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The conch season officially opens on Sunday, October first, and will run through to the end of June 2024. If the production quota is realized earlier, the conch season will be declared closed. Tonight, however, seven fishermen from various parts of the country have been charged jointly for possession of conch during the closed season. […]
Written on September 27, 2023 | Posted in
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The United Democratic Party is celebrating a milestone today as it turns fifty. The political organization was founded on September twenty-seventh, 1973, as an amalgamation of the National Independence Party and the People’s Development Movement. The establishment of the U.D.P. was a response to an otherwise weak political opposition in those days, against the People’s […]
Written on September 27, 2023 | Posted in
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The Development Finance Corporation has endured the test of the last sixty years. Today the financial institution celebrated its sixtieth year of service to Belize. D.F.C. has faced its share of success, failures and controversies since its inception. News Five’s Paul Lopez was there for the celebration in Belize City. He takes a look back […]
Written on September 27, 2023 | Posted in
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Additional data coming out of the Statistical Institute of Belize also shows that the G.D.P. growth for the second quarter in 2023 was two point six percent. This is the lowest G.D.P. growth since 2018. So, is the nation’s economic growth beginning to slow down? This is what reporters asked the Prime Minister today in […]
Written on September 27, 2023 | Posted in
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And staying on finances, in its last report, the Central Bank announced that there is excess liquidity in Belize’s financial system. Central Bank noted that most of this liquidity is concentrated in one local bank. The stabilizing body of the nation’s monetary system encouraged more lending from financial institutions with excess liquidity. Today, Prime Minister […]
Written on September 27, 2023 | Posted in
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And, with a commitment to build ten thousand homes for Belizeans, Prime Minister John Briceño says Cabinet is looking at ways to increase funding for the Ministry of Infrastructure Development’s housing program. He says the funds may come by way of a restructuring of capital two expenditures or a loan from the Korean Government through […]
Written on September 27, 2023 | Posted in
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Insurance premiums – it is a conversation we don’t want to have until an accident, misfortune or disaster hits and we need that financial support to get back on our feet. Since the first quarter of 2023, the premiums Belizeans pay on various policies have all gone up – from health insurance to property, and […]
Written on September 27, 2023 | Posted in
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Today, the Statistical Institute of Belize held its quarterly press conference, looking primarily at the second quarter of 2023. The presentations centred on the gross domestic product estimates of the second quarter, as well as the consumer price index and the external trade data from January to August of 2023. In a nutshell, imports are […]
Written on September 27, 2023 | Posted in
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And one of those agriculture industries that the PM says is underperforming is the citrus industry. The Minister of Agriculture, Jose Mai says the government has undertaken numerous initiatives recently to help to increase performance in citrus. We spoke with Minister Mai about the support being offered and the outlook for the industry. Jose […]
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El Salvador’s Minister of Agriculture, Oscar Enrique Guardado and a technical team have wrapped up a two-day visit to Belize, where they toured selected farms. The purpose of the trip was to explore the possibility of Belize providing that Central American neighbor with produce that they consume on a daily basis. It is all part […]
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The two countries plan to begin trading before the year ends, however, there is all the red tape that must be dealt with, and then of course, the supply and demand factor. Minister Mai explained that at present, Minister of Foreign Trade, Eamon Courtenay is about to draft the partial scope agreement that will govern […]
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There is a new Mega Bingo jackpot winner; the second in less than two weeks. She is a mother of an eleven-year-old son who has been playing the game since 2018. The lucky winner told the media today that she recently migrated from Toledo to San Pedro and purchased the usual three tickets from Twenty-One […]
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One could never have too many sanitary supplies at the nation’s referral hospital. Today, Grace Kennedy Belize donated thirty-six gallons of hand sanitizers to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The sanitizers will go a long way in assisting health care workers and the general public at the hospital to ward off unnecessary germs on the […]
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The next municipal elections are slated for March 2024 and both major political organizations are putting together their respective lists of candidates who will be taking part in the upcoming vote. While the United Democratic Party has already identified aspirants across all nine cities and towns, it has not formally shared those names with the […]
Written on September 26, 2023 | Posted in
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Last night, we told you about the People’s United Party’s meeting at Independence Hall where the national executive discussed the municipal elections slates for March 2024. As many as one hundred and twenty-five applications were submitted, including twenty-four applications for mayor and one hundred and one for councilor candidates. On Monday, Prime Minister Briceño was […]
Written on September 26, 2023 | Posted in
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When a high-level U.S. delegation visited Belize in early August, discussions were held about the likelihood of Belize joining a multinational security mission to Haiti to help stabilize the country. On Saturday, Minister of Foreign Affairs Eamon Courtenay told the United Nations that Belize is prepared to contribute to the multinational mission. Only a day […]
Written on September 26, 2023 | Posted in
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When asked for his thoughts on Belize joining the international community in aiding Haiti in this time of upheaval, Opposition Leader Shyne Barrow also used the opportunity to suggest that it be made a requirement for young men eighteen years and older to join the armed forces as part of national service. He frames the […]
Written on September 26, 2023 | Posted in
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The steep hike in the cost of basic food items, fuel and other essentials, remains an issue that the Government of Belize is grappling with. Several measures have been put in place by the Briceño administration to curb the ever-increasing cost of living. But is enough being done to meaningfully address the problem by effectively […]
Written on September 26, 2023 | Posted in
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Tacos have been a Belizean staple in every city, town, and village over the last three decades. Many vendors have raised their families by making and selling tacos. They have also become favourites of their customers over those years because of the unique taste of their tacos. While many vendors will remain in demand because […]
Written on September 26, 2023 | Posted in
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A well-known Belmopan vendor who has been operating in Mae Gordon Park for the past fifteen years is tonight up in arms. Guadalupe Gabourel, the owner of G2 Barbeque, claims that her business is being treated unfairly by the Belmopan City Council. She says that she has applied for permission to expand her stall and […]
Written on September 26, 2023 | Posted in
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Housewives and bakers experienced the most unusual of situations last week when they discovered that sugar had gone scarce and they were allowed to purchase only a couple pounds each. It’s unusual because Belize produces enough sugar to supply the local demand, as well as to export. And the millers at Tower Hill, the American […]
Written on September 26, 2023 | Posted in
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For well over a year now, government officials have been trying to help the American Sugar Refineries and its partner, the Belize Sugar Industries Limited and the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association to settle their differences and to move past their two-year-old profit-sharing dispute. At the core of the matter is a new agreement on […]
Written on September 26, 2023 | Posted in
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Prime Minister John Briceño delivered his annual Independence Day address last Thursday in Belmopan, where an official ceremony was held in commemoration of Belize’s forty second anniversary of self-rule. His speech succeeded a similar oration delivered by Opposition Leader Shyne Barrow. They are each other’s harshest critic and today when we caught up with Barrow […]
Written on September 26, 2023 | Posted in
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On Friday, the Social Security Board introduced a proposal for the construction of another administration building adjacent to the Eleanor Hall Building on Lake Independence Boulevard. That undertaking would be covered by a twenty-four million dollar loan via a public/private partnership with the use of a special purpose vehicle similar to Belize Infrastructure Limited which […]
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And, Prime Minister Briceño was also asked about a recent television ad in which Gulab Sharma, one of the principal investors in Portico Enterprises Limited, is being heavily criticized. This is just one of many ads hammering Sharma and his investment partner David Gegg. Well, the P.M. says he is out of touch with what […]
Written on September 26, 2023 | Posted in
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