There was an execution style murder early on Thursday night in Belize City. Michael Bucknor, the manager of Bingo King Apartments, was shot and killed on Fabers Road as he was conversing with a female friend. The bullet penetrated the back of his head, exited through the right eye and grazed the woman. Bucknor, who […]
This morning, the Belize Court of Appeal handed down a judgment in favour of media personality, Glenn Tillett. Viewers may recall that in 2011, Tillett had claimed declarations against Lois Young, Net Vasquez and the Belize Social Security Board (S.S.B.) that the decision of the S.S.B. to purchase fifty million dollars of B.T.L. shares from […]
The Pan American Health Organization’s report on the bacterial outbreak in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital has laid out pages of inefficiencies and areas where the nation’s referral hospital can improve. The Belize Medical and Dental Union (B.M.D.U.) is now sharing its views on the K.H.M.H. According to the […]
There is word that a Guatemalan national who was shot by B.D.F. personnel in the Caballo Camp area of the Chiquibul is tonight at the KHMH being treated for a serious infection. The official report at the time of the shooting, on June third, was that Edgar Alexander Alveno allegedly fired on a B.D.F. patrol. […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow is winding down an official one week visit to the United Kingdom. PM Barrow’s itinerary included an audience with Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles. He addressed trade and investment with financiers and had meetings with the Mayor of London, Alderman Roger Gifford, as well with the UK Foreign Secretary, William Hague. […]
New Horizons is a project first brought to Belize by the US Southern Command in 2001 and again in 2007 and now in 2013. It involves soldiers from SouthCom and the Belize Defense Force coordinating in a joint exercise which combines training with infrastructure projects and education, health and humanitarian works carried out in different […]
The European Union, along with the Pan American Health Organization, has teamed up with the Ministry of Health to provide infrastructure and training that would improve maternal as well as neonatal health. Reducing neonatal mortality is a current national concern since the May deaths of thirteen newborns in the neonatal intensive care unit of the […]
Back on May thirtieth when the deaths of the neonates was first acknowledged by the K.H.M.H., the Prime Minister, who was at a press conference, committed government finances saying he would also seek funds from international donors to build a new ward to house the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. On Wednesday, the Minister of Health […]
A man accused of removing a forest product without a valid permit, has been acquitted of the charges. In February, Shannon Borland was hauling seventy-two pieces of Botan logs from Lucky Strike Village for Amin Awe. Borland was instructed to get the license from the gate of the premises, but the driver had no clue […]
Three men who were accused of stealing one hundred and twenty-five tons of brown sugar from B.S.I. back in April 2012 were today committed to stand trial at the September session of the Supreme Court. The men had their original bail revoked and were offered a new bail of twenty-thousand dollars each plus one surety […]
Since its introduction into Belizean waters a few years ago, the predatory lionfish has been frowned upon as an unwanted specie. The striped scorpion fish is known to feed on juvenile fish, greatly reducing the existing fish stock. In trying to diminish its numbers Oceana partnered with the organizers of the annual Placencia Lobster Fest […]
For the second year, Belize joined the Caribbean for the sixth Regional HIV/AIDS Testing Day. The initiative was celebrated throughout the Caribbean and it is co-sponsored by Scotia Bank. At five locations countrywide today, the Ministry of Health also partnered with the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the National AIDS Commission, the Caribbean Broadcast […]
In early May, just prior to the village council elections, the historic Mayan monument, Noh Mul was grazed to the ground for road fill. But it was not until today that following up on directives from the Director of Public Prosecutions Cheryl-Lynn Vidal that four persons were arraigned in court. Denny Grijalva and his wife, […]
Charges associated with the destruction of Noh Mul have been brought against several employees of DeMar’s Stone Company in the Corozal Magistrate’s Court. While the men, including proprietor Denny Grijalva and his wife, were being arraigned this morning, Director of the Institute of Archaeology, Doctor Jaime Awe, was guest speaker at an Annual General Meeting […]
An investigation by the Pan American Health Organization carried out by high level experts into the deaths of thirteen neonates at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital is in short, damning of the national referral hospital. It confirms that the Infection Control Committee of the K.H.M.H. was not functioning and that in fact the infection was […]
And our question for tonight is: Even after the damning PAHO report, are you satisfied that no one is yet being held responsible for the neonatal deaths at the K.H.M.H.? Yes or no. 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 […]
Village council elections have concluded across the country following an entirely politicized process in which voters were made a number of promises by its respective candidates. In Caye Caulker, residents were made the proverbial offer of land in return for their votes. And instead of receiving their prescribed parcels, locals on the island are tonight […]
On Wednesday, we reported that the European Union and the Canadian Government donated global positioning systems to the Belize Defense Force and the Guatemalan military. B.D.F. Commander, Lieutenant Colonel David Jones and his Guatemalan counterpart were on hand to receive the donation. The equipment will be used for accurate border patrols. But in the wake […]
The 2013 Gold Cup Games are quickly approaching. The Jaguars are set to leave for the United States on July fifth for the first of three games against the United States, Costa Rica and Cuba. As the team trains at camp, the Football Federation of Belize is also on a drive to raise additional funds […]
The police department found the body of a man who has been missing on Wednesday evening. San Ignacio Police visited the Macal River Bank and at about one hundred yards away from the Hawkesworth Bridge, the body of twenty-eight year old Cyril Margarito Cal was detected. The body was reportedly in an advanced state of […]
The Gang Suppression Unit (GSU) continues to suppress the supply of drugs in Belize City. This morning at eleven-twenty-five, members of the GSU conducted an anti drugs operation in the Faber’s Road Extension area behind the residence of a reputed drug trafficker. During a thorough search of the savannah area, amongst the garbage, officers found […]
Two Belize City men are behind bars on remand after they were charged for a brazen burglary of a home on Arlington Drive. The men, thirty-one year old Ernest Hinds and twenty-three year old Julian Willoughby were allegedly caught inside the home on June twenty-fifth, in the act of making off with a television set. […]
Today a man convicted of trying to smuggle marijuana inside the Belize Central Prison escaped becoming an inmate there after he was ordered to pay a fine. Twenty-four year old Justin Richards was caught in February 2012 with one hundred and sixty-one grams of cannabis stashed inside two Sunny and Tan buns he was trying […]
Hoteliers from across the country converged on the Old Capital this morning for the annual general meeting of the Belize Hotel Association. The conference comes on the heels of a significant upturn in overnight arrivals during the first quarter of 2013. The overnight sector is the biggest revenue generator in the tourism industry. While the […]
At eight o’clock tonight only on this station, Veteran Sportscaster, James Adderley, begins the first of a two part series called Road to the Gold Cup 2013. Adderley discusses the preparation of the team as they head to the historic games to be played in the U.S. But first, meet Elroy Smith who is the […]
