Twelve students will start the new academic year with scholarships through the Belize Bank Scholarship Programme. Among the guests at the Biltmore Plaza this morning were family members of the high school and sixth form students. The Belize Bank started the program in 2012 and this year, the first group of students graduated. Andrea Polanco […]
The tenth annual national “Du Di Rait Ting” Award Ceremony of the Police Department was held today at the Old Belize Pavilion in Belize City. It’s an initiative that started back in 2005 to encourage youths to lead productive lives and keep out of harm’s way. Hundreds of students from across the country have been […]
The official murder stats for the first half of the year is yet to be released by the Police Department, but we can surely say that 2015 is one of the most murderous years and that Belize has recently been named the fourth most dangerous country in the world. On Monday, artist Katie Usher took […]
The chronically cash strapped F.F.B. has received a much needed infusion of cash and, you guessed it…it’s a gift from Mister Petrocaribe. The symbolic check was handed over this afternoon at F.F.B. headquarters in Belmopan, where national team players have assembled to prepare for the third round of qualifiers set for September. John Saldivar, […]
A quarter million dollars sounds like a lot of money – and it is…but set against the backdrop of a national team in training, and against the costs associated with the individual rounds of competition – it’s not going to be enough. Still, it’s a significant amount of breathing room for the FFB, which can […]
The Department of Youth Services, in collaboration with the CARICOM Secretariat, is doing a follow-up training to Creativity for Employment and Business Opportunity. The regional initiative was piloted in five CARICOM member states back in 2012 and has now been introduced to a total of thirteen countries in the region. It looks at providing youths […]
But the visit by the regional delegation is also to establish local CEBO trainers in an effort to sustain this youth and entrepreneurship effort locally. Hilary Brown, Program Manager, Culture & Community Development, CARICOM Secretariat “Initially, we only trained three facilitators in the CEBO methodology from each of the countries in a regional workshop. […]
Kremandala journalist Kareem Clarke was gunned down early Monday morning, as he headed home on Vernon Street. His murder has shocked and saddened his family, friends and colleagues. Today, journalists from various media houses came together in the city to brainstorm…to find some way to honour the memory of this quiet but ambitious young man […]
Courts (Belize) Limited is expanding its services offered to Belizeans and is now venturing outside household items and gadgets. The company, which concentrates mainly on providing customers with much needed items through a higher purchase facility, is now making optical services available to its clientele. Courts Optical is a new unit created within the main […]
The installation of Courts Optical has been in the works for some time. For the Belize Council for the Visually Impaired, BCVI, Courts Belize’s debut into the business of optometry threatens the non-profit organization’s existing market. As it is, the income derived from BCVI’s services account for roughly fifty percent of its annual revenue. The […]
The Public Relations Unit of the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital is asking for some assistance from the general public in locating relatives or friends of Horacio Cardova whose last name is also documented as Cordova. Horacio was admitted to ward on Thursday June eighteenth, 2015. He’s of Hispanic decent, clear complexion, slim built and has […]
Soca Mode….it’s the latest song and music video to be released by the female Belizean artist. Earlier this morning, Melonie Gillett made her media rounds and appeared on Open Your Eyes to officially launch the new music video. Gillett, who is traditionally an R and B and reggae soul singer is tapping into another genre […]
The Miss Carnival Pageant is underway at the Bliss. The show, held for the first time, is being organized by the Belize Carnival Association. While it is about celebrating the spirit and unity that should be carnival, organizers say it is also a preview of what this year’s carnival season will be all about. We […]
Move over, Deon McCaulay! There is a group of boys getting ready to take over that striker position with the Jaguars. Well, not just yet, but they are well on their way there. Today News Five joined a bunch of eager and skilled children at the MCC for their football camp which comes to a […]
On Tuesday night, P.U.P. Leader Francis Fonseca praised Senator Father Noel Leslie and the Roman Catholic Church. Leslie and the Church have called on the government to repeal the controversial Petrocaribe Loan Motion even though last week at the Senate, he voted in favor of the amendment. Later, Leslie explained that his vote represented the […]
Will Belize’s manatees get the help that they need? For a very long time we have reported on the cases of manatee injury and deaths. Over the past few years it has become a worrisome issue and this year alone it seems that we will break the record for most recorded manatee deaths. Local proponents […]
Musical content, lyrics and stage performance….the first round, to determine the winners of the 2015 National Song Competition, is in full gear. This weekend, in Belize City and Punta Gorda, artists from these municipalities will take the stage to present their songs submitted for the junior and senior categories of the Belize song and carnival […]
In early June, the government announced that teachers and public officers will be receiving a whopping eight percent increase as a salary adjustment. Some, but not all public officers, are also benefitting from the annual increment of approximately two percent as agreed to in the Collective Bargaining Agreement by the Joint Negotiating Team and G.O.B. […]
The Collective Bargaining Agreement is for a three-year period, but was in the pipeline for six years. Back in 2008, the proposals were for a thirty percent adjustment for teachers and public officers because in the union’s estimation, the value of the dollar had dropped by that same percent. But following the final negotiations in […]
But salaries aside, there is another issue that teachers are confronting. It has to do with licenses, which come 2016 will be mandatory. Those who have not obtained a valid teacher’s license stand to lose their teaching jobs. It is a requirement under the Education and Training Act and B.N.T.U. President, Luke Palacio, says that […]
The arrest of Maya activist and spokesperson for Maya Leaders Alliance, Cristina Coc and other Maya leaders, is getting further local and international attention. Earlier today no less than the Geneva based United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples made a statement on the pre-dawn arrests as well as the issue of […]
On Monday’s newscast we told you about the changes to the organization structure and the ranks at the Eastern Division in Belize City. Former Officer Commanding the Eastern Division, Assistant Commissioner Dezerie Phillips, is now Divisional North Regional Commander of north side Belize City and the cayes. Her deputy, Senior Superintendent Edward Broaster is now […]
The focus of the National AIDS Commission is on men getting them tested and providing them with prevention tools. But according to studies, the youth are also a most vulnerable population. For the rest of the week, the Commission is developing the appropriate national response to control and reduce the number of affected persons. The […]
The Mek Mi Rich Game Show was introduced to the country nine months ago with a jackpot of half a million dollars. The televised game show plays three times weekly and has finally produced a winner. Last Thursday, after several easy to win challenges and promotions of one thousand and five thousand dollars cash prizes, […]
And finally to end the news, there is sad news to report. The Institute of Creative Arts and the country have lost an icon in the creative arts industry. Rosita Balthazar lost her fight to cancer on Monday night at her Los Lagos home in the Belize District. One of the founding members of the […]
