If you traveled along the Hummingbird Highway today, you may have noticed some ongoing works at a bridge between miles thirty-one and thirty-two – the very same spot where four persons lost their lives in St Margaret Village over the weekend. As we reported on Tuesday night, there were three separate accidents at the one-lane […]
Can more be done to stabilize and reduce fuel prices? Despite the best promises of Prime Minister Dean Barrow after a series of cruel spikes between August and early October, prices have only returned to the pre-spike levels. Two weeks ago, Financial Secretary Joseph Waight informed that prices would be stable and only go down […]
Belize is coming up on the one-year anniversary of the signing and accession to the United Nations Convention against Corruption on December ninth, World Anti-Corruption Day. The government devoted a press release in September to the strides made in implementation but there is still much work to be done. But part of that work is […]
What’s happened to the Occupational Safety and Health Bill, which would address working conditions for all employees countrywide? In October, Prime Minister Dean Barrow stated that he had no update from the National Trade Union Congress of Belize as to whether its negotiations with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry have commenced. The re-introduction of […]
Earlier this year, two bargaining units affiliated with the Christian Workers Union – employees of Social Security Board and stevedores working at the Port of Belize – engaged in high-profile action to draw attention to their labour issues. The former wore t-shirts to work on two successive Fridays in April in support of negotiations for […]
The annual marketing expo organized by the University of Belize was held today at the Ramada Belize City Princess where thirty-five innovative business ideas came to fruition. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. Duane Moody, Reporting Students from the University of Belize partook in the tenth annual marketing expo held today in Belize City. Thirty-five […]
The Belize Red Cross is enhancing capacity and building resiliency in sixteen communities in the Belize District. The Belize Red Cross has ongoing assessments in communities to identify gaps and they have found that communities where they haven’t done a project before are lacking in some skills and training in core areas of health and […]
A deserving mother of three children was the lucky recipient of a house in the Lord’s Bank community, just in time for the upcoming Christmas season. Taralee Burgess and her family were devastated by Hurricane Earl last August and despite having her roof replaced, they were still inconvenienced whenever it rained. On Monday, Hand in […]
The seventh annual tacos festival is this weekend. On Sunday, Orange Walk will come together to celebrate the tacos. A staple of the Orange Walk food and culture scene, organizers want to highlight the importance and versatility of this quick, filling and flavor packed food eaten for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Between four to five […]
The Garifuna Settlement Day holiday weekend proved deadly on Belize’s roads, particularly the Hummingbird Highway, where three fatal crashes took place at the same stretch of road in less than forty-eight hours. Four persons lost their lives as a result. We will have a chronicle of each incident later on, but we lead tonight with […]
Fifty-six-year-old Michelle Anison was buried with haste on Friday evening, following an autopsy which confirmed that she had been stabbed multiple times inside her apartment in Ladyville, sometime early last week. The badly decomposed body of the British national was discovered by her landlady who was there to collect on overdue rent. Ladyville police were […]
According to Assistant Superintendent Cowo, the British High Commission has been informed of the incident, so has Anison’s family in the United Kingdom. ASP Alejandro Cowo, O.C., C.I.B., Belize City “Because of the advanced state of decomposition, the body had to be buried on the same date. Yes we have communicated with the British […]
A shooting in Corozal has now turned murder and police have been unable to crack this case. Twenty-two-year-old Brenda Jandrez, a resident of Corozal Town, has succumbed to gunshot injuries after being mortally wounded on November first. As we reported back then, Jandrez was inside her home on Mahogany Street at around eight-thirty that Wednesday […]
Four men died in two separate road traffic accidents at the same location. We start with the most recent accident that happened on the Hummingbird Highway that claimed the lives of two members of one family and their friend. Harold Smith, Alonzo Frazer and Marlon Flowers were in Dangriga for the nineteenth celebrations and they […]
Before that fatal accident on Sunday afternoon, another man lost his life at the same spot. Glen Bert Reneau, a construction worker of Belize City, was heading in the opposite direction – to Dangriga – on Saturday night after nine-thirty when he lost control of his car. The vehicle collided into the bridge a between […]
Four persons died in two accidents at the same location in less than twenty-four hours. According to police, they will be able to rule out alcohol as one of the factors leading to the accidents until after post-mortems are conducted. Today at a press briefing, Commander of Operations ACP Edward Broaster was questioned about police […]
Sixty-one-year-old Canadian national Guy Carey Smith remains hospitalized at the Belize Medical Associates, following a boating collision in Caye Caulker on Friday night around ten o’clock. Smith was along with his nineteen-year-old son Travis Tanner Cooper Smith in a dinghy when a vessel collided into them. The boat is the property of Koko King Beach. […]
The Customs and Excise Department has to continuously grapple with contrabandistas, especially in the north. The latest culprit has been identified as one Edwin Patt, the brother of Labour Minister Hugo Patt. Villagers from Patchakan, where the brothers live, reportedly fought with police and Customs officers to hold on to the contraband goods and briefly […]
Later in this newscast, we will show you what the Customs Department is doing about enforcement on importation of known counterfeit goods. But the Department is practically a sort of border patrol along with Immigration and Nationality. On Friday at the western border, four Guatemalan soldiers and a media crew entered the Champon or so-called […]
Is the Belize Police Department attempting to keep under wraps details of an alleged incident in Independence where two women are said to have been raped while in detention last weekend? Information on what purportedly transpired while the pair was in police custody is hard to come by, despite previous requests to the Professional Standards […]
For the next two days, representatives of both the employers and employees in Belize will meet at the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s office complex here on Coney Drive. Among the topics of discussion is social dialogue – the communication and discussion between the Government, employers and business organizations, and labour that drives the […]
The Government had to put together seventy-eight million U.S. dollars to repay Dunkeld International Investments Limited and the B.T.L. Employees’ Trust as final payment for the acquisition of Belize Telemedia Limited twice over. Both Prime Minister Dean Barrow and Financial Secretary Joseph Waight indicated that there should be no immediate effect on buying power. But Waight […]
The more than half a billion-dollar in settlement for Belize Telemedia Limited with its former owners has been paid off, but at what cost to the nation? President of the National Trade Union Congress of Belize, Floyd Neal, told us today that the nationalization of the company in 2009 and again in 2011 was presented […]
Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance and Natural Resources, Doctor Carla Barnett, on Thursday delivered the thirty-second Adlith Brown Memorial Lecture as part of the Forty-ninth Annual Monetary Studies Conference held last week. According to the Central Bank, the lecture elaborated on the emerging importance of climate change and its impact on developing […]
It has been a very busy few weeks for the Customs and Excise Department, at least in terms of training. First it was about trade facilitation two weeks ago; last week it was about immigration and border security. This week, the scene shifts to the Ramada Princess Hotel, where Belize and its Central American counterparts […]
