Late this evening, there was a shooting in the area of the BelCan Bridge in Belize City. We’ll have more of this in Wednesday’s newscast, but we can say that one person was injured and rushed to the K.H.M.H. after he was shot.
It is safe to say tonight, that the sugar industry has plunged into further chaos. According to stakeholders, there is still abundant uncertainty as to when the mill at Tower Hill will crank up to give way to the start of the crop. Five hundred thousand tons of cane is required by ASR/B.S.I. but that […]
According to Ortega, the P.M.’s press conference last Thursday was unfairly weighted as it appeared that he was in support of ASR/B.S.I. While P.M. Barrow openly said that he expected the application for an order of mandamus to fall flat, the Supreme Court has set a date for the fourth week in February to hear […]
Ortega further explains the reason why farmers believe that they have been cornered into signing the agreement. Alfredo Ortega, Former Vice-Chairman, B.S.C.F.A. “That has caused a situation among the farmers because they have said, “Well, we’ve listened to our prime minister on which he said that he is not in favor of the farmers […]
And our question for tonight is: Do you think Government should disburse Petrocaribe funds to replace Fair-Trade money disbursed to farmers? 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.
Late this evening police in the north confirmed that an anti drug unit operation yielded a huge bust of heroin near the outskirts of the Corozal. The exact quantity of the drug is believed to be forty pounds or nineteen plus kilos which carries a street value of twelve million Belize dollars. It is the […]
Last week on ABC, Belize was named as one of the top destinations to visit in 2015. Well, today the Belize Tourism Board announced that 2014 was an excellent year for the industry. Confirming that the number of visitors had surpassed the projected target of a million visitors, the B.T.B. says that overnight arrivals were […]
But there is some good news delivered on Monday. This coming Friday, January sixteenth, attorneys and judges will meet for their annual Law Conference which is a major event in the Bar’s calendar. The theme is “Reforms, Rights and Remedies.” The conference will be marked by the historic visit of Justice Dennis Byron, the President […]
The January session of the Supreme opened on Monday with the usual fanfare. But beyond all the pomp and ceremony, there are serious issues facing the judiciary. The president of the Bar, Eamon Courtenay, pointed to a delay in the speed of dispensation of judgements, as well as to the inactivity of the General Legal […]
In responding to the concerns of the Bar Association, particularly the dormancy of the Court of Appeal, Attorney General Wilfred Elrington admitted that the matter was above his salary. That comment yielded more than a few chuckles from the congregation, as Elrington went on to promise that it would be brought to the attention of […]
A week-long session in the Supreme Court of Jamaica commenced earlier today, following a lawsuit filed in 2014 by Professor Brendan Bain. The litigation involving the University of the West Indies is the result of an apparent violation of due process when he was removed as head of the institution’s Caribbean HIV/AIDS Regional Training Network. […]
Angel Dorado today picked up a third conviction in less than six months in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court for drug trafficking. At eleven this morning, Dorado was found guilty of trafficking seventy-nine grams of cannabis found in a container in his possession. Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith, who heard the matter, concluded that Dorado […]
In December 2014, forty-four year old mother, Olympia King, of Saint Joseph Street, Belize City, was found guilty of cultivation of marijuana and possession of a pipe used for marijuana smoking. But she was spared from going to jail when the Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser refrained from imposing a sentence immediately. She did advice that […]
A Belizean student of the national university is receiving royal honours tonight as one of the Queen of England’s Young Leaders. Denielle Neal is one of sixty young persons from across the Commonwealth, between the ages of eighteen and twenty-nine, that are being recognized as exceptional leaders in their community. The Queen’s Young Leaders programme […]
The Vice Minister of Public Security, Maria Elizondo, and two other senior officials from Costa Rica are in Belize. The two-day visit to the jewel is to get a first-hand feedback on the success of the community policing initiative, the Gang Resistance Education And Training program. The program which is sponsored by the U.S. Government’s […]
The police department is not commenting as to why a complaint, subsequently followed by an order of the court, against George McKenzie Junior for anti social behavior, has been made. On Monday afternoon, the twenty-year old resident of Majestic Alley was detained and handed the order, which was issued from December fifteen 2014 and would […]
In the eastern Caribbean, St. Vincent and the Grenadines is grieving a number of fatalities from a horrible traffic mishap. At least five persons have been killed following a tragic accident on Monday morning. Just after seven a.m., a passenger bus with approximately twenty-one persons—students and residents—were en route to Kingstown from Fancy when the […]
Belize has been getting its share of attention on the international media. We already know of the kudos from ABC in respect of the country as a Life-Affirming Destination. In the popular program Sabado Gigante, aired by Univision, a Belizean woman, originally from El Salvador, was featured. After thirty years of not seeing her nephew, […]
