On Tuesday evening, a transgender woman was badly beaten in Belize City. She goes by the name of Vanessa Champagne Paris and was walking on Vernon Street when she was first targeted. Dressed in women’s clothing, Vanessa’s attackers followed her and by the time she got to Mayflower Street, the group morphed into an angry […]
Band Fest 2014 has been moved to the Santiago Ricalde Stadium in Corozal Town. The decision was made on Monday, less than a week before the event. The original venue was to have been the People’s Stadium in Orange Walk Town, but organizers say the field was not ready. It’s a decision which has caused […]
The top executives of the Norwegian Cruise Lines were in the Jewel today and invited the media to a tour of one of its two ships that called on port. It was sort of a PR Tour organized through the Belize Tourism Board and we’ll have that later in the newscast. But first, time is […]
According to Vice President Murphy, Norwegian Cruise Line has been calling on port in Belize since 1998 and the Harvest Caye project will further reinforce its presence in Belize. With NEAC’s green light of the EIA, construction and other works will begin within the next three weeks. FOR VIDEO CLICK HERE. Colin Murphy, V.P. of […]
Earlier we told you about the decision by organizers to move the popular Band Fest from the People’s Stadium in Orange Walk to the Santiago Ricalde Stadium in Corozal. There’s been anger, frustration and confusion over the decision, so today Mike Rudon went north to the People’s Stadium and has the story. FOR VIDEO CLICK […]
So that’s the Band Fest story in a nutshell. But since we were at the People’s Stadium, we couldn’t help but take a closer look at the facilities there. It was all pretty terrible. Apart from the broken down and burglarized B.N.E. building and the ashy football field…it all looked abandoned and decrepit – definitely […]
As we reported on Tuesday, attempts by U.S. Capital Energy to convene a meeting with indigenous leaders in the south, in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling in favor of the Maya community against G.O.B. and the oil company, was not received well over the weekend. Attorney Michael Peyrefitte, on behalf of U.S. Capital, […]
In the Supreme Court today, the murder trial of Leon Gomez was summed up by Justice Adolph Lucas and at news time, a jury was still deliberating. Gomez, a Belize City youth at the age of eighteen was charged with the murder of Salvador Martinez which occurred on January eighteenth, 2010, at the MCC grounds […]
A mother of five children, the youngest only one year old, was today imposed a non-custodial sentence and fined a whopping ten thousand dollars for drug trafficking. The court also ordered that she pay five thousand dollars immediately or serve a jail term. The house of thirty-five year old Roshawn Higgs, a mother and domestic […]
The Norwegian Cruise Ship project on Harvest Caye has been getting a battering from private tourism stakeholders in the south. The project came under fire from as soon as it came to light but now that it has received the green light from the NEAC, the cruise ship line is pressing full steam ahead. In […]
Since the appointment of Danini Contreras, daughter of U.D.P. minister Erwin Contreras, to the post of Director of Drug Inspectorate on March fourth, the Pharmacists Association of Belize has been up in arms about her appointment to the high-level post. According to the association, the creation of that particular placement did not go through the […]
President of the association, Hortence Humes, says that they have presented the matter to the Public Service Union, as well as the National Trade Union Congress. She says that they have the full support of both unions. Hortence Humes, President, Pharmacists Association of Belize “From the union is that when we took the matter […]
More details are available tonight on how a crocodile mauled a resident at a pond at Green Estates in the Lord’s Bank area on Monday afternoon. It is a rare occurrence—the only other reported case was back in 2001 in the Belama area. Today, a search party combed the compound looking for clues on how […]
There is another tragic story to report tonight. A five year old boy, Kenton Kerr Neilson, was crushed to death when a forklift ran over him. The incident happened early this afternoon in Spanish Lookout, Cayo District. The school-aged boy fell from the heavy-duty machine which was driven at the time by thirty-two year old […]
Twenty-nine million dollars….that’s the value of marijuana that went up in smoke last month. While the destruction of the marijuana happened since then, it is only now that it is being reported. The U.S. Embassy Military Liaison Office in Belmopan says that a joint military operation between Belize and the United States resulted in the […]
Tonight, the fate of squatters along Lake Independence Boulevard remains somewhat uncertain. The contractor has done all necessary to work around homes in his way, and residents maintain that they have nowhere to go and nowhere to turn. But there is some clarity where Lake Independence Area Representative Mark King is concerned. Since last week […]
And tonight’s question is: Do you believe that government should provide land to the squatters of Lake Independence Boulevard? 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.
Richard Waight Sr., Father of Murder Victim [File: April 7th, 2014] “The last conversation I had with my son dah fi know how much pain ih deh ina. The last conversation me and my son manage fi have dah day deh…when my son look pan me and say dad; ih say I eena pain. Ih […]
Where his political future is concerned, Belize City Mayor Darrell Bradley has been dodging the question of late. Months ago, he announced his intention to throw his hat into the ring in Caribbean Shores. That news wasn’t received warmly by Area Representative Santiago ‘Santino’ Castillo or by UDP leader Dean Barrow. It’s hard to […]
The Forestry Department has announced that it will soon be conducting a sweep of the Stann Creek District in an effort to halt illegal harvesting of precious rosewood. The operation has become necessary after an upsurge in rosewood movement, especially in southern Stann Creek. Pictures obtained from our colleagues at PGTV on a frequent basis […]
As we told you earlier, Mayor Darrell Bradley was a guest on OYE this morning. He’s been in the news a lot lately, primarily due to recurring litigation with sanitation company Belize Waste Control. But there is much more than that happening in Belize City. In 2013, there was unprecedented road-works in Belize City, along […]
Temperatures are on the rise between SATIIM and U.S. Capital. Last Thursday, the Mayan community, led by SATIIM’s Executive Director Greg Ch’oc, won another major legal victory in the Supreme Court, where Justice Michelle Arana reaffirmed their indigenous rights. In the suit against the Government of Belize and U.S. Capital Energy, Justice Arana declared that […]
Two contractors, a Belizean and a Salvadoran with permanent residency in Belize, were before the court on separate charges for employing persons not in possession of a valid temporary working permit. One pleaded not guilty, is challenging the Immigration Department and will be tried on the charge. The other, a Salvadoran national wasted no […]
If Mayor Darrell Bradley has seemed a little frazzled lately, it’s because he is. On one hand, there has been massive works done in the city – that can’t be disputed. But there are overwhelming challenges, including debt obligations in the millions. Belize Waste Control has led the charge against City Hall to collect what […]
On Monday, a crew member employed by Norwegian Cruise Line was shot and killed during a robbery on the bay island of Roatan, Honduras. The man, of Filipino descent, was targeted for his cell phone by an unknown assailant who approached him and opened fire. Honduras, since 2010, has been named the most murderous country […]
