Well-known Belize City money lender Pamela Bennett and Burrell Boom resident Alfredo Navarette perished in a horrible traffic accident on the Philip Goldson Highway on January second. Bennett and her husband Calvin Cumberbath were heading out of the city, while Navarette was heading into the city when the fatal collision occurred. Today, Cumberbath who is […]
The sensational and very disturbing case of Dark Night owner Bradley Paumen continues to attract major scrutiny. Paumen, charged with four counts of Abetment to Murder, is out on fifty-thousand dollars. Two of Paumen’s employees, Ian Skeen and Linzburn Anderson, are behind bars tonight. They were charged on Monday for Abetment to Murder. Paumen is […]
At news time tonight, Police Officers from Corozal and a team from the Civil Aviation Department are scouring the cane fields behind Louisville in the Corozal District. Just before midday today, reports circulated that a small plane went down somewhere in the vicinity of that community at around mile seventy-three on the Phillip Goldson Highway. […]
A pair of young men is tonight on remand at the Belize Central Prison after being arraigned for separate murders in Punta Gorda Town. Twenty-one-year-old Albert Valentine Junior, along with a fifteen-year-old minor, was indicted on two counts of murder when he appeared before Magistrate Emerson Banner on Monday. Both PG residents are accused of […]
On December third, 2015, eight men stormed the Burrell Boom home of Lebanese Consul General Sarkis Abou-Nehra. He and his wife were not in the country, but the men stayed the night, cleaning out the house of money, valuables and electronic appliances. The men also brutally beat the caretaker while at least one of them […]
A trio has been charged in connection with a robbery on board a vessel anchored near Middle Caye last Thursday. On board was US retiree, John Picard who was awoken by two men who demanded money, ransacked his vessel and stole an assortment of items. Three persons have been arrested for handling stolen goods and […]
A pair settled out of court this morning and saved themselves jail time. He was facing the possibility of ten years for burglary while she was facing imprisonment for dangerous harm. This morning before Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser, Shanice Smith paid Erlin Butler six hundred dollars in cash and withdrew charges against him for burglary […]
And our question for tonight is: US national Bradley Paumen has been granted bail for allegedly ordering hits on four persons. Do you believe he will skip bail or stand trial? 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 […]
You likely would have heard about ZIKA, the disease that has been spreading to Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. While deaths are rare, there are birth defects associated with the disease. In this hemisphere, Brazil has been mostly affected with a condition known as microcephal, which results in smaller-than-normal head size in […]
Dengue is another disease that has been affecting other countries in the region. The good news is that in Belize, there has not been high mortality relating to the epidemic and the number of cases has decreased due to vector control measures put in place. Doctor Manzanero notes, however, that the west has seen an […]
Doctor Manzanero also provided News Five with an update on the status of Chik-V in the country. Months after the tropical virus became prevalent in neighboring Central American countries, in late 2014 Chikungunya popped up in the community of Salvapan, in the outskirts of Belmopan when a resident who had travelled to El Salvador returned […]
The People’s United Party will elect its new leader on January thirty-first in Belmopan. The race is getting tighter as Francis Fonseca, John Briceño and Cordel Hyde zero in on the delegates in the last stretch of the three-man race. All three have expressed confidence, but only one will emerge as the new party leader. […]
To conclude our reporting on a lengthy interview with the Prime Minister, we asked him about an issue that is often a matter of national debate; that is, the referendum. Now, the dates for holding the poll have been delinked since last year when the compromis was amended by both parties. It means Belize and […]
Embattled Deputy Commissioner of Police, Miguel Segura, remains on interdiction and is receiving only half of his monthly salary, despite being sued by the family of Yolanda Valencia. The woman perished in a road traffic accident in August 2014, when a Nissan Pathfinder driven by an allegedly intoxicated Segura collided head-on into a taxi cab […]
Tonight, there is a report of a Guatemalan woman that mysteriously disappeared in Belize. A report has been made to the Benque Police by her son, nineteen-year-old Alexander Enrique Garcia Giron. According to Melchor De Mencos resident, his mother, Lidia Janet Garcia Giron travelled to Belize since January the eighth and has disappeared. Lidia reportedly […]
Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington recently attended the thirty-seventh meeting of the Community Council of Ministers in Georgetown, Guyana. Plans for the upcoming gathering of regional heads of state, to be held in Belize in February, were being discussed. As of the first of January, Prime Minister Dean Barrow assumed pro tem chairmanship of the Caribbean […]
On a lighter note….after a mega performance at the Festival de Cultural Caribe in Tulum, Mexico, Belizean reggae artist Ras Indio is debuting his new E.P. album entitled “One of a Kind.” It’s the first ever lover’s rock CD by Ras Indio. The album has six tracks; all except for one was produced locally. According […]
