Belize is in bad books with the United States tonight following the State Department’s annual investigation into worldwide human trafficking. According to a press release posted on the State Department’s website, Belize, Iran, Syria, Zimbabwe, Uzbekistan and Laos are “not meeting minimum standards to fight trafficking in persons, a criminal practice”. As a result, all […]
And while the U.S. State Department has its problems with Belize’s efforts to curb human trafficking, tonight we are happy to report that Diana Baños, the four year old child whom police suspect was smuggled into the country one month ago, has been returned to her family in El Salvador. On April twenty-eighth local authorities […]
He has been on the run for three weeks but the long arm of the law has finally caught up with seventeen year old Rolando Lisbey. Lisbey, who is wanted in San Ignacio for the brutal beating of eighty year old Celestino Salas, was apprehended by immigration officers as he tried to cross the border […]
A man accused of breaking into a Belize City home and stealing almost nine thousand dollars worth of jewellery has been remanded to Hattieville prison. On May twenty-eighth, Arlet Gomez reported to police that her house had been burglarized. Police soon detained forty-four year old Sidney Collins when he attempted to pawn the jewellery at […]
In September of last year, four minors on remand for murder, escaped from Hattieville prison. They survived on the lam for two days before they were captured by police. In the course of their breakout they beat up and critically injured prison guard Maxwell Torres. Today, those convicts: Robert Gillett, Alfonso Juarez, Carlos Coronado–all seventeen […]
It has taken a while, but on Monday government and the Social Security Board rolled out the National Health Insurance programme in the Stann Creek and Toledo Districts. Speaking in separate ceremonies in Punta Gorda and Dangriga, Prime Minister Said Musa says the initiative will benefit those who need it most. Prime Minister Said Musa […]
In an era when money for conservation is typically hard to come by, there is one organisation in Belize that seems immune to liquidity problems. Today that unique institution celebrated a milestone. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Ten years after its creation, the Protected Areas Conservation Trust today celebrated its anniversary under the theme, ?Contributing to the […]
International financial organisations are not shy when it comes to publicising their accomplishments, but today one of those institutions had no problem admitting that it has, in fact, made some mistakes … some very expensive mistakes. At a press briefing this afternoon, the Inter-American Development Bank launched its newest initiative entitled “Building Opportunity for the […]
Last week the results of this year’s Primary School Examination were released … and like the rest of the media we dutifully honoured the country’s top scorers. But beyond the students’ well deserved accolades, the rest of the scores have a more significant meaning to the nation’s educational system. News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports. Kendra […]
We’re not sure if it’s the thrill of competition, the sumptuous food or the exotic drink, but the annual party known as Taste of Belize always seems to be a sell-out. News Five’s Alyssa Noble was among the thousand or so guests at the Biltmore Saturday night and managed to recover in time to file […]
