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Late this evening, the government announced that the Prime Minister of Dominica, Roosevelt Skerrit, will be arriving this Wednesday in the country. Skerrit is a guest of the government during the remaining Independence Day celebrations which include the official Independence Day ceremonies in Belmopan. Following his arrival, Skerrit will be paying a courtesy visit on […]
And tonight’s question is: Has the SIF board gone too far with the firing of staff involved in the recent scandal of the Dangriga Market? Yes or No. 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 […]
Written on September 17, 2013 | Posted in
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Thousands of Belizeans ride city buses on a daily basis, many of them travelling between downtown Belize City and areas in every other corner of the municipality. But last week, City Hall decided to do away with city buses in the downtown area, and that decision has resulted in mounting criticism and protest. The new […]
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The September session of the Belize City Supreme Court has opened; at least forty-five inmates were brought to the court on Monday and today another fifty were escorted under heavy security. As soon as the session got underway, a charge of attempted rape was withdrawn against Eugene Webster. In the afternoon, Jeremiah Pott, who was […]
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Turning to the Court of Appeal, today, the decision in the case of Reyes Reymundo was handed down. Reyes had been convicted of the offence of carnal knowledge of a female minor. The child was eleven years of age at the time and he was twenty years of age and employed at a Convent just […]
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There is big news tonight in respect of a million dollar project to upgrade the Dangriga market which is mired in scandal and corruption. An emergency meeting of the Board of the Social Investment Fund was held late this evening in Belmopan following our story last Friday. We can report that the heads of five […]
Written on September 16, 2013 | Posted in
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A B.D.F. soldier is today recovering from injuries he received at the hands of officers of the San Ignacio Police Department. The brutal beating was meted out on Corporal Keith Pinnix in the early hours of Sunday morning as he was standing outside the Blue Angels nightclub in San Ignacio. There are different sides to […]
Written on September 16, 2013 | Posted in
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As we told you earlier, there are different sides to every story – and the version told by San Ignacio Police couldn’t be more different. According to their report, Police were on routine patrol when they saw Pinnix without a shirt, screaming and shaking the metal gate to the entrance to Blue Angels nightclub. They […]
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There were sporadic shooting incidents over the weekend. Also in the city, a confrontation between apparently intoxicated revelers, following the carnival j’ouvert on Saturday morning, has resulted in one person being hospitalized after being injured during a stoning. The melee which unfolded near Renaissance Towers caught the attention of personnel from the Gang Suppression Unit, […]
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In other related news, a Belize City man is in stable condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was badly beaten on Saturday evening. It wasn’t included in today’s Police Sitrep, but News Five has confirmed that King’s Park resident, Kingsley Estell, was attacked by at least fifteen persons as he stood at […]
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City buses can no longer run on Albert Street. That’s the law handed down from City Council, and to say that the decision has unleashed a fiery storm of criticism would be an understatement. Commuters to downtown, including students, from all parts of the city now get off on Regent Street West and walk to […]
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No one is being spared from a wave of robberies taking place. Minister of Immigration, Godwin Hulse, reports that sometime between last Thursday and Friday, someone broke into his warehouse located on mile ten and a half on the George Price Highway. The thieves stole a welding machine valued at two thousand dollars, six electric […]
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In Thursday’s newscast, we reported that two investors had apparently been scammed of hundreds of thousands of dollars in a project in the south involving the Social Investment Fund. It involves the reconstruction of a million dollar market in Dangriga that was awarded to the company of a highly placed contractor from the north, Kenard […]
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While residents and vendors were outside the compound picketing SIF’s takeover of the Dangriga Municipal Market Project from Kenard Smart’s K and G Construction, more specifically Gush and Emy Ramirez, Daniel Cano and Ernest Raymond were meeting with the distraught couple and attorney Audrey Matura-Shepherd. A formal assumption of control was scheduled for two o’clock […]
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On Wednesday, one month old baby Dulce Maria Coye died at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. She had been rushed there by ambulance from the Northern Medical Plaza in Orange Walk Town on Tuesday, following two surgeries for a condition known as congenital pyloric stenosis. That’s when the muscle between the stomach and small intestine […]
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The grieving family has made serious allegations of malpractice against the doctors from the Northern Medical Plaza who treated baby Dulce. Those allegations have caught fire in certain sections of the media. And they have resulted in those doctors seeking immediate legal counsel. In a release issued today, the medical facility refutes any claim that […]
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The government-owned Belize Telecommunications Limited will hold its annual general meeting this coming September twenty-sixth. Early word is that the company will be reporting a less than stellar performance with another drop in profits of five point five million dollars. Looking at the figures, in 2011, the gross revenue was reported at one hundred and […]
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Alexander Noel Torres, a resident of Belize City, was today arraigned in the Belmopan Magistrates’ Court for the murder of Daniel Aguirre, the KTV Latino King. His charred remains were found in his taxi early last Saturday morning. When police got to the scene in the Arizona area of Teakettle Village on the George Price […]
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Before the courts closed today, police escorted eighteen year old University of Belize student, Micah Tillett, to the Magistrate’s Court where he was charged with the Murder of Jamal Anthony Neal. Tillett appeared before Magistrate Hettie Mae Stewart, but when he returns to court, he will appear before the Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer. Before leaving […]
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The annual Children’s Rally in Belize City was held today at the Holy Redeemer Parish Hall. Approximately a thousand students gathered inside the hall for the event which seeks to promote patriotism among youth; paying homage to the Battle of Saint George’s Caye and Belize’s Independence. It took a little over a week to put […]
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A protest is planned for Friday in Dangriga where a million dollar renovation of the Dangriga Market has run into trouble. The project had been behind schedule and tonight, construction works on the market have come to a complete halt with word that contracts have been canceled. Two aggrieved investors involved say there is a […]
Written on September 12, 2013 | Posted in
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Belizean artists across all genres of music are tonight up in arms over a promotional video commissioned by the Belize Tourism Board, which premiered on national television on Wednesday evening. While the video does an excellent job of showcasing Belize’s cultural diversity, it’s accompanying soundtrack, a Garifuna ballad performed by acclaimed parandero, Aurelio Martinez, has […]
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Orange Walk Police are mum about an incident which occurred in the early hours of Wednesday morning. It involved B.D.F., Police and civilians and could have turned ugly, but fortunately was diffused. News Five has been able to confirm that at around three o’clock that morning, two B.D.F. soldiers were detained and escorted to the […]
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Police have yet to charge any suspect for the murder of popular Belmopan taxi-man Daniel Aguirre. But according to a source close to the case, investigating officers are one step closer to arraigning a Belize City man on that offence. The suspect is currently on lockdown, serving time for possession of an unlicensed firearm and […]
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In many areas of the City, residents are pulling out their rubber boots so they can exit or access their homes. The heavy rains in the past couple days have caused flooding and there is still more rain predicted for the weekend. The problem seems to be that while residents can boast about beautiful new […]
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