There is growing discontent in San Ignacio tonight over one acre of land. The land is a portion of a five acre plot on which the Center for Employment Training sits. The institution doesn’t own the land…government does. And government wants to build a new fire station there. CET has no problem with a new […]
The pharmacy dispute surrounding the appointment of a Minister’s daughter remains on centre stage. Danini Contreras is the daughter of U.D.P. Minister Erwin Contreras. Contreras, who is not registered as a pharmacist in Belize, has been appointed to a post which was created for her in the Ministry of Health. The questions arising from her […]
Those circumstances surrounding the Chief Pharmacist, and arising from the appointment of Danini Contreras, are among the issues which have been taken before the Minister of Labour. As promised, the PSU has declared the matter an essential services dispute. Also on the table is pharmacy related legislation which has been sitting on the Solicitor-General’s desk […]
And our question for tonight is: Do you believe that Danini Contreras should be removed as Director of Drug Inspectorate? Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones to 8686 or post your vote on our e-poll at channel5belize.com. You can also send an email with your comments to questions@channel5belize.com.
A seventy year old US national currently in Belize on business is reporting that he has been attacked twice in eight days and in broad daylight. John Larencz has been living at the Renaissance Towers near the Princess Hotel since March twenty-sixth. One month after he arrived, on April twenty-eight, he was the victim of […]
On Monday, the Coye family enjoyed a short-lived legal victory when the Supreme Court ordered that their assets, amounting to millions of dollars in cash, be unfrozen. The family’s holdings have been fixed in various bank accounts since 2010, following a directive from the Financial Intelligence Unit, due to money laundering charges that were brought […]
According to Bradley, the injunction was filed without their knowledge. FOR VIDEO CLICK HERE. Via Phone: Richard ‘Dickie’ Bradley, Attorney for Coye Family “So, yesterday the judge gave an order. Arguments were also presented to her on behalf of a private company which is suing the Coyes claiming that they owe that company monies. Again, […]
The Caribbean Court of Justice convenes on Wednesday at its seat in Trinidad where it will hand down a decision in the case of Maurice Tomlinson versus the Government of Belize and Trinidad and Tobago. Tomlinson, an openly gay activist, is challenging Belize’s immigration laws, following a trip to the Jewel in which he claims […]
In March of 2013, police were reportedly engaged in a shootout with two alleged street figures. The incident involved Brandon Smith, aka Battery, a member of the PIV gang located in the Saint Martin De Porres area, and Ladyville resident, Alrick Smith. Alrick was allegedly shot in the abdomen and hospitalized, but none of the […]
A Belize City man from the Berries Street area of Saint Martin’s De Porres is tonight on remand at the Belize Central Prison after he was accused of robbing a Chinese Grocery Store on Tibruce Street of seven hundred dollars in cash and an assortment of items value three thousand five hundred dollars. He has […]
The village of Barranco is a Garifuna community in the Toledo District; it is also one of five buffer communities on the outskirts of the Sarstoon Temash National Park where pre-drilling activities are taking place and where US Capital Energy had previously established an operating center. While the position of the Maya communities on oil […]
One of the prime tourism islands has been without a doctor, in some instances for months, and the access to timely healthcare on Caye Caulker has become an issue for residents. The problem, we are told, is a perennial one, where the facility has been short of a physician at times for up to eight […]
The appointment of the new director of drug inspectorate has brought to the forefront a wide range of shortfalls within the system in respect of imported pharmaceuticals and persons practicing without a license. According to the Pharmacists’ Association of Belize, there is need for drug inspectors across the country to ensure that proper procedures are […]
A Belizean who left Belize years ago has died in a helicopter crash at Fort Bliss, Texas. He is twenty-seven year old Sergeant Dwight Burn who lived in Barstow, California up until his death on Saturday, while on a training exercise in a helicopter belonging to the eighty-second Combat Aviation Brigade from Fort Bragg, North […]
Financial Literacy Training…it not a topic that you often hear about, but it is an initiative that has been ongoing in Belize since 2008. It targets teachers and students from various schools across the country as well as parents and even private companies. For the past two days at the ITVET, these various groups of […]
The two-day training is interactive and includes presentations from various institutions. Deputy Chief Education Officer, Carol Babb, spoke of how the continuous work of the international organization has led up to three fairs at the ITVET Compound. FOR VIDEO CLICK HERE. Carol Babb, Deputy Chief Education Officer “First it started with four schools and then […]
