The Port of Belize Limited is once again at odds with gangs of stevedores working at the harbor, as well as their representative union. For years, the company has shared an adversarial relationship with waterfront workers, a somewhat confrontational state of affairs which dates back to the presidency of Antonio Gonzales. Since taking over as […]
According to Arturo ‘Tux’ Vasquez, Chief Executive Officer at the Port of Belize, the labor law mandates that there be a minimum of nine hours of down time for persons working within a twenty-four hour period. While both parties were deadlocked on the issue, CWU President Evan ‘Mose’ Hyde says that they subsequently requested a […]
Since both parties are at a logjam, it is expected that Prime Minister Dean Barrow, who is also Minister of Labor, will have to intervene in the matter. Vasquez cites the Settlement of Disputes Essential Services Act which permits stevedores to give advance notice of industrial action; however, he also says that it is subject […]
The Caribbean Court of Justice today dismissed an appeal brought by convicted murderer Dionicio Salazar. Found guilty of the 2010 murder of Marlon River, Salazar first appealed the decision of the Supreme Court in the Court of Appeal which affirmed the decision. He then took the matter to the Caribbean Court of Justice which also […]
Dionicio Salazar was given a life sentence for the murder of Marlon Rivera. River was fatally shot on June thirteenth, 2010 in San Ignacio near the police station. His attorney Anthony Sylvestre says that the court will resentence Salazar. Anthony Sylvestre, Attorney for Dionicio Salazar “They had allowed this appeal in relation to sentence […]
This afternoon in San Pedro, Rufino Hernandez, one of two persons suspected of the brutal murder of Caye Caulker resident Christopher Meighan, was arraigned in the magistrate’s court. He joins Belizean/American Lalman Logan at the Belize Central Prison where he is also on remand after being indicted for the same offence. Meighan was found butchered […]
Sixty-year-old Salvadoran National Nicolas Guevara is a free man tonight. He had been charged, convicted and sentenced for the murder of thirty-six-year-old Marcus Antonio Tzul. He was sentenced to life in prison on December 1993. His sentence was reduced this morning to twenty-five years by Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin but because Guevara had served for […]
If you are a vehicle owner and if your car runs on regular gasoline, we advise you to visit the nearest gas station after this newscast. That’s because the price per gallon of regular fuel will increase at midnight tonight. It will increase by sixteen cents from eleven dollars and four cents to eleven dollars […]
On Monday night, sixty-five of the eighty plus students at the Claver College Extension in Punta Gorda staged a peaceful demonstration at the campus. The adult continuing education institution has been at the centre of controversy, following the termination of ninety percent of its teaching staff last Tuesday. Replacement teachers have since been hired and […]
The teachers were terminated by the board which is chaired by former minister, Lisel Alamilla; the only other active member is the treasurer, Mark Miller. The mass firing was a unilateral decision made by Alamilla after the teachers refused to sign a contract that would see them paid every two months. The teachers are currently […]
Just before ten o’clock this morning, news spread like wildfire that resident youths at Princess Royal Youth Hostel were on the roof of one of the buildings. Speculation was fast and furious on social media as to why the residents were there within minutes, the police were there as well as B.D.F. soldiers. A News […]
Today, young people from across the country gathered at the Biltmore Plaza for a national consultation spearheaded by the Ministry of Health in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Human Development and other partners such as UNICEF. The purpose of the consultation is to bring together various stakeholders, particularly the adolescents, to […]
The mass re-registration is over with a total of one hundred and thirty thousand, seven hundred and ninety-two applications received by the Elections and Boundaries Department over the three month period. During the last week of re-registration, that is between September twenty-third and thirtieth, six thousand, three hundred and seventy-six applications were submitted. The total […]
The criminal past of a current coast guard officer is being brought back to life after it was reported that Belizean-born British soldier Lee Charles Busano is back in Belize and serving in one of Belize’s security arms. Three years ago, in 2015, Corporal Busano who was based at Weeton Army Camp in the U.K. […]
Over the weekend media representatives were taken to Cayo to visit top tourist destinations as part of B.T.B.’s annual familiarization excursion. On Monday showed you the thrilling zip-lining and out of this world cave-tubing experiences that Cavetubing.bz offers. Today, News Five’s Hipolito Novelo takes a look at two top resorts in the Cayo District. […]
