There is monumental news coming out of the Supreme Court – a legal and political bombshell which burst all over Minister of State Edmond Castro. In late 2013, Castro had sued whistleblower Alvarene Burgess for explosive allegations that she paid him to facilitate many visas for Chinese nationals. Castro also sued Great Belize Productions/Channel Five […]
Alvarene Burgess made two appearances on Channel Five – an interview played in the news and an appearance on the Dickie Bradley talk-show. During those appearances she described in explicit detail her visits to Minister Castro’s office on the occasions she would deliver cash to him – two thousand for each visa application he facilitated. […]
Following the withdrawal of the case by the Minister of State, Great Belize Productions/Channel Five issued a statement saying that it has been vindicated in this high profile case because while public figures have a right to safeguard their reputations, they should expect to be subject to a greater degree of public scrutiny and criticism. But […]
Maya leaders converged today in Golden Stream, Toledo, in solidarity with the Santa Cruz Thirteen. The gathering is their first since the arrest of Cristina Coc and twelve other Maya leaders on June twenty-third. But there was an added dimension to this morning’s event. The MLA is going back to the Caribbean Court of Justice […]
After being reported missing by her boyfriend to police earlier this week, the motionless body of twenty-nine-year-old Juana Cardinez, a public officer working out of the Labor Department in Punta Gorda Town was discovered inside her apartment building. The boyfriend is now a prime suspect in her murder and at news time remains in police […]
The long arms of the law finally caught up with a Guatemalan fugitive wanted by Interpol. Uefrin Aldana Cassasola was found living in Yo Creek Village, Orange Walk when police conducted an operation on Thursday evening. It is reported that he was living in a wooden shack with a sister and her partner. The Guatemalan […]
This afternoon, six fishermen accused of being in possession of a firearm, ammunitions and Illegal drugs while on Turneffe Atolls were back in court. On Wednesday, July first, 2015, while the group was detained at the Police Precinct, they were found in possession of one hundred and eighty-three undersized lobsters. Today, they were remanded to […]
Four persons, including a Chinese national, who were busted in possession of over seven kilograms of heroin, were offered bail this evening by Supreme Court judge, Justice Denis Hanomansingh. Chinese national, Kua Liao, a naturalized Belizean businessman of Mile Eight located on the George Price Highway, was arrested along with Ebner Rivero of San Joaquin, […]
On Thursday, News Five brought you footage of a protest held in Orange Walk Town involving the La Inmaculada Credit Union. Actually it surrounded the removal of General Manager Yolanda Gomez, who was placed on administrative leave in early May. The protesters claimed that after two months, they had not gotten any explanation for the […]
Members of the Gang Suppression Unit struck again on Thursday in the Jane Usher Boulevard Area. Around six p.m., officers attached to the GSU stormed the house of Leroy Slusher on Levi Slusher Street, just off Jane Usher Boulevard. The team was looking for drugs and conducted a search on the property, roughing up the […]
Aside from roughing up the elderly man and the minor, the family dog, Prince, was shot twice and killed, allegedly at the hands of the officers. Joyce says that the children have been left traumatized because the dog was killed in front of them. Joyce Slusher, House Searched by GSU “When they going up […]
As you heard earlier in the newscast, the situation in Santa Cruz is still very much on centre stage, and so is the issue of the CCJ consent order – what it actually orders, and what the term communal land really means. At the moment all of that is very much up in the air, […]
The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Belize Waste Management Authority inaugurated the San Pedro Transfer Station. It’s a station that is a part of a solid waste management system that has been rolled out across the country. The project is funded by the IADB, OPEC and G.O.B. Minister of Natural resources Gaspar Vega spoke […]
It’s the summer and that means camps are popping up across the city – camps on sports, education and even the creative arts. Today, however, the Lily White Summer Camp was well underway at the B.T.L. Park on Newtown Barracks. Hosted by Edward Rubio, the eight-week camp started on Tuesday and will run through to […]
For those Belizeans who’ve fallen in love with Fibber’s Fried Chicken on Cemetery Road, there is some good news tonight. The local company which has been serving tasty local chicken for more than ten years is giving you the opportunity to get that special Fibbers taste in your own kitchen. Today News Five got an […]
There has only been one murder in San Ignacio since the start of the year, but the body of a man was found on Wednesday afternoon in the area of the San Ignacio Community Hospital. The grisly discovery was made by a resident who is constructing nearby and it took his daughter to identify him […]
A peculiar accident claimed the life of a mother and left two of her children and two others injured on Wednesday night in Santa Elena, Cayo. It happened at a church were the congregation had gathered for the evening service. Somehow, a parked vehicle moved from its position in front of the church, crashed through […]
The arrest on June twenty third, 2015 of Maya Leaders Alliance spokesperson Cristina Coc and twelve other residents of Santa Cruz Village has become an international issue. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the O.A.S. has written to the government seeking information on the arrests on the grounds that the life and personal integrity […]
The trial for murder against thirty year old Dionicio Salazar started on June twenty-second before Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin. And at noon today, a jury of six men and six women stepped into the deliberating room to decide Salazar’s fate. At six-twenty, the jury indicated that it required more time to deliberate. Salazar is accused […]
The La Inmaculada Credit Union, headquartered in Orange Walk, is one of the largest in the country. It has assets around fifty million and about twenty-one thousand members, but it also has a big problem. On May eighth, its long-time General Manager and institution icon Yolanda Gomez was summarily placed on administrative leave by the […]
In the Supreme Court before Justice Troadio Gonzalez, the office of the D.P.P. entered a nolle prosequi in the case against twenty-eight year old Brian Welch of Belize City. He was accused of the attempted murder of the then nineteen year old Alfredo Rodriguez, another Belize City resident. On September fifteen, 2012, Rodriguez fingered Welch […]
Six men are in custody tonight in respect of an unlicensed firearm found on Turneffe Caye. The men were detained by the Belize Coast Guard on the caye and handed over to the police on Wednesday for the nine millimeter firearm. They are twenty one year old Everon Teck, twenty-nine-year-old Geovanni Murillo, fifty-two-year-old Goldburn Goff, […]
And inside the Senate on Wednesday, things got testy between Senators Thimbrel and Shoman. The U.D.P. senator said that the “U.D.P. Government” is spending the monies wisely and that the proof is in the pudding. Well, the way the “debate” was going didn’t seem to sit well with Shoman. Here’s how that exchange went. […]
And there is no debate of Petrocaribe without the now famous ‘tacos and beer’ trip to Corozal. Well, in the senate, Senator Godwin Hulse justified the use of Petrocaribe funds for the “free trip”- which, you may know by now, has been publicly condemned by many as irresponsible use of the funds. And it was […]
And whether it sounded like a debate or not, things were a bit calmer when Senator Joy Grant presented. She served up the usual figures and little political jabs here and there, but she told the senate that no matter how much the Petrocaribe is opposed – they, the U.D.P., did their home work. In […]
