Where does the Minister of New Growth Industries stand on the shelved marijuana legislation? While we were with him earlier today, Minister Musa also shared his views on the cannabis industry and the proposed legislation that would legitimized the cultivation and sale of cannabis in Belize.
Is Deputy Commissioner of Police, Doctor Richard Rosado next in line to become the top cop in the Belize Police Department? His political boss, Minister of Home Affairs Kareem Musa, says yes and explains the system that is generally used to appoint a new Commissioner of Police. This is against the backdrop of three senior […]
This morning, the Football Federation of Belize officially introduced the Belize Women Under-Twenty National Team at its headquarters in Belmopan. The team consists of nineteen athletes from across the country. They are preparing to represent Belize in the under-twenty CONCACAF qualifiers in Managua, Nicaragua at the end of May. We heard from Wayne Casimiro, the […]
World champion body painter Trina Merry is in Belize as part of her Body Art Lost in Wonder series. Merry is renowned for camouflaging locals into famous iconic sites around the world such as the Pyramids of Giza, Machu Picchu, Petra and Chichen Itza, among others. Merry’s parents live in Belize and she has been […]
In 2015, Belize signed on to the 2005 UNESCO Convention on Diversity of Cultural Expressions, which encompasses the cultural and creative industries. As a result of our ratification, Belize must submit a report to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, on the status of our diversity of cultural expressions. In order to […]
Batty says that even the artists and artisans of all walks of life are urged to attend Saturday’s workshop so they too can have their voices heard in the report and give their views on how Belize, as a country, ought to be heading culturally. That all-day event will also take place at the Government […]
A group of seventy-three Pathfinders Master Guides returned to Belize after attending a one-week camp in Jamaica. Their journey to and from the religious camp is a story on its own, nonetheless, the delegation got to meet Olympic champion Usain Bolt. The camp is a space for networking with other young people across the region […]
It’s a highly sophisticated board game that is popular across the world. Today, the British High Commissioner hosted twenty Belizean chess players and British chess Grandmaster, Nigel Short, who took them on simultaneously. It happened this evening at the British High Commissioner’s residence in Belmopan and News Five’s Marion Ali was there and filed this […]
There was a home invasion in San Ignacio Town on Easter Sunday that resulted in the murder of an elderly retiree. William Maxwell Smith returned to Belize in February and was here to oversee the construction of a resort in the Kontiki area, where he also resided. On the morning of April ninth, a pair […]
The officers who responded promptly to the aggravated burglary are being recognized by the Belize Police Department for their quick work in apprehending one of the suspects not far from where the incident took place. Since the arrest and subsequent detention of a second suspect, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams has given assurances that all […]
Thirty-eight-year-old Francis Augustine, a resident of Hopkins Village, was butchered in the wee small hours of April sixth. When residents of that coastal community woke up on the morning of Holy Thursday, it was to the news that “Chingu” had been stabbed multiple times and left for dead in front of his home. It is […]
Police have arrested and charged twenty-three-year-old Jermaine Bardalez, a fisherman of Belize City, forty-one-year-old Germaine “Horse” Garnett, a laborer of Saint Martin de Porres area, and twenty-three-year-old Tyrique Garnett of Ladyville, for the crimes of aggravated burglary and two counts of aggravated assault. The arrests come several weeks after a foiled aggravated burglary at that […]
The Belize Police Department has lost a well-known colleague and so has the local media. Assistant Superintendent Fitzroy Yearwood passed away this afternoon following a massive stroke that he suffered over the Easter weekend. The communications director, who had been serving in that capacity for the past three years, built a solid rapport with reporters, […]
Lev Dermen, the Los Angeles-based businessman who made the news during his tax fraud trial in February 2020, when former Minister of National Security John Saldivar was named as receiving money in tranches from him, has been handed down a forty-year prison sentence. Dermen was one of five persons who were sentenced for the roles […]
Back in November 2018, news broke of a multimillion-dollar real estate scam that had been operating in Belize for the better part of fifteen years. At the time, the Federal Trade Commission revealed that two-time convicted felon Andris Pukke, along with several associates, duped investors into buying Sanctuary Bay lots by falsely promising that the […]
Today, the Ministry of Sustainable Development, Climate Change, and Disaster Risk Management issued a release officially informing the public that a replacement for Lucy Fleming on the Environmental Tribunal has been named. The release says that following Fleming’s resignation, the minister has appointed Anthony Paul Hunt Senior as her replacement. Hunt will be representing the […]
A significant amount of money, jewelry, cell phones, and shotguns were stolen in a burglary over the Easter holidays. The loot, valued at around thirty-eight thousand dollars, was removed from the home of a Los Lagos family that decided to take a trip during the extended weekend. Thieves cut a portion of the chain-link fence […]
An Orange Walk resident lost his life on Thursday afternoon when his Ford Ranger pickup truck collided into a freightliner tractor on the George Price Highway. According to police, at around one p.m., thirty-two-year-old Ronald Hiron was driving a white freightliner truck towards Belmopan City and upon reaching mile twenty-eight; he saw a Ford Ranger […]
Jankunu Productions is back with another one of its Belizean dramas. Belitopia is all about Belize in 2050. The futuristic play captures life in Belize now compared to life in Belize thirty years from today. Written by playwright Julie-Ann Ellis Bradley, Belitopia comes to life on Friday and Saturday nights inside the Bliss Centre for […]
Good evening and welcome to this special edition of Sports Monday, I am Paul Lopez. It was a weekend of celebration in sports for Belizeans near and far. We begin tonight’s coverage with the ninety-third running of the Holy Saturday Cross Country Cycling Classic. Well folks, if you have not already heard, the garland is […]
An Anti-Inflation and Food Security Summit, led by Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Orbrador, is underway and Belize has been invited to participate in this important regional effort. On Wednesday, Prime Minister John Briceño addressed various heads of government who were present at the top-level diplomatic conference. In his speech, P.M. Briceño spoke of the […]
It’s that time again when hot cross buns and fried fish are the order of the day, well at least on the dinner menu. And while the making of cross buns is a decades-old tradition in Belize, it is still a skill that perhaps younger folks may need some coaching on how to get the […]
The long Easter weekend is upon us. It is expected that Belizeans will be spending a lot of their time celebrating along the shorelines. In San Pedro Town, Mayor Wally Nunez and his council have been preparing for an influx of visitors. The town council has planned a couple Easter weekend activities for the entire […]
The Belize Tourism Board has recognized Derick Hendy with the Frontline Hero Award for 2023. The employee of the Belize Audubon Society is also the site manager for the Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary. Hendy shares the significance of this recognition for the work that he does in conserving the natural environment. Here’s that interview. […]
Across Belize, thousands of residents are traveling for relaxation this Easter weekend to escape from the tedium of everyday life on the job or at home. Thousands more will also make time for church as the commune with the Holy Spirit in service of Easter, a Christian festival and cultural holiday remembering the resurrection of […]
