Samer Akil Rada, the Venezuelan-Lebanese businessman whose name is associated with the seizure of eight hundred and eighty pounds of cocaine destined for the Corozal Free Zone, is back in the headlines. It is reported that he is the subject of an investigation being conducted by the Financial Intelligence Unit. News Five has been reliably […]
There were thirteen motions raised in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, two of any significance. One was passed, and the other fell on the floor. But those procedural House matters have taken second place to the very heated debate which characterized the session. And a vicious attack on Belize Rural Central Area Representative Dolores […]
The Sitting was mostly a stone-throwing exercise, but amidst the taunts, heckling and jeering there was a brief moment of agreement between members on different sides of the House. It came over a presentation on the proposed Norwegian Cruise Lines project by member for Toledo East Mike Espat. He listed out some of the concerns […]
A Chukka Tours bus ran over a Park Ranger this morning at the Nohoch Che’en National Park, located at the Caves Branch Outpost off the George Price Highway. Eyewitnesses told News Five that the Ranger, identified only as Jeremy, was manning the checkpoint at the entrance to the Park when he was run over by […]
There were over a dozen bills passed in the House of Representatives on Wednesday. You wouldn’t realize that since most of the day was spent discussing a Caribbean Court of Justice ruling. But among the bills was one concerning flour which was passed and allows for the free importation of flour. Anyone could import flour […]
As it stands tonight, both the popular Expo Belize Marketplace and the Carnival Road March have been scheduled for the fourteenth of September. Now both events attract huge crowds and are an integral part of the national celebrations calendar. This is giving rise to unease in the private sector who believe that the carnival will […]
Western Regional Health Manager Pearl Ellis has assured News Five that the situation at the old site of the San Ignacio Hospital has been cleared up. The shocking images of vials filled with blood, used needles and syringes, discarded vials of medicine have caused great concern in the Ministry of Health. That concern is certainly […]
Former politician, Alejandro Vernon, in his capacity as chairman of the Toledo Alliance for Progress, has come out as a proponent for oil exploration in the south. TAP, as it is otherwise known, is a collective formed by the National Kriol Council, the National Garifuna Council and the East Indian Council which was registered in […]
The Catlin Seaview Survey is organized by the University of Queensland and promoted by the Catlin Insurance Company. It is a global campaign and a race against time to study coral reef. In the Caribbean reef health has declined and that is why the marine scientists from the group have targeted the region. So far […]
Fifty-three year old Stephen Slusher is tonight serving his first night of a five-year jail term after pleading guilty to burglary. The resident of Jane Usher Boulevard was accused of entering the home of Maria Manzanero on Central American Boulevard on Wednesday and stealing a twenty-five pound gas tank valued at a hundred and fifteen […]
The members of the House did manage to get some of work at Wednesday’s House meeting. The government is borrowing over ten million dollars from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB). The project is intended to reduce vulnerability of youth and children to crime and gang membership in Collet, Lake Independence, Pickstock and Port Loyola areas […]
In a last snippet of Wednesday’s House meeting, the remarks by minister Finnegan against Dolores Balderamos Garcia was not the only startling occurrence in the House. During his attack on Former Prime Minister, Said Musa, the current Prime Minister Dean Barrow made an unusual declaration that because he’s the longest standing member of the house, […]
You probably already know of the annual Unsung Heroes Program which recognizes persons who selflessly serve their communities. That is a well known community programs initiated by CIBC First Caribbean Bank. The Adopt-a-Cause Program is another which is shared among all seventeen countries across the Caribbean in which CIBC First Caribbean Bank is located. The […]
The results of a recent survey of close to two thousand women and children show that women of reproductive age are deficient in Folic Acid and there is a low level of Vitamin B-twelve intake. The Ministry of Health, back in 2008, decided to conduct a micro-nutrients baseline survey to measure the impact of nutritional […]
