There is monumental news coming out of the Supreme Court – a legal and political bombshell which burst all over Minister of State Edmond Castro. In late 2013, Castro had sued whistleblower Alvarene Burgess for explosive allegations that she paid him to facilitate many visas for Chinese nationals. Castro also sued Great Belize Productions/Channel Five […]
Alvarene Burgess made two appearances on Channel Five – an interview played in the news and an appearance on the Dickie Bradley talk-show. During those appearances she described in explicit detail her visits to Minister Castro’s office on the occasions she would deliver cash to him – two thousand for each visa application he facilitated. […]
Following the withdrawal of the case by the Minister of State, Great Belize Productions/Channel Five issued a statement saying that it has been vindicated in this high profile case because while public figures have a right to safeguard their reputations, they should expect to be subject to a greater degree of public scrutiny and criticism. But […]
Maya leaders converged today in Golden Stream, Toledo, in solidarity with the Santa Cruz Thirteen. The gathering is their first since the arrest of Cristina Coc and twelve other Maya leaders on June twenty-third. But there was an added dimension to this morning’s event. The MLA is going back to the Caribbean Court of Justice […]
After being reported missing by her boyfriend to police earlier this week, the motionless body of twenty-nine-year-old Juana Cardinez, a public officer working out of the Labor Department in Punta Gorda Town was discovered inside her apartment building. The boyfriend is now a prime suspect in her murder and at news time remains in police […]
The long arms of the law finally caught up with a Guatemalan fugitive wanted by Interpol. Uefrin Aldana Cassasola was found living in Yo Creek Village, Orange Walk when police conducted an operation on Thursday evening. It is reported that he was living in a wooden shack with a sister and her partner. The Guatemalan […]
This afternoon, six fishermen accused of being in possession of a firearm, ammunitions and Illegal drugs while on Turneffe Atolls were back in court. On Wednesday, July first, 2015, while the group was detained at the Police Precinct, they were found in possession of one hundred and eighty-three undersized lobsters. Today, they were remanded to […]
Four persons, including a Chinese national, who were busted in possession of over seven kilograms of heroin, were offered bail this evening by Supreme Court judge, Justice Denis Hanomansingh. Chinese national, Kua Liao, a naturalized Belizean businessman of Mile Eight located on the George Price Highway, was arrested along with Ebner Rivero of San Joaquin, […]
On Thursday, News Five brought you footage of a protest held in Orange Walk Town involving the La Inmaculada Credit Union. Actually it surrounded the removal of General Manager Yolanda Gomez, who was placed on administrative leave in early May. The protesters claimed that after two months, they had not gotten any explanation for the […]
Members of the Gang Suppression Unit struck again on Thursday in the Jane Usher Boulevard Area. Around six p.m., officers attached to the GSU stormed the house of Leroy Slusher on Levi Slusher Street, just off Jane Usher Boulevard. The team was looking for drugs and conducted a search on the property, roughing up the […]
Aside from roughing up the elderly man and the minor, the family dog, Prince, was shot twice and killed, allegedly at the hands of the officers. Joyce says that the children have been left traumatized because the dog was killed in front of them. Joyce Slusher, House Searched by GSU “When they going up […]
As you heard earlier in the newscast, the situation in Santa Cruz is still very much on centre stage, and so is the issue of the CCJ consent order – what it actually orders, and what the term communal land really means. At the moment all of that is very much up in the air, […]
The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Belize Waste Management Authority inaugurated the San Pedro Transfer Station. It’s a station that is a part of a solid waste management system that has been rolled out across the country. The project is funded by the IADB, OPEC and G.O.B. Minister of Natural resources Gaspar Vega spoke […]
It’s the summer and that means camps are popping up across the city – camps on sports, education and even the creative arts. Today, however, the Lily White Summer Camp was well underway at the B.T.L. Park on Newtown Barracks. Hosted by Edward Rubio, the eight-week camp started on Tuesday and will run through to […]
For those Belizeans who’ve fallen in love with Fibber’s Fried Chicken on Cemetery Road, there is some good news tonight. The local company which has been serving tasty local chicken for more than ten years is giving you the opportunity to get that special Fibbers taste in your own kitchen. Today News Five got an […]
