The 2019 Rising Entrepreneurship Gala is drawing near and young business minds, particularly single mothers, are being called to come forward. The goal is to raise eight thousand dollars that will go as a startup capital for a youth entrepreneur. Today, that appeal was made through the Department of Youth Services and Samos Consulting. […]
The Belize City Council is facing cash flow problems. It’s a recurrent financial hurdle that all municipalities go through and it is caused by the ‘seasonal nature of tax collections’. During this time, because tax collection is low, the councils are tasked with exploring alternative options to alleviate such short-term seasonal cash flow challenges. This […]
Belize City Mayor, Bernard Wagner, also updated News Five on the municipal bonds. According to the mayor, investors in all tranches of both Series one and Series two bonds have already received their principal investment. The Belize Municipal Bond is also comprised of Series Three which contains three separate issues totalling more than nine million […]
Village council elections are scheduled for this month. Elections will take place between June twenty third and the twenty-eighth. Village councils across the country have been dissolved and while not much attention is given to these elections, this year’s result can serve as a glimpse into the political future of Belize. Thousands of voters living […]
At the beginning of the month, the Public Service Union which represents tens of thousands of public officers held its annual general meeting. During the meeting, an election took place and Gerald Henry bested Doreth Obermayer by more than one hundred and thirty votes for the post of president. Henry is joined by Trisha Perez […]
It has been more than a year and three months and a report on the Senate Special Select Committee’s inquiry has yet to be produced. The committee drilled and interrogated several witnesses and key experts as it delved into the findings of the Auditor General’s Special Audit Report of the Immigration and Nationality Department 2011-2013. […]
June fourteenth is recognized annually as World Blood Donor Day. In Belize, it is used to create awareness on the value of blood, as well as encourage voluntary donations to the National Blood Bank in the country. Today at the Central Health Region Compound in Belize City, the Belize Red Cross, in collaboration with the […]
Today, twenty residents of the Belize Central Prison proudly received their certificates for having successfully completing the Business Development Training programme. It is a programme rolled out by the Belize Trade and Investment Development Service through its technical units, the Belize Training and Employment Centre and the Small Business Development Centre Belize for the third year. The […]
The United Nations Human Rights Commission has opened a resource center for refugees coming into the country. It is based in Benque Viejo and is expected to provide information services, as well shelter, for those who need it. Andrea Polanco tells us more in the following story. Andrea Polanco, Reporting On Thursday, the United […]
This afternoon at the Museum of Belize, the National Institute of Culture and History launched a first-of-its-kind Cultural Development Fund. It is a program which will see local artists and artisans being able to access microfinance to fund cultural activities within their respective districts. It is an initiative that is the brainchild of NICH and […]
September Celebrations are set to commence in the next ten weeks, but extensive preparations are already underway to ensure that activities during the national month go off without a hitch. This afternoon at the Marion Jones Sporting Complex, various stakeholders, including representatives of the Ministry of Tourism, Foreign Affairs and the Belize Police Department were […]
There is disappointing news coming out of the Belize Police Department tonight, where hundreds of officers who sat last month’s promotion exams have failed to meet eligibility to move up in rank. The exams were sat countrywide on May fourth and officers interested in being promoted to corporal, sergeant or inspector were given one month […]
Corporal Eldon Arzu, President of the Belize Police Association, is suing Commissioner of Police Chester Williams and has been granted judicial review of the legitimacy of his post as the duly elected leader of the group of law enforcement officers. On May sixth, Justice Shona Griffith ordered that Corporal Arzu report to work in Belmopan […]
Geovanni Brackett is no longer the president of Citizens Organized for Liberty through Action, COLA. Brackett passed on the baton to twenty-one-year-old Shawn Christopher Saldano who won the post in an uncontested election. COLA has been described as a firebrand, grassroots activist group which has had a significant impact on several national issues over the […]
According to Saldano, under his leadership, focus will be placed on building COLA’s membership and economic revenue. Shawn Saldano, President, COLA “The first of which is the security of the administration and the operational duties of COLA. As you know COLA is an activist organization and sometimes there areabsolutely no funds and no budget […]
While Shawn Saldano is new to COLA, he is not necessarily new to the world of politics. Saldano worked at the Youth Department and years ago he had the aspiration to run under the U.D.P. banner. That, unfortunately, did not work out and he parted with the party. Up until recently, Saldano was considering forming […]
A national consultation to address challenges to girls’ education was held today at the Belize Institute of Management in Belize City. Private and public sector stakeholders gathered to look at the issues surrounding adolescent girls not being inside of the classrooms and the social issues affecting them. The process was triggered by a recent out-of-school […]
The idea is to get young women and girls to understand their position and value in society. There must be a multi-ministerial approach to solve the issue. Today’s consultation serves also as a springboard for a project that is being supported by the CAMI-Fund. The RISE Girls programme has been taking place in schools and […]
The Belize Police Department, through its Community Policing Unit, is teaching south side residents how to sew through an initiative called the Community Development Sewing Programme. The police partnered up with the Department of Youth Services to teach skills in an effort to impact poverty and crime on the south side of Belize City. Last […]
Are you an active youth in your community? If you are doing good work that is making an impact, then you may qualify for the National Youth Awards. The Department of Youth Services is now accepting nominations for this year’s awards. Dominique Noralez of the Department of Youth Services tells us more about the requirements […]
There is yet another fifteen thousand-dollar winner in the recently established Scratch and Win game. Caye Caulker resident and father of one, Wilber Chi is taking home twelve thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars after taxes. Chi is one of thousands of Belizeans that have played the game since it started back in March by […]
According to S.S.B.’s Chief Executive Officer, Doctor Colin Young, the new pension and contribution scheme will not impact existing pensioners. As it stands now, the fund is approaching the ‘period of equilibrium’ where total expenditures equal total revenue and in order to avoid arriving at that stage, Doctor Young says that there is consideration for […]
Last week, Andre Vega, son of former Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega, appeared in court for a civil trial initiated by the Government of Belize. The government is attempting to recover four hundred thousand dollars which was paid to Vega as land compensation. The land in question is located along mile four of the Philip […]
The Leader of the Opposition also took on Minister of Health Pablo Marin over exercise equipment. In May, Minister Marin handed over exercise equipment, which was donated by the Taiwan Embassy, to five municipalities. Valued at around twenty-two thousand U.S. dollars, the equipment was handed over to the Mayors of Punta Gorda, Santa Elena/San Ignacio, […]
In 2002, the International Labour Organization launched the World Day Against Child Labour to raise awareness on the extent of child labour across the world and the actions and efforts needed to eliminate it. Back in 2017, the Government of Belize partnered with the CLEAR II Project to identify areas where child labour is prevalent […]
