Tuesday night’s heavy rains and cooler weather might have been good sleeping weather for some, but the deluge caught many in the Toledo District off guard. Today, they were scrambling to secure livestock, figuring out how to get across flooded roads and bridges, or finding themselves cut off from the main road or their neighbors. […]
Fifty-four pounds of compressed marijuana were removed from the streets of Lake Independence this morning during a joint operation conducted by various units of law enforcement. Shortly after seven a.m., elements from Special Branch, the K-9 Unit and the Special Patrol Unit descended on a location on Police Street where searches were conducted on an […]
Crime stats indicate that for over a year, there has been no major crime reported on the island of Caye Caulker. But on neighbouring Ambergris Caye, San Pedro Town is reporting criminal activity over the last few days. Within forty-eight hours, two persons were injured in separate shooting incidents in the San Mateo and DFC […]
The Christian Workers Union issued a twenty-one-day notice of intended strike action to the Port of Belize Limited on Tuesday. The letter, addressed to the Minister of Labour, Oscar Requeña notes that the union has sought to resolve a number of matters with P.B.L., but to no avail. Approximately one year ago, on the eighth […]
And while three unresolved matters are listed in C.W.U.’s letter to the Minister of Labour, the pending move by A.S.R/B.S.I. to transfer its sugar operation from Belize City to Port of Big Creek is, according to Hyde, the issue that triggered the impasse. While C.W.U. is looking to get confirmation on the filling of Container […]
Today New Five joined Minister of Home Affairs and New Growth Industries, Kareem Musa for a leg of his countrywide tour. This morning he was at Caye Caulker. We will have that story for you later in the newscast, but while we were with the minister we asked him for comment on the antivaxxer group, […]
In that same vein, Minister Musa told News Five that during his trip to the northern region, he found an astounding ninety percent of police officers in Orange Walk have been vaccinated. Figures also show a jump for law enforcement country wide, with forty percent of the police department vaccinated. Kareem Musa, Minister of […]
Minister of Home Affairs Kareem Musa and his C.E.O., Kevin Arthurs along with Commissioner of Police Chester Williams and other members of ministry are on a countrywide tour, meeting with officers attached to formations in various municipalities. On Tuesday, they were in Corozal and Orange Walk and today, they headed to the coastal communities of […]
Sunday’s recall convention saw Collet Area Representative Patrick Faber retaining his seat as leader of the United Democratic Party. Despite surviving the recent attempt to have him ousted, Faber’s control of the U.D.P. is not absolute. He is compelled to share the reins with Opposition Leader Shyne Barrow who is the official head of the […]
Former Leader of the Opposition Patrick Faber is on record stating that he has not taken a position on the controversial Eleventh Amendment bill. Despite his name appearing on the letterhead of a release issued by the U.D.P.’s parliamentary caucus on Monday, Faber maintains that he has not come out in favor of or against […]
La Isla Cariñosa may have taken a hit from COVID-19, but the island is rebounding fast. Today, News Five checked out the tourist action that is bringing back the economic recovery and raising residents’ spirits. Duane Moody, Reporting The once bustling island of Caye Caulker, a highly visited tourist destination in Belize, was not […]
When a suspected drug plane went down in the waters outside of Placencia on Labor Day weekend, a former employee of the Department of Civil Aviation was hired at a moment’s notice to assist with the investigation. Shaun Young, whose employment contract was canceled by the Ministry of Blue Economy and Civil Aviation back in […]
According to Young, he was surprised at the response when he asked the leader of the investigating team why the Department of Civil Aviation was not involved, since they would occasionally assist in these kinds of inquiries. Shaun Young, Former Employee, Civil Aviation Dept. “During that time, I ended up asking them well, why […]
In cabinet news, Minister of Health and Wellness informed the cabinet that as of July twelfth, over one hundred and seven thousand Belizeans or twenty-five percent of the population received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and almost forty thousand or nine percent are fully vaccinated. In the first week of the new vaccination campaign, […]
The Leo Bradley Library in Belize City is hosting a smaller version of its summer camp this year to allow for social distancing. But those lucky children who were able to sign up are enjoying various activities and special presentations. News Five stopped by the library this morning. Sarah Castillo, Senior Library Assistant “The […]
