We’ve seen the pleas regularly online. We’ve even seen few on this station, families of ill persons begging strangers to donate blood. There is one way to prevent you and your family from being in that scenario and that’s by becoming a voluntary blood donor. Tonight in Healthy Living, we find out more about making […]
U.S. Capital Energy is back in the news tonight because the company has applied for a new Production Sharing Agreement to carry out oil exploration in and around a specific area of the Sarstoon-Temash National Park. U.S. Capital previously held an oil concession signed in 2001 and in 2012. The company was granted the environmental […]
Two villages which have not taken a position on the matter are Crique Sarco and Dolores. The villagers are expected to inform the Government on Thursday. Today, News Five spoke to U.S. Capital Energy Country Representative, Alistair King, who explained why the company has decided to carry out oil exploration in Southern Belize once again. […]
But the Maya Leaders Alliance, which represents the governance of the indigenous community, refutes the position of the Attorney General’s Office. According to spokesperson Cristina Coc, government is, for all intents and purposes, coercing villagers into supporting U.S. Capital’s latest endeavor within the protected area. Earlier today, Coc told News Five that the Solicitor General […]
When the Government team headed south, a B.D.F. helicopter was used to transport nine persons to three remote villages: Graham Creek, Dolores, and Hicatee or Machakilha. The fact that King was on the helicopter is not going down well. The assertion that the helicopter was used to benefit the oil company was shut down today […]
Now for good news…Great Belize Television’s Channel Five has won its first award for this year’s Caribbean Broadcasting Awards Competition. Polling more than fifty-five thousand votes online, ‘Triple Joy’ a news story aired on this station in September 2017 won the People’s Choice Award. The story focused on three bundles of joy: Marlon, Malrick and […]
There is legal trouble brewing in the banana belt. News Five has confirmed that an outstanding debt, going back almost eleven and a half years, is owed to the Department of the Environment by the Banana Growers Association. The BGA is led by General Manager Sam Mathias whom we attempted to get comment from earlier […]
In 2017, a law was passed, making the possession of up to ten grams of marijuana legal. According to Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte, the amendment to Misuse of Drugs Act was to ‘try and give people a break.’ Prior to the new law, persons were arrested and ended up in jail for a miniscule stick […]
During our interview with the Attorney General, Michael Peyrefitte, we asked him about this decision to re-enter the political arena. As we have been reporting, Peyrefitte is aspiring to be the U.D.P.’s Standard Bearer for the Port Loyola Constituency and is facing three other contenders including Philip Willoughby. According to Peyrefitte, his decision to run […]
The National Emergency Management Organization, in partnership with the United Nations’ Emergency Task Team in Belize, is conducting a three-day training on a number of aspects in Disaster Risk Reduction and Emergency Management. It looks at the basics of gender equality in the context of Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Change Adaption in the execution of […]
A medical mission from the U.S. is in the city providing a host of medical services to residents. The Louisiana and South Carolina Volunteering Mission is operating at the Wesley Upper School where persons have had the opportunity to check up on their health concerns ranging from dental hygiene to reading glasses. Today, their services […]
The Ministry of Health and the Inter-American Development Bank shared some good news today. They say that access to quality health services for the most vulnerable women and children in Belize has improved in the last four years. Today, they presented the results of the Salud Mesoamerica Health Initiative Project from 2012 to 2017 which […]
The life of three-year-old Etana Bennett was cut short just after five o’clock on Monday evening, as we reported in our newscast. The child clung to life for almost forty hours after she was shot as she slept in the comfort of her home. Her mother was also injured, but survived the shooting by a […]
The Belize City Council, under its ‘social infrastructure’ platform, launched a summer pantry programme today at the Swift Hall in Belize City to assist the neediest families with basic supplies of food, clothing and school items. CitCo partnered with a group out of Florida that’s been coming to Belize for the past few years to […]
His presence in Port Loyola may be purely political, but today, as part of his ongoing campaign, Philip Willoughby hosted a summer camp in the Jane Usher and Cumberbatch Field communities. The initiative, he says, will not only teach children basic skills in football and basketball but it will also give them an opportunity to […]
Today, a welcome ceremony was held to commemorate the official visit of Rotary International President Barry Rassin. Rassin arrived in Belize with his wife on Monday as part of his presidential tour for the Rotary Year which commenced July first, 2018 and ends June thirtieth 2019. The last visit by an international president was some […]
Also at the head table today were Belize City Mayor Bernard Wagner and Deputy Prime Minister Patrick Faber. While he is not a member of Rotary, DPM Faber says that the local Rotary Clubs enjoy the support of his ministry. Rotarians have been instrumental in education and other keys development areas. Patrick Faber, Deputy […]
Orange Walk’s Fiestarama is scheduled to take place this coming weekend at the People’s Stadium, but an impasse between the National Sports Council and the Orange Walk Town Council has put the town’s most anticipated fair in limbo. As we reported on Friday, the National Sports Council is charging the Town Council a flat fee […]
But one person who is not satisfied is Orange Walk Town Mayor Kevin Bernard. In an email, Mayor Bernard reminded Jones that “Fiestarama is a municipal fundraising event and revenues earned at this event goes right back to our community through educational opportunities.” Bernard is hoping that Jones would reconsider, but from what the NSC […]
The Elections and Boundaries Department has released its latest figures relating to the number of electors who have made it to re-registration centres around the country. In the past week, eighteen thousand five hundred applied at thirty-one centres countrywide. It means that as of July twenty-first, fifty-four thousand four hundred and fifty-one applications have been […]
A basketball athlete from the Belmopan Trojans team is tonight hospitalized in Chetumal after the passenger bus the team was traveling in collided into a truck near Bacalar, Quintana Roo. The team was returning to Belize from Cancun when the ADO bus collided into the rear of a Ford truck that was parked on the […]
It’s been just about three weeks since the Belize City Council hired a new city administrator. Stephanie Lindo-Garbutt assumed the post left vacant for months following the suspended and thereafter termination of Candice Miller, who was sacked for dereliction of duties. So how have things been going since then? Mayor Bernard Wagner says that Lindo-Garbutt […]
Mayor Bernard Wagner and the City Council hosted some twenty-one young African American men from the United States, who are part of the Campaign for Black Men Achievement in the U.S.—an organization that focuses on improving lives of young men of color. The visiting group comprises of at-risk youths who have been traumatized by gun […]
City Council is working along with Ambassador Shabazz with the tour across the city. At today’s event, Mayor Wagner also received a prestigious award from one of the chaperones on behalf of Mayor Greg Fischer of Louisville, Kentucky. He was presented with a hat and a plaque. That aside, Wagner says that the invaluable social […]
Over the weekend, the Belize Tourism Board held its signature Taste of Belize competition where twenty master chefs, five junior chefs, four pastry chefs and six bartenders from across Belize battled it out for title rights, as well as other prizes. The event is held every two years to recognize and promote Belizean culinary creativity […]
