On the Road to the Gold Cup: The National Football team will be playing the United States, Cuba and Costa Rica in the upcoming Gold Cup games in July. Tonight in our series featuring team members of the Jaguars, we go one-on-one with Shane Orio. {Feature on Shane Orio…}
The secret to any successful relationship is communication. While dialogue and trust is necessary for longevity and happiness, perhaps the person you should also share those virtues with is your doctor. Tonight Healthy Living finds out the questions your doctor wish you would ask. Marleni Cuellar, Reporting How extensive is your conversation with your […]
Minister of State with responsibility for gangs Mark King may be a free man since the charges of aggravated assault, threatening words and disorderly conduct were dropped after the police officer involved in the matter decided not to press charges. One other officer could not identify the Minister of State either. The charges stemmed from […]
Whylie also commented on the Noh Mul charges…or rather lack of charges, since nobody has been held criminally liable for the destruction of the Mayan mound in northern Belize. Our information is that the investigating officer has been diligently collecting evidence on the advice of the Director of Public Prosecutions. Today, the ComPol says that […]
Recently, the environmental community as well as the Belize Tourism Industry Association and the Association of Protected Areas Management Organization have been united in their objection to a proposed cruise terminal and development near the Placencia Peninsula. While the Norwegian Cruise Line’s hundred million dollar project is looking for another home, there is yet another […]
The Federation of Cruise Tourism Associations of Belize (FECTAB) is once again up in arms over what it claims is unremitting preferential treatment being afforded to Chukka Tours. The Florida Caribbean Cruise Association and the Belize Tourism Board are currently hosting a five-day cruise conference organized by the Platinum Association Membership Advisory Council (PAMAC) in […]
According to Director of Tourism Laura Esquivel-Frampton, the tours being offered by Chukka are all free of charge since a select committee, which includes B.T.B., requested assistance from local members of the Florida Caribbean Cruise Association. Esquivel-Frampton says that FECTAB knew about the conference because its president made an inquiry with them. Laura Esquivel-Frampton, […]
The top brass of the Belize Police Department converged at the Police Training Academy as ComPol Allen Whylie presented the latest crime statistics for 2013 up to the end of May. Major crime, particularly murders have decreased since the start of the year. Mike Rudon reports on the department’s initiatives that appear to have limited […]
A man who killed his mother-in-law was today sentenced to eighteen years by Justice Adolph Lucas. Peter King Contreras was not charged for murder after he strangled Argentina Garcia in December, 2010, but instead pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter. On December fourteenth Police intercepted Contreras at the junction of the Philip Goldson […]
It’s no secret that our country began as an settlement for buccaneers. There was little planning but eventually the colony of British Honduras rose to become Belize. And if you look at the twists and turns of Belize City and the drainage problems that have exacerbated over the years, you would know that planned environments […]
No city, virtual or otherwise would be incomplete without a proper diet for its inhabitants. Caribbean Nutrition Day is recognized every year on June first. And today, at the Biltmore Plaza, the Ministry of Health celebrated that day with a nutrition seminar to educate stakeholders within the food service providers industry on nutritional practices to […]
‘On the Road to the Gold Cup’…is Channel Five’s focus on the national ‘A’ selection football team’s journey to the July 2013 Gold Cup to be held in the United States. The Belize Jaguars have been in camp for months now preparing to take on the United States, Cuba and Costa Rica in three games […]
Since previous head coach Leroy Sherrier returned to his home in Costa Rica, the Football Federation had found a suitable replacement. Ian Andrew Mork was formally introduced as the head coach today and we asked him how ready is the national team for the Gold Cup? He said the team’s goal is to shock the […]
Tropical Depression number two which made landfall on Belize on Monday afternoon has resulted in significant rainfall all across the country. But today all eyes were on the flood prone areas of Dangriga and surrounding communities. Because the path of TD2 was south of the country, the coastal and low lying areas that are already […]
Though the projected path was over Monkey River, the sheer width of the cloud cover reached the former capital, Belize City. The City is also experiencing flooding in the aftermath of Tropical Depression Two. The major problem associated with the downpour is the lack of drainage. Overnight, streets that have been recently cemented with proceeds […]
Life for residents of southern Belize, who sought refuge at various shelters during the overnight passage of Tropical Depression Two, resumes normalcy, as the National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO) reports that most of those people are back at home. At two o’clock this afternoon, TD2 was heading west-north-west away from Belize at approximately ten miles […]
NEMO keeps close contact with the Meteorology Department that is stationed at the Philip Goldson International Airport. An hour after the NEMO advisory, the MET Office indicated that at three p.m., tropical depression number two was located near latitude eighteen point three-eight north and longitude ninety-one point nine west; that is essentially at the Bay […]
And much further north, the remnants of a political storm had expectedly fizzled. There was no need for a forecaster to predict that Minister of State Mark King would be free of charges levied against him earlier this year. In the Corozal Magistrate Court this morning, charges of aggravated assault, threatening words and disorderly conduct […]
And tonight’s question is: Do you have confidence in the health system because the Minister of Health won the village council elections? 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 send an email with your comments to […]
A young man who had turned his life around was shot and killed on Monday night. Until he was murdered, Delone Vernon was an employee of Youth for the Future. On Monday night, he was at his Sibun Street house with his in-laws when the gunman burst inside and unleashed several gunshots which caught Vernon […]
A Belizean also lost his life to violence in the United States. The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating the murder of a Belizean American inside his home on Sunday. Two months after visiting relatives in Belize, thirty-eight year old Gregory Bennett also known as Gregory Scott was killed. Bennett was shot three times in […]
An elderly man was reportedly beaten and sodomized in Armenia Village on the tenth of June, while socializing at a local bar. The man, in his sixties, was said to have been intoxicated and fell asleep on the roadside while on his way home…that was around two a.m. last Monday. But, he never made it […]
A man who has spent the last five years on remand for a 2008 murder will not go back to the Belize Central prison tonight. Twenty-eight year old Lincoln Sabido, a resident of Berry Street was accused of the first murder in 2008 when Norman “Mimi” Reyes, was fatally shot once to the neck. Sabido […]
A Belize City man was convicted in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court after he was found with a nine millimeter pistol loaded with nine rounds of ammunition. This afternoon, in the court room of Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith, an unrepresented Randy Jones, was found guilty of Kept Firearm and Ammunition without a Gun License. […]
The Orange Walk Town Supreme Court is also in session. Today, Isabel Mendez was convicted by a nine member jury of ten counts of incest. Mendez was tried before Justice Herbert Lord for having sexual intercourse with the victim over a three year period which spanned from May twenty sixth 2006 to April twelfth 2009. The […]
