To celebrate fifty years in Belize, Barclays Bank is working with the Government of Belize and the Belize City Council to turn the roundabout near Pallotti High School into a landmark the city can be proud of. Today the bank unveiled the plans. Omar Espejo, Country Manager, Barclays Bank “The concept is to have a […]
It’s one of the most beautiful cayes in Belize, but it’s not being used for tourism. Every year since 1972 the Smithsonian Institute based in Washington D.C. has sent between thirty to ninety scientists to this tiny island on the reef to study everything from sea worms to sponges to mangroves. Two years ago a […]
How would you like to win a trip to see manatees in their natural habitat? Well, if you design the winning logo for the Belize Marine Mammal Stranding Network you and a friend could be on your way, and have your design on bumper stickers all over Belize. The Coastal Zone Management Authority and Institute, […]
Paynes Creek National Park in the Toledo District is home to a wide variety of species ranging from the bothersome botlass fly to the mellow manatee. But for the past five weeks, the park has been home to thirty-nine volunteers from Belize and Britain. With funds from the small grants scheme of the British High […]
Before he died in 1996 Don Elijio Panti, Belize’s most renowned traditional healer asked Dr. Rosita Arvigo, the head of Ixchel Farms, a research center in the Cayo District, to pass on what she learned from him to future generations. In keeping with her promise, Dr. Arvigo invites children to Ixchel Farm every summer to […]
A visitor’s center was inaugurated today in Freetown Sibun as part of the village’s program to protect their river turtles. News Five has been following this community’s tireless efforts over the past two years to help bring back the hicatee population and was on hand for today’s opening. Simon Young, Farmer, Freetown Sibun “My daddy […]
On Friday a manatee was found dead off West Landivar. An autopsy revealed it had died after being run over by a boat. On Saturday another manatee was hit and the body was seen floating by B.T.L. Park on Sunday. Today personnel from the Fisheries Department and the Coastal Zone Management Authority and Institute pulled […]
The Department of the Environment has solved the mystery behind a fish kill in the New River in the Orange Walk district last week. Their investigation revealed that hundreds of fish died in the section of the river between New River Enterprises and the Trial Farm Creek when organic matter from the lumber mill’s compound […]
Orange Walk residents may have had dead fish to deal with last week, but today a dead manatee was found near Buttonwood Bay in Belize City. It is still not clear what killed the gentle marine mammal but its companions apparently realized something was wrong. Fisheries boat Captain Liston McCord who was the first one […]
Every fisherman on the planet has a story about the big one that got away. Well tonight on news five we’ve got a story about some big ones that didn’t get away. In fact, as Stewart Krohn reports from Placencia, they keep on coming back. With longest barrier reef in the Western Hemisphere and three […]
On Monday, volunteers from twelve different countries will participate in Raleigh’s tenth Belizean expedition. Raleigh expedition leader Rupert Miller says even though it will be tough going for the volunteers, they look forward to begin working in Belize. Rupert Miller, Raleigh Expedition Leader “We have about a hundred venturers and that actually with our eight […]
The interaction between people and those gentle sea mammals, the manatee is usually limited to brief sightings when they raise their noses and blow air above the water as we pass by in a boat. But sometime these creatures need our assistance. To help humans help the manatee there was a workshop today on manatee […]
As part of the Forest Department’s new push to get more involved with the public and educating people about conservation they have developed a new program for Belize’s children. They are using music, presented by kids to kids, and they have created a character whose carnival-like sparkle is sure to bring excitement to any classroom […]
For the next two weeks, the Belize Zoo will be inhabited by wild animals of a different nature. Yesterday the Belize Zoo and Tropical Education Center launched its Conservation Camp 1999. Children from all over Belize will participate in numerous activities including visits to nature trails, day and night tours of the Zoo and nearby […]
Belize’s reef is already a World Heritage site and now Belize will be the international headquarters for the Meso-American Reef System project (MRSP). Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Natural Resources Johnny Briceno, who attended an environmental conference in Guatemala last week says Belize lobbied hard to get the headquarters for the MRSP which is […]
Belize has been selected to participate in a study to monitor the effects of global warming and rising seas on the coral reef. To learn about the study and how it will be carried out, Dylan Gomez of the Bacalar Chico Marine reserve off San Pedro attended a seminar in the Bahamas. The CBU has […]
There was a time when the annual general meeting of the Belize Audubon Society was about as exciting to the general public as… birdwatching. But today, 30 years after the society’s founding, birdwatching has gone mainstream and environmentalism is almost as popular in Belize as the traditional pastimes of sex and politics. Toss into the […]
The Belize Audubon Society is inviting all members to its annual general meeting this Monday. Minister of Budget Planning, Economic Development, Investment and Trade Ralph Fonseca will deliver the keynote address and B.A.S. will launch its publication, “Belize Audubon Society, the first 30 years”. After the election of the directors and officers, the meeting will […]
It used to be that unless you got a special invitation you couldn’t go into the Government House at the end of Regent Street. But these days visitors, both local and foreign, are welcome to tour the building now called the House of Culture, and its lovely grounds. This week some students lent their expertise […]
A National Environmental Forum at the Radisson Fort George today brought together representatives of various environmental organizations to discuss the government’s environmental record since it took office in August of last year. According to Pepe Garcia, President of the Belize Audubon Society, while we need development in the country, we have to be careful that […]
Members of the Belize City Council gathered at a vacant lot on Euphrates Avenue this morning to launch an effort to clean up Belize City, starting this weekend. It will be a big job, but the council says with your help, it can be done. The clean-up campaign promises a safer and cleaner Belize City […]
They began by picking up trash during a massive clean-up campaign on the highways in March and now the Belize Tourism Board and the Belize Waste Control Limited are clearing the roads of old, broken down vehicles. So far the assessment of derelicts on the Western and Northern Highways has resulted in the identification of […]
The five month old baby manatee, dubbed Hercules, found stranded in the waters off Vista Del Mar Tuesday morning is still alive at the abandoned shrimp hatchery at mile five on the Western Highway. But according to the Coastal Zone Management Institute while the orphan is in a good condition and in a secure area, […]
News Five often receives calls from viewers about large snakes or crocodiles found near homes. But today, we got a call about a more unusual animal: an anteater. Some children on Sarstoon Street found the animal in a tree. Efforts were made to contact the Belize Zoo and Humane Society since neighbors feared it might […]
On Tuesday morning the Coastal Zone Management Project received a phone call about a manatee calf that was found stranded in Vista Del Mar. The baby, estimated to be only four or five months old, was rescued and then relocated to the abandoned shrimp hatchery at mile five on the Western Highway. There the mammal […]
