It made national headlines at the start of the week when contractors working on Burns Avenue unearthed an array of Mayan artifacts in the heart of downtown San Ignacio. On Sunday, work on a sustainable tourism program was halted upon the discovery of ceramic vessels, stone tools and skeletal remains underground. Archaeologists have since observed […]
A Fabers Road woman was arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court this morning for an alleged burglary at the home of her neighbor. Twenty-four year old Janine Lord appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann Marie Smith and pleaded not guilty to a single charge of burglary. Lord is accused of entering the residence of Camisha […]
A sting operation on Thursday has resulted in charges being brought against a police officer. Twenty-eight year old Police Constable Amir Moh, a resident of San Jose Palmar in Orange Walk, was arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court today on a charge of Extortion. According to forty-eight year old Alexander Tate, the officer demanded […]
A decision was delivered this morning in respect of the ongoing legal battles over the acquisition of Telemedia. Justice Michelle Arana’s court room, was packed with attorneys from both sides in the Telemedia litigation. Via video conferencing from Trinidad, the Caribbean Court of Justice handed down a preliminary decision to appeals brought by Dean Boyce […]
The decision of the CCJ is to stay the appeal until the challenge of the second nationalization and the eighth amendment is determined by the Belize court; that trial is set to begin on March twelfth, 2012. Fortis, the former Canadian owner of the Belize Electricity Limited from whom the government, appropriated the utility company, […]
Another of America’s Most Wanted fugitives has been captured in Belize. This time the suspect is a woman wanted for a murder that occurred in Palmdale, Los Angeles in 2010. Twenty-nine year old Larene Austin, known in Belize as “Crystal” was caught during a police operation in Punta Gorda on Wednesday. A search warrant was […]
Seismic testing in protected areas in the south is in full swing despite strong objections from residents and non-government organizations, including the Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management. Tonight there is some trouble brewing because U.S. Capital Energy Ltd., represented in Belize by businessman Alistair King, has been conducting geophysical explorations in the Toledo District […]
Another hot button issue in the south is over rosewood extraction. On Tuesday Cabinet finally took some measures in respect of the illegal harvesting of Rosewood for the export market. It has been reported that millions of dollars have been lost to the illegal extraction of rosewood taking place primarily within the Mayan communities in […]
Far west in the village of San Jose, Succotz, a mother is irate and looking for answers after a bizarre incident involving school officials. The parent, Maria Barrera, says that on Monday, her teenage son was restrained by school officials who shaved off part of his hair. The thirteen year old says that he was […]
Turning to other news, on Tuesday the Public Utilities Commission said it had not received any objections to the proposed six point one-four percent reduction in electricity rates that it announced earlier in the month. Well today, B.E.L. stepped in line and announced that the P.U.C. is not to expect any objections, but it wants […]
The body of a Belize City man was found on the Burrell Boom road on Tuesday night. Burthen Garoy left his house on Cemetery Road at about six-twenty and less than an hour and half later he was executed. The motive is not known, but an attempt had previously been made on Garoy’s life. So […]
On Tuesday News Five reported on an incident that involved three women, two Guatemalans and one of Honduran nationality. They alleged sexual misconduct by members of the Belize Defense Force and the Belize Police Department. The Honduran National claimed that she was raped on January fifteenth when she arrived in Belize via an illegal crossing […]
In the north, Corozal police are investigating an early morning kidnapping in Concepcion Village. Shortly before six o’clock a group of five armed, masked men entered the home of twenty-nine year old Marleny Cawich; she was bound and taken hostage. But the kidnappers left behind her newborn baby and a ransom note demanding money from […]
Forty nine year old Valda Bodden has been living in Belize for twenty-three years and she has five children born in Belize. So you would think that Bodden, a sanitation worker of BML, would qualify for citizenship. But even in the recent mad rush to naturalize hundreds of immigrants that included Guatemalans, Bodden didn’t make […]
The Public Utilities Commission announced a reduction in electricity rates of six point one-four percent on January twelfth; that won’t be final until the end of the month. But this morning, another pre-election gift was formally announced. It’s a reduction in water rates despite a two point two million dollar loss to the government controlled […]
The rate reduction to take effect in February, according to Avery, is sort of a slap on the wrist for BWSL which did not implement approved investments. Except for the islanders in Caye Caulker, the reduction in your water bill depends on consumption, but it represents an average drop of a little more than seven […]
As we mentioned previously, the Public Utilities Commission announced a six point four percent decrease in electricity rates earlier this month, which amounts to a drop of about three cents per kilowatt hour on the light bills. Following the announcement, B.E.L. was given until January twenty-seventh to protest that decision but so far there have […]
There’s dissention in the ranks at the police department. It stems from a raid at the Curassow Street home of thirty-nine year old Police Corporal Gino Peck and his wife Loretta. The couple was busted over the weekend with a significant quantity of ammunition. They were charged with possession of unlicensed ammunition and were due […]
There is a disturbing report coming from Punta Gorda and it could mean big trouble for Belize Defence Force soldiers and police officers. An investigation of sexual abuse is underway and today police were deployed to the Jalacte area where the incident reportedly took place. On Monday, a twenty-three year old Honduran national reported to […]
Brian Sears is the American missionary of Somerset Kentucky, who was charged with Committing an Unnatural Act against three brothers in Sarteneja village, Corozal. Up to the time of his arrest, Sears was a member of Victory Christian Fellowship in Somerset. But the police believed he used religion as a ruse to gain the trust […]
Kraal Road is a well known hot spot, but it has been most uneventful since a truce was reached between numerous gangs last year. The government is spending close to a million dollars to keep the peace, but there was a flare up this afternoon between the Gang Suppression Unit and the Kraal Road affiliates […]
Tonight’s question is: Do you support a proposal to reduce the term of government to four years and a fixed date for general elections? 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.
Last week Tuesday night, aspiring U.D.P. Town Councilor, Severo Guerrero was caught at the Elections and Boundaries office in San Pedro going through election data. The officer in charge, Merilee Squires, has since been suspended for allowing Guerrero access to the computer. On Friday morning, at about four-thirty the alarms were sounded that the Elections […]
The number of persons that received citizenship in the past two weeks is officially put at over one thousand. And Chief Elections Officer, Josephine Tamai, says that in the period December tenth to the nineteenth, five thousand plus new voters made it on the electoral list for the upcoming elections. We have been checking around […]
This week Social Security Board staff members who reportedly reduced their loans to participate in a write-off by the government will be interviewed by the Pannell Kerr Forster accounting firm. Investigations started last week and are ongoing into the insider trading scheme that was stopped when it was exposed in the media. Embattled Social Security […]
