Belize - Belize News - Channel5Belize.com - Great Belize Productions - Belize Breaking News
Home » 2010-02-09 You are currently browsing entries tagged with the keywoard: 2010-02-09

Wanted in the US and Belize; Gary Seawell apprehended in Esperanza

He’s been a fugitive since February of 2007 and today the luck of Gary Seawell, ran out when an ongoing anti-drug, anti-gun operation resulted in his capture. Seawell was busted three and a half miles behind Esperanza Village, Cayo; a mere ten miles away from the police station. If his name doesn’t jolt your memory, well […]

Thousands of dollars stolen from City Hall

At news time tonight, three male and one female employee are being questioned by Criminal Investigative Branch in relation to thousands of dollars missing from City Hall. The figure is put as high as sixty thousand dollars but the exact amount is yet to be ascertained pending the outcome of an ongoing spot audit. The […]

Payments “under-recorded”: taxpayers victims again

As we said, the exact amount of missing monies is not yet known and already there are many questions on what happens in instances where persons have paid taxes to City Hall.  Either the record of payment  is missing or the exact payment was “under-recorded” in the record books . Willoughby says the council will […]

PG police say America’s Most Wanted fugitive tried to escape

America’s Most Wanted is a show that is well liked in Belize and as it now appears, several of the criminals featured on the show have headed this way for safe haven.  This coming February, twenty-seventh, Channel Five will be airing a recent episode filmed in Belize City in which a primary school student, Cree […]

Driver of stolen Ministry of Works’ grader held for questioning

A Ministry of Works 12-H grader was stolen on the Young Gial Road in Teakettle Village on February third.  Its operator, Douglas Arthurs, was bound and tied by armed bandits before they took off with the grader worth over three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Arthurs felt lucky his life was spared, but the investigation took […]

5 year old sexually abused three times; one charged

In one of the more disturbing matters before the court today, thirty-three year old Enrique Pandy of Ladyville was charged with Aggravated Assault of an Indecent Nature. What makes the offence even more sickening is that the victim is a five year girl. All details of the matter were not revealed in court because it […]

CYDP supervisor allegedly broke into Universal Hardware

The facilitators of the Conscious Youth Development Program are tasked with keeping at risk youths on the straight and narrow. But it has turned out the other way in the case of thirty-two year old Anthony Morris Junior, who holds a supervisory position at CYDP. Morris has reportedly been found in possession of stolen items […]

McGregor breaks into home of security guard and goes to prison

The saying goes: three strikes and you’re out. Well, for Joel McGregor after his third offence he’s in… in jail that is. At age twenty, McGregor has a conviction for burglary and one for theft on his rap sheet. His most recent charge came on Monday when he was arraigned for Burglary and was denied […]

Judgment imminent in citrus industry dispute

The Citrus Products of Belize Limited and Citrus Growers Association have been on a collision course over a number of issues. Both sides are not letting up and the future of the industry is at stake.  The C.G.A. is insisting it wants three of CPBL’s directors to resign, including Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Henry Canton. […]

Frankie Rhys: educator, musician and activist battling diabetes

Frankie Rhys is a local pioneer in jazz music and is also a well known activist for social causes. But he has been battling with diabetes for over thirty years and in the past months his condition has been deteriorating. Rhys has been transferred from the hospital to his home because further treatment is not […]

Jacob Diggz’s Rebel Music ready for release

Jacob Diggz is the latest artist to make his name known in the music industry.  He has been playing the drum since the age of four and while living in the U.S., he had made a little known album with Tommy Boy records.  But Since returning to the Jewel, Diggz has changed his lifestyle and […]

San Pedrana launches art exhibit at the Bliss

Windows to the Soul, that’s the way Melody Sanchez-Wolfe describes the eyes because she believes they tell the story of a person’s inner feelings. It is also the name of her art exhibit that is opening at the Bliss tonight. Wolfe hails from La Isla Bonita, San Pedro and brings with her a variety of […]

KTV Latino and Latinas get ready to sing their hearts out

Music that makes you dance, music that makes you sing and music that makes you feel: it all comes to the stage on KTV Latino. Last week the first seven contenders in Group A set the standards high with caliente performances that went above and beyond the Spanish language to impress both the judges and […]