Today Prime Minister Dean Barrow held a press conference to discuss what he termed a catastrophe visited by the incessant rains. We’ll have those comments later in our newscast, but first we touch on an issue which after weeks on boil, seems to have gone to a slow simmer. In recent weeks no official information […]
Tonight there is much more to bring you on the visa quota hustle. On Tuesday News Five had an exclusive look at documents which prove that Minister of State Edmund Castro was neck deep in the procurement of visas for Chinese nationals – sending in recommendations to the Director of Immigration almost weekly. But it […]
The impasse between cane farmers and B.S.I. is still holding strong…and latest developments up to Tuesday evening were that Prime Minister Dean Barrow had been asked by the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association to intervene. Whether as a result of that letter or in acknowledgement of the critical nature of the situation, Cabinet met and […]
Councilor Eric Chang returned to Belize on Tuesday after an extended stay in Taiwan but his boss, Belize City Mayor Darrell Bradley, is yet to have a meeting with Chang to discuss the issue of his alleged involvement in the Penner passport scandal. Despite efforts to contact Chang while he was away, the Mayor was […]
The Director of Public Prosecutions has not pronounced on the death of Tyson Rodriguez who was killed in police custody in Placencia late last week. But tonight, another man was killed and family members and neighbors say that it was by police. It occurred just before four this afternoon in Ladyville. Travis McKay died in […]
The family of Travis McKay came to our studios with a compelling report that they saw when the police chased and fired at McKay. According to the Aunt and brother, even after McKay lay wounded on the ground, officers stomped on him and pushed his face in the mud. Aunt of Deceased “I saw […]
Today’s press conference was held for the purpose of discussing flooding and government’s response to infrastructure concerns. The bad news is that incessant rains have negatively impacted many families across the country, and destroyed infrastructure everywhere. The good news is that the Ministry of Works has conducted an assessment, and GOB is releasing almost three […]
The European Union is clustering Belize with Cambodia and Guinea as countries that have not done much to stamp our illegal fishing. On Tuesday, the EU announced a ban on fish imports from the three countries. The government that since it took over the registry it has moved quickly to rectify the deficiencies, including the […]
A release from the Ministry of Finance which is now responsible for IMMARBE expresses surprise at the E.U. ban announced on Tuesday on fish imports. Today, we asked the Fisheries Department about the implications of the E.U. measure. George Myvett, Acting Administrator, Fisheries Department “Decision taken by European Union does have implications. Obviously a […]
In its 2008 campaign manifesto, the United Democratic Party promised serious governance reform by introducing the idea of a thirteenth senator. That additional Senator would have come from the NGO community, and would have shifted the balance of power away from government. The immediate result would be a Senate with teeth, a powerful oversight body. […]
At Central Farm today, the Taiwanese Government handed over a two-year old project initially carried out by the Taiwanese Technical Mission. The Ministry of Natural resources and Agriculture will now assume oversight of the project, land and equipment as phase two of the agricultural initiative. News Five’s Isani Cayetano was present for the transfer ceremony. […]
After twelve days on remand after being found guilty of manslaughter and not guilty of murder, Vincent “Steeno” Tillett learned his fate today when he appeared before Justice Adolph Lucas in the Supreme Court. At the end of his mitigation plea this morning, Tillett was slapped with fifteen years behind bars. In mitigation plea, Justice […]
