People who are posing as tour guides and do not have certification from the Belize Tourism Board can also face penalties if they are caught operating or conducting tours. Today the Belize Tourism Board issued a warning to people who do not have their licence to operate as prescribed under the laws of Belize. According […]
Earlier this week we brought you the story of Vistro, a company in Orange Walk that is set to launch a drone delivery service. Well, the Department of Civil Aviation says not so fast. They have issued a warning about the use of drones without the written consent of the Director of Civil Aviation. The […]
But you don’t need to worry if you happen to have a drone weighing under eight ounces because the regulations do not apply to you. He said that there are different classifications of drones and the use of drones and that is done by their weight, which is specified on the box it is packaged […]
The Leader of the Opposition, Patrick Faber has reportedly given his approval for the process to proceed for the appointment of four persons as Judges of the Supreme Court. Today, Cabinet Secretary, Stuart Leslie confirmed that Faber has responded in support of the appointments. As we reported on Thursday, there was communication between Faber and […]
Two employees of a Caribbean Chicken were roughed up and their truck stolen while they were inside on Thursday afternoon in Belmopan. Police report they were called to the University Heights area where they found a delivery truck abandoned in some bushes. They discovered a company salesman, Daniel Magana, locked in the freezer compartment. He […]
There was a burglary on Thursday night during which thieves gained entry into James Garbutt Primary School on Albert Street West. The lock on the front door of the upper building was broken and the thieves made off with several kitchen appliances, including a blender and a stove. While police were able to recover the […]
Viewers may recall that 2018 was a big year for women’s volleyball in Belize. Fans from across the nation witnessed the Belize Women’s National Volleyball team capture silver in the Central American Women Volleyball Championship on their home court. Today, the women’s national team departed Belize for Nicaragua to once again compete in the Central […]
The Ministry of Health & Wellness is kicking off a month of activities beginning today with Global Hand-Washing Day. The events, in partnership with Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), are being celebrated under the theme, “Our future is at hand – let’s move forward together.” The Ministry says this is a call to action to […]
The COVID pandemic, tropical storms and even the La Soufriere volcanic eruption created considerable challenges for secondary students across the region who sat the Caribbean Examinations Council this year. In fact, the Council recorded the highest absentee rate in four years. But today, the results of the CSEC and CAPE exams were released for those […]
In regional news, the Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Motley has announced that in order to protect those who have gotten vaccinated, her government will be creating “safe zone” where people can mingle without fear of the virus. She has rejected calls for any further lockdowns, saying these actions jeopardize jobs and economic recovery. Here […]
By contrast, Antigua is moving towards removing all COVID-19 restrictions by the end of the year—regardless of the number of vaccinated people. Antiguan Prime Minister Gaston Browne says he wants to see the country reopen and citizens have had sufficient time to get their jabs. He says whoever is not vaccinated by the time the […]
The Statutory Instrument that requires restaurants to accommodate only vaccinated people who can show their cards has begun to impact hotel restaurants. Restaurants presently can only accommodate fifty percent of their maximum capacity, but with the cancellations that hotels have started to see, President of the Belize Hotel Association, Alina Saldivar says their worry is […]
The daily COVID statistics gives us an indication of how bad the infection and death rates are in Belize. On Wednesday, Acting Director of Health Services for the Ministry of Health and Wellness, Dr. Francis Morey shared the startling numbers in a more comprehensive form. The information includes cases from the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, […]
The Opposition, United Democratic Party, has come out swinging against the Government for, in their view, not making COVID testing readily accessible to the public, forcing many to have to pay for tests done privately. Prime Minister John Briceno denied that claim, saying that the Ministry of Health has opened up more testing sites where […]
A Camalote resident is spending his first night on remand at the Belize Central Prison after he was busted with over eleven and a half pounds of cocaine. Orlando Pascasio was intercepted with the drugs on Wednesday afternoon in Belmopan during a stop and search of his Toyota Sequoia SUV on Trinity Boulevard. Police say […]
It’s been just over a week since fifteen-year-old Kassman Gill, a promising student at Saint John’s College died at the K.H.M.H.. He had been hospitalized for gunshot injuries he sustained fifty-two days earlier. To date, nobody has been charged in connection with his murder, even though there is surveillance footage from the area that captures the […]
The Belize Police Department and the Customs and Excise department have gotten assistance from Central America Regional Security Initiative of the U.S. Government, in an effort to stem transnational crimes. The handing over ceremony was held at the Police Training Academy in Belmopan and a News Five team was there. Duane Moody, Reporting Over […]
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Eamon Courtenay met today with the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Honduras, Lisandro Rosales Banegas during his official visit to Belize. They held a bilateral meeting aimed at promoting and strengthening cooperation in areas of agriculture and food security, the fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, tourism, migration, and […]
This is Mental Health Week and in Belize, anxiety and depression are the most prevalent challenges. According to Mental Health Coordinator in the Ministry of Health and Wellness, Nurse Iveth Quintanilla, COVID-19 also has a significant impact on people’s mental health. Nurse Iveth Quintanilla, Mental Health Coordinator, Min. of Health & Wellness “As we […]
Over the past twenty years, hundreds of children in Belize have received advanced care through the World Pediatric Project. While the non-profit organization celebrates that milestone, there are still many in need of medical assistance. The program model is built upon long-term engagement and continuity of multi-specialty care and capacity-building. Tonight, News Five’s Isani Cayetano […]
By tradition, patients in need of surgery would have the procedure performed by a specialist who would make a large incision into their bodies. Surgeons would later realize that this created unnecessary trauma and subsequently adopted laparoscopic surgery, commonly called a “keyhole surgery,” by the turn of the twenty-first century. Since then, operations have been […]
Dr. Cawich explains that with the advent of COVID-19 last year, it forced many in the medical professionals to rethink their approach to performing surgeries. Dr. Shamir Cawich, Professor of Liver and Pancreas Surgery “When the pandemic hit and I have this here in March 2020 because that’s when the first case in Trinidad […]
The Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association’s (BSCFA) Committee of Management has written to the Prime Minister requesting a meeting on the status of their commercial agreement with the Belize Sugar Industries Ltd. The Association says its members are becoming increasingly frustrated by, quote, “BSI’s attitude to our request for the negotiation of a new commercial […]
The Leader of the Opposition, Patrick Faber has given an update on the consultations concerning the Justices of Supreme Court. Faber says he received the letter from the Cabinet Secretary on the matter on October fourth and on the fifth he met with his shadow cabinet to discuss the proposed appointments. The concern raised was […]
Speaker of the House, Valerie Woods has been appointed the new regional Chairperson for Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians in the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. The post is rotated every three years and Woods was selected for the Caribbean, Americas and Atlantic Region. The CWP works on a regional basis with the nine regions, coordinating programmes, conferences, and […]
