In today’s edition of Healthy Living we discuss a condition that can affect just about everyone. Sinusitis is the inflammation of the sinuses or nasal passages. The main symptoms include pain and pressure on the face and a runny nose accompanied by a green or yellowish discharge. According to Dr. Anastacio Cobb, the location of […]
The north of the country has not experienced the violent crimes that have spread from Belize City to Cayo. However, the Corozal Police Formation has been hot on the trail of criminals in surrounding villages as well as in the town. In this past month alone, officers have returned three American fugitives that were hiding […]
The trickle of blood on West Street near its intersection with Cemetery Road where sixteen year old Trevor Neal was discovered this morning adds to the ongoing bloodbath in Belize City. While the minor was riding his bicycle to work shortly after seven this morning he was accosted from behind by two armed men who […]
Just before five o’clock today a jury decided on the fate of a B.D.F. soldier who was accused with the murder of his wife. Raquel Requeña had separated from her husband, Glenford “Bucket” Bermudez in November, 2007, and when he found out that she had a new boyfriend, he flew into a jealous rage and […]
Tonight’s question is: Do you think the Gang Suppression Unit is using excessive force on civilians? 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.
On Monday, US national Michael Virgin, checked in at a local hotel in La Isla Bonita. It seemed as if he had come to vacation in San Pedro, but before midday today Virgin was found dead in his hotel room. The forty-one year old US National left notes behind indicating that he was having problems […]
Last week we reported on the onion crisis in the two northern districts. Thousands of acres of onion fields, some nine hundred thousand pounds of the vegetable are rotting and farmers who invested substantially are at breaking point. Their financial losses are tremendous and many who turned to lending institutions are now facing burdensome loan […]
A Belize City man was the target of two thieves who ambushed him on Monday night as he rode his bicycle on Dolphin Street. One of the attackers snatched a gold chain, valued at one thousand five hundred dollars from Wilbert Frazer’s neck, while the second man took him off his bicycle. While he was […]
Normally it’s the Peace Corps or the Red Cross that is deployed around the world in times of disaster. But last year the Belize Defense Force sent a Company to assist Haitians in their recovery effort. It’s a year later since the earthquake and there is still much more to be done for residents of […]
We usually hear about the Belize Coastguard in search and rescue missions, but the unit also helps to keep the waters safe from illegal activities such as narco-trafficking. During their operations over the past four day holiday weekend, the coastguard managed to nab contraband from Mexico and a vessel that was going equipped to commit […]
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading international body for the assessment of climate change. It’s a scientific group that deals with the complex issue of climate change. Thousands of scientists from all over the world contribute to the work of the group on a voluntary basis. They are meeting at the […]
A forty year old woman, Lucilla Bartley, a single mother of two, is at the Central Prison tonight. She is among a small number of women to be charged with murder. The only other woman charged recently, is Lavern Longsworth, also known as Antichrist, who is awaiting trial for the murder of her common-law-husband. Bartley […]
There was another stabbing and it involved forty-one year old Elvis Rhamdas, a Belize City fisherman of a Central American Boulevard Address. Sometime around nine o’clock p.m. on Holy Thursday, Rhamdas, who was standing at the corner of New Road and Victoria Street, got involved in an altercation with a group of men. One of […]
While two families grieve the deaths of their loved ones, it didn’t turn out as tragic for a mother and son in Orange Walk Town. Two armed robbers burst into a store belonging to Chinese nationals at the start of the Easter holidays. They held up the store owner and fired indiscriminately in the air. […]
A recent victim of robbery passed away and now the crime has been upgraded to murder. He is murder victim number forty. On April twelfth, two salesmen were robbed at Belize Food Supply on the Northern Highway. After nine p.m. a truck driven by Carlos Alvarado and his sideman Armando Castellanos entered the compound of […]
Three men and a woman believed to be linked to the ruthless Los Pelones cartel have been arrested in Cancun and according to the Mexican media; two of the suspects are Belizeans. On Thursday afternoon, the Mexican Police received an anonymous tip that a group of suspicious persons were at a house in the area […]
Forty-four year old Kirk Belisle was shot and killed in Belize City while repairing a rented black Chevy Nova near Shiloh Seventh Day Adventist Church on La Croix Street off Central America Boulevard on April tenth. Today a fisherman was charged with his murder. Belisle had retired for the night but left home when his […]
Also appearing in court today was thirty-one year old Michael Palacio who was charged with of Aggravated Assault of an Indecent Nature upon a minor and Grievous Harm upon a female relative of the minor. Palacio was remanded to the Belize Central Prison after he was denied bail. The first charge is in connection with […]
The Gang Suppression Unit was busy over the Easter holidays; they did not pull in any high powered weapons, but they found a whole lot of marijuana when they conducted searches in the Hattieville area. The biggest bust came on Sunday morning when the G.S.U. executed a search warrant at the Dollar Bank Road residence […]
Gas stations continue to be a source of quick cash for thieves. The latest target is the Esso Superstation in the Pound Yard Bridge area of Belize City. On Sunday at two p.m., twenty year old Stephen Teck was on duty along with his coworkers Earl Hamilton and Norise Santos. The three attendants were accosted […]
The biggest drug bust in Belize was recorded in November last year when a twin-engine Beechcraft Super King Air 200 plane landed on the Southern highway laden with Colombian cocaine; all of two point six tons of the white stuff with a value of a whopping one hundred and forty million Belize dollars. The plane […]
Are you between the ages of eight and twelve years old? Do you have a keen interest in painting? Then you’d be interested in the fifteenth annual Mexican Children Painting Contest, which is open to Belizean students. This year the competition is being held under the theme “How do you imagine Tourist Destinations in Mexico?” […]
Good Evening, I’m James Adderley and welcome to this portion of Sports Monday. The 83rd Annual Cross Country Cycling Classic grabbed center stage on Holy Saturday as the entire nation tuned in to be entertained by the biggest one day sporting spectacle in the Jewel. In fact, we dare say fan support was the biggest […]
James “Raindrops” Swan Senior, the highly connected man whose house was raided on Monday morning, has been granted bail due to a health condition. Members of the Belize Police Department including the Gang Suppression Unit swarmed Swan’s family home at Mile one on the Northern Highway beginning at four o’clock in the morning. The search […]
A family who lives on the Hummingbird Highway is grieving the death of one of their own. Thirty-nine year old Edgar Otoniel Guerra, a laborer of Armenia Village and a father of seven children, was killed in a freak accident as he waited for a bus on Wednesday. It happened at mile fifteen on the […]
