While there is certainly a need for more vigilance, cooperation and enforcement from Police and related traffic entities…is there a need for stronger legislation, or even new legislation? Here at News Five we’ve covered many accidents in which innocent lives were lost because drivers chose to drink. We’ve never heard of one who was imprisoned […]
The Rural Eastern Division today received a very significant donation from the Princess Hotel and Casino. There are thirty-two communities in that zone, spread over many miles. It’s a challenge to not only physically cover that wide an area, but also to maintain effective, real time communications between officers assigned to police the division. That’s […]
Tertiary level students interested in furthering their academic pursuits abroad are being encouraged to apply for a scholarship opportunity in Taiwan. The Embassy of the Republic of China (Taiwan) has announced that there are a total of thirty-one full scholarships available for 2016 for the TaiwanICDF program, as well as the Taiwan MOFA program. Since […]
Whether you believe in New Year resolutions or not; making a commitment – at anytime in the year – to get healthy is commendable. So if you’re interested in becoming one of the January babies at the gym in 2016, then this segment of Healthy Living will have some useful information for you. Marleni Cuellar, […]
A father of two from Caledonia, Corozal is at the center of a police investigation that could be related to an Orange Walk drug bust late last week in which eighty-three kilos of compressed marijuana were seized by police. But this is just an allegation. Now, thirty-one-year old Luis Alcoser went missing on Tuesday when […]
Canadian film-maker Matthiew Klinck was murdered at his home near Spanish Lookout sometime over the weekend. He was last seen alive on Saturday at around four, and on Monday night his decomposing body was discovered by two friends, accompanied by the property’s caretaker. He had been stabbed fourteen times in the face, neck and upper […]
On December twenty-nine, Police Constable Luke Moreira, assigned to the San Ignacio Police Formation, was arraigned on two counts of rape. He was accused of taking a woman prisoner out of her cell and sexually assaulting her. Even as Police reeled from that scandal, two days after Police Constable Kyle Serrano, attached to the San […]
From allegations of rape and sexual assault by Police Officers to glaring footage of nude Police Officers on social media…the Police Commissioner has his share of headaches. Just around Christmas, one Special Patrol Unit officer decided he wanted to masturbate on camera, and that video promptly ended up on YouTube. A few days after, a […]
More than two months ago on election night, a close affiliate and supporter of Minister of Police John Saldivar allegedly fired his weapon into the air in celebration. The man was immediately detained by police officers on the scene. His detention was short-lived, however, as Saldivar and a crowd of supporters descended on them. As […]
The Police Department is generally reticent with statistics and only too happy to keep the media in the relative dark. Of course that’s only when crime statistics don’t look good for the department, not when things are looking much better than they did in 2014. And they are, according to the police, in all categories […]
On Tuesday afternoon, businessman Jack Charles hastily applied for and was granted an injunction by the Supreme Court, restraining the Customs and Excise Department from taking possession of his shipment of rice. While the application did not include the necessary paperwork, earlier today that document was officially filed. The grounds for the application includes the […]
According to Courtenay, the proprietor of Xtra House had been given the option previously to seek damages once the cargo is turned over to customs. Why that alternative has not been pursued is anyone’s guess. Here’s what the attorney had to say. Isani Cayetano “Does it appear to be in any way maybe a […]
Ninety-three-year-old Patrick Grant, a Belize City victim of a brutal home invasion that left him comatose over the Christmas weekend, is on the road to recovery after being badly beaten by a trio of thieves. According to the elderly man, who is hearing impaired and may not have heard the intruders breaking into his house […]
Violence against the elderly is cause for deep concern and so is violence against women. A two-day symposium aimed at preparing organizations, as well as other agencies, to deal with women who are victims of domestic violence culminated today in Belize City. The training workshop, part of the BA1 Project which was formally launched in […]
A former bailiff is being accused of continuing with business as usual even though he was released from the government service at the end of last December. Chief Magistrate Ann Marie Smith sent out notice today saying that Gabriel Casey is not authorized to conduct any business on behalf of the Belize City Magistrate’s Court […]
The 2015-2016 sugar crop season started on schedule back in December 2015, but all is not well in the industry. Inclement weather has been affecting the crop in the sugar belt. According to Vice President of International Relations for ASR, Mac McLachlan, the cane currently being milled contains mud and water, which in turn affects […]
The main stakeholders of the sugar industry in the north; that is representatives from ASR/B.S.I. and the three sugar cane farmers associations met today inside the conference room of the La Inmaculada Credit Unit in Orange Walk Town. The purpose of the meeting is to develop a sugar industry strategic development plan for the industry […]
There has been a constant cry from Police formations countrywide for resources. It’s no closely held secret that the Department is strapped for vehicles and equipment and even financial resources. But the statistics that crime is down released seem to bear out a theory that the police have what they need, even if they may […]
Much attention has been given to the efficacy of community policing – not only today when statistics were released, but through the second half of 2015. Traditionally when crime has spiralled out of control the department has favoured a paramilitary approach, like the GSU for example. But that is a different approach to community policing. […]
Thirty-seven year old film-maker Matthiew Klinck is well known in Belize for the first-ever telenovela, La Isla Bonita, set in San Pedro as well as for the Curse of Ixtabai. But sometime over the weekend, in the peaceful community of Selena behind Spanish Lookout, the Canadian actor, cinematographer, producer and director was stabbed to death. […]
The Belize Audio Visual Industry Association, BAVIA, of which Matthiew Klinck was a founding board member, is tonight reeling from the murder of a colleague. Klinck rose to prominence in the burgeoning local film industry with the feature film Curse of the Xtabai in 2012. While the attention-grabbing movie did not win an award at […]
Klinck, the brain behind Make-Belize Films, also dedicated countless hours training and mentoring young film students and aspiring producers. Toombs gives a professional reflection of his slain colleague. Isani Cayetano “What does this loss mean for the audio visual industry in Belize in terms of what his potentials were, realizing some of the dreams […]
There is an update to the murder investigation…When we left the scene just after two this afternoon, forensic personnel and Police were still in Selena at the scene of the murder. Tonight it’s official though, the Klinck was murdered. Late this evening we contacted investigating officer Inspector Reymundo Reyes who gave us an update via […]
A Belizean businessman was arrested today in Honduras; August Henry Tabony was detained while he was at the Juan Manuel Gálvez Roatan International Airport. According to reports from La Prensa Honduras, he had not declared more than sixteen thousand four hundred and ninety U.S. dollars in cash he was carrying on him. The sixty-five year […]
And tonight’s question is: Do you support the destruction of the Guyanese rice which could not be released for retail? 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
