Alleged Guatemalan drug lord, Otoniel Turcios Marroquin, was busted in Belize last week by the police. As we reported on Friday, Otto, as he is commonly known, was wanted in the United States for allegedly importing about one thousand two hundred pounds of cocaine. And from the look of things, there more than meets the […]
Government was halted by the Unions last Friday in its headlong rush to get the Social Security Board to buy twenty percent shares in Telemedia. Under the SSB Act, a meeting of the Board can only take place if the representatives of the business sector and the unions are present. With the union reps absenting […]
Hurricane Richard has come and gone. So far the devastation is more than fifty million dollars and its blast was fatal for at least two persons. For the category one hurricane on October twenty-fourth, it was more destructive than anticipated. The state of homelessness is aggravated by a sense of despair, many are crying out […]
While the Ladyville residents struggle to rebuild a cleanup campaign is taking place in the city. Over the weekend members of the Police Department and Belizeans for Justice literally lent a helping hand by digging into the loads of mud and garbage that washed up in the Cesar Ridge area. The volunteer workers, equipped with […]
Unconfirmed and late reports to our newsroom are that a flight attendant from Spain has gone missing on San Pedro, Ambergris Caye. She has been identified as Maria Antonia Plaza Gomez. According to reliable sources, she works as a flight attendant for Maya Island Air Regional. A representative for the company referred the media to […]
It was recently determined by the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions that there is not sufficient evidence to charge Sergeant Paulino Reyes for fatally shooting Corporal Gavin Sanchez in March of this year. That’s a decision that has caused public outrage and one which Gavin’s widow, Tara-Lee plans to challenge in way she […]
In the courts, six Ladyville residents were today charged with a number of offences including burglary, drug trafficking and possession of unlicensed ammunition. While Hurricane Richard made landfall in central Belize on Sunday October twenty-fourth the home of American national Udgen Brick on Falcon Street in Ladyville was burglarized. Among the items stolen were two […]
Eighteen year old Francisco Rodriguez, a laborer of Belize City, today began serving a one year prison sentence for the theft of a cell phone last Thursday. Rodriguez, who appeared before Magistrate Emerson Banner this morning, pled guilty to snatching a black Motorola cellular phone belonging to Shakira Young while she was walking along Central […]
It is not uncommon to hear of multimillion dollar lawsuits in court, but those cases normally involve large companies. A lawsuit, however, that has been ten years in the making, is providing millions of dollars in relief for the mother of a disabled girl. In 2000 Georgia Matute became pregnant and she received a c-section […]
You may remember the name Farah Jones from a City Council scandal involving the embezzlement of sixty thousand dollars. Jones was accused of stealing half that amount, but maintained her innocence and has not been charged. Today when she came to our studios, Jones definitely didn’t have thirty thousand dollars; in fact the Renal Kidney […]
Another mother visited Channel Five studios looking for Good Samaritans. She’s not asking for hurricane assistance but it is for her son, twelve year old Glenford Lino, has been diagnosed with a rare brain condition called encephalitis. Lino was first admitted to the hospital because he constantly complained about headaches. But according to Nicole Lovell […]
Earlier in the newscast we told you about families in the Ladyville area that are struggling from the destruction of Hurricane Richard. Elsewhere in the Belize District, residents of Gracie Rock are still in shelters while the community of Freetown Sibun has lost their main source of income. News Five’s Marion Ali has the story […]
While the brutal force of Hurricane Richard is still being felt in the Belize District, the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital and the Ministry of Health today gave out financial support to affected members of staff and others at the Central Health Region’s Laboratory. The cheques, which amounted to around eleven thousand dollars, came from the […]
A number of organizations are stepping up to assist the hurricane victims. The B.N.E. Trust today gave handsomely a hundred and fifty thousand dollars to NEMO and this afternoon the government of Venezuela contributed to the cause when it delivered canned foods and water to the NEMO headquarters. Charge d’ Affairs from the Embassy of […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The Inter-District Football Tournament as presented by the Football Federation of Belize moved into the playoffs over the weekend with all 8 teams seeing action in the quarterfinal round. We caught up with the matchup inside the People’s Stadium, O.W. where Carmelita FC hosted Mavericks […]
