A burglary at the Customs and Excise Exhibit Room in Belize City was reported earlier this week. Eight thousand dollars worth of exhibit items were stolen. Today, Rondale Bailey, a Custom’s Security Guard was charged with one count of burglary for allegedly stealing an assortment of whisky, rum, cognac, vodka, electric equipment and perfumes. Abimael […]
What do the Belize Police Department and the Women’s Department have in common? They both have a role in tackling the issues of gender-based violence and sexual offences. And so to strengthen the police response, the Women’s Department has secured a spot for an officer from the Family Violence Unit to participate in a training […]
Book Week 2011 was officially launched this morning at the Bliss with a formal ceremony introducing the Belize Copyright Licensing Agency. While this year’s theme focuses on nurturing creativity and protecting industry, equal emphasis is being placed on the importance of safeguarding intellectual properties. Authors, poets and playwrights, to name a few, will benefit from […]
Special Olympics Belize athletes are known to bring back the medals from international games. This year a football team from Special Olympics will be competing in the World Summer Games in June. The athletes are heading all the way to Greece, so the organization has been struggling to find the funds to pay for travel […]
If you’re in the mood for a treasure hunt, a fashion show, a book fair or if you want to send a message against crime; listen up because Arielle, your entertainment host, will share with you where all these activities and more are taking place. Welcome back to What’s Happening Belize! I’m your host Arielle, […]
Less than a week after the fatal shooting of two Chinese grocers in Belize City a third member of the Asian community, a first form student, has succumbed to injuries he received during a robbery in Dangriga. On March twenty-fifth, sixteen year old Hui Sheng Chen was inside his parents’ store on Ecumenical Drive when […]
The Orange Walk branch of Heritage Bank was robbed of over two hundred thousand dollars shortly after midday on Tuesday. The suspicion was that the robbery was an inside job because it was carried out smoothly. Three persons, including one female, have been questioned by police and are expected to be charged shortly. It follows […]
At news time tonight a jury is in deliberation over one of the most violent killing sprees the country has seen. It’s the murder trial against Leslie Pipersburgh and Patrick Robateau and it dates back to June eighteenth 2002, when security guards, Fidel Mai and Kevin Alvarez, were shot to death during a robbery at […]
Belize City Mayor Zenaida Moya Flowers’ expulsion from the United Democratic Party was reduced to a suspension at the start of the year. The Mayor remained steadfast to her party and maintains that her heart is with the U.D.P. In today’s edition of the government’s newspaper, there was a curious publication of a public apology […]
Tonight’s question is: Do you think a foreign commissioner of police will reduce crime? 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 Wednesday night we premiered the first part of twelve year old Rowan Garel’s trek to Victoria Peak. Climbing to Victoria Peak is a difficult feat for any healthy adult, but Rowan it appeared might have been hindered by the fact that he can’t see. Blindness, as you will see in the second part of […]
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of El Salvador, Hugo Roger Martinez Bonilla, concluded his official visit to Belize today. While in Belize he met with Minister of Foreign Affairs Wilfred Elrington and Prime Minister Dean Barrow. To end the visit, a memorandum of understanding was signed in which both Belize and El […]
In other diplomatic news, the government announced today that publisher of the Reporter newspaper, Harry Lawrence, is being named as Ambassador to the Holy See. Lawrence is expected to present credentials to the Vatican in Rome on May twenty-sixth. A devout catholic, Lawrence will succeed the late Oscar Ayuso to the post and as is […]
The Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry is calling for a cease fire on the streets of Belize. With the murder count growing to record numbers, now at thirty-four, it has become necessary for the association that represents most of the country’s private sector to condemn the senseless slaughter of innocent citizens, as well as […]
A European chef, tour guide and paramedic have been in Belize for six months, but when they headed out on a fishing trip last Friday, they found themselves in a conservation zone and in trouble with the law. Thirty-eight years old Peter Gunwesen and Philip Baudu as well as forty year old Bertrand Gauje, were […]
Earlier this week, we reported that B.T.L. had pulled the plug on Speednet and removed the smaller telephone company from its unfiltered circuits cutting off its international services. Speednet maintained that B.T.L. has been using its dominant power to eliminate competition. The court, however, ruled otherwise and Speednet relied on interconnection circuits to prevent disruptions. […]
Earlier we told you what’s in store for the Mayor, so what else is new in the U.D.P.? Not much, at least for Orange Walk East Representative, Marcel Cardona, who the U.D.P. Chairman Patrick Faber wrote only last week to inform that his actions dating back to the past six months had constituted a quote […]
In this newscast we regularly feature persons who need medical assistance but do not have the financial means. The income of many households coupled with the level of unemployment makes it impossible for many families to afford health care. It’s a sign of the tough economic times so when a visiting medical team offered free […]
You first met Baby Daniel Estell last year in July when his family was in desperate need of financial assistance for his medical treatment. The child was born with a congenital condition called biliary atresia, which caused a blockage in the tubes that carry bile from the liver to the gallbladder. With help from the […]
A visit to the dentist does not have to be the most traumatic experience, in fact, it is a practice that is to be encouraged on a regular basis to maintain good dental hygiene and avoid those horrible pains or the loss of teeth. In short, preventative care is the best way to keep healthy […]
The murder count stands at thirty-three since the beginning of the year. That has put the government in emergency mode. On Monday, Prime Minister Dean Barrow announced tough but controversial measures to deal with the lawlessness in the streets. Preventive Detention is one of the measures that the P.M. took to Cabinet on Tuesday to […]
Commissioner of Police Crispin Jeffries has been in the hot seat since April, 2009. Jeffries was given an extension last year, but his contract is now coming to an end next month. Jeffries’ management style has been described as ineffective by his own minister, Doug Singh. With that kind of criticism, it is no wonder […]
There is fortunately no murder to report in this newscast, but it doesn’t mean, there wasn’t any violence on Tuesday night. In Georgeville, a youth was critically wounded on the head around eight-thirty. The nineteen year old left his home to assist a family member who was under attack. He ended up at the San […]
On Tuesday we reported that armed gunmen held up a local branch of Heritage Bank in Orange Walk Town. While the actual figure the heist netted has not been disclosed, word to News Five is that the thieves got away with an amount in the range of two hundred thousand dollars. Shortly after one o’clock […]
Rhett Fuller will again mount a challenge to the request for his extradition made by the United States of America. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council will be the venue for this latest challenge. In June 2009, the Belize Court of Appeal dismissed Fuller’s appeal and ordered that he be extradited; however, it subsequently […]
