Almost one year ago, on March thirtieth 2013, Maranco Energy Belize Limited announced that it had found an encouraging oil show at its South Canal Bank number one exploration well. That never panned out, but tonight there is confirmation that Maranco has struck oil, black gold, after digging a second appraisal well as South Canal […]
More than six months ago, former Minister of State Elvin Penner was implicated in the facilitation of fraudulent Belizean nationality and a fraudulent Belizean passport for a South Korean national who was in jail in Taiwan. Six months and multiple alleged investigations after, Belizeans know nothing more than they did in September…or at least nothing […]
Since we were circling the subject of the criminal investigation of former Minister of State Elvin Penner, News Five came right out and asked National Security C.E.O., George Lovell, for a status report. In the past couple weeks we’ve done that whenever opportunity presented itself… and the answer has generally been the same. Today was […]
The status of the criminal investigation might be very much in the air at this point, but a private criminal case has been lodged against former Minister of State Elvin Penner, and that case will be heard in Belmopan Magistrate’s Court on Thursday. The claimant is COLA, Citizens Organized for Liberty through Action, and their […]
While the COLA and the D.P.P. prepare to head to court on Thursday, the status of the criminal investigation ordered by the court is still up in the air. Now, there are two other investigations…the internal investigation at the immigration department as well as another being carried out by the Auditor General, which was scheduled […]
Minister Hulse says that the files on Won Hong Kim are still missing and that has caused setbacks in the investigations. But Hulse went on a limb to protect former minister of state Elvin Penner, who he thought has already been punished for the illegality of issuing a passport to a man who never set […]
There were no less than five accidents over the weekend and on Tuesday night, another occurred on the George Price Highway. A bus loaded with passengers was travelling to Belize, but before it could get to its destination, it crashed into a towhead carrying heavy equipment. Luckily, there were no fatalities, but it was a […]
Earlier in the day, there was yet another traffic accident on the same stretch of the George Price Highway. This time, it was a hit and run accident which sent Alexander Shepherd to the general ward of the Western Regional Hospital. The forty-two year old Roaring Creek resident and his eleven year old son were […]
On Tuesday night we reported that a single engine plane had crashed landed at Spanish Lookout, Cayo and left abandoned on a feeder road. The pilot or passengers were nowhere to be found when law enforcement officers got to the scene. All that was left of the CESSNA were portions of the wing and tails […]
Today, the annual Caribbean ICT Road Show touched down in Belize City, as part of its countrywide awareness tour. The tour is a collaborative initiative between the Ministry of Energy, Science, Technology, Public Utilities and the Caribbean Telecommunications Union. In a nutshell, the effort is aimed at educating stakeholders in every corner of the country, […]
March twenty-first was Jose Marin’s last day as Managing Director of the newly minted National Bank of Belize. The career banker was hired and flaunted as the integrity figurehead of the bank. The worst fear of a skeptical public was that the bank would be used as a political grab-tub, and Marin should have been […]
In the past week, News Five has received multiple reports indicating that extra-duty payments for at least five hundred Police Officers have been delayed. We went digging for answers, and discovered that for payment purposes, the country is broken down into two zones. Payments for Policemen from the southern and western formations are handled in […]
Two Guatemalan nationals were busted on Monday morning in the Chiquibul National Park. Police report that the officers of the Special Patrol Branch conducted a search on them that yielded firearms and ammunition. Twenty-one year old Jose Sub Coc of the Cah Bom, Alta Vera Paz was found in the possession of a point twenty-two […]
The efforts of fire prevention is about to get easier for firefighters. This afternoon, the National Fire Service received a fleet of eleven motorcycles which will be used by personnel to disseminate information on precautionary measures to avert fire mishaps. Duane Moody was on hand and files this report. Duane Moody, Reporting The National […]
During the Budget Debate on Monday, Minister of National Security John Saldivar reported that B.D.F. personnel on Belize City streets will soon be pulled out. It’s a move that has become possible because violent crime has decreased significantly in the past year. Still, it is a cause for concern because city streets are volatile, and […]
