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It’s a celebration of thirty-five years of friendship! Our friends from the North are celebrating that anniversary by bringing their prestigious naval vessel for a ceremonial visit. The Embassy of Mexico also announced that a special program has been prepared to commemorate this anniversary of the establishment of Diplomatic Relations between Mexico and Belize. […]
On Thursday, the Commander of the United States Southern Command, Admiral Kurt Walter Tidd concluded a two-day visit to Belize with a tripartite meeting held with Brigadier General David Jones of the Belize Defence Force and Chief of Defence Staff of the Guatemalan Armed Forces, Major General Juan Manuel Perez Ramirez. The meeting, which took […]
Today, the Caribbean Youth Leaders Summit officially came to a close. The theme for the summit was From Rhetoric to Action Agenda 2030. Were the dynamic youths able to achieve their goal? News Five’s Andrea Polanco was at the Radisson today for the closing of the Summit and files this report. Andrea Polanco, Reporting […]
Approximately one hundred delegates, all youths from twenty countries across the region, including Costa Rica and Namibia, have converged in Belize for the fourth annual Caribbean Youth Leaders Summit. The three-day conference, celebrated under the theme: Agenda 2030 – from Rhetoric to Action, is being hosted at the Radisson in Belize City. The summit is […]
Belize since 2011 has had a national youth policy in place, but many countries are yet to ratify a strategy to empower the youth. However, Christian says that one of the biggest challenges facing Belize and the region is employment for youths. And that’s where the government comes in. Tijani Christian, Chair, 4th […]
On Thursday, Police United FC takes on Team Olimpia in its home game for the Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League. In its last outing with Pachuca, team Belize took eleven goals and scored zero against the Mexican team. Back in August, Belize traveled to Honduras where it lost four-nil to Olimpia. Today, team Olimpia arrived in […]
As we reported on Monday, Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington spoke at the United Nations lashing out at the incredulous statements made last week by the Guatemalan President, Jimmy Morales. Soon after Elrington spoke, the UN Permanent Representative of Guatemala, Jorge Skinner Klee upped the ante when he exercised the right to reply to respond to […]
Today, Minister of Foreign Affairs addressed the United Nations in a spirited speech touching principally on the Belize-Guatemala dispute. In his address to the seventy-first General Assembly, it was the first time that Wilfred Elrington finally took on Guatemala’s hostility against Belize. Elrington used some choice words and said Guatemala was “impeding the peaceful ingress […]
Elrington dedicated much time to respond to the Guatemalan President’s statement last week on the shooting incident involving the minor in the Chiquibul. And he didn’t hold back about what he thought of the Guatemalan’s response to the O.A.S. report by the international experts. Elrington said that Guatemala’s rejection is not just “reprehensible but also […]
The jewel is preparing to host an international volleyball competition. It’s a first for the local volleyball association which is putting its best foot forward in terms of logistics as well to compete. The local team will be competing against teams from the region but the highly anticipated game will be against Guatemala. News Five’s […]
Gringo, it’s the anticipated documentary about John McAfee, the eccentric millionaire, which is airing this Saturday on Showtime. But like most things in McAfee’s life, there are twists and turns that are surfacing just prior to the airing. Showtime producers are being accused of bribing four former employees to lie about McAfee. And they have […]
Tuesday’s hearing at the Caribbean Court of Justice addressed a number of issues with regard to the Settlement Agreement for Belize Telemedia Limited, including the issue of paying back the former owners of the telephone company, represented by Dunkeld International Investments and the B.T.L. Employees Trust, in U.S. dollars. The attorneys for Dunkeld and the […]
But aside from the B.T.L. arbitration award, there are other outstanding cases before international courts. Belize stands to lose another significant sum based on the decision of the most powerful court in the United States. Financial Secretary Joseph Waight gave us the details on Tuesday. Joseph Waight, Financial Secretary “There are three arbitration awards […]
World leaders are gathering in New York City where the United Nations seventy-first General Assembly is underway. The Belize delegation, we are told, is already in New York for the delivery of the Belize statement by Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington on September twenty-fifth. But earlier today, it was Jimmy Morales, the president of Guatemala, who […]
And while on the subject of the General Assembly, UNIBAM’s Caleb Orozco also addressed a side event of the assembly organized by the UN LGBT Core group in New York. That presentation took place on Wednesday and Orozco met with personalities such as Vice President Joe Biden as seen in the photographs.
A wide assortment of musical instruments was handed over to the National Youth Orchestra by the Korean Government this morning at the Bliss Center for the Performing Arts. There are steel pans, a piano and harp, but also a bassoon which will further complement the inventory of equipment. The Director of the National Orchestra says […]
At this time at the F.F.B. Stadium in Belmopan, the Mexican Football team, Pachuca is playing against Police United from Belize in a return match in the CONCACAF Champions League. It’s not going well for Belize and at half time; the Mexican team continues to rout Belize five-nil. A sports team on the ground reports […]
The release of an O.A.S.-commissioned report, following a forensic investigation into the shooting death of fourteen-year-old Julio Rene Alvarado Ruano, has vindicated the Belize Defense Force and that has outraged the Guatemalans. The B.D.F. was prematurely accused of fatally wounding the Guatemalan minor in the Chiquibul Forest in April. While the report has since cleared […]
Ambassador of the Republic of China (Taiwan) to Belize, Benjamin Ho, on Saturday delivered a donation from his government to Belize’s Lawrence Sylvestre, Chief Executive Officer of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Starret Dickson Greene, Representative of the Organization of American States. Credible sources tell us that the amount is two hundred thousand U.S. […]
As we reported on Monday, the government of Guatemala has flatly rejected the report of two independent experts, commissioned by the O.A.S., on the shooting death of fourteen year old Julio Rene Alvarado Ruano. The minor was killed in the Chiquibul where a joint patrol found him with his father and brother hunting and gathering […]
Guatemala was the first to call for an O.A.S. led investigation and had agreed to the appointment of the experts. But now the tables have turned since the report exonerates the B.D.F. and in fact notes that there was interference with the evidence on the part of the Guatemalans. In the interview this morning, the […]
Guatemala today officially, but not surprisingly, rejected the report of two independent experts in respect of the shooting death of fourteen year old Julio Rene Alvarado Ruano in the Chiquibul last April. Even though Guatemala was first to call for an independent investigation and Belize agreed to it, President Jimmy Morales told the media in […]
It’s been exactly one month since Hurricane Earl hit south of Belize City and swept through Belize and Mexico. While there were no casualties in Belize, in Mexico up to fifty persons perished due to the storm and thousand were affected. Today, a donation of fifty thousand U.S. dollars for hurricane relief was handed over […]
According to Ambassador Quesnel, the amount was determined following assessments from the Government and the Belize Red Cross. The Red Cross has helped approximately five hundred families across the Belize District and Director General Lily Bowman says that the financial assistance forms part of the Belize Disaster Risk Emergency Fund. The money will be disbursed […]
There is a report that the B.D.F. came under fire on Wednesday in the Chiquibul National Park approximately two hundred and fifty-nine meters east of the border. The shooting at the patrol occurred at about eleven-thirty in the morning when the soldiers were heading to Retero Camp to follow-up on a previous order to leave […]
