Is our national security at risk? We’ve reported on three planes that landed at night bringing thirty-two Chinese Nationals. Tonight we can report that another plane landed on Wednesday night in northern Belize, but unlike the three that came from Haiti, this one is believed to have unloaded cargo from South America. It is a […]
Not Guilty on two counts. That’s the verdict in the money laundering trial that has kept the Coye family out of work for over a year. On December thirty-first of 2008, one point five million dollars were found inside the Coye family home and the Financial Intelligence Unit alleged that the funds were the proceeds […]
There were two shootings in the old capital in less than twenty-four hours, but luckily, none turned out fatal. The first, the more serious of the two, happened on Mahogany Street on Wednesday night and the other happened shortly after ten this morning between the Sister Clara Mohamed Primary School and Excelsior High School on […]
The other shooting happened around nine o’clock on Wednesday night on Mahogany Street. One man was injured and is hospitalized at the Belize Healthcare Partners. His family is appealing for help for twenty-five year old Steve Parks, who needs blood. Parks was shot behind the head while purchasing food at Favourite Snack Shop. News Five […]
Tonight’s question is: Do you believe that the investigations by the Ministers of Police and Immigration into the human smuggling ring will lead to the arrest of the ring leaders? 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 […]
The infiltration of Belize’s border and our forest reserves by Guatemalan Xateros has become a growing national problem. But on Tuesday evening, one such incident escalated almost into a double murder for a Belizean Alcalde and another man. The two villagers of San Jose in the Toledo District were reportedly on a trek deep in […]
In other news, we came across a report on the website of the Guatemalan Foreign Ministry which states that the Ministry has taken the necessary measures to investigate an incident this past Tuesday at the Adjacency Zone during which Santos Hernandez, a Guatemalan minor was violently killed. During the same incident, fourteen year old Enrique […]
One of Belize’s most wanted men was returned from Honduras this morning. He and his partners in crime are suspects in one of the nation’s biggest bank heists. Twenty-three year old Gabriel Salazar and company literally vanished from Belize after Spanish Lookout Scotiabank was robbed and the security was murdered on March thirty-first. Three weeks […]
Jackie’s Supermarket on Dolphin Drive in Belize City has been robbed four times in the past two years. The first robbery occurred on February sixteenth 2009, and an addition to cash, the three thieves stole the computer that stored the video of the robbery. The owners have recovered from the first two incidents but this […]
Two more immigration officers were arraigned today in a human smuggling ring that was busted last week. Mark Tench and senior immigration officer, Matthew Guy, both thirty-seven years of age were escorted by police before the Chief Magistrate, Margaret Gabb McKenzie. Flanked by their attorneys, Tench and Guy were charged separately, each with two counts […]
While Belmopan police have made no arrests in the murder of forty-two year old Francisco Villanueva, they are following a lead that might answer some very critical questions. Villanueva had reportedly gone to his farm on the Roaring River Road in the Cayo District early last Friday morning along with family friend, Ramon Quijada, when […]
The response from our viewers to Tuesday night’s questions on whether there is a cover up by authorities on the facts of the Immigration scandal was a resounding yes. Ninety-six percent of voters on our e-poll said yes while only four percent voted against. In the comments, some point the finger of blame all way […]
For some time now, things have appeared increasingly unsettled in the Judiciary. First, an Attorney General questioned the competence of the judiciary at the Supreme Court opening. The Bar Association passed a resolution calling for the removal of a judge, then engaged Prime Minister Dean Barrow in a public tiff over his manner of appointing […]
Three out of every five students do not complete high school, that’s a high and damning percentage of young persons who have fallen from the wayside. Studies show that the number of youths out of school is contributing to the lawlessness on the streets. This morning, the Ministry of Education, launched an initiative that attempts […]
Eyannie Nunez was killed exactly one month ago. She is the innocent eight-old girl that was murdered as she slept at her house when gunmen opened fire indiscriminately and took her life. The murder of the All Saints school girl sent shock waves throughout the community to the harsh reality of the level of crime […]
An immigration scandal of major proportions continues to unravel, but how many heads will roll and at what level? Last Tuesday News Five broke the news that Chinese Nationals were being smuggled through Belize. And in fact three planes; the first two on September eighteenth and nineteenth, followed by the third on October third, landed […]
Four of six persons detained, have been charged at an unusually late court appearance. More on that later, but at a press conference at the Raccoon Street Police Station, the Minister of Police along with the Minister of Defense and Immigration laid out a series of plans to tighten security at the airport. It was […]
The ministers pointed out what we had reported last week; that the visa numbers were real but not yet issued, which means they were fraudulent. While he listed out measures to improve security at the PGIA, Carlos Perdomo singled out one particular Embassy from which visas for the moment won’t be issued for Chinese Nationals. […]
Earlier today we caught up with Marcelino Miranda, who is responsible for border affairs at the Embassy of Mexico. Miranda responded to reports that surfaced over the weekend that the group of Asian nationals might be held up in Cancun. Marcelino Miranda, Press Officer, Embassy of Mexico “At the moment the immigration authority in Mexico […]
Tonight’s question is: Do you believe there is a cover-up by authorities in the immigration scandal? Share your views by sending an email to questions@channel5belize.com or a text, using SMART phones only, to 8686. You can also log on to our website at www.channel5belize.com and vote on our e-poll.
Even before the extended holiday weekend started, two men were murdered in gruesome fashion. The homicides took place in rural communities; the first body was found on Roaring River Road about two miles off the Hummingbird Highway on Friday. Francisco Villanueva, a father of two who lived with his family in Las Flores Village on […]
The second murder was reported just before nine on Friday morning, this time in the village of Red Bank about thirty-two miles off the Southern Highway. The victim, forty-two year old Francisco Galeas Montayo, was originally from Honduras. On September ninth, Galeas was freed from the Hattieville Prison after charges of Rape and Carnal Knowledge […]
The three planes with thirty-two passengers that landed after closing hours at the Philip Goldson International Airport from Haiti and other Caribbean countries are the subject of a major investigation by the Criminal Investigation Branch of the Police Department and the Ministry of National Security. Missing forms, public officers rotated off their shifts and duplication […]
In an interview on Thursday night in this newscast, attorney Arthur Saldivar, who is representing some of the persons who were on duty when Air Century landed in Belize on Sunday night, recalled that in the past administration, the government had removed the minister who was, at the time, heading Immigration when a smuggling ring […]
Police still have no clue as to who shot and killed twenty year old Carlos Sucuqui early Thursday morning. Sucuqui had just arrived on West Canal and was about to set up his bicycle cart when he was shot. A youth reportedly rode up and fired three shots, hitting Sucuqui in the back, abdomen and […]
