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1/25/2007
| US Army General visits BDF outposts
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 1/25/2007
It is no secret that the Belize Defence Force and the United States army have a strong working relationship. Only last week, the New Horizons programme was ...
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| Woman’s death promotes awareness of colon cancer
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 1/25/2007
Prior to her employment at the Labour Department, Morgan worked at the Central Bank of Belize for sixteen years. Meanwhile, Dr. Irvin Gabourel says there ...
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Embarrassed coke smugglers eased with $10000 fines
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 1/25/2007
Two US tourists, caught hiding cocaine in hard to find places, today pled guilty to drug trafficking. Brothers Andrew and Joshua Shumate, age twenty-three ...
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Head tax deal is far from done
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 1/25/2007
There has been no reaction from the Belize City Council to government's offer to divert one US dollar of the seven dollar head tax on cruise passengers to ...
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| School burgled; PACT lends a hand
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 1/25/2007
Another theft, this time in Belize City, has not been followed by an arrest ... but as News Five's Kendra Griffith reports, all is not lost at Salvation ...
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| Renewed hearings expose more irregularities at DFC
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 1/25/2007
“He desired leadership and accountability of the Government of Belize. He was prepared to give his life for this mission. We will not dishonour his memory ...
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| US Army General visits BDF outposts
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 1/25/2007
It is no secret that the Belize Defence Force and the United States army have a strong working relationship. Only last week, the New Horizons programme was ...
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| Woman’s death promotes awareness of colon cancer
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 1/25/2007
Prior to her employment at the Labour Department, Morgan worked at the Central Bank of Belize for sixteen years. Meanwhile, Dr. Irvin Gabourel says there ...
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Embarrassed coke smugglers eased with $10000 fines
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 1/25/2007
Two US tourists, caught hiding cocaine in hard to find places, today pled guilty to drug trafficking. Brothers Andrew and Joshua Shumate, age twenty-three ...
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Head tax deal is far from done
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 1/25/2007
There has been no reaction from the Belize City Council to government's offer to divert one US dollar of the seven dollar head tax on cruise passengers to ...
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| School burgled; PACT lends a hand
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 1/25/2007
Another theft, this time in Belize City, has not been followed by an arrest ... but as News Five's Kendra Griffith reports, all is not lost at Salvation ...
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| Renewed hearings expose more irregularities at DFC
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 1/25/2007
“He desired leadership and accountability of the Government of Belize. He was prepared to give his life for this mission. We will not dishonour his memory ...
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1/24/2007
| Citrus AGM and special meeting called for Feb. 3rd
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 1/24/2007
One good bit of news growers will receive at the first meeting is the payment of dividends by Citrus Products of Belize Limited. That processing company ...
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| Police display recent seizures of guns, ammo
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 1/24/2007
The Belize Police Department, apparently on a roll following some high profile arrests, continued their PR campaign today, this time highlighting the ...
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Tourists caught hiding coke where the sun don’t shine
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 1/24/2007
Two brothers visiting Belize on a cruise ship will have an interesting story to tell when they reach home. According to police, twenty-three year old Andrew ...
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| Government caves in, will give CITCO the dollar
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 1/24/2007
After weeks of saying that even if the Belize City Council needed more money, it shouldn't come from the head tax on cruise tourists, government suddenly ...
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| Drop in world oil prices finally reflected in Belize
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 1/24/2007
The rapid plunge in world oil prices is finally being felt in Belize. A release from government indicates that the new retail price of premium gasoline is ...
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| Cayo student tops social studies quiz
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 1/24/2007
“What do you call a piece of land, almost surrounded by water or projecting far into a sea or lake, an example of which is Placencia in southern Belize?”
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| Tourism Week makes a splash!
San Pedro Sun, Belize - 1/24/2007
In an effort to involve both the local and visiting populace in celebrating Belize, the Belize Tourism Board in partnership with various NGO’s and private ...
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| Our Community - Winston Panton
San Pedro Sun, Belize - 1/24/2007
His expertise and volunteerism was put to good use when Hurricane Hattie made its way to the shores of Belize. In 1961, he was a warden at one of the many ...
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| Pablo Sosa is the Traffic Committee Chairman
San Pedro Sun, Belize - 1/24/2007
For two and a half years he was employed at a bakery in Orange Walk before moving to Belize City where he worked as a conductor for Batty Brothers Bus ...
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Cuba, Belize Sign Health Agreement
Prensa Latina, Cuba - 1/24/2007
Belize, Jan 24 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Foreign Affairs Senior Deputy Minister Bruno Rodriguez and Belizean Titular of Health, Transport, Local Governments and ...
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CWU ACCUSES PORT OF BELIZE LIMITED OF ARBITRARILY LAYING OFF WORKERS
LoveFM, Belize - 1/24/2007
The CWU describes the action as arbitrary because it feels the Union and the Port of Belize has an agreement in place that disallows that undertaking. ...
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CABINET NEWS
LoveFM, Belize - 1/24/2007
Cabinet has agreed for Belize to become a member of the Center of Coordination for the prevention of natural disaster in Central America. ...
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BELIZE CITY COUNCIL TO RECEIVE ONE US DOLLAR FROM HEAD TAX ...
LoveFM, Belize - 1/24/2007
In its regular meeting yesterday Cabinet considered and approved a proposal that involves the Belize Tourism Board, the Protected Areas Conservation Trust ...
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Top 10 Places to Beat the Winter Blues
RisMedia.com (press release), CT - 1/24/2007
Also not far offshore are dozens of islands, called cayes, which make for great day trips or secluded stays; Ambergris Caye and Isla Bonita are among the ...
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MINISTER OF HEALTH COMMENTS ON BMDA WITHDRAWAL FROM TASK FORCE
LoveFM, Belize - 1/24/2007
On Monday the Belize Medical and Dental Association withdrew its representation from the task force appointed to provide recommendations to Cabinet on the ...
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US NATIONALS CHARGED WITH DRUG TRAFFICKING
LoveFM, Belize - 1/24/2007
Belize City Police have arrested and charged two US Nationals with drug trafficking. 26-year-old Joshua Shumate and 23-year-old Andrew Shumate after they ...
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FIRST CARIBBEAN DONATES TO HUMANITARIAN CUASES THROUGHOUT THE ...
LoveFM, Belize - 1/24/2007
Belize has been a part of the programme called “Adopt a Cause” since 2005, as First Caribbean Bank’s Corporate Director’s Assistant in Belize Irene ...
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BELIZE AND CUBA RENEW MEDICAL AGREEMENT FOR THREE MORE YEARS
LoveFM, Belize - 1/24/2007
Yesterday the Governments of Belize and Cuba renewed their medical agreement for the next three years. Minister of Health Jose Coye said they were renewing ...
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BELIZE ON SPECIAL WATCH LIST FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING FOR 2007
LoveFM, Belize - 1/24/2007
Belize is one of the countries on the United States “Special Watch List" for trafficking in persons for 2007. In its interim assessment the US State ...
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CRUISE OPERATORS CALL ON LEADERS TO ACT RESPONSIBLY
LoveFM, Belize - 1/24/2007
... on our leaders to act responsibly and with maturity and constraint in the ongoing dispute between Government of Belize and the Belize City Council. ...
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MEXICAN AMBASSADOR SPEAKS ON BORDER NEGOTIATIONS
LoveFM, Belize - 1/24/2007
Despite reports in local and Mexican media, Mexico is not giving back land to Belize. Mexican Ambassador to Belize, Arturo Trejo says the two countries are ...
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1/23/2007
| Fuel company helps primary school with basketball court
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 1/23/2007
To date SOL Belize has spent a total of twenty thousand dollars on the school. To prepare the grounds for the basketball court, the Ministry of Education ...
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| Cooperation builds new Valley of Peace community centre
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 1/23/2007
Scouts from Ontario, Canada contributed more than thirty-eight thousand dollars towards the project and in August, twenty-four volunteers visited Belize to ...
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| Caribbean investors optimistic about future of citrus
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 1/23/2007
Both investors arrived in Belize this week to sign the supplementary agreement to their investment contract. “We have just kind of let it take its course, ...
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| Customs officers receive protection to pursue smugglers
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 1/23/2007
This morning the Belize Chamber of Commerce Anti-Contraband Committee continued its campaign to crack down on illegal imports by handing over ten bullet ...
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| Belize and Cuba renew medical agreement
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 1/23/2007
Cuban medical professionals started coming to Belize in 1999 through a cooperation agreement between the two countries. Since then, the visiting doctors and ...
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| Suspect charged in Monday night double murder
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 1/23/2007
Thanks largely to an informal police brokered gang truce, the streets of Belize City have been murder free for the last three weeks ... but that tenuous ...
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DIRECTOR OF TOURISM COMMENTS ON ONGOING DISPUTE
LoveFM, Belize - 1/23/2007
Yesterday Love News spoke with Belize City Mayor Zenaida Moya who told us why the City Council rejected the latest offer of 100 thousand dollars from the ...
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NICH ISSUES RELEASE REGARDING THE INTENDED INTERUPTION OF THE FLOW ...
LoveFM, Belize - 1/23/2007
... issued a release expressing quote “grave concern regarding the intention of the Belize City Council to interrupt the flow of Cruise Tourism to Belize”. ...
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BTIA EXPRESSES CONCERN OVER THE STALEMATE OF THE HEAD TAX ISSUE
LoveFM, Belize - 1/23/2007
The Belize Tourism Industry Association today issued a release expressing concern over the ongoing stalemate between the Government of Belize and the City ...
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CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT RECEIVES EQUIPMENT TO ASSIST IN THE FIGHT ...
LoveFM, Belize - 1/23/2007
The donation was made by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Anti-Contraband Committee at a cost of six thousand Belize dollars. ...
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SHOOTING INCIDENT CLAIMS TWO LIVES
LoveFM, Belize - 1/23/2007
Two youths are dead as a result of a shooting incident in Belize City last night. Police say they responded to reports of shots fired in the Saint Martin De ...
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UNIVERSITY OF BELIZE TO HOST FORUMS
LoveFM, Belize - 1/23/2007
The University of Belize will be hosting two forums this week. Director of Development at the University Doctor Geraldo Flowers told Love News this is all ...
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REGIONAL DIRECTOR OF COMMONWEALTH YOUTH PROGRAMME ON ONE WEEK VISIT
LoveFM, Belize - 1/23/2007
Regional Director of the Commonwealth Youth Program, Henry Charles is on a one week visit to Belize.During the course of the week Charles is scheduled to ...
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US ARMY GENERAL VISITS BELIZE
LoveFM, Belize - 1/23/2007
General Spears is also expected to pay a visit to Minister of Defense Cordel Hyde during his four day stay in Belize.
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HONORARY CONSEL TO GERMANY PRESENTS MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS TO ...
LoveFM, Belize - 1/23/2007
He expressed his great pleasure at being able to contribute to such a worthy cause while furthering friendship and cooperation between Belize and Germany. ...
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PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS TO COMPETE IN SOCIAL STUDIES QUIZ
LoveFM, Belize - 1/23/2007
The quiz is one of the activities planned as part of Tourism Awareness Week organized by the Belize Tourism Board. BTB’s Registrar of Hotels Lloyd Enriquez ...
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BTB/GOB and CitCo quarrel over tourist $$$!
Amandala, Belize - 1/23/2007
At press time this evening there was still an impasse between the PUP Government of Belize and the UDP Opposition-controlled Belize City Council over the ...
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Doctors call on GOB to audit Universal
Amandala, Belize - 1/23/2007
Dr. Martha Habet, president of the Belize Medical and Dental Association (BMDA), told Amandala today that doctors have decided to resign their participation ...
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CitCo statement on head tax
Amandala, Belize - 1/23/2007
The Belize City Council and the United Democratic Party met in a joint session yesterday evening to consider the latest Government position on the US $1.00 ...
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1/22/2007
Cayo man charged for assaulting wife
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 1/22/2007
Four days after students and survivors took to streets of Belize City to march against domestic violence there is another disturbing case to report, ...
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| Guat. Ambassador’s home burglarized while he slept
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 1/22/2007
Around six thirty this morning Orange Walk businessman Mardona Leiva was on his way to Belize City in his delivery truck but between miles nine and ten a ...
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Chief Justice rules on Mahogany Heights muddle
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 1/22/2007
Kuo says he and Hamze were business partners and when the land was eventually sold to the Government of Belize for a whopping nine point five million ...
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| Cowo takes Mountain Bike Race
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 1/22/2007
Finally people the National Triathlon Association in conjunction with the Belize Tourism Board presented a triathlon event yesterday at the Sunlighters ...
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| CITCO and GOB continue to buck heads on Head Tax war
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 1/22/2007
The ongoing drama between the Belize City Council, the Belize Tourism Board and Government seems to have hit an impasse. On Friday, the council fired off a ...
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| BTB celebrates Tourism Awareness Week
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 1/22/2007
As was evident earlier in this newscast, Godfrey Smith has a lot on his plate regarding the ongoing negotiations with the Belize City Council, ...
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| New special general meeting called in citrus controversy
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 1/22/2007
The agreement itself, the investors as I understand it, personally wanted to come to Belize so they could be sharing publicly with our growers and the ...
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| SUV crashes into house in weekend accident
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 1/22/2007
He was later transferred to Belize Medical Associates where he remains admitted to ward in a stable condition. “They are saying that they are surprised due ...
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| Individualists, Straddling Cultures and Exporting Ideas
New York Times, NY - 1/22/2007
From left, Giovani Chi, Adrian Martinez, Andy Palacio and Paul Nabor of Andy Palacio and the Garifuna Collective, from Belize. By JON PARELES ...
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1/20/2007
How to fix our police problems
Amandala, Belize - 1/20/2007
The website has a paper entitled, Philosophy of Police Systems and Comparative Studies of the Role of Police Systems for the Society of Belize, ...
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From The Publisher
Amandala, Belize - 1/20/2007
It is not possible for me to overemphasize how important the next two weeks will be for the citrus industry, the citrus growers of Belize, and the nation as ...
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The facts about East Indians
Amandala, Belize - 1/20/2007
Many times when the ethnic groups of Belize are mentioned, East Indians are usually the last to be mentioned or not mentioned at all, until recently with ...
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Responsibility vs revenge
Amandala, Belize - 1/20/2007
But later in the same show, a former UDP Belize Rural Central standard bearer called Mr. Barrow to say that Belize City Mayor, Zenaida Moya, ...
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No woman, no cry
Fiji Times, Fiji - 1/20/2007
The Right Reverend Vili Vonokula, who spent six years doing God's work in Belize, a South American nation on the Caribbean coast, found out while attending ...
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BCC still hasn’t gotten its 300 grand
Amandala, Belize - 1/20/2007
On Monday the Belize City Council called off its plans to block off City streets and shut the City down—a move Mayor Zenaida Moya had said was necessary to ...
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1/19/2007
| Johnny Briceño: We need help in oil industry
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 1/19/2007
This morning Minister Johnny Briceño readdressed questions surrounding the lack of an Environmental Impact Assessment for the operations of Belize Natural ...
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| Regional efforts fight to save Amatique Bay
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 1/19/2007
This week environmentalists, fishers, and government officials from Belize and Guatemala gathered at the Father Ring Parish Hall in Punta Gorda to develop ...
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| Truck accident causes oil spill in OW
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 1/19/2007
Officials from the Department of the Environment, the Ministry of Works, the Fire Service and employees of Belize Natural Energy assisted in today's oil ...
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| N.Hway damage causes long traffic delays
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 1/19/2007
If you had the need to travel on the Northern Highway between Haulover Bridge and Ladyville today, then you experienced bumper to bumper traffic as work ...
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| US Army to build classrooms in Bz., OW Districts
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 1/19/2007
But as News Five's Kendra Griffith reports, this year, members of the United States Military will bring relief to institutions in the Belize and Orange Walk ...
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| OW students claim top honours in Nutrition Quiz
Channel5Belize.com, Belize - 1/19/2007
Today seven high schools from across the country faced some tough questions in the annual ADM Belize Mills Nutrition Quiz Competition Finals. ...
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Supreme Court opens with 43 cases in the January assize
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 1/19/2007
Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh in addressing the gathering in his courtroom called on society, including his colleagues in Belize’s judicial system, ...
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Tour Guide Aaron Juan goes on rape trial for 3 British school girls
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 1/19/2007
A source close to the prosecution said the young women, who returned to their home country the day after the alleged rapes, will travel to Belize to give ...
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Bou-Nahra’s no-show due to illness in Miami?
The Reporter Belize, Belize - Jan 17, 2007
Cheyben Bou-Nahra, the Belize City businessman whose charge of manslaughter was upgraded to murder for the shooting death of Shawn Copious, failed to show ...
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Lord and Hafiz-Bertram sworn in as High Court judges
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 1/19/2007
She has worked as a Crown Counsel in Belize’s Attorney General Ministry and is the editor of Volume 11 and 1V of the Belize Law Reports for the years 2000 ...
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70-year-old American tourist drowns in Belize
The Reporter Belize, Belize - Jan 18, 2007
M.on Wednesday, the victim, who was visiting Belize on vacation, was snorkeling with a group of friends near Half Moon Caye, when he had trouble breathing. ...
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Water-borne erosion collapses Northern Highway at Mile 8
The Reporter Belize, Belize - Jan 16, 2007
By Angel Novelo - Staff Reporter. Last minute efforts by the Ministry of Works to salvage a portion of the Northern Highway and the river bank near mile ...
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Louie Ganzie’s flight is over! Rastaman surrenders quietly to police
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 1/19/2007
Belize City police say Ganzie stabbed Keisha Sutherland 15 times in the back, chest and abdomen at her home at the corner of Bocotora and Raccoon streets ...
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We have 64 guests online
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 1/19/2007
The inquiry into the irregularities of the Development Finance Corporation is due to resume on Monday, January 21 in Belize City, following the death of its ...
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Musa may decide to give CITCO some money!But it took threats of ...
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 1/19/2007
An 11th hour compromise between Belize City Mayor Zenaida Moya, Party Leader Dean Barrow has put a stay, at least for now, on street protest aimed at ...
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Former PM George Price marks 8 decades & 8 years
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 1/19/2007
There were several riots in Belize City because these soldiers were mistreated while in London. Soldiers from Europe received great benefits after the war ...
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ACC honours the few-its best students
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 1/19/2007
The Anglican Cathedral College in Belize City lived up to its motto on Friday last by showing all of Belize that indeed ACC is a great place to learn. ...
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CITCO paves the way for smoother driving in the City
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 1/19/2007
The constant rains that have inundated Belize City over the last few weeks have lifted, it seems but not before leaving a patchwork of potholes and craters. ...
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12 computers donated to two schools
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 1/19/2007
Ebenezer Primary School on Barrack Road in Belize City and the Hattieville Government School on the Western Highway on Wednesday received 10 plus two ...
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Galen University in Belize - making strides
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 1/19/2007
At the start of the school year 2007 Galen University in San Ignacio, Belize welcomed its 200th enrolled student. These included 30 international and 45 ...
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| Barbara Walters visits Dowagiac
Dowagiac Daily News, MI - 1/19/2007
The Gazette assigned her to accompany Rotarians to Belize when Dowagiac's Dave Groner and Tom Dalton helped deliver an ambulance. "What is Rotary? ...
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FFB names National Selection for Nations Cup
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 3 hours ago
The Football Federation of Belize has named 24 players who will form the national selection to represent Belize in the upcoming Nations’ Cup of UNCAF, ...
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10 teams will contest for 2007 semipro football
The Reporter Belize, Belize - 3 hours ago
Ten teams have registered for the upcoming 2007 Belize Premiere Football League competition, which is set to begin with games on Saturday and Sunday, ...
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