As we said earlier there is an agreement between the Belize Medical and Dental Union and the board of the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The parties were locked down today with the labour commissioner, Ivan Williams since nine-thirty this morning. They sweated it out along with a newcomer to the mix, Senator Godwin Hulse. Hulse […]
There is a big development in the case of the hundreds of thousands of dollars missing from the pension fund at the Treasury Department. Since Thursday there have been reports that police had questioned government employee, Monica Escarpeta, pending charges in the case. The monies were reportedly deposited in an Atlantic Bank account sporadically since […]
And still on the case of the missing thirteen thousand dollars, this time from the Border Management Agency in the west, a second person is now under investigation along with Julio Santos, who was sent home on July third. The second suspect is said to be the person from whom Santos received the money for […]
The Ministry of Health is not calling it an outbreak just yet, but there are seven new confirmed cases of Influenza A H1N1 in Belize. This brings the total number of infected persons to twenty-two. At least three of the latest cases are from Cayo, while the others are in the northern districts. The first […]
In the case of the former minister, Jose Coye, attorney for the government, Lois Young, today continued her submissions in the preliminary hearing preceding the civil suit. Coye is being sued before Chief Justice, Abdulai Conteh over land transactions the company, CHEOP Enterprises, conducted while Coye was Minister of Health and Area Representative for the […]
In the Supreme Court meanwhile, one man found out that he will spend the rest of his life behind bars. The accused, twenty -four year old Brian Herrera, also known as Bedo was found guilty of taking the life of forty-nine Eugene Encalada. The trial has been on hold for over a month because Herrera […]
Also in court, twenty-two year old Allen Martinez was today freed of a charge of Attempted Arson after Justice Adolph Lucas directed the jury to acquit him because there was not sufficient evidence to prove the charge. The incident goes back to 2007, when the then twenty-year old was accused of attempting to set a […]
A man who was accused of three counts of Attempted Murder walked off a free man today after the victim and two main eyewitnesses could not identify him as the shooter. A relieved thirty-three year old Shane Budran exited the Supreme Court after the charges were dropped against him by Justice Adolph Lucas. The incident […]
A single mother with nine children needs assistance tonight in finding accommodation after her house crashed this morning. The family was at home when the wooden structure caved in. News Five’s Jose Sanchez reports spoke to the distressed family to find out how they’re coping without a roof over their heads. Jose Sanchez, Reporting This […]
A release issued this afternoon by the Belize Electricity Limited on the status of power supply over the next few days was withdrawn within minutes. And while B.E.L. is remaining mum on the long term situation of the countrywide blackouts, it has confirmed that at least in the next few days it can meet the […]
It’s one week since Prime Minister Dean Barrow dropped a bombshell that police would be making arrests over missing monies at City Hall. Well there still have been no arrests. This week the Financial Regulator appointed to City Hall by Barrow, Patrick Tillett, told News Five that after having gone through the first batch of […]
The financial woes of the Belize City Council continue to mount. There is the complaint from the Financial Controller, Patrick Tillett, that close to twenty five thousand dollars are missing from the CITCO’s coffers for which arrests are said to be expected. The debt to Sanitation Enterprises Limited is still not resolved and last week […]
Shortly before two this afternoon, reggae group sensation, Morgan Heritage and its fourteen member entourage touched down in the jewel for a second time this year. And this time around the threat of the influenza A H1N1 will not stop this reggae band. News Five caught up with the artists at the Radisson who say […]
If you had not heard him lately, that is because Herman ‘Chico’ Ramos was busy working on his latest release. Born the fourth son of Carl and Claudina Ramos, ‘Chico’ was involved in music from an early age and recorded his first album ‘Scratch Up Mi Back’ in 1990. Since then the locally and internationally […]
This weekend is packed with hot summer activities. Safiyyah heads west to a unique hotel on the spiraling hills of San Ignacio. And there is the annual Benque Viejo del Carmen fiesta which promises to be a fun family affair. But if you prefer a musical weekend, Morgan Heritage will rock the City Centre. So […]
