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As we reported on Monday night the headquarters of the National Fire Service has been sold to the Atlantic Bank. The bank sits just across the fire station on Cleghorn Street in Belize City. The property is considered a prime location in that area of the City. On Monday, Minister Edmond Castro did confirm the […]
Written on September 29, 2020 | Posted in
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Atlantic Bank Limited has purchased a prime piece of prime property belonging to the Government of Belize. The property is located on Cleghorn Street in Belize City, adjacent to Atlantic Bank. It is the headquarters for the National Fire Services in the Old Capital and the value of the sale is unconfirmed, though it is […]
Written on September 28, 2020 | Posted in
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Three residents of Saint Margaret’s Village on the Hummingbird Highway were drinking on Sunday night when one of them died and the other began to display odd behaviour and fell ill. Of the two surviving men, tonight one has been released from the hospital and the other is in critical condition. At this time, police […]
Written on September 28, 2020 | Posted in
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Minister Anthony “Boots’’ Martinez was in the hot seat last Friday. According to documents presented in the House of Representatives, Martinez and his daughter, Stacey, have received hefty payments from government. When the matter became public in 2016, Stacey appears as the vendor for payments of rent presumably for office space for the ministry; she […]
Written on September 28, 2020 | Posted in
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Several persons are to be charged for the worst air disaster in Belize. Two pilots and two crew members of the B.D.F. perished when their helicopter went down in the Gales Point Lagoon on February twenty-ninth, 2020. The crash raised alarm because it was not reported until much later and many questions were raised since […]
Written on September 28, 2020 | Posted in
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Last week we told you that Noel Codd – the owner of the farm where the drug plane landed on Independence Day on the Northern Highway – wasn’t charged for facilitating the landing of airplane. That is what the cops wanted to charge him with but in the end he was charged for an entirely […]
Written on September 28, 2020 | Posted in
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Last week we reported that the Customs and Excise Department’s internal investigation into the importation of cargo from Guatemala last weekend has revealed that Customs Officer in Charge of Punta Gorda Richard Garbutt acted in accordance with his duties when he facilitated the arrival of the shipment on the night of September nineteenth. The Customs […]
Written on September 28, 2020 | Posted in
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This Thursday, October first, the Philip Goldson International Airport officially reopens to international tourists. But there are still lingering concerns from tourism stakeholders on the protocols and the processes in place at the airport as well as mandatory quarantining for visitors as well as returning Belizeans. During today’s Ask the Experts webcast, Director of Health […]
Written on September 28, 2020 | Posted in
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Today’s House sitting is likely to be the last sitting of the current government before the general elections. This morning’s session went smoothly with both sides supporting a number of bills that will now go to the Senate. But on adjournment in the afternoon, the atmosphere of cordiality was shattered. The Opposition, People’s United Party, […]
Written on September 25, 2020 | Posted in
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Comments Off on Opposition Leader John Briceño Calls Out Boots Martinez for Alleged Corruption
Minister Martinez was not inside the National Assembly chambers when Briceño was reading out the list of transactions. He raced to his seat after he was alerted of the revelations by his colleague sitting two seats away from him via a phone call. Martinez anxiously waited to rebut Briceño’s allegations. An angry Martinez denied the […]
Written on September 25, 2020 | Posted in
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After making his point, Martinez left the National Assembly chambers where we caught up with him outside. Martinez defended his position, saying that he has not received any monies for rental from the government. The minister asserts that there is not a single document that can prove otherwise. News Five got a hold of the […]
Written on September 25, 2020 | Posted in
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Caribbean Shores area rep Kareem Musa attempted to discuss the exclusive lottery contract which was given to Brads. In the recent past House sitting, Cayo South area representative Julius Espat revealed that Good Lee Limited controls majority shares in the boledo company. He also revealed that Good Lee is registered in Saint Lucia and questioned […]
Written on September 25, 2020 | Posted in
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But there was agreement on a matter. Prime Minister Dean Barrow has yet to officially announce a date for the 2020 General Elections even though his son and U.D.P. caretaker of Mesopotamia, Shyne Barrow, has said that it will be on November fourth. The Prime Minister has publicly hinted that it will be held in […]
Written on September 25, 2020 | Posted in
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All six persons detained from Orange Walk in connection with recent suspect drug plane landing on a farm off the Old Northern Highway have been released. Just before news time, the last person, Noel Codd, who is the owner of the farm on which the plane made a clandestine landing, was released from police custody, […]
Written on September 25, 2020 | Posted in
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There were a lot of noises when a drug plane was found at a farm on Independence Day. An investigation into the suspected drug plane in northern Belize is ongoing, though a property owner on whose farm the aircraft landed has been charged and arraigned but not in relation to the drug plane. Noel Codd […]
Written on September 24, 2020 | Posted in
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Though there were no drugs to be found where the drug plane landed, a number of items were confiscated by police from the area. Codd was rearrested after he was charged. Shipyard resident, Isaac Petka, was also detained for alleged facilitation of the landing of a plane in an unregistered aerodrome. But charges are also […]
Written on September 24, 2020 | Posted in
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Police on Tuesday was also exuberant about a bust in southern Belize. But as it turns out an internal investigation conducted by the Customs and Excise Department into the importation of cargo from Guatemala over the weekend has revealed that Richard Garbutt, the officer in charge of the Punta Gorda location, acted in accordance with […]
Written on September 24, 2020 | Posted in
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As you know, on Wednesday, there was a report that Director of Health Services Doctor Marvin Manzanero had resigned. While that was promptly denied by the government via a press release, there have been lingering questions about what really transpired at the meeting of the National Oversight Committee, on Wednesday. Just before news time, we […]
Written on September 24, 2020 | Posted in
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As of Wednesday night, Belize registered one thousand seven hundred and nine cases of COVID-19. Six hundred and sixty five cases remain active but so far one thousand and nineteen persons have recovered. Every day there are new cases and every day persons recover. And in the past few days, the number of recovered persons […]
Written on September 24, 2020 | Posted in
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Comments Off on Medical Professionals Speak Out Against Recent Statutory Instrument
Also speaking out against the S.I. is attorney Audrey Matura. According to Matura, Statutory Instrument one-thirty-four has to be taken to the National Assembly to be affirmed and since that has not been done, it cannot be enforced. Matura also says that the S.I. is in contravention to the Belize constitutions which makes provisions for […]
Written on September 24, 2020 | Posted in
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At the start of the pandemic, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams told the media that he would attempt to get the names of persons who have tested positive for COVID-19 as away to prevent the spread of the virus. Today, we asked him for his view on the controversial S.I. 134. Williams says he supports […]
Written on September 24, 2020 | Posted in
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The argument of confidentiality and privacy, says ComPol Williams, is valid to a certain extent, but the constitution does have limitations where public health, public interest and national security are concerned. As far as stigma, the Commissioner of Police also stated that more people have come forward with their COVID-19 status than persons infected with […]
Written on September 24, 2020 | Posted in
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With the reopening of P.G.I.A. next week, rapid testing for COVID-19 is now underway which will ease back logs in testing results. On Wednesday, the Ministry of Health launched its first COVID-19 rapid test activity. It took place in the village of August Pine Ridge in the Orange Walk. The National Surveillance Officer coordinated the […]
Written on September 24, 2020 | Posted in
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Six persons, including a minor, were detained for the clandestine landing of a drug plane in Santa Martha Village in Orange Walk. Today, Noel Codd, the owner of a farm where the plane was found, was arraigned on a single charge of possession of prohibited ammo; in this case, a bullet allegedly found at the […]
Written on September 23, 2020 | Posted in
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During the interview this afternoon, attorney Dickie Bradley alleged that the police department planted evidence against his client. He contends that the ammunition offense is being used as a holding charge for Noel Codd. Here’s how he explains it. Richard “Dickie” Bradley, Attorney “To charge Mister Codd with one round of ammunition for which—I […]
Written on September 23, 2020 | Posted in
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