At only one hundred and five acres, it is one of the nation’s smallest protected areas, but as the Toledo District becomes more accessible, Rio Blanco National Park will be receiving an increasing number of visitors. To help cope with the influx, the park will soon benefit from a grant of over twenty-three thousand dollars […]
If you’re a resident of Coney Drive, then you know all too well that when it rains the street becomes a river and in the dry season a bed of choking dust. According to Area Representative Jose Coye, all that is about to come to an end, hopefully in five months when the rehabilitation of […]
Residents of Coney Drive should keep their fingers crossed until their paved street is actually delivered, as their next door neighbours were similarly excited when they got the long awaited news that their boulevard would be paved. But after months of work on Durgeon Drive, residents there say the job was a joke. Today area […]
With more and more of the region’s forests falling victim to machetes, chainsaws, bulldozers and wildfires, it is clear that more than just local efforts are needed to prevent wide-scale environmental degradation. This morning journalists were invited to support a regional approach. Jose Sanchez reports. Jose Sanchez, Reporting The Mesoamerican Biological Corridor is an ambitious […]
Monday’s newscast and murder usually go hand in hand and tonight is no exception. Ann-Marie Williams reports on the latest carnage in Belize City, which involves a victim who never saw it coming and a killer who had no shortage of ammunition. Ann-Marie Williams “Twenty-five year old Kevin Carr was gunned down in his own […]
A pair of incidents do not necessarily indicate a trend, but twice over the weekend gun toting women have been identified as the perpetrators of attempted robberies in Belize City. On Saturday morning around eleven, a female armed with a handgun and accompanied by a male accomplice, held up the office of Femagra Industries on […]
The Commission of Inquiry appointed to investigate the transfer of HIV blood to three patients at the K.H.M.H. between March twenty-eighth and April first has concluded its public hearings. Between the period June fourth to eleventh the three-man commission has heard testimony from nine witnesses, two of whom had to be recalled to offer additional […]
Belize’s union movement is up in arms tonight over what they claim is the illegal firing of banana workers. Christian Worker’s Union President James McFoy told News 5 that his union has been attempting to organise labourers at several farms and had been receiving strong support from employees in the industry. He claims that on […]
A fire in the kitchen is the kind of catastrophe that does not discriminate between rich and poor, home or commercial establishment. On Saturday night a kitchen fire struck at one of the city’s most prestigious eateries–Chef Bob’s Bar and Grill at the Barracks–and while the Fire Department came to the rescue, the incident demonstrated […]
Three contracts were signed this morning for hurricane rehabilitation projects. The infrastructural works, totalling five point five million dollars, include the paving of Coney Drive in Belize City, construction of a new municipal pier in San Pedro and environmental improvements in that town and the nearby island of Caye Caulker. Funds are being accessed from […]
The last time Belizean sporting representatives went to Honduras they returned with heads high, despite a heartbreaking 3-3 draw with Guatemala’s national football team. This time the venue proved even friendlier as our young athletes made their mark in regional competition. Jose Sanchez, Reporting Over the weekend twenty-seven primary school athletes went to Honduras to […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re just in time for another dish of Sports Monday. After a week of protest at the B.N.F.A. headquarters on Simon Lamb Street, the disenchanted with Dr. Chimilio took to their message to downtown Albert and Regent Streets on Saturday in an effort to further reinforce their message. Today […]
As the Commission of Inquiry, charged with the responsibility to investigate the transfer of HIV blood to three patients at K.H.M.H., closes out its first week, eight people have testified. Ann-Marie has been following the proceedings all week. Ann-Marie Williams “The last witness to testify this afternoon before the Commission of Inquiry was Amalia Gonzalez. […]
The Ministry of Education has released the results of the Primary School Examination for 2001. Bea Jay Armstrong of Grace Primary School in Belize City attained ninety-six percent, the highest overall average of the five thousand, three hundred and thirteen students who sat the May seventh exam. Armstrong will be awarded the Jane and Michael […]
The Lower House met this morning in the nation’s capital to make some amendments to the supreme law of the land. Jose Sanchez was there. Jose Sanchez, Reporting A bill to amend the Constitution was introduced at today’s meeting at the House of Representatives. The primary changes will be to shift the composition of the […]
There were plenty of amendments today on Independence Hill; among them was the Sugar Industry Bill. Sugar Minister Valdemar Castillo says the changes to the bill will help to give future direction to farmers and the factory at Tower Hill. Valdemar Castillo, Minister of Sugar Industry “We have our preferential market with the European Union. […]
Belize is being represented at the eighty-ninth session of the International Labour Conference underway in Geneva, Switzerland. High on the agenda is the abolition of forced labour, health and safety in agriculture, co-operatives and Social Security. Achievements made by Belize last year, such as the Trade Unions and Employers Organisations Act will also be highlighted. […]
Close to twenty men converged on the Chateau Caribbean hotel this morning to talk about being responsible fathers and by extension parents. This is a first time effort by NOPCA to allow Belizean men to put forward their views in a round table discussion for solidarity and to get recommendations for a national conference in […]
If you have access to a television, radio or newspaper, then you should know of the current football controversy. Since Monday, footballers, coaches, managers and owners of football clubs have been protesting the departure of National Team Coach LeRoy Sherrier Lewis and asking for the resignation of B.N.F.A. President Dr. Bertie Chimilio. Last night, footballers […]
When the lights go down and the curtain goes up at the Holy Redeemer Parish Hall this weekend, “The Magic Box” will open for two shows. Ann-Marie Williams has the story. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting It’s dance time for one hundred and one students of The Ballet Art School, ages four to sixteen years as “The […]
Brothers Robert and Adrian Hertular were hoping that they would walk out of the courtroom on bail this morning when they appeared for a preliminary inquiry before Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord. Much to their displeasure…it didn’t happen. Lord told the Hertulars, in the presence of their attorney Simeon Sampson, that an earlier decision by the […]
How many times in Belize–not to mention elsewhere–does a major catastrophe prompt a high profile official response, which often amounts to too little, too late. Today we are pleased to report a different situation: authorities working proactively to prevent a disaster before it happens. The scene was San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, where this morning eleven […]
Viewers may recall a robbery we reported last week, in which the BTL office in Ladyville was broken into over the lunch hour and a large amount of phone cards along with a lesser quantity of cash and cheques were stolen. At the time we predicted an early demise for the robbers, who were caught […]
Although it does not seem to be a top agenda item domestically, this week Belize took a major step internationally to fight against the evils of official corruption. On Tuesday at the Organisation of American States General Assembly in Costa Rica, Belize signed the Inter-American Convention Against Corruption. The treaty, credited in 1996, is the […]
It’s not unfamiliar to hear of a women’s round table. A place where issues affecting women, children and families are discussed. Now, in a bold move by the National Organisation for the Prevention of Child Abuse, NOPCA, the first men’s round table discussion takes place on Friday. NOPCA’s executive director, Lorna McDougall, says the forum […]
