Crime, war, terrorism…sometimes the world is not a particularly peaceful place. But as the earth’s leaders do what they can to address all the chaos, individual organizations are doing their own work to promote peace. This year, the International Association of Lions Clubs is sponsoring a Peace Poster Contest. The competition gives children between the […]
In around a month and a half Belizeans are scheduled to vote on a set of proposals to end the Guatemalan claim to Belize. An important part of those proposals involves the disposition of six cayes which lie at the southern tip of Belize’s barrier reef. This weekend News 5’s Janelle Chanona, Brent Toombs and […]
As we reported last night, the theme of this year’s Mental Health Day involves the effect of violence on young people. In February of this year, on the occasion of Children’s Week, News 5’s Jacqueline Woods worked with twelve year old Kayla Arnold to produce a report that looked at violent crime through the eyes […]
After an initial flurry of publicity surrounding the introduction of the proposals to end the Guatemalan claim, the debate has inevitably cooled as people ostensibly give the documents a closer read. Today, however, one important group of citizens gathered to work out their opinions. News 5’s Marion Ali reports. Marion Ali, Reporting With Belizeans and […]
In news from Cabinet, that executive body has announced its intention to upgrade the quality of the nation’s shipping registry through the enactment of new legislation. The High Seas Fishing Compliance Bill will require Belize flagged vessels fishing on the high seas to operate under much stricter guidelines. Those guidelines, developed by the Ministry of […]
A new Board will be named shortly for the Development Finance Corporation. D.F.C. Chairman Glen Godfrey confirmed to News 5 today that three members, himself included, have asked that they not be reappointed following the expiration of their two year term on September ninth. Godfrey says his appointment at the end of August as Honorary […]
The cleaning of debris from the Paslow building fire is being completed and it is expected that Queen Street will be opened to traffic as early as Thursday. No decision has been made on the building’s rehabilitation, but we were informed today that the scorched safe belonging to Magistrate’s Court has been opened. The good […]
Gallon for gallon, Belize’s fuel prices have been rising at an alarming rate, largely the result of international forces. For Belizean service station operators, the price formula is such that they get six percent of the retail price, a figure the association wants to change. On Friday, the dealers representing the country’s thirty-six gas vendors […]
Until she made up her mind as to where she was going, Hurricane Iris had Belizeans from San Pedro to Barranco saying their prayers and packing their bags. And when her one hundred and fifty mile per hour winds finally tore a swath of destruction across southern Belize, thousands of people discovered that our conventional […]
Another team from the Organization of American States arrived in Belize today to further investigate the group of people that have taken up lodging just outside the Belizean town of Benque Viejo del Carmen. According to Chief Executive Officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, David Gibson, O.A.S. official Sergio Caramagna and Chris Hernandez Roy, […]
The exposure of the passport sandal may have put a dent in the illicit trade in Belizean nationality, but it appears that some people just don’t seem to get the message. An advertisement in the September twenty-eighth issue of the Economist magazine seems to tell readers that they can obtain a Belize passport, but the […]
Belize’s heavily burdened police investigators will get a little help this week in the form of training, courtesy of the U.S. embassy. Thirty-five officers will participate all this week in a course on crime scene management and evidence handling, to be held in Belize City. Taught by instructors from the F.B.I., the classes will deal […]
It is an organization among the first to respond in times of disaster, but this year, the Belize Red Cross Society is taking on a different kind of adversity: money troubles. This morning, the society got some relief as the Chinese community in Belize handed over a cheque for five thousand dollars, the result of […]
Residents of Belize City, particularly during the rainy season, are no strangers to getting their feet wet. But while most of the old capital’s flooding is the result of heavy rainfall, the water which greeted citizens as they woke this morning came up from the ground and not the sky. Like many Belizeans, we tried […]
On Sunday, the Faith and Justice Commission of the Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church invites you to participate in a three mile walk dubbed, A March for Prayer. The symbolic action, which takes place in the Cayo District, is to raise awareness regarding the increase of violence against women, particularly incidents of rape. This […]
Between the recent rash of road accidents and gang inspired shootings, there is no shortage in Belize of parents who have performed the painful task of burying their children. On May fourteenth, Carolyn Westby lost her twenty-six year old son, Wayne Westby, after his motorcycle crashed into a car on the Northern Highway. But instead […]
The luxurious live-aboard dive boat capsized on the night of October eighth, 2001, as Hurricane Iris lashed the southern port of Big Creek. By the time the wind subsided, the Wavedancer’s dead numbered twenty, including two Belizean crewmembers: Brenda Wade and Eloisa Johnson. Tonight word from Miami is that a lawsuit filed by the twenty […]
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has released the text of a letter written by facilitators Sir Shridath Ramphal and Paul Reichler to O.A.S. Secretary General Cesar Gaviria, which–if nothing else– demonstrates that they are attempting to resolve the problem of a Guatemalan housing estate that has spilled over across the Belize border. The letter refers […]
Senior citizens week marched on today–and I mean those words quite literally. Jacqueline Woods explains. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The senior citizens, ninety-nine years old and younger, did not seem to be bothered by the warm weather and briskly hit the pavement of the city streets to commemorate their week. Jacqueline Woods “Did you enjoy the […]
Yesterday evening Belize Telecommunications Limited held its annual general meeting, the last before its fifteen year monopoly ends on the first of January. If that date marks the beginning of a new era for B.T.L., at least the old one ended with a bang. Revenues rose ten point six percent to a record one hundred […]
Toledo’s indigenous community has reacted to Friday’s violent incident in which two men were killed and three wounded in a confrontation with police. In a letter to Prime Minister Said Musa and copied to the press, the Maya Leaders Alliance has called upon the P.M. to establish a commission of inquiry into the killing of […]
If there is any silver lining to the clouds of damage surrounding Sunday’s fire in downtown Belize City, it is the knowledge that a new truck recently purchased by the fire department probably paid for itself several times over in one day of work. This afternoon News 5’s Jacqueline Woods took a closer look at […]
Whatever plans Belizeans may have for the weekend, they will be carried out with at least one eye on the Weather Channel. Chief Meteorologist Carlos Fuller says his staff has been closely monitoring the movement of tropical storm Lili. Although it is still too early to predict whether or not the system will affect Belize, […]
Belize and the United States have signed an agreement under which Belize will be assisted in fighting the illicit drug trade. Three projects funded to the tune of four hundred and thirty-four thousand U.S. dollars will be initiated to strengthen the Police Department’s ability to intercept and prosecute drug runners. Signing this afternoon on behalf […]
They say the worst conflicts in life are those within families. Today, one family squabble ended badly for a number of Belize City residents. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting This afternoon, Dorita Cacho and her children were forcibly put out of the house they have been living in for the past seventeen years. The family was evicted […]
