A Belize City man was shot last night near his home. The victim forty-seven year old Clifford Eagan is a security guard at Fultec on Coney Drive. Eagan who lives on West Street may have been shot simply because he was walking near George Street, where retaliation was expected for the Raymond Gentle murder. Eagan, […]
The following story is not about crime, but it will deal a cruel blow to consumers. So if your vehicle’s tank can hold anymore fuel then best you head out to the gas station and fill up before midnight. As you’ve probably figured out by now, fuel prices will take another hike just two weeks […]
Tonight’s question is: Children of primary school age are being sent on errands without adult supervision. Are their parents negligent? 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 email with your comments to questions@channel5belize.com.
In a telephone hearing held on Wednesday by the Caribbean Court of Justice, the Government of Belize, through its attorney, Lois Young, gave the CCJ an undertaking that all monies received from the sale of Telemedia shares compulsorily acquired by GOB would be held separate and intact in accounts held by the Central Bank or […]
The President of the Court of Appeal Manuel Sosa heard his first case today since assuming the post. It was an application by the Government for a stay of execution. The facts are that on December twenty-second, 2010 Justice Legall ordered the Government to pay approximately one point seven million dollars to attorneys-at-law Barrow & […]
Thirteen applied to fill the post of Chief Justice, but that has been narrowed down to three applicants, two who have been interviewed. Justices Colin Henry of New Zealand and Kenneth Benjamin of St. Lucia were both interviewed for about an hour each early this week in the Chief Justice’s chambers. Both have since departed […]
The authorized biography of Belize’s first Prime Minister and Father of the Nation, George Cadle Price is to be published later this year. The book entitled George Price: A Hidden Life Revealed, will be released by Ian Randle Publishers of Jamaica. Price’s biographer is well known attorney Godfrey Smith, who conducted many hours of interviews […]
Three Cayo minors were injured in an accident in Cayo. A thirteen year old boy of Spanish Lookout reported that on the twelfth of January, he was driving a green and black 2007 Honda ATV motorcycle without a license plate, on Route Twenty East of the community. And upon reaching a curve, he lost control […]
Arthur Young, another well known figure in the streets, was nabbed by Mexican authorities in Chetumal in May of last year after being on the lam for a month following a major drug and weapons bust at a residence in Vista del Mar. Young along with former murder suspect Errol Haynes were jointly charged for […]
George Carr Junior brought in the New Year recovering from stab wounds after he was attacked in the wee hours of December thirty-first. After eleven days of police investigations, two men were charged this morning with Attempted Murder, Grievous Harm and Use of Deadly Means of Harm. They are twenty-four year olds Leo Palacio Junior […]
Edgar “Bally” Gegg passed away quietly at his Belize City home at two-thirty p.m. on Wednesday. His family was preparing to mark his one hundredth birthday; instead, they are now planning a celebration of his life. While he had receded from public life, Gegg was a well known businessman who had spent much of life […]
Wednesday was the anniversary of Haiti’s devastating earthquake. Many local organizations in Belize contributed to the relief effort and donated their contributions to the Red Cross, who also sent volunteers to the ravaged country. Another international organization, the Inter-American Development Bank (I.D.B.) has also played a vital role. On anniversary of the earthquake, I.D.B. President […]
Gallstones are caused by unbalanced diets and malfunctioning gallbladders. It is a condition that is prevalent but many people hardly know they have it. Interestingly, the northern districts are showing the largest number of cases and it is affecting the female population. Healthy Living has more on this topic. Marleni Cuellar, Reporting People who have […]
The Ladyville community is still in shock as it grieves the murder of twelve year old school girl, Janessa Jones. The body of the child was pulled out of the sea near Mile Four on the Northern Highway before noon on Wednesday. The young girl had multiple fractures on the skull and abrasions on her […]
Raymond “Killa” Gentle, the reputed boss of Kraal Road was gunned down at a construction site in a congested neighborhood where at least twenty children reside. There had been previous attempts on his life, but on Wednesday afternoon, he did not survive the hail of bullets that hit him on the chest. He was rushed […]
