Allegations of negligence are commonplace among the nation’s health posts and hospitals, but tonight there is a bizarre case under investigation. The report is that ants were feeding on an elderly patient at the Northern Regional Hospital. A visiting relative of another patient claims that she and a friend detected a swarm of ants feasting […]
Cardiologist John Gough and gastroenterologist Irvin Gabourel, both distinguished Belize City doctors, are tonight free on police bail. As we reported on Tuesday night, hours earlier, the two doctors squared off in an all-out public fistfight at the northern border. Earlier today both men were charged for disorderly conduct after being treated and released from […]
There is a major change to report about the future of Excelsior High School. For weeks parents, teachers and students of the high school have vociferously resisted a proposal by the Ministry of Education to relocate students and shift the focus the school. That would have meant that teachers and students would have been displaced […]
We have reported about new legislation that will allow for electronic wiretapping of telephone calls. The government claims its one of the measures that can help to weed out criminal elements. But there is also the fear that the privacy of many persons will be at risk. On Tuesday we asked our viewers if they […]
The family of a newborn child is in desperate need of assistance. Last Tuesday, Dina Ortiz gave birth to her second child, a baby girl at the Northern Regional Hospital. The joy of birth was short-lived since the child was born without an esophagus. It’s been eight days and the child is in desperate need […]
There’s another sad story about a baby tonight. San Ignacio police are looking for a babysitter from Cayo after a two year old baby boy allegedly suffered burns while in her care. News Five has confirmed that a doctor has classified the burn wounds as Harm. The incident allegedly happened in San Ignacio Town and […]
Forty-six year old Kirk Daughtry, an American national and his crewman twenty-six year old Enrique Alvarez of Mexico were both arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court today for immigration and maritime offenses. Both men lawfully entered the country by sea on June twenty-second through San Pedro Town and claimed that they would depart the […]
We reported on Tuesday that News Five’s Isani Cayetano was robbed as walked home from our studios on Coney Drive this past Monday night. Cops were quick to connect the dots and Cayetano’s laptop computer was recovered by the following day. This morning, twenty-one year old Kevin Faber was charged with Handling Stolen Goods because […]
A mother fears the worst but is hoping for the best in the case of her missing son, twenty-four year-old Leon Torres, a construction worker of Tigris Street. According Cherry Moss, the last time she saw her son was on Friday but since then she has found out that he spent the night at the […]
We know that eleven thousand primary school age students are not in school and as many as sixty percent are not in secondary schools. The others will make it to the classrooms in the next few weeks when the school year opens. At one Belize City high school, classrooms opened since the beginning of this […]
You may not know the name Rudy Youngblood, but you may be aware of his works. In 2005 Youngblood made his film debut in Spirit: The Seventh Fire. He was then cast as the lead role in the film, Apocalypto, which grossed over one hundred and twenty million U.S. dollars. In that film he appeared […]
