The spectacular comeback of Channel Five’s reality wedding airs tonight. The wedding of Julio and Vanessa was interrupted when the groom was injured in a traffic accident in July. Vanessa remained constant at his bedside nursing Julio to recovery. Well, Julio is now back on his feet and the couple’s wedding preparations have resumed. News’ […]
The five duos did not disappoint on Tuesday night, in fact they thrilled the audience and judges to the max. There was a medley of Michael Jackson hits, drama and humor of a woman wearing the pants in married life, a sobering reality check on crime and violence and much more. The siblings from the […]
A twenty-six year old deportee who left the jewel some fifteen years ago was found lifeless over the weekend. Sherlock Syfox has been back in Belize for ten months, but on Sunday morning his body was fished out of the sea in the Southern Foreshore area. But is his death a case of murder? His […]
There have been widespread allegations of police brutality that some people believe the abuse is now institutionalized. The most recent case is so shocking that it pales in comparison to other reports. The victim is a pregnant woman whose common-law-husband alleges that Judith Bood miscarried his child after she was accosted by three police officers. […]
The computers were stolen from Youth for the Future, which is situated near the Bel-China Bridge and just about a hundred yards from the couple’s home. Seven Dell brand flat screen computers along with a microwave oven were taken by thieves, who broke into the building sometime between Saturday night and Sunday morning in the […]
Tonight’s question is: Do you believe that phone tapping will deter crime? 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 email with your comments to questions@channel5belize.com.
At least two Belizeans have been killed in Honduras. The two were wanted in connection with the brave March thirtieth armed robbery at the Scotiabank branch in Spanish Lookout and are said to be dead tonight after they were shot and killed in an armed bus robbery. Reports to our newsroom are that Benjamin Peters […]
Almost a year ago, he was convicted for conning a number of persons who fell victim to his scams. Well he’s back; Artemio Acosta has surfaced with a partner in crime, and is moving around in the old capital and in the Hattieville area. This time he is preying on unsuspecting schools or anyone who […]
Siblings Onelia and Benjamin Rash disappeared without a trace almost a month ago on Monday, August thirtieth while on a routine trip to Punta Gorda Town and its nearby communities selling limes and craboos. The children, ages nine and eleven respectively, left their home village of San Marcos that morning in the company of their […]
If you’re heading out to buy butane, you’ll need an extra two bucks because the prices have increased as of Monday. That puts the price in Belize City and Corozal at one hundred and twelve dollars. In Orange Walk, the cooking gas is being sold for a hundred and thirteen dollars while in Belmopan and […]
A thirty-one year old Belize City woman has been charged with arson. Marsha Bood is accusing of attempting to set on fire, the house of her ex, Godfrey Dougal. On August seventeenth, Bood allegedly had an altercation with Dougal at his apartment located on Bootsville. He claims that after her threats, a fire broke at […]
A former inmate who served five years inside the Hattieville Prison for armed robbery is tonight once again in lockdown after being for drug trafficking. Freddy Fuller who was released in July was employed by the Kolbe Foundation as a sports coordinator. Fuller, who is a resident of Orange Walk, was allowed to stay in […]
Last week’s robbery of Palm Island netted thieves thousands of dollars. The cash and stolen items were not recovered and no arrests have been made. And over the weekend the robbers struck again, this time they targeted a customer. According to fifty year old Lance Bernard, at nine-thirty p.m. on Saturday, he left his 2002 […]
A joint operation conducted between the Crimes Intelligence Unit, Special Branch and Gang Unit netted close to thirty thousand dollars for the cops. On September twentieth at five-thirty pm a search was conducted at Marcello Reina’s residence on Curl Thompson Street, in the Jane Usher Boulevard area of Belize City. The search of Reina’s house […]
In April we reported on the health risks to students and teachers at Saint Peter Claver Primary in Punta Gorda caused by the asbestos roofing that was disintegrating over them. The problem was so grave, that the furniture inside the age-old building would be layered with dust from the cancerous chemical within a half day. […]
Ever since the Kendall Bridge washed away by tropical storm Arthur in 2008, the crossing which was constructed in its place, has failed repeatedly to be a suitable temporary replacement. In fact, the crossing was built so low that whenever it rained, the Sittee River overflows. Some commuters even say, if you take a bucket […]
Pass on the love, that’s what the people at Grace are doing. Back in July, Grace Kennedy Belize, organized a four mile fun-run to raise funds for deserving schools and to promote a healthy lifestyle. This morning, the schools were graced with the proceeds from the Grace We Care Club. Delahnie Bain reports. Delahnie Bain, […]
After a brief interruption due to the Independence Day celebrations, the search for the next crop of local stars will be on this Tuesday night at the Bliss. Only five couples remain in the competition in Duets and they are coming back on stage with a bang. Season Three is well underway which means that […]
Was a twenty-three year old deportee murdered? That’s what police are trying to determine. This weekend, the high tide in Belize City did not only wash sea water and debris closer to the mainland; on Sunday morning, the lifeless body of a Belize City man washed up on Southern Foreshore. It was partially decomposed and […]
The second death reported this weekend, was up north in Orange Walk. But the body did not wash to shore in the floods; in fact it was simply sitting in a wheelchair. Police were called to the Slaughterhouse Road area at around seven p.m. on Sunday where a man was found in the wheelchair, parked […]
In our last newscast on Friday, the seventeenth tropical depression for this year intensified and became Tropical Storm Matthew. It initially posed a threat to our nation over the past weekend. Around the country, hurricane preparedness went in full swing since the preliminary forecast for the depression showed that it could culminate as a hurricane […]
Matthew was the third storm to threaten Belize for this year’s hurricane season. And similar to the previous storms, Alex in June and Karl earlier this month, the Jewel was again spared from major damages and loss of life and limb. Matthew is reported to have killed six people as it passed over Nicaragua and […]
Matthew dumped as much as ten inches of rainfall and by this morning the water levels were rising in the west; in some areas as much as ten feet. Bridges and crossings were submerged. But there were some good tidings, in San Ignacio a News Five crew found that the flood waters brought a bounty […]
A ruling was handed down this morning in the Supreme Court in the case of two minors convicted for murder and sentenced to life. Anthony ‘Zambo’ Bowen and David Jones challenged the constitutionality of their prison sentences before Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh, whose ruling today was among the last of his judgments before he demits […]
Jason Flores was gunned down on the morning of December ninth, 2009. Four months after the murder, in April of this year, Ryan Alvarez was charged and remanded for the killing. And now, ten months later, eighteen year old Akeem Humes of the George Street Area, is joining Alvarez behind bars. Humes appeared unrepresented in […]
