After being halted at the Caribbean Court of Justice, Sunshine Holdings Limited, which owned over eleven million shares in Belize Telemedia Limited, is taking its case for compensation for the value of the shares to the Supreme Court. But it will have to overcome a number of hurdles, including that it was offered compensation originally […]
The uproar continues tonight over the terminations of six employees of the Belize City Council on Tuesday. They were sent home without warning and, according to at least one letter we’ve seen, no details about why exactly they’re being terminated. Amid the whispers of politics being involved, the Christian Workers’ Union is intervening on behalf […]
Like his fellow employees, Jenkins, who had been at City Hall for twelve years, has no idea why he was in the firing line. But he suspects a particular reason – that someone got wind of his plans to run for the United Democratic Party in the Lake Independence constituency. Lake Independence’s area representative Cordel […]
The United Democratic Party has thrown its support behind the fired employees, claiming in a press release that more firings are to come because it is aware of what it says is a long list of persons at City Hall targeted because of allegedly being U.D.P. supporters. The U.D.P. accuses Mayor Bernard Wagner of going […]
May eighteenth has been set aside as National Teachers Day, in honor of the many contributions educators have made towards the development of the nation. Across the country, schools will be closed next Friday to give teachers an opportunity to enjoy the day in the company of their colleagues. Several weeks before the official launch […]
While the education minister blames B.N.T.U.’s dropping out on a lack of willingness to participate financially, the union president says that significant funds have been spent documenting the plight of teachers during the twelve days of strike action in 2016. Monies have also been expended more recently on organizing the March twenty-second anti-violence demonstration in […]
Notwithstanding the bad news, Faber says that other avenues are being explored in order to make good on his promise. Patrick Faber, Minister of Education “Given that news that we received this week, we officially received it in writing I believe yesterday, we now have to sit down and decide whether or not we […]
The tangle between the B.N.T.U. and the respective schools management over salary deductions stemming from a planned but unsanctioned anti-violence rally back in March is free of the Ministry of Education. So says Minister Patrick Faber, who emphasized that the decision of management to deduct a day’s wage from teachers who attended the demonstration had […]
There’s news about a reduction in gas prices tonight, but don’t jump up and down – because it’s not in Belize. The Jamaica Gleaner reports that prices in that island nation go down by sixteen Jamaican cents effective midnight Thursday. It’s important to note that Jamaica’s gasoline is manufactured by its state-controlled oil refinery, known […]
The re-registration exercise commences on July first of this year and will conclude at the end of December. This exercise prefaces the ICJ referendum on April tenth of next year and to qualify to vote in that referendum, persons must have re-registered by the end of December. The voters list for the referendum will be […]
The purpose of re-registration is to clean up the voters list. As of April, there are two hundred and four thousand, eight hundred and two persons on the list and the Elections and Boundaries Department project that when the exercise is finished, there will be some two hundred thousand registered voters. But how will the […]
It is going to be a big task, as the last re-registration happened back in 1997. And with its scope and size to clean up the national voter list, comes a hefty cost. The Elections and Boundaries Department says that it will cost some eight million dollars to do the re-registration. Tamai explains where the […]
The result of the recent referendum on taking the unfounded Guatemalan claim on Belize to the International Court of Justice in Guatemala has led to a renewed assault on Belizean resources, according to Friends for Conservation and Development. On Tuesday, May eighth, F.C.D.’s rangers in the south Chiquibul National Park found plantations of beans, corn […]
It is considered a lesser offense, but a domestic dispute escalated to the courts after Moises Flores of Holy Emmanuel Street admitted to threatening his former partner with her life. The forty-year-old Flores told his ex on Monday that he would kill her and followed up by stabbing at her – but he missed. The […]
The popular proverb, “It takes a village to raise a child,” was the message behind an initiative carried out today by Region One Commander, Senior Superintendent Howell Gillett and Crooked Tree stakeholders today. Select primary school students from Belize City were treated to an outback experience the protected wildlife sanctuary at Crooked Tree. From a […]
Ten high schools took part in the fifth Youth Innovation Challenge held at the Marion Jones Sporting Complex in Belize City. The students are honing their skills at this early age, on the importance of saving, budgeting and investing to prepare them to make the rights decisions with financial resources. News Five’s Isani Cayetano reports. […]
Cops and Churches are working together to curb crime. Today, in the weekly meet and greet sessions, police officers were accompanied by three pastors of the Evangelical Churches. We caught up with Deputy Commissioner of Police Chester Williams and Pastor Howell Longsworth on the south side and they shared how this partnership can help to […]
Conflict resolution is high on the police department’s agenda when dealing with rival gangs in Belize City. For the most part, the crime and violence that continue to plague the Old Capital have been attributed to warring factions meting out street-style justice upon each other. Since assuming the Eastern Division command a few weeks ago, […]
