Mobility comes naturally to the average person but when obesity sets in and is complicated by other medical conditions, life’s daily movements become a chore. Meet twenty-nine year old Llewlyn Meighan of Castle Street. He tips the scales at six hundred pounds and says he’s in dire need of two surgeries; a gastric bypass and […]
Investment is the lifeblood of any economy and Belize is no exception. BELTRAIDE, the quasi-government body that deals with investment promotion and facilitation, today took the opportunity to take pride in its accomplishments and point to the future. News Five’s Marion Ali has more. Marion Ali, Reporting The highlight of this morning’s introduction of BELTRAIDE’s […]
A labour dispute has slowed work at the site of the Vaca hydroelectric facility near Benque Viejo in the Cayo District. Reports reaching News Five indicate that somewhere near eighty of the two hundred eighty workers employed on the project have been off the job since yesterday. They have complained of low wages and poor […]
Most of the damage from Hurricane Dean has been repaired but today we learned of one casualty that has yet to be dealt with. It involves fifty-three year old Alfred White senior, a resident of Corozal who, in the wake of the storm, could not cope with his new situation. The mental patient has been […]
The use of entertainment to send a message is hardly a new concept … and we need look no further than our overabundant political ads for confirmation. But art forms like film and video can do more than sell candidates; they can also save lives. News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports. Inda Wright, Advocacy Officer, Y.E.S. […]
Security procedures at Hattieville have been publicly scrutinized since the embarrassing arrest of former prison official Oscar Puga, who was charged after police found him heading into Belize City late at night with three prisoners in his vehicle. In the fallout from that incident, the prison’s managers from the Kolbe Foundation enlisted the help of […]
Five months after Hurricane Dean devastated portions of northern Belize, the European Union is offering more than two million dollars in aid to the storm victims. According to a government press release, the EU is providing approximately one point seven million dollars for housing in the Corozal, Orange Walk and Belize Districts. The project will […]
As we’ve often noted in this newscast, many organisations depend on charity contributions to make ends meet. Today two such groups received lifelines from a local foundation trying to make a difference. Kendra Griffith, Reporting This morning the LifeLine Foundation donated just under ten thousand dollars to two Belize City N.G.O.s. The Parents Association for […]
They had to wait almost five years but on Wednesday, Belizean men finally achieved equality with women … at least in the eyes of the Social Security Board. The occasion was the launching of the non contributory pension for men sixty-five and over. Women who did not qualify for a regular Social Security pension began […]
It’s not uncommon to hear about government or N.G.O. sponsored initiatives to provide skills training for young people. What is rare however, is evidence that the programmes are working. Today News Five’s Kendra Griffith dropped in on a project that’s trying hard to get the best advice possible. Eddie Bouloy, Youth Business Trust Mentor “As […]
It’s not uncommon for citizens to complain to the media of unnecessary force by members of the police department, but tonight a young man is claiming he was the victim of something else, a practice called profiling. According to thirty year old Dwight Lewis, he has never had a run-in with the police until December […]
On Friday, word out of Belmopan indicated that eight Guatemalan families living in the illegal settlement of Santa Rosa in southern Belize had been relocated to Peten, Guatemala. But on the heels of that announcement came reports that some of those villagers had decided to move east instead of west to take up residence in […]
True to its word, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a release today on the relocation of residents of Santa Rosa, a tiny village illegally inhabited by Guatemalans on the Belize side of the border in Toledo. The Ministry confirmed that the relocation of eight families began today to a site twenty-four miles west in […]
Santa Rosa. It’s a tiny settlement of Guatemalans on the Belize side of the border in Toledo that has for many years been inextricably linked to a settlement of Guatemala’s claim to our country. While Belizean authorities successfully removed other illegal Guatemalan squatter communities such as Machaquila and Rio Blanco, Santa Rosa perhaps because of […]
The run up to the Krem New Years Cycling Classic may have been dominated by controversy, but once the riders hit the road in Corozal the competition tested to the traditional skills of strength, endurance and strategy. And while the four riders of the Santino’s team were allowed to enter by order of the Supreme […]
Most of us think of Christmas and think of family and food. And while the inmates of Hattieville Prison are deprived of spending quality time with their loved ones every other day of the year, since the Kolbe Foundation took over, administrators have used Christmas Day as a Family Day. According to a press release […]
Christmas came early for hurricane victims in the Corozal and Orange Walk districts today as the Belize Red Cross handed over keys to twenty new houses. The recipients, who all lost their homes during Hurricane Dean, are residents of the villages of Cristo Rey, Chan Chen, San Pedro and Patchakan in Corozal and in Trial […]
With Christmas less than five days away, most Belizeans are scrambling to find the time—and money—to clean, shop, cook, and bake. And as the pressure mounts, agencies such as the Belize Family Court are under added stress trying to process child support money for thousands of single parents across the country. According to Family Court […]
The town is better known for its high standard of living than its political activism, but today residents of San Pedro were on the march. News Five’s Marion Ali travelled to Ambergris Caye to see what the fuss was all about. Marion Ali, Reporting The usual laid back attitude of San Pedro Town was momentarily […]
Seven villages in the Stann Creek and Toledo districts will soon receive electrical service as part of the Banana Support Programme of the European Union and Belize Government. Under the five million Belize dollar project, Monkey River, Bladen, Trio, San Isidro, San Pablo and Cowpen will be electrified. The agreement signed today in Belmopan will […]
Months after Hurricane Dean wreaked havoc in northern Belize, contributions are still coming in to assist residents. One such donation was made this afternoon to the Belize Red Cross by its sister organisation, The Red Crescent Society of Egypt. The forty-nine boxes of medicines were handed over by Egyptian Ambassador, Aly El-Hefny to Red Cross […]
This morning the Statistical Institute of Belize unveiled the results of a Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey, MICS, which was conducted in 2006 in almost two thousand households across the country. The survey, executed with financial and technical assistance from UNICEF sought to obtain information regarding the progress of women fifteen to forty-nine and children five […]
There’s a segment on CNN News called “what were they thinking” and if we had that feature on this newscast that’s precisely where today’s announcement by the Social Security Board would be. According to a Board press release, they have “Received a proposal for an investment opportunity with the Universal Health Service.” We understand that […]
We hear a lot of talk about the problem of youth and crime, but when it comes to concrete solutions the silence can be deafening. That’s why the efforts at mile twenty-one on the Western Highway continue to merit our attention. News Five’s Marion Ali has the latest. Marion Ali, Reporting Today the National Youth […]
It occurred so early in the season that Hurricane Dean seems like a long time ago. But the intervening months have not diminished the gratitude felt for those who helped pick up the pieces. Today government recognised some of those public officers who rose to the occasion. Kendra Griffith, Reporting The men and women in […]
