The Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital Authority will be looking for a new C.E.O. due to the resignation of Doctor Adrian Coye. According to a release, Coye handed in his resignation with three months notice on Wednesday ending his C.E.O. tenure on May twenty-first. Coye became the C.E.O. of the K.H.M.H. in October 2014. Coye is […]
Coming off from a massive national convention and Wednesday’s successful nomination of mayor and councilor candidates, the People United Party launched the Belize City manifesto today. The event took place in the south side where the P.U.P. is devoting time and energy. The team is attempting to break the U.D.P. twelve-year run at City Hall. […]
Fresh from being nominated, Belize City’s four mayoral candidates attended a special forum organized by the University of Belize on Wednesday evening at the Bliss Center for the Performing Arts. Even with months of campaigning behind them, there are still two weeks to go, and residents are speaking up about how the Council constituted on […]
The Ministry of Education and UNICEF collaborated for the Out of School Children Initiative. The aim is to improve the analysis of factors affecting the exclusion of children from education, leading to effective policies and programmatic changes. The study looked at children of different age groups who are not in school and students who are […]
Solicitor General Nigel Hawke was a busy man at the court’s environs today, with cases before the Caribbean Court of Justice and Magistrate’s Court. The latter is the aborted return of Andrew Bennett to face extradition proceedings which was adjourned and which we will tell you more about shortly. But upstairs in the C.C.J., there […]
But is three years too long to still not have implemented the Consent Order, especially for Maya communities that have waited nearly a generation? Hawke told us the Court understands that it is going to take some time because of all the intricacies involved. But he added that the Government is moving will all deliberate […]
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has apologized to the Maya communities of the south for an alleged breach of privacy committed by self-avowed agents of the Government. The Maya Leaders Alliance and Toledo Alcaldes Association complained that house-to-house visitors in recent weeks were taking personal information along with views of the Guatemalan dispute and potential […]
At its executive meeting on Wednesday night, the Director of Public Prosecutions, Cheryl-Lynn Vidal moved up as new the president of the association where she was serving as VP. From our records, it is first time that we see a D.P.P. take up the mantle as Bar President. It is bound to be an interesting […]
This afternoon there was a closing ceremony for a three-day Treaty Body Capacity Building Program for state officials which began on Tuesday. Later this year, Belize is internationally obliged to submit reports on International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and the International Convention on the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of […]
Participants received their certificates from C.E.O. in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pat Andrews, who stood in for Minister Wilfred Elrington. He told News Five that the government is taking seriously the process of making national reports and also keeping local stakeholders up to date. Pat Andrews, C.E.O., Ministry of Foreign Affairs “Execution, execution. […]
Not because Valentine’s Day is over means that all the talk about your heart should stop. In fact, it is always a good time to talk about the health of the heart. In Belize, heart disease continues to be one of our leading causes of death. There are a number of factors that may put […]
As of this Wednesday evening, there are no longer aspirants, but candidates for the March seventh municipal elections. The process of nomination took place under overcast skies countrywide, with rain attending the marches of both the People’s United Party and United Democratic Party. But Mother Nature had only a negligible effect on the spirits of […]
On Thursday, Belize City’s P.U.P. slate will gather at the Neal Pen Road basketball court to publicly launch their manifesto. But we got a bit of a preview from mayoral candidate Bernard Wagner after his nomination today. He explains that as part of a “people-centered” agenda the P.U.P. aims for financial reform in order to […]
In the afternoon, it was the turn of the United Democratic Party’s supporters to show their muscle in Belize City where just a week ago, the People’s United Party held a mammoth convention. The U.D.P. brought out its top guns, including the Prime Minister and other ministers to make their presence felt, complete with bells […]
With just five seats to their name countrywide, any wins for the People’s United Party will be counted a success for party leader John Briceño. But the P.U.P. believes they have a serious shot in the Old Capital, which last voted a P.U.P. City Council fifteen years ago, in 2003. To reverse the red tide, […]
At the top of the newscast, we reported on the activities in the city where both parties pulled out their supporters in numbers. Nominations to fill a total of sixty-seven seats were also a big event in the other municipalities. In Orange Walk, the P.U.P. is the considered the favourite where Mayor Kevin Bernard continues […]
There are four mayoral hopefuls for the San Ignacio/Santa Elena Town Council; Marconi Matus of the P.U.P., Earl Trapp for the U.D.P.; Rudy Wade for the B.P.P. and Independent Candidate Lupita Ferguson. The P.U.P. and U.D.P. have full slates and they showed up with music, flags, chanting through the streets of the western towns. The […]
The major parties, the People’s United Party and the United Democratic Party, submitted full slates of candidates for all nine municipalities, a total of one hundred and thirty-four nominees. But there are other candidates that were officially nominated across the country. The Belize Progressive Party is fielding candidates in five municipalities, including Belmopan, where Sam […]
The University of Belize has managed to persuade all four Belize City mayoral candidates to participate in a special debate which is ongoing at news time at the Bliss Center for the Performing Arts. Appearing on stage will be Bernard Wagner (P.U.P.), Dion Leslie (U.D.P.), Paco Smith (B.P.P.), and Ernesto Torres (Independent). According to the […]
The campaign season has been relentless with plenty mudslinging and besmirching candidates at every turn. The People’s United Party has released an ad claiming that government is spending as much as two point four million dollars in tuition for tertiary students, in exchange for votes in favor of the ruling United Party. The allegation is […]
The search continues for a new Contractor General to replace Godwin Arzu, and for a new head of the Integrity Commission to succeed Justice Marilyn Williams who has moved on to the Supreme Court. The two posts are important cogs in the oversight machine but Prime Minister Dean Barrow says the Contractor General is more […]
Mesopotamia is historically a red constituency, controlled by career politician Michael Finnegan. It is also one of the smallest electoral divisions within Belize City. Despite its size, the mobilization of supporters was in full swing today, the enduring area representative bringing out as many as stalwarts to the U.D.P. rally. Today, he shared his predictions […]
In Port Loyola, it would seem as though Area Representative ‘Boots’ Martinez’s popularity has been waning. If one were to recall the voter turnout during the 2015 general elections, it is clear that his numbers were down considerably. So does he still have what it takes to muster support on behalf of the U.D.P. Eleven […]
A three-year-old toddler from Silk Grass, Stann Creek District, lost his life by drowning in a well in the village. The boy, Keon Martinez, lived with his grandmother, fifty-one-year-old Francine Augustine. He had been playing on Monday afternoon between one and four o’clock and then disappeared. His mother, twenty-four-year-old Chelsey Castillo reported that her son […]
Business at the Commercial Free Zone continues to be affected by Mexican consumers purchasing goods and services in their homeland, instead of shopping in Belize. The exclusive business location was established in Corozal in 1994 to attract foreign direct investment. While it has grown considerably over the past two decades, companies operating within the zone […]
