On last night’s One On One, the programme Cash for Guns was discussed at length with the show’s guests Lascelle Arnold and Darrel Carter. Both Arnold and Carter say the programme has been getting a number of support from the business community and concerned citizens. While the goal is to get as much illegal guns […]
Destined to be the largest cycling event after the Cross Country Cycling Classic, is a new riding competition created by Santino Castillo. Today we caught up with Santi to find out more. Jose Sanchez, Reporting Move over Tour-de-France, here comes Tour-de-Santino. With a 10.6 mile time trial, a seventy-mile road race, and an hour and […]
In 1994, the Society for the Promotion of Education and Research, SPEAR, launch a project on political reform by holding a series of public consultations. These meetings resulted in the publication of the document Ten Proposals for Political Reform in March of 1996. Almost three years later, the topic was still a popular subject. In […]
Six years ago the Cash for Guns Programme brought in close to three hundred weapons. Since then crime has not gone down, but has escalated. Today a similar exercise will soon be launched to try and rid the streets of guns and eliminate crime. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Get guns off the street and out of […]
News Five was invited to Dangriga to witness a programme that the indigenous women of the town have been involved with to bring some much needed income into the homes of many unemployed women. The programme, which is the product of the Belize Indigenous Institute, BITI, has been greatly welcomed by the residents of Dangriga […]
It had taken so long, that many people on both sides of the issue thought that the day when Belize would have a copyright law would never come. Today, almost seven months after the date mandated by the World Trade Organisation, that day finally arrived. Attorney General Godfrey Smith accompanied by the Governor General, told […]
Safety in the workplace is the goal of the U.S. Department of Labour and Belize’s Ministry of Labour. The topic will be discussed at length during a Regional Occupational Safety and Health Project, which was launched today at the Radisson. Jose Sanchez, Reporting This project, once under way is expected to save businesses and Central […]
After several false starts the dispute between cable television operators and the Caribbean Broadcasting Union over the Olympic Games has finally been resolved. Late this afternoon CBU President Stewart Krohn and Cable Association President Jimmy Johnson signed an agreement, which for an undisclosed fee, will allow Cable Association members to broadcast the games from Sydney. […]
This weekend a large congregation of young women will gather at the St. John’s College Campus to speak out on a number of issues. According to Martha Carrillo, coordinator of the WIN-Belize two-day forum, women today are faced with urgent concerns that need to be addressed. Martha Carrillo, Forum Coordinator “What we are trying to […]
There’s a flip side to the never ending story of murders and mayhem behind the walls of Hattieville Prison…and that is that at any given time a significant corps of prisoners are not behind the walls at all; they’re working hard right down your street. Jacqueline Woods met a few of them this morning. Jacqueline […]
It is not a new idea, but one which has worked in the past. Over six years after a private sector initiative succeeded in buying back and destroying over two hundred and fifty illegal firearms, Cabinet, concerned by a steep rise in violent crime, has given the go ahead to try the plan again. At […]
The Olympic Games will open next month in Sydney, Australia, but in Belize the biggest sport seems to be wrestling over who can broadcast the event on television. In a press release issued today, the Belize Cable Television Operators Association explained that while it fully supports government’s efforts to implement recently passed copyright legislation, it […]
In an effort to help create a computerised database of those Belizeans suffering from cancer, Belize Electricity Limited has donated a computer to the Belize Cancer Society. The Intel Pentium computer and printer, valued at four thousand, five hundred dollars, was today handed over by BEL’s Public Relations Officer Diana Forman. Accepting the donation on […]
Today Minister Mark Espat, in conjunction with the Belize Tourism Board signed into law a statutory instrument to regulate water taxis and pleasure boats. The move is part of an effort to improve the quality of Belize’s tourism product. Ramon Cervantes, Water Taxi Association “Through this S.I. we’ll be able to regulate the operation of […]
It is one of the city’s most revered historical sites, but the years have not been kind to Yabra Cemetery. As part of an urban renewal project, a section of the site will be used for housing and recreation. On the remainder renovation work has begun…and News Five’s Jose Sanchez has an update. The Yarborough […]
On Friday we ran a story about the need for consumers to take care when working around high voltage transmission lines; today we regret to report that for the second time in a week a man has been the victim of an electrocution accident; this time it proved fatal. The latest incident took place Saturday […]
They are fields of employment usually associated with men: carpenters, masons, mechanics. But like many things in Belize, sexual and economic roles are changing. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Under the banner, “Empowering Women For A Better Life,” a three-year programme offering non-traditional skills training for women was launched today by the Centre For Employment Training. A […]
While San Pedro has earned a reputation as a happy go lucky tourist destination where fun is the order of the day, it is also a community that must cope with all the normal problems of urban life. On September first the town will inaugurate a curfew for young people and area representative Patty Arceo […]
Tragedies are never pleasant to report but the folks at BEL are hoping that the reporting of one recent incident will shock the public into being more careful in how they put up buildings. Jose Sanchez has more. Jose Sanchez, Reporting A week ago, a sixteen-year old boy was seriously injured when he accidentally touched […]
Audrey Matura may be departing as editor of the Guardian, but her final days on the job have not been timid. The headline in today’s issue dropped the bombshell that the man recently hired to supervise the maximum-security section of Hattieville Prison is himself a former inmate of a U.S. prison. This afternoon News Five […]
It’s an island nicknamed La Isla Bonita, but the fact is that if a fire started downtown on a windy day, San Pedro could quickly become La Isla Quemada. Tonight, however, San Pedranos have reason to sleep a little bit sounder. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Last December a fire on San Pedro, Ambergris Caye destroyed two […]
A British initiative to help eradicate poverty in Belize has resulted in a major grant to government. It was announced today that Acting British High Commissioner Martin Fidler has signed an agreement with Prime Minster Said Musa, under which the UK will provide almost 5.7 million Belize dollars to fund projects to assist low income […]
If you’ve ever seen an infomercial on television promising to show you how to better your life for an expensive price, you probably changed the channel. But this time, the self-help is not on video and it won’t cost you a penny. It turns out that Stephen Okeke, master sculptor and budding inventor, is also […]
It’s not an unusual occurrence, as torrential rains can be counted on to inundate the country at least two or three times each year. But just because it happens regularly doesn’t mean that bad weather isn’t news. This morning, just after I had sloshed my way into work, I was sent back out again to […]
We’ve come a long way from the days when people would wait for hours at public standpipes and water pressure in Belize City’s municipal system was measured by ounces per square inch rather than pounds. But the rapid expansion of the city and its satellite communities has outstripped the Water and Sewage Authority’s ability to […]
