The Ministry of National Security has been forced into discussions with the US Embassy following revelations that a US-funded Coast Guard forward operating base on Hunting Caye is being built by BINARQ, a Guatemalan company employing Guatemalan workers. The news broke last week and public fire and brimstone have rained down on the government. At […]
If it is not feasible to halt the construction of the forward operating base on Hunting Caye, the Ministry has committed to ensuring that it does not happen in the future. But has it happened more than once in the past? Today, News Five was reliably informed that the very same Guatemalan company, BINARQ, not […]
The deadly Ebola virus that has been traced all the way to Guinea in Africa, has made its way to as close as Dallas, Texas, where a man remains hospitalized in critical condition. There are no suspected cases, but officials at the Ministry of Health are keeping watch and preparing the K.H.M.H. for the possibility […]
An outbreak of chikungunya fever across Latin America and the Caribbean was similarly reported in late-June. While the spread of the vector-borne infection has been closely monitored in Belize, there are no cases to report on tonight. Despite the good news, as in the case of Ebola, the Public Health Department is still actively keeping […]
Do you believe the PM when he says he did not know that a Guatemalan company and nationals are constructing a base for the Belize Coast Guard at Hunting Caye? 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 […]
The concert by the controversial dancehall artist, Alkaline, was high in the September calendar of activities. But on the eve of the concert, the Roman Catholic Bishop went to court seeking an injunction to stop the concert from being held at the Sacred Heart Gymnasium because the church considered the artist’s performances as satanic and […]
There is a truly disturbing story to report tonight in which a Muslim woman claims she was denied access to court because of her religion. The woman, who asked to remain anonymous, is a victim of domestic abuse. She sought the intervention of the court for a restraining order against her husband, and was given […]
As we said, the matter is disturbing, but the alleged victim of the discrimination has not chosen to stay silent. Supported by the Muslim community, she has sought legal recourse. On September twenty-fourth, because she could not enter the courtroom, the application for a restraining order was thrown out by the Magistrate. That means that […]
A daring heist in San Pedro this afternoon has left a security officer hospitalized after he was stabbed twice while en route to make a bank deposit. Shortly after one o’clock, Roberto Assi was on his way to the Belize Bank when he was accosted by a pair of robbers who inflicted the knife wounds. […]
Still in San Pedro, A search by a team of Police, QRT, CIB and Special Branch personnel at an apartment in the San Juan Area of San Pedro Town, yielded police both cash and weed. Present during the search were fishermen fifty-five year old Rene Gabriel Perez, and his eighteen year old son, Nairo Perez. […]
Belize City resident, Allan Moody, is tonight serving his first night of a ten year jail term imposed upon him this morning in the courtroom of the Chief Magistrate, Anne Marie Smith. Moody was found guilty of the charges of Kept Firearm and Ammunition Without a Gun License and sentenced to two, five-year jail terms […]
We reported on Monday that a businessman is alleging he was pistol whipped then robbed by a group of men who surrounded him as he walked on Wagner’s Lane in Belize City last Saturday. Today, three days after the armed robbery, police say they have two suspects and have detained Shane Budram, who was identified […]
On Wednesday the Senate will pass the bill for amendments to the Legal Profession Act, which means two things, really – one is that membership in the Bar Association will no longer be compulsory for an attorney to practice law in Belize. And the other is that the composition of the General Legal Council, the […]
A Belize City man is lucky to be alive after he was accosted by two armed men. Sometime after ten on Monday night, thirty-six year old Jermaine Ottley arrived at his house at the corner of Allenby and Amara Street. As he exited his car, he was ambushed by two armed men who proceeded to […]
October is the start of the Belize Audubon Society’s Urban Bird Watch Program that connects Belizeans and visitors with nature through bird watching. The country currently boasts over five hundred different species of birds including local and migratory birds. According to Publicity Coordinator for the Belize Audubon Society, Dirk Francisco, the urban settings in Belize […]
And while bird watching is a positive event, down south, there is environmental degradation. Tons of debris are washing up along the coast in Punta Gorda. As these pictures will show, the garbage consists of such things as plastic bottles, Styrofoam plates and even hospital waste stretching for as long as five miles along the […]
The September carnival is now behind us, but there are side events that continue to take the spotlight. This Monday, the National Carnival Commission decided on who are the most outstanding designers of the elaborate and glitzy carnival costumes during the road march. The durability of the costumes and creativity of the designers also came […]
Tonight, we continue with the third in a series of environmental features on poaching and illegal logging in Belize by Guatemalan intruders. In July 2012, former News Five reporter Andrea Polanco ventured into the Chiquibul National Park where, along with cameraman Darrel Moguel, she experienced firsthand the wholesale denuding of our precious resources. While the […]
