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Two thousand dollars a day, that’s the cost of trucking potable water from Dangriga and Riversdale to Placencia. It is a bill that Belize Water Services is currently footing to ensure that there is adequate supply to all consumers on the peninsula heading into Easter. Over the past few days, it has been reported that […]
Written on February 28, 2023 | Posted in
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Belize Water Services is presently in the initial phase of executing several projects to improve the supply of water to Placencia, as well as other communities along the peninsula. With an inflation in the cost of materials post COVID, the cost of these projects have virtually doubled. According to C.E.O. Haynes, these works are expected […]
Written on February 28, 2023 | Posted in
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The Belize Central Prison has been selected as one of eight entries in a global competition to present a paper on COVID-19 at an international scientific conference on the work the facility has been at its medical unit, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. There were over a hundred and ninety submissions made, of which only […]
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Over the past months, there have been two B.D.F soldiers that were remanded to the Belize Central Prison and on Monday, it was a former policeman who was sentenced to a three-year bid and a former coastguard member remanded for missing a court date in an ongoing case. That number is now at three, after […]
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The prison population is currently a thousand and fifty and the facility is constantly looking at ways to cut costs and earn income to help feed its population, which in turn also helps the prisoners to make some money. But since COVID, the crafts and other things the prisoners made lost their markets. Now there’s […]
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Last week, we reported on a double fatality as a result of a road traffic accident near the Beaver Dam Bridge in the Cayo District. And there have been reports of many other vehicular collisions and incidents involving motorcycles and loss of life that have been reported over the past year. The Ministry of Transport […]
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Science and technology are connecting communities across the world with game-changing approaches to disaster risk reduction. The first pillar of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction states that disaster risk policies and practices should be based on a thorough understanding of risk. A number of private sector entities and N.G.O.’s from across the world […]
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On Saturday, the thirty-eight CONCACAF Ordinary Congress was held in Antigua, Guatemala with delegates from its forty-one member associations, council members and guests from the global football community. While the congress saw the unanimous re-election of Victor Montagliani as President of the Confederation for another four-year term, F.F.B. President Sergio Chuc was soon after elected […]
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It was one of several points discussed at last week’s meeting between the Belize Bus Association executive and a Ministry of Transport team, in an effort to upgrade the transport industry – merging the bus companies that run in the three regions to come up with only two companies in each. What it meant was […]
Written on February 27, 2023 | Posted in
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Ewart Metzgen, the secretary for the Belize Bus Association, says the membership of the association wants its executives to meet once again with Transport officials to further discuss the way forward for an improved bus industry. He outlined a few of the things they want. And at least one of them is not up for […]
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Belize has been producing milk and dairy products for decades now, but there’s never been a document that guides how the dairy industry can grow or become more productive, or even more competitive with other countries – that is until now. This afternoon, the Minister of Agriculture, Jose Mai and the Belize Dairy Association signed […]
Written on February 27, 2023 | Posted in
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As we reported last week, there’s a new pest that is affecting beans crop, but luckily, it is not a countrywide problem as far as is known. Today, Minister of Agriculture Jose Abelardo Mai told News Five that the pest has been detected only in the Toledo District and that samples have been sent abroad […]
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The Belize Zoo is turning forty in June of this year, and in keeping with the plans to celebrate that milestone, the facility is in need of your help. Director of the Belize Zoo and Tropical Education Centre, Celso Poot, explained to News Five today that while the facility has seen an increase in visitors […]
Written on February 27, 2023 | Posted in
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Poot explained that the Zoo had received a sizeable donation since the COVID pandemic, but that it was so much in the red that most of it went into balancing off its operations and then came the hurricane that required spending on cleaning up. Celso Poot, Director, the Belize Zoo & Tropical Education Centre […]
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Annually, millions of people across the world are at risk of losing their lives and livelihoods, as a result of natural hazards, including hurricanes, floods, droughts, and earthquakes. According to the Global Fund for Disaster Risk Reduction, on average direct losses within the Caribbean as a result of natural disasters amount to almost two billion […]
Written on February 27, 2023 | Posted in
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Goodnight and welcome to another edition of Sports Monday, I am Isani Cayetano. We kick things off tonight with a look at this weekend’s National Primary School Volleyball Championships where San Marcus R.C. School dominated the competition to place first in the tournament in the male division. The San Marcus boys won the best of […]
Written on February 27, 2023 | Posted in
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The long-awaited press release that the Belize Bus Association had demanded the Ministry of Transport issue on Wednesday is out, but the B.B.A. says that the release contains a few points that they never agreed to. B.B.A President Thomas Shaw had told the media on Wednesday that following their meeting with transport officials, the B.B.A. […]
Written on February 24, 2023 | Posted in
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April first is the deadline imposed by the unions for the return of annual increments to teachers and public officers. But is it likely that the Briceño administration will acquiesce and set aside roughly twenty million dollars to further adjust salaries for persons who qualify for increments? Earlier this week, the National Trade Union Congress […]
Written on February 24, 2023 | Posted in
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Cabinet met on Thursday for a special meeting to discuss the 2023/2024 budget. A major point of discussion has been the joint union’s demand to have their increments unfrozen by April first. Now, the Briceño Administration has committed to unfreeze those increments during the upcoming fiscal year. But, the question still remains, will it be […]
Written on February 24, 2023 | Posted in
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This morning in Belize City, Mayor Bernard Wagner, Freetown Area Representative Francis Fonseca and representatives of the Rotary and Rotaract clubs were present for the handing over of a play set at the Love Park in Belama Phase One. A team of Rotarians and Rotaracters is in Belize from Canada and has been working closely […]
Written on February 24, 2023 | Posted in
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Twenty-nine residents of Gales Point Village are now tour guides after they have successfully completed a three-month course provided by the Belize Tourism Board. It was a rigorous course, according to Gales Point Chairman, Jason Altschaft, but the majority of those who enrolled in the program finished it. And even before the new tour guides […]
Written on February 24, 2023 | Posted in
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The Ministry of Sustainable Development, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management, through the National Climate Change Office, on Thursday signed a memorandum of agreement with the Agriculture and Natural Resources Institute in Stann Creek for the renovation and expansion of its model farm. ANRI, as it is also known, is located some four miles off […]
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Edward P. Yorke High School is recognized for producing top performing students in academics, but it’s not every day that you hear of students running a business simultaneously. Sabreena Daly met one such student at his high school preparing for his future by establishing his business at sixteen. This week’s Bright Side features the inspiring […]
Written on February 24, 2023 | Posted in
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Thirty-one-year-old Cobrado Lewis Cole, a construction worker, and twenty-nine-year-old Alicia Courtenay Tec, a babysitter, both of a Tibruce Street address, appeared unrepresented in the magistrate’s court today where they were each read a single charge of possession of a controlled drug with intent to supply to another person. That is after they were found with […]
Written on February 23, 2023 | Posted in
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The post-mortem result is out – Elrick Vairez died by drowning. Today, an autopsy was conducted on the body of the thirty-five-year-old father of one and just after four p.m., police says that the cause of death was certified as “asphyxia due to inhalation of fluid as a consequence of drowning.” Vairez was reported missing […]
Written on February 23, 2023 | Posted in
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