Also on Tuesday night, shooting victim Troy Bowen succumbed to gunshot injuries. In early August, the twenty three year old stevedore was shot to the right side of his head. He survived that incident. But Bowen was a marked man and before eight a.m. on August twenty fourth a gunman was waiting for him at […]
With a threat of violence looming over the celebrations, there is reliable information that some residents of crime-afflicted neighborhoods have sat in a conference with officers at the Raccoon Street Police Station. While we can’t confirm who was at the meeting, reports are that it focused on recent tension that pitted the department, gangs and […]
The Belize Recycling Company Limited was robbed on Tuesday afternoon. According to twenty-nine year old Lindy Hernandez, at one fifty p.m. a man wearing a white T-shirt, a three quarter pants and a white cap came to the business in order to sell scrap iron. But the business transaction was just his cover to commit […]
Two children of school age disappeared mysteriously a year ago in the south when they left the safety of their homes to sell fruit to raise money for school supplies. The pain over the missing siblings, Benjamin and Onelia Rash, is still fresh in the minds of their family and community in San Marcos, Toledo. […]
The Ninth Amendment public consultations are taking place at the Multipurpose Complex in Orange Walk Town this evening. Word is that as early as five o’clock, persons began trickling in to the venue. There is tight security and heavy police presence. Both political parties have mobilized for the event and their supporters have been bused […]
It’s now official, after successful trial runs the Mexican bus company, ADO, has launched its services from Belize City to Cancun and Merida. ADO promises comfortable travel at affordable prices. Busses are scheduled to leave Belize City nightly after the last run by Belizean operators to avoid conflict with local stakeholders. The Mexican bus company […]
Following the weekend’s violence, the police claim today that the gangs have grenades that they plan to use over the September celebrations. On Friday night, the Gang Suppression Unit zeroed in on George Street at a house where neighbours gathered after attending the funeral of Charles Woodeye. It is estimated that over forty persons were […]
Businessman Rhett Fuller went to court again today in his long battle against his extradition. Fuller, who handed himself in to police on the twenty-second of August sought bail but was not successful before Justice Adolph Lucas. He will remain at the prison until Minister of Foreign Affairs, Wilfred Elrington, makes a determination on whether […]
A well-known man of the streets of Belize City was killed in a hit and run accident near the Esso Gas station on the Northern Highway at about seven-thirty on Monday night. Robert Harrison Castro better known as Bababoo is a regular fixture in front of grocery stores and gas stations. Although he suffered from […]
An unidentified man was killed at the corner of George and King Streets after ten on Sunday morning in the weekend’s blood bath. Not many details were available because he was believed to have been homeless. Well that’s until today when we can confirm that he is forty-two year old John Garbutt. His family members […]
Tonight’s question is: Do you think that the Gang Suppression Unit is contributing to the lawlessness on the streets? 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 Bar Association was among the first to come out against the original version of the proposed ninth amendment. When the Council of Churches intervened and convinced the government to remove the section that barred the court from inquiring into constitutional claims, the Bar retained its stance via a press release. Last week, the Attorney […]
Next week Tuesday, the Belize National Football Team will face Guatemala. It is the first time that a Guatemalan football team will be playing on Belizean soil. But today, the Belize team is on its way to Grenada where it will take on the Grenadian selection on Friday. It’s a long way to Brazil 2014, […]
Belize City’s relationship with violence has shown that society’s dysfunction has plummeted further. Gun violence, which once only left bodies of gang members on the streets, now regularly includes the innocent. The bloodbath over the weekend spilled into King, George and Berkeley Streets. Three persons are dead since Friday and three more are shooting victims […]
The second murder victim on Friday night was eighteen year old Stephan Flowers, who succumbed to injuries at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Flowers was shot two weeks ago as he rode a bicycle along with Ian Henkis on Mopan Street. Both came under fire by two men who were riding on separate bicycles. Flowers […]
A homeless man, known only as Speedy, was the third victim to succumb to gun violence over the weekend. The shooting incident took place near the corner of George and King Streets in Belize City shortly after ten o’clock on Sunday morning. It is widely believed that the murder was an act of retribution by […]
To add to the spate of crime over the weekend, there were two separate shootings on Friday night. The first incident took place at the corner of Vernon and Santa Barbara Streets where thirty year old Michael Hemmans was shot to the hand, buttocks, hip and grazed on the forearm. Hemmans was securing his vehicle […]
Details are emerging on the proposal by the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association (B.S.C.F.A.) to purchase majority interests in the Belize Sugar Industries (B.S.I.). Currently, executives of the B.S.C.F.A. are out of the country shopping for potential financing since the deadline to pay ING over thirty million dollars is fast approaching at the end of […]
Weighing in today on the Banco Atlantida proposal for a buyout of Belize Sugar Industries Limited was the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI). It issued a press release saying that it recognizes the need for comprehensive reform and new investment. The BCCI says it supports the move to have the industry privately owned […]
The proposed ninth amendment to the Belize Constitution has been debated by the two main political parties, the Council of Churches, the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Bar Association of Belize and vocal Senators. But one voice in the wind, which caught our cameras today, is Orange Walk East Representative Marcel Cardona. Though […]
Just before six this evening, a shooting took place at the corner of Berkeley Street and East Canal in the old capital. From what we have been able to gather, there are two victims, thirty year old Maurice Neal, a welder, and ten year old Denesha Cadle. Neal man was smoking cigarettes he had just […]
SpeedNet and Belize Telemedia executives penned their signatures to a major accord this afternoon. Last year in the height of a telecom war, B.T.L. removed Smart from its international circuits claiming that there was no valid agreement to host SMART. SMART went to court and finally today an interconnection agreement was signed at the offices […]
All week we have been reporting on the shooting of a Guatemalan which the Belize Defence Force maintains happened on this side of the border and east of the Adjacency Zone in the Chiquibul area. Representatives from the B.D.F., the Guatemalan Armed Forces and the Organization of American States met on Wednesday in a quarterly […]
The Bar Association on Thursday issued a press release in which it maintained its firm opposition to the Ninth Amendment even after the government had agreed to certain concessions with the Churches. This afternoon the Attorney General, who has not been heard from any at all, issued his own press release styling himself as the […]
The government has agreed with the churches to trim the language in the controversial ninth amendment bill that has to do with a bar on the courts. But there is still concern that the amendment can have far reaching implications because it gives parliament supremacy over the constitution. Our question to the viewers this week […]
