a number of robberies in the past twenty-four hours, but they have made some inroads in the jacking of National Transports Limited at two and three quarter miles on the Western Highway. Officer Commanding the Crime Investigations Branch, Superintendent Julio Valdez, says they recovered the […]
It appears that no one is spared of the rampant crime scourge that is affecting our society, particularly in the Belize City streets. And tonight we have three more robberies to report. We start off with an armed hold up at Marlin’s Restaurant on Regent Street West in Belize City. Part owner of the business, […]
Another business that was targeted by thieves was Manuel’s Jewelry Shop on West Canal, also in Belize City. Proprietor of the business, fifty-five year old Manuel Matute told police that the bandits pounced on him around four-thirty on Monday afternoon and cleaned out his jewelry showcase. Matute spoke with News Five off camera about the […]
Thieves also got busy robbing a taxi driver of his keep on Monday night. The incident occurred on north side Belize City on York Street, situated off Douglas Jones Street. Taxi driver, forty-one year old Emmanuel Mah reported to police that he was on Princess Margaret Drive when two men approached him and hired him […]
Fire officials have not been able to determine the cause of a blaze that gutted a two storey wooden and plycem house in the D.F.C area of San Pedro Town early this morning. The blaze was first spotted around twelve-thirty and it took fire fighters three hours to extinguish it. By that time, a portion […]
The search for twenty-eight year old Leon Staine is over. The former accounts manager of Grace Kennedy Belize today appeared in court to answer to thirteen counts of Theft that was brought against him by the company. It is alleged that Staine stole over fifty-three thousand dollars from the company between June and October of […]
In other news from the courts, fifty-three year old Carlos Lauriano, who was busted with just under one pound of cannabis, was fined ten thousand dollars when he appeared in court today. Lauriano, a fisherman was apprehended on Tuesday by the cops when he was seen acting suspiciously. He was promptly taken to court, pleaded […]
Earlier this week, we heard the Attorney General’s bold statements on the state of affairs in the judiciary and today we found him addressing a meeting of the Legal Affairs Committee of CARICOM being held in Belize for the first time. At a brief opening ceremony this morning, Attorney General Wilfred Elrington discussed the committee’s […]
She is currently on suspension, but today the Prime Minister confirmed that Diane Haylock will keep her job. Haylock’s contract, which comes up for renewal next month, will be extended for another year. And as for the contract that she signed with developer David Gegg, Barrow says while the matter now rests with the NICH […]
