So just how will the Bureau of Standards implement the recommendations? First of all, there isn’t even a set of quality standards to go by in Belize. But Director of the Bureau, Jose Trejo, says while it will not be an overnight fix, they are serious about getting things done right. Jose Trejo, Director, Belize […]
The International Narcotics Control Strategy Report is submitted by the US State Department to Congress every year in March. It’s an assessment of global efforts to combat transnational narco-trafficking and money laundering and features individual country reviews. The 2011 report was recently published and there’s some bad news for Belize, which has always been vulnerable […]
He is following in the footsteps of Belize’s best entertainers and now the man who calls himself ‘Taprick’ has a release of his own. The young musician, Troy Busano, stopped by our studios today and told us about his new release. Busano says his Punta Rock album titled New Sheriff features the country’s best, such […]
The coast of Belize is becoming more perilous for manatees. Despite the awareness campaigns of the Coastal Zone Management Authority and Institute and the Sea 2 Shore Alliance, mariners are still the leading cause of deaths of the mammal, called the sea cow. Since Saturday two manatees have been killed off the coast of Belize […]
The 2011-2012 Budget was presented in the House of Representatives this morning. It is called Celebrating Growth, Sustaining Recovery and is to come online on April first. Before we get into the full figures, there’s a projected deficit, an increase in recurrent expenditure due to the wage bill and a slight increase in revenue and […]
Even though construction, manufacturing and fishing are not up to target and shrimp production has not shown signs of recovery, in the new budget, government is projecting a three percent growth in GDP. According to the prime minister, the growth will be reflected in electricity generation, retail trade, tourism services, transportation and agricultural production as […]
The budget will be debated on March twenty-third. It’s sure to bring fierce resistance from the opposition. But before that occurs, News Five asked P.U.P. Leader John Briceño for his first impressions of the budget. Briceño said it was a yawn, since old programs that never got off the ground were being rehashed. John Briceño, […]
We met Gloria Morales back in October 2010, when her five children were taken by the Department of Human Services and her thirteen year old daughter, Claudia Zetina, alleged that she was abused in a girl’s home. Today Morales came back to News Five studios following a court hearing in Dangriga and she had some […]
While the Prime Minister got to stand and speak solo for several hours during the budget presentation, the room wasn’t all quiet. There was no debate, but it sure had the appearance of one when the area rep for Fort George asked for tourist arrival figures and dollars for 2010. But instead of the ruling […]
It was not on the list of budgeted items up for discussion, but the Prime Minister responded to a question from the opposition side on his former wife Lois Young. Young has made a substantial sum as the government’s preferred attorney. As you are well aware, there are several attorneys on employment in the government […]
A contemporary architecture of glass and concrete is home to the north side branch of the Belize Bank. It is a giant leap from the subtle design of its headquarters at Market Square. The new branch opened on Thursday night at the Matalon Business Center on Coney Drive. Beyond the visual appeal of a new […]
The new budget for the financial year 2011-2012 goes before the House of Representatives on Friday morning in the Capital. The debate won’t happen until the twenty-third and twenty-fourth of March and it is guaranteed to come under fire by the Opposition before it is passed and ratified by the Senate. The Barrow administration has […]
A Belize City man is missing and his family is highly concerned about his safety. Thirty seven year old Rudolph McKoy is a cab driver whose station is near a local supermarket. His colleagues found it strange that they haven’t seen him for a few days and contacted his family. According to Sherlette Ottley, McKoy, […]
She is tiny, weighing in at a little under six pounds. Baby Shantel Carr was born three weeks ago, but a heart defect is threatening her life. Her family needs your assistance to be able to afford the corrective surgery required to save her. News Five’s Delahnie Bain met the infant and her family earlier […]
The annual Holy Saturday Cross Country Cycling competition is still a few weeks away but amateur and professional riders as well their families and friends are being invited to participate in a cycling event for a worthy cause. On Saturday morning the Women’s Department will kick off its yearly ride across Belize City and while […]
She’s what many may fondly call a blast from the past. With a career dating back to the early seventies, most bands don’t survive the test of time…but Zoila Clark has. In fact, not only has she outlived many from her era in the entertainment industry, she is still rocking as hard as she did […]
Police also gave their version in respect of the murder of twenty-seven year old Jason Pott which occurred at the corner of Cleghorn Street and Slaughterhouse Road on Saturday evening. The victim’s sister alleged that a police mobile knocked down her brother and a friend, who were heading to the hospital on a bicycle, because […]
A two-day oil summit held in Punta Gorda Town by a host of environmental N.G.O.s culminated today. After much debate on the benefits and drawbacks of oil exploration in protected areas of Belize and in particular in the Sarstoon Temash National Park, the summit adopted a position paper. Present were the Sarstoon Temash Institute of […]
Still on the question of oil exploration, we reported on Tuesday night that the environmental community is speaking out against new oil concessions in the north, which includes sections of the Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area. Applications from five companies were discussed in Cabinet today for a production sharing agreement in the northwestern Orange […]
A Belize City woman believed that if she and her husband moved as far as they could from the hot zones in the city, they would be safe from violence. So they moved to the peace and quiet of Belama Phase Four, two and a half months ago. And even though she wasn’t confronted by […]
His sheep were all slaughtered just prior to the last General Elections and about a year later someone broke into his constituency office and left a hog’s head on his desk. Now Belize Rural North Area Representative, Edmund “Clear the Land” Castro has lost three cabanas containing fish feed, an amount he says is valued […]
Despite all the bad news, there is the positive story of a remarkable woman. She experienced horrors, that included sexual abuse, but she didn’t allow it to keep her down. Beverly Small reformed her life and is now devoted to public service. Today she was honored as the US Embassy’s Woman of the Year. News […]
Beverly Small won an award today for her work in her community but when it comes to the political process, as a country, women are far behind. Over the past twenty-five years the number of women who have held ministerial posts has only been six; a figure which pales in comparison to the number of […]
While Philip Tysinger looks for his biological parents, families of children adopted by Ruha’mah Stadtlander, a US missionary, have come forward with additional stats about the woman. Despite court appearances in Belize and the U.S., the Williams from Independence Village are only one of several families who have been unsuccessful in getting their child returned […]
Cases of Belizean children who have ended up in the United States under questionable circumstances have been revealed in our newscast in the past two weeks. Tonight, we have the story of one more Belizean who was adopted by American nationals from his Belizean parents. But Philip Tysinger isn’t one of those suspect cases; he […]
