Thirty-seven year old film-maker Matthiew Klinck is well known in Belize for the first-ever telenovela, La Isla Bonita, set in San Pedro as well as for the Curse of Ixtabai. But sometime over the weekend, in the peaceful community of Selena behind Spanish Lookout, the Canadian actor, cinematographer, producer and director was stabbed to death. […]
The Belize Audio Visual Industry Association, BAVIA, of which Matthiew Klinck was a founding board member, is tonight reeling from the murder of a colleague. Klinck rose to prominence in the burgeoning local film industry with the feature film Curse of the Xtabai in 2012. While the attention-grabbing movie did not win an award at […]
Klinck, the brain behind Make-Belize Films, also dedicated countless hours training and mentoring young film students and aspiring producers. Toombs gives a professional reflection of his slain colleague. Isani Cayetano “What does this loss mean for the audio visual industry in Belize in terms of what his potentials were, realizing some of the dreams […]
There is an update to the murder investigation…When we left the scene just after two this afternoon, forensic personnel and Police were still in Selena at the scene of the murder. Tonight it’s official though, the Klinck was murdered. Late this evening we contacted investigating officer Inspector Reymundo Reyes who gave us an update via […]
A Belizean businessman was arrested today in Honduras; August Henry Tabony was detained while he was at the Juan Manuel Gálvez Roatan International Airport. According to reports from La Prensa Honduras, he had not declared more than sixteen thousand four hundred and ninety U.S. dollars in cash he was carrying on him. The sixty-five year […]
And tonight’s question is: Do you support the destruction of the Guyanese rice which could not be released for retail? 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
On Monday, Supreme Court Justice Sonya Young rejected an application filed on behalf of businessman Jack Charles who was seeking judicial review of BAHA’s decision to confiscate his cargo of Guyanese rice. As we have reported, a shipment of three containers of prepackaged rice is sitting in Big Creek since arriving in Belize on December […]
Businessman Jack Charles’ attempt to bring in the Guyanese rice for retail started months ago; tonight he is seeking to stop the destruction of three containers of the staple. In the following report, News Five’s Isani Cayetano takes a look back at how the issue of introducing cheaper rice into the local market evolved and […]
The government announced today that it will be passing on to consumers some savings on diesel. And we say some because on December twenty-eighth, the price of diesel shot up by eighty-one cents per gallon and it is now going down forty-two cents. It means that there is a thirty-nine cents difference from where the […]
A Belize City Mechanic of Evergreen Street, Lake Independence, is on remand at the Belize Central Prison in the wake of an allegation against him by a fifteen year old that he had been having unlawful sex with her since mid-2015 and as recent as Boxing Day 2015. This morning, thirty-seven year old Denfield Davis […]
The girlfriend of a prison inmate is in trouble with the law tonight. That’s because she tried to smuggle weed for him to take back to prison. Meagan Leslie was nabbed when she went to the Belize City Magistrate’s Court requesting permission to give Ryan Alvarez a medication. While the request was refused, authorities saw […]
Fifty-eight year old Charles Davison, a US livestock exporter and importer of Ontario Village, Cayo District has suffered significant financial losses. Davison was overseas during the Christmas holiday when thieves got busy at his farm. He returned on December twenty-eighth to find that he had been robbed. Among the missing items are a horse cart, […]
There are fifty-six types of snakes in Belize, eight of which are poisonous. But before you go killing every snake in sight, there are ways to tell the toxic from the harmless ones. They are distinguished by the shape of the head and locally one man who is known to have mastered that is Gilbert […]
The health of the Belize District population is at risk. Indicators show that far too many residents are severely over-weight and that in the younger population, more newborns died last year than they did in the same period in 2014. That is the information compiled in a biannual health bulletin released by the Central Health […]
The report also looked at the top five communicable and non-communicable diseases. Interestingly, dengue and malaria did not make the list of most prevalent communicable diseases for the first ten months of 2015. Doctor Javier Zuniga explains. Dr. Javier Zuniga, Regional Manager, Central Health Region “The top five communicable which means transmissible from person […]
In February of 2015, the Founder of World Famous Hummingbird Highway Tamales, Bertha Lisbey passed away at age seventy-eight. But business continued as usual as her daughter, Aurora carried on the tradition at the well known location. But less than a year after, tragedy struck once again because on New Year’s Eve, the popular shed […]
