Earlier today, dozens of stakeholders in the education sector gathered in Belize City for the annual Building Bridges Conference. It’s a symposium which focuses on special education and access for children with diverse abilities. A team from UNLV is presently in country to facilitate various aspects of the workshop which is supported by the Ministry […]
The Caribbean Development Bank’s Board of Governors is holding its annual two-day meeting in Grenada, in the Eastern Caribbean. The meetings and seminars that began today and continue through Thursday are structured around the region’s resilience. That buzzword, resilience, is anchored in the commitment of the bank’s members to pursue the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals […]
Citizens Organized for Liberty through Action says it has uncovered what it calls a “Machiavellian move for power by the Government.” Ahead of the new school year, government plans to move payments for teachers from the purview of the various church-state managements to that of the SmartStream payroll and accounting system. While it appears to […]
The Ministry of Education, in partnership with UNESCO, hosted a workshop to look at how to integrate sustainable development in education in Belize. Several education sector stakeholders reviewed what is in place and identified ways to integrate education for sustainable development into existing policies for curriculum, teacher education and student assessment. News Five spoke with […]
The Ministry of National Security has deployed Belize Defence Force soldiers to areas in southern Belize to investigate reports of Guatemalans cutting down forest areas for illegal farming. According to a release issued by the ministry, villagers in Otoxha reported that they came across several areas within Belize that appeared to have been cleared by […]
Belize’s Barrier Reef remains a place of great interest to visitors, whether those come to relax or seeking answers to some of the great mysteries under the ocean waters. Now, it is being featured as one of the world’s fifty best dive travel destinations by the venerable National Geographic Magazine. As part of their year-long […]
The World Heritage Committee has signaled good news in respect to potentially removing the Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System from the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in danger at its next meeting. First listed in 2009, it has taken several years to implement programs designed to help the reef recover from various assaults on […]
Two students were recognized for doing the right things at their school. Darwin Beaton and Ashton Vernon were not always walking the straight and narrow, but when they got some help, they turned their lives around. And now, they have become leaders in their schools and community. Today, a short ceremony was held to reward […]
More than ten entrepreneurs from Mexico were today at the Mexican Institute in Belize City for a trade mission. For years now, the Mexican Embassy in Belize has been facilitating these missions, twice a year, to pair Belizean consumers with Mexican producers and vice versa. In the past, the exchange focused on anything from tourism […]
The Young Women’s Christian Association today launched a new project AHRMED—Addressing Human Rights for More Equitable Development. Funded by the European Union, the initiative is expected to provide human rights awareness training for at least five hundred women and girls in three districts, namely: Belize, Cayo and Stann Creek. By increasing the knowledge and capabilities […]
There are four components to the project that will see the five hundred participants then go out into their communities and engage other women and girls in gender and human rights issues. Project Coordinator Kiri Lizama explains the mechanism and how its desired outcome will be achieved. Kiri Lizama, Project Coordinator, AHRMED “The first […]
We have been covering the annual cancer walk for years now, and we do so again this year. The walk started in Ladyville with thousands trekking to Belize City to bring awareness to the disease. Youths, men and women who in some way have been touched by family and friends affected by cancer came out […]
Saturday was the first day of the second cohort of the Police Youth Mentorship Programme. Ninety-six mentorees from eight to seventeen years of age were matched with thirty mentors to begin the process of turning their lives around through coaching on anger management, conflict resolution and life skills with a bit of sports and academics […]
Two weeks away from the Albert Division convention for the People’s United Party on June seventeenth, the campaign between Senators and People’s United Party’s aspirants Valerie Woods and Paul Thompson is getting contentious. Tonight, Senator Thompson finds himself on the defense and confirms that he is in fact currently registered to vote at the “home” […]
Paul Thompson is going head to head with fellow Senator Valerie Woods, who has prided herself as being born and raised in the division. But Thompson says he has been putting in the work on the ground with residents for two decades and wants another shot at Tracey Taegar Panton at the next general election. […]
In other political news, David “Dido” Vega, former mayoral candidate for the P.U.P. in Corozal Town, was elected standard bearer for Corozal Bay on Sunday in the party’s first contested convention of this campaign season. He defeated four other rivals to secure the seat with one thousand and twenty-seven of two thousand and forty-two votes. […]
How long does it take to clear goods from the point arrival to release? That’s what the Customs and Excise Department is studying at a week-long workshop in the Belize City. Here in country for the event are representatives from the World Customs Organization who are assisting the department to become more efficient through what […]
A private school in the west is closing its doors due to a number of factors after twenty years of providing education to students of Santa Familia and surrounding communities. The abrupt notice was sent to the school’s administration in early May. At least sixty students are being affected and will have to find another […]
The Belize Leaders for Social Justice were only able to attract a minimum number of protesters to their widely advertised march from Constitution Park to Battlefield Park on Saturday morning. The protest concerned the general high cost of living including recent increases in electricity, cable, and gas. It was thought that Belizeans would have felt […]
The Belize City Council on Saturday collaborated with eleven students from Wesley Junior College to give the historic Belize City Swing Bridge a facelift. The bridge got a fresh coat of yellow and green paint. The oldest mechanical-operated bridge in the region is rarely swung except in times of emergency to accommodate boats taking shelter. […]
In related news, the City Council has confirmed information to our newsroom which suggests that the motor for the BelCan Bridge is missing. There were previous reports that parts for the motor had been stolen, but later returned. A little-known fact about the BelCan Bridge is that it too can be swung, but like its […]
In historic regional news, following a sweep of the country’s thirty seats in the House of Assembly by her Barbados Labour Party, Mia Amor Mottley was this afternoon sworn in as Barbados’ eighth Prime Minister and first woman to hold the post. Mottley took her oath in the presence of Governor General Dame Sandra Mason, […]
A change at the top of NICH went under the radar, but tonight we can confirm that there is a new acting president of the statutory body. For the past two years, since former President Diane Haylock took up the appointment as Belize’s Ambassador to Taiwan, Director of the Institute of Creative Arts, Gregory Vernon […]
Fuel prices went up again on Thursday for the umpteenth time this year, and the third in a month, with premium now selling at eleven dollars and sixty-seven cents per gallon. The Chamber of Commerce today issued a release on the hike calling on the government to immediately review and reshape its fuel tax strategy […]
Last year, Moses Sulph’s Belize Leaders for Social Justice carried out a protest on the high cost of gas prices. While results were mixed as prices have gone up and down since and a third price hike in as many weeks just went into effect, Sulph is hoping for better luck with a protest that […]
