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Among the other areas of focus is an aim to bolster trade and investment between CARICOM and Mexico, through investment promotion agencies. Likewise, the announcement of a high-level private/public sector meeting among CARICOM member states was made. That gathering will be held in Grenada in December and will feature billionaire investor Richard Branson of Virgin […]
President Enrique Peña Nieto aside from reaffirming Mexico’s commitment to assisting the hurricane-affected island nations of the Caribbean also spoke about the need for improving bilateral cooperation in other areas of common interest. Enrique Peña Nieto, President of Mexico [Translated] “Mexico has participated since 1974 as an observer to CARICOM; this organization that unites […]
In mid-September of this year, the island country of Barbuda was deemed uninhabitable after category-five hurricane Irma flattened the island. Thousands were displaced and transferred to the twin island of Antigua. One week later, another category-five hurricane, Maria, swept through the Caribbean, devastating Dominica in its path; they too sought refuge on Antiguan soil. Today, […]
But even as Barbuda is in the early stages of rebuilding, the next hurricane season starts in seven months. According to Minister Greene, the greatest challenge facing the island is that even as the recovery process takes place, there is no access to concessionary funding because they are told that the gross domestic product in […]
Just before news time on Tuesday night shots rang out on New Road. As sixty-year-old Judith Rocke and her grandchildren sat inside their house to watch the television evening news, reports are that a gunman standing at a nearby alley fired up to six shots at the house. Rocke was hit to the right arm, […]
Written on October 25, 2017 | Posted in
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Police are on high alert tonight as gun violence in the Lake Independence area of the Old Capital escalates in the wake of the murders of Almendarez siblings, Jason and Shaqwuan, and a cousin, Sydney Lamb. At the heart of the latest hostility is Kenneth “Big Tom” Flowers. The known street figure told the media […]
Written on October 24, 2017 | Posted in
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Big Tom’s name undoubtedly stands among the many nefarious figures in the criminal underworld. Aside from tales of his shady dealings, he’s also into music and manages a roster of up and coming Belizean artists, including Unlimited and Cross Di Nitro. Tonight, his protégés are both making headlines, not for releasing new music, but for […]
Written on October 24, 2017 | Posted in
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Late this evening, News Five spoke with Genevieve Cayetano, Unlimited’s mother. She told us that after being given the runaround, she was finally able to locate her son at the Raccoon Street Police Station where he was being held pending charges. Cayetano says that not only was Unlimited badly injured, he was also slapped with […]
Written on October 24, 2017 | Posted in
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As we told you, the viral stream has caught the attention of Commissioner of Police Allen Whylie, who says that the department will actively pursue Cross Di Nitro and levy criminal charges against him for making those threats. ComPol Whylie also denied allegations that a state-sanctioned hit has been placed on Kenneth ‘Big Tom’ Flowers. […]
Written on October 24, 2017 | Posted in
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A woman remains hospitalized tonight following a case of domestic violence inside her Belize City house. Thirty-one-year-old Nikita Smith was asleep at about five-thirty this morning when her common-law husband stabbed her multiple times and hit her with a cement block. He then turned on his stepdaughter, a twelve-year-old student and when her brother intervened, […]
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At around six o’clock this evening, a number of CARICOM Heads of Government, Foreign Ministers and delegations landed at the Phillip Goldson International Airport in a private flight made possible by the Mexican government. They were greeted by B.D.F. soldiers bearing the flags of the different nations in a small ceremony at the airport, from […]
In typical October style, the rains descended over the city and the western part of the country. Today, several schools sent students home and motorists and pedestrians had to navigate their way through streets with several inches of water. The downpour during this time is not unusual for October, but News Five’s Andrea Polanco spoke […]
The Almendarez family has been hit by a string of tragedies; it is heartbreaking to lose a family member to the ongoing urban gun violence but to lose three, the grief is debilitating. Jason Almendarez was the first to be killed on October eleventh and this weekend, Shaqwuan Almendarez, his older brother was murdered in […]
Written on October 23, 2017 | Posted in
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Police say that eighty-two-year-old Ricardo Vasquez was murdered. On Friday we reported that Vasquez had succumbed after spending almost a week in the Intensive Care Unit of the K.H.M.H. He was found beaten up on the corner of Water Lane and West Street on October fourteenth. Up to then, it was not clear what happened […]
Written on October 23, 2017 | Posted in
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Friday’s revelation that Commissioner of Police Allen Whylie failed a lie detector test apparently administered through U.S. authorities sometime around 2008 has raised eyebrows. Whylie was one of eight senior cops revealed to have shown significant reactions to particular questions, which is taken as evidence of untruthfulness. In his case, Whylie displayed significant reactions to […]
In a candid interview this morning, career police officer Inspector Fitzroy Yearwood exposed the police department for his abrupt transfer earlier this year. Yearwood was performing the duties of Public Officer for years, but back on August tenth, his sudden transfer was made known casually in a whatsapp group between the police and the media, […]
Yearwood is adamant that he did not disseminate false information to the media when he shared details of a police situation report involving the Castro brothers in an altercation in San Pedro a few months ago. According to the inspector, the information was provided to his office by the formation commander who he refers to […]
Amid his own professional differences with the Belize Police Department, the media has found an ally in Inspector Yearwood who stands firmly in our corner when it comes to the ongoing boycott. Yearwood, as a member of the Media Relations Unit for several months, was instrumental in sharing information with the press. While his transfer […]
With this weekend’s murders, the count for 2017 according to News Five’s unofficial statistics now stands at one hundred and twenty, just twenty-five off the count for 2012, the most murderous year in Belize’s existence. As many as twenty-seven of those murders have taken place in Belize City, many on the southside. In the House […]
Written on October 23, 2017 | Posted in
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Today’s session of the House of Representatives had a loaded agenda. Several bills were returned for second reading, including the Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Bill decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana. There were also new bills introduced, including the Petroleum Operations (Maritime Zone Moratorium) Bill imposing the moratorium on exploration for petroleum and other […]
Written on October 20, 2017 | Posted in
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Later, when the bill was brought up for debate on the second reading, Opposition Leader Briceño landed a telling blow when he brought up the extensive salary and benefit package for C.E.O. of Belize Telemedia Limited Rochus Schreiber. With the departures of top senior Belizean officials from the company in recent years – former C.E.O. […]
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It was revealed at today’s House of Representatives that in 2008, the U.S. Embassy passed on the results of polygraph or lie detector tests to Belizean authorities for thirty-four senior officers in the Police Department, Coast Guard and Belize Defence Force. It is not clear who authorized or asked for the tests, but a majority […]
Written on October 20, 2017 | Posted in
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Minister of Home Affairs Wilfred Elrington rose in reply to defend the senior command of the Police Department. Though his speech was in context of the greater crime problem, Elrington put his head on the block for the current team, stating that they have a handle on the greater crime problem and that they are […]
Written on October 20, 2017 | Posted in
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Cordel Hyde and Wilfred Elrington went toe-to-toe on the issue of crime and how to stop it in its tracks on the adjournment in the House of Representatives. According to Hyde, the removal of Assistant Commissioner of Police Chester Williams to a desk job in Belmopan in July has seen a spike of murder and […]
Written on October 20, 2017 | Posted in
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Marijuana users can breathe a little easier tonight, as the amendment to the Misuse of Drugs Act sailed through the House of Representatives with bipartisan support. Both Leader of the Opposition John Briceño and Freetown area representative Francis Fonseca noted the contrary arguments raised by churches and other moral authorities against marijuana as a “gateway […]
Written on October 20, 2017 | Posted in
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