Just before we close tonight’s newscast, we have the highlights of our ninth annual Summer Fest held this morning on our outdoor stage right here at our compound on Coney Drive. Over five hundred children attended the show along with their parents, as over thirty-three truly talented youths, as young as eight years old took […]
Belize is in the projected path of newly formed Tropical Storm Harvey. And we say projected because it is still early to determine whether it will really head this way. The weather system formed a couple hundred miles east of the Windward Islands, and may pose a threat to parts of the Caribbean in early […]
Over the weekend San Ignacio police received six Guatemalan nationals – thirty-eight years old Agusto Perez Gonzalez of Dolores, Petén; twenty-six years old Wilfredo Antoniel Chavez of Barrio Nuevo; eighteen year old Dimas Espana of Las Brisas; and three minors all seventeen years of age. They were caught digging for gold deposits inside a pit […]
Friends for Conservation and Development have reported the detention of six Guatemalan gold panners over the weekend in the area of the Ceibo Chico creek in the southern Chiquibul National Park. They face charges of illegal entry, mineral extraction without a permit and defacing a protected area. The men have been identified as thirty-eight years […]
A News Five team headed to Corozal overnight to capture what was happening on the ground as the northern municipality prepared for a first impending storm in the 2017 hurricane season. Given the destruction caused by Hurricane Earl a year ago, all systems were in full gear to avert or at least contain damages. Duane […]
Tropical Storm Franklin, it’s the first weather system during this year’s hurricane season to pose a threat to northern Belize. The severe offshore storm continues it path, heading west-north-west at thirteen miles per hour with maximum winds of up to sixty miles per hour. With the National Emergency Management Organization fully activated since Sunday, efforts […]
An outline of the coordinated efforts involving the Belize Defense Force, the police department, as well as the National Fire Service was shared with the media. Fuel stations in Belize City will remain open to the public during normal hours of operation. Phillip Willoughby, CEMO Coordinator “What will be taking place, that you saw […]
While the city prepares for the heavy winds and downpour that will accompany the passage of Tropical Storm Franklin, residents won’t be allowed to purchase alcohol. That’s because a decision has been taken to prohibit the sale of liquor until an all-clear has been issued after the storm. That decision, says Willoughby, was agreed upon […]
As we mentioned a news five team is currently in Corozal Town. Tropical storm Franklin is scheduled to hit north of Corozal, along the Yucatan coast in Mexico. Residents are prepared and our crew found that the town is rather calm. Reporter Duane Moody and cameraman Rick Romero file this report. Duane Moody In […]
As of five p.m., a total of six shelters have been opened. In Corozal Town, Our Lady of Guadalupe R.C. School in Altamira and Church of Christ School in Port Saul. While four others have been opened in the coastal villages of Copper Bank, Sarteneja, Progresso and Chunox. DEMO coordinator Willard Levy says that all […]
The Chiquibul forest is being pillaged by gold panners and cattle ranchers, who illegally cross into the national forests to ply the lucrative trade. Friends for Conservation and Development has been monitoring the illicit activities, but its resources are spread thin to contain the exploitation of the natural resources. This Monday, a conservation post was officially […]
The fifth in a series of signs created by attorney Estevan Perera and supported by the Belize City Council was unveiled this morning at a park in Belama Phase Two, across from Perera’s law office. The “Love Sign” as it is officially called joins two “Belize” signs along the Marine Parade and at Seashore Drive […]
Two Guatemalan nationals are in custody following their arrest over the weekend. Forty-year-old Thomas Gomez and thirty-seven-year-old Domingo Pana from Naranjon, Dolores Peten were detained on Saturday morning in the Ceibo Chico region of the Chiquibul National Park. A team of five park rangers from Friends of Conservation and Development spotted the Guatemalans sleeping under […]
According to Manzanero, the Ceibo Chico conservation post was installed three years ago and despite presence of joint B.D.F. and FCD patrols in the southernmost area of the Chiquibul, Guatemalan gold panners remain undeterred. Gold panning activities remain at an all time high and Manzanero says that they have since changed their approach to tackle […]
The Meso American Reef, like many other coral reef systems, is vulnerable to a number of threats, including coastal development, habitat loss, overfishing and unsustainable fishing. Similarly, climate change increases these threats and decreases the resilience of the ecosystems to recover from changes. With these threats growing, the Meso American Reef Fund developed the project, […]
The Ministry of Natural Resources has received complaints of increased illicit mining and dredging activities within the marine environment surrounding San Pedro, Ambergris Caye. In a release issued today, the ministry confirms that the Mining Unit has teamed up with the Hol Chan Marine Reserve staff to investigate these activities to confirm the extent and […]
We’ve shown you the Port Honduras Marine Reserve down south. It’s an economically important piece of the south, but it is also a nationally protected marine reserve. One of the co-managers of the reserve is the Toledo Institute for Development and Environment (TIDE). Over the years, they have implemented a number of programs and projects […]
The Meso-American Reef Leadership Program is an initiative that promotes leadership towards the conservation of the reef which is shared by Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and Honduras. Annually, the program brings together a cohort of conservationists and field professionals in the areas of tourism and the environment to look at projects currently in place to tackle […]
Citrus fruit production is Belize’s oldest agro-industry, but in profitability has long been overtaken by sugar and is barely keeping ahead of others. A combination of internal turmoil and shocks from natural disasters have contributed to steadily declining fortunes and an urgent need to arrest that decline with a massive infusion of capital, new plant […]
The Citrus Growers Association says it is finding greater than expected success in spinning off the Plant World Nursery, located off the Southern Highway in Red Bank village, into its own company. The plan to raise six million dollars in equity of preferred shares through a bond managed by the Legacy Fund has now ballooned […]
For a few years now turtles are being tagged to track their movements to find out their migration patterns and other valuable information to assist in research and management. A small N.G.O. working with locals in Gales Point Manatee is helping to gather data through satellite technology. It has been a lucky month for the […]
‘King Sugar’ is especially sweet this year in the Corozal and Orange Walk Districts. The Tower Hill Factory produced a record-breaking one hundred and forty-four thousand tons of sugar, passing the high mark set in 2015. They did it in slightly more time, but with less cane actually brought to the mill. But prices continue […]
The Corozal Sugar Cane Producers’ Union and Progressive Cane Farmers Association based in Orange Walk have agreed with Belize Sugar Industries and American Sugar Refining to continue with the commercial agreement originally signed three years ago. But the co-architects of that arrangement, the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association, wants some re-negotiation of major points including […]
On Wednesday, OCEANA and the Belize Coalition to Save our Natural Heritage organized a media tour to Cadenas, and an additional trek to Gracias A Dios in southern Belize. This was to follow up on a crude oil spill that happened over in Guatemala but not officially reported. From our own investigation online, a driver […]
As you heard in that story, the local press didn’t observe anything that looked like crude oil in Belize’s water ways. But Guatemalans living in the area claimed that the oil had already gone down river since Monday. The Department of Environment didn’t issue any information on the reported oil spill; that is, until this […]
