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A number of schools across the country officially reopened today to hybrid learning, as prescribed by the Ministry of Education. Despite hundreds of schools receiving approval for this approach, many others have asked for extensions and as we saw today, some schools were scanty. A News Five crew stopped in at several schools on the […]
Written on January 10, 2022 | Posted in
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The return to classrooms for hybrid learning is expected to assist the Ministry of Education with an assessment of the learning gaps created since March of 2020 when in-person classes were closed. For the most of the past two years, students have been engaged in online classes, and so when News Five spoke with principals […]
Written on January 10, 2022 | Posted in
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In an exclusive interview with Commissioner of Police, Chester Williams, we asked for his crime review of 2021. As was reported earlier this week, there were one hundred and twenty-five murders recorded last year; that’s twenty-three more than the 2020 records, with the months of May and June recording the most murders. But, ComPol Williams […]
Written on January 7, 2022 | Posted in
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But, is 2022 off to a bad start already? There were three murders in the first five days of the year: the double murder of Raymond Dominguez and Justin Milligan on January third, followed by the murder of Dangriga teen, Joshua Flores, on January fifth. ComPol Chester Williams says that Cayo and Stann Creek Districts […]
Written on January 7, 2022 | Posted in
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On Thursday morning, Coast Guard Special Operations launched a raid on Tobacco Caye. It resulted in the detention of one person after the officers discovered a military grade riffle and thirty live rounds of five point five-six millimetre military grade calibre. The commando version of the M-four carbine riffle was found inside a room occupied […]
Written on January 7, 2022 | Posted in
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On Thursday afternoon, police responded to an area behind Port of Belize Limited, where they discovered a human skeleton. It was found about a hundred and fifty feet from the seaside, along with a black beach cruiser bicycle and a white bucket. The gruesome find was made by a fisherman around three p.m. who made […]
Written on January 7, 2022 | Posted in
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On Thursday, the Belize Electricity Limited responded to allegations that the Public Utilities Commission made against them the day before, when it accused them of making bad decisions that will begin to cost consumers higher electricity rates effective this month. The P.U.C. pointed to an instance when B.E.L. dispatched water from the Chalillo dam when […]
Written on January 7, 2022 | Posted in
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The United Democratic Party has issued a press release charging the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology has (Quote) “failed to support teachers and students during the pandemic” and likewise “failed to adequately plan a safe reopening with a realistic timeline.” (Unquote) The party says the ministry has been indecisive with three changes in […]
Written on January 7, 2022 | Posted in
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The conversation surrounding the reopening of schools continues across the country. The National Commission for Families and Children says one of their main concerns is the effect of protracted school closures on children’s social skills. N.C.F.C. has found that zoom classes and paper-based work, over an extended period of time, takes away from the kind […]
Written on January 7, 2022 | Posted in
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Eli Romero, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer at N.C.F.C, spoke of the importance of preparing children for the reopening of school. Romero also addressed the need for shared monitoring to ensure schools are doing their best to prepare a safe space for those children returning. Eli Romero, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, National Commission for Families […]
Written on January 7, 2022 | Posted in
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The third murder for the New Year occurred on Wednesday night in Dangriga, and the victim is a fifteen-year-old minor. Joshua Flores was travelling on a dirt road that is known to be gangland, when he was gunned down by one of the persons he was with. Flores is not known to be caught up […]
Written on January 6, 2022 | Posted in
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Two hours later, there was another shooting also in the Back-a-Town area of Dangriga. The victim, fifty-two-year-old Bartholomew Ramirez, received multiple shots to the body. According to the investigation, Ramirez was standing with another man on Banak Street when a gunman rode up on bicycle and opened fire in their direction. Commissioner of Police Chester […]
Written on January 6, 2022 | Posted in
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Is this recent gun violence in Dangriga the proverbial straw that has broken the camel’s back when it comes to policing efforts in that southern municipality? We can confirm tonight that there may be a shakeup in the police command in Dangriga because according to ComPol Chester Williams, since last year; there have been a […]
Written on January 6, 2022 | Posted in
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Officer Commanding Stann Creek Formation is Superintendent Gerald Jones and Senior Superintendent Daniel Arzu is the southern regional commander for the Belize Police Department. Clearly expressing his disappointment with their performance will these officers be removed from their posts and reassigned elsewhere? Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “I can tell you off the bat […]
Written on January 6, 2022 | Posted in
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Among those who have been in dialogue with the department, sharing concerns over criminal activity in Dangriga is Mayor Robert Mariano. The former Deputy Commissioner of Police says that he reached out to the ComPol and his assisting with the installation of a booth in the hotspot area of Back-a-Town in an effort to have […]
Written on January 6, 2022 | Posted in
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Sixty-year-old Caryl Smith Sr. remains hospitalized after being knocked down and left for dead on the Philip Goldson Highway on Wednesday night. His family was at home celebrating a birthday when they got a call that the Sand Hill resident had been the victim of a hit and run incident. It happened around eight p.m. […]
Written on January 6, 2022 | Posted in
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The killing of Flores brings the murder count for 2022 to three. That’s three murders in six days. The first two came by way on a double murder in Sand Hill Village on the night of January third. Justin Milligan and Raymond Dominguez were riddled with bullets when at least two gunmen entered Dominguez’s house […]
Written on January 6, 2022 | Posted in
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The Belize Coast Guard is currently assisting with a desperate search to locate a woman who went missing at sea on the second of January. Twenty-two year old Angie Pena was riding a jet ski near a beach in Roatan, Honduras, when she suddenly disappeared. After days of fruitless searching nearby waters, her family fears […]
Written on January 6, 2022 | Posted in
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Just because the sugar crop has begun doesn’t mean trouble is over in the sugar belt. Two factions of the Corozal Sugar Cane Producers Association continue to be at odds with each other. One group, led by Everaldo Uk, a former Association Director, is calling a special annual general meeting on Sunday. But, another group, […]
Written on January 6, 2022 | Posted in
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A debate is raging on social media about whether or not parents are prepared to send their children back to school on January tenth. The Ministry of Education continues to review and has given the green light to a number of schools to reopen for the semester using a hybrid learning model – that’s where […]
Written on January 5, 2022 | Posted in
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During an interview with Chief Executive Officer Dian Maheia of the Ministry of Education, she told News Five children have experienced learning losses over the almost two years of distance learning. But how bad is it? She says the educational gap can only be determined when children are back in the classrooms so that an […]
Written on January 5, 2022 | Posted in
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And then there is the reality that many children have dropped out of school. Since last year, we have been reporting that a number of children have been lost to the system and for varied reasons. C.E.O. Maheia says that that true amount will only be determined when on campus in-person classes resume. The Ministry […]
Written on January 5, 2022 | Posted in
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The staff at K.H.M.H. is fighting its own wave of infections. Currently, some twenty staff members at the hospital are out with COVID-19. That number could rapidly increase, which would potentially leave the hospital’s operation in limbo. C.E.O. Cansino told us more. Chandra Cansino, C.E.O., Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital “That is one of the […]
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While active COVID-19 cases are currently above two thousand, the number of persons admitted to the COVID Unit at the K.H.M.H. right now is low. As of Tuesday, only twelve persons were admitted, and only five of them are actually COVID-positive. There are concerns for the unvaccinated, however, because they account for forty percent of […]
Written on January 5, 2022 | Posted in
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An appeal has been lodged by Waterloo Investments Holdings Limited to challenge a decision by the Department of Environment which has denied environmental clearance for its proposed tourism development project near the Port of Belize. The appeal has been made to Minister of Sustainable Development, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management, Orlando Habet. Notwithstanding D.O.E.’s […]
Written on January 5, 2022 | Posted in
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