On Tuesday we reported that Salome Busano was pointing fingers at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital for the death of her jaundiced baby boy. Busano said she felt that if the doctor had not prematurely discharged her baby on Sunday, her child would still be alive today. Busano rushed the baby back to the K.H.M.H. […]
Ladyville residents, thirty-seven year old Jose Gonzalez and twenty-five year old Thomas Garcia attempted to buy gasoline from the Esso Ramon’s Service Station at closing time last Friday night. After being told it was too late to get any gas, the Omni security guard, Ignacio Reyes, exchanged words with the men as they returned to […]
In court today, two female professional shoplifters were sentenced to an additional two years in jail for stealing a thirteen dollar bottle of Nescafe and a twenty dollar bottle of Infant Tylenol. The two, who already have previous convictions for Theft, are Nioka Smith, a hair braider of Iguana Street and her partner in crime, […]
And Roberto Galvez told the court today: “I want to plea guilty to possession simplicita because I never had weed to sell to any one it was for my personal use.” With that the fifty-seven year-old father of Castle Street, was fined three thousand dollars for the Drug Trafficking of ninety-one point three grams of […]
A number of illegal and firearms and ammunition are off the streets in Belize City as well as the west and south of the country. On Wednesday, a police search at an empty lot on Raccoon Street turned up a double barrel homemade shotgun with two sixteen gauge cartridges hidden in some bushes. Moving west […]
As disturbing as the reports are, they keep coming and tonight another minor has to live with the horrific memories of a sexual assault. This time the victim is a fifteen year old girl from the Toledo District, who reported the incident to police earlier this week, although it occurred back in March. According to […]
On March twenty-sixth, 2008, an inferno consumed several buildings and the businesses that occupied them in the heart of Albert Street, which is considered the main thoroughfare of Belize City commerce. One of the businessmen who were hit the hardest was Umesh Mahitani, who owned the Romacs building. Mahitani immediately started to construct a new […]
There are more details that are unraveling about the fictional medical university on the internet known as Charleston College of Medicine. The address provided is Dry Street, Belmopan. News Five has been able to confirm that there is an accredited school on Dry Creek Road which is the American Global University School of Medicine which […]
Four members of the Belize Coast Guard Service are being questioned after a skiff went missing. The incident occurred sometime around six on Wednesday morning when the group finished patrolling the waters near San Pedro. They reportedly moored the thirty-nine foot vessel and left it unattended sometime around four on the same morning. When they […]
Earlier today, traffic was interrupted on the Western Highway for about two hours, when an LP butane tanker overturned. The tanker was loaded with two thousand gallons of butane and was heading towards Belize City. According to the driver, Rogelio Gutierrez, he lost control of the vehicle as he took the curve in the vicinity […]
But on land, the Police Department is introducing a media policy, which is restrictive of certain information to the media. The Department will now apply the Police Public Information Policy and Procedures. It is a document released by the previous Commissioner of Police, Gerald Westby but which was not fully implemented and it finds itself […]
But while the police intend to withhold certain data, the Freedom of Information Act also allows for its provision. So striking a balance is where the next challenge will lie. News Five sat down with Attorney at Law, Godfrey Smith, to find out the public’s right to information under the Act, which was passed in […]
An official memorial service was held Wednesday evening for the late VH Courtenay at St Mary’s Church in Belize City where he practiced his faith. Courtenay died last Saturday morning after a prolonged illness. He is a former attorney and a government minister who represented the Collet Division for three consecutive terms. Among his greatest […]
Have you heard of A.D.H.D.? It is a disorder that is afflicting at least five percent of the world’s population and the jewel is not exempted. A.D.H.D. is normally detected at childhood through a pattern of inattention and hyperactivity. Healthy Living this week looks at the signs and symptoms of this condition that can persist […]
A school warden and her husband protested in downtown Belize City today. It was over her firing, which she claims was political. Her husband, Charlie Good, has a reputation as a no-nonsense former military head and a CIA operative who has been around the block more than once. Good and his wife, who was fired […]
You may not have noticed unless you asked, but the price of fuel quietly changed at the pumps on Monday. And the bad news is that it went up and significantly. Regular gas stood at seven dollars and ninety-eight cents per gallon but it has now gone up by a whopping seventy-eight cents to eight […]
Two men were taken to court this morning for the homicide of Alberto Braddick Allen. The City’s latest murder victim was stabbed multiple times and had a gunshot to the back when he was found at mile three and a half on the Western Highway around midday on Tuesday. The two men charged actually led […]
We reported on Tuesday about a second phantom Medical school that claimed to be operating in the country. The first fictional operation was the University of Central America School of Medicine and its website was run by Dr. Niazi Baker of Brownsville Texas. That operation disappeared as soon as our story aired. Jose Sanchez, Reporting […]
The House of Representatives will convene next week. The upcoming sitting departs from the usual practice of Friday sessions and will sit on Monday, August twenty-fourth. There are three bills expected to be tabled for a first reading. First on the House agenda is a Returnable Containers Bill, which will provide for the control of […]
On Tuesday, News Five aired a story about a hostile incident between two bus drivers; one from Skai’s Bus Company and the other from Flores Bus company – both who operate in the Ladyville/Lord’s Bank area. In the story, Ladyville Police Officer Commanding, Inspector Calbert Flowers, told us that both drivers had drawn machetes at […]
And in court news, he was stabbed thirteen times to the body and lived to tell the tale, but twenty-eight year old Erlin Neal, a driver and resident of Magazine Road, does not want to relive his near death ordeal. Neal has given police a statement indicating he did not wish to proceed in court […]
The Crime statistics for the period January to August fifteenth have been released. While the records show that major crimes decreased compared to the same period in 2008, the numbers are startling and they put Belize on the international charts. The police account is that crime decreased by nine percent. At August fifteenth, murders stood […]
From a total of three hundred and seventy applications, fourteen deserving students from across the country were awarded scholarships to the high schools of their choice. It’s the eighteenth year of the Telemedia Scholarship program and the 2009 recipients and their parents gathered at the Radisson this afternoon to be recognized for their hard work […]
Having a child usually brings changes to a person’s life. This is true for twenty-one year old Tifarah Castillo, and the changes she is experiencing are taking a serious toll on her health. After giving birth to her second child, Castillo’s two kidneys stopped functioning and she was diagnosed with Chronic Renal Failure. What this […]
There is another allegation that a baby is dead as a result of negligence at one of Belize’s hospital. This time, the mother, Salome Busano is accusing the attending doctor at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital of negligence for discharging her newborn baby with jaundice. The mother of two other boys has said that she […]
