It’s a project that has been under the microscope since late last year due to environmental concerns. The South Beach project on San Pedro Town is back in the news today and it is not getting rave reviews. This time it is because the over one hundred construction workers, in a preemptive strike, took to […]
During last Wednesday’s consultation in Belize City, Prime Minister Dean Barrow made the announcement that the budget presentation to the House of Representatives would be on February twenty-seventh. But tonight News Five has confirmed that the House meeting has been pushed back to March sixth, just two days after the municipal elections and cutting it […]
In other economic news, the global crisis is affecting all financial sectors and reports in the international media are that it has hit home with the Inter-American Development Bank. Internal documents reveal that in 2008, the institution’s investment portfolio lost an estimated one point nine billion dollars. The losses are estimated to be ten to […]
When we checked today we were told that the contentious core sampler machine, which brought the sugar industry to its knees in a twelve day strike earlier this month, has been dismantled at the Tower Hill mill at the B.S.I. compound. Over a million dollars were invested between the cane farmers and B.S.I. in acquiring […]
The Mayan Leaders Alliance and the Toledo Alcalde Association have been the driving force of the Maya Land Right’s lawsuit over communal land rights. While it appears that there has been a united front by Mayans in regards to the case, a release written by Armando Choco, the manager of the Toledo Cacao Growers Association […]
It is four days now that Archie Lee’s Shopping City Convenience Store and Restaurant on Central American Boulevard has been closed for business. And according to the proprietors, the losses incurred as of today stand at thousands of dollars and continue to grow. Nine workers have also been sent home. Friday night’s closure is the […]
A resident of the Youth Cadet Corps is in big trouble, not only with his parents with but the law. According to reports from the Family Court, today the teen was arraigned on charges of Attempted Arson after he tried to set the building’s bathroom on fire. Around eleven-thirty on Friday the staff at compound […]
A woman has been fined ten thousand dollars for trying to sneak weed into the Hattieville Prison. On Monday twenty-one year old Janet Bernard was busted with just over two ounces of weed when she was searched by a prison officer. The illicit drug was found inside a plastic bag tucked into Bernard’s tennis shoe. […]
Jackie’s Supermarket on Dolphin Drive in Belize City was robbed last night. Forty-two year old Jian Xianey Zheng, the proprietor of the store, which is located in the yard behind Golf Hotel, said that on Monday at approximately seven p.m., he was inside the supermarket along with his wife and his brother when three customers […]
A twenty-three year old man of Unitedville Village in the Cayo District has been arrested for having sex with a minor. On Monday, the fifteen year old girl and her mother, both of Unitedville, reported the incident to police. The girl said that sometime in January, she had sexual intercourse with her boyfriend and a […]
The Social Security Board opened the 2009 Belize Math Olympiad on Friday at the multipurpose building in Orange Walk Town. This is the third annual competition and two regional tournaments, the North A and B, were held. The North A regional match saw the participation of Muffles College, Orange Walk Technical High School, King’s College, […]
Every February Rich Grimm of Tsunami Skydivers packs up a group of adventurers from all over the world and heads to Belize. The expedition lasts about a week and one of the features they engage in is skydiving over La Isla Bonita. News Five was on time to witness a few of the landings today. […]
It’s a wholesome youth show that is geared for the entire family and it is live right here on Channel Five. We are talking about the new dance show, Masters of the Floor from the Street Lights to the Stage Lights which is now debuting. The season is thirteen weeks long, and each week one […]
This morning the Belmopan mayoral candidates for the two major parties made their scheduled pre-election appearance on the Open Your Eyes morning show. The P.U.P.’s candidate is Rosalie Casey, a public service veteran with thirty-five years of experience. According to the former administrator, she wants to see the capital city develop to its full potential. […]
And while most of focus has been on the P.U.P. and the U.D.P. as we reported yesterday, there are some independents and less known political groups that are also contesting the March poll. In Belmopan, the Vision Inspired by the People is promoting itself as the alternative to the P.U.P. and the U.D.P. Their candidates […]
