Roxana Alcoser is well-known for her melodious voice; she sings with the popular family band Super Furia from Orange Walk Town. The band has released hit songs on patriotism during the National September Celebrations. But this year, Roxy has an early release of a music video on an issue that many people will at some […]
There aren’t statistics available in Belize about how often women develop gestational diabetes. In the US, though, it is estimated that as many as one in ten women will develop this condition. The main population affected is women of African and Hispanic descent. This would mean that based on our ethnicities, Belizean women are at […]
Just after two this afternoon in a crowded courtroom, Justice Troadio Gonzalez handed down a decision in the murder trial of Renan Briceño Junior. Thirty-two year old Briceño had been behind prison bars since the shooting death of Dale Tillett which occurred on December thirty-first 2011 at the Palm Island Night Club in Belize City. […]
The nation’s largest referral hospital has been taking some solid hits lately, with the revelations of significant steps taken by the Board of Governors. Chair of the Board Chandra Nisbet-Cansino broke the news to the media on Tuesday, but today News Five got the chance to put the questions to Ministry of Health C.E.O. Peter […]
Minister Pablo Marin went one step further than saying he knew about the decisions of the Board. He says he was visited by the Chair who updated him on the situation with Carlos Perera, the Finance Department and the questionable purchases of x-ray machines, and he was the one who actually recommended the audit. Today, […]
Traditionally vehicle thefts occur overnight or when their owners park them in isolated locations for a prolonged period of time. But that wasn’t the case on Tuesday, when a government vehicle issued to Mayor Simeon Lopez from Belmopan was stolen, right outside City Hall. Today, Lopez told us that he arrived at work just before […]
The Smith family is settling back home after spending a week in prison. They had just returned to their house after burying family member, seventeen year old Myron Smith, when police conducted a search of their house. It yielded a firearm and live rounds of ammunition and the entire family of seven, including two minors, […]
Thirty-seven-year-old Manuel Mendez Castillo remains on the lam, following the heinous murders of seventy-one-year-old Ramon Cervantes Senior and forty-six-year-old Sonia Abac in the Orange Walk District. We can confirm tonight that ‘El Pelon’, as he is also known, is wanted by Interpol, as well as the Belize Police Department for the brutal killings. Castillo absconded […]
This morning, the Vector Control Unit of the Ministry of Health benefitted from a donation of eleven Toyota Hilux pickup trucks, courtesy of the European Union in collaboration with the Pan-American Health Organization. The trucks will be put to immediate use in the districts to bolster the unit’s surveillance and prevention activities where vector-borne diseases […]
While the K.H.M.H. is the current hot topic in the news, everybody’s still waiting to see what will happen with the very disturbing case of the Southern Regional Hospital. As you heard earlier in the news, Health C.E.O. Peter Allen says he’s been trying to get an update from Police on the way forward in […]
In the case of Central Health Region administrator, Police were not called in. An audit revealed serious irregularities, misuse of funds and the alleged breaching of the financial orders by Guerra and other persons. But strangely, Guerra has held on to her position as manager of the Central Region. Not only that…but News Five has […]
The safety of tourists and other visitors who frequent Belize’s archaeological sites is of utmost importance to stakeholders in the industry. While there have been various opportunities for tour guides to train in CPR and swift water cave rescue, there hasn’t been a standard curriculum that sets the guidelines across the board. Today, however, as […]
On Monday we showed you the situation in the far western community of Santa Familia…where residents are up in arms over a water issue that is going nowhere fast. But there are other concerns as well, including a Police Station that hasn’t been occupied for more than five years. And then there’s the road, which […]
This past Monday, twenty-two year old Felicia Chen was sentenced to eight years in prison for the manslaughter of her three children. In May of last year, Chen got off a bus and walked four of her children—ages six, four, three and two years—to Belizean Beach at mile four on the George Price Highway. She […]
Usually when we’re called out to Police Training School in Belmopan it is to witness the passing out of a new squad of men and women in uniform. Today was different, but no less of an auspicious occasion, as selected men and women from every rank in the Belize Police Department received official promotions within […]
A record number of scholarships was granted today by the Ariel Rosado Memorial Education Foundation. As many as thirty recipients were beaming with joy at the opportunity to further their studies. The foundation was established to honor a young cyclist, twenty-eight year Ariel Rosado, who was tragically killed in May 2011. His father, Alvaro Rosado, […]
While the granting of scholarships was a happy occasion, there are internal problems within the foundation. A signatory to the bank account is refusing to sign cheques so the account remains inaccessible to the foundation. The matter is before the courts, but will possibly be settled out of court. Today, President Rosado said that the […]
There have been some major developments at the nation’s largest referral hospital lately. Notably, the K.H.M.H.’s Director of Finance, Carlos Perera was fired two weeks ago. The C.E.O., Dr. Gary Longsworth, will soon be gone, since the Board has refused to renew his contract…and perhaps most significant – the Department of Finance at the KHMH […]
And since the Finance Department will be under scrutiny, so will the former Director of Finance Carlos Perera, the man who orchestrated the purchasing of those x-ray machines. Perera’s name has come up numerous times before, and it was no secret that the Board of Governors wanted him out. Today, K.H.M.H. Board Chair, Chandra Nisbet-Cansino, […]
When the results of the investigation do come out, it is likely that C.E.O. Gary Longsworth will no longer be a fixture at the institution. That’s because by September he will be gone. Cansino confirmed that though he requested an extension which would have given him a third term as C.E.O., the Board decided against […]
There’s a lot of movement in the health giant, certainly at the highest level. And with the investigation, there are suggestions that there may be more. But tonight there is also bad news for the six hundred employees of the K.H.M.H. In July public officers and teachers received a six percent salary adjustment, retroactive to […]
Last week Tuesday, the entire Smith family including a cousin, who is the mother of a baby, and two minors, ages sixteen and seventeen years, were all remanded to the Belize Central Prison on a charge of kept firearm and ammunition without a gun license. The Smiths had just returned to their house after the […]
Tonight question is: Do you think Felicia Chen should be spending more than eight years in jail for the manslaughter of her three children? 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.
A teen went missing last Monday; while she was located early this morning, there is a grim side to her story. Her mother is troubled because she has seen symptoms of pregnancy but her daughter is only thirteen years old and her boyfriend is allegedly a much older man from Orange Walk. The predicament for […]
The trial without jury against thirty-five year old Renan Briceño for the 2012 murder of Dale Tillett came to an end today. This morning, Justice Troadio Gonzalez heard closing arguments from both sides in the case which started last week Wednesday…approximately two years after being on remand. Briceño, a former Marketing Representative of SMART, was […]
