One of the busiest days of the year for emergency medical response teams is carnival day which is this Saturday. In tonight’s Healthy Living, we find out why and what you can do to prevent health emergencies. Marleni Cuellar, Reporting On Saturday, the streets of Belize City will be overflowing with thousands of people […]
The Ombudsman’s Office has issued its seventeenth annual report. The document covers the period of January first to December thirty-first, 2017. According to the document, one hundred and twenty-two new complaints were lodged with his office. The allegations ranged from corruption to injury to abuse. Some of the more serious and frequent allegations include unjustifiable […]
Employees who are a part of the Belize City Council’s cemetery staff refused to proceed to Eternal Gardens Memorial Cemetery today. The employees who are members of the Christian Workers Union say that the Belize City Council refused to pay them subsistence because Eternal Gardens is outside the City limits. This led to members of […]
The family of twenty-one-year-old Jeffrey Hernandez wants answers with regards to his horrible death. The Guinea Grass football player died on Monday night after falling inside a cement mixer and being sliced by one of the blades. He was cleaning the machine when the incident occurred. The official police report states that Hernandez’s co-workers rushed […]
A person dies every forty seconds by suicide which represents over eight hundred thousand deaths every year across the world. And there is up to twenty-five times that many who attempt suicide. The number of deaths by suicide in Belize is relatively low when compared to other parts of the world, but it is still […]
Mas camps leading up to this year’s carnival road march got underway on Tuesday night. Tensions are flaring up on the south side of the city, but revellers were energised to impress the judges. The first stop of the three mas camps was over at Vernon Street where the junior queen champ hopes to win […]
A game at which two can play seems to be the direction that the tiff between Music Ambassador Shyne Barrow and besieged NICH President Sapna Budhrani is headed. Budhrani’s suspension came into effect on Monday, however, a formal review of the expenditure of funds made available to the Office of the Music Ambassador for Music […]
According to Shyne Barrow, the spat between himself and Sapna Budhrani is not a personal vendetta being carried out against her. Likewise, he told the media this morning that the disagreement has very little, if nothing to do with the allocation of monies to his office, since funds that have been invested so far aren’t […]
Audits are taking place both at NICH and now at the office of the Music Ambassador. The results are expected to be released on completion. But News Five has obtained a copy of an audit from the office of the Auditor General. It covers the Procurement of Equipment purchased by the Ministry of Health for […]
Twenty one year old Guinea Grass villager, Jeffrey Hernandez, died a horrible and painful death on Monday night. Hernandez, a well-known football player in his home village, was working at AP Enterprise Cement Block factory on mile four of the George Price Highway when he was mangled by a cement mixer. News Five understands that […]
A death investigation is ongoing in the western village of Georgeville, Cayo District. On Monday evening, police responded to a shooting at mile one on the Mountain Pine Ridge Road in the village. Forty-two-year-old Daniel Alford Senior had been shot to the left side of the abdomen. He was taken to the San Ignacio Community […]
Former Employee of the National Bank of Belize is exposing irregularities at the financial institution that have left her in bad debt. Katrina Young resigned from the National Bank of Belize in 2015. During her tenure at the bank, Young successfully applied for two loans—one for her studies and another for a vehicle. As an […]
According to Young, if she did not keep her own records she would have had to pay a loan of fourteen percent. Young was given a bill of fifteen thousand dollars for late fees which she says are incorrect because she has all the receipts of her monthly payments. Katrina Young, Former Employee, National […]
Police officers were called on a group of Nazarene High School students this morning after they refused to leave from in front of the school’s compound in Belize City. The students were prevented from entering the compound and attending classes after it was deemed that their hairstyles were inappropriate. Tensions quickly rose and the school […]
A video of a fight between two men went viral on Facebook over the weekend. One of the men in the fight is The Guardian’s Editor and host of ‘Fus Ting Da Mawnin,’ Alfonso Noble. The other man, not as known as Noble, is Norman Castillo. He stopped by our studios to say that the […]
The mass re-registration exercise is over and the final tally for the number of applications received by the Elections and Boundaries Department is one hundred twenty-one thousand, four hundred and ninety-six. This is far below from the original target of two hundred thousand applications. During the first week of the re-registration exercise, sixteen thousand, six […]
There are health concerns in the remote village of Billy White. It is small village of about two hundred families in the Cayo District. The village is not often mentioned in the news, but we were called out there because there are serious concerns that the water used for daily routines is contaminated. Villagers say […]
The annual flag raising ceremony was held at the roundabout near Pallotti High School on Saturday morning to officially kick off the September Celebrations. The brief ritual at the Flag Monument was attended by Mayor Bernard Wagner and his team from the Belize City Council. Here is an excerpt from his address. Bernard Wagner, […]
Chairman of the Sugar Control Production Committee, Doctor Carlos Itza, no longer holds the post of Sugar Cane Specialist and Sugar Cane Technical Assistant with the Sugar Industry Control Board. He was given his marching papers last week and was told that his contract will not be renewed because his post has become redundant. Prior […]
This week Rotaract Club of Belize City donated over four thousand dollars worth of school supplies to one hundred and thirty preschool students for the new school year. The donation was made to the Presbyterian, Sunshine and Port Loyola Preschools in the City. On Monday, we stopped in for the handing over of the donation […]
A freak accident on Sunday ended in the death of Orange Walk Town resident Evelina Suliema Celiz. The thirty-six-year-old NEMO Coordinator was at a horse race event at San Felipe Village when about five-thirty, a horse trampled her. The narrative is that Celiz was attempting to cross the race track while the race was ongoing […]
There is a new national Queen of the Bay to be crowed on the morning of September tenth. The title was clinched by Miss Belmopan, Jenny Lee Cruz, after her second go at the pageant. The nineteen-year-old was also picked as Miss Eloquence from among the other delegates from the districts. The first runner up […]
Even as the city recorded a bloody weekend, over on the north side, there were several festive events taking place; the Belikin Bash at the B.T.L. Park and the Carnival King and Queen Competition at the Marion Jones Sporting Complex. As early as five p.m. on Saturday, prejudging commenced before the revelers from ten bands, […]
A special sitting of the House of Representatives took place in Belmopan today on an issue that has been thorny and divisive. Prime Minister Dean Barrow, as Minister of Finance, presented the Appropriation Bill to pay a ninety-five million-dollar compensation award for the Universal Health Services debt. The loan ballooned to over ninety-five million dollars after […]
The PM has taken the view that the judgment from the Caribbean Court of Justice which ruled that the loan is legal, cannot be paid from the consolidated revenue fund unless the National Assembly votes to so do. Before today, cabinet members had public said they would vote ‘NO.’ Prime Minister Dean Barrow “This […]
