San Pedro Ambergris Caye is considered a tourist’s paradise; but a visit to southern Belize shows that in the jewel you can do the sea, enjoy eco-tourism and learn so much of our cultural diversity… all in one package. Over the weekend, the local media travelled south, courtesy of the Belize Tourism Board to experience […]
Across the region, the economic and social well-being of the Eastern and Southern Caribbean have been plagued by high levels of violent crimes. Formally known as CariSECURE, short for Strengthening Evidence Based Decision Making for Citizen Security in the Caribbean, the initiative is part of USAID’s Youth Empowerment Services. It aims to improve youth crime […]
The song competition is an anticipated event in the calendar of national celebrations for budding as well as established artists. The judges look for originality, presentation and performance by the competing artists. The competition headed south this year and was hosted in the culture capital Dangriga, which provided the perfect setting for the occasion. Cynthia […]
A group of Belizeans returned from a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu competition with a trove of medals over the weekend. Nine competitors travelled to Cancun to participate in the South Eastern Regional No Gi Tournament under the Prevail Combat Club. The Belizeans competed against a number of experienced Jiu-Jitsu athletes, but they returned with eight gold medals, […]
After years of negotiations with the Government of Belize, developer Michael Feinstein has finally gotten the green-light to proceed with the construction of the Stake Bank Cruise Ship Docking Facility. The last we had heard of the proposed project was that there was a back-and-forth between Feinstein and Minister of Tourism Manuel Heredia Junior in […]
There have now been four murders in Belize City in as many days, and seven so far in the month of August. At news time Thursday evening, twenty-six-year-old Windell Gibson of Lawrence Avenue, Belize City, lay dead in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital of multiple gunshot wounds. He was shot as many as eight times […]
As if police did not have enough on their plate to deal with this week, another shooting was reported near downtown Belize City. The officer in charge of the Crimes Investigation Branch for Belize City, Superintendent Alejandro Cowo, shares details. Supt. Alejandro Cowo, O.C., CIB, Belize City “There was a shooting this morning at […]
The body of eighteen-year-old Crevan Cardinez was recovered from the shallow waters in front of the Sir Barry Bowen Municipal Airstrip on Thursday morning. Cardinez, living in Belize City but originally a resident of San Lorenzo area, Orange Walk Town, Orange Walk District, was brutally attacked inside a boat on Wednesday, stabbed multiple times and […]
Police are also chasing leads in at least one other murder reported this week. Around two o’clock on Wednesday afternoon, the body of a man was discovered some three hundred and thirty feet off the road between miles three and four on the George Price Highway. It has since been identified as that of twenty-five-year-old […]
The Belize Chinese Association is not happy with G.O.B. They have had to fork out thousands of dollars after they requested a visa waiver for The Chinese Blind People Performing Arts Troupe. The group was denied a waiver for entry into Belize to do a performance at the Bliss. The inspirational group with different abilities […]
Last Wednesday, Minister of Human Development Anthony Martinez and Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte met with U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein as part of a roundtable seminar on trafficking in persons organized by the Human Trafficking Institute. It comes on the heels of the State Department’s report which leaves Belize at Tier Three, as one […]
One finding of the report that clearly rankles the Barrow administration is the references to trafficking-related complicity by government officials, including those at high levels. Try though he might, Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte said he could not get the U.S. officials he spoke to in Washington to reveal who those persons might be. But while […]
The Government of Belize remains at an impasse with several companies seeking enforcement of various arbitral awards due them after judgments made in U.S. courts. It maintains the position that Belize’s highest court, the Supreme Court, and to a lesser extent the Caribbean Court of Justice, have maintained that the awards cannot be enforced, but […]
The Cuban Embassy hosted a farewell event for students who are leaving Belize to pursue studies in Cuba. The students were selected from a pool of about seventy applicants to form a part of this y ear’s cohort of the CUBA-CARICOM programme through which Cuba provides scholarships to citizens of its sister nations of the […]
The Museum of Belize and Houses of Culture concluded an annual summer program for children in Belize City earlier today. The camp ran for a month and a half and saw participants learning how to weave baskets, among other skills. A majority of those children are from the Dorothy Menzies Childcare Center. This morning, reporter […]
Embattled businessman John Zabaneh has been cleared of the kingpin designation that was given to him and two others, including Dion Zabaneh, by the United States Treasury a few years ago. According to the former banana grower, his family has virtually lost everything in the wake of being blacklisted. His once thriving agribusinesses, Maya King […]
In order for Zabaneh to move on with his life, he now has to rebuild his businesses from the ground up. He says the ordeal has also taken a significant toll on his elderly mother whose Maya King banana processing company he had been managing. On the Phone: John Zabaneh, Businessman “We were reduced […]
The United Democratic Party’s Belize City Council convention is set for Sunday morning at the ITVET grounds from ten a.m. to five p.m. It is headlined by the race to succeed Mayor Darrell Bradley, between incumbent councilors Dion Leslie and Philip Willoughby, and whether any of the incumbent councilors, a total of eight, will lose […]
We caught up with Leslie at the basketball court on Flamboyant Street in Lake Independence constituency, where residents were hard at work laying plants and cleaning up the neighborhood’s basketball court. Residents told us they wanted to see more of their representatives at work and today aspirant Dion Leslie and a few helpers swung through, […]
To continue to engage at risk youths, the GREAT and Cadet Programmes have joined forces for an event they call the GREAT Cup. It will feature three sporting disciplines and will see youths from different precincts join forces for the games. It will kick off in October. Inspector Elroy Carcamo tells us more. Insp. […]
The Tyler Savery Foundation distributed close to one hundred school bags to under-privileged children. The kids were treated to a fun day at the pool at the Pickwick Club and they each received backpacks with school supplies for the new school year. We spoke with the founder, Shakera Young. She explains why she decided to […]
Great Belize Television’s Channel Five has once again emerged victorious at the annual Caribbean Broadcasting Awards Competition held on Tuesday night in Nassau, Bahamas. As many as eight coveted prizes were won in fourteen various TV categories, including Climate Change and Renewable Energy, Coverage of Disaster Risk and Best Public Service Spot. The awards were […]
Minister Heredia says that the trafficking and sale of drugs are at the heart of criminal activities on the island, but are there contradictory rules in place? At last Friday’s House Meeting, the government tabled a bill to amend the Misuse of Drugs Act that decriminalizes possession of up to ten grams of marijuana. But […]
Recently, further revelations were made about the land-grabbing activities of the Vega family during Gaspar Vega’s tenure as Minister of Natural Resources. Tonight, News Five can share some documents concerning land originally turned over to the Belmopan City Council under Said Musa as Prime Minister, but which ended up in the hands of Ignacio German […]
There was minimal resistance from the Opposition at last Friday’s meeting of the House of Representatives to the amendment to the Town Councils Act, which allows for greater power of the municipal councils to obtain funds for capital projects. The reason ostensibly given by Prime Minister Dean Barrow for the rush-through of the bill is […]
