The discovery of a fetus under a bed is the latest scandal to hit the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. On Friday, a decomposed fetus was discovered only when an Orange Walk patient in the Observation Ward alerted hospital personnel. According to a police release captioned ‘abandoned fetus,’ it was found at around eight p.m. when […]
The Puerto Azul luxury facility has come under sustained fire from environmentalists following the launch of the Puerto Azul Experience Party at a glitzy event held in the French Riviera during the Cannes Film Festival. The high-end state of the art facility which is proposed to include an airstrip, mega hotels, shopping malls, restaurants and […]
The media grilled Mike Singh about the participation of Contreras and Heredia at the Puerto Azul Experience Party at Cannes. So was it premature for the project to be unveiled by the Italian investors? Here’s what the C.E.O. had to say. Michael Singh, C.E.O., Ministry of Trade & Investment “Cabinet is collective; there are […]
There is positive development in the condition of twenty-three year old Vitalino Reyes Junior. After four days in a coma, Reyes Junior today showed signs of recovery. According to his father, who remains at his bedside at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, Reyes Junior tried to respond by opened his eyes and will remain under […]
You’ve heard from the K.H.M.H. about the “production of conception.” So tonight’s question is: Was the administration of the K.H.M.H. negligent in respect of the decaying fetus found under a bed? 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 […]
Belizean footballers who played for the national team at the Gold Cup one year ago have still not been paid in full, as contracted by the Football Federation of Belize. The team did not make it past the first round, but even before leaving for the United States, players signed a contract with the F.F.B. […]
Belmopan Police believe that a minor may be responsible for a spate of recent walk-way jackings in that city. That minor was captured this morning on Oriole Street in the Capital, minutes after he allegedly grabbed a purse from a U.B. student. She raised the alarm and Police quickly responded. Shots were fired by the […]
There have been all sorts of scandalous allegations of wrongdoings made against the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, but tonight there is a troubling report that has been confirmed by the police. The K.H.M.H. is not providing further details, but on Friday night, sometime around eight o’clock, a patient from Orange Walk alerted the nurses on […]
As recent as last week the San Pedro community came together to fight an alarming spike in crime and violence in the island. On Saturday, the news spread early in the morning that a man had been murdered. Since then the police have been investigating the murder of forty-nine year old Alfred ‘Cat’ Kelvin Junior. […]
Thirty-four year old Giovanni Borland died on Friday, three weeks after he was viciously chopped to the head on May eleventh in Libertad Village, Corozal. Police detained twenty-four year old Joseph West from the village following the hacking. Reports are that around ten p.m., both men were socializing at the Mil Amores Bar in the […]
Tour operator Vitalino Reyes Junior is still comatose at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Reyes Junior was assaulted last week Thursday during a confrontation at a bar; he was beaten so badly that he ended up on life support. His competitor in the tourism industry, Yhony Rosado of Cavetubing.com and his employees are at the […]
Last Tuesday, Trevor Vernon, the unsuccessful claimant in a private case brought against Minister of State Edmond Castro, made the flamboyant gesture of paying fifty percent of costs, twenty-five hundred dollars, in shillings…delivered in two pillow cases to Castro’s attorney, Denys Barrow. Vernon took Castro to court for breaching the code of conduct as a […]
Belize Rural North Area Representative Arthur Saldivar has his own financial cross to bear. On May twenty-third, the Supreme Court ruled against him in a defamation suit brought by Prime Minister Dean Barrow. In what has been described as the most significant libel award thus far, Saldivar was ordered to pay sixty-nine thousand dollars to […]
After a two-year period as president of St. John’s College, News Five has confirmed that Jorge Espat is demitting office. Word of his resignation circulated around campus late last week and while efforts to verify his departure with the management of the Jesuit institution were fruitless, we have been reliably informed that Espat’s last graduation […]
Tour Operator, Vitalino Reyes Junior of Cavetubing dot bz, is in a coma at the K.H.M.H. tonight, the victim of a brutal beating on Thursday evening. It happened at a popular club off Coney Drive. A man who was with Reyes Junior says they were beaten by a group of men who work for Yhony […]
Tonight, there is fear and anxiety among a number of teachers over the proposed amalgamation of three high schools in Belize City. The proposal has been on the drawing board for years, but it now appears that come the new academic year Sadie Vernon, Maud Williams and Excelsior High Schools will come under one roof. […]
On Thursday afternoon, two vehicles collided on the George Price Highway. Customs officer, Frank Robinson perished on impact, while two others traveling with him in the government pickup truck were more fortunate sustaining injuries, not considered life-threatening. The fatal collision remains under investigation, but family members of Robinson believe that a third vehicle may have […]
On May fifth, the Supreme Court ruled that the assets of the Coye Family, frozen for years by the FIU in a money laundering case, be released. But any jubilation was short lived. Just a few hours after that decision was handed down, a Panamanian company called Internet Experts SA, had applied for and been […]
On Tuesday, Belize Rural North resident, Trevor Vernon paid half his costs to attorney Denys Barrow, in coins…twenty-five hundred dollars worth on behalf of Minister of State Edmond Castro, who on a technicality won a case brought against him by Vernon for breaching the code of conduct as a government minister. And by Wednesday evening, […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow left the country this past Tuesday. His first stop was in Houston, Texas where he reportedly received medical attention for his back. From Houston the P.M. travelled to Washington D.C. to attend a meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank. The IDB issued a release today announcing the Prime Minister’s visit to […]
The Police department is recording a huge drug bust in the Biscayne Village. The department says that around two-thirty on Thursday afternoon, a joint patrol between police, the B.D.F. and the Anti-Drug Operation Unit came up on a marijuana plantation between miles twenty-nine and thirty on the Phillip Goldson Highway, in Biscayne Village. Approximately one […]
A customs officer identified as Frank Robinson, en route to Belize City shortly after three o’clock this afternoon, lost his life in yet another fatal road traffic accident. The collision between a dump truck bearing license plate number A-zero-zero-two-one-four, belonging to Imer Hernandez Development Company and a Ministry of Finance pickup which Robinson was driving, […]
After four months of being on the run, thirty-year-old Edwin Paula, indicted on charges of robbery and murder, has been recaptured by police during an overnight raid. After being arraigned in Belmopan in early February, Paula fled from police custody near Cotton Tree Village and remained a fugitive, his whereabouts unknown to law enforcement. That […]
The private prosecution brought by COLA against former Minister of State Elvin Penner came back to the courtroom of Magistrate Aretha Ford in Belmopan this morning. Penner sat through the proceedings which concluded before eleven o’clock. No evidence for disclosure has been obtained by COLA because until now the Penner files could not located. With […]
On Wednesday night, we reported that the body of a man had been found in Los Tambos, which is located in the Cayo District. Police have identified the body as that of Honduran National Oscar Armando Gomez Alvarez and believe that it is a case of murder. Gomez Alvarez’s body was discovered by a young […]
