Company C.E.O., Rochus Shreiber provided an overview of the past year under his leadership, particularly the rollout of Destination Greatness, as well as the vision for customers to take full advantage of the fiber to home network which was introduced as part of that strategy. Rochus Shreiber, C.E.O., Belize Telemedia Ltd. “This fiscal year […]
The Buttonwood Bay Nazarene Primary School on Coney Drive in Belize City has been transforming into a model education facility. Aside from expansion works here and there, the institution has also worked on improving its academic performance. As early as May of this year, two hundred and fifty students were registered for the current school […]
Recruitment manager Audralee Enriquez also took the opportunity to invite persons, eighteen years and older, to come to a job fair hosted by Transparent BPO. The company currently has eight hundred plus employees and is seeking to grow its numbers to about one thousand five hundred. Throughout the course of the year, several job fairs […]
The Port of Belize Limited is once again at odds with gangs of stevedores working at the harbor, as well as their representative union. For years, the company has shared an adversarial relationship with waterfront workers, a somewhat confrontational state of affairs which dates back to the presidency of Antonio Gonzales. Since taking over as […]
According to Arturo ‘Tux’ Vasquez, Chief Executive Officer at the Port of Belize, the labor law mandates that there be a minimum of nine hours of down time for persons working within a twenty-four hour period. While both parties were deadlocked on the issue, CWU President Evan ‘Mose’ Hyde says that they subsequently requested a […]
Since both parties are at a logjam, it is expected that Prime Minister Dean Barrow, who is also Minister of Labor, will have to intervene in the matter. Vasquez cites the Settlement of Disputes Essential Services Act which permits stevedores to give advance notice of industrial action; however, he also says that it is subject […]
Just before ten o’clock this morning, news spread like wildfire that resident youths at Princess Royal Youth Hostel were on the roof of one of the buildings. Speculation was fast and furious on social media as to why the residents were there within minutes, the police were there as well as B.D.F. soldiers. A News […]
Today, young people from across the country gathered at the Biltmore Plaza for a national consultation spearheaded by the Ministry of Health in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Human Development and other partners such as UNICEF. The purpose of the consultation is to bring together various stakeholders, particularly the adolescents, to […]
The mass re-registration is over with a total of one hundred and thirty thousand, seven hundred and ninety-two applications received by the Elections and Boundaries Department over the three month period. During the last week of re-registration, that is between September twenty-third and thirtieth, six thousand, three hundred and seventy-six applications were submitted. The total […]
The criminal past of a current coast guard officer is being brought back to life after it was reported that Belizean-born British soldier Lee Charles Busano is back in Belize and serving in one of Belize’s security arms. Three years ago, in 2015, Corporal Busano who was based at Weeton Army Camp in the U.K. […]
Over the weekend media representatives were taken to Cayo to visit top tourist destinations as part of B.T.B.’s annual familiarization excursion. On Monday showed you the thrilling zip-lining and out of this world cave-tubing experiences that Cavetubing.bz offers. Today, News Five’s Hipolito Novelo takes a look at two top resorts in the Cayo District. […]
Since the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Wilfred Elrington, addressed the United Nations one year ago, the government has announced a date for the referendum on whether or not Belizeans want to head to the International Court of Justice to bring resolution to the Guatemalan claim. That date is set for April tenth2019. In Guatemala, in April […]
The People’s United Party held its national executive meeting at Memorial Park in Belize City. Hundreds of delegates from constituencies in the districts, travelled to join the Belize City delegates for the event on Saturday. This year, the P.U.P. celebrated its sixty-eighth birthday which was one of the reasons for the meeting. The party also […]
As an annual event, the Belize Tourism Board hosted members of the media for its 2018 familiarization tour. This year, the media was taken to the Cayo District where journalist and videographers got a firsthand experience at some of the tourist attractions that Belize has to offer in the west. The trip kicked off on […]
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Prime Minister Dean Barrow returned to the country on Thursday, but he was unable to attend today’s House Meeting since he is still recovering from surgery. So, Acting Prime Minister Patrick Faber led the proceedings on the government side. A number of bills were introduced. The main bill; however, was for the settlement of an […]
The Opposition hotly debated the six million U.S.-dollar settlement agreement. John Briceño led the charge questioning why government wants to settle a U.S.-based judgment when it had ignored a judgement in Belize’s courts. According to Briceño’s calculations, the government’s tax claim with penalties and interest amount to twenty-eight million dollars, which it is giving up […]
When the NEWCO deal collapsed, the Belize Airport Concession group was granted an agreement to manage the P.G.I.A. The Belmopan Area rep John Saldivar raised the issue of who was in that group, but the former Prime Minister and Fort George Area Rep Said Musa shut him up. Caribbean Shores area rep Kareem drove home […]
A loan for roughly seventeen million Belize dollars is being guaranteed by government for Belize Water Services Limited to acquire shares in Consolidated Water Belize Limited in San Pedro. The privately held utility company on Ambergris Caye will be bought by BWSL and its system expanded to provide potable water, as well as sewerage, to […]
The tragic fire that claimed the lives of four members of the Petillo family in Orange Walk Town on Sunday morning remains a talking point in light of numerous criticisms made against the National Fire Service. Once again, the department has been disparaged for not responding promptly to the deadly blaze and when it did […]
The state of emergency for two south side neighborhoods is presumably nearing its end. That notwithstanding, another amendment was tabled before parliament today. The Crime Control and Criminal Justice Act was once again brought before the House of Representatives with a revision in respect of bail restrictions for gang membership and other offenses. The reintroduction […]
The referendum is set for April tenth. 2019. It is the day when Belizeans will go to the polls to decide if the Belize-Guatemalan territorial dispute should be taken before the I.C.J. It is arguably the important voting decision that Belizeans will have to make. And while there has been very spirited debate on whether […]
The National AIDS Commission is introducing an innovative way to get more people tested. They have developed an app which they are making available for free and can be downloaded on mobile devices after which persons do not need internet to be able to navigate to testing sites around the country. This new feature is […]
Today, the U-Report was launched at the B.T.L. Park in Belize City. It is a free SMS social monitoring tool designed to gather information to address issues that affect youth. Once the data is captured, it will be used policy and decision makers to tailor policies and programs to meet the needs of the population. […]
It has been reported across the media that an audit was to be conducted on the office of the music ambassador, Shyne Barrow. It was Barrow who first spoke out publicly against NICH President Sapna Budhrani. So when information got out about an audit at his office, it was seen as a deliberate reaction to […]
