Doctor Wyckoff claims Mar also facilitated land purchases on his behalf, but when he checked with the Lands Department, all the properties were bought in Mar’s name. He told News Five today he feels embarrassed for letting himself be fooled for almost ten years. Dr. Robert Wyckoff “Mr. Hector is claiming that he built a […]
Jose Cruz, the kidney patient and activist, had a dream for all who bore the same illness. He did not live to see that dream turn into a reality. Cruz wanted better facilities and treatment for kidney patients suffering from renal failure. The Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital is now the portal through which his dream […]
KTV Latino opened with a bang on Tuesday night at the Bliss Centre. The crowd began gathering from as early as seven o’clock for the opening of Season two of the most spectacular show for lovers of Latin music and it didn’t disappoint. Others that did not make it to the Bliss, viewed it in […]
There is major news to report tonight on the judicial front. A letter dated January twenty-fourth Justice Denys Barrow suddenly resigned as a judge on the court of appeal, less than two years after taking up the job. The justice, who is the brother of the Prime Minister, was named to the Court of Appeal […]
The non-governmental organizations stepped up the ante today calling on government to protect the national parks. The issue of drilling in the Sarstoon Temash has come to the front burner of the N.G.O. community following remarks from Prime Minister Dean Barrow on January sixth that drilling will be permitted in the Sarstoon Temash. News Five’s […]
While NGOs want full protection of the National Park, the barrier reef came under attack late last week. An investigation is underway into the damage of approximately ten meters, a little over thirty feet, of coral reef near the Blue Hole in the Half Moon Caye Natural Monument, an area co-managed by the Belize Audubon […]
Tonight’s question is: Do you prefer to purchase butane gas from BNE or importers? 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.
Butane importers are planning to close businesses this Wednesday to protest competition coming from Belize National Energy. BNE says it can retail butane for prices much cheaper, about thirty-five percent less per hundred pound cylinder, than the importers, but it can only supply for now, thirty percent of the country’s demand. The Liquid Petroleum Gas […]
Late this evening, The Belize Bakers’ Association issued a release proclaiming its support for BNE’s supply of butane at cheaper prices. According to the association, they are already bracing for increased production costs due to rising prices for wheat on the world market. The less expensive butane is therefore a welcomed initiative. In its release, […]
Cruise tourism continues to spin out of control. Today only one Carnival line called on port; that’s the Valor, but the Dream with a capacity of three thousand nine hundred passengers did not make it to port. It gets worse for the rest of the week when the cancellations will mean that at least ten […]
There were two cases in court today that were brought by the Customs Department. In the first, two men from Bladen Village in the Toledo District were astounded when they were each fined twenty-four thousand, three hundred and thirty dollars for contraband vegetables and energy drinks. Raul Riviera and Angel Pachan were intercepted as they […]
In the other case, two businessmen faced similar charges for the sale of a vehicle without the proper procedures. Muhammad Hamze, a car dealer of Blue Marlin Boulevard, had to answer to two offences: Recklessly Dealing with Uncustommed Goods and Reckless Possession of a Vehicle for which the identification number was tampered With. That’s because […]
A tour guide was killed on Monday night when a sports car he was driving overturned on the Western Highway. Thirty-three year old Damacio Reyes was heading toward his home in Franks Eddy Village, when he lost control of the vehicle. Because the impact caused severe injuries, Reyes died almost instantly. Police Press Officer, Sergeant […]
You might remember Mark King as a former City Councilor or more specifically as the Councilor who first blew the whistle on Mayor Zenaida Moya Flowers when he made allegations of mismanagement. Since then, we also heard from King when he and former Deputy Mayor, Anthony Michael gave shelter to George Betson, who was forcefully […]
On Monday night we showed this picture in a story about Kareem Flowers who was shot as he walked on Dean Street on Sunday night. We have since been informed that the Kareem Flowers we showed was not the one injured in the shooting.
The wait is finally over and we’re just minutes away from the biggest karaoke showdown you’ve ever seen. Tonight is the first live show at the Bliss and you won’t believe what we have in store for you. By now you will know that the sensational duo of Santi Castillo and Conchita Moreno will be […]
Will there be a shutdown of butane gas outlets this Wednesday? That’s what is being threatened by Belize Gas Company Limited, Western Gas Company Limited, Zeta Gas Limited and Gas Tomza Limited. It all has to do with the production of butane by Belize Natural Energy, at prices that the importers say cannot be undersold. […]
The U.D.P. pulled a fast one on Mayor Zenaida Moya Flowers. We reported last week that the party would meet to decide whether or not the mayor’s expulsion would be rescinded. Well, that meeting did take place on Saturday and Moya Flowers is still out in the cold. That’s because it was agreed that the […]
There are no murders to report tonight but there were three shootings over the weekend. Forty-seven year old Honduran national Miguel Marcia remains bedridden inside the recovery ward of the K.H.M.H. after being shot during a robbery attempt. Marcia, a local vendor, was on his way to catch a boat near the foot of the […]
The second weekend shooting also took place in the Old Capital, a stone’s throw away from the previous incident almost twelve hours earlier. Nineteen year old Clement Bol Junior, a construction worker and student of Gwen Lizarraga High School’s Evening Division, was shot on Saturday evening while walking along West Canal in the direction of […]
Five persons, ranging from age two to sixty-eight were involved in a traffic accident on Sunday night. According to police, Antonio Calderon was driving from Corozal to Orange Walk Town accompanied by his mother, sixty-eight year old Felicita Calderon, twenty-one year old Yesenia Calderon, twenty-five year old Abel Chan and two year old Elson Chan. […]
There’s grim news in cruise tourism; this week alone ten thousand passengers will not be coming to the Jewel. That’s because there will be a noticeable absence of Carnival cruise ships from our waters this week as four of its vessels; namely the Dream which was scheduled to call on Belize on Tuesday, Glory which […]
If you drove past mile three and a half on the Northern Highway today you would have noticed a long line extending into the highway from the building that houses a new company called Trextel Belize. The operators of the company did not return our calls but according to its website, Trextel would be conducting […]
The machineries of the both major political parties were in full gear over the past weekend. The opposition People’s United Party held two conventions; both were uncontested. In the Belize Rural North, after complaints by aspirant Jerome Wade that he was boxed out of the convention, Attorney Arthur Saldivar was endorsed as the candidate to […]
The other P.U.P. convention over the weekend was held in Red Bank. Like Saldivar, Rodwell Ferguson was endorsed as the Party’s candidate to run for Stann Creek West. Ferguson won the 2003 general elections but lost in 2008 to Minister Melvin Hulse and is now attempting a comeback. In his speech, Ferguson said he wants […]
