The airwaves have been consumed with the news that mega-million dollar sugar-cane production and milling facility, Green Tropics, has been given a twelve million dollar loan from the Social Security Board. Green Tropics’ Parent company, the Santander Group, is Guatemalan owned – that’s one immediate concern being voiced, since S.S.B. money is from Belizean contributors. […]
Singh reiterated that the Board cannot even look at an investment until the Investment Committee recommends it after due diligence. That was done, and the Board of Directors reviewed it in late January and gave a stamp of approval. That’s where it is at this point…pending a loan offer and an acceptance. But even with […]
We’re not sure the breakdown of monies invested into the Santander facility has ever been public knowledge. The project has been sold repeatedly as a hundred and fifty million dollar U.S. foreign investment. Singh broke it down for us today and the truth is that more than fifty million dollars U.S. is actually being invested […]
The unfortunate jurisdiction matter of baby Nina Barrera Perez, adjourned since December, was before Magistrate Dale Cayetano at the Family Court today. As very brief background, two year old Nina was seized from her mother’s home in Orange Walk in November. The intervention by the Human Services Department was done in the strength of an […]
On Monday, we told you about the disturbing armed robbery of a Canadian couple just a few hours after they checked into the Tropical Education Center on the George Price Highway. Stephen Temple and Cynthia Fredrick may have lost their cash and valuable electronics, but they were unhurt. Jorge Cruz Lopez wasn’t so lucky. Lopez […]
And tonight’s question is: Do you support the granting of a multi-million dollar loan from the Social Security Board to the Guatemalan company, Santander? 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
Health officials today revealed that so far, Belize is free of the Zika virus unlike many countries in Central America and the Caribbean. Samples have been sent for testing at CARPHA, but fortunately, there are no positive cases locally. The World Health Organization has declared a global health emergency given the spread of the mosquito-borne […]
A zika national preparedness plan is being rolled out. So is the Belize City Council, which acts as the body which manages any emergency within its municipal jurisdiction through the City Emergency Management Organization, ready. Today, Mayor Darrell Bradley told us that he is getting prepared, and will actively collaborate with the Ministry of Health […]
Tonight there is disturbing and significant news coming out of Belmopan and it involves our colleague media house Plus Television in that municipality. News Five has been able to confirm that the Belize Broadcasting Authority has opted not to renew the station’s on-air broadcasting license for the year 2016. In a letter dated February four, […]
Late word to News Five is that Dangriga police are at mile six on the Hummingbird Highway where the decomposing body of a man has been found. There are few details on that and it is not known if it could be a case of murder. But we can confirm that following an autopsy on […]
In June 2015, the S.S.B. approved loans to Meridian Enterprises Limited and Diverse Development Limited in the amount of millions of dollars. Both are companies allegedly affiliated with U.S.-vilified banana grower John Zabaneh. The applications passed due diligence, but shortly after Zabaneh’s banana farms were forced to close down after Fyffes pulled out under pressure […]
In November 2012 Mayor Darrell Bradley did the unprecedented. He launched his twenty-million dollar municipal bond to finance a massive infrastructure project in the city. Today he told us that the Council’s management of the bond has been spectacular…so spectacular in fact that he says investors have lined up to reinvest their monies. Still, says […]
After more than a year on remand and a number of adjournments, Troy Hyde accused of the murder of George Street’s Kareem Lopez, aka “Robbery” learnt today that he will have to stand trial. A preliminary inquiry took place this morning in the courtroom of Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith; Hyde was represented attorney Sheena […]
Tonight a police officer from the San Pedro is free from a charge of extortion after his accuser, a San Pedro resident, did not show up to court. Calvin Flowers alleged that Elvin Nah extorted four hundred dollars from him on July sixth, 2014. Flowers claimed that he was detained by the cop, while he […]
Currently a high profile visiting team of urban planners is in Belize City. The experts from the American Planning Association are here at the invitation of the Belize City Council and they are focusing on the Yarborough Community which lies within the Queen Square constituency. It is an area that is poverty-stricken, lacks infrastructure and […]
The group of experts will take a comprehensive look at the area including social issues, unemployment and violence. Justin Moore, Urban Designer/Planner, American Planning Association “In urban planning and design, it really looks at the entire context of the city. So all the issues of the economy; what are people’s housing situations; what we […]
Great Belize Cooking … Episode Two airs tonight at eight o’clock and you can’t afford to miss this new segment. Master chef Sean Kuylen will be featuring an all time favourite right here in the City where weekdays and on Saturdays, the aroma of the barbecue will be wafting through the streets. But before you […]
