On Thursday we showed you riveting images caught by our cameraman George Tillett of a shooting underway at North Front Street. Police have not yet levied any charges against the suspect they nabbed seconds after he allegedly robbed Accents Store and a customer paying an electricity bill. The seventeen year old was shot by the […]
The budget for the new financial year was approved this afternoon just before four o’clock when Prime Minister Dean Barrow wrapped up the two day debate. The ayes came only from the government side since across the aisle members were absent after having ripped through the budget on Thursday. Government projects to raise in revenue […]
Petroleum has been one of the largest income earners for the government over the 2009 to 2010 financial year. According to the prime minister, there was an inflow of approximately forty five million dollars from the local petroleum sector, coming not only from royalties, but also from income tax, working interest, production sharing, surface rental […]
The increase in the GST was fully ventilated in the House of Representatives by parliamentarians. We asked the question to our viewers if they thought the two point five percent increase is affordable. One viewer who participated by IMS, said that it is not affordable to the common man trying to make a living while […]
When the Housing Minister, Michael Finnegan made his contribution to the budget debate, he began by by giving thanks to Cuba and Venezuela on behalf of the people of Mesopotamia. According to Finnegan healthcare and education have been areas in which his division has benefit the most. Poor Mesop. residents have been afforded scholarships in […]
But Musa could not end his presentation without addressing the infamous comments by the Prime Minister and directed at him at the last sitting of the House of Representatives. He came armed with quotes of his own but opted to keep it civil in the House. Said Musa “I noticed from the last meeting that […]
The budget has been approved and it’s not only the opposition party that found issues with it. On Thursday the private sector wrote to the Prime Minister expressing their position against the budget. In an eight page letter, the Chamber Commerce raises serious concerns that the government intends to spend more than it earns, by […]
Just before news time, rush hour traffic along the Northern Highway near mile seven was backed up several hundred yards when an oil slick caused a vehicle heading in the direction of Ladyville to collide into an oncoming bus. While there were no injuries the Dodge Neon driven at the time by Arlow Wallace was […]
With the passage of the 2010/2011 budget a number of measures will take effect that will burden consumers. Of the new taxes to take effect on April first, the GST which will now go up to twelve point five percent, is the one tax that will be felt across the board. This tax alone will […]
A butane maintenance worker and cabinet maker is spending his first night behind bars. Thirty-nine year old Philip Neal, was sentenced after he slipped into the home of his ex-wife, Dawn Lambey early this morning armed with a machete and threatened to chop her. Neal was on parole for the last seven months but after […]
Siblings Rachel, Ryan and Ronald Sutherland, all law enforcement officers attached to the Belize Police Department, were today acquitted of assault charges against a fellow officer. On August third 2009 at about nine forty p.m. police corporal Ian Geban and other officers responded to a domestic dispute at the corner of Water Lane and East […]
The economic hard times is stressing out Belizeans across the land so every penny counts. And if you are lucky to win a prize, then all the better. This morning News Five caught up with a raffle organized by the Belize Bank that had at least four winners in a celebratory mood because it gives […]
Women’s Month is winding down but before that happens at the end of March, our friends from the Mexican Embassy are joining in the celebration. At the Mexican Institute tonight, an exhibition is taking place that features art, classical music and the handicraft of Mayan women from across the border. The masterpieces of at least […]
