The increase in GST was the term most referred to in today’s debate of the budget for 2010/2011. The budget was presented to the House on March fifteenth and the Prime Minister announced that the deficit would fall short of sixty-four million and that he hoped to raise sixty-one point five in new taxes measures […]
As the debate continued, Minister John Saldivar called out the PUP Leader, John Briceño for complaining about the zero rating of luncheon meat, potted meat and a few other canned goods. But he didn’t’ stop there. He also spent a lengthy time blaming Area Representative for Albert, Mark Espat, for being the architect of the […]
Albert Area Representative and Deputy Party leader for the PUP, Mark Espat, did not take the blame for the country’s financial woes lightly. He felt that all of Saldivar’s posturing was in hopes of getting elevated to a powerful portfolio after a cabinet reshuffle, which is expected after village council elections in June. But on […]
When the other PUP Deputy Party Leader Cordel Hyde made his contribution to the budget debate, he was impassioned and unimpressed with what he said was in store for Belizeans. Hyde was highly critical in particular of the cuts to the budget of National Security. Every department including the B.D.F. and even the administration for […]
Turning to our question for today: Do you believe that the GST increase is affordable for consumers? Responses to this question will be aired this Friday. Send your comments to questions@channel5belize.com or a text message to SMART at 8686, or log on to our e-poll at www.channel5belize.com.
It was a chaotic scene at North Front Street this morning when two robbers jacked Accents Store which also serves as a collection agent for Belize Electricity Limited. When the shots rang out, passers-by scurried for cover and our news team who was on assignment on another story, was at the right place at the […]
The mid-morning robbery, like the recent daring attacks on the business community, is a signal of just how serious crime has become in the old capital in these crippling economic times. Marion Ali got firsthand accounts from a passer-by who was shot, and interviews from the Police and the Principal of Holy Redeemer Primary School […]
While students at Holy Redeemer School were sent home traumatized following the shooting on North Front Street, two students at another Primary school got violent. And if you thought that school fights are not supposed to be big news well, at Saint John Vianney a fight got out of control and one student ended up […]
The Lucky Strike Information Technology Center is a project funded by the European Union, the government and the University of Belize to provide internet services at the government school. It was useful for the students and teachers but all that changed last night when burglars cleaned the building of all the equipment, leaving behind only […]
As we reported earlier, our News Five team was out investigating a burglary on North Front Street when they captured the mid-morning shootout at Accents. The story that we had initially showed up to investigate was a break-in at Sports Belize, which is located near the Marine Terminal on North Front Street. According to Linda […]
Over a thousand acres of land in Cotton Tree will be sold off. The land has been squatted on since 2003 and in the past few months over six hundred persons have expressed interest in owning the land. It got ugly when a resident of the area agitated others to lay claim to the land. […]
In January of this year, thirty two year old Eric Alexander Loriano, a Honduran national was slapped with three criminal charges after breaking into the home of his ex-common-law-wife’s home on Dean Street and beating her up. Today the charges were dismissed by the Chief Magistrate when Lorena Mendoza requested no further court action. While […]
Also appearing in Court today was forty-one year old Orion Neil Vernon, a deportee from the United States who was charged with three counts of possession of false documents. Today’s arraignment was Vernon’s third for similar offences since being repatriated to Belize. He was first arrested and charged in Belize City in October of last […]
A new ride was added to the fleet of the Belize Defence Force today courtesy of the British government. It’s a gesture that comes from its cordial relationship with the BDF, one that according to Brigadier General Dario Tapia continues to grow. News Five attended the handing over ceremony and spoke to Tapia and British […]
Safe and Sound Music for the Future; it was a competition that invited Belizean artists to produce a song that would spread the message of HIV awareness. Over the past few months, forty-three persons submitted songs and the sixteen best were chosen to be released on a sampler CD which is now being distributed for […]
If you thought Tuberculosis has been wiped away, well not so. The experts say that the disease was brought under control but that with the spread of HIV/AIDS, the number of TB cases is on the rise. The two diseases have in common, weak immune systems and there are eighty nine persons infected. In this […]
