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The Belize Tourism Board’s fuel subsidy program that created an ease for tour operators during the roughest months of the global fuel price hike has expired. The program, introduced in September, assisted more than a hundred and eighty tour operators across the country for four months. And just as the program came to an end, […]
Written on December 28, 2022 | Posted in
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There is an increase of COVID cases following the Christmas holidays, but the closure of schools at this time has helped to keep those numbers from ballooning into an uncontrollable number of new infections. With a spike in COVID numbers, there’s always the concern of how it would affect travel, but at least for now, […]
Written on December 28, 2022 | Posted in
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Daniel “Lova Boy” Cacho recently partnered with the Jude Belize Foundation and the Herceline Torres Helping Hand Foundation to bring some much needed Christmas cheer to some students of Stella Maris Belize. The “Dash Out” singer was recently in Belize to headline the 2022 Youth Fest and the Boularuga Punta Rock Festival. During his stay, […]
Written on December 28, 2022 | Posted in
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The Sugar Cane Production Committee is estimating that one point three million tons of sugarcane is available for grinding during the 2022/2023 crop. Due to the substantial amount of sugar cane to be milled, any time lost is costly. But, it was not all smooth sailing this morning at A.S.R./B.S.I.’s compound. There were further delays, […]
Written on December 27, 2022 | Posted in
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Heavy rains that fell over the mountains last week spelled tragedy on Christmas Eve for an experienced tour guide employed at Caves Branch who had taken a group of tourists on an expedition and returned to find flash floods in the river they had to cross back over to reach their base. And on the […]
Written on December 27, 2022 | Posted in
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The tragedy that claimed the life of Julio Escobar luckily did not result in additional deaths, but the flash floods that spread over the Cayo District on Christmas Eve left dozens of tourists stranded upriver from Caves Branch. The tourist and their guides had also gone out on an expedition – their choice was the […]
Written on December 27, 2022 | Posted in
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A woman has been arrested and charged in San Pedro for the weekend stabbing of a resident of the San Pedrito area. Talita Cruikshank was reportedly socializing with Omar Nal at his home on Boxing Day when a verbal exchange resulted in Nal being stabbed in the left shoulder. ASP Fitzroy Yearwood, Communications Director, […]
Written on December 27, 2022 | Posted in
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Twenty-two-year-old Tafaree Sanchez, a Belize City resident, appeared before Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser today where he was arraigned on the charge of being a member of a gang. It is alleged that Sanchez, the son of former basketball player Edward “Bart” Sanchez, is a member of the P.I.V. gang. According to Sanchez, who appeared unrepresented, […]
Written on December 27, 2022 | Posted in
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A group of ten Haitians was officially allowed to enter the country today after they were flagged by immigration officers at the Philip Goldson International Airport. They entered the country on Monday night, via a Tropic Air international flight, and were taken into custody until this morning when they were processed and released. Among the […]
Written on December 27, 2022 | Posted in
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According to Chairman Ortega, the interim agreement allows for the Briceño administration to amend existing laws to prevent the kinds of stalemate that threaten to frustrate the sugar industry. On the phone: Alfredo Ortega, Chairman, Committee of Management, B.S.C.F.A. “The one-year agreement that we signed with BSI is to give an opportunity to the […]
Written on December 23, 2022 | Posted in
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There’s growing frustration among some customers who have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of items purchased online and shipped to Belize by consolidators. It’s an industry that many have gotten into, conveying goods to Belize that are bought in the United States. Recently there have been concerns that items that were purchased, in some cases, […]
Written on December 23, 2022 | Posted in
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What we understand from credible sources within the Customs and Excise Department is that there has been an increase in the number of contraband items, including compressed, high-grade marijuana, being shipped to Belize from the United States. Out of an abundance of caution, shipping containers are being searched thoroughly and swept for illegal cargo. This, […]
Written on December 23, 2022 | Posted in
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Earlier this week, we aired the story of a house handing over that didn’t happen in the case of a single mother in the Port Loyola area of Belize City. And while we’ll have an update on that coming up, the Ministry of Infrastructure Development and Housing has been going across the country gifting families, […]
Written on December 23, 2022 | Posted in
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For many families, Christmas will not be the same this year and for various reasons – whether they have lost someone over the past year or not having recovered from Hurricane Lisa. But that trauma aside, Christmas is about coming together to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. It is a time for thanksgiving and […]
Written on December 23, 2022 | Posted in
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As Belizeans go about their Christmas shopping, the downtown area of Belize City is abuzz with different sights and sounds. We took our cameras downtown to get a feel of how Christmas 2022 is looking for the people we spoke with. This was what we picked up. Sherima Moody “Merry Christmas to my Moody […]
Written on December 23, 2022 | Posted in
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At this time, most people are busy buying their ham and turkey for their traditional Christmas Dinner on Sunday. The rice and beans, made with coconut milk, and accompanied by potato salad, stuffings, cranberry sauce also dress the plate with these choices of meat. But there are people who do not eat turkey and others […]
Written on December 23, 2022 | Posted in
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‘Tis the season for giving and this week there was no shortage of gift giving over at the bus terminal on West Collet Canal. That’s where terminal warden, Philip “Faada” Henry was giving out toys and bottles of Crystal juice. He told us that he solicited the gifts from Bowen and Bowen and from relatives […]
Written on December 23, 2022 | Posted in
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The Belize Police Department is serious about the safety of the populace not only during this festive season, but all year round. However, during this time, all municipalities are bustling with traffic and persons doing their last-minute shopping for the Christmas holidays. In Belize City, in particular, there are a number of crime prevention strategies […]
Written on December 23, 2022 | Posted in
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It’s another Lakers Christmas Party in the Saint Martins Community since a brief two- year disruption caused by Covid. Organizer, James Young and his family have been hosting the annual event for ten years. It’s their way of giving back to their community and each year it brings out hundreds of children and their parents […]
Written on December 23, 2022 | Posted in
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A mother is in grief tonight after her son died of wounds he sustained, allegedly at the hands of police in Independence Village, nineteen days ago. Desiree McDougall told us that cops brutalized her son after they caught him smoking marijuana, and they are claiming he was disorderly. But whatever the situation was that led […]
Written on December 22, 2022 | Posted in
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The five dollar minimum wage is now part of Belize’s Wages Regulation. Today, the Government of Belize signed into law Statutory Instrument number one hundred and seventy of 2022 which states that the minimum wage for all categories of workers has increased to five dollars an hour, effective January first, 2023. A release from the […]
Written on December 22, 2022 | Posted in
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But, Prime Minister John Briceño is not buying this argument. He responded by saying that the private sector has had ample time to prepare for the increase. Here is what he told us on Wednesday. Prime Minister John Briceño “I don’t think it is overnight, because we have been telling them. It was in […]
Written on December 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Back in November, we told you that the Department of Environment did not grant Waterloo Investment Holdings the environmental clearance necessary to green light its Port Expansion Project at the Port of Belize Limited. The developer had twenty-one days to launch an appeal of the decision. News Five has confirmed that Waterloo has launched that […]
Written on December 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Prime Minister Briceño also answered questions related to the Public Sector Workers Trust. For context, the trust was established under former Prime Minister Manuel Esquivel. After his administration imposed a wage and increment freeze on the public sector from 1995 to 1997, former P.M. Esquivel gave public sector workers four hundred and fifty thousand shares […]
Written on December 22, 2022 | Posted in
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And, reporters also pressed the prime minister further on the new policies that guide the Online Business Registry System. Those policies were written to protect the identity of business principals and shareholders through their registered agents. So, what about personalities behind companies that are engaged in legitimate business with the Government of Belize? Prime Minister […]
Written on December 22, 2022 | Posted in
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