It was emotional day at Saint Hilda’s Primary School, students and teachers were grieving the sudden death of one of their own. Eight year old Kean Vasquez was killed in a traffic accident on Wednesday night on the highway in front of the Georgeville Football field. The young body was heading home from church when […]
As we told you on Wednesday, Glenn Tillett, a contributor to the Social Security fund, is asking the court to make a declaration that the decision by the S.S.B. to invest in Telemedia shares is illegal. The basis for the claim is that there is a clear conflict of interest and is contrary to the […]
A thirteen year old minor has accused a man almost twice her age of sexual abuse. What’s even more disturbing that the accused is a police officer attached to the Punta Gorda Police Formation. The child is alleging that Thomas Gamboa had sex with her on September fifth, but the matter wasn’t reported until October […]
Tonight’s Question is: Do you support GOB’s plans to grant amnesty to twenty thousand illegal immigrants? 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.
There has been no official word on government’s decision to soon introduce an amnesty programme. Twenty thousand illegal immigrants are on their way to achieving permanent residency status in Belize. According to Cabinet Paper number one hundred and nineteen of 2010, the plan got the green light from Cabinet back in August but government has […]
The programme is being quietly pushed forward by government and is a move that many political insiders believe could swing the outcome of a future election because those who get residency will eventually qualify for nationality. It could also open the doors for a number of undesirables to slip through the net to become bonafide […]
There will be a Meeting of the House of Representatives in the Capital, Belmopan the Friday. The House agenda includes five bills that will go through their first reading: The Finance & Audit (Reform) Act; the Income & Business Tax Act, and the Blair Athol Power Project. It may not be surprising, however, if government […]
The Belize City Center, after years of wear and tear, will be receiving a much needed facelift courtesy of the Mexican government. The multipurpose facility was decommissioned in early September after an assessment conducted by the Ministry of Works found it to be structurally unsafe. News of the refurbishing project follows an official visit by […]
There is tension and unease in the sugar belt tonight. That’s because the third payment to farmers for cane delivered to the Belize Sugar Industries, is delayed. Even worst, there is still no indication when the eight thousand farmers and their families will be paid. So far they say they have been patient but that […]
Today the case of the two sparring medical doctors was thrown out of court when they appeared before Corozal Magistrate, Leslie Hamilton. While things got steamy between the two in the hot summer month of August and the incident made interesting news, when the case was called, it turned out to be much ado about […]
In the courts, Rutelio Villanueva, an officer employed by Harpy’s Security Company, is tonight behind bars after disobeying an order handed down by the Belize Family Court. The father of two who has been delinquent in making payments toward a twenty-seven thousand dollar debt owed for child support was remanded to the Hattieville Prison where […]
Twenty-four year old Darrel Grant a Belize City resident who stands accused of killing Sandra Ruiz in August of 2008 today testified before the Supreme Court. During his testimony Grant claimed he was pressured by Sergeant Nicholas Palomo into confessing that he took part in the murder, but he is now claiming he was at […]
The pictures cover four continents over a period of fifty years. It is the first photographic exhibition by Theagarajah Biswanath, a Sri Lankan national that has made the Jewel his home in the past decade. Raj’s camera recorded sights of his travels to the UK, Asia, USA and Belize. The exhibit entitled Rajah, A Photo […]
Gestational diabetes manifests itself during first pregnancies. It is a condition that is on the increase among pregnant women between the ages of thirty and thirty-five. Contributing factors are the local diet which is high in carbohydrates and the lack of exercise. Healthy Living this week examines this growing health problem. Marleni Cuellar, Reporting The […]
The Social Security Board made the decision to use fifty million dollars of the people’s money to buy shares in Telemedia. It did so over the objections of the social partners: the National Trade Union Congress of Belize, the Belize Business Bureau and the Belize Chamber of Commerce. The social partners have not gone beyond […]
The political career of Mayor Zenaida Moya Flowers has been on a rollercoaster since she was first elected as the city’s first female mayor. Today it was on a high point; she walked free of the last two of a total of twenty-four charges brought against her. The charges of Failure to Comply with City […]
While the legal battles are now behind her and she can breathe a sigh of relief, the past thirteen months have been the most trying time of Moya’s political career. In a one on one with Marion Ali, the mayor revealed that the knocks of life have matured her but she remains committed to the […]
The leaders in the recently exposed human smuggling ring are highly connected persons and there officially seems to be more concern about leaks than about getting to the bottom of the scandal. News Five has been following the paper trail and in our special report on the immigration scandal, we have revealed the details that […]
After the revelation that human- traffickers managed to land three planes at the Philip Goldson International Airport in September and October and their human cargo headed across the border, public outcry began for an investigation. When that scam was busted, we launched an investigation that has shown that a steady flow of Chinese Nationals bypassed […]
The B.T.L. shares were launched for sale on October fifteenth, and from what we gather, the sale to the public is moving at a snail’s pace. Digicel Caribbean had indicated an interest to buy, but as far as we can tell, that has not yet happened. Last week the Social Security Board, by slim majority, […]
Up north, there’s still a quandary over the third payment to farmers for the 2009-2010 that was due this past Monday. Belize Sugar Industries Limited has been unable to come up with the cash because they lost an important source of income when ING bank did not renew their funding agreement in September. A loan […]
We reported on Tuesday night that Denroy Tillett, the principal of the Belmopan Comprehensive School, was arrested for sexually assaulting a female employee of the school. This morning Tillett was arraigned in the courtroom of Magistrate Adolph Lucas Jr. in the capital city. He was represented by, Legal Aid Attorney Philip Palacio and pleaded not […]
Twice attempts were made on his life and twice he survived. Keith Middleton has been before the courts on a number of charges but there have been no convictions against him so far. So who wants him out? Middleton says he knows who pulled the trigger earlier this week while he was at home with […]
Steven Polonio just turned nineteen and already he is a known face at the courthouse. His most recent charges are for Keeping an Unlicensed Firearm and Keeping Unlicensed Ammunition. Police caught Polonio on Tuesday morning as he was allegedly fleeing from a robbery scene carrying a point thirty-eight special revolver. The cops say that a […]
The charges brought by Leanora Rhaburn against her nineteen year old estranged common-law, Dennis Carr, landed him an interdiction and a court appearance. But today before newly appointed Magistrate Kayla Teck, Rhaburn confessed to making a false report and fabricating the story that Carr stole from her and the police department. In an emotional testimony […]
