Close to a million pounds of onions are rotting in fields in northern districts. They are worth millions of dollars. Onion farmers invested heavily years ago to begin production of onions for the local market. Most of them got loans from the banks and credit unions but now that it is time to harvest the […]
A Hattieville woman says her life is in danger and she pointing fingers at her ex. The woman and her children were asleep on Monday night when a volley of bullets hit her house in Hattieville. The bullets penetrated the walls and one came eerily close to a sleeping child. According to the woman, she […]
Tonight’s question is: Do you think it is beneficial for foreign riders to participate in Holy Saturday’s Cross Country Cycling Classic? 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.
As we told you at the top of the news, the government is importing onions from Holland. It is not an unusual practice and is normally carried out when there is a shortage. But plenty farmers in Orange Walk and Corozal are all suffering because the market has been flooded with the imported vegetable. So […]
Moses Sulph was fired weeks ago; no reason was provided, but his termination letter was received following a sleep-over in front of the Prime Minister’s offices in Belmopan in protest of oil exploration. Sulph is the vocal President of COLA and that organization has the support of the Public Service Union, Belizeans for Justice and […]
Last November, talk show host and news paper columnist, Glenn Tillett, sued Lois Young, Net Vasquez and the Social Security Board. Tillett is saying that both Vasquez and Young were in a conflict of interest situation when they each voted for S.S.B. to invest fifty million dollars of contributors’ money in B.T.L., a company for […]
An alarming report has been released by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E.) that is picking up traction throughout the region. According to a report in the Barbados newspaper, Nation News, the I.C.E., in a period of only six months, over two thousand convicted criminals were deported to Caribbean countries. In Belize, where the […]
In the Magistrates Court, the man who allegedly posed as a police officer for six months, twenty-one year old Aaron Wilson, has been just as convincing representing himself in court for the past two weeks. The alleged fake cop has managed to beat two out of four charges that are being heard at the Magistrates […]
Also in court, Magistrate Kayla Teck had to determine whether thirty-nine year old Mukesh Makhwani was illegally employing his nephew, twenty-three year old Indra Kumar Vaswani. Both men were charged back in February when Immigration personnel asked Vaswani to present his documents and he retrieved them from Makhwani’s warehouse on Amara Avenue. It was believed […]
The Easter holidays are a few days away so the Gang Suppression Unit is busy. Before sunrise this morning, their focus was in one of the city’s hotspots, the George Street area. The first search was conducted at twenty minutes to five o’clock at the home of thirty year old Kareem Westby, a reputed member […]
Last Friday we showed you a very optimistic Christopher Bowman leaving for Oklahoma for medical treatment for his tumor. Late this evening, we were informed that the young man has undergone a five and a half hour medical procedure to catheterize most of the tumor. This procedure was done to remove four pieces of the […]
This Wednesday marks one year since two hundred million gallons of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico. The oil spill, which gushed into the Gulf from BP’s blown-out well, killed eleven men and injured several others. But today, Oceana says that a disaster like that or even on a smaller scale can be a […]
The grand finale of KTV Latino Season is here and shortly the winner of this season will be announced. The list of applicants that auditioned was long; only the strongest made it to the competition. It’s has been an intense thirteen weeks and only one will walk away as the most popular performer of Latin […]
