Last year, Moses Sulph’s Belize Leaders for Social Justice carried out a protest on the high cost of gas prices. While results were mixed as prices have gone up and down since and a third price hike in as many weeks just went into effect, Sulph is hoping for better luck with a protest that […]
The national university, the University of Belize, this week unveiled big plans for the growth of the institution in the next five years, including introduction of more Bachelor’s-level programmes and the university’s first Masters’ programmes. Other aspects of the plan include infrastructural upgrades to the Belmopan campus—building labs for the engineering and the new biology […]
Want a job? There were at least seven hundred and fifty available at different levels of experience and pay scale today at Swift Hall on the compound of St. Martin de Porres R.C. School and Church. The first ever BELTRAIDE Career Fair united thirteen prominent employers in four different industries with hundreds of job-seekers in […]
On Thursday at the Inspiration Center, healthcare professionals from across the public and private sectors participated in the second annual Cuba and Belize Medical Symposium. Both countries share a unique partnership where health and medicine are concerned. That interest continues to see Belizeans completing medical studies in Cuba, as well as the Cuban Medical Brigade […]
The 2017 school year is winding down quickly, but the Belize Police Department and Scotia Bank are already thinking ahead to the next academic calendar. That partnership has seen the availability of as many as fifteen one-year scholarships to be offered to primary school students on the south side of Belize City. There are only […]
Since his transfer to Belize City several weeks ago, Region One Commander Howell Gillett has been on a relentless outreach to at-risk youths across the south side of Belize City. That provision of community services comes in many forms, including taking busloads of children on trips to the rural parts of the country. One such […]
The 2017 report on HIV by the Ministry of Health is pending, but the 2016 statistical data shows that there were two hundred and twenty-five new infections reported for that year. One hundred and four persons died of HIV-related conditions in 2016. There is also an estimated three thousand six hundred and sixty-five persons living […]
Teachers at the Belmopan Comprehensive High School are on a sit-out. Today when we travelled to Belmopan, we found most of them sitting out in the school compound and most students were left on their own. But teachers say they are participating in the sit-out because they are not satisfied with the school’s Board of […]
A family in Maya Mopan is without a home tonight after their home was dismantled by local authorities in Belmopan. The family says they have been left out in the cold – despite the fact that they have been living on the property for about fifteen years. Their gripe with the situation is that a […]
The Ministry of Works signed a two point one million dollar feasibility study and design contract for the upgrade of the Philip Goldson Highway. The contract’s feasibility study and design plan is for sixty-seven point five miles of the highway, as well as the remote bypass road in Corozal. The consultant is Mott MacDonald Limited […]
Nicolas Maduro remains president of Venezuela after securing a second term on Sunday with more than sixty-seven percent of the nine-million plus votes cast, compared to just under twenty-one percent for his nearest rival, Henri Falcon of the Progressive Advance Party. The main opposition party refused to participate. However, a majority of Western countries and […]
Castillo Pena railed at the international powers that have refused to recognize Venezuela’s electoral process, citing their own internal problems in response. He also noted that some of Venezuela’s allies, from Russia in the far east to St. Vincent and the Grenadines in the Caribbean, have shown their support, and the results of the election […]
Despite his assurances that the Petrocaribe program would continue, Castillo Pena was not able to be pinned down on how the Belizean and Venezuelan governments would handle the ongoing issues. However, he says that will not stop the South American state from other projects to assist Belize, including in the areas of health with ophthalmology […]
Votes are being counted at this hour, two hours east of Belize on the island of Barbados, where voters went to the polls today to elect a new government. The incumbent Democratic Labour Party, led by Prime Minister Freundel Stuart, is being challenged in its bid for a third term by the Barbados Labour Party, […]
On July first the People’s United Party will select its standard bearer for Belmopan. Last week, we understand at least three persons submitted their application; those persons are Patrick Andrews, Oscar Mira and Arthur Saldivar. It has been a while since we last heard of Saldivar and politics. If you can recall, in the 2012 […]
The annual Belize Cancer Society awareness walk takes place this Saturday. It’s one of the largest activities executed by the N.G.O. Although thousands are expected to participated, if you’re still on the fence, then tonight’s healthy living shares a few more reasons you should lace up those sneakers and join in the event. Marleni […]
Sharon Ferguson has been reported missing as of Tuesday afternoon although she has not been seen by her family since last week. But there have been several sightings since our news story reported Tuesday night. Common-law husband Steve Bennett messaged News Five this afternoon to report that many persons, at least twenty, have seen her […]
Chief Elections Officer Josephine Tamai appeared on this morning’s Open Your Eyes to discuss the upcoming re-registration process. The first and only re-registration of voters took place in 1997 and has been repeatedly put off, but it is law and applicable to all of Belize’s two hundred and four thousand voters, even those who may […]
The express concern of those seizing on the re-registration process as a means of “cleaning up” the voters’ list is the presence of many persons of Guatemalan descent who claim to have renounced their nationality for Belize’s. But there is no way to be sure, as pointed out by the Belize Chamber of Commerce and […]
As Belizeans, we all play an important role in the framework of education and the development of our young people and adult learners. That’s the mission of a pilot group of four high schools from the south and west. Today, a Street Law Belize Introductory Consultation Forum was held in Cayo which seeks to empower […]
Fire Chief Ted Smith is presently away in the United States where he has visited with a pair of Belizean firemen studying in Virginia. Patrick Parks and Johnny Cardenas are both attending a six-month program at Hanover Fire Academy. While there, Fire Chief Smith also met with Chief of the Hanover County Fire and Emergency […]
Over the weekend, on May nineteenth at noon, persons from communities and organizations across the country joined hands on beaches, across bridges, in conference rooms and along seawalls and other public areas to celebrate in OCEANA’s 2018 Hands Across the Sand. In its eighth year, the celebration was extra special because Belize recently made the […]
Every two years there is a gathering of Belizeans and international participants making use of geographic information systems technology under the aegis of its world-leading provider, ESRI, and its chief booster in Belize, Total Business Solutions Limited. The ESRI User Conference is intended as an awareness builder of a still developing, though rapidly so, industry […]
Next Friday, June first, marks not only the start of the hurricane season but an important milestone in Belizean history. On that date in 1797, the vote of twelve free black men and two whites residing in the area at a public meeting in Belize Town irreversibly swayed the decision of residents of the Belize […]
Senior Superintendent Howell Gillett was on hand this afternoon to receive a brand new police booth on the north side. We met Gillett on Barrack Road where the police booth was installed. The purpose is to improve the working conditions for police officers. This is the second booth to be donated to the Belize Police […]
