Is our national security at risk? We’ve reported on three planes that landed at night bringing thirty-two Chinese Nationals. Tonight we can report that another plane landed on Wednesday night in northern Belize, but unlike the three that came from Haiti, this one is believed to have unloaded cargo from South America. It is a […]
Not Guilty on two counts. That’s the verdict in the money laundering trial that has kept the Coye family out of work for over a year. On December thirty-first of 2008, one point five million dollars were found inside the Coye family home and the Financial Intelligence Unit alleged that the funds were the proceeds […]
There were two shootings in the old capital in less than twenty-four hours, but luckily, none turned out fatal. The first, the more serious of the two, happened on Mahogany Street on Wednesday night and the other happened shortly after ten this morning between the Sister Clara Mohamed Primary School and Excelsior High School on […]
Tonight’s question is: Do you believe that the investigations by the Ministers of Police and Immigration into the human smuggling ring will lead to the arrest of the ring leaders? Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones to 8686 or post your vote on our e-poll at channel5belize.com. You can also send an […]
The infiltration of Belize’s border and our forest reserves by Guatemalan Xateros has become a growing national problem. But on Tuesday evening, one such incident escalated almost into a double murder for a Belizean Alcalde and another man. The two villagers of San Jose in the Toledo District were reportedly on a trek deep in […]
In other news, we came across a report on the website of the Guatemalan Foreign Ministry which states that the Ministry has taken the necessary measures to investigate an incident this past Tuesday at the Adjacency Zone during which Santos Hernandez, a Guatemalan minor was violently killed. During the same incident, fourteen year old Enrique […]
A police officer attached to the Special Branch is being detained tonight as part of the probe into the lucrative and illegal smuggling of Chinese nationals through Belize. The officer was reportedly on duty and has already been questioned by authorities about the three flights that landed at the Phillip Goldson International Airport on September […]
He killed a man for stealing Lobster on Turneffe Island back in 2008. When he was arrested in Sarteneja Village, he confessed to the murder and took police to recover the murder weapon, an AK47 Assault weapon which he hid on the island. Today, two years after the incident, Marcus Moh who was initially charged […]
Two men, engaged in a high risk job involving the engineering and assembly of communications towers lost their lives. Today two senior employees of Efficient Tower Services were crushed when they plunged from a height of a hundred and twenty feet. While the men may have survived the fall, the tower section they were connecting […]
This is a sad story of children left traumatized after they witnessed a heinous murder and a mother fighting to keep them. The four children witnessed their father brutally murder a woman at their home in Santa Elena in 2004. In 2008, Police Constable Jose Zetina was sentenced to life in prison, but that was […]
There is an alarming number of persons affected with diabetes; in fact it is considered the number one health problem in the country. There is now a noticeable increase in the number of diabetics who develop eye complications. So today, in commemoration of World Sight Day, the Belize Council for the Visually Impaired teamed up […]
Friday night’s exhibition boxing matches are gaining momentum so get ready to rumble. As the local boxers train for the anticipated event, the last minute details are being put in place at the Biltmore. Channel Five will be broadcasting the boxing revival after our evening news package and earlier today News Five’s Jose Sanchez caught […]
Diabetic retinopathy is on the increase; it is a condition that affects your eyesight and is one of the complications of diabetes. Most people do not know they are afflicted by it until they have lost their twenty-twenty. This week Healthy Living opens your eyes to this national health problem. Marleni Cuellar reporting Diabetes affects […]
