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On Tuesday the Venezuelan embassy in Belize held a press conference to issue a defense of the ongoing situation in the South American country. More than eight million Venezuelans of eighteen million registered voters elected some five hundred and forty-five members of a national constituent assembly to address changes to the country’s constitution, but opponents […]
Belize receives regular and diesel fuel through the Petrocaribe program with Venezuela although prices remain high at the pumps. But for some time now Belize has been unable to source premium fuel through Petrocaribe and has had to agree with Puma Energy to supply that fuel. While with Venezuela’s ongoing political crisis the ‘good old […]
There are two deaths of notable personalities to report. Former Central Bank Governor Keith Arnold, who served as head of Belize’s primary financial institution from January 1992 to April 2002, passed away shortly after arriving in country on Saturday. Arnold was also Director of the Financial Intelligence Unit under the Musa administration from 2002 to […]
Written on August 2, 2017 | Posted in
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The Accident and Emergency Department at the K.H.M.H. received a much needed donation from the Social Security Board. Computers valued at five thousand dollars were handed over to help the unit improve efficiency in the processing of patients data leading to improve health care. On Friday the C.E.O. of S.S.B. Doctor Colin Young made the […]
The Belize City Council has engaged residents of the Bella Vista development in a one hundred and eighty-thousand-dollar project to pave eight streets in the community in exchange for property taxes. The work is underway and there are plans to expand the project to all of Bella Vista, which is located off the Philip Goldson […]
Written on August 2, 2017 | Posted in
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A new locally produced sitcom that will air on this station is called “Livin’ Mi Life.” It was written and created by Kim Vasquez, who partnered with Thirteen Productions and Steve Berry, a former professor at Howard University. It is the same team that brought you the locally acclaimed ‘No Matta Wat’ and they hope […]
Police Constables Daniel Choc and Derwin Garcia are being hailed as heroes tonight. The officers rescued three teenage boys who almost drowned in the Macal River in Cristo Rey Village on Saturday. San Ignacio Police received a distress call around three on Saturday afternoon and six officers went out to help. It took the officers […]
Written on July 31, 2017 | Posted in
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This past Wednesday, the final public hearing of the Senate Special Select Committee on Immigration before a one-month hiatus was abruptly canceled over lack of consensus as to the necessity and propriety of interviewing three senior auditors of the Supreme Audit Institution. The potential witnesses were part of the investigative team that conducted an audit […]
There’s a new emergency airlift that will be flying across the country in the days ahead, assisting the Belize Emergency Response Team with aerial capacity. Wings of Hope has provided BERT with a single engine aircraft valued at approximately one hundred and seventy-five thousand U.S. dollars. The six passenger Piper Cherokee Six has been fitted […]
The Police Department has received six motorcycles to bolster its fight against crime, primarily in the Belize District. The generous donation came from Offshore Solutions at the request of the former Regional Commander for the Rural Eastern Division, Assistant Commissioner Edward Broaster, who was present at today’s event. Broaster says the motorbikes will get the […]
Written on July 31, 2017 | Posted in
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The Ariel Rosado Foundation, established in the memory of the fallen cyclist turned legal practitioner, has increased the number of scholarships it awards to students for the fifth year in succession. This year, the foundation has approved funding for a total of forty six scholarships comprised as follows: ten primary school students to learn to […]
The Meso American Reef, like many other coral reef systems, is vulnerable to a number of threats, including coastal development, habitat loss, overfishing and unsustainable fishing. Similarly, climate change increases these threats and decreases the resilience of the ecosystems to recover from changes. With these threats growing, the Meso American Reef Fund developed the project, […]
For the first time in ten years, an annual teacher training conference, previously organized and held in the west, was hosted at the Radisson in Belize City. Pathlight has been working along with the Ministry of Education for years to help develop successful educators, knowing that well-equipped teachers and administrators are crucial to student success. […]
The annual Creative Arts Camp organized by the Institute of Creative Arts culminated today with a routine showcase of what the young performers have learned at the camp. Over the past three weeks, primary and preschool students practiced the various techniques in dance, drama and song and today, the parents got to see the routines […]
Popular Belizean philanthropist Dara Robinson is preparing once again for the school year ahead by hosting the sixth annual Ride for Hunger. The event takes place this Sunday where the ride departs from the Marion Jones Sporting Complex at six o’clock in the morning. This afternoon, Dara stopped by our office to make a special […]
Written on July 28, 2017 | Posted in
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Isle where Dara and friends have organized the tenth annual Lucky Dube Tribute. As usual, fans of reggae music and those wanting to contribute to the feeding program are being encouraged to bring along with them non-perishable food items that will go towards the initiative. Joel ‘Dara’ Robinson, Philanthropist “I have the privilege ah, […]
Written on July 28, 2017 | Posted in
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Tonight, the Department of Transport has come down on a bus company operating out of the west, following the release of a video exposing dirty tactics by a driver on the George Price Highway. J and J Bus Company’s two runs have been suspended for a month and its driver could face criminal charges. The […]
Taiwanese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Doctor David Tawei Lee and his wife, Chih Lin arrived in Belize on Wednesday and were hosted at an event in Belmopan. While the media was not made aware of the official visit by the foreign minister, we did receive an excerpt from the welcome ceremony. An address by C.E.O. […]
The Ministry of Natural Resources has received complaints of increased illicit mining and dredging activities within the marine environment surrounding San Pedro, Ambergris Caye. In a release issued today, the ministry confirms that the Mining Unit has teamed up with the Hol Chan Marine Reserve staff to investigate these activities to confirm the extent and […]
A Belize City family is tonight seeking public assistance to recover some of what they’ve lost, following a fire that destroyed their home and all its contents three weeks ago. Patrice Flowers, her common-law-husband and their children have been separated from each other, living in different homes as they remain in distress from the disaster […]
Approximately one thousand, three hundred persons countrywide have conditions that may lead to visual impairment, whether total or partial. The top causes are removable cataracts, irreversible glaucoma, or diabetic retinopathy caused by complications of diabetes. There are many others who live with their condition alone. But the Belize Council for the Visually Impaired has reached […]
We’ve shown you the Port Honduras Marine Reserve down south. It’s an economically important piece of the south, but it is also a nationally protected marine reserve. One of the co-managers of the reserve is the Toledo Institute for Development and Environment (TIDE). Over the years, they have implemented a number of programs and projects […]
On Tuesday, the thirty-ninth Central American Port Forum opened in Belize. The annual event is being hosted by Central American Commission for Maritime Transport in collaboration with the Belize Port Authority, the Port of Belize and the Port of Big Creek. Over eighty delegates from the port industry across the region are discussing the state of the industry, sharing best practices […]
For this next story, close your eyes and sit down in front of your television set to watch the news. Think about any of the things you do normally. Now imagine that your eyes are closed permanently. That’s what most visually impaired persons go through, usually through no fault of their own. The already turbulent […]
Over three hundred and seventy students successfully completed the annual summer classes at the YWCA. It featured primary and high school students taking on additional work during their annual break in areas of academics and sports, including swimming. News Five’s Duane Moody attended the closing ceremony held today for the second cohort of students and […]
Written on July 27, 2017 | Posted in
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