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There has been a number of new businesses that popped up over the past two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many were online and focused on the use of technology. But one business in the south – although small – is finding its way into supermarkets. It’s the brainchild of Julian Fisher, who fell […]
Written on December 22, 2022 | Posted in
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The Protected Areas Conservation Trust is investing close to five and a half million dollars in several protected areas in Belize. PACT will be working with several non-governmental organizations in eleven protected areas for the next year. According to Nayari Perez, the Executive Director at PACT, the investment is part of their transition plan as […]
Written on December 22, 2022 | Posted in
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PACT also invested in the three non-traditional conservation programs as part of its extraordinary investment plan. The three entities are the National Biodiversity Office, the Association of Protected Area Management Organization and Friends for Conservation and Development. Perez told us more about PACT’s partnership with these organizations. Nayari Perez, Executive Director, PACT “Extraordinary investments […]
Written on December 22, 2022 | Posted in
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We also asked Perez about PACT’s future plans for investment in marine conservation in light of the establishment of the Belize Fund for a Sustainable Future (B.F.S.F.). As we have reported, B.F.S.F. was established as a result of the Blue Bond agreement. Its role as a sinking fund is to disburse funding to projects and […]
Written on December 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Today, the Belize Nature Conservation Foundation held a grant signing ceremony at the Guanacaste Park in Belmopan in which approximately eighty thousand dollars was issued to two N.G.O.’s that work in conservation efforts in the Belize and Stann Creek districts. A News Five team attended the event and reporter Duane Moody files this report. […]
Written on December 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Last evening, we showed you how contrabandistas smuggle illegal beers, perishables and other illegal goods across the northern boundary – the Rio Hondo. As Customs Officer Adrian Rancharan shared, they use the roughly ninety-mile stretch of the river to bring across the contraband goods via boats and small ferries that are provided by Mexican residents […]
Written on December 22, 2022 | Posted in
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A new home for Christmas is a dream that many who live in less than ideal conditions wish for. A single mother in Port Loyola was poised to receive the keys to a new starter home this morning, but miscommunication between Area Representative Gilroy Usher Senior and the Ministry of Infrastructure Development and Housing resulted […]
Written on December 21, 2022 | Posted in
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The snafu ended up being an entire public rift between the Port Loyola Area Rep and the Ministry of Infrastructure Development and Housing. Usher took the opportunity during his interview with the media to take aim at M.I.D.H. and chided them on a number of issues. He said his area is being discriminated against because […]
Written on December 21, 2022 | Posted in
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The Ministry of Infrastructure Development and Housing, Marisa Alamilla suggested that Usher was being disingenuous. She told us that only five, not fifty, applications for starter homes have been forwarded to the ministry from Port Loyola. And that all five have been approved. Marisa Alamilla, Public Relations, Publicity Mgr., M.I.D.H. “Both contractors that Mr. […]
Written on December 21, 2022 | Posted in
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On Monday, a joint patrol led by the Belize Defense Force deployed along the Sarstoon River to investigate reports of suspected coca plantations in the farthest reaches of the country. Upon arrival, the team located and destroyed a total of three coca plantations. In total the plantations contained approximately twelve thousand plants. Earlier today, we […]
Written on December 21, 2022 | Posted in
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Last night, we told you that A.S.R./B.S.I. is proposing a two-year interim agreement with B.S.C.F.A. under the same conditions as last year’s crop. Well, Prime Minister John Briceño says B.S.I.’s two-year agreement is too lengthy a term. According to the P.M., the government will intervene to propose a one-year interim agreement. During that one-year period, […]
Written on December 21, 2022 | Posted in
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Late this evening, Minister of Agriculture Jose Abelardo Mai, confirmed with News Five that mediation between A.S.R./B.S.I. and the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association has failed. He conceded that while mediation was a worthwhile effort, many expected it to fail. We asked him about the Sugar Industry Control Board’s decision to propose that the 2022/2023 […]
Written on December 21, 2022 | Posted in
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According to Mai, the Ministry of Agriculture has been in discussions with A.S.R./B.S.I. to have the proposed two-year interim agreement reduced to one year. But, will the sugarcane farmers yield to a one-year agreement, with only seven days left before SICB’s proposed start date for the 2022/2023 sugar crop? Minister Mai says the farmers will […]
Written on December 21, 2022 | Posted in
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On Tuesday, we reported that a few persons had expressed concern over an announcement that under the Liquor Licensing Act, certain businesses that sell alcohol are not permitted to open on Christmas Day. Today, the Commissioner of Police, Chester Williams shared the list of licenses that do not permit the businesses that hold them to […]
Written on December 21, 2022 | Posted in
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Contraband – it is illegal trade that a significant number of people engage in, perhaps don’t even see anything wrong with, but that has plagued the Belizean economy for decades. Every time we purchase a pound of contraband carrots, or a case of smuggled beer, we undermine businesses that sell legitimate, locally-made or locally-grown products, […]
Written on December 21, 2022 | Posted in
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Tonight, the Belize Defense Force soldier that was shot in the buttocks at the Valentin Conservation Post back in November is recovering at Price Barracks. Investigators are still trying to gather information as to the origin of the bullet that is still lodged inside the soldier. The latest information coming out of that investigation is […]
Written on December 21, 2022 | Posted in
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This morning, the Belize Fund for a Sustainable Future awarded grants amounting to five hundred and fifty-nine thousand dollars to five non-governmental organizations for the management of eight protected areas across. At a signing ceremony held at B.F.S.F.’s office, Chair of the Board of Directors, Kennedy Carillo, carried out the first ever awards under the […]
Written on December 21, 2022 | Posted in
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The Belize Defense Force held its annual Christmas Luncheon today at Price Barracks. During the event, Prime Minister John Briceño handed over the keys for ten new trucks to the organization. Also, all government officials in attendance joined forces with the senior officers in serving every soldier a meal. News Five’s Paul Lopez was there. […]
Written on December 21, 2022 | Posted in
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Today, the Salvation Army officially handed out its coupon for food packages to eight hundred persons who have been identified as most needy during this time. Its annual initiative has provided many homes with that opportunity to have a Christmas meal on their tables, and once again, the humanitarian organization is giving the recipients an […]
Written on December 21, 2022 | Posted in
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The victim of a vicious beat down on the island of San Pedro, following a minor traffic mishap, is speaking out tonight. Aron Castillo took to his Instagram page over the last twenty-four hours to recount his traumatic encounter with three men on the island who allegedly attacked him in a fit of rage and […]
Written on December 20, 2022 | Posted in
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We also heard from Caleb Orosco, the Executive Director of the United Belize Advocacy Movement (UNIBAM). Orosco has been in communication with Castillo since the incident occurred. And, according to Orosco, the behavior displayed by the alleged perpetrators is a reflection of how the state, “gives these kind of people permission to sustain violence on […]
Written on December 20, 2022 | Posted in
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Forty-two-year-old Angel Dorado was arraigned earlier today on a battery of charges, including attempted burglary, damage to property and assaulting a police officer. But during his arraignment, the resident of Eight Miles told the court that he is the victim of police brutality and showed the senior magistrate his badly injured face and a bruised […]
Written on December 20, 2022 | Posted in
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There appears to be no resolution in sight for the sugar dispute between A.S.R./B.S.I. and the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association. Tonight, B.S.I. is suggesting that the B.S.C.F.A. and the millers sign a two-year interim commercial agreement on the same terms as the last crop. A release from the mill says that the suggestion is […]
Written on December 20, 2022 | Posted in
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On Saturday, another tapir was knocked down and killed on the John Smith Link Road. This was the seventh such animal to perish on that road. The alarmingly high number of tapir deaths on that thoroughfare has prompted the founder of the Belize Tapir Project, Celso Poot to spread awareness about these animals in order […]
Written on December 20, 2022 | Posted in
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A mechanic of Roaring Creek was shot on Monday night while driving through the village. Reports are that around seven-thirty p.m., thirty-five-year-old Daniel Franco was driving a motorcycle towards his house when, upon reaching Progress Avenue, someone opened fire on him. The bullet entered his abdomen and exited through his hip. Franco managed to drive […]
Written on December 20, 2022 | Posted in
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