It is going to be a big task, as the last re-registration happened back in 1997. And with its scope and size to clean up the national voter list, comes a hefty cost. The Elections and Boundaries Department says that it will cost some eight million dollars to do the re-registration. Tamai explains where the […]
The result of the recent referendum on taking the unfounded Guatemalan claim on Belize to the International Court of Justice in Guatemala has led to a renewed assault on Belizean resources, according to Friends for Conservation and Development. On Tuesday, May eighth, F.C.D.’s rangers in the south Chiquibul National Park found plantations of beans, corn […]
It is considered a lesser offense, but a domestic dispute escalated to the courts after Moises Flores of Holy Emmanuel Street admitted to threatening his former partner with her life. The forty-year-old Flores told his ex on Monday that he would kill her and followed up by stabbing at her – but he missed. The […]
The popular proverb, “It takes a village to raise a child,” was the message behind an initiative carried out today by Region One Commander, Senior Superintendent Howell Gillett and Crooked Tree stakeholders today. Select primary school students from Belize City were treated to an outback experience the protected wildlife sanctuary at Crooked Tree. From a […]
Ten high schools took part in the fifth Youth Innovation Challenge held at the Marion Jones Sporting Complex in Belize City. The students are honing their skills at this early age, on the importance of saving, budgeting and investing to prepare them to make the rights decisions with financial resources. News Five’s Isani Cayetano reports. […]
Cops and Churches are working together to curb crime. Today, in the weekly meet and greet sessions, police officers were accompanied by three pastors of the Evangelical Churches. We caught up with Deputy Commissioner of Police Chester Williams and Pastor Howell Longsworth on the south side and they shared how this partnership can help to […]
Conflict resolution is high on the police department’s agenda when dealing with rival gangs in Belize City. For the most part, the crime and violence that continue to plague the Old Capital have been attributed to warring factions meting out street-style justice upon each other. Since assuming the Eastern Division command a few weeks ago, […]
Two months after first entering office, the Belize City Council has begun clearing house, starting at the very top. News Five has confirmed that there were six terminations by the Council today. Among those terminated is City Administrator Candice Miller, who signed a four-year contract just before the 2018 municipal elections for more than ninety […]
We have been reporting on the frequency of suspected drug planes – at least seven since November 2017 – landing in northern and central Belize. The abandoned planes are usually found without cargo and in some cases damaged. But the illicit drugs are not only being transported by air, but also by water. Tonight, authorities […]
There’s another bust that has given Belize a black eye in the international press. A judge in El Salvador has ordered further detention for seven persons, including five Belizeans, who are accused of money laundering crimes. Between them, they carried more than sixty-six thousand U.S. dollars, just under a thousand Belize dollars and a small […]
A Saint Matthew’s villager was escorted by police to a courtroom in Belmopan this morning and arraigned for murder. Twenty-one-year-old Dean Galvez was well-known to murder victim, Roni Casasola who is also from Saint Matthew’s Village. Casasola met his untimely death on Sunday morning following an altercation at a local bar. He had been picked […]
Thirty-six-year-old Habib Hajjara was ruthlessly done away with inside his taxicab on Sunday morning when someone shot him at point-blank multiple times while driving his vehicle along Mahogany Street. The execution-style murder took place sometime around four a.m. when the Honduran national had just finished dropping off a female passenger he reportedly picked up from […]
An air-conditioning technician is accused of the attempted murder of a Belize City man on Sunday. Thirty-eight-year-old Tyrone Stevens remains in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, but he has identified his attacker as twenty-year-old Eric Mendez from the Jane Usher Boulevard area. Mendez was read charges of attempted murder, grievous harm and use of deadly […]
Teachers Day is quickly approaching; this year, the activities are intended to step up to a national celebration which will bring six thousand teachers from all over the country under one roof. But tonight, there is uncertainty as to who will be picking up the tab for the massive celebration that can run into a […]
Residents of Orange Walk Town and surrounding villages are on alert tonight as the New River has suffered another fish kill. Hundreds of river fish such as tilapia and tarpon came up dead and floating in the last few days, though most have now been scavenged by river birds such as the white egret. At […]
The Belize National Teachers Union says it will not influence the decision of its membership on whether the unfounded territorial claim Guatemala has over Belize should be taken to the ICJ for resolution. In light of an increased public awareness campaign to be undertaken by government in the days ahead, B.N.T.U. says it will embark […]
On March twenty-second, hundreds of primary and secondary school teachers from across the country gathered in Belmopan to march on Independence Hill. While the annual budget was being debated inside the National Assembly, the message outside of parliament was loud and clear – violence against women and children must end. It was a peaceful demonstration […]
According to the union senator, management did not hesitate to grant teachers and students the day off to participate in the biennial Twenty Thousand Strong rally. When it came to standing up against the senseless murders of women and children, however, the powers that be sang a completely different song, opting to dock their pay, […]
Two referees have been suspended from officiating football games in Belize. The B.D.F. Football Club has filed a protest against a decision made in a most recent match of the Premier League of Belize, where they claim a call made by referees Wendel Esquiliano and Christopher Reid cost them the opportunity to advance to the […]
Sanctions aside, Chuc says that there is a legal process to the protest made by B.D.F. Football Club. Immediately following the game on April twenty-ninth, the military team—as is mandated—filed its protest to the Premier League of Belize. That complaint was rejected by the PLB Protest Board. That decision by PLB is now being appealed […]
Today, the Belize Trade and Investment Development Service is hosting an inbound mission from Belgium and the Netherlands that is here to learn about the cacao industry and explore opportunities of trade and investment. BELTRAIDE, in partnership with the Embassy of Belize in Brussels, held the first of its four-day tour with the European-Central America […]
Thirty-two football coaches from across the country converged at the F.F.B. Headquarters in Belmopan for day-one of a week-long FIFA training course to improve the sport in Belize. German Instructor Gary Stempel, who is currently a Panamanian football team manager, is renowned for his groundbreaking work in football development in youth. He has been contracted […]
While speaking with F.F.B. President Sergio Chuc, we also found out about some mega projects that the federation has in the pipeline. These include the refurbishing of the F.F.B. stadium in Belmopan and the recently acquired lease on the football court near the Raccoon Police Station in Belize City. Both fields will be retrofitted with […]
Today, the family of Olatunji Balogun handed over a collection of his work to the Leo Bradley Library in Belize City. Balogun, who died last year at seventy years old, gained the reputation as a black conscious activist, historian and educator in Belize. He has written many books and recorded material on the plight of […]
On Monday, the Government of Belize and the Inter-American Development Bank signed a ten million U.S. dollar loan contract. The monies will be used to reduce Belize’s vulnerability to climate change. With that, we can expect to see a number of resiliency measures implemented. The first will seek to reduce climate change risk in the […]
