In a classic case of “progress brings problems,” the Department of Immigration and Nationality has responded to concerns that its nineteen-member staff at the Philip Goldson International Airport in Ladyville has been overwhelmed with the higher proportion of tourist arrivals in the ongoing high season. Despite the boasts of the Ministry of Tourism and Civil […]
Thirty-year-old Mario Makin of San Marcus, Toledo, says that four cops beat him and left him for dead in August 2016 and nothing has been done about it. The construction worker says he had only stopped at a shop on August thirteenth when he encountered four officers at a shop. He said the officers were […]
Two months after the incident was first reported to police, twenty-seven year old Kenzle Hulse has been charged with harm. It was announced late this evening that the businessman from Cohune Walk Area is accused of assaulting Alberto Santos Lopez on January twenty-second at a gas station in Belmopan. There had been concerns that Minister […]
The Government of Belize has signed into a major insurance agreement with Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility, known as CCRIF. The signing took place today in Belize City and will benefit the work of the National Meteorological Service. CCRIF has been providing funding for post hurricane relief. News Five’s Isani Cayetano reports. Isani Cayetano, […]
The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has approved ten million U.S. dollars to the Government in support of strengthening the Belize Social Investment Fund in order for it to continue providing services to poor and vulnerable communities across Belize. In a release issued by the Ministry of Economic Development, C.E.O. Yvonne Hyde said, “the four-year loan […]
Today, the Human Services Department services joined the rest of the world to observe World Social Work Day. Since 1983, the day has been celebrated around the world on March twenty-first to showcase achievements of social work and increase its visibility, but also to highlight its synergies with social development. This year, the day is […]
The 2017 budget which outlines government’s projected expenditure for the upcoming fiscal year will be debated in the House of Representatives at length on Thursday and Friday. Ahead of that examination by parliamentarians on both sides of the floor, a number of economists have perused the financial plan and concerns have been raised on several […]
This week, the Coastal Zone Management Authority Institute is observing Coastal Awareness Week. In its third year, the event draws attention to the importance of sustainable coastal management and at the same time it connects partners. We spoke with Marketing Officer of the Coastal Zone Management Authority Chad Bowman, who says that this year they […]
As part of the activities, today the Coastal Zone Authority held a trivia competition that saw the participation from schools across the city. The purpose is to raise awareness and the organizers say that the children demonstrated understanding and knowledge of the topics surrounding coastal zones and sustainability. At the end of the competition, Saint […]
Tonight there is a most disturbing case of fratricide to report involving a pair of siblings in the King’s Park community. A brother reportedly hacked his sister with a machete and within twenty-four hours she was dead. On Sunday, twenty-nine-year-old Julian Burke was entering her home near the corners of First and Saint Peter Streets […]
The second murder over the weekend took place on Friday night in the West. A father of three lost his life at Champon at the adjacency zone area when he was taken down execution style in front of his wife and brother. The gunman is said to have fled across the border to Melchor de […]
The hit on the well-known bus driver, as well as the vicinity of the deadly spray of bullets on Belize’s side of the Adjacency Zone, has raised serious concerns about border security, outside of the business hours of the Belize Western Border. This morning, Minister of Home Affairs Wilfred Elrington shared details of the harrowing […]
We asked Foreign Minister Elrington if there will be a protest note sent to the Guatemalan government in the wake of the fatal shooting. According to the F.M., it is not the normal practice of the ministry to issue protest notes in cases involving civilian-related crimes. The question was posed in the context of the […]
“We will appeal…we don’t think that judgment can stand.” So said Prime Minister Dean Barrow on January twenty-first, 2016, upon hearing that the Supreme Court had awarded Titan International Securities nearly nine million Belize dollars in damages. The award is in respect of a raid at their Matalon Business Center offices on Coney Drive in […]
As you would know by now, the working relationship between the media and the police, is somewhere at its lowest ebb. Police are now only providing bulletins scanty of details to the media since verbal communications were suspended. The situation has become exasperating because we are unable to provide official information on the work of […]
While Elrington is of the firm belief that commanding officers often misspoke during interviews, he also agreed that information channeled to the media via the press release is ineffective. In fact, the flow of information has been difficult to come by from the police press officer. Elrington says that there is a dire need for […]
Will Belizean cane sugar remain viable on the European market in 2018? A gradual shift to cheaper beet sugar produced within the European Union will force stakeholders in the local sugar industry to become more competitive with the quality and prices of cane sugar produced for export. Earlier today, an article published by Bloomberg Market […]
According to Alpuche, the effect of European producers boxing out the competition can be devastating to local farmers if they do not diversify their crops. Jose Alpuche, Minister of Agriculture “There was also an issue of diversification of the sector itself and into other byproducts, rum, and ethanol but although ethanol is not an […]
The fiscal year 2017 commences on April first and the budget for the upcoming financial calendar has been presented by the Barrow administration. While the annual financial plan will be debated at the end of the week, Minister of Foreign Affairs Wilfred Elrington says that his government department will feel the pinch but won’t negatively […]
Investigations are ongoing in the case of a human skull found at a dump site over the weekend in the Orange Walk District. Police are providing only the minimal details on the discovery. The confirmation we have is that this past Saturday at about twelve twenty-five police were called to the dump site situated at […]
A minor was stabbed in Caye Caulker over the weekend. Police report that the seventeen-year-old boy Ryan Saldivar was wounded in the shoulder on Sunday sometime after seven. Investigations revealed that around six that same evening, the Belize City teen was socializing at a bar when he got into a fight with twenty-two-year-old Charles Robinson […]
An extraordinary general meeting of the National Trade Union Congress of Belize took place over the weekend in Belize City, at the headquarters of one of its strongest member unions, the Belize National Teachers’ Union. Its purpose was to elect two officers to complete the executive council – a president and a treasurer, vacant since […]
Neal was most recently an aide to Audrey Matura while she was vice-president at OCEANA, and he started out in the Government Information Service with stints at old United Democratic Party organs the People’s Pulse and previously the Beacon. Politics aside, is Neal the man to bridge the divide between more militant elements of the […]
For the past week or so, Belize’s youngest performers in the districts have been on the stage giving of their talents in art, music, dance, and drama as part of the Pre-School Children’s Festival of the Arts. The junior companion to the main show in May and more recently for secondary schools, it offers an […]
Much like the heyday of the adult Festival of the Arts in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, the various incarnations of children’s Festivals of the Arts have given Belizeans their first look at future stars of stage and screen. According to Leroy Green of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, the effort continues […]
