The Ministry of Health today received equipment that will assist in the testing of samples to detect various diseases common to Belize such as dengue. The technology is valued at seventy-five thousand dollars and will assist the ministry to promptly deter epidemiological incidents. The gifting took place in Belize City where representatives from various agencies […]
The City Council recognized twenty-five persons with certificates today after they received training for five weeks in either computer software or Caribbean legal system. Staff of the City Council, police officers, and other partner organizations participants received their certificates from Mayor Darrell Bradley who shares that this kind of training serves to empower employees to […]
Last May, the National Assembly approved, via motion, a line of credit offered by the Caribbean Development Bank to the Development Finance Corporation for forty million Belize dollars or twenty million U.S. dollars. The national development bank has gotten on its feet after being re-established in 2009 and is once again advertising itself as a […]
There is word tonight that two park rangers are missing in the Chiquibul. The rangers, Elroy Alvarado Villanueva and another who has been identified as Luis Ramirez, set out from their base at the Caracol Archeological Site in the Chiquibul looking for a vegetable known as chib. That was since Monday afternoon and the duo […]
Now to another sensational case, the December twenty-eighth murder of Fareed Ahmad in Hattieville. News Five confirmed last week that police had met with Ahmad’s family to go over recently obtained phone records. This was intended to help the investigation by addressing two prevailing theories about Ahmad’s death inside his vehicle, for which Woman Police […]
At the time of the January eleventh meeting between members of the Ahmad family and Police personnel in Belize City, they expressed their remaining displeasure over the rounding up of its members back in 2016 by the Special Branch of the police department. As many as twenty persons including pregnant wives, young children and grandparents were […]
U.S. President Donald Trump will give his first State of the Union address tonight in Washington. Marking the first year of his presidency, he will deliver the speech at the White House which will highlight issues related to the U.S. economy, national security and immigration, among others. And if you’ve been following the international news, […]
While Denea Joseph will sit tonight at the State of the Union, Foreign Minister Wilfred ‘Sedi’ Elrington is also in Washington, D.C., but for a meeting of the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States to be held on Wednesday morning. Also headed there is Guatemalan counterpart Sandra Jovel Polanco, and the two are […]
Two Guatemalan fishermen remain in detention tonight after they were fined in the Punta Gorda Magistrate’s Court over seven thousand dollars for illegally fishing in the Port Honduras Marine Reserve. Around two on Sunday morning, Mynor Cifuentes and Sergio Lopez were discovered with miles of illegal fishing lines and catch well within Belizean territorial waters. […]
Another high-schooler was recognized with the ‘Du Di Rait Ting’ award today in Belize City. Eighteen-year-old Jaheel Lamb was a student who misbehaved growing up. But when he decided to do the right things, he made a complete change and it improved his relationship with his teachers and his family. The school selected Lamb as […]
Today Belmopan police took twenty youth from the capital to the Kolbe Foundation-managed Central Prison at Hattieville, though it was to prevent future crime, not punish offenders. The Officer Commanding Belmopan Police Formation, Senior Superintendent Howell Gillett says that young people often don’t go to the prison until they become first time offenders. The visitors […]
At the age of twenty-two, he is thrusting himself into electoral politics to serve his people. This ambitious young man, Cristian Castellanos is attempting to topple a seasoned and trusted mayor of a town that has traditionally gone U.D.P. for many years. Castellanos is taking on Marconi Sosa on March seventh. The age and experience […]
On Monday, we gave you a brief look at the two mayoral candidates for Dangriga. U.D.P.’s Francis Humphreys is the incumbent, a well-known figure in the town having served as a teacher and principal in the town for many years. His political rival, Derrick Velasquez, says he is in touch with the issues in the […]
On Saturday morning in Punta Gorda, despite inclement weather, residents, including family and friends of Mario Vernon Junior took the streets to protest his killing. The twenty-four-year-old grandson of Leela Vernon was shot and killed by police constable Tevin Aranda on January thirteenth. While his death has been ruled a manslaughter, the grieving family is […]
In health news, Belize has not seen a case of measles since 1991. But there is a general alert out tonight from the Ministry of Health after the highly infectious viral disease recently showed up in neighboring Guatemala, on the heels of an increase of cases in the region in 2017. The suspected cases are […]
A British-Belizean dual national who formerly held diplomatic status for Belize was pulled over by cops in London on January nineteenth. He was cited for using illegal diplomatic license plates and an expired diplomatic ID card. He was also suspected of driving without insurance. Fifty-one-year-old Andrew Wigmore was a trade and investment envoy for Belize […]
Over the past week we’ve been featuring the mayoral candidates contesting the March seventh municipal elections. Today, we reached out to the mayoral hopefuls in Dangriga. Incumbent Francis Humphreys is up again for the U.D.P., whilst newcomer Derrick Velasquez is throwing his hat in the ring for the People’ United Party. The candidates say that […]
On Friday the Minister of Defence John Saldivar addressed an unexpected visit to Belize from members of the Guatemalan Armed Forces who were said to be asking about an earlier engagement between Belizean police and a Guatemalan reporter. While there are few such encounters at the western border, it is much closer quarters in the […]
On a more positive note, the Isidoro Beaton Stadium at the corner of the Ring Road and San Martin Road was recently certified to FIFA-standard. It is the second stadium in Belize after the F.F.B. Stadium on the Hummingbird Highway to reach this standard and the first using artificial turf. The Belmopan Bandits football team, […]
On Thursday, People’s United Party senators Eamon Courtenay and Valerie Woods brought public attention to the lack of accountability and transparency in government expenditures. This is in respect of monies that were reportedly spent on relief and cleanup in the wake of Hurricane Earl in 2016, as well as unbudgeted funds that were also made […]
Accompanying the Finance and Audit Reform Act are Fiscal Transparency and Responsibility Regulations. That set of guidelines contains sixteen steps, including a fiscal outlook and mid-year review report, none of which have been presented to Auditor General Dorothy Bradley. While the citizens of Belize clamored for these measures to be put in place to ensure […]
In an unprecedented move, six of the non-government parliamentarians, including church senator Ashley Rocke, sided with Senator Eamon Courtenay on Wednesday when a call was made to bring the Financial Secretary before the upper house. While the People’s United Party is devising a plan of action, business senator Mark Lizarraga has turned in a report […]
Two brothers were caught in an explosion inside their family bakery in Sand Hill, Belize District, this morning. One of them is dead and the other is hospitalized following an accidental blast that happened inside an oven in the kitchen. The IN-n-Out Bakery has been in operation for more than five years, it’s the first […]
At Price Barracks in Ladyville this afternoon, it was out with the old and, especially, in with the new. The national army is now forty years old and has had seven Belizeans in charge. Today, an eighth accepted his new responsibilities under the watchful eye of Governor General Sir Colville Young. He will lead a […]
Surveillance footage captured last week showed an alarming occurrence at the western border between Belize and Guatemala. Taken from inside the Customs office, a trio of Guatemalan soldiers dressed in what appear to be the military fatigues of the elite Kaibil unit are shown walking over from past the O.A.S. office to the Customs/Immigration building. […]
