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On the heels of a vote at the United Nation’s by Belize against the U.S. decision to move its embassy to Jerusalem, Belize is among three countries removed from the temporary work visa program. Along with Haiti and Samoa, effective today, Belizeans will no longer be able to acquire H-Two-A and H-Two-B non-immigrant work visas. […]
On Tuesday night at the western border crossing in Benque Viejo, a fifty-second surveillance footage from inside the Customs area of the Belize offices, captures three Guatemalan soldiers dressed in their military fatigues, similar to that of the Kaibiles, enter Belizean territory from the Guatemalan side. The video, courtesy of Belize Breaking News, shows the […]
As we said, Escobar Lopez is a reporter attached to Prensa Libre and Guatevision in Peten, Flores. He claims he was assaulted by a police officer after being spotted at the western border taking pictures of the customs and immigration offices. According to the journalist, he was going about his business documenting the work of […]
U.S. President Donald Trump last week created a firestorm when he made disparaging remarks about small and developing nations and countries such as Haiti, El Salvador and others in Africa as ‘shithole countries. If anything, the inflammatory statement served to raise the ire of countries around the world, including those in CARICOM that have condemned […]
This Friday night at the Belize Elementary School Gymnasium in Belize City, the National Elite Basketball League semi-pro season officially opens with a matchup between Smart Belize Hurricanes and the Verdes Basketball Club, formerly the Cayo Western Ballaz. It’s a home game for the Hurricanes, who say they plan to bring the win back to […]
Written on January 18, 2018 | Posted in
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U.S. news outlets have been reporting a severe flu epidemic that has swept across the United States for over a week of. In comparison to last flu season, the U.S. is seeing more cases of the flu leading to hospitalization and more flu-related deaths. If the adage is true that when the north sneezes we […]
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A fire burnt out more than seven families in the early hours of this morning. Sometime after twelve, the fire started in an abandoned building on Glenn Street and the flames spread quickly. The blaze destroyed two other houses and left around twenty-eight persons without a roof over their head. The victims and residents in […]
Residents and fire victims believe that the firemen were not prepared to take on the midnight inferno. They claim that the fire truck arrived thirty minutes after the blaze started and that the trucks didn’t have enough water. Well, Fire Chief says not so. He says they were notified of the blaze around ten minutes […]
The Ministry of Human Development and the City Emergency Management Organization have teamed up to provide much needed immediate relief for the families. Today, Minister Edmond Castro and Philip Willoughby met with the victims at the City Hall to distribute some food and other necessities. CEMO says that majority of the twenty-eight fire victims will […]
Last Friday, the price of LPG went up by seven dollars per hundred pound cylinder. While that increase kept supply of butane going, there is information of an impasse between Liquid Petroleum Gas importers and the Government. Complaints reaching our studios were that importers were selling butane to distributors at a wholesale price of one […]
The municipal election season is drawing closer and already most of the major political parties’ candidates are on the campaign trail. Participation from the alternative and independent movements has been less in evidence. But one man who never seems to stop campaigning is Ernesto Torres. The driving instructor is a constant presence on the radio […]
Written on January 17, 2018 | Posted in
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On Tuesday News Five showed you firsthand the hopes and dreams of farmers in the San Carlos area of Orange Walk, who are hoping they will be able to get their crops to market without interference in the form of additional import licenses, higher taxes on fuel and poor infrastructure. But there is another issue […]
You heard earlier in the newscast about the fire that totally destroyed the houses of eight families. The fire started in an abandoned building where homeless persons were staying. If you recall some time ago, the City Council in collaboration with the National Fire Service, the Police Department, Human Services and the Ministry of Health […]
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The Protected Areas Conservation Trust office in Belmopan will be closed for the next week as the statutory body undergoes transition to a leaner, more efficient institution capable of financing the national protected areas system while containing its administrative costs. But the fourteen member-staff got sent home after meetings on Tuesday. They were told that […]
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According to Cho, there is also change coming for the Coastal Zone Management Authority and Institute. The Authority is undergoing a similar assessment process to PACT and Cho says it is recognized that there is a need to streamline its efforts to be as efficient and economical as possible while staying true to its mandate. […]
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This just in…There was a major shakeup at the Protected Areas Conservation Trust today. At one o’clock this afternoon, staff members were individually called into an unscheduled meeting and notified that the PACT offices will be closing immediately due to a “restructuring exercise” as government conducts the standardization of statutory boards. Fourteen staff members including […]
San Carlos is a collective, cooperative farming community of twenty-four farmers. It has running water and a small school but no electricity. Nonetheless, it has been extremely productive in past years, owing in no small part to the ingenuity of its farmers. It has in the past faced severe losses in production of onions, carrots […]
You probably grumbled a bit recently when it was announced that prices for kerosene, premium and diesel fuel and butane went up. But while most urban Belizeans get butane for their houses on average every month or so and gas up when they can, it’s a different story for farmers in the North. There, butane […]
The Government of Belize recently promised as much as three hundred thousand dollars to fix sugar roads in the North. These roads provide access and transportation from many of the remote villages for farmers bringing crops to market, or sugar to the mill. But quite a few are in poor condition, and in the case […]
Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars – that is what twenty-two-year-old Jenny Bonilla received from a medical negligence case that left her without a womb and left ovary. Bonilla was twenty-years-old when she started with an abdominal pain and she went to the southern regional hospital from where she was transferred to the Western Regional […]
Written on January 16, 2018 | Posted in
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Over the weekend, police made a significant bust of contraband goods down south. According to their report, they pursued an SUV that ran a check point at Pomona Village. When they caught up with the vehicle in the village of Hope Creek they detained two persons: Alvarine Burgess as well as Milton Palacio. Inside the […]
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It has been two years since ABC producer, Ann Swaney, was cold-bloodedly murdered in the west. Swaney was vacationing in Belize when she lost her life; her body was found floating in the Mopan River near the Nabitunich Resort in San Jose Succotz, Cayo. An investigating team from the Federal Bureau Investigation United States has […]
Crown Counsel Jackie Willoughby abruptly resigned from the Public Service Union on Monday as we reported in our newscast. Willoughby sent a letter to PSU President Doreth Cayetano-Obeymayer in which she states, (Quote) “With great pain, I have come as far as I can go with P.S.U.” (Unquote) In the letter, Willoughby says that attempts have […]
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The detonation of explosives at a quarry in a residential area of Santa Elena Town last December resulted in the loss of life of seventy-year-old Ronald Sutherland, general manager of Tiger Aggregates. Aside from the many residents whose homes were damaged by the missiles from the blast, there is also the issue of who is […]
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Now, based on a 2014 Environmental Impact Assessment on the rehabilitation of the George Price Highway, an environmental compliance plan was agreed to between the Department of the Environment and Ministry of Works in 2016, which dictates certain terms and conditions for carrying out the project. As it relates to roadwork material sourcing, the Ministry […]
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