The Joint Unions Negotiating Team and representatives of the Briceño administration resumed discussion on Tuesday afternoon. That meeting was held at the House of Culture here in Belize City and [...]
Earlier today, our newsroom received images of burning tires near Cotton Tree Village, along the George Price Highway. Reports are that sometime around five-thirty a.m., at least three tires were [...]...
Social Workers within the Ministry of Human Development, Families and Indigenous People’s Affairs are in fear of possible victimization after Chief Executive Officer Tanya Santos issued a memo to her [...]...
Now, the Ministry of Human Development, Families and Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs addresses some of the most critical needs of our society, including community rehabilitation, human services and women and family [...]...
And while C.E.O. Santos seeks to assure her social workers that she is not out on a witch hunt, she says the number of social workers not reporting for duty [...]...
The COVID-19 vaccination campaign was launched on March first and phases one to three are currently open, allowing for teachers, parliamentarians, law enforcement officers, healthcare workers and others to be [...]...
But there is an appeal for persons to visit vaccinations centers across the country to get their jab. Belize received donations from the governments of Barbados and India as well [...]...
Twelve weeks after getting your first jab, you are to return to a vaccination center to receive your second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. For those who were among the [...]...
During our interview with Doctor Beer, she did confirm that at the end of the month of May, the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine expires. This increases the urgency for why persons [...]...
The latest COVID-19 data shows that the numbers are once again on the decline. Today, there are five new confirmed cases, bringing the total number of active cases to eighty-five. [...]...
The Belize Network of N.G.O.s, led by Senator Osmany Salas, has come out in defense of the Belize Maya Forest Project which has been criticized by parliamentarians in the upper [...]...
According to Senator Salas, the Belize Maya Forest Project is not the first land trust to be established in Belize. In fact, he says, the Rio Bravo trust was established [...]...
Turning back to the unions…Teachers have been on strike since Monday of last week. The law provides that teachers’ salaries can be cut for their time out of the classroom [...]...
While teachers are waiting to see if their pay slips will reflect that salary deduction, on a similar front the Joint Unions are fighting to regain the ten percent salary [...]...
Today, News Five spoke with Shanelly Carrillo Balan from the Forest Department who confirmed that earlier this year; a sixteen-foot crocodile had escaped from the enclosure at the Caribbean Shrimp [...]...
There are reports from residents in the Vista del Mar community who say that they have spotted a crocodile in the area. But is it the croc that recently escaped [...]...
Wildlife Program Manager Shanelly Carrillo Balan of the Forest Department tells you what to do if there is a sighting of a crocodile in your area. Shanelly Carrillo Balan, [...]...
On Tuesday, Miss Universe Belize Iris Salguero got a hometown send off in San Pedro. A day before leaving the island on her journey to Miss Universe, Salguero was honoured [...]...
If you like your honey golden and sweet, you are in for double the treat when you find out that the honey coming out of Toledo is also helping the [...]...
If you went to any government offices today and wondered where the staff was, well they were very likely on the streets of Belize City. News Five followed the Public [...]...
While members were out in the streets protesting, their leaders were behind closed doors preparing for a mid-afternoon meeting with government representatives. That meeting began at one-thirty p.m. inside the [...]...
While songs of solidarity are being sung among union executives, there is a divide on one issue. Among the list of eleven demands that the joint unions are putting forward [...]...
Overtime for frontline healthcare workers…There are reports that overtime for nurses, accrued over the pandemic, has still not been paid. During today’s protest, News Five asked Darrell Spencer, the President [...]...
As we said, the nurses were out today in full force, joining the members of the P.S.U. and the B.N.T.U. President Spencer called on nurses from within the public and [...]...
On Monday, we reported on a release dated April twenty-seventh from the Belize Energy Workers Union. It spoke to a position taken by the union on the plight of the [...]...
