Tonight there is tragic news to report out of the Shipyard community in the Orange Walk District. A fourteen year old boy was mangled and killed after he fell into the jaws of a crusher. The piece of heavy equipment, used to grind dirt into white marl, was being operated at a quarry in Shipyard. […]
Aside from the passport scandal that has grabbed the attention of the nation, there is another matter that is like a time bomb waiting to explode before the government. Information to News Five is that government is proposing to enact the Belize Pension Act which involves a bundle of legislation through which government will be […]
Turning to the unremitting passport scandal…. Deputy Mayor Eric Chang, who has been away in Taiwan since early September, was expected to return to Belize today. A scheduled meeting was pending with Mayor Darrell Bradley to discuss Chang’s alleged involvement in the conveyance of a fraudulent Belizean passport to Kim Wonhong, but that was aborted […]
At a late evening interview between the Prime Minister Dean Barrow and the media on Wednesday, Barrow’s position that an investigation into the matter of the issuance of a falsified Belizean passport to Kim Wonhong does not warrant a criminal investigation, there are still a myriad of questions which remain unanswered. Top among those queries […]
There is public outcry for a criminal investigation into the issuance of the nationality certificate and Belizean passport obtained by South Korean national Kim Wonhong, while he was in detention. On Wednesday following a meeting with ousted Minister of State, Elvin Penner, Prime Minister Dean Barrow’s view was that there is no need for a […]
At Wednesday’s Special Sitting of the Senate, opposition representative Lisa Shoman also proposed that the Barrow administration call upon the powers of the senate to launch a separate investigation into the current passport scandal. An internal investigation in the wake of the fiasco is currently being conducted by the Ministry of Immigration, but that in-house […]
P.U.P. Leader Francis Fonseca has given disgraced former Minister of State and Cayo Northeast Area Representative Elvin Penner five days to resign. If Penner does not do so, then the P.U.P. will push to get him recalled. But tonight, there are reports that Penner has been hospitalized in Belize City suffering from hypertension presumably occasioned […]
On Wednesday’s newscast, we reported that police had found the body of a Teakettle resident who was shot, killed and buried. A caution statement was given by a resident of a nearby community saying he acted in self defense. Tonight, police have charged Santiago Guardado with five counts of aggravated assault of a cop because […]
Since the beginning of the year, there has been a number of cases of the influenza A virus reported across the country. Fortunately there have been no deaths attributed to the H1N1 virus in Belize. Earlier this week however, Barbados reported one casualty of H1N1, prompting local authorities here to look more carefully at the […]
Justice was swift this morning for freelance writer, Roy Davis, who is spending the night behind bars. Davis was found guilty this afternoon for the offense of wounding and he was sentenced and remanded to prison. The aggrieved party is Joyclyn McClari, who testified in court today that Davis punched her in her left eye, […]
Biscayne resident, Javier Moody, died this morning at the K.H.M.H. The nineteen year old was admitted and on life support following a traffic mishap on Sunday afternoon at two p.m. Upon approaching a curve at miles sixteen on the Phillip Goldson Highway, he lost control of the motorbike on which he was traveling with his […]
Belize’s Foreign Ministry is preparing to receive the vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala, Carlos Raul Morales Moscoso, who is scheduled to head a delegation to a meeting with his Belizean counterparts over the weekend which coincides with the date of the aborted referendum. But late on Wednesday, Guatemala protested parts of a statement made […]
One more story about Wednesday’s Senate Meeting. A proposed amendment to increase the powers of the director of the Financial Intelligence Unit, allowing for greater access to fiscal information on individuals and businesses, was elevated to the Senate. It was met with serious concerns from the delegate of the business community. The issue of privacy, […]
Every two years, countries operating under the UNESCO banner have the opportunity to submit proposals for grant funding, up to fifty-two thousand Belize dollars per project. Only ten projects are approved by headquarters in Paris after a stringent selection process. Those projects must work to further UNESCO’s objectives through education, natural sciences, social and human […]
If you’ve received a call from a strange international number in the last day or so, and didn’t answer or call back, good for you. Because if you did answer, or call back, then you probably noticed that your credit was significantly depleted. There’s a phone scam being operated which is targeting both Smart and […]
This week is being celebrated as Seniors Week. October 1st was celebrated as International Day for Older Persons. October tenth is World Mental Health Day. This year’s both themes have collided as the Mental Health Association and National Aging Council team up bring the focus on Alzheimer’s – a mental condition affecting millions of elderly […]
