On Monday night, we told you about the tragic fire on Santa Barbara Street that claimed the life of twenty month old Tyrique Roberts. The baby boy was left sleeping locked inside his home on Sunday night when his mother went to the shop to buy. The fire started and neighbours were not able to […]
The Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation is in the process of updating the now-twelve year old National Tourism Policy which espouses sustainable tourism as the underpinning of the profitable industry. Stakeholders have been consulted extensively over the past few weeks and the consultant contracted for the revision, Dr. Richard Denman, last week presented a […]
But what exactly is sustainable tourism? It’s a question Castaneda says the Ministry was asked repeatedly during the consultations, especially in light of the apparent deviation from the National Sustainable Tourism Master Plan established in 2012 with relation to cruise tourism in the Placencia Peninsula. The answer is contained in the revised policy, which establishes […]
Guatemala, with significant financial assistance from the government of Taiwan, is proceeding with the construction of a road that will span the length of that country all the way to Puerto Barrios. The cost of the infrastructure project is an estimated six hundred and fifty million U.S. dollars, monies which have been granted and loaned […]
There was once a local political campaign slogan that read, “It’s all about trust.” But with a less-than-stellar reputation for corrupt practices and a poor record for ease of doing business, most Belizeans seem resigned to the idea that they must sometimes do shady things to get what they want. Whether true or not, the […]
Twenty-five gang members received certificates for having attended a two-day course in introduction to entrepreneurship. The men joined seventy-five other apprentices to learn the basics of what is required to start a business. The initiative was led by Dianne Finnegan, who works with the Belize City intervention program. News Five’s Andrea Polanco has more on […]
The Police Department’s Eastern Division South partnered with the Angelus Press to give three hundred school bags to deserving kids on the south side. The initiative stems from its community policing efforts. Today, the children were hosted at a brief ceremony with lunch at the Raccoon Street Police Station where they received their backpacks. Minister […]
A two-week acting workshop wrapped up today in the city. Panamanian actor and stage coach Jaime Newball teamed up with the Bliss to offer the training. The facilitator trained about thirty participants in different aspects of the screen business from stage management to acting improvisation. He says he saw a wide range of raw talent […]
San Pedrana, twenty-six-year-old Michelle Nunez won the coveted title of La Reina De La Costa Maya 2017. Nunez also walked away with the title for Best Costume for the night, following a preliminary competition for cultural attire earlier this week and the onstage presentation for national costume. The eight delegates from the Central American countries […]
On August third, 2016, residents across the central and northern areas of the Belize District braced themselves in anticipation of Hurricane Earl which made landfall in the early hours of August fourth. The category two storm caused severe damage to homes and businesses in Vista del Mar, Ladyville, as it made its way inland. The […]
The Belize City Council, as part of its revenue generating initiative, is selling personalized license plates to motorists. The move has generated quite a buzz among car owners across the city, amid concerns from the Transport Department that the practice may very well be against the law. Despite those apprehensions, City Hall is proceeding with […]
The CASSA program, Creating A Safe Space Agenda, is wrapping up its third year. The project has been running now in its third year at YWCA where kids from high school—both first form and second form—and primary school, standard five students receive lessons in a number of core subject areas. As a part of the […]
Over two hundred children are participating in the YWCA’s annual summer program. It started in July and will wrap up next week. The YWCA says that the children will be putting on a day exhibition to show the public what they did over the summer. Joevannie Collins, Belize City Team Leader, CASSA Project “The […]
Over seventy children at the YWCA were treated to a book fair today. The children received free books through the ‘Alina Gives Back’ foundation. It is a small non-profit started by a teenager who started out in an orphanage. She was adopted and moved away, but for the last few years she has been coming […]
Today at the ITVET, as many as twenty-five gang members from across Belize City filed into the classroom where they spent the better part of the day learning how to be young businessmen. It’s an initiative spearheaded by Diane Finnegan, coordinator of the Youth Apprenticeship Program during the ongoing truce. She tells News Five more […]
A train the trainer workshop for plumbing instructors for the ITVETs countrywide and field supervisors for Belize Water Services Limited began earlier this week and will continue through to August fifteenth. The purpose is to provide awareness on the existence of the Belize Plumbing Code. Director of Water from the Public Utilities Commission, Rudolph Williams […]
Next Thursday, August tenth, marks a full year since Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin struck down Section Fifty-Three of the Criminal Code outlawing sexual acts other than consensual heterosexual intercourse, between man and woman. The matter is being appealed by several church bodies and partially by the Government of Belize. But the United Belize Advocacy Movement […]
After two terms of David Fonseca as the first directly elected mayor of Belize City, the United Democratic Party has been on a run of four successive terms in office – two headed by Zenaida Moya, two headed by Darrell Bradley. And while the U.D.P. is the most successful it has ever been politically both […]
With less than a month to go before polling opens for the U.D.P. municipal convention, mayoral candidates Dion Leslie and Philip Willoughby have been actively campaigning on the ground and on the airwaves. Willoughby in particular has been making personal appearances in battleground communities such as the one we showed you earlier. On Tuesday, Leslie […]
In just a few minutes, the twenty-fifth annual La Reina De La Costa Maya Pageant will begin on La Isla Bonita San Pedro. Eight delegates from across Central America and Mexico will compete on the international stage of pageantry in costume, swimwear, evening wear and final question as they vie for the coveted title to […]
It’s a minimally invasive technique that is becoming increasingly popular in healthcare. And for the past two years it has been offered at the country’s main public hospital. It’s called interventional radiology and it allows for patients to have an alternative to open surgeries. We find out more about it in tonight’s Healthy Living. […]
The United States Embassy recognizes youth advocate Diane Finnegan as Wonder Woman for the month of August. As coordinator for the Youth Apprenticeship Program and wife of U.D.P. politician Michael Finnegan, she has dedicated her life to helping at-risk youths. Most recently, she has been instrumental in bringing rival Belize City gangs together to broker […]
As we’ve mentioned, News Five caught up with Finnegan at the Precinct One compound this evening, upon the release of SSG boss Alex Underwood who was detained overnight by Belize City police. Underwood is one of several individuals who are part of the ongoing peace initiative. Dianne Finnegan, Wonder Woman 2017 “I got a […]
Earlier today the Guatemalan Congress approved the holding of a referendum to take its territorial claim over Belize to the International Court of Justice. According to reports in Prensa Libre, a Guatemalan newspaper, the Congress gave the go ahead to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal to poll Guatemalans if they would agree to take the claim […]
The Queen’s Baton arrived in the Jewel today as it makes it way to Gold Coast in Australia in time for the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Here, it was met with much fanfare at the start of a relay covering ground in the City, to Orange Walk as well as the Chiquibul National Park. From here […]
