Maud Williams High school teachers are now on vacation; but while they are attending a school workshop, some were surprised with dismissal letters this afternoon, resulting from the merger of three south side schools. While the Maud Williams teachers were the first to receive their marching orders, it is expected that dismissal letters will also […]
The Auditor-General’s report on the Won Hong Kim/Elvin Penner immigration scandal is still not available for public consumption. The result of the investigation was handed over to the Prime Minister and the Ministry of Immigration three months ago, but it has been kept under tight wraps. But not air-tight, it seems, and a leaked copy […]
Belizeans are anxiously awaiting their first look at the comprehensive Auditor-General’s report, whenever it is tabled. We have been told by COLA that it is damning and implicates Elvin Penner and other persons directly in the immigration scandal. We have also been told that in that report the Auditor-General recommends that Penner and others be […]
Earlier this week the Cotton Tree Village Council took the government of Belize to court over two hundred and fifty four lots. Those lots, allegedly within the community, are part of a large plot which was acquired and then subdivided by government. The lots are allegedly being given to eight U.D.P. Area Representatives in Belize […]
Turning to the courts…today, a well groomed and smiling Felicia Chen arrived at court extremely jovial but left crying after her case for murder was traversed to the next session of the Supreme Court which is set to commence in October. Chen is charged with the murder of three of her four children. This […]
In May 2012, Supreme Court Judge Samuel Lungole Awich was sworn in as a Justice of the Court of Appeal. That appointment was not supported by the Bar Association, and neither was the decision in May 2014 to renew and extend his contract. One of the criticisms levied against Justice Awich then and now is […]
The appointment has sparked off a heated, but surgical verbal flurry between Prime Minister Dean Barrow and President of the Bar Eamon Courtenay. Today Attorney-General Wilfred Elrington weighed in, venting his long-held frustration at a Bar Association which he says serves no useful purpose. Wilfred ‘Sedi’ Elrington, Attorney-General “The leadership of the Bar has […]
Last Thursday, a group of conservation N.G.O.s expressed their concern via letter about a proposed mega-tourism project, the Puerto Azul development, within the Lighthouse Reef Atoll. That letter was sent to Chair of the Cabinet Subcommittee on Investment, Godwin Hulse. In it, the group is asking for disclosure, additional information on the methodology which government […]
In early June, Minister of Foreign Affairs Wilfred Elrington led a delegation to the forty-fourth regular session of the O.A.S. General Assembly held in Paraguay. This wasn’t a scheduled session for ongoing discussions on the new roadmap created to strengthen the Belize – Guatemala relationship. Elrington told News Five today that he did meet with […]
Thirty-four year old Kingsley Ferguson is tonight recovering from gunshot wounds following a near brush with death in what Belize City police believe to have been a case of mistaken identity. Ferguson, a resident of Neal’s Pen Road, was visiting his girlfriend at a residence on Jones Street on Tuesday night when he was accosted […]
During the dismantling of the Belize City Center in mid-September 2013, one of the inner walls of the structure collapsed and fell on Egbert Jones while he was working. The twenty-three-year-old was one of a hundred men, including at risk youths and gang members, who was offered a job at the site under the contract […]
At ten this morning, a funeral service for Tulio Caceres was held at the St. Joseph Church before his casket was taken to the entrance of Taylor’s Alley on Orange Street for a final viewing by family and friends. His body, News Five understands, will then be cremated. This morning, police detained one person in […]
In news from the West, a sixteen-year-old male has been remanded to the Hattieville Prison following a major drug bust early this morning. Just after ten a.m. in Santa Elena, a police patrol came up on the youth, who fled from the scene as they approached. Inside the football field, a brown crocus bag was […]
San Ignacio Police are also investigating one of its own in connection with reports of a domestic assault in that western town. Police Constable Fermin Choco is wanted by police after his common-law-wife reported that she was physically assaulted by him on Tuesday night. According to Inspector Reymundo Reyes, there have been previous incidents of […]
New Horizon 2014 moved to Hattieville today where the administration of the government school was officially handed over a new pre-school facility. The building was constructed along with the Belize Defense Force in record time with it has classrooms and amenities to accommodate an enrollment of a hundred preschoolers. The faculty and staff were overjoyed […]
Marleny Castellanos, a woman accused of being the mastermind in a long-standing and very lucrative hustle, has been slapped with more than twenty charges for immigration offences. It is alleged that Castellanos used documents from the Vital Statistics Department to fraudulently obtain nationality certificates for many immigrants in Belize. Now corruption at the Vital Stats […]
Boxing is a longstanding sport discipline in Belize, but like with so many other disciplines, it is on life support because of a lack of resources. So a donation handed over today is indeed welcome. It’s the result of an effort by Belizeans in the Diaspora who have pooled their resources to assist sports in […]
