Just before news time, a release was issued on what Prime Minister John Briceño’s Cabinet would look like. The PM spent all day at Charter House carrying out the arduous task of assigning cabinet portfolios. He said on Thursday, that not all elected area representatives who won Wednesday’s election can be given ministerial rank because […]
In the north, Jose Abelardo Mai has been given the portfolio of Agriculture, Food Security, and enterprise while his colleague in the Orange Walk division Kevin Bernard will be the minister of Youth, Sports, and E-Governance. Orange Walk North Area Representative Ramon Cervantes will serve as Minister of State under Eamon Courtney in the Ministry […]
In the Cayo district, Julius Espat will be the Minister of Infrastructure Development and Housing. Cayo Northeast Area Representative Orlando Habet is being given the portfolio of Sustainable Development, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management. His colleague from Cayo North Michel Chebat is now the Minister of Health and Wellness. And the man who defeated […]
On Thursday, the new Prime Minister was sworn in and the cabinet members are expected to take the oath on Monday. But this afternoon, former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Patrick Faber was sworn as Leader of the Opposition. He took the oath of office before three other United Democratic Party area representatives […]
As we said, “Sista B” was conspicuously absent from this afternoon’s swearing-in ceremony as the newly-elected area representative for Queen’s Square. She succeeds her elder brother and former Prime Minister Dean Barrow who has retired from electoral politics. While it has been rumored that “Sista B” will not be serving the five-year term as opposition […]
As we said earlier in the newscast, Dangriga Area Representative Doctor Louis Zabaneh will be the minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology under Francis Fonseca. Rodwell Ferguson will serve as the Minister of Public Utilities and Logistics. His colleague from Toledo West Oscar Requeña will serve as Minister of Rural Transformation, Community […]
The only woman minister in the P.U.P.’s cabinet is Belize Rural Central Dolores Balderamos will be the Minister of Human Development, Families and Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs. Her minister of state will be Port Loyola Area, Representative Gilroy Usher. Balderamos Garcia says she plans to give the Belizean people new hope. Dolores Balderamos Garcia, Area […]
On Thursday, the legal counsel for the Ministry of Natural Resources was arrested by police for suspicious activities at the Lands Department in Belmopan and all branches countrywide were shut down until Monday. Land documents were being retrieved from the premises and when the police responded, they came in contact with Llewellyn Usher. It ended […]
On Thursday, Prime Minister John Briceño said that an investigation will be launched at the Ministry of Works since there have been allegations of massive corruption and abuse within the department. Following that statement, a number of heavy duty equipments were recovered by police from a property belonging to former Works Minister Rene Montero in […]
Former Belmopan Area Representative John Saldivar is reportedly hospitalized after exhibiting symptoms that are consistent with COVID-19. While his health status is yet to be confirmed, we understand that Saldivar was missing in action from Wednesday’s elections, prompting many to question the reason behind his absence. We are also made to understand that a councilor […]
On Wednesday night, a sixteen-year-old minor was found with multiple injuries on the Bullet Tree Road. Around eight p.m., Special Constable Jaime Pinelo was travelling from Bullet Tree Falls Village to San Ignacio Town when he came across Gregory Lewis, a teenager from San Ignacio. Pinelo was still alive when he was found and taken […]
A seaweed vendor in Ladyville lost his life in a late night traffic accident on Thursday. Police say that Ken Faber crashed into a meter in front of a gas station in Ladyville. As we found out today, Faber was going through a tough time in life and was drinking to cope with the pain. […]
ComPol Chester Williams also gave a brief update on the sudden death, believed to be by drowning of Guatemalan national, Francisco Domingo Ac Tzalam. Tzalam was reported missing from Livingston, Guatemala as then hurricane Eta came barrelling through Central America. His body was later discovered by a fisherman five miles northeast of Hunting Caye. The […]
Just after midday on Thursday, police intercepted a Ford Explorer SUV travelling to Belmopan at a checkpoint between miles thirty-eight and thirty-nine on the George Price Highway. Inside the vehicle at the time were Corozal residents Carlo and Nina Moreno, Francis Gentle, Elsa Echeverria and Dilcia Daniels. Nothing appeared suspicious, but a search of the […]
Since last week, we’ve been reporting on the impact of the floods across Belize. And tonight we give you a first look at the damage the flooding has caused on farmers in rural Belize. Today, our news team went to a farming community called Nago Bank located behind Maskall Village where they spoke with representatives […]
The General Elections went without a hitch from a policing standpoint. Voters were well-behaved and, for the most part, adhering to COVID-19 protocols; they went to cast that important ballot at polling stations where sanitization measures were carried out smoothly and headed home. Commissioner Chester Williams says that while officers had to intervene in a […]
There is a new minister of Home Affairs; that’s Kareem Musa from Caribbean Shores. So what does this mean for Commissioner Chester Williams? The ComPol told News Five today that he worked his way up to the ranks and does not have any political affiliation. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “There is indeed a […]
ComPol Chester Williams also gave an update on the status of the investigation against disgraced former minister John Saldivar as it relates to the Lev Dermen scandal. Texts by Saldivar discussing tranches of cash surfaced and Saldivar later confirmed that he had received money for his campaign. According to Williams, the police is still in […]
There is another investigation that has been moving at a snail’s pace. It involves questionable cash transactions in respect of former Minister of Sports, Herman Longsworth and others at the National Sports Council. As you know, an audit into the finances of the council was conducted by the Auditor General. She found that public funds […]
There are many angles to follow in respect of Wednesday’s elections. The win was massive for the P.U.P., which took twenty-six seats. The margin of victory in the Lake Independence constituency was a whopping, where Cordel Hyde trashed Dianne Finnegan by a margin of three thousand one hundred. And in Cayo South, Julius Espat beat […]
