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Prime Minister John Briceño briefly weighed in on the controversial seven million dollar Social Security Board loan proposal to Pharmacy Express Limited. In a release yesterday, the private pharmaceutical company noted that it did not seek political or government influence to have the loan approved. On the other hand, the Ministry of Health and Wellness […]
Written on July 27, 2022 | Posted in
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There have been three shooting incidents in the Lake Independence area of Belize City that have left four persons injured and one dead, since Sunday night. Darien Banks, a former P.I.V. gang boss, was shot and killed on Monday while walking on Ebony Street. It is believed that his murder is connected to a flare […]
Written on July 26, 2022 | Posted in
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According to Dawson, while some participants were guarded in what they shared during the meeting, others were expressive of their frustration with the recent spate of shootings. When asked about Brandon Smith’s absence, the director of the Leadership Intervention Unit told News Five that Smith wasn’t feeling well while in police custody overnight. Smith, who […]
Written on July 26, 2022 | Posted in
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One hour after Darien Banks was gunned down, there was a second shooting incident only a block away from the murder scene. According to Police, forty-three year old Kenrick Walton was socializing with two male persons in a yard on Vernon Street when a gunman approached him and fired shots in his direction. Walton was […]
Written on July 26, 2022 | Posted in
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Belmopan resident Julian Henry is spending his first night at the Belize Central Prison after he was arraigned earlier today in connection with a shooting in Las Flores last Friday. He was in custody in Belmopan since then and he has now been transferred to a jail cell in Hattieville. The allegation is that the […]
Written on July 26, 2022 | Posted in
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Just before five this evening, reports spread like wildfire that a double homicide had been committed in the Saint Martin’s area of Belize City. News Five has confirmed that a lone gunman is believed to be the shooter in two incidents that occurred in proximity of each other; one person is confirmed dead, while another […]
Written on July 25, 2022 | Posted in
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While S.S.B. is aware of government’s statement, nothing has been tendered in writing with respect of its objection. C.E.O. Ruiz, nonetheless, explained the vetting process used to scrutinize Pharmacy Express’ application. At the end of that series of actions, the Social Security Board says that is satisfied with the company having met the criteria for […]
Written on July 25, 2022 | Posted in
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According to C.E.O. Ruiz, Pharmacy Express Limited initially requested more than the seven million dollars that was ultimately agreed upon. In fact, she went on to say that borrower has put up collateral that almost triples the amount being sought. Deborah Ruiz, C.E.O., Social Security Board “They did ask for more money, they did […]
Written on July 25, 2022 | Posted in
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Two persons lost their lives at the hands of another in less than twenty-four hours over the weekend, but only one at this time is being classified as a murder. We begin this segment of the newscast with the broad daylight stabbing death of thirty-eight-year-old Ronald Gill around midday on Saturday on George Price Drive […]
Written on July 25, 2022 | Posted in
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It has been almost three weeks since the Chief Elections Officer verified that the churches had met the petition threshold to trigger a referendum on the cannabis legislation. That would legally give the government up to sixty days by which the voting must take place. The final day on which the referendum can be held […]
Written on July 22, 2022 | Posted in
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While the titular head of state is yet to issue a writ of referendum, the church is wasting no time galvanizing its flock ahead of the national vote. Pastor Louis Wade is the spokesperson for the Belize Coalition of Churches. This afternoon, he spoke with fellow reporters about the actions being taken by the religious […]
Written on July 22, 2022 | Posted in
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The price tag for the referendum is in the millions and so there was a suggestion being made that the referendum ballot should be used to simultaneously poll voters on whether or not Belize should remain part of the monarch. Minister Henry Charles Usher told News Five that the Referendum Act does not provide for […]
Written on July 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Tonight, we begin our newscast with the murder of a twenty-five-year-old Guinea Grass resident. Lisandro Martinez was shot and killed on Wednesday night as he headed to Boston Village in the Belize District on a motorcycle driven at the time by Jose Morales. A vehicle drove up beside them on the Old Northern Highway and […]
Written on July 21, 2022 | Posted in
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In the wee hours of March fourteenth, 2016, Edwin Ixpatac was beaten to death while in police custody in San Pedro Town. In the wake of the incident, three police officers: PCs Reydel Teck, Jahsimir Cob and Romelio Logan were charged with murder. Today, the trio appeared before Justice Ricardo Sandcroft in a trial by […]
Written on July 21, 2022 | Posted in
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According to the Minister of Civil Aviation, to every dollar that is made from employment in the aviation industry, five dollars is generated. Andre Perez, Minister of Civil Aviation “First of all this presentation was in the Cabinet and it was well-received in the Cabinet and they said well, we should pursue it. And […]
Written on July 21, 2022 | Posted in
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It has been a little over six years since the Sarstoon F.O.B. was inaugurated at the southernmost end of the country. Viewers would recall that at the time of the opening there was conflict between our security forces and the Guatemalan military which patrolled the waterway and often crossed over into Belize’s side of the […]
Written on July 20, 2022 | Posted in
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The U.S. Secretary of State has released its twenty-second annual Trafficking in Persons Report and has upgraded Belize’s status to Tier Two. It’s a significant improvement that comes after two years of being placed lower on that index. The report highlights, quote, that the Government of Belize demonstrated overall increasing efforts compared with previous reporting […]
Written on July 20, 2022 | Posted in
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The Anti-Trafficking in Persons Council, (ATIPS), is chaired by the Ministry of Human Development and is the multi-sectoral body which coordinates Belize’s response to human trafficking. On the phone: Dolores Balderamos-Garcia, Minister of Human Development “Because Human Development is sort of like the coordinator of our anti-trafficking efforts, we have to kind of wear […]
Written on July 20, 2022 | Posted in
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The body of a Belize City resident was positively identified by members of his family this morning when they visited the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. On Monday, Prime Minister John Briceño’s longtime driver made headlines when he knocked down and killed an individual riding a bicycle along the Philip Goldson Highway. The incident happened on […]
Written on July 19, 2022 | Posted in
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Dr. Melissa Diaz-Musa, Director of Public Health Services “There is no definitive reason or link to explain why it has spread, but the hypothesis from experts are saying that perhaps during the COVID lockdown there was some kind of spread that had gone undetected due to all our resources, all the lockdown, the emphasis that […]
Written on July 19, 2022 | Posted in
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There was a fatal traffic mishap last evening involving the prime minister’s driver during which he knocked down and killed a man believed to be a resident of Biscayne Village. Up to news time this evening, the victim remains unidentified. Edwin Hill and two other occupants were traveling in his private SUV en route to […]
Written on July 18, 2022 | Posted in
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A twenty-year-old resident of Bella Vista Village was found dead on a dirt road off the Southern Highway near the entrance to the polyclinic in the village. He had been stabbed multiples times to the neck. What is believed to be the murder weapon was recovered a short distance away from the body of Randy […]
Written on July 18, 2022 | Posted in
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Twenty-two-year-old Rasheed Maskall and his girlfriend are the victims of an armed assault at their home in the Bainsville community of Hattieville. The couple was in bed when a volley of gunshots disturbed their slumber. Shortly after the shooting, Latifah Ferguson and her boyfriend realized that they were both injured. According to Assistant Superintendent of […]
Written on July 18, 2022 | Posted in
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Two Belize City men have been remanded to the Belize Central Prison for a most heinous crime. Ronald Michael and Herman Grant were charged separately for the rape of a child when they appeared before Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser. Reports are that the fourteen-year-old minor was raped by both men on July seventh and then […]
Written on July 18, 2022 | Posted in
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The House of Representatives met today in a marathon session that ran for several hours and there was a lot that was covered during the sitting. Among them was the introduction of a supplementary allocation to cover the cost of the upcoming cannabis referendum. The national vote on the establishment of a marijuana industry in […]
Written on July 15, 2022 | Posted in
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