On October first, the fishing season of the Queen Conch officially opened. Conch represents a significant source of revenue for traditional fishermen across Belize, and generates millions of dollars for Belize’s economy. But the conch, like the lobster, is a fishery that must be sustainably managed, hence the closed season. But even then, conch and […]
On Thursday, the Belize National Teachers Union expressed its support for the Christian Workers Union which is currently at a standoff with the Port of Belize Limited over working hours of stevedores. The C.W.U. has initiated its twenty-one-day notice, prompting Minister of State responsible for Labor, Senator Carla Barnett to act as a mediator. It […]
The Toledo Institute for Development and Education is hosting its annual conservation festival. In the past, it was called the TIDE Fish Festival, but this year, it has been renamed to the TIDE Conservation Festival, capturing marine and terrestrial conservation efforts. The event opened today in Punta Gorda and continues over the weekend. The focus […]
The Paz family in San Pedro Town has received confirmation of the death of forty-nine-year-old Jose Milo Paz. The veteran pilot and aviation pioneer died in a plane wreck in the mountains in Panama sometime on October seventh. While the news of his death had been widely reported, the Paz family was hopeful until today. […]
An elderly man is recovered at the Southern Regional Hospital following an explosion in San Isidro Village in the Stann Creek District. On Wednesday evening around six-twenty, Bella Vista Police were called out to the village where a vehicle was seen engulfed in flames at Garcia’s Butane Gas Depot. Sixty-five-year-old taxi driver, Jose Morales, was […]
Independence Fire Department personnel responded to the explosion, which occurred approximately nine miles away from the station. On arrival, they spotted the thirteen-seater van completely destroyed by fire, but they sprung into action to extinguish the blaze. But according to Deputy Fire Chief, Benisford Matura, the information they’ve gathered so far does not indicate whether […]
The Belize City Council says that today it returned the two-thousand five hundred dollars in cash that was left on the desk of City Administrator Stephanie Garbutt. Deputy Mayor Oscar Arnold says that it was a matter they were dealing with internally, but after a letter sent to Chinese Businesswoman Tung Wang Huang of a […]
Preparations are underway for another round of discussions in the days ahead, as the twenty-one day notice given to Port of Belize Limited inches closer towards expiration. The impasse between discontented waterfront workers and the management of the docking facility persists, despite a number of meetings over the past week in an effort to break […]
President of the Court of Appeal of Belize, Justice Manuel Sosa, was among seventy alumni of the University of the West Indies who were honoured at the University’s seventieth anniversary of service and leadership across the region. The judge is conferred on the “University’s most outstanding alumni, who have excelled in their fields of endeavor.” […]
Two Belize City students will be moving on to the National Father Marion Ganey Quiz competition, which takes place on November twenty-third in Cayo. The duo beat other students from the Belize District with their impressive knowledge of the credit union movement as well as financial literacy. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. Duane Moody, […]
A five-day course on lifeguard training is winding down at the Young Women’s Christian Association in Belize City. Taking part are women from the police department and the Belize Coastguard. The initiative is part of a human rights project which seeks to empower the women and teach them a skill they will rely to save […]
The sixteenth annual conference of the Organization of Caribbean Utility Regulators is being hosted by the Public Utilities Commission here in Belize City. Across the region, stakeholders in telecommunications, information and communications technology, water and sewerage, and several other related utilities have gathered at the Biltmore. They are discussing a variety of matters, including a […]
In respect of information and communications technology, there has been a shift toward the use of mobile applications such as Whatsapp and Snapchat. According to Riviere-Smith, regulators are encouraging teen users to become developers and monetize their use of those platforms. Kathleen Riviere-Smith, Executive Director, OOCUR “Teens are using Whatsapp and Snapchat. They’ve moved […]
In San Antonio Village, Cayo, a women’s group exists which aims at empowering women and preserving the Yucatec Mayan culture by teaching visitors how to make handmade tortillas and pottery. It is taught through attention-grabbing presentations of traditional Mayan practices of pottery and tortilla making. The media was taken to visit the group as part […]
Earlier today, Miss Universe Belize, Jenelli Fraser made an appearance on the KTLA Five News. The recently crowned beauty ambassador will be representing the Jewel in the 2018 Miss Universe pageant on December sixteenth in Thailand. Fraser has been in the Los Angeles since September thirtieth where she is in training as part of her […]
A unique fundraiser is taking place this weekend. In this instance about a hundred persons are camping out at the Memorial Park throughout the night to experience what it is to be homeless. The event is being organized by the Welcome Resource Center that caters to the City’s homeless persons as a way to bring […]
Believed to be missing and feared dead, well-known pilot forty-nine-year-old Jose Milo Paz has not been seen or heard from since Sunday. His family in San Pedro Town has been bombarded with messages of condolences and sympathies. On Tuesday night, reports surfaced that Paz died in a plane crash on Sunday evening somewhere in the […]
There was some straight talk on Tuesday by the P.U.P. southern caucus chair, Mike Espat, as well as from Cayo South Area Rep Julius Espat and Cayo Northeast Orlando Habet. The area reps spoke after a meeting with the Belize Progressive Party and activists’ organizations. That encounter in Belmopan was at the invitation by the […]
A meeting was convened earlier today between the executive of the Christian Workers Union, the Labour Department and the Port of Belize Limited. But soon after it started, it was ended because CWU President Evan “Mose” Hyde had a medical emergency and proceeded to leave the meeting. Tonight, the news is that while the parties […]
Epidemiologist, Doctor Ethan Gough has resigned from the Ministry of Health. His resignation, we understand, took the ministry by surprise because it has only been about a year since he has been back following several years of study abroad. The C.E.O in the Ministry of Health was tight-lipped about Gough’s departure, only to say that […]
The fire station in San Ignacio, which services both of the twin towns, is in a most deplorable form and firemen assigned to that location are required to work daily shifts in less than suitable conditions. The dilapidated concrete structure which sits near the foothill of Buena Vista Street is in the worst state of […]
The shortage of equipment across the fire department has been a contributing factor in the loss of lives, as well as property, in at least two tragedies that have occurred so far this year. In the wake of both incidents there have been promises of additional resources being acquired by the National Fire Service, including […]
According to Castro, they have been able to locate used fire trucks for a fraction of the cost elsewhere in the United States. They are now looking into the possibility of purchasing and shipping those vehicles to Belize. Edmond Castro, NEMO Minister “We sourced some fire trucks, I think, I can’t quote, don’t quote […]
Mirab has a new department store and today it opened for business, offering a high-end shopping experience. The Mirab store relocated from the Fort Street area to the Philip Goldson Highway where its one hundred thousand plus square foot store boasts a number of new additions to its product lines and departments, including the Ashley […]
Today’s opening of Mirab’s new department store drew hundreds of Belizeans and several high profile personalities. Businessman John Greif the Third is one of those persons in attendance. The President of Tropic Air, who has invested millions in Belize, had only good things to say of the investment. Greif, however, feels that locals who make […]
