Back pain is a common complaint, in fact, it is second to a cold in referral s for sick leave. There are the traumatic or the non-traumatic cases which require medical attention. In this edition, Healthy Living looks at ways to deal with the aches. Dr. Andre Sosa, Orthopedic Surgeon “A ninety percent of us […]
There was a double murder on Faber’s Road in the murder capital, Belize City, last night. One of the victims is the son of Dangriga Magistrate Clive Lino, and the other is the brother of Ryan ‘Fatback’ Young, who was killed a few feet away from where the two men were gunned down after nine […]
On last night’s newscast, News Five broke the story about a suspected drug plane that was found submerged in waters south of Northern Two Caye, in the Lighthouse Reef Atoll. On the same day the plane was discovered, last Friday, a body was floating in the sea. And two days later on Sunday April eleventh, […]
Meanwhile, police have made two arrests in the Sunday morning murder of a sixteen year old from Roaring Creek. Raheem Velasquez was shot several times by members of a group he had an “old beef” with and just this afternoon Belmopan police charged twenty year old Darren Banner and nineteen year old Jaime Gill for […]
Should Government contract private attorneys to prosecute criminal offenders? That’s the question we posed to viewers in light of the low rate of convictions for criminal offenders. The answer to this question this morning has been divided among those who responded on our e-poll. Sixty percent agreed while forty percent were dead set against contracting […]
Notisureste, a Quintano Roo newspaper is reporting that a Belizean national Pervis Perez Mendez killed an entire family, including a two year old boy, in the community of Othon P Blanco in neighbouring Chetumal. According to the report, Perez shot Gabriela Sansores Canche, the sister of his ex-common-law-wife, her father and her two year old […]
Village Council Elections were held on Sunday in Independence in the south and while there wasn’t the all out brawl as in San Juan in the north following the results, there is now a dispute surrounding the counting of ballots. Those votes were to determine who would sit as the village chairperson. The elections results […]
At the beginning of the month the increase in the General Sales tax kicked in. It went up to twelve and a half percent taking the cost of living even higher. And if that is putting a licking on consumers, fuel prices jumped another notch higher on Tuesday night with diesel up by twenty four […]
The notorious Arthur Young is still in hiding from the police in fear that they are out to kill him. In recent communications with News Five, Young has named senior officers who he claims want him dead. While we will not release those names, in a meeting with the media today Commissioner of Police Crispin […]
The case of a killing on San Pedro when a sergeant of police fatally shot a corporal is finally moving forward. Almost a month after the death of Corporal Gavin Sanchez, the medico form was just handed in by Dr. Mario Estradabran today and the file will be handed over to the Director of Public […]
You may have seen him around town on his bicycle. Many people know him as the ‘Tart Bwai” because of the pastries he has sold for almost a decade. But Ishmarley Sterling almost lost his life over the Easter holiday weekend. He said he became involved in an altercation with a deportee from the United […]
There is both good and bad reports coming from the Central American Games in Panama, where Belize has a contingent of athletes competing is several disciplines. To start with the good news, female cyclist Shalini Zabaneh won silver in the Individual Time Trial race this morning, coming in behind the rider for Costa Rica. Guatemala’s […]
Pallotti High School is a secondary institution known for its above average performance in the CXC exams. Today that educational institution makes the news again, but this time, it is because it is the recipient of a set of computers from its New York Alumni Association. This afternoon the Association’s local representative and past graduate, […]
Days of real life pirates of the Caribbean have long retired to our imagination but there’s no denying their existence and the significant role they played in Belize’s colonial past. As a matter of fact historians argue that the word Belize is derived from the name Peter Wallace, a famous buccaneer who settled the bay […]
The Belisle Art Gallery at the Bliss Center for the Performing Arts is hosting an exhibit called The Many Gifts of George Gabb. Gabb died at age seventy eight on March of 2007, but he left a wealth of wood carvings and paintings. His most circulated work, “The Sleeping Giant,” can be found in Belizean […]
The state of Belize’s fledgling music industry is once again up for discussion as the annual Music Week is seeing artists and industry insiders alike take a critical look at what needs to be done to improve the business of making music. Leading the charge is producer and Music Industry Association president Ivan Duran. Ivan […]
Four of five prisoners are still at large, but this morning there were reports of shots being fired and all hell breaking loose inside the Tango eight, Tango Ten and the remand section at the Belize Central Prison which is run by the Kolbe foundation. Reports of a riot were broadcast over the radio waves. […]
For three days, there have been reports that a plane had crashed in a caye in the Lighthouse atolls. It is believed the incident is drug related and police has remained tight lipped. As far as we can ascertain, the mystery plane is still submerged in the waters. News Five has learnt that a body […]
While the family of slain car dealer Kashif Jeffries makes arrangements to lay him to rest, Belize City police are still looking for his killers. Jeffries was callously gunned down while in his vehicle on Levi Slusher Street on Sunday afternoon just hours before his flight to Houston, Texas. His trip to the United States […]
Thirty two year old Stephen Lopez, a security guard, was killed during the robbery of the Spanish Lookout branch of Scotia bank on March thirty-first. The bank was held up by five armed men and the security guard was gunned down. There was another man who was injured during the incident but his story has […]
The conviction rate in criminal cases is weak so our first question for this week is: Should government contract private attorneys to prosecute criminal offenders? Send your responses using your SMART phones to 8668 or post your vote on our e-poll at channel5belize.com. You can also send an email with your comments to questions@channel5belize.com.
Village Council Elections got underway in a number of villages around the country this past weekend. The elections were once not politicized but of late, the results are used as barometers to measure the political clout of the two major parties in rural communities. With General Elections three years away, there is already controversy and […]
In the deep south in Punta Gorda, residents are clamoring for assistance to ward off a health risk at the St. Peter Claver Primary School posed by its asbestos roof. The school was built decades ago and the building has been condemned by health authorities because its asbestos roof is deteriorating with the passage of […]
The April session of the Supreme Court got underway today. There are forty-nine cases to be heard. In the first case dealt with, two men were acquitted of Attempted Murder despite an original testimony from the victim, Jermaine Jones, a resident of Banak Street, who was stabbed sixty-eight times. Jones was short in his testimony […]
After spending five days behind bars, a twenty-seven year old mother of four, Andrea Jenkins, was today spared from returning to the Hattieville Prison for Drug Trafficking. At the close of trial, a mitigation plea was made on Jenkins’ behalf by her attorney, Arthur Saldivar, who said that while Jenkins made a mistake, she deserves […]
