It’s located about a forty minute drive from Belize City on the Western Highway and it offers tourists options of cave-tubing and zip-lining adventures. But even though this is the height of the tourism season, business at Jaguar Paw Resort has been affected by a public spat between the resort and Cruise Solutions. Yesterday the […]
Today is the sixtieth anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Stakeholders in the industry including human rights lawyers, NGO’s and the Conscious Youth Development Program were present at the all-day conference at the House of Culture celebrating the theme “Dignity and Justice for all of us.” Trustee on the board […]
In efforts to ascertain that consumers receive quality and fair services, the Belize Bureau of Standards is carrying out countrywide inspections. And with the Christmas season upon us, the B.B.S. is focusing on fuel. The process takes place every three months to ensure that consumers get what they are paying for and that service providers […]
Finding out that you are HIV positive is a traumatic experience for many persons as life as they know it is over… and although medication has made it possible for them to live longer, the prevailing stigma and discrimination does not make that life much easier. Today some of those persons are speaking out in […]
What happens to children when they are gravely ill and tertiary level care is not available in the country? Many turn to the International Hospital for Children. The I.H.C. offers critical surgical care to persons up to the age of twenty-one and has been facilitating referrals from Belize to the U.S. for specialized medical care. […]
It’s a little over two weeks before Christmas and a family of ten left homeless in a fire in late November, has dim prospects for housing. The head of the family is blind, another member is unemployed and while they had received shelter for a few days, the Belize City family is destitute and desperate […]
In Belize City meanwhile, the Constitution Park was not only a place for playing and relaxing… it was also a place for learning. From nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, fourteen social interest organizations set up information booths and participated in the first ever NGO Fair, organized by the National Committee for […]
Albert and Regent streets have been a dustbowl over the past months. And while completion of the project has been promised time and time again, commuters have had to suffer through the months of disruption. And now December sixteenth is the new due date for the completion of the paving in downtown Belize City. Minister […]
When the sixteen days of activism activities wraps up next Wednesday, the task of finding ways to end domestic violence will continue in the background. One means by which the Women’s Department is exploring that issue is through an intervention program for batterers. In the country to discuss that possibility is the programme coordinator, director […]
In other news, there has been much back and forth between Belize Electricity Limited and the Public Utilities Commission, enough to give anyone whiplash. The latest flurry of press releases started last Thursday when the P.U.C. released a statement on the “state of affairs of the electricity utility sector.” In the three-page document the commission […]
On November fourth when we visited Douglas Village in Orange Walk, the situation was grim as flood waters had been contaminated by overflowing pit latrines in the village. The condition posed such a major health hazard that the Orange Walk branch of NEMO quarantined the area until the waters receded. Aside from the losses the […]
Five hundred and forty five residents of Douglas, Orange Walk District, will spend Christmas at home. The residents were removed from the village because of a threat of diseases following the recent floods from Tropical Depression sixteen. The National Emergency Management Organisation says that the quarantine will be lifted on Saturday and a clean-up of […]
In an update to a story aired in our newscast last night on the chaos in the transportation industry, we contacted the Chief Transport Officer, Candelaria Zaldivar, to get the ministry’s feedback to the glitches in the new system on the Southern route. Zaldivar told us this evening that she has been meeting with the […]
The Belize Red Cross also scored big today. It is the recipient of a new donation to assist flood victims of tropical depression sixteen. And this time the assistance came in the form of cash in the sum of one hundred thousand Belize dollars from the U.S. Embassy. The monies will be used in efforts […]
While the U.S. Embassy was working out the details of handing over funds to the Red Cross, a group of missionaries from Los Angeles were crisscrossing Belize donating supplies to flood victims. The pastors from the Dios International Missionary Church arrived in the country last Wednesday with a container load of medical items, school supplies […]
While flood victims are getting assistance, there is one family in desperate need whose story we found touching and we felt compelled to include it in our newscast. When we visited with forty-eight year old Hethelmae Richards and her husband Dewey at their home in Roaring Creek Village, our hearts were so moved that we […]
Around the world today activities were held to commemorate International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women… local events included a candlelight vigil in San Ignacio, the WIN-Belize torch run in the old capital, and workshops in Orange Walk, Corozal and Belmopan. Today News Five’s Kendra Griffith spoke with Women’s Department Director Icilda Humes and discovered […]
When we aired a story two weeks ago on the suspension of city administrator Englebert Perrera, little did we know that his was only the tip of the iceberg. Reports are that, Human Resources Manager Christine Perriott has been sent home for a week without pay while she is being investigated for similar allegations as […]
Four years ago, the employees of the Social Security Board started the Ride across Belize as an initiative to uplift the image of the organization and at the same time promote a healthy lifestyle and raise money for charity. In 2007, the ride raised sixty thousand dollars. This year’s four-day ride begins this coming Thursday. […]
It is eyeball to eyeball between the Barrow Administration and Telemedia over the Accommodation agreement signed in 2005 between the two. On one side the government has declared it as invalid and on the other, Telemedia has maintained that it is binding and legal. And today if Belmopan did not get the memo, Telemedia stepped […]
While on the issue of crime, remember the Ross Kemp documentary on the gangs in Belize? It made many wary of foreign journalists portraying Belize as a dangerous place where tourist dollars should stay away from. While the Kemp documentary was aired back in September, there is another that is about to bring the purported […]
The fire was back on March twenty-sixth and while construction is underway for the landmark building in downtown Belize City, the proprietors are crying foul. Jose Sanchez reports. Jose Sanchez, Reporting At the site of the former Romac’s, a banner has been placed high above the construction site for everyone to see; a message to […]
In other news, you don’t hear about them very often, but for over a decade the National Committee for Families and Children has been acting as the major advisory body to the government on families and children’s issues. Today the organization updated the public on its activities and progress. Kendra Griffith reports. Student #1 “Did […]
The recent spate of firings involving BAHA employees has caused uproar in the Public Service Union which represents close to a thousand active employees in the government service, with president Jacqueline Willoughby Sanchez, leading the charge. Yesterday, the People’s United Party joined in the condemnation of the firings and today the National Trade Union Congress […]
This morning in Belmopan, dismissed BAHA workers protested in front of their former workplace alongside sympathizers and members of the People’s United Party. According to the protestors, which included party leader John Briceño and Lake I area rep Cordel Hyde, they are voicing their displeasure at the actions of the U.D.P. government and are sending […]
