Twenty-three vendors along Mahogany Street have come under pressure to move from their current locations. Belize Electricity Limited has written to the vendors justifying the directive on the basis that it is concerned about the safety of the vendors who are positioned dangerously close to the city’s main transmission line. The electricity company has given […]
The vendors on Mahogany Street aren’t the only people being affected by the one hundred and fifteen kilovolt power lines. There are other parts of the country where lines are in dangerous proximity to buildings. B.E.L. is looking at a similar instance of vendors operating under power lines in San Pedro. But in the old […]
For weeks, it has been reported that Allen Saum, is on the police’s wanted list. Saum is the man who is being accused of tampering with legal documents filed at the Company’s registry in Belmopan, naming him as one of the super majority shareholders in Paradise Energy Limited. The others are Oren Miles first and […]
Tonight’s Question is: Should Mahogany Street vendors be compensated for losses incurred from their relocation to a yet unknown venue? Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones to 8686 or post your vote on our e-poll at channel5belize.com. You can also send an email with your comments to questions@channel5belize.com.
A group of over fifty persons, including students and contractors from the Monterrey Bay Academy Seven Day Adventist High School, arrived in Belize today. The purpose of their visit was to construct a new Seven Day Adventist School in Progresso Village, replacing the current one which is congested and not up to scratch. But the […]
Last Friday night, Miguel Rivera, a fruit vendor, was killed as he sat in the vicinity of the Michael Finnegan Market. The homicide spurred security concerns among fruit and vegetable vendors, which was one of the issues discussed today in a meeting at the market. The council is planning to move the vendors from the […]
Mexican National, Jose Luis Robles Beltran was busted at the Free Zone on February twenty-fourth with a loaded point twenty-five Beretta Pistol and over twenty-thousand US dollars, eighteen hundred of which were counterfeit. His case started a firestorm because the Mexican national was ordered to be released even when he had pleaded guilty to one […]
It’s a trick that has played out many times and the perpetrators have been caught as many times. A Ministry of Works employee who went to visit an old childhood friend at the Belize Central Prison is in trouble with the law because officials there allege they found weed stashed in one of five plates […]
Founded in 1956 by Lady Winnie Ward, the local Young Women’s Christian Association is celebrating its fifty-fifth anniversary this month. It coincides handily with Women’s Month and its programs are geared to providing young women with opportunities to lead purposeful lives. News Five’s Marion Ali has a full report on the Y’s role in meeting […]
Government announced it is providing over two million dollars for a food program that will be rolled out from the Southside to the north side of the city, but with more than forty percent of the population living in poverty, every little bit counts. Earlier today we found the police partnering with Restore Belize on […]
Only three of five performers from Group A of KTV Latino will move on to the semifinals following Tuesday night’s round of competition. They all sang their hearts out to sway the judges, viewers and voting public as the competition heads to another level where only the fittest will survive. All be told, the judges […]
