Three men walked from a murder charge today, even before the case could proceed to trial. The D.P.P. ordered the Magistrates Court to dismiss thirteen charges, including murder, against Brandon Taylor, Shamir Medina, and Lincoln Hemsley due to insufficient evidence. The trio was on remand for almost two years for the murder of Anchor Security […]
On Wednesday a mixed breed dog attacked three year old Lupita Padilla, who wandered off and ended up under her neighbor’s house in the Jerusalem area behind the Lord’s Ridge Cemetery in Belize City. The young girl was severely bitten on the neck and face and is tonight recuperating at the hospital. News Five spoke […]
In our poll on Thursday night, we asked viewers to opine if they found the security measures at the International Airport to be lacking. The question was raised in light of a Mexican aircraft undergoing maintenance that easily took off from the airport on a test flight and never returned. No one can tell who the […]
Fifteen days ago, sixteen year old Khadisha Saragosa went missing after leaving her boyfriend’s house. He claims he never saw her again and her family has been fed with numerous rumors about her whereabouts, but all leads have turned out empty. Today News Five spoke to her grandmother, Angelina Allen, who says they were last […]
Diana Mechling and her husband Michael were among thousands of tourists who visited the jewel on Wednesday. The American couple chose to go snorkeling in the pristine waters off Goff’s Caye but that trip ended tragically for the Mechling’s from Ohio. Diana lost her life when the propeller of a catamaran operated by Cruise Solutions, […]
Twenty-three year old Miguel Matus, a convicted murderer from Benque Viejo, is tonight on the lam from local authorities in what can only be described as a comedy of errors on the part of prison officials. Matus, who is serving a life sentence for the shooting death of seventeen year old Pricilla Tzib, showed up […]
An incident at a Belize City High School has prompted the management to send home a teacher pending the outcome of an investigation. According to the administration of Gwen Lizaragga High School, the incident between the teacher, Wilfred Austin Neal, and a male student occurred after two thirty Wednesday afternoon. While in class, a student […]
TONIGHT’S QUESTION IS: Do you think that security measures at the Philip Goldson International Airport are lacking? 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.
FECTAB’S Yhonny Rosado has been at the front lines of the tender crisis since it first broke out in early January. He has been amongst the most vocal and passionate in trying to get a level playing field from the Carnival Cruise Lines for tender operators even though he is not an offshore operator. This […]
On Tuesday we reported on two incidences at the Phillip Goldson International Airport. The first one involved an airplane that went on a test flight and the pilots essentially stole the plane. A release was issued today from J. A. Contreras, Director of Civil Aviation, that’s almost a week after the incident occurred. According to […]
A two year old trial in the murder of twenty-seven year old Robert Brown ended this afternoon in the Supreme Court before Justice Adolph Lucas. Brown bled to death after being stabbed once to chest by his girlfriend’s brother, Wyatt Anderson. That was on November twenty-second 2008 and today a jury of seven women and […]
We start the news tonight with the story that a US tourist died during a snorkeling trip today offshore Belize City. The cruise tourist, fifty-nine year old Dianna Lynn Meschling, was reportedly part of a group that went to Goff’s Caye for on a tour. Police are at this hour taking statements from the others […]
A major decision has been made by Cabinet in respect of oil exploration. In our newscast on Tuesday we reported that members of COLA, FECTAB, BGYEA and environmentalists had camped out in front of the Prime Minister’s Belmopan office. They remained there during the night calling on the government to refrain from approving further licenses […]
Earlier we told you about the government’s decision to save one point four million acres of the sea from further oil exploration licenses. While COLA raised awareness on the issue of oil drilling in the reef, its advocacy partner OCEANA has been prepping for upcoming events in the United States. OCEANA Vice President for Belize, […]
An ambulance was called to the Antelope Street area this afternoon. Neighbors responded to the frantic call of a mother whose young daughter was being attacked by a family dog. The young child, Carla Cardinez, was bitten on the neck and head and had to be rushed to the hospital. It is not known why […]
The Beechcraft 65 airplane with registration XBLRP that took off from the Philip Goldson International Airport on Saturday morning left a trail of smoke and doubt about how it left Belize’s airspace without clearance. Who were the pilots? Were their identities known to the people who handed over the craft? There are more questions than […]
Government has agreed not to re-issue any oil concession in the area that has been given up by OPIC, the Taiwanese state owned company. It is some progress but there are larger environmental threats ahead both offshore and onshore since seventeen licenses have been issued. On Tuesday we asked our viewers if they supported the […]
There are several reports of suspicious if not illegal activity occurring at the Philip Goldson International Airport. Only a week ago, two Mexican choppers landed at the airport, and on the apron the brazen pilots were attempting to change the registration number. Apparently the authorities were informed and the pilots actually requested that relevant authorities […]
APAMO and OCEANA, the two powerful organizations against oil exploration are already on record against offshore and onshore licenses in protected areas. Seventeen licenses have been issued, more than half of the country has already been parceled off for exploration, and a recent license granted to Paradise Energy, a local company that has no involvement […]
While protesters camped out at the prime minister’s office, in Belize City there was another angry group. The Fort Street Tourism Village instituted a zoning policy late December. From the get go, there was uproar by vendors who suffered a deep cut in the cash they took home to feed their families. The vendors, including hair braiders, […]
Still in the city, there was an unusual sight of a forty foot container leaning dangerously close to several adjacent power lines in the area of Fairweather Street. According to one eyewitness, in order to avert a head on collision with an oncoming school bus the towhead attached to the container, laden with scrap metals, […]
Tonight’s question is: Do you agree with the environmental community that a referendum should be held on the issue of offshore and onshore oil exploration? Get involved by emailing your comments and responses to questions@channel5belize.com or by sending a text, using SMART phones only, to 8686. You can also participate in our online poll at […]
The historic Extension Department of St John’s College is going through its third transformation since it opened its doors sixty years ago. The Department is gradually phasing out its adult education program due to new government initiatives that duplicate the program. It is known that three out of every five students do not complete high […]
Has Alan Slusher, popularly known as “Sammy D” fallen out of favor with his friend the Prime Minister? For someone known to be a U.D.P. insider and close personal friend of the PM, Slusher has been moved around by the Government twice in recent times. A couple weeks ago, we reported that Slusher, who has […]
There’s still uncertainty in cruise tourism tonight. As it stands, Carnival is yet to make a decision on proposals presented on behalf of the Executive Tenders of Belize Ltd which says it is not budging from the six dollars and fifty cents it charges to ferry passengers to and from the cruise line. The tender […]
