Tonight there are many more questions than answers in the tragic death of a student from Independence in southern Belize. Twelve year old Sabrina Almendarez was discovered by her father in her bedroom at around four-thirty Friday morning, foaming from the mouth and bleeding from the nose. She was rushed to the Southern Regional Hospital […]
This morning, an unidentified male person called in a bomb threat to the Belize Biltmore Plaza just before midday. Normally that wouldn’t make the top of the news because they happen relatively frequently and are never real. But it is headline material today because when the call came in, Prime Minister Dean Barrow was in […]
December fifteenth, 2013 has been set as the deadline for the start of the 2013-2014 crop season. After that point there is a very real risk that the season would be cut very short by rains in June 2014, and that means serious losses for all stakeholders. But with only two weeks to go, the […]
To avoid real, dire repercussions, the 2013-2014 crop season will need to get underway by December fifteenth. The primary obstacle is of course the impasse between the BSCFA and B.S.I., but even if the relationship was all happiness and smiles, farmers would still be stuck. That’s because many of the sugar roads in the north […]
Tonight News Five takes to the visa trail again as we continue to assemble the pieces in a massive visa scheme. Our investigation so far has revealed the involvement of various senior U.D.P. ministers who facilitated the procurement of Belizean visas for Chinese nationals on a weekly basis. This scandal broke in September with the […]
A heated land dispute between the Young family and the Prime Minister’s law partner, Attorney Rodwell Williams, over a small plot on Cemetery Lane, has landed in the courts. In late October, the two families became embroiled in a bitter argument when Williams consented to have a food shack placed on the parcel of land. […]
According to Matura-Shepherd, it came as a complete surprise to her clients that Williams also had title to the property. Furthermore, it wasn’t until 2007 that he had applied for ownership of the land, unbeknownst to the Young family. Audrey Matura-Shepherd, Attorney for Yearwood Family “Interestingly, in 1998 Mr. Rodwell Williams Senior, the father, […]
While cane farmers in the north stayed away from making deliveries to Tower Hill last week, twenty-four employees attached to the Cane Growers Project at Belize Sugar Industries Ltd. were summarily relieved of their respective duties on Friday afternoon. The mass termination came without due notice, amid ongoing negotiations between the Belize Workers Union and […]
The workers, says Gongora, were released without being given a sufficient reason. Thankfully, he says, the situation was resolved amicably. Ramiro Gongora, President, Belize Workers Union “We were not given a specific reason but they just said that their jobs had finished, you know, because these persons that were instructed that there are no […]
Since the U.S.A. requested the extradition of well-known Belize City brothers, Mark and Gary Sewell, there have been three others who are facing a similar request. They include Rhett Fuller, Deon Bruce, and Fakhrul Alam Salim. Recently, Gary Sewell lost his battle as Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith ordered that he be handed over. Meanwhile […]
Justin ‘Ducky’ Lacroix, a promising young accountant, who was arraigned on Friday on fifty-eight counts of forgery, was able to meet bail today after spending the weekend at the Belize Central Prison. Lacroix, part of a ring which allegedly misappropriated a hundred and eighty thousand dollars from the Radisson Fort George Hotel, reportedly participated in […]
As we said on Friday, U.D.P. aspirants for national elections have submitted their names to the secretariat. Among those who have interest in running in the national elections is councilor, Dean Samuels. It’s a crowded field in Belize Rural Central where Samuels will have to beat at least five others including Beverly Castillo, former C.E.O. […]
Last week at his press conference, the Prime Minister announced that some three million dollars will be spent on the rehabilitation of streets in the City. City Hall’s ambitious plan is to rehabilitate at least a hundred streets, but it is causing a nightmare for commuters. The incessant rains over the past month have worsened […]
Good evening I’m James Adderly and this is Sports Monday. Week 5 back matches in the Belikin Cup were staged this weekend so here in Belize city F.C. Belize took on the surging Verdes FC inside the MCC Grounds yesterday. We’re only 8 minutes into the confrontation when Everal Trapp finds Norman “Tilliman” Nunez in […]
