Students were away from the classrooms this week and so were teachers and other members of the Belize National Teachers Union. They are expected back in school next Monday as scheduled, long before a dispute between the B.N.T.U. and the Ministry of Education would come to boiling point. This latest salvo in an ongoing dispute […]
The Central Health Region has released the second part of its bi-annual health bulletin for the Belize District for 2016. The data, which is pulled from the Belize Health Information System, shows that communicable diseases have, for the most part, remained the same when compared with data from 2015. There are, however, some conditions that […]
The Central Health Region also released the latest data on the infant mortality rate for the Belize District in 2016 and there is some good news to report. In 2015, the infant mortality rate was at twenty four per thousand live births, but by 2016 that number had almost halved and now stands at fourteen […]
Another key set of numbers released for the Belize District are the numbers for the vector borne diseases. The Environmental Health Unit at Central Health Region continues to monitor the cases of these diseases – malaria, dengue, and Zika. Spraying and fogging have been ongoing in areas mostly affected by Dengue and Zika. Classic dengue […]
A new national team has been selected to represent Belize in the 2017 UNCAF Copa Centro Americana Games scheduled to begin on January thirteenth through to January twenty-second. The team is made up some familiar faces, including striker Deon McCaulay, midfielders Ian Gaynair and goalkeepers Woodrow West and Shane Orio. The Copa Centro Americana tournament […]
Belizean recording artist Dan Marcus is in Belize working on a new project. Marcus will be releasing a short film with two music videos as well as an EP that will be available online. These will all be available for purchase later this month across digital music platforms. Today, we spoke with Marcus who tells […]
In tonight’s newscast, we feature Kendis Gibson; he is a Belizean American who currently works at the ABC News network. Gibson relocated to the U.S. at the age of ten and has been described as a “talented journalist with wide-ranging experience.” He joined the ABC team back in 2014 as a correspondent. In this feature […]
A final list from which a thirteenth senator will be chosen was formalized on Wednesday, after a steering committee vetted the names of all nominees. That number has since been reduced to five, since the executive director of the Turneffe Atoll Sustainability Association, TASA, has withdrawn his candidacy. Tonight, we’ll introduce you to Janelle Chanona […]
Gay rights activist Caleb Orozco, executive director of UNIBAM, has raised several issues concerning the process being used by the Thirteenth Senator Steering Committee in going about the selection of the remaining parliamentarian. In fact, he points out that the panel should be proactive in its approach to reach out to other nongovernmental organizations, regardless […]
News Five has confirmed from reliable sources that the Office of the Solicitor General filed a claim in the Supreme Court on December twenty-eighth against the son of former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Lands Gaspar Vega, Andre Vega, and attorney Sharon Pitts, for the repayment of the sum of four hundred thousand dollars […]
You may recall that a few years back the Police Department installed surveillance cameras in key spots on south side Belize City; at the corner of George and Dean Streets; including the corner of Kraal Road and Haynes Street; Foot of the Pound Yard Bridge and BelCan Roundabout. From what we have gathered, none of […]
2016 ended off as one of the deadliest years in Belize’s history – with one hundred and thirty-seven murders. The transition into the New Year was a bloody one as well – with five murders in the first three days of 2017. Most took to the airwaves or online to express their discontent with the […]
The Christmas Season saw a noticeable increase in the number of police officers assigned to various hotspots across Belize City. In fact, it would almost seem as though a small tent with a pair of foldable chairs and two officers are stationed at the corners of every street leading towards the downtown area. Those measures […]
Starting June fourth, there will be a daily direct flight from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to Belize at rock-bottom prices. That’s the latest coming out of the Belize Tourism Board, the marketing arm of the country, following ongoing dialogue with Southwest Airlines. According to B.T.B., the flight will have multiple connections to and from Fort Lauderdale […]
The B.T.B. wants your vote to make the Great Blue Hole the ‘Best Caribbean Dive Site.’ Belize was nominated in the ‘Ten Best Readers’ Choice Award’ contest after it was selected by a panel of diving and Caribbean travel experts. The voting online is now open and ends at midnight on Monday, January thirtieth. Belize […]
So we’ve all heard of the military diet, the alkaline diet, grapefruit diet, and the cabbage soup diet, all that seem to be popular here in Belize when we want to lose weight as quickly as possible. Especially after the holidays with all that turkey and ham. That’s when we turn to quick fixes like […]
The first hearing of the Special Senate Select Committee for 2017 was hosted at the National Assembly, Belmopan. Sitting before the six-member panel was senior official of the Immigration Department, Maria Marin. Marin, now the Director for the Refugee Department in the Ministry, served as deputy and acting director of the Immigration Department in 2012 […]
According to Marin, she was swamped with research on the Won Hong Kim matter and concurrent investigations of the Department internally and by Police. She asked her subordinates to check with either the Ministry, in some cases, or the C.E.O. to help the auditors get what they wanted to review. But the Audit Report recalls […]
The Committee also tried to question Marin on the various approvals for visas, passports and nationalities in 2012 and 2013, when she was deputy and then holding over as acting director, but she stated that she could only really speak to those done in 2013. She went on to clarify what powers she held in […]
Nominations have been closed for the selection of a thirteenth member of the Senate. The United Democratic Party first proposed it in 2008 as a counter to a fully elected Senate, but Prime Minister Dean Barrow refused for several years to sign the prevailing sections of the Constitutional amendment into law, fearing worsened gridlock in […]
Dorian Pakeman and Alfonso Noble are both highly connected U.D.P. loyalists. Pakeman in March and Noble in December of 2016 knocked down and killed two men in separate incidents. Now, these fatal RTAs have garnered just about enough, or too much attention, because of how they have been handled so far. We’ve heard of the […]
Regional Commander of the Rural Eastern Division, ACP Edward Broaster, pulled out all the stops to reward some of the Police Officers who work under his jurisdiction. Today, he recognized those who stood out above the rest for 2016. They all received plaques and cash. The cash given out was a donation made by businessmen […]
Six murders in four days have taken some by surprise, while others were not so shocked by the spike in the homicides. And on Tuesday night, you heard the top brass in the Police Department talk about what they are going to do for the next few months to curb the gun violence, particularly in […]
Just now you heard Minister of Police Aragon speak on the short term methods they are implementing to cut the sharp increase in killings since the start of the New Year. He told us that his Ministry has undertaken a comprehensive plan which will be a national crime strategy. Aragon said that the plan is […]
Across the country, teachers were not in classrooms in response to a call from the Belize National Teachers Union. The latest dispute between the B.N.T.U. and the Ministry of Education involves the resumption of classes as the union continues with its planned absence from classrooms until January ninth. While mediation is pending over salaries and […]
