After weeks of criticism regarding his decision to stop giving advice to the Police Department, Director of Public Prosecutions Kirk Anderson is taking his detractors to court. Anderson today declined an on-camera interview with us but says he has instructed his attorney Kareem Musa to initiate legal proceedings against two media houses: Channel Seven News […]
In news from the political front, today Barrow and the United Democratic Party have also announced that they will boycott a special sitting of the House of Representatives scheduled for Monday morning in Belmopan. While the U.D.P. has made it a tradition to be absent from the event, citing that a sitting outside the confines […]
During official ceremonies on Thursday night, former Prime Minister of Jamaica, P.J. Patterson was conferred the Order of Belize. The award ranks second to National Hero status and Patterson now joins a distinguished group of honourees that include Marion Jones, Cuban president Fidel Castro, Sir Shridath Ramphal, Mexican Presidents Carlos Salinas and Vicente Fox and […]
On the first of the month, attorney Michele Chebat officially assumed his appointed post as Chairman of the Belize Social Security Board. Chebat’s predecessor Yasin Shoman resigned following recommendations of a special Senate Select Committee that he and then General Manager Narda Garcia be removed following more than two years of investigation into irregularities in […]
Chebat was in town today to unveil Social Security’s latest initiative in education. News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports. Francis Fonseca, Minister of Education ?Math remains an area of fundamental weakness in our children?s education as so often glaringly reflected in our national examinations. There seems to be an unfounded fear of math at every level […]
Among the many activities planned for this weekend, tonight Belize’s “buffest” will take stage for the annual Mr. Belize and Ms. Body Figure competition. The event is set to take place at eight tonight at the Bliss Institute for the Performing Arts and according to President of the Belize Amateur Body Building Association, Alfred McKenzie, […]
Bargain hunters will descend on the S.J.C. gym this weekend looking for deals and steals at the country’s largest trade show. And Expo Belize 2006 promises not to disappoint. One hundred and twenty businesses were busy setting up their booths today in anticipation for an estimated ten thousand Belizean consumers. And according to coordinator Sybil […]
It’s an event that primary schoolers look forward to every year … the Children’s Rally. Today, News Five’s Jacqueline Godwin sat in on the ceremony in the old capital. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Despite sweltering heat, this morning more than three thousand primary school students paraded from the Marion Jones Stadium to the Belize City Centre […]
