Land disputes are featured regularly in our newscast but tonight there is one that strikes pretty close to home at the Ministry of Natural Resources. It involves prime real estate on Chetumal Street and had been brewing for weeks; today it headed to court where the Pickwoad family desperately sought a court injunction. The property […]
The murder count was down during the year in Belize City but 2013 is ending violently and it is suspected that gang violence has sparked up, resulting in the latest murder in the City. The police will not confirm if the murder of Leon Giovanni Smith was gang related but word on the street […]
Three years ago, on July fifteenth 2010, twenty-four year old Ryan “Cash” Bennett, who according to police also goes by the name Roy Felix, was shot at the corner of Faber’s Road and Nurse Findley Crescent in what is undoubtedly a series of unfortunate and tragic events in the life of the well-known Felix […]
Sixty-four year old Brian Townsend was declared officially missing on Christmas Day. But the Police Department and residents of the community believe that he was attacked in his home at around ten pm on Christmas Eve. Evidence, including a ransacked house, missing items and a blood trail, suggests that Townsend was hurt or killed on […]
And our question for tonight is: Were you better off in 2013? Yes or No. 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.
When we last reported on Belize Electricity Limited it was because there was an announcement on a reduction on electricity rates for the fiscal year, 2014. That was after B.E.L. made a submission to the Public Utilities Commission to reduce the mean electricity rate by three cents per kilowatt hour. But the PUC decided to […]
San Ignacio Police continue to hunt for three men wanted in connection with a rape on Boxing Day in San Ignacio. As is the case with most rape investigations where the identity of the victim must be protected, details are sketchy. The victim, alleged to be eighteen years old and from the Belize district, was […]
San Ignacio resident Fredy Lopez was brutally gunned down in front of his family on Christmas Eve, as he walked his daughter-in-law home. That sparked a massive manhunt by Police for Kevin Manzanero and Alex Reid. Authorities believe that Manzanero and Reid are responsible not only for the murder of Lopez, but for a spate […]
A twenty-six year old man was convicted in court today for molesting a five year-old child in the city. Ian McNab appeared to be a bit disturbed but showed no remorse only saying that he was guilty of the crime when he appeared before Magistrate Dale Cayetano. McNab was accused of molesting the young child […]
A week ago, Denton Flowers was shot and police believe they have now cracked the case with the arrest of one of two suspects. For that shooting, nineteen year old maintenance worker Keithton Arana of Lavender Street in Belize City was arraigned with harm and abetment to grievous harm upon Flowers. Although Arana pleaded […]
Álvaro de Marichalar is putting off yet another adventure on which he is sailing to ten countries, from Florida, U.S.A. along the Central American coast and ending in Panama. Marichalar is also an entrepreneur, but it is his passion for sailing that has him on his fortieth journey…. this time to commemorate the first European […]
The End Polio Now Campaign is being carried out by mariners and Rotarians as well as by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The campaign is designed to bring awareness to the disease as well as to highlight the efforts to eradicate the illness. When he docks in Panama, Álvaro de Marichalar, who is also […]
Earlier this month, a group of fifty Indian nationals arrived in Belize to pursue medical studies at the Central American Health Science University. Their entrance into the country, in the wake of the recent passport and visa scandals, was met with suspicion, however, their documents would later check out. Several of those students have since […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The final schedule in the Belikin Cup for the year 2013 found Police United in action against Paradise Freedom Fighters Saturday night inside the Isidoro Beaton Stadium at Capital City. It might have been billed as a tale of 2 teams streaking in opposite […]
