This week, a series of activities are taking place to highlight the work of the police department. One of the initiatives that builds relations with the public is community policing; it gets residents to work with the police. News Five’s Duane Moody was at a fair where the many functions of the department were on […]
Police Week began on Sunday with a church service at the Divine Mercy Church in Belize City. There were several other activities organized across the country, but later this week, there will be an award ceremony, and a parade by the officers, among other things. Woman Corporal of Police and Public Relations Officer for the […]
Retired police officer Marie Henry was among the first women to join the Belize Police Force back in the early sixties. Today, her outstanding career as a woman in law enforcement is enshrined in a namesake daycare center that was inaugurated at the Raccoon Street Police Headquarters. The opening ceremony coincides with the celebration of […]
The U.S. Embassy held its annual Pride Month commemorative event today in Belmopan. It joins the rest of the world this month to celebrate Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex persons and reaffirms its commitment to protect and defend the human rights of all, including L.G.B.T.I. persons. A brief ceremony was held in Belmopan where […]
In our past coverage of the L.G.B.T.I. event at the U.S. Embassy, you may have seen the symbolic raising of the rainbow flag; but that didn’t happen this year. Visiting Deputy Director of Central American Affairs, Thomas Lersten, delivered the remarks at today’s event in the absence of Charge d’ Affaires Keith Gilges. Lersten said […]
The shocking murders of a visiting U.S. doctor while on a fishing trip with a San Pedro tour guide is grabbing attention in the international press. The Doctor Gary Swank is highly respected and his community and family are reeling from his senseless murder. Already, the U.S. Embassy has issued an advisory on travel to […]
Outbreaks of communicable diseases, environmental challenges, poor health and wellness in the tourism workforce can result in closures of hotels and cruise ports which can lead to significant losses in revenue. These are some of the driving forces behind the Caribbean Public Health Agency and the Caribbean Tourism Organisation partnering to address issues affecting health and […]
A robotic coding programming has become a big hit among young tech savvy students. The Belize High School, which has been pioneering the programme, is holding a summer camp that has attracted some forty students from five schools. It exposed them to the fundamentals of programming by applying mathematics and problem solving skills. The aim […]
The fifteenth annual Growing the Future Project takes place next month from July first to the nineteenth in four locations across the country; namely, Belize City, Belmopan, San Ignacio and Dangriga. Over five thousand primary children have successfully completed the summer programme that helps them to transition to the next year of classes in areas […]
The bloodbath over the weekend has triggered a statement from Leader of the Opposition. John Briceño notes that ten persons lost their lives this past week in a crime spree. In a statement, he holds the Barrow administration responsible for another six months in which the law-abiding citizenry continues to be paralyzed by crime. The P.U.P. […]
The first phase of village council elections was held on Sunday. A total of thirty-five villages in Corozal, Belize, Cayo, Stann Creek and Toledo participated in the first round. The People’s United Party won one hundred and twenty-three seats, while the ruling United Democratic Party won seventy-three seats. Forty-nine seats were garnered by independent candidates. […]
A young man lost his life over the weekend in Red Bank Village where he had gone swimming with a group of friends in the nearby river. Jamie Cayetano reportedly entered the water ahead of his friends and did not resurface. When they were subsequently able to bring Cayetano to shore and attempt to resuscitate […]
On Friday, the House of Representatives read through the Tax Administration and Procedure Bill 2019 which essentially sees a merger of the Income Tax and General Sales Tax departments. The purpose is to facilitate the official and effective administration and collection of domestic taxes. While the opposition supported the move, concerns were raised in respect […]
Prime Minister Barrow responded to those claims as baseless and unsubstantiated, notwithstanding the fact that the opposition supports the idea of streamlining the tax system. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “At least he was good enough to concede that the notion of the amalgamation as an effort to streamline the entire tax system and to […]
On Saturday, the Taiwanese Embassy in Belize celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of established diplomatic ties between Belize and Taiwan. Both countries have cooperation in areas such as education, agriculture, climate change resilience, infrastructural development, as well as culture. News Five’s Duane Moody attended the all day fair that took place on Taiwan Street along the […]
The Ministry of Investment and Trade has partnered with the Embassy of the Republic of China (Taiwan) to facilitate two investment missions to Belize. These missions are to help increase foreign direct investments in prioritized industries in the country. This morning, the Ministry hosted a welcome ceremony for eight Taiwanese delegates for the first mission which kicked […]
The first Society of Women Coders Camp for Girls was launched this morning and the aim is to engage the intellectual curiosity of Belize’s young women and provide an atmosphere for learning a skill which can develop their appetite for information technology. The camp will run for two weeks in Belize and Belmopan and is […]
The House of Representatives met today in ordinary session, one month after a special meeting was called to amend the Maritime Areas Act, following the May eighth I.C.J. referendum. But that Kumbaya moment during which there was peace and calm, or better yet a sense of political maturity between the government and the opposition, was […]
While things got testy between the PM and Espat, Opposition Leader John Briceño attempted to have order returned to House and despite the Speaker’s intervention, the cutting remarks kept coming. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “Again, that act… He… but I think all schizophrenics are actors. But I shouldn’t have said schizophrenic again, I apologize.” […]
A thorough investigation into the real estate swindle that was Sanctuary Bay is being undertaken by the Federal Trade Commission, an independent arm of the U.S. government tasked with providing and promoting consumer protection. The scam in which American investors lost over a hundred million U.S. dollars was perpetrated in Belize through Atlantic International Bank […]
Musa openly questioned the business transaction during which principal ownership of AIBL was assumed by former Chief Executive Officer Ricardo Pelayo, but not before taking a few more swipes at the Barrow family. Kareem Musa, Area Representative, Caribbean Shores “When these fraudsters, these Sanctuary Bay fraudsters were faced with lawsuits, who did these scam […]
While the Caribbean Shores Area Rep enjoys parliamentary privilege for utterances in the house, the prime minister took umbrage to the allegations that the Atlantic Bank may have had a hand in the purportedly dubious transaction. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “He is, in effect, suggesting that the separation between Atlantic International Bank Limited and […]
The topic of education proved equally testy as Deputy Prime Minister Patrick Faber responded to concerns raised by Freetown Area Rep and former Minister of Education Francis Fonseca. In responding to Fonseca, the Minister of Education mentioned assistance provided to students in the Fort George and Toledo West constituencies. It wasn’t long before area representatives […]
Eamon Courtenay has vacated his seat in the Senate. Having served as a parliamentarian in the upper house for as many as ten years as lead senator for the Opposition, Courtenay is moving on with the P.U.P. in another capacity. He has been appointed as the Opposition’s representative on the Belize-Guatemala Committee that is working […]
Lieutenant Alma Pinelo received the honor graduate award after she successfully completed the International Maritime Officer Course at the U.S Coast Guard Training Center in Virginia, U.S.A. Lieutenant Pinelo is the first Belizean and the first female to receive this prestigious award, as a result her name and country will be enshrined into the Honor […]
