Shots rang out in the night a little after eight-thirty on Tuesday. It happened on a very busy Belize City Street. Police officers blocked one end of Freetown Road at its junction with the I.T. Vet compound and another near Li Chee. There was a barrage of gunshots and officers tagged at least fifteen expended […]
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Well, that’s how one angry woman from Independence Village is feeling tonight. She has a scorching land issue with the Ministry of Natural Resources. A portion of Julie Bonilla’s property has been affected by a road being built to service new lot owners in the village. Bonilla […]
On Tuesday the government said it had awarded Maranco Ltd. a production sharing agreement, giving the green light for oil exploration in northwestern Orange Walk District which includes the Rio Bravo Conservation and Management area. The Belize Coalition to Save Our Natural Heritage, has reacted with disappointment to the award of the contract. According to […]
In our newscast on Monday night, we reported that six persons had been shot over the weekend; two did not survive the gunfire. Early this morning, a shooting in the heart of a known hotspot on the south side of Belize City has landed a marine mechanic in the trauma room at the Karl Heusner […]
The Friday night murder of fifteen year old Devon Reynolds as he went about looking for his aunt on Caesar Ridge Road succeeded that of nineteen year old Shamir Medina who was gunned down just over an hour earlier as he rode his bicycle in the area of Plues St. While many believe that the […]
Cabinet met in session today in the Capital and one of the major decisions to come out of that meeting, is that a Production Sharing Agreement was awarded to a petroleum company. Maranco Limited was awarded the P.S.A. for vacant petroleum exploration blocks in the northwestern Orange Walk District. The concession includes a section of […]
Tonight’s question is: Should patrons who bought tickets for the Shyne concert last Saturday, believing that two platinum artists would perform, be refunded their money? 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 […]
Joe Marinan, he’s the Mega Bingo Boss whose face you’ve seen on TV on numerous occasions. His recent appearance didn’t have to do with the popular game, it had to do with allegations of sexual harassment made by one of the former hosts of the game, Rachel Armstrong. Armstrong is the niece of Alfred Schakron, […]
There is a tragic story about a manatee to report tonight. It follows several instances in which manatees have been hit by boat propellers. Some residents on the south side of the city found a manatee with a deep gash wound this morning. The manatee was pregnant but according to a local expert, it was […]
There was a hit and run on the Western Highway on Monday night and the victim did not survive. Police received the call at around ten o’clock and arrived at the scene between miles two and three on the Western Highway to find thirty-five year old construction worker, Harris Fred Flores, already dead. It is […]
The owner of Cavetubing dot com, Yhony Rosado, backed up by the leaders of three other organizations, stepped up on Monday alleging that his company, tour guides and guests have been the victims of harassment at the hands of the police. Rosado went as far as to say that when he inquired, the police told […]
There were two murders in the Old Capital over the past weekend within a little over an hour of each other. A minor and another youth fell victim to the gang violence in the city’s meanest neighborhoods on Friday night. Devon Reynolds, a mechanics student, was pursued by his attackers and gunned down shortly after […]
The other victim to the weekend’s violence is nineteen year old youth, Shamir Medina. He was gunned down just before Devon Reynolds at eight-thirty on Friday night. Shamir Medina, who is known on the streets as “LEE TULU” and as “WANKA,” was shot and killed near his home on Berkeley Street. Medina’s murder was the […]
Aside from the murders of Reynolds and Medina, there were several shooting incidents that occurred over the weekend and while the following incident was not fatal, it was still alarming. The victim was a uniformed cop, who was wounded inside the Belama Police substation that recently came under scrutiny because there was an increase in […]
The Belama Police Substation also came into public focus earlier this year when a store across the street was robbed and the assailants got away. 828 Super Center was robbed on January seventeenth, just days after it was reported by the police that the substation had been closed for repairs. During Friday’s debate P.U.P. Freetown […]
The Kendal crossing has been in the news for years now since the bridge was washed away by Tropical Storm Arthur in 2008. A bailey bridge was donated by the U.S. Government, but it was not the right fit and the Sittee River remained without a proper bridge in a heavily trafficked area that connects […]
Tour operator, Yhonny Rosado, surfaced as one of the most outspoken critic in the recent cruise tourism crisis. Rosado was on the frontlines when the livelihood of tender operators came under threat by major cruise lines that call on Belize. Today, Rosado, who is the owner of CaveTubing.com, called a press conference and made serious […]
On Saturday morning, the scene at the Belize Telemedia Limited compound on Saint Thomas Street became potentially explosive before the start of the Annual General Meeting of the Belize Communications Workers Union (B.C.W.U.). Paul Perriott, who resigned from B.T.L. in February, was prevented from entering the compound. Outraged union members attempted to intervene and the […]
The debate on the 2011-2012 budget began on Thursday with a rousing presentation by the Leader of the Opposition; in fact it was inarguably one of his finest moments in the House of Representatives. But as they say, that was yesterday’s news. Today the U.D.P. area representative from Orange Walk East, Marcel Cardona, stole the […]
Marcel’s meltdown during the 2011-2012 budget debate is surely one that political pundits will ponder for a while. Cardona, it seems will be a one hit wonder in the United Democratic Party. He called the Prime Minister a puppet master and the deputy prime minister greedy and many are forecasting that his days in the […]
On the government’s side, most of the two day debate was spent arguing over ten years of past P.U.P. budgets. There was also a protest, ejection of party supporters from the gallery, and a no show by two P.U.P. representatives. And then of course there was Cardona, who ended his speech like the Visa advertisement […]
The Leader of the Opposition John Briceño along with Florencio Marin and Francis Fonseca left the chamber after the Marcel meltdown. After giving his speech, the Orange Walk East Representative rushed outside got into his vehicle and drove off denying media interviews. Briceño was also ready to leave when he was asked whether or not […]
The prices of fuel keep going up and there’s no stopping. The government has removed the GST but has added an additional dollar on import duties that is not refundable to the business sector and is sure to affect the cost of living. We asked our viewers if government is doing enough to bring relief […]
MegaBingo took Belize by storm earlier this year and raised the fever among gamers. It became so popular that the competition, Lotto, had to bounce back with new advertisements to “stay in the game”. But there is trouble in paradise and now there are suits and possible countersuits. Earlier today, a former host of the […]
Rachel’s mother, Lizette Armstrong, told us that Marinan has also disrespected her. Yolanda Schakron, whose ex-husband owns majority shares in Mega Bingo, also says she has a major problem with the issue of sexual harassment on the job. Yolanda Schakron, President, Belizeans for Justice “We need to stop being quiet and complacent and having men, […]
