Prime Minister Dean Barrow headed to Guatemala City this morning. It was left for the acting Prime Minister, Gaspar Vega to head the team to oversee the transition assuming control of the Belize Electricity Limited. Vega, Board Chairman, Rodwell Williams and the new C.E.O., Jeffery Locke, who has worked in the citrus industry and is […]
Locally, the private sector, through the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry has lashed out against the expropriation of Belize Electricity Limited. But the ink was hardly dried on the orders for the government’s takeover of B.E.L. when an international organization threatened that Belize could get a black eye on its credit rating. Standard & […]
The Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry this morning sent out a stinging press release regarding the nationalization of B.E.L. in which it disagreed with the government for the hasty expropriation of the country’s only electric provider. According to the release, the Chamber “does not believe that it was necessary for the government of Belize […]
The private sector was not the only group to have concerns about investor confidence in Belize since the takeover. The Peoples United Party, though absent from the House Meeting in which the nationalization was the main focus, spoke about how it would take time to win back business confidence. According to Party Leader, John Briceño, […]
Tonight’s question is: Now that the government is in full control of B.E.L., should it bring down electricity rates? 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.
The Coye family spent almost two years fighting a Money Laundering charge that was brought by the Financial Intelligence Unit after one point five million dollars in cash were found at their home in 2008. Charges were levied against the family’s business Money Exchange International Limited, Michael and Marlene Coye, their son Jude, daughter Melonie, […]
A fifty-three year old ex-B.D.F. soldier is on life support after being shot on the head and shoulder on Sunday. Two high school students; a seventeen year old minor and eighteen year old Christopher Sosa were charged today along with twenty-eight year old Ashton Anderson for the attack on Romel Palacio Senior. All three appeared […]
As we reported in Friday’s newscast, the Football Federation of Belize is currently suspended from participating in all regional or international football activities organized by FIFA and its affiliates. The notice sent shockwaves across the nation in the midst of a protracted standoff between the Government of Belize and the F.F.B. The FIFA decision came […]
A little over three weeks ago, bus operators effected a countrywide shutdown of the transportation industry when negotiations with government failed over bus routes issued to West Line, owned by a high ranking U.D.P. supporter. In the days that followed, temperatures simmered when a number of operators including members of the Belize Bus Owners Cooperative […]
When asked if he has sought the support of the Belizean Bus Association in his fight against the Ministry of Transport, Gilharry flatly stated that the association has been conquered and a culture of fear has disadvantaged some members from getting their fair share of the runs. Froylan Gilharry, Owner, Gilharry Bus “They are not […]
Seventy-three year old Myra Cardinez, a resident of Belize City, is tonight appealing to the public to assist in locating her son who has been reported missing since Thursday of last week. Roy Cardinez, a partially blind forty-three year old, traveled to Dangriga Town to collect monies from the local Social Security Board branch. It […]
On Monday afternoon, the body of twenty-eight year old fireman, Gilbert Andrews was found suspended from a rope in his home in Benque Viejo del Carmen. But tonight his family is crying ‘foul play’ because they say a number of items including jewelry, cash, clothing and appliances are missing from his house. Anna Williams, Andrews’s […]
After nationalizing B.E.L., Prime Minister Dean Barrow headed to Guatemala for the International Conference in Support of the Central America Security Strategy during which, he will be meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderon on the CFE’s credit line to B.E.L. P.M. Barrow left today and is accompanied by the Minister of Police, Doug Singh. The […]
A team of four Miskito Indians are in Belize on a fact finding mission. The team members, who are from the ‘Mosquito Coast’ which lies along the Nicaragua Coast and a section of Honduras, says that they have strong connections with Belize and are trying to piece together their history. Hector Williams Padilla, leader of […]
The Belize Council for the Visually Impaired will be providing eye surgeries for some fifty to sixty Belizeans with cataracts over the next three days. The team, led by Dr. George Pronesti, started operating on patients since Monday in a two-fold surgery procedure at the National Eye Clinic. The U.S based eye specialists teamed up […]
