Tonight a well known businessman, Jose Shoman, and his wife, Malachi, are out on bail after a drawn out police raid which lasted for more than five hours at their home. The search, which included a dog from the K-Nine Unit, started out around nine this morning when a fleet of five vehicles arrived at […]
It’s the legal dispute that refuses to die … and today lawyers for the Brown Sugar and Harbourview companies were in the Supreme Court seeking the enforcement of a ruling that they thought they had already won. News Five’s Janelle Chanona has the latest twist in the case known appropriately as “the wall”. Fred Lumor, […]
Ara Macao: that was the development project that proposed to build a two hundred and sixty room hotel, four hundred and sixty condos, a hundred thousand square foot casino and an eighteen-hole golf course on the northern end of the Placencia peninsula. And while years of public controversy, regulatory red tape and uncertain financing have […]
In news from the criminal side of the Supreme Court, a teenager charged with murder was instead found guilty of the lesser offence of Manslaughter. Eighteen year old Steven Manzanero stabbed Larry Quewell on the night of March twenty-sixth, 2005 in Cayo’s Macal River Park where a fair was being held. Quewell died the next […]
It’s the part of police work that you don’t see every night on the news. Kendra Griffith reports that—like much of society—law enforcement is joining the information revolution. Kendra Griffith, Reporting This morning the Police Information Technology Unit unveiled its latest project, an official department website accessible by the general public. Insp. Mario Alcoser, Manager, […]
One of the old sayings in the entertainment business is “the show must go on” … and that’s exactly what happened following the unexpected death of musician Andy Palacio in January of this year. The North American tour previously scheduled for him and his band, the Garifuna Collective, went on without him and according to […]
While their music may not be the stuff of world tours, the rotating band of artists that dropped by our studios this afternoon believes that their work can still have a major impact right here at home. News Five’s Kendra Griffith has the story. Robert Sampson, Bass, Singers and Players of Instruments “Music is the […]
It’s a game that’s been around over a thousand years, and in Belize its roots likely go back as far as the Baymen. But in more recent times chess has toiled in relative obscurity in our country, with no formal organisation and no figures to indicate just how many people were playing the game. But […]
