Another Belize City school was also a lucky recipient of much needed assistance today, thanks to the LifeLine Foundation. According to Director Kim Simpliss, Calvary Temple is one of the first schools the organisation decided to adopt. This morning Simpliss told News Five that the fourteen thousand dollar gift will be used to bolster the […]
You may hear a lot about the organisation’s gala fundraising events, but today the Lifeline Foundation is in the news because of what it does with the money it raises. In this case over twenty thousand dollars for three worthy causes. News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports. Kim Simpliss, Founder/Director, Lifeline Foundation “Today we are pleased […]
Belize Electricity Limited has been taking a lot of heat from consumers ever since it requested an increase in rates. But tonight the company is taking flack from its own employees. A press release issued today by the Belize Energy Workers Union lambasted B.E.L., calling the application for price hikes (quote) “not only greedy, but […]
On June first he graduated from Saint John’s high school with honours but tonight family and friends of seventeen year old Clive Rivers are mourning his death following a tragic ending to an outing on Thursday afternoon. Rivers sat the last of eleven CXC exams yesterday morning but then left the city with friends to […]
As we’ve highlighted throughout our coverage of the damage caused by Tropical Storm Arthur, the loss of the Kendal Bridge across the Sittee River resulted in significant hardship to the shrimp, banana, citrus, construction and oil industries. Those investors have played a key role in relief efforts to open the road as soon as possible […]
The Princess Hotel and Casino has donated half a million dollars to the Government of Belize for a programme to help young Belizeans. This morning Prime Minister Dean Barrow took possession of four cheques valued at a hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars each and post dated for June through September. According to a government press […]
The wheat that Belize Mills, the bakeries, and much of the nation have been waiting for, finally arrived today and is being made into flour as I speak. The first shipments Thursday morning will go to bakers across the country, many of whom had been forced to shut down due to the shortage. With regard […]
In some more positive news on Belizean young people, we are happy to report that on Saturday a team from Youth for the Future, including counselors and social workers, travelled to Hope Creek in the Stann Creek Valley. They provided emotional support to families affected by the massive floods, distributed food and clothing and held […]
The destruction of the Kendal Bridge in the Stann Creek district was the single most devastating blow to the nation’s infrastructure by Tropical Storm Arthur. But there is a ray of hope on the horizon as tonight the word out of the Ministry of Works is that starting tomorrow, a temporary solution will be in […]
The gloves are off between government and Belize Telemedia Limited in their dispute over payment of business tax and the enforcement of an agreement to provide the company with a guaranteed rate of return. Today, following what he considers an unsatisfactory response from B.T.L., Prime Minister Dean Barrow issued a press release stating that after […]
If you saw our newscast yesterday you would have marveled at the ability of three year old Riley Rubio to survive the flood at Mullins River … simply because he knew how to swim. That talent, as Kendra Griffith reports, is something that every parent can—and should—teach their children. Kendra Griffith, Reporting Aside from being […]
Belize Electricity Limited continues to have major problems satisfying the nation’s need for dependable power. The latest fiasco resulted in a blackout that had part of the Belize City north side along with the first twenty-five miles of both the Western and Northern highways in the dark from eight-thirty this morning until four in the […]
For the last five days the country has been subjected to repeated blackouts and while the leading suspicion is that the outages are intentional, this evening Belize Electricity Limited’s boss Lynn Young maintained that the power cuts are the result of bad weather and bad luck. The company says while trips in the Mexican feed […]
Last October Chief Justice Dr. Abdulai Conteh made a historic ruling in the Supreme Court when he upheld a claim that the Mayans of Southern Belize had constitutionally protected customary land tenure rights over the areas surrounding their communities. But months after the fact, there was no impact on the ground. In response to the […]
“We all Bilang, we di go deh strang with Inclujan”, that’s the theme of Disability Week this year. Official activities include a Finger Spelling Bee set for tomorrow and a parade through the streets of the old capital on Friday. One of the organisations coordinating the events is the Parents Association for Children with Special […]
In response to comments made by Public Utilities Commission Chairman John Avery on our newscast on Thursday, Belize Electricity Limited has issued a statement disputing the P.U.C.’s position. According to the press release, “B.E.L. clarifies that all decisions and actions it has taken with respect to the Mollejon transmission line and the dispatch of power […]
Following the threats by B.E.L. boss Stan Marshall that the company would be forced to implement blackouts if a rate increase wasn’t approved by the Public Utilities Commission, this afternoon P.U.C. Chairman John Avery went on the offensive. According to Avery, while BEL is making an aggressive case for a price hike, its premise appears […]
The World Food Program estimates that every day around fifty-nine million children go to school hungry. While the increase in the number of feeding programmes in Belize has greatly assisted our own needy students, on Thursday one local organisation will be walking in Belmopan to raise awareness of child hunger around the world. According to […]
Rodriguez said he had no reason to believe Banner would harm his daughter, but tonight another man who is calling for murder charges to be laid is Bert Ramos, founder of an organisation called Fathers in Solidarity against Child Abuse. Ramos recently spearheaded a demonstration in Dangriga. Hayedon Rodriquez “Her sister work for me and […]
On Thursday’s newscast we told Belizean consumers to brace themselves for a rise in the price of rice. The increase in the basic commodity is just another bitter reminder of the new reality in the cost of living. But if that wasn’t tough enough to bear, there are more than a handful of business houses […]
A Belize City mechanic apparently bled to death on Wednesday night following an alcohol induced fit of rage. According to his co-workers at Mike’s Motorplex, around three in the afternoon, twenty-nine year old Glenn Urbina showed up at the Cemetery Road compound inebriated and was told to go home. Urbina got upset, picked up a […]
The company, one of Belize’s largest, had withheld its payment of millions of dollars in business tax as a set off against what it says was an unattained guaranteed rate of return promised by the previous government. And while the media anxiously awaited a confrontation between B.T.L. and the Income Tax Department at Magistrates’ Court […]
It does not come as any surprise but Belize Electricity Limited has submitted its formal objection to the Initial Decision made by the Public Utilities Commission. Viewers may recall that B.E.L. had applied, as part of its Annual Tariff Review Proceeding, for rate increases averaging thirteen point four percent and the P.U.C. subsequently rejected that […]
Two recent cases of missing containers have highlighted some major shortcomings at the Customs Department. Today comptroller Gregory Gibson told News Five’s Marion Ali that, at least in these instances, his investigations were always only a step behind. Gregory Gibson, Comptroller of Customs “The individuals who had tried to give the impression that it was […]
Ask any N.G.O. and they will tell you that donations are a necessity for them to carry out their work. Today one organisation was lucky to be on the receiving end of three thousand dollars from Belize Telemedia Limited. The funds were donated to the Alliance Against AIDS and according to Executive Director, Rodel Beltran […]
