Almost everywhere you look in Belize, it’s apparent that women run things. The universities, government offices, banks … even here at News Five. But the one place you almost never see women is seated in the House of Representatives. It’s a disturbing fact because while many European countries boast legislatures with over thirty percent female […]
On Monday we reported that police were looking for a man who allegedly received money from two people to buy vehicles for them but never returned with the cars or cash. Today that man, twenty-eight year old Robert Villanueva of Calle al Mar in Belize City, appeared in Magistrates’ Court where he was charged with […]
It’s a startling but not necessarily unusual sight in Belize to see a house traveling down the road on the back of a flatbed trailer. It’s an art perfected largely by the Mennonites and those prefabricated wooden homes made in Spanish Lookout and elsewhere have come to be known generically as “Mennonite Houses”. Now we […]
They had to wait almost five years but on Wednesday, Belizean men finally achieved equality with women … at least in the eyes of the Social Security Board. The occasion was the launching of the non contributory pension for men sixty-five and over. Women who did not qualify for a regular Social Security pension began […]
The transfer of resources continued this afternoon in Belize City’s Freetown division where instead of cash, it was land being delivered. News Five’s Kendra Griffith was on hand for the now familiar process. Kendra Griffith, Reporting Minister of Natural Resources Florencio Marin and his staff had a whole lotta signing to do this afternoon as […]
It may not have been a politically motivated event but progress is welcomed whenever and wherever you find it. Today an improvement in education took the form of the dedication of a new science laboratory at St. Johns College High School. According to S.J.C. president Frank Garbutt, the value of the new facility is not […]
If you are watching this newscast and have not yet registered to vote for the upcoming election you’re pretty much out of luck. But the unregistered appear to be in a minority as citizens all over the country descended on Elections and Boundaries offices in preparation for February seventh. News Five’s Marion Ali canvassed the […]
