There is a tentative date for students to return to the classrooms. Today, the Ministry of Education announced that the current school year officially ends this month and a tentative date for the reopening of the upcoming school year is August tenth. The ministry says it is earlier than in the past, but offers students […]
Minister Faber also called on secondary school teachers and counselors to return to classrooms from June fifteenth to thirtieth, to close out the current school year. They are to prepare for the upcoming CSEC exams and plan for the new school year. Patrick Faber, Minister of Education “We are also going to be requiring […]
Education Minister Patrick Faber also spoke on the programmes that are being affected as a result of budget cuts. These initiatives that stand to be affected are text books; school transport; school feeding programme; high school subsidy programme; six CSEC tuition scholarship programme; the six CSEC payment for students for the 2021 sitting of the […]
Tonight there is new information coming out the B.D.F.’s internal investigation into the fatal helicopter crash. News Five has learnt that the investigation has uncovered a series dereliction of duties, which resulted in some cases in the failure to carry out standard operational checks. Now, sources say that the B.D.F. is looking at four persons […]
In the crime blotter, a bitter rivalry between two groups in Punta Gorda has led to the shooting death of Silvio Flores Junior. He was in the company of a friend at a home on Pampana Street when someone reportedly called out to him by name and whistled for Flores to come out. When he […]
A Guatemalan national is hospitalized after he was shot on the leg inside the Chiquibul Forest Reserve. Porfilio Ramirez Tirgeros, from the border community of La Rejoya, was along with another individual when they were caught poaching illegally, by an F.C.D. patrol. Ramirez Tirgeros is said to have advanced toward the patrol and this is […]
While schools are now preparing to reopen, there is yet no date for the reopening of Philip Goldson International Airport and stakeholders in the tourism industry are divided on the idea of a July first reopening. On Sunday, Tropic Air President Steven Schulte wrote to the Belize Tourism Industry Association asking for support in the […]
The government has assured public officers that their salaries will remain untouched despite the present economic crisis but it education subsides will be facing cut backs. But what about the private sector? According to Burgos, B.T.I.A. has approached the Development Finance Corporation to see what can be done to assist tourism stakeholders with much needed […]
Last week, we told you that the Ministry of National Security had concluded the investigation into the allegations of misconduct within the Belize Defense Force. The release admitted to some wrongdoing and negligence by personnel in the units involved, but didn’t provide any details into the investigation. That report has now been shared publicly and […]
But about a month and a half after the report was concluded, a female officer reported that she was raped while inside her bedroom sleeping. This, according to Retired B.D.F. Captain Derricia Castillo is indicative that there is a problem at the B.D.F., which the report does not address when it comes to the systems […]
On Thursday last, members of the Special Operations Task Force were deployed to an area near Dolores Village in the Toledo District after receiving intelligence of a low-lying plane. The suspected narco plane was seen flying low as early as two o’clock that morning and initial reports suggested that it would be landing near Graham […]
As for the drugs in the narco plane that crash landed along the Chunox/Sarteneja road two weeks ago, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams says that the cargo may have already been transported across the border into Mexico. The plane diverted to an open farm after the pilot realized that officers were monitoring is original landing site. […]
Investigators have captured and arrested one person believed to have had a role in the double murder of fifty-five-year-old tour guide operator Quintin Espinosa and seventy-year-old U.S.A. citizen Roland Burley. Twenty-year-old Teodoro Garcia was charged with two counts of murder. Espinosa and Burley were found fatally shot on May twenty-second at a house in a farm on the Hopkins […]
While the regulations of the state of emergency have been relaxed, the curfew remains in effect. From Monday to Thursday and on Sunday, the curfew begins at eight o’clock. An additional hour is given to the public on Friday and Saturday nights with the curfew kicking in at nine o’clock. Because the number of COVID-19 […]
Police are looking for Salvadoran national, Rene Gonzalez. Gonzalez is wanted for an attack on his common-law wife Romelia Ical, who was chopped to the head during a domestic dispute between the couple around eight-thirty on Saturday night. Police responded to the incident off the George Price Highway near mile one and a half to […]
There was also a chopping incident in San Roman Village in the Corozal District. It happened on Saturday night at around eight o’clock. Two persons were taken to the Northern Regional Hospital after being injured in a machete fight. They are brothers Andison and Kevin Pech. According to ACP Joseph Myvett, the Pech brothers were involved […]
A planned meeting called by land activist Nigel Petillo on Sunday was moved at the last minute to Harmonyville, the community that Petillo established on the George Price Highway. Petillo says he has identified another tract of land and is inviting prospective land owners to squat as a way of owning a piece. Though squatting […]
On Friday, a nineteenth case of COVID-19 was detected in Belize, after almost eight weeks without a positive case. The test results of a swab taken from a twenty-seven-year-old male, who disembarked with others from a Royal Caribbean Cruise Line ship on May twenty-third, came back positive for the virus. The result took Belizeans by […]
At the top of the newscast, we told you that the Ministry of Education is looking at August tenth to reopen schools. The ministry says that it will be putting a number of measures in place to transition into the new normal of education during a pandemic. But while the country gets ready for August, […]
Minister of Education Patrick Faber was also a guest this afternoon on Ask the Experts where he fielded questions from the public. Among the many concerns that were raised during today’s episode was that of outstanding school fees and the withholding of report cards from parents who still owe monies for this academic year. Faber […]
