You need not look further than the House of Representatives to realize that there is not one female representative at a national level in the government. And while the history of gender inequality is still being locally written, Mexico has a broader vision and experience that it wants to share with Belize. The Embassy of […]
In a similar fashion to Santa, the Mexican Embassy is also making a list and checking it twice. But instead of who’s naughty or nice, the Embassy is looking for the brightest and the best to visit the new Yook ol Kaab Planetarium and the Museum of the Maya Culture in Quintana Roo. According to […]
While Mexico looks for the best, the brightest students were honored this morning for this year’s CSEC and CAPE exams. The top student from Corozal to Punta Gorda travelled to the city to receive their certificates and tuition scholarships. This year the event was held at the Bliss, and with a seating capacity of five […]
Voice Over Internet Protocol, or VOIP as it is commonly known, was part of the United Democratic Party’s campaign manifesto going into the general elections of 2008. The introduction of the service would significantly reduce the cost of overseas and long distance calls to consumers, but would result in a steep decline in telecommunications revenues. […]
A first of a kind symposium is taking place at the old CET compound. A group of international sculptors are teaming up with locals in the trade as well as with students for the month long event. Aside from the discussions on this particular form of art, the group is trying new techniques with new […]
The organization, Socio Economic Outreach, works with the women of Toledo to refine and market their crafts, particularly the popular jipi japa baskets. Last November the first exhibit and sale was held in Belize City to help the women weave their way out of poverty. The second Toledo Market Day was held today with a […]
Inside the Courtroom of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Lungole Awich, family members, including Ann Marie, the wife of Rhett Fuller, waited tensely for what appeared to be the last chance for freedom for the wanted man. There have been hearings as far as the Privy Council and more recently before the Foreign Minister, to stop […]
Twenty year old Guatemalan illegal logger, Evelio Adelso Romero will be spending more time on this side of the border. Romero was detained over the past weekend by Friends of Conservation rangers, B.D.F. and Police who found him armed and logging illegally in the Chiquibul National Park. Earlier today he was taken to the San […]
While one illegal logger is safely behind bars, there is another report of unease along the Belize/Guatemala border. Residents of southern Belize told News Five earlier today that the Jalacte border is closed. It is an area where cross border trading is brisk between Belizeans and Guatemalans. The closure follows an incident that reportedly took […]
There’s bleak news to report on the financial front. Belize’s foreign currency credit score was downgraded by Standard and Poor’s in early August following government’s acquisition of the Belize Electricity Limited. The country’s credit rating went down from a B to a B minus because, according to S&P, the nationalization added to the country’s fiscal […]
Tonight’s question is: Would you support legislation to enable same sex marriage? Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones to 8686 or post your vote on our e-poll at channel5belize.com. You can also send an email with your comments to questions@channel5belize.com.
A Canadian, who is a retired investor residing in the Cayo District was detained at the Western border and threatened with arrest by Immigration officials on Monday as he returned to the Jewel. The allegation is that no explanation was offered and the retiree’s passport was seized by immigration officials. Despite numerous requests for the […]
The debate is heating up on a legal challenge on homosexuality. In two weeks litigation in a novel case brought against the Attorney General’s Office by Caleb Orozco and the United Belize Advocacy Movement, UNIBAM, to decriminalize homosexuality is set to begin in the Supreme Court. Represented by a team of prominent lawyers, including senior […]
Police Constable Delia Hyde was released today from the Southern Regional Hospital after she was stabbed twice in the back by her ex-common-law husband. Hyde was on duty at the Dangriga Police Station when forty-four year old Kent McKenzie, her baby’s father, walked in and inflicted the stab wounds. A warrant for child support was […]
A police sergeant narrowly escaped going to prison today and was granted bail on a charge of wounding. Forty-six year old Jose Ortega was arraigned this morning for an incident that occurred in September, when he and Police Constable Leonardo Yama were accused of beating up a Magistrates’ Court bailiff. Yama was charged days after […]
Businesswoman, Loretta Palacio is in the news tonight for back-payments in GST. Palacio appeared before Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer where GST personnel requested a payment of eighty-nine thousand, six hundred and ninety nine dollars in unpaid sales taxes for the periods 2009 and 2010. The initial amount was sixty-eight thousand dollars, but that has increased […]
There is a resolution in sight for citrus growers whose payments have been delayed by the Citrus Products of Belize Limited because a U.S two million dollar financing facility had not been drawn down. While the CPBL today says that for a second time during this crop they will not be able to make full […]
With the departure of Celine Gomez, a new Chief Executive Officer will take over the reins of the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry. BCCI announced today that its current Director of Member Relations, Kim Aikman, is being appointed as C.E.O. effective December first. Aikman has been the Director of Member Relations at the secretariat […]
Renowned anthropologist Dr. Joseph Palacio, a native of Barranco Village, the southernmost Garifuna enclave in the country, along with Carson Tuttle and Judy Lumb, has spent the past thirty years researching and studying land ownership and occupation in that community. It was a broad project which saw the trio in pursuit of information which brings […]
A contingent of high school students returned to Belize today; they were ecstatic and with good reason. The female softballers are restoring luster to the sport. The under seventeen players brought back silver medals from Panama where they defeated the home team as well as Guatemala. But there was one team that prevented them from […]
The statistics on alcohol consumption in Belize are alarming. There is concentrated usage among the youth population and even more startling, are the range of effects that the abuse of alcohol has on Belize. Today, the Ministry of Health in collaboration with the National Drug Abuse Control Council and Pan-American Health Organization, brought stakeholders together […]
The Belize Electricity Limited’s Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Locke and the European Union’s Country Representative in Belize Cosimo Lamberti Fossati signed an agreement this morning to implement a three-way initiative between the Government of Belize, the European Union and Belize Electricity Limited. The two-year project will provide several communities throughout the country including Belama Phase […]
While the revelry was taking place down south in celebration of Garifuna Settlement Day, in the west a teenager lost his life in a dangerous stretch along the border. The victim is sixteen year old Esvin Ernesto Reyes who along with his father Estevan and mother Teresa set out along the Mopan River heading to […]
Up north another murder has been reported. A resident of the San Victor Village in the Corozal District was killed during a hit and run incident last Thursday. The driver of the vehicle has been charged with murder rather than manslaughter. According to police reports, the death was the result of an argument between two […]
Illegal logging activities continue unabated in the Chiquibul. This past Friday, the Chiquibul Joint Enforcement Unit, comprising of Friends of Conservation and Development rangers, B.D.F. and police personnel, surprised a group of loggers well inside Belizean territory in what is called the zone of influence. According to FCD which co-manages the area the group of […]
