Last week Tuesday night, aspiring U.D.P. Town Councilor, Severo Guerrero was caught at the Elections and Boundaries office in San Pedro going through election data. The officer in charge, Merilee Squires, has since been suspended for allowing Guerrero access to the computer. On Friday morning, at about four-thirty the alarms were sounded that the Elections […]
The number of persons that received citizenship in the past two weeks is officially put at over one thousand. And Chief Elections Officer, Josephine Tamai, says that in the period December tenth to the nineteenth, five thousand plus new voters made it on the electoral list for the upcoming elections. We have been checking around […]
This week Social Security Board staff members who reportedly reduced their loans to participate in a write-off by the government will be interviewed by the Pannell Kerr Forster accounting firm. Investigations started last week and are ongoing into the insider trading scheme that was stopped when it was exposed in the media. Embattled Social Security […]
P.M. Barrow also stated that the process through which the write-off list was derived was indiscriminate of politics and social status and that his administration proceeded objectively with the settlement of S.S.B. loans under the approved fifty thousand dollar limit. Dean Barrow “To try to be certain as to how that name found itself unto […]
On the other highly controversial topic, we asked viewers last week if they agree with the mass registration and naturalization of immigrants before elections. The participants in our e-poll were overwhelmingly against the practice, with eighty-two percent voting no and eighteen percent voting yes. The question also provoked strong responses on our blog, including one […]
Downtown San Ignacio is famous for its seemingly never ending stream of visitors, mostly overnight tourists, wandering aimlessly through the heart of the culturally diverse community. Interestingly, Burns Avenue, the town’s main thoroughfare, was perhaps also the metropolis of a much larger, exclusive society. A recent discovery of relics dating back to the Late Pre-Classic […]
Awe says that the objects recovered from downtown San Ignacio are likely linked to an average family and will be prominently displayed at a new Welcome Center to be erected on Burns Avenue. Dr. Jaime Awe, Director, Institute of Archaeology “So, as we speak, you know, we have quite a number of people assisting us, […]
The Gang Suppression Unit busted a fellow police officer early Saturday morning at his house. Thirty nine year old Gino Peck is a police corporal of Curassow Street, Belize City and up to news time this evening he had not been arraigned in court. Initially Peck declared his service Glock nine-millimeter pistol and loaded magazine, […]
The mass naturalization that has been taking place prior to the upcoming elections has been widely opposed countrywide. But that hasn’t stopped the Immigration Department from processing and swearing-in over a thousand new Belizeans. This morning, the government went on the defensive and ministers were deployed to the media houses to out the fires. Minister […]
Last week you heard at least one minister say that he was paying half the cost for the naturalization of new Belizeans. But how can they afford it when according to Elrington, Ministers are getting a pittance as salaries. Wilfred “Sedi” Elrington, Minister of Foreign Affairs/Foreign Trade “Let me tell you, I am a minister […]
In the courts, allegations of a brutal stabbing landed a twenty year old female student behind bars on charges of Attempted Murder, Grievous Harm and Use of Deadly Means of Harm. Janine Kelly was arraigned this morning in the courtroom of Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer, where no pleas were taken on the indictable charges. The […]
Another case of feuding neighbors came up in court today, this time before Magistrate Roberto Ordonez. Twenty-four year old Dwayne Anthony Almendarez and twenty-year old Juan Tot, both residents of Mile eight on the Western Highway, have an old beef over the murder of one of Tot’s relatives in which Almendarez was accused. But while […]
The grassroots organization, Citizens Organized for Liberty through Action (COLA) is holding its annual general meeting this Saturday at the Bishop Sylvester Memorial Hall on Regent Street. Over the past year COLA has been vocal on a wide range of issues affecting the country. While the re-election of officers for some organizations means placing a […]
The People’s United Party met on Saturday in National Party Council in Belize City. Two resolutions were approved. The first is for a four year term and fixed date for general elections. The other is on immigration law and policy reform; the P.U.P. resolved to pass a law to stop the issuance of nationality certificates […]
A Belize City mother of three is the lucky winner of over a hundred thousand dollars of the Mega Bingo Progressive Jackpot on Saturday night. Carina Cruz, who collected her cheque for one hundred and eighteen thousand, four hundred and forty-six dollars, told News Five today that her entire family gathered around the television for […]
The community that sprung from a group of Belmopan residents is now known as Harmonyville at mile forty-one on the Western Highway. The organizers of Harmonyville are the Belize Grassroots Youth Empowerment Agency (BGYEA). BGYEA initially decided to squat on land since they grew up with immigrants who eventually owned their own land by squatting. […]
Good Evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The Belize Bank Xmas Cup concluded at the Ladyville Football Field yesterday with Old Belize Road United and Westlake of Belize City in a bid to grab the title after a 4 team single round robin play that left City Boys and FC Belize out […]
