As I speak negotiators from Belize and Guatemala are meeting in a final session in Miami where they are expected to sign an agreement clarifying the situation along the border. News director Stewart Krohn is just off the phone with chief Belizean negotiator, Ambassador Assad Shoman, who reports the following: A draft agreement has been […]
Reacting to widespread complaints concerning the operation of the Social Security Board, government has appointed a commission to propose reforms for the twenty-year old institution. The eleven-member panel, to be chaired by Anglican Father Leroy Flowers, will look at ways to increase the transparency and accountability of the Social Security system. His fellow commissioners will […]
An early morning traffic accident has claimed the life of a truck driver on the Stann Creek Valley Road. David Sainsbury of Dangriga died around 2:00 a.m. when his truck ran into the back of another truck parked on the road. According to Dangriga police, Enrique Basto of San Felipe Village, was experiencing mechanical problems […]
Tonight is episode number two of Temptation Island, the U.S. TV show whose dubious morality is exceeded only by its advertising value for Belize. In case you’ve been asleep for the last several weeks, the show places four unmarried but committed couples at luxurious Ambergris Caye resorts and then separates them in the company of […]
The National Handicraft Center has given out ten thousand dollars to one hundred and twenty of its most valuable suppliers. The purpose of the awards is to thank the most consistent artisans for meeting the increased demand for arts and crafts during record-breaking years in the tourism industry. News 5 spoke to Belize Chamber of […]
Ten computers have been donated to ANRI, the Agriculture and Natural Resources Institute at the old Lynam College in the Stann Creek district. The fully loaded Pentium based units came from Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Daniel Silva. Present at Monday’s ceremony were members of the board of governors, Education Officer Vanley Jenkins, and Area […]
New York gospel singer Rhonda Reid will tonight warm the hearts of Belizeans at a concert at St. Mary’s Church. Although the event is free you’re asked to give generously as proceeds will be used to subsidize the St. Mary’s School feeding programme. Rhonda Reid, Gospel Singer “We’ll be having the “Lord is my Light”, […]
We often report on problems in the nation’s health care system, so it’s only fair that when we see good things in the making we check them out. Today Ann-Marie Williams looked at one training programme that should make hospital patients approach surgery with a lot more confidence. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting Seven Belizean registered nurses […]
One of the decisions announced today by Cabinet was that funding, to the tune of one million dollars, has been allocated for fighting the Southern Pine Bark Beetle. That’s the bug that has already fatally infected over sixty percent of the Mountain Pine Ridge. Coincidentally News 5’s Jose Sanchez was in the pine ridge yesterday […]
