There was a shooting incident last night in the old capital. Luckily the victim survived the incident. At seven p.m. on Sunday night twenty one y ear old Luis Figueroa, a resident of Ebony Street, was walking behind the Farmer’s Market. Figueroa heard a loud bang which he quickly realized was a gunshot. His instincts […]
A Ministry of Works employee has been arrested and criminally charged after he could not account for building materials that were removed from the ministry’s warehouse at mile three on the Western Highway. Works Administrator and the brother of the Minister of Works, forty-six year old Edward Martinez, reported to police this past Thursday that […]
It somehow didn’t make it to the police report or the news, but last Tuesday a man allegedly started a fire in the room where his wife and daughter were sleeping at their house in La Democracia Village. And today, thirty-seven year old Gary Clark was arraigned on three charges; two counts of Attempted Murder […]
We reported last Thursday that eighteen year old Daniel Pineda was stabbed in Belize City during an altercation with Justin Wade, Denroy McFoy and two other youths. Eighteen year old McFoy was accused of inflicting the injuries and today he was arraigned along with two minors, ages sixteen and seventeen, in the court of the […]
It’s payback time for a graphics designer, who made his rounds swindling individuals and primary schools out of cash. He’s beaten numerous charges in the past but today, thirty-three year old Artemio Acosta was found guilty in abscencia of seven counts of Obtaining Property by Deception. The conviction is for scamming money from Lucky Strike […]
On Friday’s newscast we highlighted the sad story of Christopher Bowman. He is the twenty three year old youth who is suffering from a massive tumor that has grown on his chest and which is also now dangerously close to his spine. Bowman has kept hope that he will be able to receive the surgeries […]
In December of 2009, the United Nations Climate Change Conference was held at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark. This past week, the follow up conference moved to Cancun and was attended by two hundred national delegates and thousands of others in science and related fields. It should have ended on Friday, but the closing […]
Good Evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The road to the F.F.B. Inter-District Football Championship screeched to its conclusion yesterday inside the Norman Broaster Stadium as World FC played host to Libertadores of Corozal. Of course, Libertadores would have had to win by a 5 goal margin to claim the title after […]
For the second time, a company owned by the Novelo brothers Tony and David, has gone into receivership with its bankers for failure to meet debt obligations. So if you were waiting for a National Transport Services Bus this morning after nine-thirty, you would have been waiting in vain. The buses were called off runs […]
But how did the company reach insolvency? According to Philip Jones, when the government created a new zoning law, it lost most of its commerce. But Jones states that the situation is now in the hands of the lawyers and there will be no protest. Phillip Jones, Former Operations Officer, National Transport “We had financial […]
Six officers, including a Customs boatman, who were charged in connection with the landing of a drug plane on the Southern Highway on November thirteenth, were offered bail today. They were charged on Thursday with Abetment of a Crime for the Importation of a Controlled Drug by facilitating the landing of an aircraft with two […]
FECTAB has emerged as perhaps the most vociferous organization in the tourism industry taking on hot button issues in the industry. Not one to be silent, the organization today came out in full solidarity with the traders who earn their living at the Fort Street Tourism Village. The hair braiders, taxi drivers and tour guides […]
It’s not only the hair braiders, taxi drivers or tour guides, who are vexed by the zoning. The problem has come at the front door of the Ex-Servicemen’s League. At a meeting with the BTB on Wednesday night, the league’s president, said that three veterans are buried at the Memorial Park and the annual Remembrance […]
One of the country’s most outspoken kidney patients and activists, forty-one year old Jose Cruz, has died. Cruz passed away at around nine-fifteen this morning in Santa Elena Town, Cayo. Cruz became widely known in the media a few years ago when kidney failure prompted him to speak out about a very lacking health system, […]
Who will be the next Chief Justice? That’s the question that is being tossed around for months since the departure of the former Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh and the temporary appointment of Justice Samuel Awich as acting CJ. We don’t know the answer, but we do know who is not likely in line, and that […]
On Wednesday’s newscast, we reported that thousands of dollars had gone missing from the Police Department’s exhibit room. It has since been confirmed that one of the suspects in custody is a police officer and the other works closely with the department. Information is that the cop is still being questioned but has not yet […]
The Organization of American States today presented its own report card on its activities in the course of the year. Aside from its work at the Adjacency Zone, the regional organization had a busy year. Kim Osborne, the resident representative, introduced the long list which includes work in the social sector, tourism, sports and the […]
Christopher Bowman has lived with a tumor on his chest for most of his life. He has taken two surgeries in the United States to have it removed. However, he has about eighteen more to go. And the bill is in the hundreds of thousands. Bowman contacted News Five because time may be running out […]
If you are a regular patron of nightclubs then you know exactly what French Kiss is referring to. And you know that the music and lyrics at those clubs tend to be sexually explicit and extremely violent in content. So if you like dancing but find that the club scene is not for you, there […]
Entertainment host, Safiyyah Mohammad, is back and she’s got the scoop on all things fun this weekend. That includes everything from where to find the parties to Christmas fundraisers and of course, Channel Five Christmas Spectacular is on tonight. Here’s What’s Happening Belize. Hey I’m back with all the spots for you to go and […]
Twice today, downtown Belize City came to a standstill. The immediate area around the courthouse was cordoned off as five officers were whisked into court for arraignment on drug related charges. The media was kept at bay when the five were taken to court in handcuffs and shackles under heavy police escort. The five have […]
It was not a good day for cops today; in the same court of Chief Magistrate Margaret Gabb McKenzie, another was arraigned on criminal charges. He is twenty-four year old Police Constable Rodney Williams, of the Patrol Branch. But his crime is not drug related. Williams was charged with a single count of Unlawful Carnal […]
It was more of the same on Day Two of the Sustainable Tourism Program which involves the controversial zoning of the Fort Street Tourism Village. Thousands visitors disembarked the four cruise lines, but those who ply their trade to put bread on their table, were not happy campers. Under the new rules they must wait […]
The Barrow administration has blocked public officers from communicating on an individual basis with Channel Five. As a result of the government embargo, they can’t communicate with us unless other media houses are present at public events. It sounds confusing and it is. The VIP and the PUP have both issued statements condemning the government’s […]
A fly-over of the Bladen Nature Reserve, bordering with Guatemala, provides a bird’s eye view of the rich vegetation of our tropical forests. The protected area, however, is being systematically plundered by those engaged in export of the lucrative xate and by poachers looking for exotic wildlife. But it’s not limited to those two threats; […]
