The company did such a good job on the first half of the Hummingbird Highway that it’s now getting a chance to finish the job. Today in Belmopan Cisco Construction, the nation’s premier road builder, was awarded the contract to pave the remaining ten miles of the Hummingbird running from Belmopan to the Sibun Bridge. […]
If Marine Researcher Nicole Auil is getting to be as well known as C.I.B.’s Simeon Alvarez, it’s no coincidence. Both often deal in death… and while the police have to cope with their share of homicides so does Nicole… although her victims are marine mammals and not human beings. Today she investigated her third manatee […]
While Holy Redeemer Parish Hall was the venue for the Belize District’s spelling finals, a different sort of competition was taking place thirty miles up the Western Highway at the Belize Zoo. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods wouldn’t think of missing it. The seventh annual Environmental Science Fair was not as big as previous years, but […]
On Sunday the Sibun Watershed Association will be officially launching a project to promote the protection and sustainable development of the land and communities around the Sibun River. Armed with a U.N.D.P. grant of eighty thousand dollars, the group will look to strengthen its ability to manage the watershed, enhance bio-diversity and reverse those activities […]
If numbers alone tell the whole story, then Belize is in fairly good shape, as we boast the highest population of manatees in the region. But tonight there is one less marine mammal prowling the waters just offshore Belize City. Officials of the Coastal Zone Management Project were called out to the Crystal Shipping dock […]
While NOPCA is looking into its future survival, another non-profit organization, Programme for Belize is taking time out to reflect on achievements since its establishment. To commemorate its tenth anniversary, Programme for Belize has declared March and Environmental Awareness Month. The anniversary celebrations started on Sunday with an Ecumenical Thanksgiving Service at Government House in […]
The eighty bags of medical waste tossed onto a residential lot off Coney Drive have now been properly disposed of… but there are still more questions than answers. Patrick Jones today continued his investigation. Investigations into last week’s frightening discovery of medical waste in Coral Grove have revealed little answers as to how and why […]
We are all familiar with the saying, “Haad aze pikni go da maakit two time”. Well it seems that somewhere in Belize City there is a “haad aze” garbage man, as well as a “haad aze” medical clinic. Patrick Jones reports. It’s the part of Belize City that is undergoing rapid development and when one […]
Belize has an enviable system of national parks and protected areas, but while these reserves constitute millions of acres, they are often separated by large areas of privately held land. As more of this land becomes cleared for agriculture or housing there is less of a chance for movement of plants and animals around the […]
He has worked on the front lines of conservation for over a decade… and tonight he is receiving some well deserved recognition. At a ceremony just underway at the Marine Terminal in Belize City, Ernesto Saqui of Maya Centre Village is receiving the Audubon Society’s highest honor, the James Waight Award. Saqui was manager of […]
Motorists who travel the Kings Park area of Belize City and use St. Thomas Street will tell you that the condition of that road literally takes the joy out of driving. But it won’t be for much longer as Government has announced improvements that will benefit not only drivers but residents as well. On Tuesday […]
It may have been sunny and bright today but that didn’t stop people from hauling out their flannels. Northers are not common this time of year but what made this norther special was that it was blowing from the southwest. Patrick Jones explains. If the answers to life’s questions were, quote-unquote, blowing in the wind […]
They are endangered throughout most of their range but in Belize the West Indian Manatee has always thrived. At least until recently. Tonight there is one less in the community and at least one man is getting suspicious. Pepe Garcia, the President of the Belize Audubon Society, had just taken out his boat for a […]
The Protected Areas Conservation Trust, PACT, has awarded two grants of $25,000 each to community environmental groups. The funds awarded to the Belize Development Foundation will be used for reforestation around the village of San Antonio in the Cayo District. That area, on the edge of the Mountain Pine Ridge, is subject to periodic forest […]
In a follow up to a story first reported in yesterday’s newscast, authorities have moved quickly to remove the load of medical waste which ended up in an open lot in the Lake Independence area of Belize City. According to Lawrence Ellis of the City’s Sanitation Department, a five hundred dollars fine was levied against […]
Hazardous medical waste dumped in Lake I In a story just in a News Five team has returned from Tibruce Street near Mahogany in the Lake Independence area. We were called out by nearby residents who saw a pickup dumping a load of garbage by the roadside. But this was no ordinary garbage. Amongst the […]
As a reporter for Channel Five I’ve done a fair bit of traveling and covered my share of emergencies like fire, flood and traffic accidents. But last Saturday on a trip to the village of Monkey River I discovered that not all disasters occur suddenly. The community of Monkey River is no stranger to boom […]
It was scheduled to pass through the Caribbean a few years ago but the ship transporting nuclear waste from Europe to Japan was rerouted at the last minute. now, according to the environmental organization Greenpeace, they’re at it again. Greenpeace claims to have a document stating that on January 23rd a French company intends to […]
