The funeral for nine-year-old Grace Primary Student Aaron Pope was held this afternoon. Pope was killed and his sister, Kadisha Saldano, was injured while they both slept at their home on George Street early Saturday morning. Family, friends, and Housing Minister Michael Finnegan attended a two o’clock ceremony at the Queen Street Baptist Church. As […]
There is another family in grief over the loss of a loved one. Nineteen-year-old Dale Tillett passed away after nine this morning at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where he was admitted since New Year’s Eve. A short time before the murder of nine-year-old Pope on George Street, Tillett was shot in the head and […]
Anthony Major, aka “King” of Pink’s Alley was shot and left paralyzed for over a year until Boxing Day when he passed away. The alleged shooter, thirty-one year old Chadrick Tingling, was charged on December first, 2010 with Attempted Murder, Dangerous Harm and Use of Deadly Means of Harm. This morning, Tingling appeared before Senior […]
Brian Sears, the American missionary who was accused and charged with Committing an Unnatural Act of three brothers in Sarteneja village, Corozal District was involved in another legal matter last month. Sears was driving on Fourth Avenue in Corozal Town on Saturday, December sixteenth when he was pulled over by the cops. A search was […]
The year 2011 ended in a most violent way for Aaron Pope, a nine year old school student from Grace Primary School who was killed as he slept at home; a victim of the continued gun violence that has earned Belize City the reputation of murder capital. Aaron’s family has already lived its share of […]
The results of a recent poll was released today and they are both surprising and interesting. But first, the poll was done by the GS Strategy Group from Idaho. It is billed as a professional and national poll that covers everything from quality of life to political strife. The results were released by Glenn Tillett, […]
But as all things go in Belize, politics eventually becomes the main course in any meal and so it is in the poll. Questions were raised about nationalization and whether you prefer P.U.P. or U.D.P. management on various topics. According to the poll, at the time he stepped down as Party Leader, Johnny Briceno was […]
Some of the poll questions remained questionable, particularly the one on Briceño’s popularity over Barrow. Briceño resigned from the P.U.P. leadership on October seventh, the date the poll began its rollout. So even without a leader at the helm of the P.U.P., the poll recorded twelve percent popularity for Briceño. And if you do some […]
The father of a sixteen year old high school student from Corozal went public on Tuesday with allegations that his daughter had been raped by a town councilor. But today police issued a report that tells a different version of what transpired between the teen and town councilor Willie Cruz. The allegations made by the […]
Tonight’s question is: Has the government kept its promise to reduce the cost of living? 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 last murder in 2011 took place on New Year’s Eve; the count stands at one hundred and twenty-five, five less than in the previous year. But there is little comfort in the Old Capital where a nine year old did not live to see 2012; he was hit when a hail of bullets penetrated […]
While he was arrested at Palm Island soon after the shooting, Renan Briceño Junior was formally arraigned this morning. The thirty-two year old Orange Walk resident appeared in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court and was charged with Attempted Murder, Dangerous Harm and Use of Deadly Means of Harm upon Dale Tillett. In court, Briceno Jr. […]
A U.D.P. town councilor from Corozal is in deep trouble tonight following serious allegations made by the father of a sixteen year old high school student. Corozal police told News Five today that they could not provide details of the case since the investigation is at an early stage. The claim is against Councilor Willie […]
The Prime Minister’s New Year’s message offered a gift to persons who owe thousands of dollars to the Belize Social Security Board (S.S.B.). The government says it will purchase from S.S.B., all mortgages at or below fifty thousand dollars. The mortgages were originally with the Ministry of Housing before they were transferred to the S.S.B. […]
Earlier we told you about the rash of violence in the city. Also on New Year’s Eve, at around seven a.m., thirty-eight year old Troy Flowers was riding his bike on the Mullins River Road heading toward the junction when he was ambushed. Flowers reported that a man dressed in a camouflage jacket, long green […]
And as they were ringing in the New Year at church, two teenagers were stabbed multiple times in San Antonio, Toledo. At around eight p.m. on Saturday, eighteen year old Solomon Sho and Elmer Cowo were at church when they got into a quarrel with Hermelindo Ogaldez and Aron Bol, both of San Antonio. Sho […]
The unrelenting stream of armed robberies during the holiday season continued in the Old Capital this morning. De He Li Store on Freetown Road became the latest target of a trio of thieves who stormed the premises as it was being opened for business sometime before eight o‘clock. According to a police report, three men, […]
Another Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital (KHMH) scandal concerning the questionable purchase of pharmaceuticals and other medical supplies, despite a commission of inquiry being held in November 2009 to investigate such practices, continues to unravel. Last week former KHMH employee Delroy Herrera exposed the management of the hospital for the allegedly devious procurement practices of equipment […]
Saldivar says despite not being a pharmacist or a member of the hospital’s management, the improprieties outlined in the information he has unearthed is straightforward. Arthur Saldivar, Attorney for Delroy Herrera “Every drug that is indicated or illustrated within the book has a concurrent price. It is the price of the medication or the quantities […]
There is another voice that has not yet sounded its own concern about the KHMH procurement practices. That voice belongs to COLA. The president of Citizens Organized for Liberty Through Action had been dealing with a personal matter that vilified his character. However, earlier today political activist Moses Sulph was freed of a single charge […]
On Monday a group of employees on their way to an early morning shift at Windy Hills Resort were involved in a near fatal collision. The Toyota Hiace they were traveling in along the Western Highway near mile sixty-nine was severely damaged when an oncoming vehicle, an Isuzu D-max driven by twenty year old Ian […]
Thirty five year old Eaton Carr, a resident of Dangriga says he has been under constant harassment and threat from a Dangriga Police Corporal. Carr says he is a former gang member. And though he is reformed, he still continues to be targeted by law enforcement officers in that municipality. Recently he has been wrongly […]
The infamous acupuncturist, Kun Lin Lee, also known as Kevin Lee has been offered bail. On December twenty first, the sixty seven year old massage therapist appeared before Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer for the second time on a single charge of aggravated assault of an indecent nature upon a twenty-year-old woman. He was granted bail […]
A Belmopan thief probably knew when he went after workers of the Reconstruction Development Corporation (RECONDEV), he would net a sizeable amount of cash. On Wednesday evening around four-thirty that robber made off with a moneybag containing cash and cheques amounting to twenty-one thousand five hundred dollars. Twenty-two year old Roaring Creek resident, Curlene Arthurs, […]
The Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital (KHMH) went through a very public hearing during 2009’s Commission of Inquiry that analyzed the procedures used to determine how medical supplies and pharmaceuticals are procured by the KHMH. But recent allegations by a former employee have revived old claims of misappropriation. That individual was consequently arrested and released by […]
