For the second time, a company owned by the Novelo brothers Tony and David, has gone into receivership with its bankers for failure to meet debt obligations. So if you were waiting for a National Transport Services Bus this morning after nine-thirty, you would have been waiting in vain. The buses were called off runs […]
But how did the company reach insolvency? According to Philip Jones, when the government created a new zoning law, it lost most of its commerce. But Jones states that the situation is now in the hands of the lawyers and there will be no protest. Phillip Jones, Former Operations Officer, National Transport “We had financial […]
Six officers, including a Customs boatman, who were charged in connection with the landing of a drug plane on the Southern Highway on November thirteenth, were offered bail today. They were charged on Thursday with Abetment of a Crime for the Importation of a Controlled Drug by facilitating the landing of an aircraft with two […]
FECTAB has emerged as perhaps the most vociferous organization in the tourism industry taking on hot button issues in the industry. Not one to be silent, the organization today came out in full solidarity with the traders who earn their living at the Fort Street Tourism Village. The hair braiders, taxi drivers and tour guides […]
It’s not only the hair braiders, taxi drivers or tour guides, who are vexed by the zoning. The problem has come at the front door of the Ex-Servicemen’s League. At a meeting with the BTB on Wednesday night, the league’s president, said that three veterans are buried at the Memorial Park and the annual Remembrance […]
One of the country’s most outspoken kidney patients and activists, forty-one year old Jose Cruz, has died. Cruz passed away at around nine-fifteen this morning in Santa Elena Town, Cayo. Cruz became widely known in the media a few years ago when kidney failure prompted him to speak out about a very lacking health system, […]
Who will be the next Chief Justice? That’s the question that is being tossed around for months since the departure of the former Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh and the temporary appointment of Justice Samuel Awich as acting CJ. We don’t know the answer, but we do know who is not likely in line, and that […]
On Wednesday’s newscast, we reported that thousands of dollars had gone missing from the Police Department’s exhibit room. It has since been confirmed that one of the suspects in custody is a police officer and the other works closely with the department. Information is that the cop is still being questioned but has not yet […]
The Organization of American States today presented its own report card on its activities in the course of the year. Aside from its work at the Adjacency Zone, the regional organization had a busy year. Kim Osborne, the resident representative, introduced the long list which includes work in the social sector, tourism, sports and the […]
Christopher Bowman has lived with a tumor on his chest for most of his life. He has taken two surgeries in the United States to have it removed. However, he has about eighteen more to go. And the bill is in the hundreds of thousands. Bowman contacted News Five because time may be running out […]
If you are a regular patron of nightclubs then you know exactly what French Kiss is referring to. And you know that the music and lyrics at those clubs tend to be sexually explicit and extremely violent in content. So if you like dancing but find that the club scene is not for you, there […]
Entertainment host, Safiyyah Mohammad, is back and she’s got the scoop on all things fun this weekend. That includes everything from where to find the parties to Christmas fundraisers and of course, Channel Five Christmas Spectacular is on tonight. Here’s What’s Happening Belize. Hey I’m back with all the spots for you to go and […]
