For at least two weeks the status of British Caribbean Bank (Turks & Caicos) Limited’s forty-five million dollar loan to Belize Telemedia has been in the headlines. The bank has said the nationalization of Telemedia did not include the forty-five million dollar loan and demanded payment from Telemedia. Prime Minister Dean Barrow responded that Telemedia […]
In the other big story tonight, the long arms of the law caught up with Robert Snyder last Friday in Belize City. Snyder was intercepted when he made it on Americas Most Wanted List, a Television program aired on November twenty-eighth. The Colorado resident moved to Belize last September, less than a month after his […]
An early morning blaze left two persons without a roof over their heads after the wooden bungalow structure they called home was destroyed. The fire broke sometime around six-thirty this morning and it is believed it started from the living room of the small house. The two tenants, Cedric Baptist and Brian McKenzie, were not […]
In another fire in Belize City, the employees of the Immigration Department were threatened by a midmorning fire. The blaze originated from an exposed wire leading to an air condition unit. Luckily, it was caught on time and the employees were able to put it out before it could spread. Damages were minor and the […]
While no one was injured in the fires, one man lost his life in a traffic accident. Police have in custody a Honduran national working as a taxi driver in Belize following the hit and run on Saturday evening. Thirty-two year old Juan Rodrigues knocked down fifty-six year old Manuel Dubon and his spouse fifty-four […]
And in Belize City this afternoon a shooting took place under the nose of the police. The victim, Oming Veliz, is tonight hospitalized under stable condition after he was shot in the shoulder in the vicinity of the Raccoon Street Police Station. Just before four this afternoon, Veliz, also known as “Mama Chica”, was at […]
Developments in the expropriation of Telemedia last August continue to unfold. This morning the Former Chairman of the Executive Committee of Telemedia, Dean Boyce, sat on the couch on Open Your Eyes. He answered many questions; we start first with the most recent action taken by the former owners of Telemedia and according to Boyce, […]
The docking of five Jamaican vessels layered with traps and other fishing gear is quickly becoming a controversy in southern Belize. On Saturday the boats docked in the sea near Punta Gorda. The local fishermen are concerned over a possible depletion of the fish stock in the area. According to Fisheries Administrator, Beverly Wade, the […]
And in the courts today, thirty-three year old Jason Bruce Lawrence was charged for the murder of his girlfriend. Lawrence, a driver and resident of Japan Area in Ladyville was charged for the fatal stabbing of forty year old Mercedes Carrillo. Lawrence pleaded guilty to the charge and said that he had already given police […]
And the owners of MoneyGram and two employees, accused of Money Laundering, were committed to stand trial in the Supreme Court. Melanie Coye, her father, Michael, mother Merlene, brother Jude and husband James Gerou, Athlee Matute and Deitrich Kingston are charged under the revised Money Laundering and Terrorism Act. This morning, Magistrate Kathleen Lewis bounded […]
There was a peculiar case today when the Public Health Department took a woman from Gales Point Manatee Village to court for allowing two horses to roam and attack people. Ursula Andrewin is not the owner of the horses, but was found guilty and was fined fifty dollars. If she does not pay, she will […]
The Wheelchair Foundation and Wines for Wheels in California have donated over eight hundred thousand wheelchairs in a hundred and fifty-four countries worldwide. And with a gift of over two hundred handed over today, more than one thousand of those chairs have been gifted to Belize. News Five’s Delahnie Bain attended the handing over ceremony […]
With Christmas around the corner and an increase in crime anticipated, the Belize City Police today launched its first business watch program. And as it implies, officers from will be patrolling city streets throughout working hours in an effort to minimize threats to businesses that are potential targets for robbers and burglars. In its initial […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and we’re coming at you with yet another splash of Sports Monday. Yesterday brought money time to the M.C.C. Grounds as the Belize Premier Football League staged its final game in the home and away championship series between F.C. Belize and the Belize Defence Force for the 2009 title. The […]
