Did you make it out to the Bliss on Tuesday night or catch the live broadcast of KTV Latino? Well, if you didn’t, you missed out big time. The three remaining singers from Groups A and B came together for the first night of the semi-final round and it is clearly going to be a […]
In our newscast on Monday night, we reported that six persons had been shot over the weekend; two did not survive the gunfire. Early this morning, a shooting in the heart of a known hotspot on the south side of Belize City has landed a marine mechanic in the trauma room at the Karl Heusner […]
The Friday night murder of fifteen year old Devon Reynolds as he went about looking for his aunt on Caesar Ridge Road succeeded that of nineteen year old Shamir Medina who was gunned down just over an hour earlier as he rode his bicycle in the area of Plues St. While many believe that the […]
Cabinet met in session today in the Capital and one of the major decisions to come out of that meeting, is that a Production Sharing Agreement was awarded to a petroleum company. Maranco Limited was awarded the P.S.A. for vacant petroleum exploration blocks in the northwestern Orange Walk District. The concession includes a section of […]
Tonight’s question is: Should patrons who bought tickets for the Shyne concert last Saturday, believing that two platinum artists would perform, be refunded their money? 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 […]
Joe Marinan, he’s the Mega Bingo Boss whose face you’ve seen on TV on numerous occasions. His recent appearance didn’t have to do with the popular game, it had to do with allegations of sexual harassment made by one of the former hosts of the game, Rachel Armstrong. Armstrong is the niece of Alfred Schakron, […]
There is a tragic story about a manatee to report tonight. It follows several instances in which manatees have been hit by boat propellers. Some residents on the south side of the city found a manatee with a deep gash wound this morning. The manatee was pregnant but according to a local expert, it was […]
There was a hit and run on the Western Highway on Monday night and the victim did not survive. Police received the call at around ten o’clock and arrived at the scene between miles two and three on the Western Highway to find thirty-five year old construction worker, Harris Fred Flores, already dead. It is […]
The owner of Cavetubing dot com, Yhony Rosado, backed up by the leaders of three other organizations, stepped up on Monday alleging that his company, tour guides and guests have been the victims of harassment at the hands of the police. Rosado went as far as to say that when he inquired, the police told […]
Meanwhile, Helga, the Panamanian flagged vessel carrying a cargo of salt to Honduras is still at the bottom of the sea near the barrier reef. But will the capsized vessel be left in Belizean waters? That’s a possibility, depending on the outcome of an investigation, which will be carried out by the Belize Port Authority […]
Guatemalan National, twenty-three year old Manuel De Jesus Lopez Gomez, was charged with four offences following the stabbing of Clive Hyde on September nineteenth 2009. In January, the Director of Public Prosecutions withdrew the charges of Attempted Murder and Dangerous Harm and Lopez was later granted bail. His trial concluded late Monday evening, when Lopez […]
A fifty-four year old taxi driver was taken for a ride to Hattieville today, but he ended up at the Belize Central Prison. And Donovan Reid will remain behind bars until April twenty-seventh when he returns to court on a charge of Aggravated Assault of an Indecent Nature. The alleged victim is a thirteen year […]
Another mother has come forth to accuse members of the Belize Police Department of abusing her son. But Gilda Jones says that the police are also harassing her family even after her son, Calvin Palma, has been sent to jail on remand for a firearm offense. The situation got outrageously out of control over the […]
The clock is ticking for twenty-three vendors who operate under Belize Electricity Limited’s main transmission line. The Mahogany Street vendors have until the end of December to move because that is when B.E.L. says is the deadline to cut power to their businesses. Two aspiring politicians for the Lake Independence area have come forward to […]
And in the north, after numerous hitches, the 2011 sugar cane season appears to be getting back on track. The Belize Sugar Industries Tower Hill factory was temporarily closed in February when both turbines at the BELCOGEN power plant malfunctioned. It reopened on March fifth, when one turbine was fully repaired. The second broiler has […]
In economic news, Esso Standard Oil, S.A. Limited, the sole importer of fuel in Belize announced today, that it is one of several companies being sold to Puma Energy. ExxonMobil, Esso’s parent company, signed the sale agreement for its shares in business throughout six of the seven Central American countries. The other Belize based companies […]
Come one; come all to the Bliss Center for Performing Arts tonight because it’s KTV Latino time. Season two has been huge hit with fresh new talent from across the country. It started out with fourteen performers, who were joined by two wildcards, brought in to mix things up. And tonight it’s down to six […]
There were two murders in the Old Capital over the past weekend within a little over an hour of each other. A minor and another youth fell victim to the gang violence in the city’s meanest neighborhoods on Friday night. Devon Reynolds, a mechanics student, was pursued by his attackers and gunned down shortly after […]
The other victim to the weekend’s violence is nineteen year old youth, Shamir Medina. He was gunned down just before Devon Reynolds at eight-thirty on Friday night. Shamir Medina, who is known on the streets as “LEE TULU” and as “WANKA,” was shot and killed near his home on Berkeley Street. Medina’s murder was the […]
Aside from the murders of Reynolds and Medina, there were several shooting incidents that occurred over the weekend and while the following incident was not fatal, it was still alarming. The victim was a uniformed cop, who was wounded inside the Belama Police substation that recently came under scrutiny because there was an increase in […]
The Belama Police Substation also came into public focus earlier this year when a store across the street was robbed and the assailants got away. 828 Super Center was robbed on January seventeenth, just days after it was reported by the police that the substation had been closed for repairs. During Friday’s debate P.U.P. Freetown […]
The Kendal crossing has been in the news for years now since the bridge was washed away by Tropical Storm Arthur in 2008. A bailey bridge was donated by the U.S. Government, but it was not the right fit and the Sittee River remained without a proper bridge in a heavily trafficked area that connects […]
Tour operator, Yhonny Rosado, surfaced as one of the most outspoken critic in the recent cruise tourism crisis. Rosado was on the frontlines when the livelihood of tender operators came under threat by major cruise lines that call on Belize. Today, Rosado, who is the owner of CaveTubing.com, called a press conference and made serious […]
On Saturday morning, the scene at the Belize Telemedia Limited compound on Saint Thomas Street became potentially explosive before the start of the Annual General Meeting of the Belize Communications Workers Union (B.C.W.U.). Paul Perriott, who resigned from B.T.L. in February, was prevented from entering the compound. Outraged union members attempted to intervene and the […]
All is not quiet at Harmonyville since last week’s meeting with the Deputy Prime Minister, Gaspar Vega, and Belize Grassroots Youth Empowerment Movement representatives. Major decisions were announced at that meeting but on Sunday, the issue of a promised subsidy for surveys came under question while new settlers were encouraged to develop because the Hispanic […]
