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The first phase of the process which occurred back in 2022 looked at a gap analysis and needs assessment on the strengths and weaknesses of Belize’s death investigation system. It is being carried out by a consulting team, consisting of a local attorney and international attorneys from a firm in the Philippines. The third step, […]
Written on January 18, 2023 | Posted in
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News Five has received the data on autopsies conducted for 2022 by the National Forensic Science Service. According to the data, there were autopsies done for one hundred and twenty-three homicides, eighty-eight gunshot injuries, ninety-seven fatalities, thirty drownings, thirty-seven suicides and two hundred and thirty-eight natural deaths. NFSS Director Gian Cho says that 2022 recorded […]
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Doctor Jillian Conte, a Fulbright Specialist, is concluding a visit to Belize where she is designing an updated population genetics study for the National Forensic Science Service. This will look at the common genetic markers in the population to help with the reporting of DNA work in country. The NFSS Director says that it is […]
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The Caribbean Development Bank (C.D.B.) held its 2023 Annual News Conference today, under the theme ‘Creating the Best Future for the Caribbean’. As a borrowing member state of C.D.B., data on Belize’s economic performance and development goals are captured within the bank’s regional progress report. In his address, Doctor Hyginus Leon, the President of the […]
Written on January 18, 2023 | Posted in
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Liberty Children’s Home has been around since 2004, providing residential services to children who have been abandoned, neglected, and abused, among other reasons. Built to shelter thirty, the institution is currently home to twice that number, and thus, the needs have been mounting, but the assistance it receives, dwindling. The global inflation has not helped […]
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Two Belize City High Schools will be representing the country over the weekend in the Caribbean Science Foundation’s (C.S.F.) inaugural Caribbean STEM Olympiads. C.S.F. organized the competition to help in raising the standard of STEM education in the region. The organization hopes to stimulate a greater interest in STEM among students, parents, teachers and the […]
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News Five was called out to a residence on the Boom/Hattieville Road today, where a distraught pet owner told us that in the predawn hours of Tuesday, she heard a jaguar attack one of their sheep and looked out in time to see the predator run off after it had killed the sheep. Reina Garcia […]
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The family and friends of Belmopan resident Vivian Ramnarace are tonight mourning her passing, compounding the grief they have been experiencing since New Year’s Eve. The mother of one died on Sunday night, fifteen days after losing her husband and brother-in-law to a shooting incident in Belmopan that also left gravely injured. Over the last […]
Written on January 17, 2023 | Posted in
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The family of Vivian Ramnarace broke its silence today. Deon Pascacio, a relative of the deceased woman, spoke with Plus News today where he gave further details into the injuries that she sustained and her battle to survive over the past two weeks. Pascasio confirmed that Vivian suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the neck and […]
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According to Pascacio, the entire family is at a loss as to why anyone would want to target Vivian, her husband and brother-in-law. Pascascio says that the family supports the call for an independent prosecutor and investigator to be involved in the case, as they continue to question whether their loved ones will receive justice. […]
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Much has been said about Doctor Andre Gray since he was symbolically conferred with the keys to Belize City. A couple media houses have come out swinging at him, on grounds that the accolades, recognitions, and even some of the inventions he has laid claims to do not hold up. Gray claims he’s the inventor […]
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That was Gray last Friday, a few hours before his credibility as an inventor was openly called to question and a stream of Facebook posts and comments added to his tarnished image. So today, News Five went back to Belize City Mayor Bernard Wagner in the wake of the scandal that followed the symbolic handing […]
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The Senior Courts of Belize kicked off a new judicial calendar in a pre-recorded ceremony that was aired this morning. It was the first ceremony presided over by Chief Justice Louise Esther Blenman that succeeded an ecumenical service here in Belize City. News Five’s Isani Cayetano reports. Isani Cayetano, Reporting The 2023 legal year […]
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Attorneys for Brad’s Gaming Group Limited have responded to the chair of the Lotteries Committee, in respect of a letter that was sent to Managing Director Kim Chee on December twenty-third, 2022. The thirteen page rejoinder, written by Senior Counsel Dean Barrow on behalf of his client, addresses each of the Lotteries Committee’s concerns individually, […]
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Last Thursday, we reported that Berkeley Street resident Adrian Hernandez was arraigned for the murder of Emert “Motty” Flowers, a sixty-two-year-old tour guide who was shot dead on December twenty-seventh, 2022 at his home on Racecourse Street in Belize City. Since then, residents as well as the mother of Hernandez are saying that Hernandez was […]
Written on January 17, 2023 | Posted in
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There have been several acts of violence in the Maya Mopan area of Belmopan in the weeks leading up to the end of 2022, including the now triple murder of the Ramnarace family. And over the extended weekend, the Kuxlin Ha Government School was targeted by thieves, who got away with numerous items. The discovery […]
Written on January 17, 2023 | Posted in
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A criminal and internal investigation are ongoing in Punta Gorda where a man was shot by a woman police officer on Saturday night in that southern municipality. Reports are that a patrol responded to reports of two armed masked men on a motorcycle. Reports are that one of the three officers, PC Luella Whyte spotted […]
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In 2020, when she held the post of Auditor-General, her office released reports suggesting that there was embezzlement happening between 2015 and 2016 at the National Sports Council. And since September first, 2022, she has been working in the same capacity, but the official swearing-in of Dorothy Bradley as the Acting Auditor-General for the next […]
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Today, Reading Room Belize was officially opened at the Upper Division of Wesley Primary School in Belize City. It’s the brainchild of the International Black Women’s Public Policy Institute and the Dorothy I Height Global Leadership Academy, of which Opal Enriquez is a graduate and member. Several of the graduates of the academy are in […]
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The Redistricting Taskforce is currently undertaking an exercise to bring Belize’s electoral divisions in alignment with the Constitution of Belize. The constitution requires that the size of each electoral division be as close as possible to an equal number of persons eligible to vote. It is no secret that the Belize District, Belize City in […]
Written on January 13, 2023 | Posted in
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We heard from another Belize City area representative today, Henry Charles Usher, who represents the voters of Fort George. He was also in Belmopan. Here is what he told us about the redistricting exercise and the possible future of the Elections and Boundaries Commission, as the Briceño administration seeks to make a regular practice of […]
Written on January 13, 2023 | Posted in
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On Wednesday, the Statistical Institute of Belize announced that the unemployment rate for October 2022 stood at five percent. Belize has not seen such a decrease in the unemployment rate since the late eighties, early nineties and the Briceño administration is taking this as a victory for its Plan Belize manifesto. Today, Henry Charles Usher, […]
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We also asked Henry Charles Usher, in his capacity as the Minister of Public Service and Constitutional Reform, for an update on the undertakings of the People’s Constitution Commission. The Commission has already held several meetings, with one scheduled for next week Wednesday where they will likely discuss dates for the public consultation process to […]
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Individuals, who are into micro, small and medium-sized businesses are poised to get a boost to help them along through a loan that the government has decided upon. At this week’s Cabinet meeting, two loan motions were approved for presentation at the next sitting of the House of Representatives. The first is for fifteen million […]
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Francis Fonseca, the Minister of Education says students in Trio Village and San Pablo will be able to return to school after the long weekend. Earlier this week, we told you that schools in these villages had to call off classes after the roads leading into those communities became impassable. Well, the information got to […]
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