Brian Sears, the American missionary who was accused and charged with Committing an Unnatural Act of three brothers in Sarteneja village, Corozal District was involved in another legal matter last month. Sears was driving on Fourth Avenue in Corozal Town on Saturday, December sixteenth when he was pulled over by the cops. A search was […]
The year 2011 ended in a most violent way for Aaron Pope, a nine year old school student from Grace Primary School who was killed as he slept at home; a victim of the continued gun violence that has earned Belize City the reputation of murder capital. Aaron’s family has already lived its share of […]
The results of a recent poll was released today and they are both surprising and interesting. But first, the poll was done by the GS Strategy Group from Idaho. It is billed as a professional and national poll that covers everything from quality of life to political strife. The results were released by Glenn Tillett, […]
But as all things go in Belize, politics eventually becomes the main course in any meal and so it is in the poll. Questions were raised about nationalization and whether you prefer P.U.P. or U.D.P. management on various topics. According to the poll, at the time he stepped down as Party Leader, Johnny Briceno was […]
Some of the poll questions remained questionable, particularly the one on Briceño’s popularity over Barrow. Briceño resigned from the P.U.P. leadership on October seventh, the date the poll began its rollout. So even without a leader at the helm of the P.U.P., the poll recorded twelve percent popularity for Briceño. And if you do some […]
The father of a sixteen year old high school student from Corozal went public on Tuesday with allegations that his daughter had been raped by a town councilor. But today police issued a report that tells a different version of what transpired between the teen and town councilor Willie Cruz. The allegations made by the […]
Tonight’s question is: Has the government kept its promise to reduce the cost of living? 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.
Just before six o’clock on Tuesday evening, a Salvadoran caretaker who has been living in Belize for some twenty years was hit and killed in Belmopan. A Belize Bus Owners Cooperative bus transporting passengers to the City was involved in the terrible traffic accident. As a matter of routine, Candelario Lopez, rode the same route […]
The rape of forests in Belize for Rosewood continues unabated. One strong environmentalist and proponent for the end of the trade is People’s National Party’s Wil Maheia. Maheia has been personally documenting illegal shipments in the south. He lives in Punta Gorda and recently travelled to Barranco Village in the Toledo District. Maheia found that […]
Turning to the courts, twenty-two year old Sheldon Coleman of Independence Village was arraigned on a single charge of Grievous Harm upon Leroy Harrison Banner, for a stabbing which took place on Monday in Lemonal Village. Police have also charged Orlando Banner with abetment to commit grievous harm in connection with the same incident. Banner […]
A sixteen year old minor is tonight recovering from a stab wound to the abdomen. But he is no victim; the teen attempted to rob Arcade World on Freetown Road at around twenty minutes past ten o’clock on Tuesday night. The manager, Francisco Rodriguez reported that he was at the arcade along with a co-worker […]
Senator Lisa Shoman has recently completed her duty as head of an OAs observer mission that oversaw the Jamaica elections. Portia Simpson Miller, Jamaica’s first female prime minister led her party to a landslide victory against the ruling party. By all accounts it was an early election called and lost by former Prime Minister Robert […]
Youths between the ages of fourteen and eighteen, who dropped out of school, can look forward to skill training in four different disciplines. Earlier today, the Magazine Road Skills Training Center programme was introduced today by the Ministry of Education and Youth. The center also aims to empower the students by providing them with employable […]
