Heroin is not a drug commonly known in Belize, but police say, a security guard was busted with that highly potent drug along with a stash of crack cocaine and marijuana. The early morning bust today on Lizarraga Avenue, King’s Park area, is the residence of security guard, twenty nine year old Edison Stamp. Stamp […]
Turning to the trial of the 2007 murder of sixteen year old Faron Leslie Felix. This afternoon, one of the two murder suspects walked free and is back on Belize City streets after he was acquitted of the murder charges. Felix was brutally gunned down when he was shot eight times on November thirtieth, 2007 […]
The caregiver of a fourteen year old girl will spend the next two years in jail for sexually assaulting her at the institution he was employed. Thirty nine year old Herbert Stuart was found guilty this morning in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court of aggravated assault of an indecent nature. The child, who testified during […]
Talk to everyone who has had to bury a loved one, and they will tell you that the Lord Ridge Cemetery is running out of space. The Belize City Council acknowledged as much today in a release. This is in addition to the other problem of drainage caused to nearby residents by the filling of […]
It’s Red Ribbon Week at Wesley College and today the students boasted their ribbons to proclaim that they say no to drugs. The school dedicates a week each year to promote awareness on the negative effects of drugs. One of the activities was a parade through the streets and here are the sights and sounds […]
The mother of a twelve year old boy is asking for your assistance in locating her runaway child. He has not returned home since last Friday and his family is desperate. News Five’s Jose Sanchez spoke to the mother who was recently in the frontlines of the B.M.L. protest. Jose Sanchez, Reporting Twelve year old […]
It has been nonstop for Mayor Zenaida Moya Flowers, who is still on maternity leave and returns to work early in November. This past Monday, the Mayor was a guest on Open Your Eyes, during which she touched on her battles at City Hall and with her party. Moya Flowers maintained she is not “meek […]
When she appeared on Open Your Eyes on Monday morning, it seems the mayor did not start her morning right and what she said struck a chord because today a statement purportedly written by her ally, Financial Director Dwain Davis, was being circulated to media houses. Davis, along with the mayor, has been charged with […]
Sunday morning’s accident on the Northern Highway ended the life of Kendra Smith Flowers. Smith, a newlywed, along with her husband of five months, were on their way from Los Lagos to Belize City to visit family when the vehicle veered off the road and into the Belize River. That happened at ten a.m., and […]
Sunday’s fatal accident also called into question, the state of the nation’s highways. The vehicle run-off into the Belize River occurred near a section of the highway that is being upgraded. Road conditions have become a concern and a priority of drivers who travel north and many people believe that if there were crash barriers […]
A Belizean has been found dead in neighboring Chetumal. His body was found on Sunday afternoon in a pool of blood and had multiple wounds. According to reports in the Mexican press, a woman spotted the body near a business named “Flores Magicas” located on Heroes and Lazaro Cardenas avenues. Mexican authorities say the driver’s […]
Cost of living is up. But just in case you weren’t sure about the inflation figures, a release from the Statistical Institute of Belize confirms an overall increase in price of goods and services. The Institute reports that the overall price level rose by point eight percent between May and August of this year. The […]
We have reported recently on the most unusual impasse between the Attorney General and the Judiciary. The Prime Minister for the most part appears to agree with the stance taken by the A.G. on many issues that have irked the judiciary. Today, we came across another report, this time involving the judges of the Court […]
The K.H.M.H. Commission of Inquiry was established when the three commissioners were sworn in at the Supreme Court on July thirtieth. But since then, little has taken place because from early August representatives from the Auditor General’s Department have been working on the audit of the national hospital. But that work is yet to be […]
The cost of dialysis treatment is exorbitant in Belize. Currently one dialysis treatment costs five hundred dollars and patients regularly require three treatments, weekly, a staggering sum for patients to come up with on a weekly basis. Well, a U.S. based organization has donated dialysis machines and organized an effort in a part of Africa […]
In court, the murder trial of sixteen year old Faron Leslie Felix got underway today. Felix is the son of Therese Felix, who in life became the poster girl against crime after the young man, was violently and gruesomely killed near his home when he was ambushed by gunmen who waited for him behind a […]
And a Belize City based businessman is a victim of deception and according to police, the culprit who managed to swindle over two thousand dollars in goods from him, is Vinoda Kannan Sigamani, a resident of Dangriga. The goods: hundreds of pairs of shoes. This morning, Sigamani appeared in front of Senior Magistrate, Dorothy Flowers […]
A shooting at Roaring Creek Village has left two men hospitalized. Sometime around eleven this morning, twenty-seven year old Dane Matute and eighteen year old Errol Gabourel were both in the Another World Area in the village resting after playing basketball when several shots were fired towards them from nearby bushes. Matute received injuries to […]
Chicago police have a half kilo of heroin in their possession and it might be linked to Belize. Thirty-seven year old U.S. citizen, Ryan Jaime, was busted with the package on Tuesday and was arrested in Country-Club Hills. The drugs were wrapped in plastic and hidden between two children’s books and a photo album, with […]
The Tropical Gaming Offices on Queen Street experienced a new record today…not for the size of the prize money of the Lotto, but the sequence of numbers and the number of winners. Before Saturday’s draw, the lotto prize had never been shared between more than two persons… so imagine the surprise when that amount was […]
Channel Five’s geek squad normally scours the internet for international news about Belize. In the past couple months, they’ve found a Belizean charged with attempted murder, reports on Belize’s high crime rate in the Economist Pocket world in figures, and indications of poor investor confidence in the Oppenheimer report. Well tonight they’ve found something else, […]
Things have simmered down between the faculty and students of the University of Belize and its board of trustees. The increment freeze for the faculty and staff has been removed and the discussions of tuition increase that would have affected students in 2010, postponed. Following a meeting between the representatives of the Board of Trustees […]
The life of a thirty-one year old Atlantic Bank employee was cut short on Sunday morning as she and her husband headed to Belize City. The husband was behind the wheel of the vehicle, which lost control and plunged into the Belize River. He managed to pull himself out of the waters, but his wife […]
Meanwhile, the recent death of a prisoner, which initially had indications of a suicide, is now being determined otherwise. The inmate was found hanging inside his cell on October ninth. A post mortem examination has revealed that prison inmate, Alfonso Ek, was murdered by manual strangulation. Ek was in prison since 2005 for maim and […]
In political news, she had a meteoric rise, but today Belize City Mayor, Zenaida Moya Flowers, appears a falling star. On October first Moya-Flowers was charged with uttering false documents and failure to comply with City Council regulations and within days she was removed from her party’s National Party Council after she had choice words […]
