According to Greif, the airline company is constantly looking for new routes and combinations to work. He says that if the current tax structures change, the company will revisit the routes. Meanwhile, its domestic service and the other destinations remain intact. John Greif III, President, Tropic Air “If the situation changes, if some huge […]
On August third, 2016, residents across the central and northern areas of the Belize District braced themselves in anticipation of Hurricane Earl which made landfall in the early hours of August fourth. The category two storm caused severe damage to homes and businesses in Vista del Mar, Ladyville, as it made its way inland. The […]
The Belize City Council, as part of its revenue generating initiative, is selling personalized license plates to motorists. The move has generated quite a buzz among car owners across the city, amid concerns from the Transport Department that the practice may very well be against the law. Despite those apprehensions, City Hall is proceeding with […]
This afternoon, we spoke to councilor Philip Willoughby in the ‘Pink Jungle’ area of Pickstock, where he was donating garbage containers to residents of the hutments, as he did in the Mayflower Street area last week. It was clear that he was still smarting from the ‘double-banking’ he received from opponent Dion Leslie and Mayor […]
According to mayoral aspirant Phillip Willoughby, the slings and arrows of his opponents do not bother him, as he is concentrated on bringing even more services for residents of the Old Capital. One of the things he wants to see more of the council doing is a ‘social side,’ particularly addressing survivors and victims of […]
The CASSA program, Creating A Safe Space Agenda, is wrapping up its third year. The project has been running now in its third year at YWCA where kids from high school—both first form and second form—and primary school, standard five students receive lessons in a number of core subject areas. As a part of the […]
Over two hundred children are participating in the YWCA’s annual summer program. It started in July and will wrap up next week. The YWCA says that the children will be putting on a day exhibition to show the public what they did over the summer. Joevannie Collins, Belize City Team Leader, CASSA Project “The […]
Over seventy children at the YWCA were treated to a book fair today. The children received free books through the ‘Alina Gives Back’ foundation. It is a small non-profit started by a teenager who started out in an orphanage. She was adopted and moved away, but for the last few years she has been coming […]
Today at the ITVET, as many as twenty-five gang members from across Belize City filed into the classroom where they spent the better part of the day learning how to be young businessmen. It’s an initiative spearheaded by Diane Finnegan, coordinator of the Youth Apprenticeship Program during the ongoing truce. She tells News Five more […]
A train the trainer workshop for plumbing instructors for the ITVETs countrywide and field supervisors for Belize Water Services Limited began earlier this week and will continue through to August fifteenth. The purpose is to provide awareness on the existence of the Belize Plumbing Code. Director of Water from the Public Utilities Commission, Rudolph Williams […]
Next Thursday, August tenth, marks a full year since Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin struck down Section Fifty-Three of the Criminal Code outlawing sexual acts other than consensual heterosexual intercourse, between man and woman. The matter is being appealed by several church bodies and partially by the Government of Belize. But the United Belize Advocacy Movement […]
After two terms of David Fonseca as the first directly elected mayor of Belize City, the United Democratic Party has been on a run of four successive terms in office – two headed by Zenaida Moya, two headed by Darrell Bradley. And while the U.D.P. is the most successful it has ever been politically both […]
With less than a month to go before polling opens for the U.D.P. municipal convention, mayoral candidates Dion Leslie and Philip Willoughby have been actively campaigning on the ground and on the airwaves. Willoughby in particular has been making personal appearances in battleground communities such as the one we showed you earlier. On Tuesday, Leslie […]
In just a few minutes, the twenty-fifth annual La Reina De La Costa Maya Pageant will begin on La Isla Bonita San Pedro. Eight delegates from across Central America and Mexico will compete on the international stage of pageantry in costume, swimwear, evening wear and final question as they vie for the coveted title to […]
It’s a minimally invasive technique that is becoming increasingly popular in healthcare. And for the past two years it has been offered at the country’s main public hospital. It’s called interventional radiology and it allows for patients to have an alternative to open surgeries. We find out more about it in tonight’s Healthy Living. […]
The Belize Sugar Cane Farmers’ Association has officially written to American Sugar Refining/Belize Sugar Industries Limited, announcing that while it supports the investment of twenty-two million dollars for production of direct consumption, value-added sugars at the Tower Hill factory, it wants several amendments to the existing commercial agreement and a chance to negotiate same before […]
At the start of the sugar crop last December, farmer Eloy Escalante was effectively disowned by the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers’ Association. The Association was facing a third suspension in eight years from Fairtrade after it was discovered that a “phantom farmer” – the son of Government minister Edmond Castro – was granted administration of […]
The United States Embassy recognizes youth advocate Diane Finnegan as Wonder Woman for the month of August. As coordinator for the Youth Apprenticeship Program and wife of U.D.P. politician Michael Finnegan, she has dedicated her life to helping at-risk youths. Most recently, she has been instrumental in bringing rival Belize City gangs together to broker […]
As we’ve mentioned, News Five caught up with Finnegan at the Precinct One compound this evening, upon the release of SSG boss Alex Underwood who was detained overnight by Belize City police. Underwood is one of several individuals who are part of the ongoing peace initiative. Dianne Finnegan, Wonder Woman 2017 “I got a […]
Earlier today the Guatemalan Congress approved the holding of a referendum to take its territorial claim over Belize to the International Court of Justice. According to reports in Prensa Libre, a Guatemalan newspaper, the Congress gave the go ahead to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal to poll Guatemalans if they would agree to take the claim […]
The Queen’s Baton arrived in the Jewel today as it makes it way to Gold Coast in Australia in time for the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Here, it was met with much fanfare at the start of a relay covering ground in the City, to Orange Walk as well as the Chiquibul National Park. From here […]
On Tuesday the Venezuelan embassy in Belize held a press conference to issue a defense of the ongoing situation in the South American country. More than eight million Venezuelans of eighteen million registered voters elected some five hundred and forty-five members of a national constituent assembly to address changes to the country’s constitution, but opponents […]
Belize receives regular and diesel fuel through the Petrocaribe program with Venezuela although prices remain high at the pumps. But for some time now Belize has been unable to source premium fuel through Petrocaribe and has had to agree with Puma Energy to supply that fuel. While with Venezuela’s ongoing political crisis the ‘good old […]
There are two deaths of notable personalities to report. Former Central Bank Governor Keith Arnold, who served as head of Belize’s primary financial institution from January 1992 to April 2002, passed away shortly after arriving in country on Saturday. Arnold was also Director of the Financial Intelligence Unit under the Musa administration from 2002 to […]
The Accident and Emergency Department at the K.H.M.H. received a much needed donation from the Social Security Board. Computers valued at five thousand dollars were handed over to help the unit improve efficiency in the processing of patients data leading to improve health care. On Friday the C.E.O. of S.S.B. Doctor Colin Young made the […]
