There have been some major developments at the nation’s largest referral hospital lately. Notably, the K.H.M.H.’s Director of Finance, Carlos Perera was fired two weeks ago. The C.E.O., Dr. Gary Longsworth, will soon be gone, since the Board has refused to renew his contract…and perhaps most significant – the Department of Finance at the KHMH […]
And since the Finance Department will be under scrutiny, so will the former Director of Finance Carlos Perera, the man who orchestrated the purchasing of those x-ray machines. Perera’s name has come up numerous times before, and it was no secret that the Board of Governors wanted him out. Today, K.H.M.H. Board Chair, Chandra Nisbet-Cansino, […]
When the results of the investigation do come out, it is likely that C.E.O. Gary Longsworth will no longer be a fixture at the institution. That’s because by September he will be gone. Cansino confirmed that though he requested an extension which would have given him a third term as C.E.O., the Board decided against […]
There’s a lot of movement in the health giant, certainly at the highest level. And with the investigation, there are suggestions that there may be more. But tonight there is also bad news for the six hundred employees of the K.H.M.H. In July public officers and teachers received a six percent salary adjustment, retroactive to […]
Last week Tuesday, the entire Smith family including a cousin, who is the mother of a baby, and two minors, ages sixteen and seventeen years, were all remanded to the Belize Central Prison on a charge of kept firearm and ammunition without a gun license. The Smiths had just returned to their house after the […]
Tonight question is: Do you think Felicia Chen should be spending more than eight years in jail for the manslaughter of her three children? Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones to 8686 or post your vote on our e-poll at channel5belize.com. You can also send an email with your comments to questions@channel5belize.com.
A teen went missing last Monday; while she was located early this morning, there is a grim side to her story. Her mother is troubled because she has seen symptoms of pregnancy but her daughter is only thirteen years old and her boyfriend is allegedly a much older man from Orange Walk. The predicament for […]
The trial without jury against thirty-five year old Renan Briceño for the 2012 murder of Dale Tillett came to an end today. This morning, Justice Troadio Gonzalez heard closing arguments from both sides in the case which started last week Wednesday…approximately two years after being on remand. Briceño, a former Marketing Representative of SMART, was […]
Two weeks after survey pegs were discovered on Goff’s Caye, signalling some sort of planned development, there is still no clue who placed the pegs there. The Ministry tried to pass it off on tour operator Ramon Cervantes, who got a lease for a small portion of the island in 2002, but Cervantes quickly cleared […]
Goff’s Caye is one of the most popular and accessible public beaches to Belizeans so when rangers detected the survey pegs in June, it immediately raised eyebrows. So who is placing pegs at the caye? We have been trying to find out for days and today we asked the Coastal Zone Management Authority which is […]
We further quizzed the CZMAI on the survey and there was one possible explanation coming from C.E.O. Gillett. That is that someone, whose identity is still a mystery, may be interested in starting concessions in the island. Duane Moody “My question now is sir that how is it that someone would have the barefaced […]
In April 2014 Orange Walk resident Jose Novelo came to the media for help after a lease to a piece of land he had claimed and farmed for over forty years was given to somebody else. That prompted the Lands Department to look into the matter, and they promised Novelo they would investigate. But the […]
The Novelo incident is not an isolated case, and it seems that not a week goes by without some land dispute or the other in some corner of the country. Very often it’s caused by what we’ll call a glitch in the Ministry of Natural Resources – in a nutshell, somebody owns a piece of […]
The arrival of a new Taiwanese Ambassador is expected later this week; he will to succeed Ambassador David Wu who departed over the weekend after a successful diplomatic tour in Belize. The new Ambassador is Ben Ho, who many will recall served in Belize in the period 1993-1998. Ho has also completed missions as Ambassador […]
Preeminent Belizean musicians, the Garifuna Collective is back from an extensive tour of Europe. During their travels, the group performed from a vast catalogue of World Music which spans several years and includes the music of legendary artists Andy Palacio and Sofia Blanco. Before sold out crowds in Holland and Serbia, the Collective once again […]
Shortly at the Bliss, the curtains will be drawn for another round of competition in If You Can Sing it, Bring It. In the double elimination format, two will not be back to the stage and only thirteen performers will advance to another round. The show promises to be full of fun and laughter as […]
