There have been many unusual developments in the judiciary lately, including a public war of words between the Attorney General and the Chief Justice. Today, News Five has learnt of an application being made by the Belize Electricity Limited seeking leave to rehear an oral ruling by the Court of Appeal given on October twenty-seventh […]
A fire in Caye Caulker that started at about two o’clock this morning lasted for two hours and by the time it was contained, over seven hundred thousand dollars in damages were caused to three properties. But the issue stirring much anger on the island today was the alleged negligent response of the Fire Department. […]
The garbage problem remains unresolved in the old capital. City Hall once more breached its most recent agreement with the Belize Maintenance Limited when it could not meet last Friday’s part payment of ten thousand dollars. As a result, BML could not pay its staff and has had to send home about a hundred of […]
But if the City Council can’t meet even one seventh of its contractual agreement, then how will it meet the full arrangement of seventy thousand dollars a week? There doesn’t seem to be an answer in sight and as they say while the grass grows, the horse starves. We found one of those workers at […]
But while Ellis looks to the Council to pay up, Councillor responsible for Sanitation, Phillip Willoughby, says the problem is also the citizens’ fault. Philip Willoughby, Councillor responsible for Sanitation “Then I say if in fact that is the case, then we turn around and say to the residents of the city and to the […]
It was either a streak of bad luck or she was framed by a friend. On December nineteenth of 2008, twenty-eight year old mother of six, Kristine Rehanna Bood, a resident of Lakeview Street in Belize City was busted at the Security check point of the Kolbe Foundation as she allegedly tried to smuggle cannabis […]
As we told you on Monday’s newscast, the website of the Hayward Charitable Belize Trust, is about to come online. In fact, its launch is on Wednesday when you can log on to www.thehaywardcharitablebelizetrust.com. Valuable information will be available on the nature of the trust and on millions of dollars to become available in grants […]
Cabinet issued a short release of its sitting today. Noteworthy is that West Landivar will soon be declared a residential zone and that a grant of over a million Belize dollars is being given to the Ministry of Health by the World Bank to help address H1N1 related issues, specifically in training workers at ports […]
It was not mentioned in the police blotter, but on Saturday night there was a hit and run accident near the junction of Western Avenue and Mahogany Street that sent a sixty-one year old man to the intensive care unit of the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Stanley Usher was heading home when he was knocked […]
And while a Belize City man is in critical condition, a Guatemalan national lost his life and a three year old boy is recovering after a weekend traffic accident on the Southern Highway. The incident happened shortly after six o’clock between miles fourteen and fifteen and claimed the life of thirty seven year old Juan […]
A Belize city resident whose home was burnt to the ground in April, is still having difficulties getting his life back on track. On April fifth of this year, twenty five year old Fredrick Olivera watched as the home he built with his own hands went up in smoke. Before the fire, Olivera was threatened […]
In September of this year the Alliance Bank changed ownership, and with that came a competition entitled—Name that Bank. The bank invited submissions for a new name that would reflect its amalgamation with the Provident Bank. Well, that competition came to a close and today at its offices located on Princess Margaret Drive, the bank […]
The Belize Basketball Federation has embarked on an ambitious training program targeting four areas: discipline, increased competition, promoting and building the sport. It program is designed for players and coaches. This follows a summer camp in August in which the Federation partnered with UNICEF to provide training on the fundamentals of the sport. And this […]
And while at the training program, we got an update on the status of an appeal regarding the nationality of Herbert Allen, Dakin Braddik, Charlie Burgess and Kyron Stokes of Belizean Heritage who were disqualified by FIBA. In August, the team placed second in the COCABA Games. It’s been three months since the games that […]
It has been months since reports first surfaced on scandalous purchases made by the K.H.M.H. of pharmaceutical and medical supplies. Following an audit of the hospital financial records, government finally announced today that a Commission of Inquiry into the allegations of improprieties and wrongdoings at the hospital will begin this week. The hearing will take […]
