It’s a case about a business deal that took place almost fourteen years ago. On one side, is the nation’s largest conglomerate that says it just wants to receive what it paid for. On the other, is a much smaller entity in financial terms, but in its own right the most powerful voice in the […]
The case against the Belize Bank and its president, Philip Johnson, on seventy-nine counts of failing to report a suspicious transaction, has been adjourned until Friday. That’s because, as pointed out by attorney for the defendants, Senior Counsel Eamon Courtenay, the summons served on the bank last week was erroneously worded as a summons intended […]
Today there was a rare proceeding before the Supreme Court: that of an attorney offering a public apology. This morning counsels Derek Courtenay and Simeon Sampson appeared on behalf of Elson Kaseke to petition the court to accept an apology from the former Solicitor General for statements which appeared on Channel Five last week. Courtenay […]
A salesman from San Ignacio Town was stabbed to death early Sunday morning in that municipality. Thirty-six year old Ali Orlando Flores was found with thirteen stab wounds to his chest and a cut wound across his throat just one house away from his mother’s residence on Eighth Street. News Five has learned that Flores […]
A jury of eleven women and one man deliberated for almost four hours before it found Leonard “Ghost” Myers not guilty of the murder of fourteen year old Rodney Conorquie. Myers also faced two counts each of Attempted Murder and Aggravated Assault but was found not guilty of all charges. Conorquie was fatally shot on […]
In other crime news, today a Belize City man appeared in Magistrates’ Court to answer to charges of Burglary and Aggravated Assault. Twenty-five year old David Lambey pled not guilty to the offences and after the prosecution objected to bail, was remanded to prison. A nineteen year old woman reported to police that on the […]
Ask any N.G.O. and they will tell you that donations are a necessity for them to carry out their work. Today one organisation was lucky to be on the receiving end of three thousand dollars from Belize Telemedia Limited. The funds were donated to the Alliance Against AIDS and according to Executive Director, Rodel Beltran […]
Today is International Nurses Day and the senior staff at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, in the company of Minister of Health Pablo Marin, held a special luncheon to pay homage to the over one hundred and eighty nurses at the hospital. According to Director of Nursing at the K.H.M.H., Mavis Palacio, the profession sometimes […]
As an opposition member of the House of Representatives, Patrick Faber was known for his outspoken opinions and occasional brushes with authority. Since February’s election the rebel from Collet has become the nation’s Minister of Education … and as News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports, he’s still speaking his mind. Patrick Faber, Minister of Education “There […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and we do welcome you to this segment of Sports Monday. The Female Football League presented a full schedule over the weekend so we caught up with the M.C.C. clash between Hidden Treasures of Pomona and the home team Millennium Girls staged yesterday. The city team uses the home field […]
