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The battleground over the continuing scandal in the Ministry of Natural Resources shifts north to Orange Walk Town. On Wednesday, the Opposition People’s United Party, led by its Northern Caucus and Orange Walk North executive committee, is assembling constituents at nine to protest the behaviour of area representative and former Minister of Natural Resources, Gaspar […]
Outrage has been widespread in the twenty-four hours since the Government of Belize’s announcement on Monday that fuel prices are to go up once again for the fourth time in several weeks. It is not yet known by how much prices will go up and when the new prices take effect, but officially, the situation […]
The People’s United Party last Wednesday threw its unquestioned support behind Belmopan resident Amy Forte, who directly wrote Prime Minister Dean Barrow to clear her name concerning the allegation of a deed of conveyance transferred in her name for beachfront land on Caye Caulker to Andre Vega. Vega parlayed the Caye Caulker property into the […]
According to the Opposition Leader, Prime Minister Dean Barrow has not responded to his letter last Friday that outlined his demands with regard to the land issue. But that does not mean that the pressure is off, or that the P.U.P. is willing to give up. John Briceño told News Five this afternoon that there […]
On Monday’s newscast, we questioned why Andre Vega would be compensated with public land on a private caye in the extreme north of Belize for privately-owned land in which a transaction did not go through on Caye Caulker. It has not been established how Vega approached the Ministry of Natural Resources, but Opposition Leader Briceño […]
Opposition Leader John Briceño has taken a firm position in the latest round of the Vega scandal, condemning unreservedly the land grab and compensation scheme involving relatives and friends of the beleaguered politician. Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte, on the other hand, is tasked with investigating the participation of Darlene Padron in the endorsement of what […]
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About twenty employees of the little known “United Association for Healthy Living” are claiming that they are owed salaries for two pay periods. The call center located on Mercy Lane in Belize City is foreign owned but has a local manager. The local employees say that for several months they have had to go around […]
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An elderly citizen was knocked down and killed this morning as he rode his cycle in Buena Vista village, Cayo District. Just before six-thirty a.m., twenty-year-old Jessica Miller, a U.S. citizen, told police that she was driving a SUV on the Buena Vista Road heading towards Spanish Lookout in a heavily foggy area when she […]
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The Senate Special Select Committee on Immigration resumes on Wednesday after a month-long break. However, the public hearing will not be held at its usual morning time slot, but in the afternoon. The reason for that is according to our sources, the Committee’s members will be meeting in private in the morning with a witness. […]
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A land dispute involving the Belmopan City Council, St. Michael Roman Catholic Primary School and residents of Las Flores has taken an unexpected turn, as members of the community have rejected an agreement that was struck between Mayor Khalid Belisle and Father Jordan Gongora of the Belmopan Catholic Mission. Late Monday evening, City Hall announced […]
This morning, stakeholders from the public and private sectors, as well as members of the environmental community, gathered at the Radisson to present on the strengthening of Belize’s oil spill response capabilities. On hand for the meeting were officials from the Department of the Environment, Oceana in Belize and other invited guests. News Five’s Isani […]
On Friday following a confrontation with police and special constables of the Belize City Council, proprietor of the ‘Chicken Dread’ fast food franchise Paul Ferguson had agreed to sort out his peddler’s license with the Council. But when his crew set up again outside of Edward P. Yorke High School this morning around eight-thirty, special […]
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A few years ago a special group of women from across the Caribbean gathered to launch a campaign against teenage pregnancy. They are the spouses and partners of the Caribbean’s heads of state and government, and thus very close to the center of power. After successive meetings, today in Belize City, led by Belize’s Special […]
With the Carnival King and Queen 2017 determined on Saturday night, the mas camps got underway on Monday night in the north and south sides of the city. The bands are getting ready for this weekend’s road march and gave us a peak look at what can be expected. While judging is on originality and […]
The revelry aside….the Northern Lesser Antilles and Florida are bracing for a category-five hurricane to make landfall over the next few days. This morning, Hurricane Irma was upgraded from a category four to five and according to the National Hurricane Center it is the strongest hurricane ever recorded outside the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. […]
She was born Jane Ellen Mary Price, but she is known across Belize District as Jane Usher. Today, the founder of the credit union movement and former minister of government as well as mother of twelve children celebrates a milestone and well wishes have been pouring in to mark her one hundredth birthday. Bright and […]
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“Free paper bun” for thousands of our nation’s students, most of whom returned to the classrooms on Monday for another year of classes. Parents paid the tuition fees, bought the books, pressed the uniforms and offered prayers for their children’s success, not to mention posted photos on Facebook and Instagram. But if one school News […]
The finale of KTV, the Remix, takes place tonight and we are surely counting down for the moment. Just for tonight, the venue has been shifted to the spacious Saint Catherine Auditorium. All the action begins with a red carpet event that guests will be strutting just prior to the opening act. Now, the line […]
