A man was killed late this afternoon in Seine Bight. Details are sketchy at this time, but News Five understands that the victim is Mexican national, Alejandro Guzman, who worked as a caretaker of a property in the area. Preliminary reports are that it is a home invasion turn murder. We are told that the […]
A popular taxi man escaped with his life on Monday evening when he was targeted by someone who was trailing him in the San Jose Nuevo Palmar area of Orange Walk. Forty-six-year-old Ricardo Uk was with a female passenger when he came under fire from a masked gunman in the area of the water tank […]
The 2020 legal calendar gets underway on January thirteenth and the Attorney General’s ministry is already looking at possibly replacing as many as five judges, including Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin, in the months ahead. That’s because, with the exception of Justice Shona Griffith, they will all be reaching retirement age this year. As we reported […]
Offering the Chief Justice a contract extension means that government would be prepared to negotiate new terms of agreement to include pay scale and salary, as well as other benefits. That decision, however, is also contingent upon a vote to be taken by members of the Judicial and Legal Services Commission. The taskforce is comprised […]
January fifteenth – that’s the date when the mills at the A.S.R./B.S.I. factory in Tower Hill, Orange Walk will crank up. This afternoon, a meeting was held between representatives from the millers and four cane farmers association in the north where the start date for the 2019/2020 crop season was finally determined. But even as […]
So how does the industry bounce back? Since there is no insurance for the cane farmers, the government had promised the disbursement of drought relief funds. While there are reports that several persons have received assistance, News Five has been informed that a large number of farmers in the north have not benefitted. Cane Farmers […]
Seven days into the start of 2020 consumers are bracing for a significant jump in the prices of fuel as of midnight tonight. And it is expected that further surges in prices will hit consumers as the volatile situation involving Iran continues to play out. So kerosene will increase by twenty-six cents from seven dollars […]
Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin succeeded Abdulai Conteh as the presiding judge of the Supreme Court back in 2011. During his tenure on the bench, CJ Benjamin came under fire from the Bar Association in September 2017 for failing to render judgments in a timely manner, leading to a backlog in the number of outstanding cases […]
Notwithstanding the Chief Justice’s pending retirement, there is a matter that has been lodged before the Supreme Court in which he is being challenged as chair of the Judicial and Legal Services Commission. The Bar Association, through attorney Andrew Marshalleck, is taking CJ Benjamin to court for sidelining its president from JLSC meetings. It is […]
The Evangelical Churches today offered their interpretation of the recent ruling relating to Section fifty-three. On December thirtieth, 2019, the Court of Appeal handed down a judgment, upholding the Chief Justice’s ruling on Section Fifty of the Belize Criminal Code in which he found that it contravened the constitutional rights to dignity, equality before the law, privacy, freedom […]
There is no certainty that there will be an appeal that would take the case to the Caribbean Court of Justice but it is under consideration by the association. Vice President Scott Stirm says that the ruling demolishes what they have fought for and with the anti-discrimination legislation coming on board; he says that this […]
Is trouble brewing once again in the football world? News Five is in receipt of a correspondence in which the chairman of the Belize District Football Association, William Moguel, is being asked to recall what is described as an illegal extraordinary congress convened by the Football Federation of Belize and the executive committee of the […]
The Freedom of Information Act remains at the centre of a failed request by the Belize Chamber of Commerce & Industry to get its hands on a copy of Imer Hernandez’s contract to pave the Coastal Highway. The mega contract is for a whopping one hundred and thirty million dollars. The call for a facsimile […]
So while Government is yet to provide a copy of the Hernandez contract to the Chamber, Government’s chief legal officer Michael Peyrefitte is demanding that Opposition Leader John Briceño apologizes for comments he made during his New Year’s address last week. Allegations were made by the P.U.P. leader that ranking government officials were involved in […]
N.E.A.B. today made claims on a number of issues in regards to the decision by the Court of Appeal to uphold the CJ’s ruling on Section Fifty-three. The Association is linking homosexuality to an increase in the number of persons living with HIV. With no evidence at hand, according to Secretary George Ferrar, with the […]
The National Evangelical Association of Belize is also of the view that the extension of the meaning of the word sex to include sexual orientations opens the door to many interpretations. Vice President of NEAB Scott Stirm says that the line that separates absolute and relatives has been crossed to include any and everything including […]
Some residents in San Antonio, Toledo are alleging that burning of medical waste is making them sick. According to them, particularly those who reside near the San Antonio Polyclinic, the improper disposal of the waste has been going on for about five years. The residents say that they have complained bitterly over the years but […]
The Toledo West Area Representative, Oscar Requeña is also taking on the issue. According to Requeña, some twelve families are being severely affected by the burning of medical waste in San Antonio Village. The parliamentarian is calling on the Ministries of Health and Environment to properly address the matter immediately. Oscar Requeña, Area Rep., […]
Back in November, we reported about the meeting held by the Belize Police Department with twenty-five or so gun dealers. In that meeting they discussed a number of proposed gun control measures. Some of the changes were to take effect this year and on Monday, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams told the press that the […]
