Schools across the country will remain closed on Tuesday as the nation’s teachers continue their strike. After exhaustive meetings over the weekend with no resolution of the impasse between government and the Belize National Teacher Union, president of the BNTU Anthony Fuentes says educators have decided to remain off the job pending further discussions aimed […]
With me now in studio are two of government?s lead negotiators, Minister Coye and Minister Godfrey Smith. What is the latest after what I know has been a very long weekend? Godfrey Smith, Minister of Foreign Affairs ?The latest today is that we met with the National Trade Union Congress comprised of all their various […]
Joining me now in studio is the president of the Public Service Union Dylan Reneau and George Frazer, General Secretary of NTUCB. I know you?ve been through a very long weekend. What is the proposal package in your eyes that you?ve presented to government? Dylan Reneau, President, PSU ?Well, the proposal package certainly covered all […]
Belize City chalked up another murder over the weekend. The victim and the alleged perpetrators were, as is all too often the case, young, while the motive, which remains murky, seems to bear little relation to the finality of the crime. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has more. Rodney Baird, Uncle of the Deceased ?Well it’s […]
A U.S. citizen has died as the result of a traffic accident in the Corozal District. Forty-one year old Lisa White, a resident of Carmelita, was pronounced dead on arrival at the Corozal Hospital, after the car in which she was riding went off the Northern Highway between miles seventy-eight and seventy-nine near Libertad Village. […]
They received their baptism under fire on Friday, January twenty-first when they were the first to man the front line at the National Assembly in Belmopan. A week later, the men and women of recruit squad number eighty-one stood in formation, not to face sticks and stones but to graduate from the police-training academy. Eighty […]
The following day in Ladyville the leadership of the Belize Defence Force changed hands as Brigadier General Cedric Borland passed the sword and flag of command to the new BDF Commandant, Brigadier General Lloyd Gillett. Speaking at the occasion was Prime Minister and Minister of Defence Said Musa, who expressed great confidence in both the […]
“Make Life better for Our People” that is what the community based organisation HANDS Belize hopes will be achieved through a working relationship with the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. HANDS Belize President and Stann Creek West area representative, Rodwell Ferguson, says the organisation which stands for Help, Assistance, Needs, Development and Service is a […]
A team of medical practitioners from the United States is presently in Belize conducting a series of health clinics. It is the third time that the group has been to the country as part of a medical programme by the Anglican Diocese, PUP Queen Square Committee and Peace Work of Virginia, U.S.A. According to one […]
James Adderley, Reporting Good evening I?m James Adderley and you?ve just stepped on board this journey we call Sports Monday. So let?s split to the MCC Grounds where week two in the Regents Cup Tournament found Kulture Yabra hosting Print Belize Griga yesterday. And Yabra goes to work immediately when Jerome James finds Norman Tilliman […]
