The weekend looks promising, according to Safiyyah. For partygoers there’s always the Palm Island Nightclub and for those who prefer to see women strutting their stuff on stage, you can head out west. Entertainment host Safiyyah has a complete itinerary of places to go and things to do all across the country. Hey I’m Safiyyah […]
Is our national security at risk? We’ve reported on three planes that landed at night bringing thirty-two Chinese Nationals. Tonight we can report that another plane landed on Wednesday night in northern Belize, but unlike the three that came from Haiti, this one is believed to have unloaded cargo from South America. It is a […]
Not Guilty on two counts. That’s the verdict in the money laundering trial that has kept the Coye family out of work for over a year. On December thirty-first of 2008, one point five million dollars were found inside the Coye family home and the Financial Intelligence Unit alleged that the funds were the proceeds […]
There were two shootings in the old capital in less than twenty-four hours, but luckily, none turned out fatal. The first, the more serious of the two, happened on Mahogany Street on Wednesday night and the other happened shortly after ten this morning between the Sister Clara Mohamed Primary School and Excelsior High School on […]
The other shooting happened around nine o’clock on Wednesday night on Mahogany Street. One man was injured and is hospitalized at the Belize Healthcare Partners. His family is appealing for help for twenty-five year old Steve Parks, who needs blood. Parks was shot behind the head while purchasing food at Favourite Snack Shop. News Five […]
Tonight’s question is: Do you believe that the investigations by the Ministers of Police and Immigration into the human smuggling ring will lead to the arrest of the ring leaders? 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 […]
The infiltration of Belize’s border and our forest reserves by Guatemalan Xateros has become a growing national problem. But on Tuesday evening, one such incident escalated almost into a double murder for a Belizean Alcalde and another man. The two villagers of San Jose in the Toledo District were reportedly on a trek deep in […]
In other news, we came across a report on the website of the Guatemalan Foreign Ministry which states that the Ministry has taken the necessary measures to investigate an incident this past Tuesday at the Adjacency Zone during which Santos Hernandez, a Guatemalan minor was violently killed. During the same incident, fourteen year old Enrique […]
A police officer attached to the Special Branch is being detained tonight as part of the probe into the lucrative and illegal smuggling of Chinese nationals through Belize. The officer was reportedly on duty and has already been questioned by authorities about the three flights that landed at the Phillip Goldson International Airport on September […]
He killed a man for stealing Lobster on Turneffe Island back in 2008. When he was arrested in Sarteneja Village, he confessed to the murder and took police to recover the murder weapon, an AK47 Assault weapon which he hid on the island. Today, two years after the incident, Marcus Moh who was initially charged […]
Two men, engaged in a high risk job involving the engineering and assembly of communications towers lost their lives. Today two senior employees of Efficient Tower Services were crushed when they plunged from a height of a hundred and twenty feet. While the men may have survived the fall, the tower section they were connecting […]
This is a sad story of children left traumatized after they witnessed a heinous murder and a mother fighting to keep them. The four children witnessed their father brutally murder a woman at their home in Santa Elena in 2004. In 2008, Police Constable Jose Zetina was sentenced to life in prison, but that was […]
There is an alarming number of persons affected with diabetes; in fact it is considered the number one health problem in the country. There is now a noticeable increase in the number of diabetics who develop eye complications. So today, in commemoration of World Sight Day, the Belize Council for the Visually Impaired teamed up […]
Friday night’s exhibition boxing matches are gaining momentum so get ready to rumble. As the local boxers train for the anticipated event, the last minute details are being put in place at the Biltmore. Channel Five will be broadcasting the boxing revival after our evening news package and earlier today News Five’s Jose Sanchez caught […]
Diabetic retinopathy is on the increase; it is a condition that affects your eyesight and is one of the complications of diabetes. Most people do not know they are afflicted by it until they have lost their twenty-twenty. This week Healthy Living opens your eyes to this national health problem. Marleni Cuellar reporting Diabetes affects […]
One of Belize’s most wanted men was returned from Honduras this morning. He and his partners in crime are suspects in one of the nation’s biggest bank heists. Twenty-three year old Gabriel Salazar and company literally vanished from Belize after Spanish Lookout Scotiabank was robbed and the security was murdered on March thirty-first. Three weeks […]
Jackie’s Supermarket on Dolphin Drive in Belize City has been robbed four times in the past two years. The first robbery occurred on February sixteenth 2009, and an addition to cash, the three thieves stole the computer that stored the video of the robbery. The owners have recovered from the first two incidents but this […]
Two more immigration officers were arraigned today in a human smuggling ring that was busted last week. Mark Tench and senior immigration officer, Matthew Guy, both thirty-seven years of age were escorted by police before the Chief Magistrate, Margaret Gabb McKenzie. Flanked by their attorneys, Tench and Guy were charged separately, each with two counts […]
While Belmopan police have made no arrests in the murder of forty-two year old Francisco Villanueva, they are following a lead that might answer some very critical questions. Villanueva had reportedly gone to his farm on the Roaring River Road in the Cayo District early last Friday morning along with family friend, Ramon Quijada, when […]
The response from our viewers to Tuesday night’s questions on whether there is a cover up by authorities on the facts of the Immigration scandal was a resounding yes. Ninety-six percent of voters on our e-poll said yes while only four percent voted against. In the comments, some point the finger of blame all way […]
For some time now, things have appeared increasingly unsettled in the Judiciary. First, an Attorney General questioned the competence of the judiciary at the Supreme Court opening. The Bar Association passed a resolution calling for the removal of a judge, then engaged Prime Minister Dean Barrow in a public tiff over his manner of appointing […]
Three out of every five students do not complete high school, that’s a high and damning percentage of young persons who have fallen from the wayside. Studies show that the number of youths out of school is contributing to the lawlessness on the streets. This morning, the Ministry of Education, launched an initiative that attempts […]
Back on July twenty-first, on the day of his fifty-second birthday, Romero Jimenez was convicted of one count of carnal knowledge for having sex with a fourteen year old girl. For the crime he was sentenced to seventeen years but today that sentence was set aside and a retrial was ordered by the Judges of […]
A Corozal businessman is out of pocket for twelve thousand dollars after a burglary at his store on Monday. Johnny Quan didn’t open for business since it was a holiday, so the perpetrators opened shop for him and helped themselves to a load of cash and two computers. Police have several leads, but according to […]
The body of an elderly man was recovered today from his home at twenty-one Kraal Road in Belize City. The man, identified to us by area residents only as “Dickie”, lived alone. He was last seen alive riding home last week. Neighbors didn’t see him for days and then began smelling a stench. Today they […]
