Police have reviewed video surveillance of the murder of eighteen year old cross dresser, Joseph Sanchez, but there are no arrests so far even though police believe the motive is armed robbery. The video footage, which has no audio, reportedly shows that he was frisked and then stabbed by one of two men who fled […]
Elizabeth Artiga and her mother, Maria Elisa Artiga, locked up their small grocery shop on the Palmar Boundary Road in Orange Walk Town and headed home on Friday night. It is a daily routine for the mother and daughter, but on that night a nightmare waited for them. Home invasions have become increasingly common, and […]
A storm has been brewing since last year over a parcel of prime seafront property in the Caribbean Shores Area. Belize City Mayor Darrell Bradley says that the Council has been maintaining the property for over ten years and wants to develop it further for recreational use. But it has now come to the attention […]
The Ministry of Health will be hosting a press briefing on Wednesday in which it will be releasing the results and the management of the recent H-one N-one Influenza cases across the country. Five cases were being tested at CAREC. From what News Five has learnt, there is reason for concern because the influenza has […]
And our question for tonight is: Do you support the actions of teachers to march and rally for salary and national affairs? 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 […]
The sugar-cane standoff is officially at an end. Late Monday evening representatives of both the B.S.C.F.A. and B.S.I. met in Orange Walk and signed a seven point interim agreement. That agreement will provide guidelines for the 2013-2014 crop…pending the penning of a new agreement governing future crops. It’s been a long, hard road getting to […]
The critical necessity of government’s intervention where sugar roads are concerned cannot be understated at this point. Now that the signing is done, the cane-farmers need to get their product to the mill, but in many branches of the B.S.C.F.A. that is just not possible at this time. Access roads to fields and even main […]
Two brothers who claim they fled from their country, India, due to threats to their lives were caught illegally in Belize. They are thirty-one year old Kuldeep Singh, and his younger sibling twenty-eight year old Manjimdes Singh; both appeared in court today. Allegations are that on January eleventh, 2014, they were found travelling on […]
In mid-October of last year, while encouraging voters of Cayo Northeast to abstain from signing the Penner recall petition, Prime Minister Dean Barrow promised residents that government would spend millions of dollars in infrastructure development in that constituency. While the declaration may have appeased the electorate, it certainly raised the ire of teachers and public […]
On Monday, the prime minister called in to the media to explain the context in which he made the statement. PM Barrow says that the terms of the PetroCaribe agreement forbids the use of the funds for other purposes, particularly for the salary adjustment. Via Phone: Prime Minister Dean Barrow [Courtesy: Love FM] “I […]
Over the past two weeks there have been as many as eleven reported oil spills off the coast of Trinidad. While efforts are underway to clean up the discharge, residents are complaining loudly about the impact that the spillage is having on the marine environment. The recent catastrophe, while not affecting Belize, has once again […]
We reported on Monday, that Guatemalan authorities have arrested as many as thirty seven persons involved in a contraband ring which transported liquor, cigarettes, corn and lumber. An operation was launched across the border in Melchor and the arrests were made involving Guatemalan customs officials. A further report says that a Jordanian businessman with Guatemalan […]
There is also further information on the reported arrest of alleged drug baron, Eribel Adolfo Rodriguez Barrientos. Rodriguez, according to the Guatemalan Minister of the Interior, was arrested in Belize by the US Drug Enforcement Agency, but police here tell News Five that they did not participate in the arrest. Rodriguez was wanted by the […]
Motorists whose drivers’ licenses are in need of renewal are now able to do so electronically, thanks to the efforts of the Belize City Council to automate the application and renewal processes. This morning, City Hall unveiled its latest success. Residents of the Old Capital can now log on to the Traffic Department’s website and […]
A teacher from Belmopan is the winner of a 2012 Great Wall Wingle courtesy of Courts Belize. The raffle was launched back on November eighth and ended on December thirty-first. Today, Standard three teacher of Garden City Primary School, Desmond Lewis was handed the keys to a brand new pickup truck valued at fifty thousand […]
