The countdown is on to next April’s referendum in Belize on the referral of the Belize-Guatemala Dispute to the International Court of Justice. The public awareness campaign is being stepped up and today in Belmopan at the National Showgrounds the Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted a diplomatic briefing on that campaign. Ambassador Alexis Rosado presented […]
An unorthodox decision by the Football Federation of Belize Appeals Committee is throwing a wrench in the Premier League of Belize Championship Finals. Last week, we reported about a protest by the Belize Defence Force Football Club to the Disciplinary Committee of the League on a referee’s decision during a penalty kick against Verdes Football […]
Caribbean Culture and Lifestyle launched its second edition today. The magazine, published by McNab Visuals, will be used to promote travel and culture locally and regionally. It goes to print five times a year and can be found in hotels, hotspots and Maya Island Air. The print magazine is complemented with online, digital and social […]
The National Sports Council held its annual national track and field championships at the Marion Jones Stadium in Belize City today. Over two hundred students, the best of the best from each district, gathered at the stadium to compete in several events ranging from shot put to relay races. We stopped in at the championships […]
City Administrator Candice Miller and office manager Lisbeth Butler were among six city council employees who were given their marching papers on Tuesday. But were the dismissals foretold in Mayor Wagner’s press conference on April twenty-sixth, when he informed that a restructuring of the organizational makeup of City Hall was inevitable? Those who have been […]
And today when asked about the recent firings at the Belize City Council, Deputy Prime Minister Patrick Faber echoed the sentiments of the United Democratic Party’s press release earlier this week. He chalks up the terminations to political victimization. He did say, however, that if there is strong evidence to support why employees were fired […]
Earlier this week, the Elections and Boundaries Department outlined the process for the re-registration exercise set to begin on July first and conclude in December. An area of great concern involves those thousands of Guatemalan nationals that have obtained Belizean nationality, but did not formally renounce their Guatemalan citizenship. The Belize Chamber of Commerce, National […]
Friends for Conservation and Development is reporting that the “Yes” vote to the International Court of Justice may have embolden the Guatemalans because since then, they have been increased incursions deep within Belizean territory. Just this week, the FCD’s rangers were on patrol and found new survey lines and crops as deep as two point […]
Earlier this week, there was uncertainty on the celebration of National Teachers’ Day. But today, Minister of Education Patrick Faber says there will be. Faber said that whether the B.N.T.U. puts up cash or not to fund the activities, it will not stop government from throwing a grand event in the teachers’ honor on May […]
And what about salaries for those government teachers who rallied in Belmopan in March? Minister Faber says he has received word but nothing official from the different school managements that those teachers will not receive pay for participating in the anti-crime rally. The B.N.T.U. National President Elena Smith has also said that the union will […]
Earlier today, the Deputy Prime Minister Faber was asked to comment about reports that he had been involved in an incident in the United States where he was detained. That query was prompted by newspaper articles stating that a man was detained after two Henry County schools in Atlanta were put on lockdown after a […]
The Belize Brewing Company today organized the fourth launch of its popular cacao stout. The seasonal drink is being released in anticipation of the Chocolate Festival in southern Belize. The company has produced two thousand, three hundred cases of the chocolate stout for the local market. News Five’s Isani Cayetano reports. Isani Cayetano, Reporting […]
It’s nurses week and the K.H.M.H. nurses took a little break to celebrate with a cookout competition. Nurses from Philippines, Jamaica, Guyana, Nigeria, Cuba, and Nicaragua, along with the Belizean nursing staff made their cultural foods and put on a creative food displays in the parking lot of the hospital. We stopped by for a […]
It is commonly said that one must love a person “warts and all”. While the general advice of accepting flaws may be useful, the more we learn about warts the less we may be interested in accepting them. In tonight’s Healthy Living we find out more about one lesser discussed but very common wart that […]
The uproar continues tonight over the terminations of six employees of the Belize City Council on Tuesday. They were sent home without warning and, according to at least one letter we’ve seen, no details about why exactly they’re being terminated. Amid the whispers of politics being involved, the Christian Workers’ Union is intervening on behalf […]
Like his fellow employees, Jenkins, who had been at City Hall for twelve years, has no idea why he was in the firing line. But he suspects a particular reason – that someone got wind of his plans to run for the United Democratic Party in the Lake Independence constituency. Lake Independence’s area representative Cordel […]
The United Democratic Party has thrown its support behind the fired employees, claiming in a press release that more firings are to come because it is aware of what it says is a long list of persons at City Hall targeted because of allegedly being U.D.P. supporters. The U.D.P. accuses Mayor Bernard Wagner of going […]
May eighteenth has been set aside as National Teachers Day, in honor of the many contributions educators have made towards the development of the nation. Across the country, schools will be closed next Friday to give teachers an opportunity to enjoy the day in the company of their colleagues. Several weeks before the official launch […]
While the education minister blames B.N.T.U.’s dropping out on a lack of willingness to participate financially, the union president says that significant funds have been spent documenting the plight of teachers during the twelve days of strike action in 2016. Monies have also been expended more recently on organizing the March twenty-second anti-violence demonstration in […]
Notwithstanding the bad news, Faber says that other avenues are being explored in order to make good on his promise. Patrick Faber, Minister of Education “Given that news that we received this week, we officially received it in writing I believe yesterday, we now have to sit down and decide whether or not we […]
The tangle between the B.N.T.U. and the respective schools management over salary deductions stemming from a planned but unsanctioned anti-violence rally back in March is free of the Ministry of Education. So says Minister Patrick Faber, who emphasized that the decision of management to deduct a day’s wage from teachers who attended the demonstration had […]
There’s news about a reduction in gas prices tonight, but don’t jump up and down – because it’s not in Belize. The Jamaica Gleaner reports that prices in that island nation go down by sixteen Jamaican cents effective midnight Thursday. It’s important to note that Jamaica’s gasoline is manufactured by its state-controlled oil refinery, known […]
The re-registration exercise commences on July first of this year and will conclude at the end of December. This exercise prefaces the ICJ referendum on April tenth of next year and to qualify to vote in that referendum, persons must have re-registered by the end of December. The voters list for the referendum will be […]
The purpose of re-registration is to clean up the voters list. As of April, there are two hundred and four thousand, eight hundred and two persons on the list and the Elections and Boundaries Department project that when the exercise is finished, there will be some two hundred thousand registered voters. But how will the […]
It is going to be a big task, as the last re-registration happened back in 1997. And with its scope and size to clean up the national voter list, comes a hefty cost. The Elections and Boundaries Department says that it will cost some eight million dollars to do the re-registration. Tamai explains where the […]
