There is another murder to report tonight. On Monday police discovered the body of eighty-two year old taxi driver James Young in the area of Teakettle in the Cayo District on the Western Highway. And today another body has surfaced. The victim is a Hispanic man believed to be between his thirties and forties. His […]
The parents of twenty-one month old Jaydan Guy are not only mourning his untimely passing, they are also blaming the weaknesses in the public health system for his death. The toddler choked on a red kidney bean and died six days later. The incident began to unfold at about eleven-fifteen on the morning of Wednesday […]
Anna Guy said before doctors transferred the baby to Belize City, they made a superficial slit on his throat, but not on the trachea to create airspace. She added that in all the confusion, there was a lot that could have been done in order to save their baby’s life. Anna Guy, Mother of Deceased […]
The question of whether or not more could have been done to save the toddler has consistently been asked. Doctor Cecilio Eck, one of the pediatricians who helped to revive the infant, says that the family followed the appropriate procedures to aid the infant. However, the main issue was the fact that a Rigid Bronchoscope […]
The story began two years ago when a local businessman was approached for the use of his property along the Western Highway to establish an offshore medical university. That discussion led to an impressive full blown internet promotion, which News Five’s Jose Sanchez found out, was a fraud. The advertised university never got off the […]
In news from the courts, he shot and killed his friend in March 2008 and today, forty-one year old Yong Sheng Zhang, a Chinese national and businessman, pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of Manslaughter before Justice Michelle Arana. He had originally been charged with the Murder of Chi Cheong Chan. Last year on March […]
Also in court, thirty-five year old Herman Lanza has been fined five thousand dollars after pleading guilty to a charge of Grievous Harm. Last Thursday, Lanza, who was being charged for the Attempted Murder of Dean Bennett appeared before Justice Michelle Arana and pleaded guilty to the alternative charge. This morning at his mitigation plea, […]
In more news from the courts, late this evening, thirty year old Adrian Bradley, son of Attorney Dickie Bradley, was slapped with three charges: the Aggravated Assault upon P.C. Mervin Locke, Wounding and Damage to Property. The charge of Damage of Property relates to Locke’s Anti-Drug Unit uniform. Locke was one of three officers who […]
Mexico is having its first international shrimp fair and it coincides with Shrimp Week celebrated from August eight to the fourteenth. The two-day event, which will be held in Chetumal, Quintana Roo on the fifteenth and sixteen of August, is expected to boost the exportation of shrimp to Mexico from Belize, Honduras and Guatemala. The […]
In other regional news, President Manuel Zelaya was forcibly removed from office for more than a month, on June twenty-eighth. And despite worldwide condemnation for the coup de etat in Honduras, the de facto regime headed by Ricardo Micheletti has prevented his return to office. While in Honduras over the weekend, News Five got reactions […]
Belize’s national basketball team is heading to the regional qualifying games for the Olympics in 2012 and that journey starts in Cancun. And what better place to enjoy the games… Channel Five will be bringing you live broadcast of the games and extended coverage on Open Your Eyes. And what happens in Cancun will not […]
Basketball is not the only game that Belize is playing on an international level. While the male National Basketball team is headed to Mexico this weekend, the Women’s softball team is currently playing in the Seventh Pan American Women’s Softball Championship in Maracay, Venezuela. The statistics are in and while they aren’t good, Belize still […]
It started out as the Sea and Air Festival; that was eighteen years ago, and it has evolved into Costa Maya, the biggest annual festival hosted by the Jewel. The activities are engineered to boost tourism on La Isla Bonita in the slow season and indeed huge numbers converge on the island. The famous Reina […]
