You’ve probably seen him directing traffic at the Cinderella Plaza or you may have heard him on the morning talk show circuit. Well, last Friday night Roy Craig, popularly known as “Bullet”, became a victim of the crime epidemic. Craig told News Five today that during the horrible experience he thought he would have been […]
According to statistics, as many as thirty-seven percent of deaths in Belize are linked to tobacco related diseases. Earlier today an initiative was launched to prohibit smoking in public places, including government buildings and schools and certain private businesses. The measure will protect the public from exposure to tobacco smoke. The Ministry of Health, through […]
It is not one of the most fascinating subjects, but it is an all important topic. Eighteen students today received full scholarships for training on the relationship between the environment and refrigeration. The scholarships are being provided by the Department of the Environment and the technicians will be sensitized about the use of organic compounds […]
There has been a rise in horrific crimes, but the following story is horrendous beyond belief. It is the first case that we know of locally and the details sound more like a Lifetime drama that depicts the moral decay to which our society has plunged. Raylene Dyer, a young mother who gave birth three […]
At news time tonight, a Guatemalan national is in custody for the brutal murders of Richard and Maria Stuart, who were viciously killed at around midnight on Saturday. While the Guatemalan has reportedly confessed to the murder, it is believed he did not act alone and police are looking for a second suspect. The Stuarts […]
The Bar Association on Monday issued a release, mourning the death of their colleague Richard Stuart and his wife Maria and announcing a reward of fifty thousand dollars for anyone with information leading to a conviction in the brutal slaying. Richard, a former president of Bar, was also a high ranking member of the Steadfast […]
Tonight’s question is: Do you think that there is political interference with the independence of the judiciary? 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.
One in the myriad of cases before the courts in the nationalization of Telemedia is by the British Caribbean Bank that is seeking to recover millions of dollars on loan to Telemedia. But last Friday, at the launch of the BTL offering, the Chairman of Telemedia, Mr. Net Vasquez, declared that the loan of twenty-two […]
The Association of Protected Areas Management Organizations (APAMO) has written a very distressing letter to the Ministry of Natural Resources regarding what can only be seen as alleged misuse of the Protected Areas Trust Fund (PACT). APAMO’s Chairman, Edilberto Romero, complains that instead of being used to finance and preserve protected areas, PACT funds are […]
The next story started out as just another burglary but turned out to be a comically botched up jacking. It happened, or should we say, started in Lord’s Bank Village at a house where the thieves broke in and ended up at the roundabout near the Belcan Bridge in Belize City with a high speed […]
Miriam Gillett was one of three prison officers who were ambushed and caught in a hail of bullets as they headed home from work at the Hattieville Prison on Friday night. While her co-workers remain hospitalized, Gillett did not survive the attack and died on the spot after a bullet found its mark on her […]
The trial started on Monday and could fall apart because of a missing file. Justice Adolph Lucas has ordered a full investigation into the missing case file for two murder suspects. The questions now being posed by Justice Lucas are who received the file when the case was first committed to the Supreme Court and […]
And while one murder trial is up in the air, one suspect was freed in another case today. The directive came from the Director of Public Prosecutions to withdraw the charge against Kareem Stevens, one of three suspects in the stabbing death of Security Guard, Kaluru Oloungududu on February twenty-fifth. Kaluru was viciously attacked by […]
An American fugitive was arrested in San Pedro on October eighteenth. According to our friends at AmbergrisDaily.com, Ricardo Caveras was arrested during a joint operation between the San Pedro Police Department and the security officer from the U.S. Embassy. Apparently, Caveras has different arrests warrants pending in the United States under different aliases. While using […]
Post mortems have been completed on Twenty-one year old Michael Pandy and twenty-nine year old Keith Nicholas, the two riggers who died in a freak accident last Thursday. The men plunged one hundred and twenty-feet to the ground from a communications tower that they working on in Saint Margaret’s Village on the Hummingbird Highway. While […]
The Prime Minister’s office has been releasing details about the official visit of PM Dean Barrow in Mexico. Barrow is accompanied by his wife Kim as well as Minister of Education Patrick Faber. Earlier today Barrow met with Mexico’s President Felipe Calderón. Calderón who was accompanied by his wife, Margarita Zavala, led the official Welcome […]
The partnership between Grace Kennedy Belize and the Belize Hospital Auxiliary was formed in November 2009 for the production and distribution of the fifth edition of the Hospital Auxiliary’s cookbook. By the official inauguration in January, nine hundred copies of the book had been sold and by the end of August the two thousand prints […]
It’s the grand finale so tonight’s Duets is a show you can’t afford to miss. The top three couples will make their final appearances on stage for performances that won’t be judged but will definitely rock the Bliss auditorium. We’re spicing things up by bringing back some of the talented duos that didn’t make it […]
The news spread like wildfire, attorney Richard Stuart and his wife Maria were repeatedly stabbed at his home just before midnight on Saturday after a Bar Association dinner. Their murder was horrific and shocking. Stuart, a former magistrate who moved into private practice, was well known and highly connected in the United Democratic Party. His […]
This evening the Bar Association issued a release expressing its outrage and dismay over the brutal murder of Richard Stuart and his wife, Maria. As they mourn, his colleagues remember him as a professional, cordial and courteous attorney who was active in the association and served as president from 2008 to 2009. The Bar is […]
Less than twenty-four hours before, there was a deadly assault on three prison employees while on their way home from work on Friday night. They were ambushed in a taxi near Hattieville with what is believed to be a high powered assault rifle. Miriam Gillett was killed on the spot; the two others are in […]
There’s another murder to report. Police have now confirmed that eighteen year old Raylene Dyer was murdered in the Cayo District. Dyer was killed on October eighth when she went missing and her body has still not been located. Four persons have been detained and arraigned including nineteen year old Aracely Cahueque of Corozal Town, […]
There was other violence over the weekend. Even before the Stuart and Gillette Murders, a shooting occurred at six-thirty p.m. on Friday. The victim was hit by a volley of fire by a gunman who rode towards him on bicycle. Luckily for him, the bullet caught his legs, arms and side. Leroy Card told News’ […]
Friday night’s third shooting incident occurred at nine-fifty-five on Mosul Street in Belize City. In less than five minutes three persons were shot during a botched robbery of PICAME Bar. According to the proprietor, Jose Santos, he was standing behind the bar when two persons entered wearing caps. One of the men jumped over the […]
In other news, the government issued a press release saying (quote) “The President of the Belize Court of Appeal, Justice Elliot Mottley, will be retiring from the Court effective thirty-first December, 2010.” That was on Friday, but today the Bar Association, issued its own, saying it is having a special sitting of the court to […]
