Over the weekend, videos of young girls engaged in sexual activities were posted on social media and shared hundreds of times. The leaked tapes have caused uproar because some of the participants could be minors, who appeared to be inebriated. Now sex with minors under the age of sixteen is rape; but there is also […]
This Friday, thirteen-year-old Anaseily Gonzalez was allegedly kidnapped; her family believes it is by her Mexican father, forty-three-year-old Javier de la Cruz. De la Cruz was recently released from a Mexican prison for sexual molestation. The mother has reported that on Saturday, he contacted her using a Mexican phone number to say that he had […]
According to Menzies, the Jasmine Alert program is not as effective as intended. While anyone under eighteen years of age falls within the program, the police should immediately start investigations into a missing person report when it is filed. In that respect, Menzies asserts that the Corozal Police Department dropped the ball. On the […]
Two buildings went up in flames in Punta Gorda over the weekend; one was completely destroyed and the other partially damaged by the blaze. A couple who resided in one of the buildings was reportedly involved in a dispute and the cause of the fire is being investigated, but arson is not ruled out. News […]
The New Year has been greeted with protests in Mexico against a government price deregulation that sent the price of fuel there up by as much as twenty percent over the weekend. The Mexican government said the deregulation had long been planned, but unfortunately coincided with rising world oil prices. While prices are still relatively […]
The Prime Minister is forced to make good on his promise and a thirteenth senator is nigh. This Tuesday, twenty-eight non-governmental organizations will elect the long anticipated thirteenth senator who is expected to bring meaningful debate and assist in changing the status quo in the Senate, where government appoints six, opposition three and the civil […]
Along with a shortlist of nominees who had been chosen to vie for the senatorial post came information that Froyla Tzalam, executive director of SATIIM, had declined her appointment. Tzalam, who also sits on the Thirteenth Senator Steering Committee as media relations officer, turned down the candidacy because her commitment to the organization is pressing. […]
Following the appointment of the thirteenth senator by the N.G.O.s, the Office of the Integrity Commission will swear in its new members at its first meeting next Thursday, January twelfth, in Belmopan. The Prime Minister recommended the names of attorney Marilyn Williams for Chairman; Armead Gabourel; Lisbeth Delgado; Wilmot Simmons, and Nestor Vasquez; while the […]
Students were away from the classrooms this week and so were teachers and other members of the Belize National Teachers Union. They are expected back in school next Monday as scheduled, long before a dispute between the B.N.T.U. and the Ministry of Education would come to boiling point. This latest salvo in an ongoing dispute […]
The Central Health Region has released the second part of its bi-annual health bulletin for the Belize District for 2016. The data, which is pulled from the Belize Health Information System, shows that communicable diseases have, for the most part, remained the same when compared with data from 2015. There are, however, some conditions that […]
The Central Health Region also released the latest data on the infant mortality rate for the Belize District in 2016 and there is some good news to report. In 2015, the infant mortality rate was at twenty four per thousand live births, but by 2016 that number had almost halved and now stands at fourteen […]
Another key set of numbers released for the Belize District are the numbers for the vector borne diseases. The Environmental Health Unit at Central Health Region continues to monitor the cases of these diseases – malaria, dengue, and Zika. Spraying and fogging have been ongoing in areas mostly affected by Dengue and Zika. Classic dengue […]
A new national team has been selected to represent Belize in the 2017 UNCAF Copa Centro Americana Games scheduled to begin on January thirteenth through to January twenty-second. The team is made up some familiar faces, including striker Deon McCaulay, midfielders Ian Gaynair and goalkeepers Woodrow West and Shane Orio. The Copa Centro Americana tournament […]
Belizean recording artist Dan Marcus is in Belize working on a new project. Marcus will be releasing a short film with two music videos as well as an EP that will be available online. These will all be available for purchase later this month across digital music platforms. Today, we spoke with Marcus who tells […]
In tonight’s newscast, we feature Kendis Gibson; he is a Belizean American who currently works at the ABC News network. Gibson relocated to the U.S. at the age of ten and has been described as a “talented journalist with wide-ranging experience.” He joined the ABC team back in 2014 as a correspondent. In this feature […]
A final list from which a thirteenth senator will be chosen was formalized on Wednesday, after a steering committee vetted the names of all nominees. That number has since been reduced to five, since the executive director of the Turneffe Atoll Sustainability Association, TASA, has withdrawn his candidacy. Tonight, we’ll introduce you to Janelle Chanona […]
Gay rights activist Caleb Orozco, executive director of UNIBAM, has raised several issues concerning the process being used by the Thirteenth Senator Steering Committee in going about the selection of the remaining parliamentarian. In fact, he points out that the panel should be proactive in its approach to reach out to other nongovernmental organizations, regardless […]
Guatemalan newspaper, Prensa Libre, in its January second issue, carried recent statements made by Guatemalan Foreign Minister, Carlos Raul Morales. According to the article, FM Morales announced that Belize had ratified the amendment to the referendum law, which now allows for a simple majority vote. This, he said, was approved by the Congress of Guatemala […]
News Five has confirmed from reliable sources that the Office of the Solicitor General filed a claim in the Supreme Court on December twenty-eighth against the son of former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Lands Gaspar Vega, Andre Vega, and attorney Sharon Pitts, for the repayment of the sum of four hundred thousand dollars […]
You may recall that a few years back the Police Department installed surveillance cameras in key spots on south side Belize City; at the corner of George and Dean Streets; including the corner of Kraal Road and Haynes Street; Foot of the Pound Yard Bridge and BelCan Roundabout. From what we have gathered, none of […]
2016 ended off as one of the deadliest years in Belize’s history – with one hundred and thirty-seven murders. The transition into the New Year was a bloody one as well – with five murders in the first three days of 2017. Most took to the airwaves or online to express their discontent with the […]
The Christmas Season saw a noticeable increase in the number of police officers assigned to various hotspots across Belize City. In fact, it would almost seem as though a small tent with a pair of foldable chairs and two officers are stationed at the corners of every street leading towards the downtown area. Those measures […]
Starting June fourth, there will be a daily direct flight from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to Belize at rock-bottom prices. That’s the latest coming out of the Belize Tourism Board, the marketing arm of the country, following ongoing dialogue with Southwest Airlines. According to B.T.B., the flight will have multiple connections to and from Fort Lauderdale […]
The B.T.B. wants your vote to make the Great Blue Hole the ‘Best Caribbean Dive Site.’ Belize was nominated in the ‘Ten Best Readers’ Choice Award’ contest after it was selected by a panel of diving and Caribbean travel experts. The voting online is now open and ends at midnight on Monday, January thirtieth. Belize […]
So we’ve all heard of the military diet, the alkaline diet, grapefruit diet, and the cabbage soup diet, all that seem to be popular here in Belize when we want to lose weight as quickly as possible. Especially after the holidays with all that turkey and ham. That’s when we turn to quick fixes like […]
