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And while Shyne was sipping on D’Usse’ with Jay-Z, back at home, his political party was pushing back against the Government of Belize and B.T.L. in the B.T.L./Smart Saga. We asked Barrow whether he thinks his office should be represented in the U.D.P.’s position on these national issues. Shyne Barrow, Leader of the Opposition […]
Written on August 31, 2021 | Posted in
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Last night we brought you an interview with former Prime Minister, Dean Barrow, who spoke about the state of affairs within the U.D.P., the party he once led. We also asked him if he sees the current party leader, his successor, Patrick Faber, as a fit leader to steer the party’s ship forward. While he […]
Written on August 31, 2021 | Posted in
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This morning Supreme Court Justice Westmin James awarded former B.T.B. director, Karen Bevans, the largest defamation award granted in recent history. Justice James awarded Bevans sixty thousand dollars in compensatory damages and thirty thousand dollars in aggravated damages, after concluding that comments made by Prime Minister John Briceño in a Love FM/TV interview, were defamatory […]
Written on August 30, 2021 | Posted in
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According to Barrow, PM Briceño’s defense also argued that as the Prime Minister of the country he is entitled to offer his position on affairs. Barrow says RSV Limited found itself in hot water for not rescinding the comments made at the time by PM Briceño. Dean Barrow, Attorney for Karen Bevans “Even if, […]
Written on August 30, 2021 | Posted in
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On the matter of the contract that Government has awarded to Smart, the Prime Minister said today that the Opposition has no moral grounds when it calls for the resignation of B.T.L. Chairman, Mark Lizarraga. Prime Minister John Briceño “I did not hear the Opposition then when they were in Government calling for the […]
Written on August 30, 2021 | Posted in
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B.T.L. was acquired under the Barrow Administration in August of 2009. Barrow has been heavily criticized for the price paid under his leadership to acquire the telecom giant. Notwithstanding, under his leadership, B.T.L. enjoyed exclusivity with regards to government contracts. So, it was no surprise when he decried the current administration’s decision to create a […]
Written on August 30, 2021 | Posted in
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One of the hot topics that Prime Minister Briceño also touched on this morning was the high cost of living. So while the economy has been rebounding faster than the IMF had predicted it would, the cost of living is also going up. PM Briceño said the current rate of inflation that we’re experiencing is […]
Written on August 30, 2021 | Posted in
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Switching hats from attorney to former party leader, Dean Barrow lamented the current state of the United Democratic Party. He expressed strong feelings over the current division within the party that has led to the naming of two leaders, Shyne Barrow and Patrick Faber. The former party leader says as long as the division persists, […]
Written on August 30, 2021 | Posted in
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Former Prime Minister Dean Barrow also took responsibility, in part, for the historic defeat experienced at the polls in November of 2020. Barrow admitted that towards the end of the last term, his administration “went off the rails.” He even invited those that are still in leadership to come to the same public realization. […]
Written on August 30, 2021 | Posted in
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Leader of the Opposition Shyne Barrow returned to Belize today after a tour in the U.S. where he met with several members of the U.S. Congress and city mayors. In Newark City, Mayor Ras Baraka announced that he has officially made Newark a sister city to Belize City. The Georgia Senate presented him with a […]
Written on August 30, 2021 | Posted in
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A woman from Cayo has died after being beaten with a metal rod during a frenzied attack at a home in San Ignacio on Monday. Today, police charged fifty-nine-year-old Mercerdez Pais for the crime of murder after Angela Flores died from her injuries. Reports are that Pais and his common-law wife Roxana Garcia got into […]
Written on August 27, 2021 | Posted in
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In a bizarre twist to the story, prior to the killing, Pais had gone to the home of Cayo broadcasting personality Kent Pandy and asked him to record a statement he wanted to make. Pandy did so, but as the details of what Pais planned to do became clear, Pandy tried to dissuade Pais and […]
Written on August 27, 2021 | Posted in
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There was an apparent murder in Corozal on Thursday night, but so far police have no leads. Officers responded to a call from the Chimal home in the Finca Solana area. Guadalupe Chimal showed police the lifeless body of her husband, Angel, who was lying face up with a large open wound to his body. […]
Written on August 27, 2021 | Posted in
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The family of David Castillo is frustrated that five days after his remains were found, they are still unable to bury their loved one. Castillo went missing on the night of August twelfth after he left a fast food shop, located just a short distance from his house on Faber’s Road. His remains were found […]
Written on August 27, 2021 | Posted in
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Since the start of the teen vaccinations in Belize District on Monday, approximately two thousand three hundred children ages twelve to seventeen received their first jab of the Pfizer vaccine. Today, a News Five team heading to Swift Hall in the Saint Martin De Porres area where adult and teen vaccinations were underway with support […]
Written on August 27, 2021 | Posted in
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Smart Belize has weighed in on the controversy surrounding its successful bid for a government contract to provide licensing for Microsoft products to the Government of Belize. Today, the company issued a release responding to a Digi Interoffice memo that has been circulating on social media. Smart Belize says it wishes to state the facts […]
Written on August 27, 2021 | Posted in
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On Thursday we heard from Minister of Health and Wellness, Michel Chebat, that veterinarian Doctor Michael Tewes had been chosen as the new C.E.O. of the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. But just a few hours later, the K.H.M.H. issued a statement saying the post had not been filled. So we checked today to find out […]
Written on August 27, 2021 | Posted in
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Tonight we report on an impasse in the northern sugar belt between the millers and cane farmers. The Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association has given notice to A.S.R./B.S.I. that it is terminating the commercial agreement. The agreement expires on January nineteenth, 2022 and the B.S.C.F.A. says that it is taking advantage of a clause in […]
Written on August 27, 2021 | Posted in
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On Wednesday, reports that a couple had been given special privileges by the Ministry of Health and Wellness to hold their wedding ceremony at the Best Western Belize Biltmore Plaza Hotel sparked outrage on social media. Many feel while the police are breaking up much smaller family functions, this one had the blessing of the […]
Written on August 26, 2021 | Posted in
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The investigation into the murders of police officer Arilee Young and her teenage daughter is already wrapping up. The probe into the double murder and suicide on Fourth Street last Saturday has determined that the thirty-seven-year-old mother of two was shot and killed, along with Sherana Cardenas, by twenty-six-year-old Robert Glen Perriott. Despite both families […]
Written on August 26, 2021 | Posted in
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A funeral service for thirty-seven-year-old Arilee Young, the police officer who was shot and killed by her boyfriend last Friday, will be held on August twenty-seventh at the Santa Elena Cemetery. The memorial mass for the slain cop will fall within the existing COVID regulations which means that the pageantry that traditionally accompanies the interment […]
Written on August 26, 2021 | Posted in
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Police have made arrests in two of the shocking child rape cases this week. A twenty-year-old from San Pedro, Alejandro Choc has been charged with two counts of rape of a child for an incident that occurred on the island on Saturday. They have also arrested thirty-two-year-old Jeffrey Daniel Gillett and charge him with two […]
Written on August 26, 2021 | Posted in
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Today, word circulated that Doctor Michael Tewes has been chosen as the new C.E.O. of the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Tewes, a veterinarian by profession, would be replacing Michelle Cox-Hoare whose contract was not renewed. And while some people have questioned the professional vet’s appointment, saying it hints of nepotism since he has family members […]
Written on August 26, 2021 | Posted in
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Last week, lab technicians at the Central Health Lab declared they would not work anymore overtime hours because they had not been paid for the overtime accrued since June. The President of the Nurses Association, Darrell Spencer, came out in defence of the lab technicians, saying that it was high time others in the field […]
Written on August 26, 2021 | Posted in
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Belize has received a batch of one hundred and thirty-two thousand Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccines. The Ministry of Health and Wellness acquired them through UNICEF and an African group at a cost of one-point-six million dollars. Minister of Health and Wellness Michel Chebat says he hopes that those who are unvaccinated will start to […]
Written on August 26, 2021 | Posted in
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