Cabinet has approved S.S.B.’s proposal to reform its contributions and pension scheme. The Social Security Board embarked on a countrywide consultation process two years ago to seek support for its proposal. As it stands now, the fund is approaching the ‘period of equilibrium’ where total income equals total expenditure. So in order for the fund […]
So what about S.S.B.’s loans and portfolios? Well according to C.E.O. Doctor Colin Young, S.S.B.’s 2018 audited financials are near completion. Doctor Young says that in 2017, the fund’s rate of return on its investments portfolio was five point five percent. He says that in the last ten years, the rate of return was fewer […]
Police have charged twenty-five-year-old Belize City resident Starling Perez for the crime of murder. Perez stands accused of killing forty-eight-year-old Carlos Reyes who was gunned down on March twenty-eighth, while inside his own house in Dangriga Town. Reyes was with thirty-year-old Israel Pimentel of Sarawee village, at his home on Citron Street when they came […]
Oliver Peters, who was charged back in 2014 for the stabbing death of his uncle, has been found not guilty of murder. Forty-seven-year-old Thomas Eugene Ferguson Senior was stabbed once to the chest in December 2013 and was admitted to the K.H.M.H. where he received medical treatment until he succumbed to the injury on February […]
On Monday afternoon, the results of the Primary School Examinations were released by the Ministry of Education. But are students performing better when compared to previous years? We’ll have a review of the results from the Exam Unit at the ministry, but before we get to that, News Five’s Duane Moody visited with the top […]
We also visited a few schools in Belize City today to speak with students who place on the top twenty-five list. As we reported on Monday night, the top performing student in the Belize District who also placed second is Ann Elyse Fleser Perdue of La Isla Bonita Elementary in San Pedro. Joining Perdue on […]
The Ministry of Education’s P.S.E. report also details the top performing schools in the country. According to the report, the schools are ranked based on a methodology called the School GPA. This is determined by using the number of students who achieved overall grades of A through E and multiplying those numbers by a factor […]
And while those top performing students are celebrating their results, many others not so much. The needle of improvement has not budged over the last ten years of the Primary School Examination. The overall result of the exam has not changed, despite there being minor improvements in some sections of some of the tests. The […]
An investigation following the death of eight-week-old Thevane Banner has been concluded by the Ministry of Health. The newborn died from battered child syndrome and his father, twenty-eight-year-old Troy Banner, has since been arrested and charged with manslaughter. Despite a subsequent arraignment, Director of Health Services, Doctor Marvin Manzanero reveals that the Ministry of Health […]
The near-fatal attack on Matron Augustina Elijio last Tuesday at the Port Loyola Health Center has prompted the Ministry of Health to revisit existing procedures for patients accessing services at public facilities. While there are already protocols in place, a recent incident during which the retired nurse was stabbed multiple times by a mental patient […]
In the tragic case of Nestor Vasquez Junior, who lost his life over the weekend after being badly beaten by a fellow inmate inside a holding cell at the Queen Street Police Station, questions are being raised about the competence of officers in dealing with mentally challenged persons. According to Doctor Manzanero, notwithstanding the unfortunate […]
Today at the Biltmore Hotel, the Ministry of Health and UNICEF launched an initiative which aims to measure mental health among adolescents, as well as a project called Helping Adolescents Thrive. The launch comes at a time when the issue of mental health is much talked about. News Five’s Isani Cayetano has more. Isani […]
Many communities and villages that rely on reservoirs to provide water to their homes have been experiencing issues as a result of the extended drought. Over the past few months, some residents would go a day or two without water and it has raised the ire of residents in Georgeville, Cayo. Over the weekend, our […]
There are a number of short-term and long-term actions that must be taken to fix the perennial water problem in the village. Water Board Chairman Al Westby says that there will be remedial work done to the water tank and there is a meeting with the Belize Social Investment Fund, as well as NEMO, to […]
