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Prime Minister Dean Barrow also asked about the International Monetary Fund and why is it that the government did not seek the IMF’s assistance for COVID-19 relief in the first instance. Member countries have managed to receive tens of millions of dollars in rapid financing at significantly low-interest rates. Belize has applied but according to Barrow, […]
Written on June 26, 2020 | Posted in
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The Philip Goldson Airport is set to reopen on August fifteenth; as such a number of safety measures and protocols are being put in place to get the P.G.I.A. safe for travellers and employees. Government is getting two x-ray machines to be used by the Belize Customs and Excise Department. The machines will scan incoming […]
Written on June 26, 2020 | Posted in
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Prime Minister Dean Barrow says that Belize Bank’s acquisition of Scotia Bank is consequential. Caribbean Investment Holdings, the parent company for the Belize Bank is buying out Scotia Bank at a cost of more than thirty million dollars. The transaction announced this Monday is before the Central Bank of Belize and that process can take […]
Written on June 26, 2020 | Posted in
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Earlier in the newscast, you heard the PM say that a ruling by the former C.J. Benjamin earlier this year is a non decision. Outside the house, the PM was asked about an impending judgment from the C.C.J. on the matter of IMMARBE and the Registry which he took over years ago. The justices of […]
Written on June 26, 2020 | Posted in
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Another matter that the Prime Minister dealt with had to with a proposal by Waterloo, for a two hundred million dollar cruise ship facility in the Port of Belize. That proposal has been presented to the government for years now. When he was asked about it today, the Prime Minister made very brief remarks, to […]
Written on June 26, 2020 | Posted in
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A plan to distribute land in the Maxboro area of Sand Hill is being met with fierce opposition. Over the past weeks, Shyne Barrow, the U.D.P. standard bearer of the Mesopotamia Division has been advertising the Mesopotamia Land Distribution through which he says he will be giving two hundred lots in Maxboro. But the Village […]
Written on June 26, 2020 | Posted in
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While the tourism industry weeks ago reopened for domestic tourism, the big news today when Prime Minister Dean Barrow gave a press conference is the long awaited date for the reopening of the Philip Goldson International Airport. After several weeks of anticipating a proposed reopening, a new date has been set and with it comes […]
Written on June 25, 2020 | Posted in
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An initial planned date for the reopening of the P.G.I.A. had been set for August first. But concerns pertaining to the timeline, in respect of testing and all protocols, prompted the prime minister to postpone for an additional two weeks. But is government truly ready to resume welcoming visitors to Belize and are the next […]
Written on June 25, 2020 | Posted in
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A novel feature of the international travel experience during these COVID times is the use of a mobile application to track the whereabouts of visitors arriving from the United States. The Belize Health app, as it is known, is a mandatory piece of software designed to follow the movement of users where contact tracing is […]
Written on June 25, 2020 | Posted in
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It is not expected that a flood of visitors will be arriving in the months ahead, particularly because we are presently in the low season for overnight and cruise arrivals. That lull, according to PM Barrow, will allow for a fine-tuning of the measures to be put in place. For visitors who test positive upon […]
Written on June 25, 2020 | Posted in
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As for the hotel sector, a new programme is being introduced to certify participating businesses with a gold standard for meeting all the requirements on a nine-point checklist. All hotels that are recognized as having met those specific conditions will be prioritized during a phased reopening of the hotel industry. Karen Bevans, Director of […]
Written on June 25, 2020 | Posted in
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News Five has received exclusive pictures of the fifteen persons who have been arrested by way of an order from the Commissioner of Police Chester Williams. The pictures obtained by News Fives show the two police officers and three B.D.F. soldiers at the site where they were first detained. The group of persons was briefly questioned […]
Written on June 25, 2020 | Posted in
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General Elections are due in November of this year, but the exact date is not known. But there is a pending case against the Elections and Boundaries Commission and the government before the court on the matter of the election process. Lord Michael Ashcroft and the Belize Peace Movement are challenging that the government has not conducted a […]
Written on June 25, 2020 | Posted in
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Bask to the protocols for the re-opening of the P.G.I.A. Testing for COVID-19 is a process that can be completed within an hour and a half using an analyzer that the Ministry of Health is obtaining from Taiwan. While the polymerase chain reaction, or PCR test, remains the benchmark, it will be used as a […]
Written on June 25, 2020 | Posted in
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Are there any lessons to be learned from Jamaica and Antigua; both countries opened their airports a few weeks ago and have seen a spike in imported COVID-19 cases. Despite the increase in cases in those island nations, PM Barrow says Belize’s circumstances are different since our testing at the P.G.I.A. will involve a two-pronged […]
Written on June 25, 2020 | Posted in
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Since Monday, we have been reporting on the pending acquisition of Scotiabank Belize’s assets by Caribbean Investment Holdings Limited. The Canadian Bank has been selling its branches in the region for some time now and like in other countries, the sale is a delicate situation that the Central Bank is charged to manage to ultimately […]
Written on June 24, 2020 | Posted in
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The completion of an agreement to purchase Scotiabank comes amid an economic crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. It is a sizeable investment being made in Belize at a time when there is grave concern and uncertainty about the health of the financial system. The negotiations began thirteen months ago and the deal is […]
Written on June 24, 2020 | Posted in
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Successfully closing a deal of this magnitude is a challenge in and of itself pre-COVID-19, but doing so at a time when there is financial uncertainty is an undertaking that requires special attention by the Central Bank. The imminent merger of Scotiabank and the Belize Bank in the months ahead will be followed closely by […]
Written on June 24, 2020 | Posted in
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There are new legal woes tonight for the Channel Broadcasting Cable. Last month, in the U.S. courts, C.B.C. was sued by Dish Network for piracy using Internet Protocol Television streaming services. Dish Network alleges that C.B.C. is capturing and selling its live broadcast signals and transmitting the content over the internet which is tantamount to […]
Written on June 24, 2020 | Posted in
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At the crack of dawn this morning, fire erupted dangerously close to the house of the resident pastor in the village of Gales Point, Belize District. The pastor and his family were asleep when a van parked in the yard was set on fire. The vehicle contained two tanks of butane gas which exploded inside […]
Written on June 24, 2020 | Posted in
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The situation was fraught with danger for Pastor Welch’s family. The police station, which is not far away from the pastor’s house, was locked up and it took hours for the police to arrive to process the scene. Fortunately, the quick thinking of the pastor saved the day. Here is News Five’s Duane Moody. […]
Written on June 24, 2020 | Posted in
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Fifteen persons have been detained for questioning after they were spotted in the Santa Martha Area over the weekend. In the bunch are two police officers and three B.D.F. soldiers who are being interrogated after they were seen in the area at around three o’clock in the morning. The area is a known narco-trafficking hotspot where […]
Written on June 24, 2020 | Posted in
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A Mexican woman, believed to have illegally entered the country last week, was caught in Belize City on Tuesday morning. Twenty-five-year-old Angela Soto lives in La Union in Mexico and reportedly has family here in Belize. The Ministry of Health is currently conducting contact tracing. Health officials received word that she was being housed by […]
Written on June 24, 2020 | Posted in
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Since early this morning, a plume of the Saharan dust spread across the country. The intense dust storm started in the Saharan Desert in West Africa and began travelling across the Atlantic Ocean since last week and is making its way to the U.S. Forecasters say it is worst large scale dust storm to be […]
Written on June 23, 2020 | Posted in
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Turning to COVID-19, the countrywide state of emergency expires next Tuesday and the weeklong countdown to the lifting of all remaining measures, including the end of the nightly curfew, has already began. Cabinet met this morning and out of that meeting comes a fresh mandate for Director of Health Services, Doctor Marvin Manzanero, who is […]
Written on June 23, 2020 | Posted in
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