Delegates from across the region attended the two-day seminar that also focused on Innovation in the Service Sector while looking at opportunities for the Caribbean. The Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) Network is a network of policy makers responsible for science and technology policy in Latin American and Caribbean countries. The STI Network forums are […]
Amongst the topics discussed at the Science, Technology and Innovation Caribbean Network Series was Regional Integration. Because Belize has a unique geography and history, it is hoped that the Jewel can bridge the networks of both Caribbean and Central America. Flora Montealegre Painter, IDB Science and Tech. Division Chief “Regional integration is a priority of […]
A San Pedro businesswoman, who was in Belize City over the weekend, was greeted with a very unpleasant surprise when she returned to the island. The home of Catherine Paz was burglarized while she was away and the thieves made off with a sizeable loot. Two laptops, a sound system, an iPod, as well as […]
Forty-six year old Mark Conorquie, who was caught red handed stealing a government vehicle assigned to Director of Human Services Ava Pennil on December twenty-third, 2010, was today sentenced to three years in prison after being found guilty of wounding the driver of the van, Edwardo Perez. While attempting to take the vehicle Conorquie was […]
Sixteen Days of Activism, celebrated countrywide by the Women’s Department, is winding down. It’s started at the end of November and a number of activities including an awareness parade and a men’s forum on gender based violence have been held. This Wednesday, another key activity is planned which involves a daylong session during which interested […]
In late 2009 the Ministry of Transport started renovations at the bus terminal in Dangriga and as the works progressed in 2010, vendors were prevented from selling their products inside the facility. According to restaurant owner, John Castillo, he was promised a stall by the Ministry of Transport. But Castillo came to our studios to […]
In the next few days, we will be celebrating twenty years of broadcasting. Great Belize Productions started as a video production company in 1982, a year after television was first introduced in Belize. We pioneered local television news and our first newscast was on December ninth, 1991. Our award winning newscast continues to be our […]
The U.D.P. Caribbean Shores campaign was a month long; it was fought hard on the ground and on the airwaves by the three contenders. Two had strong political backing and on Sunday only one would emerge as the standard bearer for the constituency of four thousand plus voters that range from the affluent to the […]
On Sunday, November twenty-seventh, Castula Westby, a resident of Zericote Street in Belize City, was stabbed numerously; her family says as much thirteen times, while laying asleep inside her bedroom. The home invasion, it is believed, was the result of enmity between her grandson and a group of young men from the neighborhood over a […]
For a month five men were on trial for the murder of twenty year old Randy Coye. Late Friday night, a jury of twelve emerged from the deliberating room and announced that the five were found not guilty. It is believed that there were six perpetrators involved in the brutal killing; Edwin Flowers, Bandon Smith, […]
Javier Castillo, a former teacher from Escuela Mexico who was also once elected as U.D.P. Councilor to the Corozal Town Council was savagely murdered in October 2009 and Hilberto Hernandez from the village of San Narciso was initially charged with Murder. But during trial on November fourteenth of this year, Hernandez pleaded guilty to the […]
A Belize City young woman claims says she was raped by two men, one which is her friend. The rape case came up before Magistrate Roberto Ordonez today and the eighteen year old claims she was raped after having consensual sex with one of them. The alleged rape occurred last Thursday at the home of […]
Mexican national forty-four year old Martin Rafael Urias was busted with a huge amount of cocaine on Thursday night and by Friday evening, he was tried and convicted. Urias was sentenced to sixteen years in prison following the major drug bust near the Belize/Mexico Border in Corozal. It was not Urias’ first trip to Belize. […]
Emotions are running high on both sides of the fence locally as Caleb Orozco on behalf of UNIBAM is challenging Section 53 of the Criminal Code, but the Churches are opposed to that and have been organizing country wide. On Saturday, in down town Belize City, a rally was held, the numbers were not as […]
A family from Consuelo Street was able to save their house, but lost all their belongings when an early morning fire damaged a section of their home. Forty-four year old, food vendor, Shirley Trapp, along with her common-law husband and three children were sleeping when she suddenly woke up to a fire at the front […]
BELTRAIDE, the investment promotion arm of the government, signed up today with the International Development Bank for a major grant as part of the Compete Caribbean Program. The forty million US dollar private sector development program is jointly funded by the IDB, the United Kingdom Department of International Development (DFID) and the Canadian International Development […]
Two and a half months after his passing, the authorized biography of George Price is on sale at outlets around the country. It took Smith two years to conclude and publish George Price: A Life Revealed. He spent countless hours on research and interviewing the father of the nation, who was well known as a […]
It was an early Christmas for well deserved children from numerous children’s homes across the country. The second annual Spirit of Christmas Concert took place on Saturday morning at the Bliss. Over two hundred attended and left with gifts courtesy of the Special Envoy for Women and Children. News Five’s Delahnie Bain reports. Delahnie Bain, […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The Central Secondary School Sports Association Basketball Competition has been kicking up dust lately inside Belize City so we journeyed to the Civic Centre Friday night to find out which 2 teams would round out the final four since St. John’s College and Wesley College […]
A major drug bust took place on Thursday night. It started at the western border where police officers were training on how to conduct searches at checkpoints. The officers detected that a vehicle heading toward the checkpoint, suddenly made a suspicious U-Turn. The Nissan truck with Mexican license plates had initially crossed the border from […]
The rice industry is reeling from problem to problem. Blue Creek rice growers have experienced a huge drop in sales by as much as fifty percent and more recently imported rice from Uruguay added to their woes. Well, tonight there is another hurdle in the industry which has to do with a new tax for […]
There were two murder cases before the court today; one was for sentencing while a verdict is being deliberated at this time in the other case. Two weeks ago forty-one year old Kim Brannon, who also uses the last name McLaughlin, became the second woman this year to be convicted of murder. Brannon was charged […]
While Brannon learned her fate today, five men on trial for the brutal slaying of Randy Coye in October 2009 are still in the court of Justice Adolph Lucas, awaiting a decision. A jury of seven women and five men stepped into the deliberation after four o’clock this afternoon, which means that the verdict will […]
The U.D.P. convention in the Caribbean Shores takes place this Sunday. The three contenders are on the last leg of their campaign throughout the constituency drumming up support from voters. It’s a hotly contested race; the second in that constituency for the next elections since the current area rep, Carlos Perdomo stepped down, giving way […]
Will electricity rates go down just before next year’s municipal elections? Today the P.U.C. confirmed that on Thursday, the Belize Electricity Limited (B.E.L.) applied for a Full Tariff Review Proceeding to lower electricity rates for the period of July first, 2012 to June thirtieth, 2016 by three point four percent. B.E.L. will also be investing […]
