Tonight, the whereabouts of thirty-one year old Caledonia resident, Luis Alcoser remains a mystery and police are nowhere closer to cracking the case. Alcoser disappeared on Monday after he left home about six o’clock that morning from his home in the village. It is not known precisely where he was heading, but around midnight his […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow, as of the first of January, assumed pro tem chairmanship of the Caribbean Community. For the next six months he will preside over a series of CARICOM meetings, including the annual gathering of regional heads of state scheduled for mid-February in Placencia. This is why the Secretary General of CARICOM, Irwin […]
A father of two from Caledonia, Corozal is at the center of a police investigation that could be related to an Orange Walk drug bust late last week in which eighty-three kilos of compressed marijuana were seized by police. But this is just an allegation. Now, thirty-one-year old Luis Alcoser went missing on Tuesday when […]
Canadian film-maker Matthiew Klinck was murdered at his home near Spanish Lookout sometime over the weekend. He was last seen alive on Saturday at around four, and on Monday night his decomposing body was discovered by two friends, accompanied by the property’s caretaker. He had been stabbed fourteen times in the face, neck and upper […]
On December twenty-nine, Police Constable Luke Moreira, assigned to the San Ignacio Police Formation, was arraigned on two counts of rape. He was accused of taking a woman prisoner out of her cell and sexually assaulting her. Even as Police reeled from that scandal, two days after Police Constable Kyle Serrano, attached to the San […]
From allegations of rape and sexual assault by Police Officers to glaring footage of nude Police Officers on social media…the Police Commissioner has his share of headaches. Just around Christmas, one Special Patrol Unit officer decided he wanted to masturbate on camera, and that video promptly ended up on YouTube. A few days after, a […]
More than two months ago on election night, a close affiliate and supporter of Minister of Police John Saldivar allegedly fired his weapon into the air in celebration. The man was immediately detained by police officers on the scene. His detention was short-lived, however, as Saldivar and a crowd of supporters descended on them. As […]
The Police Department is generally reticent with statistics and only too happy to keep the media in the relative dark. Of course that’s only when crime statistics don’t look good for the department, not when things are looking much better than they did in 2014. And they are, according to the police, in all categories […]
On Tuesday afternoon, businessman Jack Charles hastily applied for and was granted an injunction by the Supreme Court, restraining the Customs and Excise Department from taking possession of his shipment of rice. While the application did not include the necessary paperwork, earlier today that document was officially filed. The grounds for the application includes the […]
Thirty-seven year old film-maker Matthiew Klinck is well known in Belize for the first-ever telenovela, La Isla Bonita, set in San Pedro as well as for the Curse of Ixtabai. But sometime over the weekend, in the peaceful community of Selena behind Spanish Lookout, the Canadian actor, cinematographer, producer and director was stabbed to death. […]
The Belize Audio Visual Industry Association, BAVIA, of which Matthiew Klinck was a founding board member, is tonight reeling from the murder of a colleague. Klinck rose to prominence in the burgeoning local film industry with the feature film Curse of the Xtabai in 2012. While the attention-grabbing movie did not win an award at […]
Klinck, the brain behind Make-Belize Films, also dedicated countless hours training and mentoring young film students and aspiring producers. Toombs gives a professional reflection of his slain colleague. Isani Cayetano “What does this loss mean for the audio visual industry in Belize in terms of what his potentials were, realizing some of the dreams […]
There is an update to the murder investigation…When we left the scene just after two this afternoon, forensic personnel and Police were still in Selena at the scene of the murder. Tonight it’s official though, the Klinck was murdered. Late this evening we contacted investigating officer Inspector Reymundo Reyes who gave us an update via […]
A Belizean businessman was arrested today in Honduras; August Henry Tabony was detained while he was at the Juan Manuel Gálvez Roatan International Airport. According to reports from La Prensa Honduras, he had not declared more than sixteen thousand four hundred and ninety U.S. dollars in cash he was carrying on him. The sixty-five year […]
And tonight’s question is: Do you support the destruction of the Guyanese rice which could not be released for retail? Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones to 8686 or post your vote on our e-poll at channel5belize.com. You can also send an email with your comments to questions@channel5belize.com
On Monday, Supreme Court Justice Sonya Young rejected an application filed on behalf of businessman Jack Charles who was seeking judicial review of BAHA’s decision to confiscate his cargo of Guyanese rice. As we have reported, a shipment of three containers of prepackaged rice is sitting in Big Creek since arriving in Belize on December […]
Businessman Jack Charles’ attempt to bring in the Guyanese rice for retail started months ago; tonight he is seeking to stop the destruction of three containers of the staple. In the following report, News Five’s Isani Cayetano takes a look back at how the issue of introducing cheaper rice into the local market evolved and […]
It was a bloody weekend on Belize’s highways. There were four separate accidents, three on the Phillip Goldson Highway and one on the George Price Highway, leaving multiple persons injured and four dead. The first terrible accident happened on Saturday night between mile forty-nine and fifty, on the outskirts of Carmelita Village in the Orange […]
A near fatal road traffic accident along the Phillip Goldson Highway on Saturday morning preceded a deadly crash moments later. Andre Gordon and Marvin Ramirez were traveling in opposite directions when they collided into each other a stone’s throw from the Haulover Bridge. Fortunately, neither motorist suffered any life threatening injuries. That pileup, however, may […]
While there was no loss of life in that accident, another RTA occurred in the same vicinity near the Haulover Bridge on January second. Two persons perished instantly; money lender Pamela Bennett and Alfredo Navarette were traveling in separate vehicles when they were involved in a head on collision. Bennett’s husband was also injured and […]
Even in death, controversy seems to surround Pamela Bennett. Late this afternoon, police were summoned to the businesswoman’s residence where irate members of her family were gathered. Their bone of contention is that attorney Audrey Matura-Shepherd, along with someone considered a stranger to Bennett’s siblings, had entered the house on Caesar Ridge Road and removed […]
The first murder for the year took place minutes after five o’clock on New Year’s Day. A young man was accompanying two females from the neighborhood on Jane Usher Boulevard in the old capital when he was accosted. One of two men opened fire hitting him multiple times. Kieron Shaquille Moss of a Freedom Street […]
In the Supreme Court earlier today, businessman Jack Charles lost his only option to legally examine the rationale behind a decision taken by the Government of Belize to confiscate a shipment of Guyanese rice. The consignment of a hundred and fifty thousand pounds of prepackaged grain arrived via freight at the port in Big Creek […]
While Senior Counsel Eamon Courtenay, who represents the Mennonite community, maintains that Jack Charles acted in open disobedience of the law. As a result, the Customs and Excise Department, according to Courtenay, has indicated that the illegal cargo must leave the country sooner than later. Eamon Courtenay, Attorney, Belize Agro-productive Sector Group “The rice […]
A Belize Defense Force officer lost his life of Wednesday in a traffic accident on the Phillip Goldson Highway in the Orange Walk District. The on-duty officer was driving a B.D.F. Mahindra pickup which collided into a Mexican passenger bus traveling from Belize City to Cancun. Several persons received minor injuries from the impact, but […]
