Thousands marched against crime earlier today, but this afternoon the partially burnt body of forty-four year old Francisco Villanueva was discovered at a garbage dump near mile fifty on the Western Highway. Police are still in the preliminary stages of their investigation into Villanueva’s death and so far have not made any arrests. Villanueva’s body […]
Students in the Old Capital took the lead today against gun violence. They were grieving the recent murders of Eyannie Nunez and Marquis Mahler, two children whose lives were cut short before they could see the age of nine years. The students are also hurting over others who have been victims of the street violence […]
Since Tuesday, we’ve been exposing the details of chartered flights from the Caribbean, bringing in Asian nationals who were quickly cleared by immigration at the Philip Goldson International Airport. So we asked on Thursday night, if you believe there is high level collusion in the human smuggling ring that is being exposed. Ninety-four percent of […]
For a week, there have been no reported homicides in the mean streets of the city. That’s until this morning when the brief spell was broken at around six o’clock when gunshots rang out in the West Collet Canal area. Murder victim number one hundred for 2010 was recorded; a young vegetable vendor, Carlos Succuqui, […]
While cops try to solve the hundredth murder of the year, thieves were busy prowling the city to pounce on any unsuspecting victim. And they did on the north side of the city just hours later, but the attempt came up empty handed. The assailants, however, might have left behind just enough evidence to lead […]
Two days after we reported about the suspicious night flights bringing Asian nationals to Belize, there is official word from the Ministry of Defense and the Police Department. Just before six this evening and after two days of investigations at the Philip Goldson International Airport, the three page release was issued. The Defence Ministry’s C.E.O. […]
Tonight there are at least five individuals from the Customs and Immigration departments, whose names are being withheld, and who have been suspended from their jobs. But can a few low ranking public servants orchestrate what is alleged to be a human trafficking ring? According to Arthur Saldivar, who has been retained as […]
Tonight’s question is: Do you think that there is high level collusion in the human smuggling ring that is being exposed? 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 www.channel5belize.com.
A near fatal traffic accident has been reported near Maya Center Village in South Stann Creek earlier this evening. Details of the mishap are still sketchy but unconfirmed reports are that two passengers and the driver were trapped inside a vehicle sometime after five o’clock this evening. It is known that two of three occupants […]
It was a sensational case when it was first reported back in May because the cops claimed they found nine pounds of cocaine and detained a well known businessman loaded with cash. The bust by the anti-drug unit, involved a high speed police chase of two cars through Belize City that came to a crashing […]
The infamous Arthur Young is back on the streets of Belize City after he was granted bail in Magistrate’s Court today. Young was caught at the Mexican airport trying to catch an early morning flight to Mexico City using a fake passport with the alias Edward Roberts. After three months on the run, Young was […]
Luis Fernando Reyes Rodriguez, a fifty-seven year old Honduran National, navigated his catamaran into Belizean waters on September fifteenth. But Luis’ visit has been cut short and he was in court today to face four Immigration offences. The first two counts are for Allowing Crew Members to Disembark a Catamaran without the Consent of an […]
Over a million dollars have been disbursed for environmental projects by the Protected Areas Conservation Trust in the past nine months. Earlier today another quarter of a million dollars were distributed to four agencies. The bulk of the money went to an anti-crime initiative, Restore Belize while the other environmental organizations got the remaining funds. […]
The prospectus for the sale of shares in the BTL will be released on October fifteenth but debate is raging on whether Social Security pension funds should be invested. On Tuesday night we asked if fifty million dollars of the SSB pension funds should be used to buy Telemedia shares. On our e-poll eighty percent […]
There is more on the plane that landed at the Philip Goldson International Airport this past Sunday. Today a team of police officers were at the P.G.I.A. investigating and it turns out that at least three planes may have landed with Chinese nationals over the past few weeks. The first flight arrived on Saturday September […]
Since its launch in June, government’s initiative to tackle crime and violence with an ambitious undertaking known as Restore Belize has been met with a degree of skepticism. The initiative, for the most part, has been overshadowed by the theme song for its I Am Belize campaign which was launched a few weeks later. Well, […]
There have been no new murders reported since the homicide of BeJohn Martinez in Belize City last Wednesday. He was murder victim number nineteen for the deadly month of September and ninety-nine for the year. But will the death of a Roaring Creek man add to the statistics? Police are puzzled by the death of […]
In the courts, four of six police officers who were arraigned in May for wounding Elvin Torres we relieved of the charges today. The Department of Public Prosecutions directed the court to withdraw the charges against the four but didn’t give any reasons why. It all relates to an incident on May ninth when the […]
The water level of the Belize River is at least twenty five feet higher than normal. This is the result of flood waters that continue to flow down from the Cayo District in the wake of Tropical Storm Matthew. The access road to Flowers Bank was flooded for hundreds of yards, and Forecaster Frank Tench […]
The saying goes “When fish come from riva battam an tell yoh halligetter gat bellyache you mus believe ah”. But are residents in the west taking heed? After reviewing data over the last two years, the Ministry of Health and the Belize Electric Company, BECOL, have concluded that Bay Snook fish found in the Macal […]
Tonight’s question is: The money from the sale of shares in Telemedia will go for compensation to the previous owners of the company; do you support the investment of fifty million dollars from SSB pension funds to buy the shares? Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones to 8686 or post your vote […]
Prior to his departure, former Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh, made several landmark rulings and in many cases, the client that lost was the government. In one particular case, a Benque resident sued the government for the four point four acres of land that the government attempted to swipe from him. Samuel Bruce intended to build […]
Mark Medina walked from a murder charge in early 2009, but since then he has been a fixture at the Central Prison with three convictions following that acquittal. The third was today, when he was found guilty of Keeping an Unlicensed Firearm and Ammunition. Magistrate Dorothy Flowers imposed concurrent sentences of two years each for […]
There was another conviction for Keeping Firearm and Ammunition today. This time, twenty-six year old Luis Savery was sent to jail. Savery was walking on Sunflower Street on the night of August twenty-second but when he noticed police on patrol, he accelerated his walk. That drew the attention of the cops, who pursued and searched […]
The nationalization of Telemedia is turning out to be the albatross around the neck of the Prime Minister. Last week, Prime Minister Dean Barrow rebuked senior attorneys Godfrey Smith for writing a letter to Digicel Caribbean and Eamon Courtenay for a visit with the IMF. Barrow accused them of being unpatriotic and treasonous for also […]
