The speculation about who will be named as Belize’s Ambassador to Guatemala in the wake of the death of former Ambassador Fred Martinez is over. It is known that Cabinet took a decision on Tuesday, but the name of the new head of mission is being kept under the lid. The Prime Minister will […]
The Puerto Azul Project has been mired in controversy since it came to light that Italian developers were preparing to invest in the development. On Tuesday, the environmental community reacted negatively to government giving its stamp of approval to the developers of Puerto Azul to proceed with an environmental impact assessment. The EIA will determine […]
When government ministers Manuel Heredia Junior and Erwin Contreras attended the Cannes Film Festival in May, where they hobnobbed with the rich and famous on the French Riviera. The occasion was the launch of the proposed Puerto Azul Project. The photographs went viral and there was outrage because it was felt that their attendance signaled […]
The family of Kevin Carcamo, the Hattieville Chairman, is clinging to hope tonight. It is forty-eight hours since the linesman, who is employed by Discoverseis, has been missing. A search party has grown to about a hundred strong and widened its hunt of Freetown Sibun where Carcamo went to work on Sunday for the company […]
Nasley Sommerville, the former administrator of the Southern Regional Hospital, was a no show at a scheduled Public Services Commission hearing today in Belmopan. Sommerville was named prominently in an audit of the Southern Region which pointed to the misappropriation of over three hundred and seventy thousand dollars. It is alleged that Sommerville, over the […]
There are still more questions than answers where the Puerto Azul mega-tourism project is concerned. Government has maintained that it can’t provide much information because the concept is still in a very preliminary phase; it is fluid and is yet to get a green light. But concern over the project is not going away, and […]
And tonight’s question is: Do you believe the quality of life laws are affecting only the poor people? 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.
The Gang Suppression Unit conducted an operation today in the south side Belize City. The target was a property on Supal Street belonging to an elderly resident, seventy-two year old Marina Plunkett. The search occurred sometime after ten this morning, and by the end of the operation, five men and three women including the elderly […]
A Belizean electrician from Corozal has been charged with drug trafficking after a search of his car yielded a significant stash of cannabis. The Border Patrol Team was on operations at the northern border when their checkpoint was approached by a man identified as thirty year old Armando Vasquez. Vasquez was asked to pull his […]
Fifty-five-year-old Sherwin Leslie, a car washer, who was accused of stealing an eleven-dollar Armor-All, has been sentenced to six years in prison. Allegations are that on Sunday, Leslie, a resident of Flamboyant Street, entered Uno Service Station on Central American Boulevard and lifted the product which he uses to do his business. The cashier wasn’t […]
At this time a search party is combing the area of Freetown Sibun near Hattieville looking for Chairman Kevin Carcamo. Carcamo is employed as a linesman by an oil company doing geophysical work and on Sunday he set out to work but has been heard from since. The search party includes residents of the village, […]
The mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of sixty-two-year-old Alfonso Manzanero, a retiree of Belmopan, has raised more questions than answers for his grief-stricken family. On Sunday morning, Manzanero was reportedly driving his silver Mitsubishi SUV when he lost control of the vehicle and landed in a ditch not far from his Nanche Street address. Police […]
There was another fatal road traffic accident early Sunday morning, this one in the Orange Walk district. Forty-three year old Remijio Botes was allegedly killed instantly when he lost control of his vehicle at the entrance to San Jose Village. Police haven’t released any official information, but News Five understands that Botes works at B.T.L. […]
A caretaker of Cotton Tree Village lost his life at the start of the weekend when he drowned inside a fishpond at Fresh Catch Farm in La Democracia on Friday evening. Fifty-seven-year-old Thomas Garcia, a Guatemalan national, reportedly went swimming in one of several freshwater pools when he submerged and did not resurface. According to […]
A fire swept through a wooden house on Friday night; in its wake three families were left homeless. All indications are that the blaze erupted in the upper flat of the building when a young child was playing with a lighter; it quickly spread throughout the entire building. Fortunately, there was no loss of life, […]
There is no sign of flexibility in the current bagasse impasse between B.S.I. and the B.S.C.F.A. Cane farmers met in San Roman, Corozal District, on Sunday to decide on a way forward where the payment for bagasse is concerned. With the farmers opening request at ten dollars per ton, and BSI refusing to back away […]
Between the end of 2012 and April 2014, several employees of the B.S.C.F.A. collaborated to steal money from the association. They did it by targeting the payroll system and paying themselves increased salaries. It was a prolonged scheme, to the tune of about seventy-eight thousand dollars stolen in just over a year. On Sunday, the […]
There are thirteen more days to go in the month, but July has already turned out to be a bloody one. There have been nine murders so far and early this morning, another was added to the growing list of violent crimes. The body of a preacher, Oscar Lambey, was found on the grounds of […]
Police made a major bust at around three o’clock this afternoon that will provide some relief to residents in the city. Officers retrieved an Israeli-made military type assault rifle from bushes in an abandoned lot on Faber’s Road Extension, an area which we told you on Thursday night is quickly becoming a hot spot for […]
Going into the weekend, the Belize City Police Department conducting a crack-down in the city of what is known as quality of life crimes due to a wave of violent shootings and murders. Across the city, and along main thoroughfares, police and B.D.F. have been deployed to monitor any violation of the laws—whether petty or […]
The following story is about what is known about woman fum fum. A Ladyville resident came to our studios to allege that his wife of one year handcuffed and beat him up badly on Thursday. While we could not reach Natalia Wade, thirty-nine year old Keith Staine claims that they had a quarrel in the […]
The Rosado family struck back today on allegations made by a co-founder of the Ariel Rosado Memorial Foundation. The board of directors hosted a press conference this afternoon to clarify assertions that have been made in the media by Bruce Sanchez Senior. The Rosado and Sanchez families are at loggerheads over the management of funds […]
Rosado also set the record straight on how it came to be that he and his wife began signing checks on behalf of the foundation. Dr. Alvaro Rosado, Founder, Ariel Rosado Memorial Foundation “When we met the board instructed me to go to the bank and get the signatories changed so that we could […]
The Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association is meeting on Sunday at the Escuela Secundaria Mexico school grounds to discuss, among other issues, a position on a recent counterproposal made by Belize Sugar Industries on a payment for bagasse. In its initial offer, the B.S.C.F.A. was seeking a payment of ten dollars per ton of cane. […]
The area of the Raccoon Street Extension is quickly becoming a hotspot in the south side of Belize City. Four shootings, three of which ended in murder, have occurred in that area in the past two weeks. It started with the shooting of PIV leader, Edwin “Drive” Flowers, on Neal Penn Road extension. While he […]
