Twice today, downtown Belize City came to a standstill. The immediate area around the courthouse was cordoned off as five officers were whisked into court for arraignment on drug related charges. The media was kept at bay when the five were taken to court in handcuffs and shackles under heavy police escort. The five have […]
It was not a good day for cops today; in the same court of Chief Magistrate Margaret Gabb McKenzie, another was arraigned on criminal charges. He is twenty-four year old Police Constable Rodney Williams, of the Patrol Branch. But his crime is not drug related. Williams was charged with a single count of Unlawful Carnal […]
It was more of the same on Day Two of the Sustainable Tourism Program which involves the controversial zoning of the Fort Street Tourism Village. Thousands visitors disembarked the four cruise lines, but those who ply their trade to put bread on their table, were not happy campers. Under the new rules they must wait […]
The Barrow administration has blocked public officers from communicating on an individual basis with Channel Five. As a result of the government embargo, they can’t communicate with us unless other media houses are present at public events. It sounds confusing and it is. The VIP and the PUP have both issued statements condemning the government’s […]
A fly-over of the Bladen Nature Reserve, bordering with Guatemala, provides a bird’s eye view of the rich vegetation of our tropical forests. The protected area, however, is being systematically plundered by those engaged in export of the lucrative xate and by poachers looking for exotic wildlife. But it’s not limited to those two threats; […]
It was Day One of the new zoning project at the Fort Street Tourism Village. But instead of having the desired effect of bringing a semblance of order to the otherwise chaotic tourism village, there was more confusion than usual. Tour guides, vendors and other industry players were unable to access visitors from four cruise […]
Edmund “Clear the Land” Castro was stripped of his ministerial portfolio as Minister of State for Works on November twenty-fourth, but his woes are from over. A Belizean living abroad, Althea Grant, recently provided documentation to the Prime Minister Dean Barrow that she was scammed out of forty-eight thousand dollars in a land deal. She […]
But aside from the land scandal, the residents have their own grievances against Castro. At today’s press conference, several allegations were raised that the fired area rep has also been deceiving other constituents in similar fashion. As we said they are allegations, and numerous were made including one for a million dollars for road repairs. […]
And according to Pollard, their plight doesn’t end with today’s press conference. He says they will protest and are willing to go as far as the National Assembly. Oscar Pollard Sr. “In respect to the recall, as far as my knowledge goes the recall will take place after the next general election. It is not […]
The volume of support for this station has been overwhelming in the past twenty-four hours. As you know, Government on Tuesday announced what it says was a “suspension of normal relations with this station.” Since then the reaction has been fast and furious by our viewers at home and beyond our borders, including those international […]
While the UDP administration institutes an embargo against Channel Five, the other two political parties have come up with statements condemning the actions of the government. Belmopan’s Vision Inspired by the People states that the government of Belize is not at liberty to discriminate as to which citizen gets public information in a specified manner […]
Tonight’s question is: Do you support the government’s boycott of Channel 5? 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.
Gunmen held their fire for a few days, but late this evening, two Belize City men were injured in a shooting incident near the Wilton Cumberbatch Field on Caesar Ridge Road. Mark Vernon along with several other young men were playing basketball on a court nearby when an unknown assailant ran through the adjacent football […]
The lifeless body of thirty six year old Suyapa Hernandez Alvarado was discovered in an apartment complex on the beachside near the San Pedro airstrip. Hernandez, a Honduran national, was lying on her back on a sofa and covered by a white sheet. A medical officer certified that she died sometime around five on Tuesday […]
Following today’s Cabinet meeting, the government issued what it calls a press advisory to say that it is suspending normal relations with Channel Five/Great Belize Productions. It cited four reasons for doing so including what it claimed was a failure to air Belmopan Weekly. For the record, that program was in fact aired by this […]
A new judge took the oath this morning in the chamber of Acting Chief Justice Samuel Awich. Judge Denis S. Hanomansingh, turned sixty-seven on Monday and has been appointed for a six month period. There was no fanfare and present during the proceedings were the Registrar, Velda Flowers and judges of the Supreme Court, Oswell […]
We have reported that businesses in the Commercial Free Zone have been unable to make deposits in US dollars. The freeze has been going on for about a week. The problem goes back to October when a global bank note services contract with Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) was discontinued for Belize and the […]
Honduran authorities still have no suspects for Thursday night’s grisly killing of fifty-five year old Milan Egrmajer. The Canadian sailor was killed on his private yacht while he and his daughter, twenty four year old Myda sheltered from a bad storm in a lagoon off the coast of Honduras. Myda has since travelled to northern […]
Among the various related topics brought up during Gayle’s lecture on Monday was the racial stereotype that Blacks and Hispanics are innately violent. Gayle contends that race is not among the determining factors that contribute to crime and violence. Instead it is the fact that a specific group of Belizeans are being oppressed which has […]
Just before six this evening the government announced a breakthrough in the sugar dilemma and that is that the Belize Sugar Industries has received waivers from both the ING and FirstCaribbean International Banks. It means that the ten million dollar bailout loan approved by the House on November twenty-fourth for BSI can now be drawn […]
A twenty-four year old Canadian woman whose father was murdered on their yacht on the high seas is back in Canada. The woman, Myda Egrmajer, was brought here by the Belize Coastguard early on Saturday morning after she was rescued by a tanker in Honduran waters. She witnessed the murder of her father by several […]
As CTV News in Canada reported, the fifty-eight year old sailor was shot four times and his daughter was robbed. Myda was rescued by an oil tanker traveling from Honduras and she was brought to Belize. She was interviewed by local authorities on Saturday and left from the PGIA on Sunday for Canada. News Five’s […]
While BSI will be receiving the ten million dollar bailout, the situation in the Commercial Free Zone remains grave for businesses that have been unable to make deposits in US dollars. An emergency meeting was held last Friday evening between government, Central Bank and Free Zone officials but the situation persists tonight, and if it […]
Conventional wisdom has it that the incumbent is hard to beat. And so it was on Sunday when Carlos Perdomo, the Minister that was challenged by a relatively new comer in the UDP’s Caribbean Shores convention, won hands down for a second term in a relatively short campaign. Perdomo, who was moved as minister of […]
The scene of a traffic accident near Hattieville was a mess; the smaller of two vehicles involved was ripped in two. The second vehicle was a BNE flat bed truck heading to the Ladyville. The Toyota car, traveling at a high speed from the opposite direction, slammed into the side of the BNE truck. Whether […]
